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Minds, Brains, and Computers: An Historical Introduction to the Foundations of Cognitive Science by Robert M. Harnish
RRP: £41.95£37.73Minds, Brains, and Computers presents a vital resource -- the most comprehensive interdisciplinary selection of seminal papers in the foundations of cognitive science, from leading figures in artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, psychology,... -
Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £3.00£2.49'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms,... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £11.99£8.43'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and... -
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume 9780872204027
RRP: £9.99£8.02Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay Of Miracles has been added in this expanded edition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which also includes Of the Immortality of the Soul,Of Suicide, and Richard Popkin's illuminating Introduction.Book... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 1: Greece and Rome by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £25.00£22.19Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780199297221
RRP: £9.99£7.11'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of... -
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £7.99£2.26Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: £12.99£9.09Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 9781853264719
RRP: £4.99£3.46Translated with Notes by Arthur Waley. With an Introduction by Robert Wilkinson. Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780141395838
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and... -
Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750-1834 by Donald Winch
RRP: £36.99£33.66In Riches and Poverty, Donald Winch explores the implications of a fundamental and influential idea in political economy. Adam Smith's science of the legislator provided a key to studying the rich and poor in commercial societies, transformed an ancient... -
Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £20.99£18.09Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of... -
Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £8.99£6.45ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of... -
Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: £8.99£6.45Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the... -
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£15.28Discover how our big social, political and ethical ideas are formed with The Philosophy Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Philosophy in this... -
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £8.99£6.70Rene Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it. Introducing Descartes... -
After Writing: On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy by Catherine Pickstock
RRP: £43.95£38.42After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offers a challenge to modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity.About the AuthorCatherine Pickstock is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge... -
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780486217611
RRP: £23.49£15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486217611Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Book of Secrets: how to find comfort in a turbulent world - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Derren Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Enlightening, thought-provoking and illuminating. Derren Brown asks questions about the world, and his intelligent curiosity benefits us all.'ELIZABETH DAYIn A Book of Secrets, the star of 'Showman', and internationally... -
A Guide For The Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
RRP: £9.99£7.11A Guide for the Perplexed is E. F. Schumacher's classic work of philosophy and a statement of the philosophies that underpin his economic masterpiece Small is Beautiful. Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and... -
Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
RRP: £8.99£6.45The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations... -
Absence – On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East by BC Han
RRP: £12.99£12.86Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern... -
Nonduality: In Buddhism and Beyond by David R. Loy
RRP: £22.50£15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614295242Author David R. LoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: £12.99£9.09What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family... -
Freedom and History and Other Essays: An Introduction to the Thought of Richard McKeon by Richard P. McKeon 9780226560298
£29.25This volume of essays is an important introduction to the thought of one of the twentieth century's most significant yet underappreciated philosophers, Richard McKeon. The originator of philosophical pluralism, McKeon made extraordinary contributions to... -
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig 9780198861775
RRP: £8.99£6.45How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. Edward Craig explores important themes in ethics, and the nature of knowledge and the self, through... -
History of Civilization in Europe by Francois Guizot 9780865978379
RRP: £10.95£8.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978379Author Francois GuizotFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 540g -
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures by Jurgen Habermas 9780745608303
RRP: £24.99£22.21The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is... -
Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar by Thomas Cathcart
RRP: £17.00£9.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113874Author Thomas CathcartFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 178mm *... -
Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Sue Hamilton
RRP: £8.99£6.61India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major religious traditions. This Very Short Introduction emphasizes the diversity of Indian thought, and is... -
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 9780872201323
RRP: £11.99£9.52Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introductions to Leibniz's complex thought: Discourse on Metaphysics of 1686 and Monadology of 1714. These are supplemented with two... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781509827954
RRP: £10.99£7.00The perfect introduction to one of the world's best-known classics.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect... -
Mini Philosophy: A Small Book of Big Ideas by Jonny Thomson
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Engaging, smart and wise, Mini-Philosophy is a diverse taster menu of ideas on life, the mind and the world. Nutritious, bite-sized portions of philosophy that whet the appetite for more' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks Why... -
Paracelsus by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: £18.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556433160Author ParacelsusFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Discourse on Method and the Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: £10.99£7.77Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty... -
The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women by Rebecca Buxton
RRP: £12.99£8.60'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy - love it!' Elif ShafakWhere are the women philosophers? The answer is right here.The history of philosophy has not done women justice: you've probably heard the names Plato,... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel 9780195174373
£44.15In 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 beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: £26.99£22.88At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism... -
In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century by Tom Rockmore 9781405125710
RRP: £30.95£27.45In Kant's Wake evaluates the four main trends in philosophy in the twentieth century - Marxism, Anglo-American analytic, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy - and argues that all four evolved in reaction to Kant's fascinating and demanding... -
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £9.99£7.11Kierkegaard's infamous and hugely influential philosophical work on faith, choice and sacrificeIn Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through the scene in Genesis in...