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Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy by Barry Hallen
€116.55First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W... -
Just Theory: An Alternative History of the Western Tradition by David B Downing
€51.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814125304Author David B DowningFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English -
An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature by Nathaniel Culverwell
RRP: €30.93€25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639614Author Nathaniel CulverwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)... -
Questioning: A New History of Western Philosophy by Gideon Baker
€124.21Weaving together studies of eighteen ancient, medieval and modern philosophers from Socrates to Judith Butler, Gideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. As well as revealing the ancient in the modern,... -
Evolution and the Big Questions: Sex, Race, Religion, and Other Matters by David N. Stamos
RRP: €36.83€32.67Evolution and the Big Questions "David N. Stamos's Evolution and the Big Questions delivers what its title promises-you get to look at all of the issues, such as race and ethics and religion, that make the study of evolution so interesting, and more than... -
Romancing Antiquity: German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas by George E. McCarthy
€69.98In this unique and comprehensive book, George McCarthy examines the influence of Greek philosophy, literature, arts, and politics on the development of twentieth-century German social thought. McCarthy demonstrates that the classical spirit vitalized... -
The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy and science by Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
€88.94This collection sheds new light on the nature, role and practice of philosophy and science in the renewed Berlin Academy from the mid-1740s to the 1770s, and in so doing provides a robust new instalment of materials for the broader task of constructing a... -
Maxims by La Rochefoucauld
€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587314957Author La RochefoucauldFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 249g -
The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers by Ted Honderich
RRP: €17.84€13.72The Philosophers introduces some of the most brilliant minds in history and shows the enduring fascination of their ideas, which shaped our civilization. An illustrious team of authors offer concise and illuminating tours through the lives and thought of... -
The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: The Twentieth Century and Beyond by Andrew Bailey
€47.99This comprehensive volume contains much of the important work in political and social philosophy from ancient times until the end of the nineteenth century. The anthology offers both depth and breadth in its selection of material by central figures,... -
Kant and the Early Moderns by Daniel Garber
RRP: €53.55€42.03For the past 200 years, Kant has acted as a lens--sometimes a distorting lens--between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history. Kant's writings about Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have been so influential that it... -
Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley: Volume 88 by Kenneth L. Pearce
RRP: €28.55€25.60This volume presents a selection of new articles examining the state of Irish philosophy during the lifetime of Ireland's most famous philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753). The thinkers examined include Berkeley, Robert Boyle, William King,... -
In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across the Life Sciences by Carl F. Craver
RRP: €95.20€91.17Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances in... -
The Sovereignty of Joy: Neitzsche's Vision of Grand Politics by Alex McIntyre
RRP: €33.31€26.76Nietzsche'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... -
Philosophical Essays, Volume 1: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It by Scott Soames
RRP: €65.45€51.54The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic... -
Philosophy and the Language of the People: The Claims of Common Speech from Petrarch to Locke by Lodi Nauta
RRP: €41.64€35.81Which language should philosophers use: technical or common language? In a book as important for intellectual historians as it is for philosophers, Lodi Nauta addresses a vital question which still has resonance today: is the discipline of philosophy... -
Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity by Joshua Barker 9780824837419
RRP: €29.69€26.87We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of... -
Truth and Meaning: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University) 9781577180494
RRP: €43.97€39.16This 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... -
Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy Hannah Arendt 9780226025957
RRP: €22.61€22.02Hannah 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... -
Doctrine of Creation by Colin E Gunton 9780567080790
€41.90This study by leading scholars from around the world engages with central hermeneutical, philosophical and theological dimensions of the doctrine of creation. Particular prominence is given to discussion of creation 'out of nothing'm the relation of... -
Dialectic of Nihilsm: Post-Structuralism and Law Gillian Rose (Late of the University of Sussex) 9780631137085
RRP: €43.97€38.69This book fundamentally challenges the radical credentials of post-structuralism. Though Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze claim to have 'deconstructed' metaphysics, their work has much in common with previous attempts to 'end' the metaphysical tradition,... -
Phenomenology and the Problem of Time by Professor Michael R. Kelly 9780230347854
RRP: €118.99€106.95This book explores the problem of time and immanence for phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida. Detailed readings of immanence in light of the more familiar problems of... -
The Philosophy of German Idealism by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9780826403070
€45.39This volume provides representative texts of transcendental idealism, including ones by J. G. Fichte (Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation and A Crystal Clear Report Concerning the Actual Essence of the Newest Philosophy), E H. Jacobi... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780486432502
RRP: €20.22€13.19Apologies 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)... -
Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780199242214
€59.11This is the only complete English translation of one of the most significant and fascinating works of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). The Parerga (Volume 1) are six long essays; the Paralipomena (Volume 2) are shorter writings... -
The Riddles of Philosophy: Presented in an Outline of its History by Rudolf Steiner 9780880107112
RRP: €38.08€30.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880107112Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)... -
New Atlantis and The Great Instauration by Francis Bacon 9781119098027
RRP: €17.85€16.12This 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... -
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume 1: Greek Philosophy to Plato by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
RRP: €46.41€36.30G. 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 this masterwork, Hegel writes: "What the history of Philosophy shows us is a... -
Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism by Stanley Cavell 9780226098210
RRP: €27.37€26.33In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and... -
The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity Christine Battersby 9780745615547
RRP: €65.45€56.80This 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... -
Moral Questions: An Introduction to Ethics Jon Nuttall (Director of Studies, St.) 9780745610405
RRP: €21.41€19.09This new introduction to ethics is written for students who are approaching philosophy for the first time.Book InformationISBN 9780745610405Author Jon NuttallFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 356g -
A History of Habit: From Aristotle to Bourdieu by Tom Sparrow
RRP: €57.12€50.04From 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... -
The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy by Michael F. Patton
RRP: €15.46€15.20Philosophy 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... -
Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780143036340
RRP: €14.28€9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036340Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 62gDimensions(mm) 180mm *... -
German Philosophy: A Dialogue: Volume 11 by Alain Badiou
RRP: €14.27€10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535700Author Alain BadiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work: Edited and with an introduction by Richard Creath by Rudolf Carnap
RRP: €69.02€54.95Rudolf Carnap and W. V. Quine, two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, corresponded at length - and over a long period of time - on matters personal, professional, and philosophical. Their friendship encompassed issues and... -
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing by Arthur M. Melzer
RRP: €36.89€36.40Philosophical 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... -
Mystical Sources of German Romantic Philosophy by Ernst Benz 9780915138500
€14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915138500Author Ernst BenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 140g -
The New Schelling by Alistair Welchman 9780826469427
€83.53Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling (1775-1854) was a colleague of Hegel, Holderlin, Fichte, Goethe, Schlegel, and Schiller. Always a champion of Romanticism, Schelling advocated a philosophy which emphasized intuition over reason, which maintained... -
Being Me Being You: Adam Smith and Empathy by Samuel Fleischacker
RRP: €36.89€35.93Modern 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...