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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind by Brian McLaughlin 9780199596317
RRP: £40.99£40.49The study of the mind has always been one of the main preoccupations of philosophers, and has been a booming area of research in recent decades, with remarkable advances in psychology and neuroscience. Oxford University Press now presents the most... -
Right to Die?: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life Care by John Wyatt
RRP: £9.99£7.11The case for assisted suicide can seem so compelling. Surely it can't be wrong to help desperate people to kill themselves? Don't we have a right to take our own lives in certain circumstances? There are no trite or easy answers. John Wyatt helps us... -
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden
RRP: £25.00£19.99A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways... -
Popper Selections by Karl R. Popper 9780691020310
RRP: £35.00£26.29These excerpts from the writings of Sir Karl Popper are an outstanding introduction to one of the most controversial of living philosophers, known especially for his devastating criticisms of Plato and Marx and for his uncompromising rejection of... -
Phenomenology by Chad Engelland
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539319Author Chad EngellandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus 9781416596165
RRP: £19.00£11.55A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of... -
Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care by Joan C. Tronto
RRP: £43.99£38.44In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realise the political context which has shaped their... -
The Idea of Private Law by Ernest J Weinrib 9780199664795
£49.77Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the... -
The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future by Sheila Jasanoff 9780393078992
RRP: £21.99£18.55Sheila Jasanoff charts society's embrace of technological solutions and technology's complex interplay with ethics and human rights. She dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control. From GMOs... -
Leibniz's Monadology: A New Translation and Guide by Dr. Lloyd Strickland
RRP: £27.99£22.61This is a fresh translation and in-depth commentary of Leibniz's seminal text, the Monadology. Written in 1714, the Monadology is widely considered to be the classic statement of Leibniz's mature philosophy. In the space of 90 numbered paragraphs,... -
The Northern Ireland Question: Perspectives on Nationalism and Unionism by Patrick John Roche 9781783241453
£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783241453Author Patrick John RocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Wordzworth PublishingPublisher Wordzworth PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Foucault: The Birth of Power by Professor Stuart Elden 9781509507269
RRP: £18.99£16.87Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What... -
Public Enemies by Bernard Henri-Levy
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals.' (Houellebecq to BHL)In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy... -
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Sacred Texts: The Essential Yoga Texts for Spiritual Enlightenment by Swami Vivekananda
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is widely regarded as the most authoritative text on yoga. It comprises a collection of 196 Indian sutras ("threads" - as sutra translates from Sanskrit) written 1,700 years ago. These threads or aphorisms were compiled by... -
Platonism: A Concise History from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity by Mauro Bonazzi
RRP: £30.00£25.95The task of philosophy, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once wrote, is to 'overturn Platonism'. This might be true, if only we could define what Platonism is. In this clear and accessible book Mauro Bonazzi provides the first comprehensive... -
Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £7.99£3.42"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on... -
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler 9780691160184
RRP: £16.99£12.19When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - "godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell ...by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw... -
The Keys to Democracy: Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power by Maurice Pope
RRP: £25.00£23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360975Author Maurice PopeFormat HardbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 14mm -
The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought by Adrian Hastings 9780198600244
RRP: £59.00£44.86At the dawn of the third millennium, what does it mean to be a Christian? This ambitious and imaginative new reference work is the most authoritative, yet accessible, introduction in English to the living tradition of Christian thought-the... -
The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: £9.99£6.64What is the meaning of life? How should I live? Is there any purpose to the universe? Generations have turned to the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer because he tackled the big issues. His influence has extended not only to later philosophers... -
The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom by Jonathan Sacks
RRP: £20.00£12.05Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - The Daily Telegraph'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.'From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in 1991, through to his death in November 2020, Rabbi... -
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Writing and Madness: (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis) by Shoshana Felman
RRP: £23.99£20.84Writing and Madness is Shoshana Felman's most influential work of literary theory and criticism. Exploring the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis through brilliant studies of Balzac, Nerval, Flaubert, and James, as well as... -
The Beer Option: Brewing a Catholic Culture, Yesterday & Today by R Jared Staudt 9781621384151
RRP: £22.50£22.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384151Author R Jared StaudtFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming by Kimerer L. LaMothe 9780231171052
RRP: £28.00£21.80Within intellectual paradigms that privilege mind over matter, dance has long appeared as a marginal, derivative, or primitive art. Drawing support from theorists and artists who embrace matter as dynamic and agential, this book offers a visionary... -
F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics by Scott Scheall 9781032174433
RRP: £39.99£35.06F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics is an exploration of an important problem that has largely been ignored heretofore: the problem of policymaker ignorance and the consequences of limited political knowledge. Scott Scheall explores the... -
Some Lessons in Metaphysics by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393005141
RRP: £16.00£13.35Ortega's entry into the writing world came by way of newspaper essays that are still read by generations seeking revelations and interpretations of the world. He wrote on varied subjects: love, bullfighting, hunting, education, and Don Quixote. His... -
Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson
RRP: £13.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372204Author Galen StrawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Dispositional Pluralism by Jennifer McKitrick 9780198717805
£71.55Jennifer McKitrick offers an opinionated guide to the philosophy of dispositions. In her view, when an object has a disposition, it is such that, if a certain type of circumstance were to occur, a certain kind of event would occur. Since it is very... -
The Beginning of Knowledge by Hans-Georg Gadamer
£24.11The Beginning of Knowledge brings together almost all of Gadamer's essays on the Presocratics. In each of the essays Gadamer discusses the origins of knowledge in the western philosophical tradition. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological... -
The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti by Swami Radhanath
RRP: £21.00£15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Body/Mind/Spirit) 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781608871575Author Radhanath SwamiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Mandala... -
Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse by Bradley Garrett
RRP: £10.99£7.77A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'An extraordinary achievement . . . gripping, grim and witty' Robert MacFarlane 'Unputdown-able ... No book could be more timely' Richard J Evans Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind
RRP: £11.99£8.43Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our... -
Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence by Alicia Juarrero
RRP: £43.00£29.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545662Author Alicia JuarreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Suburban Socialism by Oly Durose
RRP: £12.99£8.60In December 2019, Oly Durose lost by over 25,000 votes as the Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brentwood & Ongar. Revealing what it's like to stand on a socialist platform in one of the safest Conservative seats in the UK, this book makes the... -
The Animal Rights Debate by Carl Cohen 9780847696635
RRP: £47.00£41.20Do all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the interests of humans and those of other animals? Philosophical inquiry is essential in... -
Israel, Palestine and Terror by Stephen Law 9780826497932
RRP: £50.00£37.68This is an extraordinary collection of essays on a hugely topical subject from a team of leading philosophers from around the world.This extraordinary book brings together the thoughts of 15 leading philosophers on one of the most important political and... -
Metaphysics: An Introduction by Alyssa Ney
RRP: £37.99£33.78Metaphysics: An Introduction, Second Edition combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics,... -
Ironic Life by Richard J. Bernstein 9781509505739
RRP: £15.99£14.41"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has... -
Path Of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein, PhD 9781590308837
RRP: £19.99£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308837Author Georg Feuerstein, PhDFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...