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Ways of Knowing: Kierkegaard's Pluralist Epistemology by M. G. Piety 9781602583467
£51.02Kierkegaard is considered one of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth century, but until now very little scholarly work had been done on his epistemology. As M. G. Piety explains, this is a serious problem, as Kierkegaard's views on our ways of... -
Athens, Still Remains: The Photographs of Jean-Francois Bonhomme by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £21.99£19.19Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-Francois Bonhomme. But in Derrida's hands commentary always has a way of unfolding or, better, developing in several... -
Free Market Fairness by John Tomasi 9780691158143
RRP: £28.00£21.80Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John... -
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi 9781615192250
RRP: £15.95£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615192250Author Ali AlmossawiFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 208mm * 10mm -
Reading Parfit: On What Matters by Simon Kirchin
RRP: £39.99£35.06Derek Parfit was one of the world's leading philosophers. His On What Matters was the most eagerly awaited book in philosophy for many years. Reading Parfit: On What Matters is an essential overview and assessment of volumes 1 and 2 of Parfit's... -
Being for Beauty: Aesthetic Agency and Value by Dominic McIver Lopes
RRP: £23.99£21.66No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the natural world. And we even find them in the deepest... -
In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World by Nate Anderson 9781324004790
RRP: £17.99£13.90Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by "content." Written... -
The Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? by Paul Watzlawick 9780393333473
RRP: £21.00£17.89This book examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological "realities" are constructed, after which we naively assume they are the "real" realities. Contributors include Ernst von Glaserfeld (known for his cognitive studies with chimpanzees);... -
All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness by Chris Heffer
RRP: £26.99£22.77In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse? How can we know... -
Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy by Franklin Perkins
RRP: £27.99£24.14That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict... -
Barriers to Entailment: Hume's Law and other Limits on Logical Consequence by Prof Gillian K. Russell 9780192874733
RRP: £60.00£54.53A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosophy is Hume's Law, which says that you can't get normative conclusions from descriptive premises, or in... -
The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe by Lecturer in Philosophy Roger Teichmann
RRP: £122.50£104.34Elizabeth Anscombe is now recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. She left a large corpus of work, wide-ranging in content, always original and bold. Her monograph Intention, published in 1957, is a... -
Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze After Discipline by Frida Beckman
RRP: £21.99£17.97Starting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book questions how contemporary control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression. They also collectively revaluate Foucault and Deleuze's... -
Tao Te Ching by David Hinton
RRP: £14.99£8.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025561Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Conceptual Harmonies: The Origins and Relevance of Hegel’s Logic by Paul Redding 9780226826073
RRP: £28.00£27.39A new reading of Hegel's Science of Logic through the history of European mathematics.Conceptual Harmonies develops an original account of G. W. F. Hegel's perplexing Science of Logic from a simple insight: philosophical and mathematical thought have... -
Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World by Arnold Berleant
£21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400767Author Arnold BerleantFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Two Lessons on Animal and Man by Gilbert Simondon
RRP: £17.99£15.90Simondon is a secret password among certain discussions within philosophy today. As a philosopher of technology, Simondon's work has a place at the forefront of current thinking in media, technology, psychology, and philosophy with complex accounts of... -
A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University, Australia) 9781444350876
RRP: £37.95£34.36This 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... -
Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond by Julia Annas
RRP: £27.99£25.82Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. Annas shows that, rather than rejecting the approach... -
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia S. Churchland
RRP: £21.99£17.90Patricia Churchland, the distinguished founder of neurophilosophy, reaches beyond the familiar argument of nature versus nurture to bring together insights from philosophy and revolutionary research in neuroscience. Scientific research may not be able to... -
Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has To Teach Us About Sex and Gender by Richard Boothby
RRP: £36.99£32.53At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby... -
Forms of Value and Valuation by Rem B Edwards 9781625648471
RRP: £46.00£35.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625648471Author Rem B EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Why the World Does Not Exist by Markus Gabriel 9780745687568
RRP: £55.00£35.45Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to... -
Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy by Cristina Lafont 9780192868220
RRP: £23.49£19.97This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against... -
Risk and Rationality by Lara Buchak 9780198801283
£36.23Lara Buchak sets out an original account of the principles that govern rational decision-making in the face of risk. A distinctive feature of these decisions is that individuals are forced to consider how their choices will turn out under various... -
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... -
Cycling - Philosophy for Everyone: A Philosophical Tour de Force Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University, The Nanoethics Group) 9781444330274
RRP: £13.95£12.73Covering interesting and varied philosophical terrain, Cycling - Philosophy for Everyone explores in a fun but critical way the rich philosophical, cultural, and existential experiences that arise when two wheels are propelled by human energy. ... -
Ganesh: Removing the Obstacles by Insight Editions 9781601090294
RRP: £7.99£5.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601090294Author James H BaeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm)... -
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X: Translation and Commentary by Joachim Aufderheide
£25.45Accompanied by a new translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics X, this volume presents a hybrid between a traditional commentary and a scholarly monograph. Aristotle's text is divided into one hundred lemmata which not only explore comprehensively... -
On the Heavens by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39Peripatetic cosmology.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Illuminating the Mind: An Introduction to Buddhist Epistemology by Jonathan Stoltz
RRP: £24.99£22.37Illuminating the Mind puts the field of Buddhist epistemology in conversation with contemporary debates in philosophy. Jonathan Stoltz provides readers with an introduction to epistemology within the Buddhist intellectual tradition in a manner that is... -
Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration by Anna Stilz 9780198833536
RRP: £38.99£35.95Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration offers a qualified defense of a territorial states-system. It argues that three core values-occupancy, basic justice, and collective self-determination-are served by an international system made up of... -
Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon by Vernon W. Cisney
RRP: £23.99£21.85Thsi is the essential toolkit for anyone reading this seminal Derrida text for the first time. Published in 1967, Voice and Phenomenon marked a crucial turning point in Derrida's thinking: the culmination of a 15-year-long engagement with the... -
The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits: Volume I by Bernard Mandeville 9780198717034
£103.45A scholarly edition of a work by Bernard Mandeville. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198717034Author Bernard MandevilleFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism by Paul Blackledge
RRP: £32.00£28.21The essays in this collection explore the implications of Alasdair MacIntyre's critique of liberalism, capitalism, and the modern state, his early Marxism, and the complex influences of Marxist ideas on his thought. A central idea is that MacIntyre's... -
Killing and Letting Die by Bonnie Steinbock 9780823215638
RRP: £36.00£31.98This collection contains twenty-one thought-provoking essays on the controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between euthanasia and "letting die." Since public awareness of this issue has increased this second edition includes nine... -
Sex, Needs and Queer Culture: From Liberation to the Postgay Doctor David Alderson 9781783605125
RRP: £19.99£17.61The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay subcultures... -
Collected Essays 1929 - 1968: Collected Papers Volume 2 by Gilbert Ryle
RRP: £45.99£40.53Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and yet misunderstood philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Long unavailable, Collected Essays 1929-1968: Collected Papers Volume 2 stands as testament to the astonishing breadth of Ryle's philosophical... -
Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism by Johann Gottfried Herder
RRP: £25.00£19.59Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder's writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on... -
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle by Richard H. Popkin 9780195107685
RRP: £39.99£31.65This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin's work has generated innumerable citations, and remains a...