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The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144865
RRP: $113.52$89.20The 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: $21.92$19.63One 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: $16.76$11.73Many 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: $34.82$27.01Conscious 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
$22.88Apologies 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
$25.74This 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: $37.40$31.50Hegel'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: $49.01$44.35The 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: $12.89$11.08Our 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
$45.42Why 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: $29.66$26.83Kantian 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: $36.11$28.24The 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... -
Luton's Transport: A Journey Through Time by Beddall, David 9781526755582
RRP: $32.25$22.73Located 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,... -
Relational Egalitarianism: Living as Equals by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
RRP: $39.98$32.83Over the last twenty years, many political philosophers have rejected the idea that justice is fundamentally about distribution. Rather, justice is about social relations, and the so-called distributive paradigm should be replaced by a new relational... -
Schopenhauer: A Biography by David Edgar Cartwright 9780521825986
RRP: $127.71$49.73In his quest to solve 'the ever-disquieting riddle of existence', Schopenhauer explored almost every dimension of human existence, developing a darkly compelling worldview that found deep resonance in contemporary literature, music, philosophy, and... -
Problems from Locke by J. L. MacKie 9780198750369
RRP: $79.97$62.26J. L. Mackie selects for critical discussion six related topics which are prominent in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding: the distinction between primary and secondary qualities; representative theories of perception; substance, real... -
On Dionysius the Areopagite, Volume 2: Vol. 2 by Marsilio Ficino
RRP: $38.64$31.04In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the... -
The Guide of the Perplexed: v.2 by Moses Maimonides 9780226502311
RRP: $39.99$39.46This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the... -
The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $5.15$3.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486826660Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience by Giorgio Agamben 9781844675715
RRP: $19.34$13.11How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience? For Walter Benjamin, the "poverty of experience" was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the... -
Neofinalism by Alyosha Ruyer
RRP: $27.08$23.70Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism,... -
Postcolonial Melancholia by Paul Gilroy
RRP: $25.74$18.90In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox... -
Foucault: The Art of Ethics by Timothy O'Leary 9780826456274
$55.50The work of Michael Focault has been extremely influential in fields as varied as philosophy, history, cultural studies, sociology and sexualilty studies. In his later work, Focault turned to the question of ethics. Working back through history, through... -
Discourse and Identity by Bethan Benwell
RRP: $36.11$29.17'Identity' is a central organizing feature of our social world. Across the social sciences and humanities, it is increasingly treated as something that is actively and publicly accomplished in discourse. This book defines identity in its broadest sense,... -
Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience by Erin Manning
RRP: $28.37$24.76"Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world's varied ways of affording itself." -from Thought in the ActCombining... -
Humanism: An Introduction by Jim Herrick 9781591022398
RRP: $21.92$19.23Humanism is a philosophy that emphasizes the value of human life in all its creative potential within a secular context. Humanism is skeptical of religious beliefs and relies on science as the basis for understanding the universe. Although humanism has... -
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... -
Signs by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: $42.51$38.04Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole."Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life. For him,... -
Individuals by P. F. Strawson
RRP: $42.56$37.62Since its publication in 1959, Individuals has become a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it continues to influence debates in metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, and epistemology. Peter Strawson's most famous work, it... -
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
$17.21"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is... -
Speculum Spinozanum, 1677-1977 by Siegfried Hessing 9780367330934
RRP: $56.75$49.59Originally published in 1978. These essays are written by distinguished philosophers from many countries and were published as a homage to Spinoza in the year which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of his death. A special feature of the book is... -
The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers by George M. Young
RRP: $53.52$47.91In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering an advanced stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos. In the first account in... -
The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate by Tad Brennan 9780199217052
RRP: $54.17$45.98Tad Brennan explains how to live the Stoic life - and why we might want to. Stoicism has been one of the main currents of thought in Western civilization for two thousand years: Brennan offers a fascinating guide through the ethical ideas of the original... -
The Fundamentals of Ethics by Russ Shafer-Landau
RRP: $74.81$69.81In The Fundamentals of Ethics, Fifth Edition, author Russ Shafer-Landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy. Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normative ethics,... -
France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime by Jon Elster 9780691149813
RRP: $58.05$45.56A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien regime... -
The Ethics of Technology: Methods and Approaches by Sven Ove Hansson 9781783486588
RRP: $61.92$56.93Our daily lives are affected by new technologies at an ever increasing rate. It is becoming more and more important to assess future technologies from an ethical point of view, and to do this before they are introduced on a massive scale. Such... -
Rawls's "A Theory of Justice": A Reader's Guide by Frank Lovett 9780826437815
$32.83A concise introduction to the context, themes, and influence of one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy. John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice", first published in 1971, is arguably the most important work of moral and... -
An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic by Ian Hacking
RRP: $49.01$43.42This is an introductory 2001 textbook on probability and induction written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science. The book has been designed to offer maximal accessibility to the widest range of students (not only those majoring in... -
Organism-Oriented Ontology by Audrone Zukauskaite 9781399510547
RRP: $109.65$89.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399510547Author Audrone ZukauskaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions by Maria Lugones 9780742514591
RRP: $60.63$53.15Mar'a Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her...