Philosophy

Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know--aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable. How do you decide whether to take...

Winner of the Zocalo Book PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling."-New StatesmanWhat moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959891475Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907962233Author Robert NichollsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint 123 BooksPublisher Cranmore PublicationsWeight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's," Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569753194Author Martin AronsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 203g

The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354-430): free will and divine grace. On the one hand, free will enables human beings to make their own choices; on the other hand, God's grace is required for these...

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present as a superseding standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence Shapiro sets out the central themes and debates surrounding embodied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951319557Author Raissa MaritainFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Wiseblood BooksPublisher Wiseblood BooksWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

To take a journey, travelers must know where they are, where they are going, and how to get there. Moral theology examines the same three truths. The Christian Moral Life is a handbook for moral theology that uses the theme of a journey to explain its...

Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many of the most puzzling...

GWF Hegel has long been considered one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the nineteenth century, and his work continues to provoke debate in contemporary philosophy. This new book provides readers with an accessible introduction to...

When it is taught today, metaphysics is often presented as a fragmented view of philosophy that ignores the fundamental issues of its classical precedents. Eschewing these postmodern approaches, W. Norris Clarke finds an integrated vision of reality in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476749723Author Emile DurkheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm

Philosophy in Practice is a completely new kind of introductory philosophy textbook, focusing on philosophy as an activity, rather than as a doctrine. Thoroughly revised edition of a popular introductory philosophy textbook. Contains new discussions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476777849Author Michael PuettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on...

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it. Author of Infinite Baseball, Alva Noe, presents a collection of short, stimulating essays that explore how we experience art and what it...

This is the companion volume to Spectres of Marx , and tackles the central theme of the fate of Marxism after the global collapse of communism.About the AuthorBernd Magnus, Stephen CullenbergReviews"They hold conferences on the future of Marxism, when...

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have...

Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of "progress" and "development," whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized. For all their variety in theme and...

Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on our urgently finding ways to bring about radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our own human nature. We have rewritten our own moral agenda by the drastic changes we have made to...

It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity and...

First published in 1988 as volume 63 of his Collected Works, Ontology-The Hermeneutics of Facticity is the text of Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Freiburg during the summer of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical...

An accessible and engaging introduction to the philosophy of religion. Written with verve and clarity by a leading philosopher and contributor to the fieldPlaces key issues and debates in the philosophy of religion in their historical contexts,...

Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political...

Ronald Dworkin's work on equality has shaped debates in the field of distributive justice for nearly three decades. In this book Alexander Brown attempts to provide a critique but also a defence of that work, and to extend equality of resources globally...

The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume,...

Moral Theory and Anomaly considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to...

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics. It also presents provocative, philosophically informed arguments on current bioethical issues. Holland engages with debates ranging from the more familiar such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913029555Author Agnes GayraudFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486438511Author L.N. TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198750055Author Philippa FootFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 232g

Ibn Sina - Avicenna in Latin - (980-1037) played a considerable role in the development of both eastern and western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics and theology and even medicine...

Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for...

This volume features original essays on the philosophy of love. The essays are organized thematically around the past, present, and future of philosophical thinking about love.In Part I, the contributors explore what we can learn from the history of...

The main question addressed in this book is whether individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic expressions is inherently holistic. The authors consider arguments that are alleged to show that the meaning of a scientific hypothesis depends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791434383Author Rob AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Amber: From Antiquity to Eternity is a history of human engagement with amber across three millennia. The book vividly describes our conceptions, stories, and political and scholarly disputes about amber, as well as issues of national and personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791439326Author Robert R. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...