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Philosophy 101 by Socrates: An Introduction to Philosophy Via Plato's Apology by Peter Kreeft
RRP: £10.00£9.73Philosophy means "the love of wisdom." Kreeft uses the dialogues of Socrates to help the reader grow in that love. He says that no master of the art of philosophizing has ever been more simple, clear, and accessible to beginners as has Socrates. He... -
Addresses to the German Nation by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9781603849340
RRP: £18.99£15.67In the winter of 1807, while Berlin was occupied by French troops, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte presented fourteen public lectures that have long been studied as a major statement of modern nationalism. Yet Fichte's Addresses to the German... -
How Logic Works: A User's Guide by Hans Halvorson
RRP: £45.00£35.32A concise introduction to logic that teaches you not only how reasoning works, but why it worksHow Logic Works is an introductory logic textbook that is different by design. Rather than teaching elementary symbolic logic as an abstract or rote... -
Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America by Adam Przeworski
RRP: £22.99£19.56The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many... -
Puzzles of Reference by Herman Cappelen 9780198799849
£27.12It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things. Much attention has been devoted to the nature of reference, both in philosophy and in linguistics. Puzzles of Reference is the first book to give a comprehensive accessible survey of the... -
Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread: A Philosophical Detective Story by Lydia Goehr
RRP: £36.49£31.33A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It... -
English-Language Philosophy 1750-1945 by John Skorupski
£50.98From the end of the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century philosophy took fascinating and controversial paths whose relevance to contemporary post-modernist thought is becoming increasingly clear. This volume traces the English-language... -
The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility by Erin I. Kelly
RRP: £32.95£26.64Faith in the power and righteousness of retribution has taken over the American criminal justice system. Approaching punishment and responsibility from a philosophical perspective, Erin Kelly challenges the moralism behind harsh treatment of criminal... -
Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State by Clare Chambers 9780198744009
RRP: £37.49£37.40Against Marriage is a radical argument for the abolition of state-recognised marriage. Clare Chambers argues that state-recognised marriage violates both equality and liberty, even when expanded to include same-sex couples. Instead Chambers proposes the... -
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781624667855
RRP: £10.99£9.00This new edition features a revision by Donald A. Cress of his bestselling 1987 translation of On the Social Contract together with Introduction, footnotes, and chronology by David Wootton, one of our leading historians of the Enlightenment.About the... -
Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body by Jana Sawicki
RRP: £43.99£38.44In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme,... -
Thomas More's Vocation by Frank Mitjans 9780813236100
RRP: £75.00£63.28The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. More's great-grandson, Cresacre, a Londoner, understood it correctly, and that gives reason to trust him on... -
Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America by Rodolfo Kusch
RRP: £21.99£19.19Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922-79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation... -
Creation of Self, The: A Case for the Soul by Joshua R. Farris
RRP: £20.99£16.36Situated in broader science-and-religion discussions, The Creation of Self is the first book-length defense of a creationist view of persons as souls. This book therefore serves as both a novel argument for God's creation of selves and as a critique of... -
In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism by Stanley Cavell 9780226098180
RRP: £24.00£23.03These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind Keith T. Maslin (Esher College) 9780745640747
RRP: £22.99£20.56An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind provides a lively and accessible introduction to all the main themes and arguments currently being debated in this area. The book examines and criticizes four major theories of mind: Dualism, Mind/Brain Identity,... -
The Great Philosophers: Descartes John Cottingham 9781399612319
RRP: £5.99£4.40'The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.' Descartes'It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.'Descartes is often called the father of modern philosophy. He was certainly... -
Ethical Leadership: Moral Decision-making under Pressure by Aidan McQuade
RRP: £23.50£17.76Ethical leadership does not simply emerge from a code of conduct, a good school, or a host of good intentions. It is an individual choice, or rather a series of choices that emerges from the complex interaction of personal values with social imperatives... -
The Rhetoric of Sincerity by Ernst van Alphen 9780804763028
RRP: £21.99£19.19In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law,... -
The Spectre of Capital: Idea and Reality by Christopher J. Arthur 9781642599886
RRP: £40.00£26.93What is money? What is capital? Christopher J. Arthur brilliantly tackles these fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level in The Spectre of Capital. He argues that the modern world is ruled by an unseen force, the spectre of capital. This... -
The Ontology of Emotions by Hichem Naar
RRP: £30.99£22.85The nature of emotion is an important question in several philosophical domains, but little attention has so far been paid to identifying the general ontological category to which emotions belong. Given that they are short-lived, are they events? Since... -
The Rules of Rescue: Cost, Distance, and Effective Altruism by Theron Pummer 9780190884147
RRP: £24.49£20.78This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. When do you have to... -
A Commentary on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Michael Inwood
£32.00Michael Inwood, an eminent scholar of German philosophy, presents a full and detailed new commentary on a classic work of the nineteenth century. Philosophy of Mind is the third part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, in which he... -
Letter to D: A Love Story Andre Gorz 9780745646770
RRP: £40.00£26.15'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so begins Andre Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As... -
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Richard Kraut (Northwestern University) 9781405120210
RRP: £29.95£27.01The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors... -
Cricket Ball by Gary Cox
RRP: £40.00£30.38No object encapsulates the subtle, mysterious richness of cricket as much as its most famous character, the cricket ball: the swinging, bouncing, spinning heart of the glorious game. Gary Cox tells us the life story of the ball in its many guises:... -
The End of Morality: Taking Moral Abolitionism Seriously by Richard Joyce 9780815358602
RRP: £37.99£33.38According to the moral error theorist, all moral judgments are mistaken. The world just doesn't contain the properties and relations necessary for these judgments to be true. But what should we actually do if we decided that we are in this radical and... -
The Intimate Resistance by Josep Maria Esquirol
RRP: £10.99£8.29The Intimate Resistance is a keen, deeply beautiful reflection on the human condition. The author explains how we ourselves can warm, protect and guide those around us. "The intimate resistance is the name for an experience belonging to a state of... -
Wash Your Fins, Baby Shark! Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (BB) by John John Bajet 9780702308482
RRP: £6.99£6.28Time to keep germs at bay with this Baby Shark chunky and bright board book. Sing along to a catchy song... cleaning has never been so fun! Wash your fins! Doo doo doo doo doo doo! Family favourite, Baby... -
Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman
RRP: £12.99£9.00From the bestselling author of the acclaimed novel AMERICAN GODS and the prize-winning THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE.In May 2012, Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts... -
Street Life and Morals: German Philosophy in Hitler's Lifetime by Lesley Chamberlain
RRP: £30.00£29.09With resonance for today, this book explores a significant crisis of German philosophy and national identity in the decades around World War II. German philosophy, famed for its high-minded Idealism, was plunged into crisis when Germany became an urban... -
The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All? by John Leslie
RRP: £25.00£22.60This compelling study of the origins of all that exists, including explanations of the entire material world, traces the responses of philosophers and scientists to the most elemental and haunting question of all: why is anything here-or anything... -
Religion: If There Is No God...On God, the Devil, Sin and Other Worries of the So-called Philosophy of Religion by Leszek Kolakowski 9781890318871
RRP: £15.00£14.35Leszek Kolakowski discusses, in a highly original way, the arguments for and against the existence of God as they have been conducted through the ages. He examines the critiques of religious belief, from the Epicureans through Nietzsche to contemporary... -
Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings by Jean Wahl
RRP: £35.00£30.74Jean Wahl (1888-1974), once considered by the likes of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been forgotten outside France. Yet his influence on French... -
Husserl's Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy by Dan Zahavi 9780199684830
RRP: £45.99£45.62Dan Zahavi offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of central and contested aspects of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. What is ultimately at stake in Husserl's phenomenological analyses? Are they primarily to be... -
Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading by Nicholas Austin 9781626164734
RRP: £29.50£26.51Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274). Taking as its starting point Aquinas's... -
Archaeological Theory in Dialogue: Situating Relationality, Ontology, Posthumanism, and Indigenous Paradigms by Rachel J. Crellin
RRP: £37.99£33.38Archaeological Theory in Dialogue presents an innovative conversation between five scholars from different backgrounds on a range of central issues facing archaeology today.Interspersing detailed investigations of critical theoretical issues with... -
Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau by Christopher Brooke
RRP: £35.00£27.74Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on... -
The Lord's Prayer and Rudolf Steiner: A study of his insights into the archetypal prayer of Christianity by Peter Selg 9781782500513
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.'Rudolf Steiner once called the Lord's Prayer the 'greatest initiation prayer', and he spoke about it many times, also referring to it as the central prayer of Christian experience.This book is, however,... -
Concept and Form: Selections from Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 1 by Peter Hallward
£20.81Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and...