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Philosophical Papers: Volume II by David Lewis 9780195036466
RRP: £57.00£37.65This is the second volume of philosophical essays by one of the most innovative and influential philosophers now writing in English. Containing thirteen papers in all, the book includes both new essays and previously published papers, some of them with... -
A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind Samuel Guttenplan (Birkbeck College, London) 9780631199960
RRP: £40.95£36.89The 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,... -
Befuddled: The Lives & Legends of Ancient Philosophers David Birch 9781789048261
RRP: £14.99£13.03A book for thinkers young and old, Befuddled is a journey back in time to explore the lives, legends and ideas of ancient philosophers. Theories on the origin of the universe, the nature of the mind, and much more are presented alongside bizarre stories... -
Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: £8.99£6.70Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Locke by Vere Chappell
RRP: £30.99£26.77Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One... -
Hegel and Modern Society by Charles Taylor 9781107534261
RRP: £19.99£15.32This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to... -
Axel Honneth Christopher Zurn 9780745649047
RRP: £18.99£16.87With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of recognition, Axel Honneth has decisively reshaped the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory. Combining insights from philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, political economy, and cultural... -
Thinker On Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism by Peter Sloterdijk 9780816617654
RRP: £21.99£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816617654Author Peter SloterdijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Reading Hegel: The Introductions by G. W. F. Hegel 9780980544015
RRP: £16.00£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980544015Author G. W. F. HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint re.pressPublisher re.pressWeight(grams) 404g -
The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy by Michael F. Patton
RRP: £12.99£12.77Philosophy like you've never seen it before. The latest in the celebrated Cartoon Introduction series, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is an authoritative and engaging guide to the fundamental questions about our existence. In this indispensable... -
A Companion to the Philosophy of Language Bob Hale (University of St Andrews) 9780631213260
RRP: £40.95£36.89This volume provides a survey of contemporary philosophy of language. As well as providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts and debates, each essay makes new and original contributions to ongoing debate.About the AuthorBob Hale is... -
Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin
RRP: £7.99£6.05"Introducing Aristotle" guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy... -
Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals Aldous Huxley 9781412847445
RRP: £43.99£38.44Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse. Pacifism is still an important topic today, as terrorism and dictatorial states abound. Many will find solace in Ends and Means, while... -
The Will To Power by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780394704371
RRP: £15.99£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394704371Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert by Ian Cutler 9780786420933
RRP: £21.99£17.97Cynicism began as a school of philosophy that was largely inspired by Socrates and often decried by popular commentators as a social pathology, a nihilistic rebellion against the foundations of civilization. Modern definitions of the cynic describe an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fichte by David James
RRP: £30.99£24.21Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) was the founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a branch of thought which grew out of Kant's critical philosophy. Fichte's work formed the crucial link between eighteenth-century... -
Ethics Through History: An Introduction by Terence Irwin 9780199603701
£45.66What is the human good? What are the primary virtues that make a good person? What makes an action right? Must we try to maximize good consequences? How can we know what is right and good? Can morality be rationally justified? In Ethics Through History,... -
Philosophy: A Beginners Guide Jenny Teichman (University of Cambridge) 9780631213215
RRP: £27.95£24.25Philosophy: a Beginner's Guide is unique in its approach to introducing philosophy. Its succinct and self-contained chapters make this jargon-free text accessible to people who have had little or no previous contact with philosophy.About the AuthorJenny... -
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780872201620
RRP: £13.99£11.83First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation. This accurate and graceful... -
A Heidegger Dictionary Michael Inwood 9780631190950
RRP: £34.95£30.83A Heidegger Dictionary enables the student to read Heidegger's immensely rich and varied works with understanding, and assigns him to his rightful place in both contemporary philosophy and in the history of the subject.About the AuthorMichael Inwood has... -
Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays by Paul Oskar Kristeller
RRP: £32.00£24.76Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as... -
A Brief History of Philosophy: From Socrates to Derrida by Derek Johnston 9780826490209
RRP: £23.99£23.64This title offers a fun, concise and attractive introduction to a fascinating and challenging subject. This is the ideal book for teenagers and students coming to philosophy for the first time, or indeed for anyone who just doesn't know where to start... -
Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science by Larry Lauden 9780226469492
RRP: £21.00£20.31In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of... -
Empiricists: Essays by John Locke
RRP: £16.99£12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385096225Author John LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The German Aesthetic Tradition by Kai Hammermeister 9780521785549
RRP: £26.99£22.80This book, first published in 2002, is a systematic critical overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present. It begins with the work of Baumgarten and covers all the major writers on German aesthetics that follow, including Kant, Schiller,... -
The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution Colin McGinn (Rutgers University) 9780631188032
RRP: £33.95£29.98Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of... -
Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects by Robert Stern 9780199261567
£58.16Fourteen new essays by a distinguished team of authors offer a broad and stimulating re-examination of transcendental arguments. This is the philosophical method of arguing that what is doubted or denied by the opponent must be the case, as a condition... -
A Companion to the Philosophy of Education Randall Curren (University of Rochester) 9781405140515
RRP: £42.95£38.57A 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... -
Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody 9781848312111
RRP: £7.99£3.42INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of... -
Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Reader's Guide by Paul Guyer 9780826484543
RRP: £23.99£23.80Kant is probably the philosopher who best typifies the thought and ideals of the Enlightenment. He was influenced by the modern physics of Newton, the rationalist perfectionism of Leibniz and Wolff, the critical empiricism of Locke and Hume, and... -
The Philosophy Book: From the Vedas to the New Atheists, 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy Gregory Bassham 9781454918479
RRP: £25.00£17.98Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality. This accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events and seminal publications in the field. Brief, engaging and beautifully illustrated... -
Basic Writings of Kant by Immanuel Kant
RRP: £16.99£12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757334Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Philosophers in Exile: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, 1939-1959 by Richard Grathoff
RRP: £31.00£27.76This book presents the remarkable correspondence between Alfred Schutz and Aron Gurwitsch, emigre philosophers influenced by Edmund Husserl, who fled Europe on the eve of World War II and ultimately became seminal figures in the establishment of... -
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £22.00£16.86In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual... -
Hume: An Intellectual Biography by James A. Harris 9780521837255
RRP: £45.00£41.59This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain's greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume's works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England,... -
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy by Ryan Patrick Hanley 9780691154053
RRP: £42.00£34.04Adam Smith (1723-90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds 9780691211961
RRP: £14.99£11.03From 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... -
Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History by Immanuel Kant 9780300110708
RRP: £18.99£18.48Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and... -
The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: £30.99£24.33The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free, reflective, self-determining subject. Since it is a relatively... -
Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies by Hans-Georg Gadamer 9780300028423
£19.70These five essays on Hegel give the English-speaking reader a long-awaited opportunity to read the work of one of Germany's most distinguished philosophers, Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's unique hermeneutic method will have a lasting effect on Hegel...