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Evil: A Very Short Introduction by Luke Russell 9780198819271
RRP: $11.60$8.32Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken... -
Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology by Jonathan Dancy
RRP: $34.77$30.22Offers the student a well-organized presentation of material relating to scepticism, to various philosophical accounts of knowledge and justification, to theories of perception, and more.About the AuthorJonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the... -
The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations by Robert Nozick 9780671725013
$16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671725013Author Robert NozickFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363g -
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History by Helena Sheehan
$36.61Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the... -
Why Religion Matters by Huston Smith
RRP: $20.63$13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060671020Author Huston SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Philosophy of Biology by Peter Godfrey-Smith
RRP: $28.38$22.39This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both, the book provides sophisticated and innovative coverage of... -
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition by George Lakoff
RRP: $29.67$29.06When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and... -
The Four Loves by C S Lewis 9780062565396
RRP: $23.21$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062565396Author C S LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Philosophy For Dummies by Tom Morris
RRP: $23.21$16.18You think, therefore you are. Get a straightforward rundown on philosophy from the ancient world to today If you've ever pondered your existence over your morning coffee or considered the nature of crime and punishment, you're an amateur philosopher... -
Marx: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Gill Hands
RRP: $19.34$12.64Is this the right book for me?Marx: A Complete Introduction will familiarize you with the revolutionary thinking of this significant man. It will take you through all the essential concepts - from class struggle to dialectical materialism. Expressing... -
A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind by Roy Sorensen 9780195179866
RRP: $23.85$21.83Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. ... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: $12.89$12.75Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is... -
Paths Between Head and Heart: Exploring the Harmonies of Science and Spirituality by Oliver C. Robinson 9781782799009
RRP: $20.63$17.83Paths Between Head and Heart provides an accessible but comprehensive account of how science and spirituality relate, not as enemies, but as partners in the quest for a truth that is greater than either one can understand alone. While many books have... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Nagel
$54.19In this lucid and accessible book, Thomas Nagel explores the central questions of philosophy thoughtfully, clearly, and with humour. He demonstrates that philosophy is an indispensable key to understanding our lives, and far from being an arcane academic... -
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith 9781250003836
$15.92"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the... -
The Wisdom of the Overself: The Path to Self-Realization and Philosophic Insight, Volume 2 by Paul Brunton 9781583949146
RRP: $25.80$19.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583949146Author Paul BruntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice by Joan C. Tronto
RRP: $30.95$26.88A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the center Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the... -
Decolonizing Politics – A Guide to Theory and Practice by Shilliam
RRP: $20.63$18.59Political science emerged as a response to the challenges of imperial administration and the demands of colonial rule. While not all political scientists were colonial cheerleaders, their thinking was nevertheless framed by colonial assumptions that... -
Stuff, Quality, Structure: The Whole Go Galen Strawson 9780198903659
RRP: $51.60$44.18Stuff, Quality, Structure makes a case for identity metaphysics. It defends categorial monism, the view that there's only one fundamental metaphysical category, which Strawson calls 'stuff'. It argues for the ultimate metaphysical identity of things that... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds
RRP: $28.38$22.39From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at... -
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology by Harris L. Friedman
RRP: $46.38$42.14THE WILEY-BLACKWELL HANDBOOK OF Transpersonal Psychology "The new Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology is a necessity today. Many transpersonal psychologists and psychotherapists have been waiting for such a comprehensive work. Congratulations to Harris... -
Moral Knowledge by Sarah McGrath
RRP: $98.04$89.14Compared to other kinds of knowledge, how fragile is our knowledge of morality? Does knowledge of the difference between right and wrong fundamentally differ from knowledge of other kinds, in that it cannot be forgotten? What makes reliable evidence in... -
A Brief History Of Vice by Robert Evans
RRP: $15.47$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147517609Author Robert EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 262g -
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: $19.34$13.00The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound... -
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel de Landa
RRP: $32.25$24.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299328Author Manuel De LandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory by David Copp 9780195325911
RRP: $60.62$55.77The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory is a major new reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned essays by leading moral philosophers. Ethical theories have always been of central importance to philosophy, and remain so; ethical theory is... -
Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People by Timothy Morton 9781788731003
RRP: $14.18$12.72What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites... -
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us by Adam Kirsch
RRP: $15.47$10.32Should we welcome the end of humanity? In this blistering book about the history of an idea, one of our leading critics draws on his dazzling range and calls our attention to a seemingly inconceivable topic that is being seriously discussed: that the... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind 9780198825616
RRP: $29.66$21.52Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the... -
Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price
RRP: $34.82$27.01Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of... -
An Autobiography: 150th Anniversary Edition with an Introduction by Pankaj Mishra by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: $16.76$11.73The life of Gandhi, in his own words150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra'Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood' Albert Einstein upon the death of M. K... -
Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear by Justin Steinberg 9781107141308
RRP: $116.10$104.53Spinoza's Political Psychology advances a novel, comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's political writings, exploring how his analysis of psychology informs his arguments for democracy and toleration. Justin Steinberg shows how Spinoza's political... -
The Limits of Morality by Shelly Kagan 9780198239161
RRP: $63.20$53.77Most of us believe that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand of us. We also think that certain types of acts are simply forbidden, even when necessary for promoting the overall good. Here Kagan argues that attempts to defend these... -
The Prayers by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $20.64$17.85Soren Kierkegaard's influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. Nearly 100 of his prayers are gathered here, illuminating his own life of prayer and speaking to the concerns of Christians today. The second part of... -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $20.58$16.90One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature-by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation... -
Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide by Nigel Warburton
RRP: $23.21$20.69Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide is a compact and straightforward guide to the skills needed to study philosophy, aimed at anyone coming to the subject for the first time or just looking to improve their performance. Nigel Warburton clarifies what... -
House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies by William Irwin
RRP: $23.16$20.67HOUSE AND PHILOSOPHY Is being nice overrated? Are we really just selfish, base animals crawling across Earth in a meaningless existence? Would reading less and watching more television be good for you?Is House a master of Eastern philosophy or just plain... -
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard 9780141395883
RRP: $19.34$14.13In Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard's infamous and controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Danish... -
The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought by Loren Goldman 9780197675823
RRP: $74.82$67.54A few years ago, the rhetoric of hope was all the rage, but the faith it expressed has been challenged by recent events and in recent political theory. Despite the regular appeal to hope from politicians, there is a widespread feeling of despair in the... -
Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: $32.19$25.66In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he's a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity "usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars." China Newsweek...