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The Possibility of Naturalism: A philosophical critique of the contemporary human sciences Roy Bhaskar 9781138798885
RRP: £37.99£33.64Since its original publication in 1979, The Possibility of Naturalism has been one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science and social science. It is one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely... -
Nietzsche on Instinct and Language by Joao Constancio 9783110481761
RRP: £18.00£13.92This volume consists of the revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the International Conference "Nietzsche On Instinct and Language", held at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) in December 2009. The list of contributors includes... -
Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: The Hermeneutical Import of the "Critique of Judgment" by Rudolf A. Makkreel
RRP: £24.00£23.03In this illuminating study of Kant's theory of imagination and its role in interpretation, Rudolf A. Makkreel argues against the commonly held notion that Kant's transcendental philosophy is incompatible with hermeneutics. The charge that Kant's... -
Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe - The Logic of Likeness by Paul North
RRP: £30.00£23.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130468Author Paul NorthFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 638gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 165mm * 30mm -
Ah This!: Zen Is Not a Teaching, Zen Is an Alarm to Wake You Up! Osho 9781938755705
RRP: £11.99£8.10The feeling that it is five minutes to midnight is known to many by now, and is often referred to as the "Doomsday Clock." As the many crises faced by humanity and planet Earth gather and tumble toward an emergency, some have even reduced the time left... -
Philosophy of Religion: A Beginner's Guide by Charles Taliaferro
RRP: £9.99£7.65A much-needed introductory level book on this widely studied subject. Isaac Asimov said that "whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse." Such quandaries are the bread and butter of philosophy of religion... -
History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge
RRP: £38.00£30.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408468Author Alexander KlugeFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Lo! by Charles Fort 9781612030517
RRP: £18.99£18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612030517Author Charles FortFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Spastic Cat PressPublisher Spastic Cat PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Hegel: An Intellectual Biography by Horst Althaus 9780745617817
£60.02This accessible and highly readable book is the first full-length biography of Hegel to be published since the largely outdated treatments of the nineteenth century. Althaus draws on new historical material and scholarly sources about the life and times... -
Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 9780631183853
RRP: £35.95£31.91Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956. Copeland goes on to analyze what those working in AI must achieve... -
Hegel by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £27.99£24.14Martin Heidegger's writings on Hegel are notoriously difficult but show an essential engagement between two of the foundational thinkers of phenomenology. Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn provide a clear and careful translation of Volume 68 of the... -
Meaning and Argument: An Introduction to Logic Through Language Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University, USA) 9781118390191
RRP: £46.95£41.66Meaning and Argument is a popular introduction to philosophy of logic and philosophy of language. Offers a distinctive philosophical, rather than mathematical, approach to logicConcentrates on symbolization and works out all the technical logic with... -
What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives by Christine Hayes
RRP: £28.00£22.54In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical... -
Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise by David Rothenberg 9781250045058
£13.31In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the North Eastern United States emerged from their seventeen year cycle - the longest gestation period of any animal. In listening to cicadas, as well as other humming, clicking, and thrumming insects, Bug Music is... -
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £9.99£6.96'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree... -
Curating As Ethics by Jean-Paul Martinon
RRP: £20.99£18.37A new ethics for the global practice of curating Today, everyone is a curator. What was once considered a hallowed expertise is now a commonplace and global activity. Can this new worldwide activity be ethical and, if yes, how? This book argues that... -
Moral Progress by Philip Kitcher
RRP: £24.49£20.78This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher. In these lectures, Kitcher develops further the pragmatist approach to moral philosophy, begun in his book The Ethical Project. He uses... -
Basic Concepts by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £12.99£11.77Basic Concepts, one of the first texts to appear in English from the critical later period of Martin Heidegger's thought, strikes out in new directions. First published in German in 1981 as Grundbegriffe (volume 51 of Martin Heidegger's Collected Works),... -
City and Man by Leo Strauss 9780226777016
RRP: £24.00£23.03The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant attempt to use classical political philosophy as a means of... -
Greed: The Seven Deadly Sins by Phyllis Tickle 9780195156607
£18.03In this highly successful series seven prominent scholars offer a "mediation on temptation" for each of the seven deadly sins. In Greed, Phyllis Tickle argues that it is through an engagement with greed and our current, popular absorption with its... -
Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £31.00£27.36Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. First published in German as volume 22 of the collected works, the book provides Heidegger's most systematic history of Ancient... -
Doing Philosophy Comparatively: Foundations, Problems, and Methods of Cross-Cultural Inquiry Tim Connolly (East Stroudsburg University, USA) 9781350177543
RRP: £19.99£17.73What standards should we use to evaluate culturally distinct philosophies? What kind of barrier does language or cultural difference pose in our attempts to understand other traditions? How do we avoid our comparisons being biased? Doing Philosophy... -
A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University, Australia) 9781444350876
RRP: £37.95£34.10This new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today's most distinguished scholars. New contributors include some of today's most... -
Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: from Thales to Aristotle by S. Marc Cohen 9781624665325
RRP: £58.99£47.66Soon after its publication, Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy was hailed as the favorite to become "the 'standard' text for survey courses in ancient philosophy."* More than twenty years later that prediction has been borne out: Readings in Ancient... -
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: £52.00£44.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262521642Author Susan Buck-MorssFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World by David W. Orr
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791408742Author David W. OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence by Elsa Dorlin 9781839761058
RRP: £17.99£16.35Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, there has long been a dividing line between bodies "worthy of defending" and those who have been disarmed and rendered defenseless. In 1685, for example, ... -
How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders by Suetonius
RRP: £13.99£11.59What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years... -
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
RRP: £11.99£8.66'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.' The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we... -
The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC) by John Dillon 9780199279463
RRP: £72.00£57.06The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 BC. - the period generally known as 'The Old... -
Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society by Zeynep Pamuk
RRP: £38.00£30.24A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologiesOur ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe by Desmond M. Clarke 9780199671649
RRP: £37.99£37.75In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions,... -
Liberalism and Democracy by Norberto Bobbio
RRP: £11.99£10.22Liberalism and democracy have long been assumed to exist in a complementary relationship, if not always an entirely easy one. This book scrupulously investigates the reason for this alliance and the sources of its tensions, providing a lucid and succinct... -
Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: One-Volume Edition, The Lectures of 1827 by Peter C. Hodgson 9780199283521
RRP: £52.00£41.47The Hegel Lectures Series Series Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin... -
A New Dawn for Politics Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509553013
RRP: £9.99£9.05What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by fences... -
A Practical Guide to World Philosophies: Selves, Worlds, and Ways of Knowing by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach
£21.18Traditions throughout the world and across history have tackled fundamental questions about the human condition. This one-of-a-kind guide shows how these different philosophies can be effectively studied together. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach's and... -
The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect by Philip Pettit 9780198801306
£29.72Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the actual world (i.e. as things are), but preservation of... -
Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems by Hans-Georg Moeller 9780812695984
RRP: £27.99£18.61What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective... -
Plato by Constance C. Meinwald 9780415379113
RRP: £25.99£22.63In this engaging introduction, Constance Meinwald shows how Plato has shaped the landscape of Western philosophy. She provides much-needed historical context, and helps readers grapple with Plato's distinctive use of highly crafted literary masterpieces... -
Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution by Rebecca Comay
RRP: £18.99£16.98This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy...