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William Godwin: A Political Life by Richard Gough Thomas 9780745338354
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William Godwin William Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century... -
Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $30.30$21.43We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher's approach with a lawyer-economist's. Here are ideas about when to retire, how to... -
Libertarianism by Eric Mack 9781509519309
RRP: $19.34$17.52The essence of libertarianism is the view that coercive political institutions, such as the state, are justified only insofar as they function to protect each person's liberty to pursue their own goals and well-being in their own way. Libertarians... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid by Terence Cuneo 9780521012089
RRP: $46.43$39.89Widely acknowledged as the principal architect of Scottish common sense philosophy, Thomas Reid is increasingly recognized today as one of the finest philosophers of the eighteenth century. Combining a sophisticated response to the skeptical and idealist... -
The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy by Sacha Golob
RRP: $34.82$32.35With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including... -
Modality by Sònia Roca-Royes 9781009001304
RRP: $21.93$18.99Modality is a vast phenomenon. In fact, it is arguably a plurality of phenomena. Within it, one type of modality warrants distinctive interest in philosophy and, in particular, in metaphysics. In view of this, this Element has a first part devoted to... -
Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling": A Reader's Guide by Clare Carlisle
$36.11A concise and accessible introduction, this "Reader's Guide" takes students through Kierkegaard's most important work and a key nineteenth century philosophical text. Soren Kierkegaard was without question one of the most important and influential... -
Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy by Michael Bruce
RRP: $20.58$19.07Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical... -
The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Final System by Wes Furlotte
RRP: $37.40$34.71Wes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel's philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often-disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives us a new portrait of Hegel's final system that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world,... -
Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust by Nicholas Vrousalis 9780192867698
RRP: $98.04$89.14Exploitation is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery, serfdom, and the patriarchy are part of its lineage. Temporary and sex workers, commercial surrogacy, precarious labour contracts, sweatshops, and markets in blood, vaccines or human organs, are... -
An Introduction to Epistemology by Charles Landesman 9780631202134
RRP: $45.09$39.77This book is the ideal introduction to the fundamental problems and issues of epistemology. It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and is valuable both as a core text for beginning students and as support material for more advanced courses.About... -
Faith of the Faithless: Experiments on Political Theology by Simon Critchley
RRP: $12.89$10.54The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliche of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a... -
Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts by Sophia Wellbeloved 9780415248983
RRP: $46.43$40.88This unique book offers clear definitions of Gurdjieff's teaching terms, placing him within the political, geographic and cultural context of his time. Entries look at diverse aspects of his Work, including:* possible sources in religious, Theosophical,... -
Human Nature: The Categorial Framework by P. M. S. Hacker
RRP: $38.64$34.33This major study examines the most fundamental categories in terms of which we conceive of ourselves, critically surveying the concepts of substance, causation, agency, teleology, rationality, mind, body and person, and elaborating the conceptual fields... -
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 5: January 1794 to December 1797 by Jeremy Bentham 9781911576235
RRP: $58.05$51.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911576235Author Jeremy BenthamFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830g -
The Phoenix Complex: A Philosophy of Nature by Michael Marder
RRP: $55.47$38.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545709Author Michael MarderFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Biological Essentialism by Michael Devitt
RRP: $95.46$86.83Biological Essentialism addresses three main issues. The first concerns the essences (natures, identities) of biological taxa, particularly species. Kripke and other metaphysicians hold that these essences are (at least partly) intrinsic, underlying,... -
Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy by Madison Powers
RRP: $47.07$34.71In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many... -
Work: Theological Foundations and Practical Implications by R. Keith Loftin 9780334055297
RRP: $42.57$41.24Moving from biblical theology to systematic theology to practical theology, "Work: Theological Foundations and Practical Implications" offers a comprehensive theology of work. With contributions from a variety of leading theologians including... -
Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said 9780679761273
RRP: $24.51$15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761273Author Edward W. SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Making Sense of Marx by Jon Elster
RRP: $39.98$34.53A systematic, critical examination of Karl Marx's social theories and their philosophical presuppositions. Through extensive discussions of the texts Jon Elster offers a balanced and detailed account of Marx's views that is at once sympathetic,... -
Totalitarianism: The Basics by Phillip W. Gray 9781032183732
RRP: $24.50$21.76Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism.Starting with an overview of how scholars have attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an... -
Islam and Humanity - The Consequences of a Contemporary Reading: First English translation of Al-Islam wa-l-Insan by George Stergios with a Foreword by Dale F. Eickelman by Muhammad Shahrour 9783959940184
RRP: $90.30$85.01This new book by Mohammed Shahrour is about the implications of a contemporary reading of the Qur'an. "We must re-examine the prior reading of religion and introduce Islam from its original source, the authoritative revelation, on the basis of a... -
Getting Back into Place, Second Edition: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World by Edward S. Casey
RRP: $36.11$31.66What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend the loss of locality. Indeed, the space we occupy has much to do with what and who we are. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of place in... -
Buddha & the Quantum: Hearing the Voice of Every Cell by Samuel Avery
RRP: $24.50$15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811060Author Samuel AveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 160g -
Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy by Matt Cook
RRP: $29.67$19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542296Author Matt CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva
RRP: $29.66$26.01Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories 'flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: $25.80$17.22What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? And can we get the leaders of our... -
The Invention of the Self: Personal Identity in the Age of Art by Andrew Spira
$40.29This book is an examination of personal identity, exploring both who we think we are, and how we construct the sense of ourselves through art. It proposes that the notion of personal identity is a psycho-social construction that has evolved over many... -
Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life by Rush Rhees 9781405134248
RRP: $41.22$36.49Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality - topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career. Authoritative interpretation... -
The Oxford Handbook of Causation by Helen Beebee
$54.27Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the will. In epistemology, philosophers investigate how... -
Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse by Rush Rhees
RRP: $28.06$25.22This original critique of Wittgenstein's analogy between language and games, written by one of the philosopher's literary executors and closest friends, has now been updated to include two additional articles. Updated edition of this original critique of... -
Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary by Brandon LaBelle
RRP: $37.40$33.31Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically... -
Renaissance Philosophy by Brian P. Copenhaver 9780192891846
RRP: $55.46$45.78The Renaissance has long been recognized as a brilliant moment in the development of Western civilization. However, little attention has been devoted to the distinct contributions of philosophy to Renaissance culture. This volume introduces the reader to... -
The Language of Morals by R. M. Hare 9780198810773
$60.32Hare has written a clear, brief, and readable introduction to ethics which looks at all the fundamental problems of the subject.ReviewsValuable reissue of a classic, well produced for student use. * James Robertson, Cogswell College *Book InformationISBN... -
Critical Thinking: Your Essential Guide by Tom Chatfield
RRP: $81.27$67.11What is critical thinking? How do you apply it in your assessments? How do you build a good argument or find evidence? Critical thinking is a set of techniques. You just need to learn them. This is your personal toolkit for demystifying critical... -
Mind and Cognition – An Anthology 3e by WG Lycan 9781405157841
RRP: $121.20$107.16First published in 1990, Mind and Cognition: An Anthology is now firmly established as a popular teaching apparatus for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind. Brings together the most important classic and... -
In the Age of Al-Farabi: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/Tenth Century: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/tenth Century by Peter Adamson 9780854811472
$46.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854811472Author Peter AdamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Warburg InstitutePublisher Warburg Institute -
Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939 by C.G. Jung by C. G. Jung
RRP: $96.74$94.05First published in 1989. As a young man growing up near Basel, Jung was fascinated and disturbed by tales of Nietzsche's brilliance, eccentricity, and eventual decline into permanent psychosis. These volumes, the transcript of a previously unpublished... -
Hellenistic Philosophy by A. A. Long 9780715612385
$45.42Hellenistic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the three schools of philosophy which dominated the Hellenistic era: Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism. It traces the main developments in Greek Philosophy during the period which runs from the...