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The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle by Richard H. Popkin 9780195107685
RRP: $77.68$66.47This 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... -
The Great Philosophers: Descartes by John Cottingham 9781399612319
RRP: $12.58$9.24'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: $31.50$26.15Leszek 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
$51.05What 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel by Frederick C. Beiser 9780521387118
RRP: $73.48$62.77Few thinkers are more controversial in the history of philosophy than Hegel. He has been dismissed as a charlatan and obscurantist, but also praised as one of the greatest thinkers in modern philosophy. No one interested in philosophy can afford to... -
Kant by Karl Jaspers 9780156466851
RRP: $33.58$21.17A masterful exploration of Kant's intellectual development, theory of knowledge, politics, and ethics. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.Book InformationISBN 9780156466851Author Karl JaspersFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint... -
Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy by Justin E. H. Smith
RRP: $52.50$40.28People 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,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault by Gary Gutting 9780521600538
RRP: $73.48$62.16For 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
RRP: $69.28$56.07The 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: $52.50$40.28Certain 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: $37.78$29.53An 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: $94.48$80.09This 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: $56.68$55.50In 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: $115.50$89.33Kant 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: $65.08$56.34This 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... -
Leibniz by Richard T. W. Arthur 9780745653754
RRP: $35.68$31.96Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He... -
A Companion to the Philosophy of Education by Randall Curren 9781405140515
RRP: $90.20$81.00A Companion to the Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to philosophical thinking about education. Offers a state-of-the-art account of current and controversial issues in education, including issues pertaining to multiculturalism, special... -
Broken Hegemonies by Reiner Schurmann
RRP: $98.70$86.39". . . a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." -John SallisIn Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Schurmann offers a radical rethinking of the... -
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume 2: Plato and the Platonists by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
RRP: $94.50$81.63G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose. At the beginning of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel writes: "What the history of... -
Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication by Robyn Carston
RRP: $104.90$92.13Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what... -
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume III: Political Writings 1: On Revolution-1897-1905 by Rosa Luxemburg 9781786635334
RRP: $147.00$123.23This collection is the first of three volumes of the Complete Works devoted to the central theme of Rosa Luxemburg's life and work-revolution. Spanning the years 1897 to the end of 1905, they contain speeches, articles, and essays on the strikes,... -
The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind by Stephen P. Stich 9780631217756
RRP: $79.70$70.90Comprising a series of specially commissioned chapters by leading scholars, this comprehensive volume presents an up-to-date survey of the central themes in the philosophy of mind. It leads the reader through a broad range of topics, including Artificial... -
Convention: A Philosophical Study by David Lewis 9780631232568
RRP: $220.40$190.74Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination... -
Spinoza and Other Heretics, Volume 1: The Marrano of Reason by Yirmiyahu Yovel
RRP: $84.00$64.97This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity--and examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A number-one bestseller in Israel, Spinoza and Other Heretics is... -
Frege: A Philosophical Biography by Dale Jacquette
RRP: $94.48$76.06Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and... -
Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy: Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations by Rupert Read
RRP: $83.98$74.47In this book, Rupert Read offers the first outline of a resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein 'school', of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein's later philosophy is to... -
Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks by William Bechtel 9780631207139
RRP: $75.50$67.35Connectionism and the Mind provides a clear and balanced introduction to connectionist networks and explores theoretical and philosophical implications. Much of this discussion from the first edition has been updated, and three new chapters have been... -
Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Rise of Modern Science by J.D. Trout 9780190878658
RRP: $46.18$42.48A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress. Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations... -
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg: Economic Writings: Vol. II by Rosa Luxemburg
RRP: $69.28$59.68The second volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism, one of the most important works ever... -
Thomas Reid: Selected Philosophical Writings by Giovanni Grandi 9781845401603
$36.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401603Author Giovanni GrandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology by Graham Parkes
RRP: $67.20$66.17Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo" (1888) `that a psychologist without equal speaks from my writings - this is perhaps the first insight gained by a good reader...Who among the philosophers before me was in any way a psychologist? Before me there simply was... -
Imagination and Time by Mary Warnock 9780631190196
RRP: $77.60$68.27All religion and much philosophy has been concerned with the contrast between the ephemeral and the eternal. Human beings have always sought ways to overcome time, and to prove that death is not the end. This book consists then in an exploration of... -
A Companion to Hume by Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
RRP: $69.20$63.29Comprised of twenty-nine specially commissioned essays, A Companion to Hume examines the depth of the philosophies and influence of one of history's most remarkable thinkers. Demonstrates the range of Hume's work and illuminates the ongoing debates that... -
A Study of Hebrew Thought by Claude Tresmontant 9781014545565
RRP: $44.00$36.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014545565Author Claude TresmontantFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15) by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780940450158
RRP: $84.00$48.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450158Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat HardbackPage Count 1150Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)... -
The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age by Scott Soames
RRP: $39.88$31.06How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and reconceptualizing fundamental questions, philosophy has... -
J.M.Robertson, 1856-1933: Liberal, Rationalist and Scholar - Assessment by Several Hands by G.A. Wells 9780301870021
RRP: $20.98$16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780301870021Author G.A. WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Pemberton PublishersPublisher Pemberton Publishers -
Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World by William B. Irvine 9780199338870
RRP: $41.98$30.74Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars... -
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore 9780691195056
RRP: $84.00$65.81An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term... -
A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present by Bruce Haddock 9780745640853
RRP: $48.28$42.34This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of political thought, tracing the development of arguments and controversies from ancient Greece, through different forms of community, state and empire, to today's global concerns. Bruce Haddock...