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Rights, Restitution, and Risk: Essays in Moral Theory by Judith Jarvis Thomson 9780674769816
RRP: £40.95£33.09Moral theory should be simple: the moral theorist attends to ordinary human action to explain what makes some acts right and others wrong, and we need no microscope to observe a human act. Yet no moral theory that is simple captures all of the morally... -
Reading Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary Christopher Janaway (University of Southampton) 9781405118088
RRP: £30.95£27.24Designed for readers with no or little prior knowledge of the subject, this concise anthology brings together key texts in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Designed for readers with no or little prior knowledge of the subject.Presents two... -
Masters of Mahamudra: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas by Keith Dowman 9780887061608
£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887061608Author Keith DowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Children of Mercury: The Lives of the Painters by Spike Bucklow 9781789145236
RRP: £20.00£14.29Children of Mercury is a bold new account of the lives of pre-modern painters, viewed through the lens of The Seven Ages of Man, a widespread belief made famous in the 'All the world's a stage' speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Spike Bucklow... -
Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible Michael Onyebuchi Eze 9781776148936
£29.19Rick Turner was a South African academic and activist who rebelled against apartheid at the height of its power and was assassinated in 1978 when was 32 years old, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans... -
Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained by Colin McGinn
RRP: £32.00£21.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529822Author Colin McGinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars by John McDowell 9780674725805
RRP: £26.95£21.74A crucial moment came in the developing split between Anglo-American and continental European philosophers when G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell rebelled against the "Hegelianism" of their teachers and inaugurated the tradition of "analytic" philosophy... -
Idealism in Modern Philosophy by Paul Guyer 9780192848581
RRP: £21.49£20.14This book tells the story of idealism in modern philosophy, from the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. Paul Guyer and Rolf-Peter Horstmann define idealism as the reduction of all reality to something mental in nature. Rather than... -
The Corporeal turn: An interdisciplinary reader by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
RRP: £14.95£14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401535Author Maxine Sheets-JohnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)... -
The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity, 1844-1869 by Daniel Blue 9781316500958
RRP: £24.99£21.18How did Nietzsche the philosopher come into being? The Nietzsche known today did not develop 'naturally', through the gradual maturation of some inborn character. Instead, from an early age he engaged in a self-conscious campaign to follow his own... -
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence by Angus Fletcher
RRP: £20.00£15.89Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan-and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough-starts with "what if?" Linking causes to effects, considering... -
Dialectic of Pop by Agnes Gayraud
RRP: £27.00£19.59Apologies 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 -
Heraclitus: Translation and Analysis by Dennis Sweet 9780761833673
RRP: £35.00£30.95New in Paperback! This English translation of Heraclitus' fragments combines all those generally accepted in modern scholarship. Dennis Sweet maintains the "flavor" of the Greek syntax as much as meaningful English will allow, and uses more archaic... -
The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings: Publick Benefits' by Bernard Mandeville 9780872203747
RRP: £15.99£13.36This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville's most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist... -
Middle Age Christopher Hamilton 9781844651658
RRP: £37.99£33.12Middle age, for many, marks a key period for a radical reappraisal of one's life and way of living. The sense of time running out, both from the perspective that one's life has ground to a halt, and from the point of view of the greater closeness of... -
Logic, Language and Meaning: v.2: Intensional Logic and Logic Grammar by L.T.F. Gamut 9780226280882
RRP: £37.00£35.77Although the two volumes of Logic, Language, and Meaning can be used independently of one another, together they provide a comprehensive overview of modern logic as it is used as a tool in the analysis of natural language. Both volumes provide exercises... -
On the Fourfold Root of the Principles of Sufficient Reason by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780875482019
RRP: £25.99£22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875482019Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S... -
A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt-And Why They Shouldn't by William B. Irvine 9780199934454
RRP: £24.49£18.17Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others? In A Slap in... -
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics by Emily Adlam
RRP: £17.00£14.72Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. But more than 100 years after it was first introduced, the interpretation of the theory remains controversial. This Element introduces some of the most puzzling questions at the... -
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy by Roy W. Perrett
RRP: £30.99£27.52This wide-ranging introduction to classical Indian philosophy is philosophically rigorous without being too technical for beginners. Through detailed explorations of the full range of Indian philosophical concerns, including some metaphilosophical... -
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science by Debapriya Sarkar
RRP: £54.00£46.42The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature-what early moderns termed poesie-in the dynamic intellectual culture... -
Construction Site for Possible Worlds by Amanda Beech
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913029579Author Amanda BeechFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert 9780385235693
£14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385235693Author Nick HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Discworld and Philosophy: Reality Is Not What It Seems by Nicolas Michaud 9780812699197
£22.04In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants atop a swimming turtle, the sun goes around the world every day, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of... -
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy by Barbara Applebaum 9780739144923
RRP: £44.00£38.64Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and... -
The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 by Jonathan Israel 9780691195933
RRP: £22.00£18.16A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic... -
The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence by Michael Oakeshott 9781845401801
£21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401801Author Michael OakeshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 500g -
Critique of Dialectical Reason: v. 1 by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781859844854
RRP: £45.99£33.97At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished... -
Hume by Don Garrett 9780415283342
RRP: £25.99£22.63Beginning with an overview of Hume's life and work, Don Garrett introduces in clear and accessible style the central aspects of Hume's thought. These include Hume's lifelong exploration of the human mind; his theories of inductive inference and... -
Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal by Heather Widdows 9780691160078
RRP: £35.00£31.98How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to... -
The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by W. Norris Clarke
RRP: £28.99£24.96When 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... -
Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason by Terry P. Pinkard
RRP: £30.99£25.65The Phenomenology of Spirit is both one of Hegel's most widely read books and one of his most obscure. The book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's work available. It develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of... -
Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings by Avi Lifschitz
RRP: £35.00£27.95The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712-1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus by Thomas Williams 9780521635639
RRP: £30.99£26.96Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One... -
Habermas: A Critical Introduction by William Outhwaite 9780745643281
£18.09This new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writings on the public sphere, through his work on law and the state, to his more recent discussion of science, religion... -
Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy by Edward Baring
RRP: £47.95£38.94In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelberg's The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a new and unexpected force-Catholic intellectuals-behind the growth of phenomenology in the early twentieth... -
Lectures on the Will to Know by Michel Foucault 9781250050106
£15.04Lectures on the Will to Know reminds us that Michel Foucault's work only ever had one object: truth. Here, he builds on his earlier work, Discipline and Punish, to explore the relationship between tragedy, conflict, and truth-telling. He also explores... -
On Reflection by Hilary Kornblith 9780198708681
RRP: £29.99£23.44Hilary Kornblith presents a new account of reflection, and its importance for knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity. Philosophers have frequently extolled the value of reflective self-examination, and a wide range of philosophers, who differ on... -
Bad Language by Herman Cappelen 9780198839651
£25.87When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on. This, of course, isn't remotely true of a lot of real-world language use. Bad Language is the first textbook to explore non-idealized language... -
Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind (Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), Part 2: Exegesis, Section 243-427 P. M. S. Hacker (University of Oxford) 9781118951750
RRP: £72.95£63.76WITTGENSTEIN MEANING AND MIND Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Part II - Exegesis 243-427 explores and clarifies the patterns, developments, and conclusions of Wittgenstein's arguments in 243-427 of Philosophical Investigations. Each numbered remark in...