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The Sovereignty of Joy: Neitzsche's Vision of Grand Politics by Alex McIntyre
RRP: $36.11$32.19Nietzsche's philosophical effort is fundamentally a response to the political question of who should rule and upon what basis in the era following the death of God. Because Nietzsche's response to nihilism is so unique, scholars still debate the nature... -
Great Philosophers: A Brief History of the Self and Its Worlds by Jeffrey Reid
RRP: $39.93$33.04A highly readable history of Western philosophy set out as dialectic between some of the major philosophical luminaries from ancient times to the present day.Book InformationISBN 9781551119632Author Jeffrey ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint... -
An Introduction to Philosophical Methods by Chris Daly
RRP: $50.25$41.22An Introduction to Philosophical Methods is the first book to survey the various methods that philosophers use to support their views. Rigorous yet accessible, the book introduces and illustrates the methodological considerations that are involved in... -
Truth and Meaning: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language by Kenneth Taylor
RRP: $47.67$42.45This lucid and wide-ranging volume constitutes a self-contained introduction to the elements and key issues of the philosophy of language.About the AuthorKenneth Taylor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of... -
Holism: A Shopper's Guide by Jerry Fodor
RRP: $47.67$41.94The main question addressed in this book is whether individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic expressions is inherently holistic. The authors consider arguments that are alleged to show that the meaning of a scientific hypothesis depends... -
Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency: Wilfrid Sellars's Practical Philosophy by Jeremy Randel Koons 9781032301440
RRP: $49.01$43.06This is the first volume devoted exclusively to the practical philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. It features original essays by leading Sellars scholars that examine his ethical theory, his theory of practical reasoning, and his theory of intentional agency... -
Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $24.51$23.87Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs... -
A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind by Samuel Guttenplan
RRP: $52.83$47.59The philosophy of mind is one of the fastest-growing areas in philosophy, not least because of its connections with related areas of psychology, linguistics and computation. This Companion is an alphabetically arranged reference guide to the subject,... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780486432502
RRP: $21.92$14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486432502Author David HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 555gDimensions(mm)... -
New Atlantis and The Great Instauration by Francis Bacon 9781119098027
RRP: $19.35$17.48This richly annotated second edition of the now-classic pairing of Bacon's masterpieces, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration features the addition of other works by Bacon, including "The Idols of the Mind," Of Unity in Religion" and "Of the True... -
A History of Habit: From Aristotle to Bourdieu by Tom Sparrow
RRP: $59.34$54.24From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happier, healthier, and smarter with the acquisition of just a few simple practices, the discourse of habit is a... -
Dennett and his Critics: Demystifying Mind by Bo Dahlbom
RRP: $47.67$41.94Daniel Dennett is arguably one of the most influential yet radical philosophers in America today. In this volume, Dennett is confronted by colleagues and critics, from philosophy, biology and psychology. His reply constitutes an extensive essay which... -
Being Me Being You: Adam Smith and Empathy by Samuel Fleischacker
RRP: $39.99$38.95Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. Yet how do we square this with the popular view that we can never truly comprehend the experience of being someone else? In this book, Samuel Fleischacker delves... -
The Philosopher: A History in Six Types by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691178462
RRP: $23.21$18.14What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions--ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years?... -
Computers, Minds and Conduct by Graham Button 9780745615714
RRP: $24.50$21.76This book provides a sustained and penetrating critique of a wide range of views in modern cognitive science and philosophy of the mind, from Turing's famous test for intelligence in machines to recent work in computational linguistic theory. While... -
Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. Mencken
RRP: $59.33$51.77The decisive influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken is readily acknowledged in the vast literature on the great American journalist and social critic. However, Mencken's 1908 study of the philosopher has been relegated to footnote status by... -
The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy by Jay L. Garfield 9780199351954
$94.02The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy provides the advanced student or scholar a set of introductions to each of the world's major non-European philosophical traditions. It offers the non-specialist a way in to unfamiliar philosophical texts and... -
The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance by Eva T. H. Brann 9781442273634
RRP: $83.85$79.90In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard... -
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing by Arthur M. Melzer
RRP: $39.99$39.46Philosophical esotericism the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts "between the lines" was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopedie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in... -
Plato and Europe by Jan Patocka
RRP: $33.53$29.10The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977), who studied with Husserl and Heidegger, is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. Refusing to join the Communist party after World War II, he was banned from... -
Frege: An Introduction to the Founder of Modern Analytic Philosophy by Anthony Kenny 9780631222316
RRP: $43.80$38.67Written by Anthony Kenny, a leading figure in contemporary philosophy, this volume guides the reader through a concise and accessible explanation and assessment of Frege's radical and lasting contributions to our understanding of language, meaning, and... -
The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity by Christine Battersby 9780745615554
RRP: $24.50$21.76This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self. Using a diverse range of theories - from Kant to chaos theory, from Kierkegaard to... -
History of Political Ideas (Volume 5): Religion and the Rise of Modernity by Eric Voegelin 9780826211941
RRP: $74.82$61.22Examining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and political debates of the 16th century, this book analyzes the ""great confusion"". It features such thinkers as Calvin, Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind by Keith Maslin 9780745640747
RRP: $29.66$26.52An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind provides a lively and accessible introduction to all the main themes and arguments currently being debated in this area. The book examines and criticizes four major theories of mind: Dualism, Mind/Brain Identity,... -
Religion and Marxism: An Introduction by Paul-Francois Tremlett 9781800502871
RRP: $21.87$20.79This concise and accessible introduction brings the writings of Marx and Engels and later thinkers in the Marxist tradition including Althusser, Gramsci, the Frankfurt School as well as Liberation Theologians such as Gutierrez and Maduro, into focus in... -
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle by Richard H. Popkin 9780195107685
$72.76This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin's work has generated innumerable citations, and remains a... -
Spinoza by Steinberg 9780745664903
RRP: $23.21$20.69Benedict de Spinoza is one of the most controversial and enigmatic thinkers in the history of philosophy. His greatest work, Ethics (1677), developed a comprehensive philosophical system and argued that God and Nature are identical. His scandalous... -
The Great Philosophers: Descartes by John Cottingham 9781399612319
RRP: $7.73$5.68'The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.' Descartes'It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.'Descartes is often called the father of modern philosophy. He was certainly... -
Religion: If There Is No God...On God, the Devil, Sin and Other Worries of the So-called Philosophy of Religion by Leszek Kolakowski 9781890318871
RRP: $19.35$16.06Leszek Kolakowski discusses, in a highly original way, the arguments for and against the existence of God as they have been conducted through the ages. He examines the critiques of religious belief, from the Epicureans through Nietzsche to contemporary... -
What Philosophers Think: Compact Edition by Julian Baggini 9780826484741
$31.36What does evolution mean today? Do we have free will? How is technology changing the way we understand life? Where is God? Does art have a value? Is science the new philosophy? What are the ethics of making war? How does language hold meaning? Is freedom... -
Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy by Justin E. H. Smith
RRP: $32.25$24.74People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts,... -
Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy by Maudemarie Clark
RRP: $34.82$28.26Friedrich Nietzsche haunts the modern world. His elusive writings with their characteristic combination of trenchant analysis of the modern predicament and suggestive but ambiguous proposals for dealing with it have fascinated generations of artists,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault by Gary Gutting 9780521600538
RRP: $45.14$38.18For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins... -
Evil: A History by Andrew P. Chignell 9780199915477
$67.91The code of conduct for a leading tech company famously says "Don't Be Evil." But what exactly is evil? Is it just badness by another name--the shadow side of good? Or is it something more substantive--a malevolent force or power at work in the universe?... -
Philosophy's Big Questions: Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches by Steven M. Emmanuel
RRP: $32.25$24.74Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions-about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality... -
On Purpose by Michael Ruse
RRP: $23.21$18.14An accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with it, and even Darwin, who profoundly shook the idea, was... -
Goethe contra Newton: Polemics and the Project for a New Science of Color by Dennis L. Sepper
RRP: $58.04$49.20This book explains the background and rationale of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's notorious attack on Isaac Newton's classic theory of white light and colors. Though the merits of Goethe's color science, as advanced in his massive Zur... -
Kant's Theory of Freedom by Henry E. Allison
RRP: $34.82$34.09In his new book the eminent Kant scholar Henry Allison provides an innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom. The author analyzes the concept and discusses the role it plays in Kant's moral philosophy and psychology. He... -
Kant and the Capacity to Judge: Sensibility and Discursivity in the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason by Beatrice Longuenesse
RRP: $70.95$54.88Kant claims to have established his table of categories or "pure concepts of the understanding" according to the "guiding thread" provided by logical forms of judgment. By drawing extensively on Kant's logical writings, Beatrice Longuenesse analyzes this... -
Kant and the Claims of Knowledge by Paul Guyer
RRP: $39.98$35.41This book offers a radically new account of the development and structure of the central arguments of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: the defense of the objective validity of such categories as substance, causation, and independent existence. Paul Guyer...