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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $11.51Examine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel 9780195174373
RRP: $54.93Booksplease Price: $42.37In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the... -
Things as They are: Nafs al-Amr and the Metaphysical Foundations of Objective Truth by Hasan Spiker 9789948860747
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948860747Author Hasan SpikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint < -
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780719014505
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.04Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the... -
Objectivity by Lorraine J. Daston
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $36.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781890951795Author -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.75A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we... -
Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous by W. Jay Wood 9780877845225
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877845225Author W. Jay WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Theaetetus by Plato
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus... -
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller 9780141396965
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who... -
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of... -
Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information by John D. Caputo
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does interpretation go all the way down? Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think... -
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288591Author Richard TarnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint -
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami 9781786997111
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.91In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. ... -
Language and Reality by Vilem Flusser
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07In Language and Reality, originally published in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1964, Vilem Flusser continues his philosophical and theoretical exploration into language. He begins to postulate that language... -
The World of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty 9780415773812
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $23.97'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science - and also the... -
The Ecstasy of Communication by Jean Baudrillard 9781584350576
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350576Author Jean BaudrillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Booksplease Price: $42.59Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Goverment by John Locke 9781840227321
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.94Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding... -
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us by Noson S. Yanofsky
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2013 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Popular... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley 9780199555178
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the... -
The Complete Works of Plato: Socratic, Platonist, Cosmological, and Apocryphal Dialogues by Plato 9788793494589
Booksplease Price: $37.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793494589Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 1184Imprint -
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Oracle Night is a compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time.' (San Francisco Chronicle). Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr... -
Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide Boaventura de Sousa Santos 9781612055459
RRP: $52.25Booksplease Price: $48.23This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.73`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and... -
Karmic Relationships: Esoteric Studies: Volume 8 by Rudolf Steiner 9781855844186
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.01During 1924, before his last address in September, Rudolf Steiner gave over eighty lectures on the subject of karma to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These profoundly esoteric commentaries... -
Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction by Duncan Pritchard
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Throughout history scepticism and the urge to question accepted truths has been a powerful force for change and growth. Today, as we are bombarded by adverts, scientific studies praising the latest... -
Simplicity as Evidence of Truth by Richard Swinburne 9780874621648
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874621648Author Richard SwinburneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint < -
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
RRP: $19.42Booksplease Price: $13.39People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a... -
Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $28.88As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a career, we... -
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard 9780190085148
Booksplease Price: $45.55Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example,... -
The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $22.27'I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell', writes Michael Polanyi, whose work paved the way for the likes of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper... -
Meaning in Absurdity - What bizarre phenomena can tell us about the nature of reality Bernardo Kastrup 9781846948596
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92This book is an experiment. Inspired by the bizarre and uncanny, it is an attempt to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational. Its ways are unconventional: weaving along its... -
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman 9781445663388
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already... -
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh by David Hume 9780872202290
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in... -
Epistemology: A Beginner's Guide Robert M. Martin 9781851687329
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Without knowledge, scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can't begin to analyse the world around us. What is knowledge? How do you know you... -
The Metacritique of Kant and the Possibility of Metaphysics by Hasan Spiker 9789948166559
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948166559Author Hasan SpikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint -
An Essay concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780199296620
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20'I must apply my self to Experience; as far as that reaches, I may have certain Knowledge, but no farther.' In An Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester 9780008484422
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times ‘An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and... -
Discourse on Method and Related Writings by Rene Descartes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of... -
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the...