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Mind: A Brief Introduction by John R. Searle
RRP: £35.99£25.65"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." One of the world's most eminent thinkers, Searle dismantles these theories as he... -
The Life Audit: A workbook for a healthier, happier you by Michelle Moroney
RRP: £17.99£13.35Michelle Moroney, life coach and owner of The Cliffs of Moher Retreat, has been facilitating retreats for over 15 years, and has recognised the desires that connect us all. We want to be happy. We want to feel better. We want to get the most out of life... -
The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to life by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £8.99£6.20A refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the UK.Thinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not have to be a despondent experience, but rather can be... -
Understanding Deleuze by Claire Colebrook
RRP: £24.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781865087979Author Claire ColebrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 340g -
Roots of Yoga by James Mallinson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'An indispensable companion for all interested in yoga, both scholars and practitioners' Professor Alexis G. J. S. SandersonDespite yoga's huge global popularity, relatively little of its roots is known among practitioners. This compendium includes a... -
Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: (about life, philosophy and everything) by Jordan Erica Webber
RRP: £10.99£7.78WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?These sound like questions from a... -
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £9.99£6.70Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's... -
The Art of Asking Essential Questions: Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Socratic Principles by Linda Elder 9780944583166
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944583166Author Linda ElderFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Foundation for Critical ThinkingPublisher Foundation for Critical ThinkingWeight(grams)... -
Political Thought by Michael Rosen 9780192892782
RRP: £42.99£40.80Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behaviour and freedom of individuals. This raises important questions about how these institutions ought to function, and the extent to which... -
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide by Samir Chopra 9780691210674
RRP: £22.00£17.52How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it's an essential part of being humanToday, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But... -
Isolated Self: Truth & Untruth in Soren Kierkegaard's 'On the Concept of Irony' by K. Brian Soderquist
RRP: £28.99£23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763540650Author K. Brian SoderquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)... -
Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide by Charles Taliaferro 9781851688203
RRP: £9.99£6.41What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through... -
The Sweetness of Life by Francoise Heritier
RRP: £7.99£5.79The number one bestseller in France and Italy, from Francoise Heritier, The Sweetness of Life is a beautiful and poetic list of the everyday reasons that make life worth livingIf you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, and deduct the hours we... -
Vasistha's Yoga by Swami Venkatesananda
RRP: £31.35£28.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791413647Author Swami VenkatesanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 780Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas by Eleonore Stump 9781009044332
RRP: £26.99£23.20This new Companion to Aquinas features entirely new chapters written by internationally recognized experts in the field. It shows the power of Aquinas's philosophical thought and transmits the worldview which he inherited, developed, altered, and argued... -
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Breaking the Spell Daniel C. Dennett explores how the great ideas of religion have enthralled us for thousands of years - and whether we could (or should) break free. What is religion and how did it evolve? Is it the product of blind evolutionary... -
The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376820Author Paul LafargueFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Illusionism: as a theory of consciousness by Keith Frankish 9781845409579
RRP: £19.95£18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409579Author Keith FrankishFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Analects by Confucius 9780143106852
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation.China's first and greatest teacher, Confucius traveled from state to state as an itinerant philosopher. The Analects preserves his major teachings, as compiled by his... -
Intention by G. E. M. Anscombe
RRP: £27.95£22.92Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of... -
The Fundamentals of Reasons by Mark Schroeder 9780192896285
RRP: £18.99£17.91The concept of a reason is now central to many areas of contemporary philosophy. Key theses in ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of action, and the philosophy of the emotions, among others, have come to be framed in terms of reasons... -
Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism by Rita M. Gross 9780791414040
£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791414040Author Rita M. GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
RRP: £10.99£7.77We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and... -
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
RRP: £10.99£7.77What is reality, really?Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive?How does this change the way we understand the world?We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea... -
Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am': All and Everything Third Series by George Gurdjieff
RRP: £10.99£7.77This is one of the few records published by Gurdjieff in which he offers guidance to his 'community of seekers', the pupils from many countries who joined him in Paris and New York.The first section is mainly autobiographical, relating material crucial... -
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner
RRP: £25.00£16.78Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the visual experience of the work of several... -
The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles by William Irwin 9780470398258
RRP: £15.95£14.38A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter series Harry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate... -
Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily A. Austin
RRP: £17.99£12.95If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus rolled these two strikingly intuitive claims into a simple formula for... -
Art Against Despair: pictures to battle sorrow and restore hope by The School of Life
RRP: £22.00£15.51One of the most unexpectedly useful things we can do when we're feeling glum or out of sorts is to look at pictures. The best works of art can lift our spirits, remind us of what we love and return perspective to our situation. A few moments in front of... -
The Philosophy of Spinoza - Special Edition: On God, on Man, and on Man's Well Being by Benedictus de Spinoza 9781934255285
RRP: £18.20£15.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934255285Author Joseph RatnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint El Paso Norte PressPublisher El Paso Norte PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Can You Stand the Truth? the Chronicle of Man's Imprisonment: Last Call! by Angeliki S Anagnostou-Kalogera
RRP: £41.22£37.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786188021600Author Andreas M KalogerasFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint Angeliki Anagnostou KalogeraPublisher Angeliki Anagnostou KalogeraWeight(grams)... -
Ren: The Ancient Chinese Art of Finding Fulfilment Through the World Around You by Yen Ooi
RRP: £12.99£8.60A beautiful look at the Ancient Chinese philosophy of Ren and how it can help us with our hectic modern lives.The Chinese character for Ren combines the word for 'person' and the number 'two' , representing human connection. And in the teachings of... -
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature: Volume 1: Texts by David Fate Norton 9780199596331
RRP: £37.99£32.97David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This first volume contains the critical text of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740)... -
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £17.50£11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756771Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Open Society and its Enemies: The Spell of Plato by Sir Karl Popper
RRP: £16.99£15.22Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound... -
Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place by Jade Angeles Fitton 9781804940525
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experienced... There is never anything out here but my shadow, that no one treads on any more'When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks... -
The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century by Desmond M. Clarke 9780199673513
£45.80Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society... -
The Art of Solitude by Stephen Batchelor
RRP: £11.99£10.15In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitude from renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor A Los Angeles Review of Books "Best of the Year" selection "Whatever a soul is, the author goes a long way toward... -
Awakening Philosophy: The Loss of Truth by Robert Elliott Allinson
RRP: £39.99£35.21In this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality. Allinson... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014
RRP: £10.99£7.11'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir debate since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others,...