Philosophy

Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker is a highly eminent cognitive scientist, and his research emphasizes the importance of language...

Library of Liberal Arts title. Book InformationISBN 9780024266408Author Philip WheelwrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PearsonPublisher Pearson Education (US)Weight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm

An accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with it, and even Darwin, who profoundly shook the idea, was...

Toward Forever: Radical Reflections on History and Art is a diverse, colourful and eclectic set of essays of historical and cultural analyses. From the genesis of Islam as a social movement, to an account of Goya's art in the context of feudal absolutism...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and...

If you are from the West, it is likely that you normally assume that you are a subject who relates to objects and other subjects through actions that spring purely from your own intentions and will. Chinese philosophers, however, show how mistaken this...

This study uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particularly in the foundations of utilitarianism. Topics considered include the nature of teleological ethics, the foundations of decision theory, the value of...

The link between justice and climate change is becoming increasingly prominent in public debates on climate policy. This clear and concise philosophical introduction to climate justice addresses the hot topic of climate change as a moral challenge.Using...

Judgments of personal identity stand at the heart of our daily transactions. Family life, friendships, institutions of justice, and systems of compensation all rely on our ability to reidentify people. It is not as obvious as it might at first appear...

Comprised of twenty-nine specially commissioned essays, A Companion to Hume examines the depth of the philosophies and influence of one of history's most remarkable thinkers. Demonstrates the range of Hume's work and illuminates the ongoing debates that...

How do we punish others socially, and should we do so? In her 2018 Descartes Lectures for Tilburg University, Linda Radzik explores the informal methods ordinary people use to enforce moral norms, such as telling people off, boycotting businesses, and...

Renaissance Thought and Its Sources presents the fruits of an extraordinary lifetime of scholarship: a systematic account of major themes in Renaissance philosophy, theology, science, and literature, show in their several settings. Here, in some of Paul...

When The Stone Reader (ISBN 978 1 63149 071 2)-a landmark collection of 133 essays from The New York Times' award-winning philosophy series-first published, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800082182Author Michael HauskellerFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 430g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615600468Author Eugene ThackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Ethical dilemmas and decision-making are a persistent feature of the everyday operations of animal shelters and animal protection organizations. These organizations frequently face difficult decisions about how to treat the animals in their care,...

Everyone wants to be happy...don't they? Everyone seeks fulfilment in life...don't they? Unfortunately, this is not the common state in life today and much is due to the human failing of greed. This book offers a solution. Science explains and...

For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture of the world. However, recent developments in moral...

Sixteen hundred years after her death (d. 415 CE), the legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria's life, teaching, and especially her violent demise, continue to influence modern culture. Through a series of focused articles, this volume takes a fresh look at the...

As the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has become more established, it has increasingly hidden its philosophical roots. While the trend is typical of disciplines striving for maturity, Steve Fuller, a leading figure in the field, argues...

Everyone worries about being judged. One foolish tweet can destroy a career, one careless image can ruin a reputation. Yet judgement is inescapable; we cannot be social beings without judging and being judged. We're stuck with judgement and all the...

An incisive argument for the relevance of political philosophy and its possibility of effecting change.The appeal of political philosophy is that it will answer questions about justice for the sake of political action. But contemporary political...

The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.Michel Meyer...

In this book, Professor Pears examines the foundations of Hume's system as laid down in the first book of his Treatise, where his ideas are oresebted in their first fresh and undiluted form. The author steers a middle course between the two extreme views...

"Tactics and Ethics" collects Georg Lukacs' articles from the most politically active time of his life, a period encompassing his stint as deputy commissar of education in the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Including his famed essay on...

This carefully designed, multi-authored textbook covers a broad range of theoretical issues in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience. With accessible language, a uniform structure, and many pedagogical features, Mind, Cognition, and...

In this book, David M. Black asks questions such as 'why do we care?' and 'what gives our values power?' using ideas from psychoanalysis and its adjacent sciences such as neuroscience and evolutionary biology in order to do so. Why Things Matter explores...

In this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is realised by more than just the brain. They argue that the mechanisms and processes that realise phenomenal consciousness can at times...

Jurgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. Quarreling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477166Author Colin WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Volume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE-200 BCE), defined as the Axial Age by German-Swiss...

Spanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patocka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writings assembled in Living in Problematicity examine the role of the...

In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, Francois Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy...

Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400569Author Eugene HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

An engaging account of the titan of political philosophy and the development of his most important work, A Theory of Justice, coming at a moment when its ideas are sorely needed.It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political...

In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of recent essays, including his most overtly political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874777291Author Georg Feuerstein, PhDFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672358Author Istvan MeszarosFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their...