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Manual of Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki 9781618957115
RRP: £12.95£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618957115Author Daisetz Teitaro SuzukiFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
On the Temporality of Emotions: An Essay on Grief, Anger, and Love by Berislav Marusic 9780198851165
RRP: £76.00£69.10Many emotions attenuate more rapidly than the significance of the considerations that gives rise to them as we accommodate ourselves to what happens. Grief often diminishes quickly, even though the dead continue to matter to us; anger often evaporates,... -
Partiality and Impartiality: Morality, Special Relationships, and the Wider World by Brian Feltham 9780199579952
RRP: £95.00£74.38Issues of impartiality and partiality are a major focus of debate in moral theory. What demands do the needs and interests of others place upon us? Should our personal relationships and commitments have a special place in our moral deliberations? Or, in... -
Making Sense of Humanity: And Other Philosophical Papers 1982-1993 by Bernard Williams
RRP: £24.99£20.40This new volume of philosophical papers by Bernard Williams is divided into three sections: the first Action, Freedom, Responsibility, the second Philosophy, Evolution and the Human Sciences; in which appears the essay which gives the collection its... -
The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy: Subversive Reports from Another Reality by Bruce Krajewski 9780812699630
RRP: £14.99£12.35The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an "alternate present" (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern U.S... -
Shen Gong and Nei Dan in Da Xuan: A Manual for Working with Mind, Emotion, and Internal Energy by Serge Augier
RRP: £22.99£21.96The teaching and practices of the ancient Daoist tradition of Da Xuan have been kept secret for generations. In this ground-breaking book, Serge Augier, the current inheritor of the Da Xuan system, presents this unique approach to Daoism and reveals the... -
Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords by William Irwin
RRP: £15.95£14.38An in-depth look at the philosophical issues behind HBO's Game of Thrones television series and the books that inspired it George R.R. Martin's New York Times bestselling epic fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the HBO television show... -
Rhetoric by Aristotle 9781624667336
RRP: £21.99£18.38This new translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristotle series. Fitting seamlessly with the others in the series, it enables Anglophone readers to read Aristotle's... -
The Anscombean Mind by Adrian Haddock 9781032131320
RRP: £43.99£38.59G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001) is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Known primarily for influencing research in action theory and moral philosophy, her work also has relevance in the study of metaphysics, philosophy of... -
Thinking with Kant's Critique of Judgment by Michel Chaouli 9780674971363
RRP: £41.95£33.60Why read Kant's Critique of Judgment today? Does this classic of aesthetic theory still possess the vitality to prompt those of us engaged with art and criticism to think more deeply about issues that move us, issues such as the force of aesthetic... -
Humour by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99£9.77A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we... -
Dialectic by Mortimer J. Adler
RRP: £53.99£46.87First published in 2000. This is Volume I of eight in the International Library of Philosophy looking at the area pf philosophy of Mind an Language. Written in 1927, Dialectic is a convenient technical name for the kind of thinking which takes place... -
The Levinas Reader by Sean Hand
RRP: £38.95£34.20Emmanuel Levinas has been Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale. Through such works as "Totality and Infinity" and "Otherwise than Being", he has exerted a profound influence... -
Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self by Thomas J. Csordas
RRP: £24.99£21.18Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are 'inscribed' on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential... -
Venice Saved by Simone Weil
RRP: £16.99£15.11Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing here in English for the first time, this play explores the realisation of Weil's own thoughts on tragedy. A figure of... -
Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: A Reader's Guide by Bill Uzgalis 9780826490322
RRP: £95.00£94.80Continuum's "Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the... -
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality by Patricia S. Churchland
RRP: £14.99£11.76A provocative new account of how morality evolvedWhat is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of... -
Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction by Tim Bayne 9780415669856
RRP: £35.99£31.69Developments in the philosophy of mind over the last 20 years have dramatically changed the nature of the subject. In this major new introduction, Tim Bayne presents an outstanding overview of many of the key topics, problems, and debates, taking account... -
The Ethics of Care and Empathy by Michael Slote
RRP: £37.99£33.38Eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality... -
Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space: On Going Nowhere by H. Scott Hestevold 9781498579964
RRP: £90.00£78.81In Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space: On Going Nowhere, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space by appealing to the view that the universe is directioned and that there thereby exist spatial relations that Leibniz... -
Dao De Jing by Laozi
RRP: £20.00£16.74From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightfully illustrated version of the classic work of Daoist philosophyC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in... -
Why We Need Religion: An Agnostic Celebration of Spiritual Emotions by Stephen T. Asma
RRP: £24.99£17.61How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious... -
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy by A. A. Long 9780521446679
RRP: £34.99£28.75The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus,... -
Hume's Problem Solved: The Optimality of Meta-Induction by Gerhard Schurz
RRP: £57.00£48.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039727Author Gerhard SchurzFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm -
Life Death by Jacques Derrida 9780226826448
RRP: £22.00£21.22The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death-now in paperback. One of Jacques Derrida's most provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted dichotomy... -
The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want by Marian Stamp Dawkins
RRP: £36.49£34.45What is animal welfare? Why has it proved so difficult to find a definition that everyone can agree on? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically. It... -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144865
RRP: £88.00£69.15The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity... -
Science, Order and Creativity by Alan Moys
RRP: £16.99£15.22One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In Science, Order and Creativity he and physicist F. David Peat propose a return to greater creativity and communication in the sciences. They... -
I am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century by Markus Gabriel 9781509538720
RRP: £12.99£9.09Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected with our... -
Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness by Joseph Levine 9780195173086
RRP: £26.99£20.94Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non-conscious, physical events. On the other hand, we cannot explain how... -
A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures by Eric Schwitzgebel 9780262043090
£17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043090Author Eric SchwitzgebelFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 32mm -
For Marx by Louis Althusser
£19.95This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of "structuralist Marxism" which was presided over by the... -
Hegel's Dialectic and its Criticism by Michael Rosen 9780521318600
RRP: £28.99£24.42Hegel's philosophy has often been compared to a circle of circles: an ascending spiral to its admirers, but a vortex to its critics. The metaphor reflects Hegel's claim to offer a conception of philosophical reason so comprehensive as to include all... -
The Presocratic Philosophers by Jonathan Barnes
RRP: £37.99£34.38The Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition, and the first masters of rational thought. This volume provides a comprehensive and precise exposition of their arguments, and offers a rigorous assessment of their... -
The Last Night: Anti-work, Atheism, Adventure by Federico Campagna 9781782791959
RRP: £9.99£8.59Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labor superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission... -
Legal Theory by Ian McLeod 9780230362048
£35.21Why do some rules have the status of law while others do not? Is law simply a matter of rules anyway? What is justice? Legal Theory asks questions such as these and explains some of the answers that legal theorists have given over the ages, from Ancient... -
Kantian Commitments: Essays on Moral Theory and Practice by Barbara Herman 9780198914495
RRP: £22.99£20.80Kantian Commitments comprises ten essays that represent a series of efforts to rethink many of the fundamentals of Kant's ethics and to draw out some implications for moral theory and practice. In Part One, Herman revisits and revises central pieces of... -
The Right and the Good by David Ross 9780199252657
RRP: £27.99£21.89The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition. Ross's book, originally published in 1930, is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral... -
The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family. He asks fascinating questions about animals: Is it... -
Luton's Transport: A Journey Through Time by Beddall, David 9781526755582
RRP: £25.00£17.62Located in the Chiltern Hills, Luton has a rich transport history, being home to London Luton Airport and Vauxhall Motors. This south Bedfordshire town has also had an interesting public transport history, most notable being Luton Corporation Transport,...