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Human Nature and Historical Knowledge: Hume, Hegel and Vico by Leon Pompa 9780521892209
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book presents a study of the nature and conditions of historical knowledge, conducted through a study of the relevant theories of Hume, Hegel and Vico. It is usually thought that in order to establish historical facts, we have to have a theory of... -
Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls by Andrews Reath 9780521472401
RRP: £105.00£77.49The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. All the contributors are philosophers who have studied with Rawls and they offer this collection in his honour. The... -
Human Nature and Historical Knowledge: Hume, Hegel and Vico by Leon Pompa 9780521381376
RRP: £90.00£67.25This book presents a study of the nature and conditions of historical knowledge, conducted through a study of the relevant theories of Hume, Hegel and Vico. It is usually thought that in order to establish historical facts, we have to have a theory of... -
Kant's Practical Philosophy: From Critique to Doctrine by Gary Banham 9780333993996
RRP: £89.99£89.87This work presents Kant as a vital revolutionary thinker, showing that his Practical Philosophy has been marred by views that it is formalist and centred on categorical imperative. Discussing his commitment to the notion of rational religion and his... -
Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description by R. Mayhew 9780333993088
£90.27Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the 'long' Eighteenth-century. Landscape has long been a major arena for debate about... -
Kierkegaard and Freedom by James Giles 9780333794111
RRP: £89.99£89.87Kierkegaard and Freedom is a critical exploration of the ideas of Kierkegaard on the various problems surrounding the issue of human freedom. Kierkegaard's views here have been largely ignored by modern English-speaking philosophers. Through the combined... -
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: Republicanism, Liberalism and the Law by M. Sellers 9780333726730
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book describes the origins of the concept of liberty in the legal and political thought of Rome, Italy, England, France and the United States of America. Professor Sellers traces the development of liberty and republican government over two... -
Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition: A Reader by Beverley Clack 9780333634240
£40.09The Devil's gateway' (Tertullian); 'Big children their whole life long' (Schopenhauer); 'The misbegotten male' (Aquinas). Such understandings of women are shocking, not least because they come from the great minds responsible for the formation of the... -
Catholicism in a Protestant Kingdom: A Study of the Irish Ancien Regime by C. D. A. Leighton 9780333586662
RRP: £89.99£89.87Escaping from narrative history, this book takes a deep look at the Catholic question in eighteenth-century Ireland. It asks how people thought about Catholicism, Protestantism and their society, in order to reassess the content and importance of the... -
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism by Cornel West 9780333525692
RRP: £44.99£44.97A study of American pragmatism, this book looks at all the different stages from the Emersonian roots, through the dilemma of the mid-century pragmatic intellectual up to the decline and resurgence of American pragmatism. It also discusses prophetic... -
Morality and Sovereignty in the Philosophy of Hobbes by George Shelton 9780333576380
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book takes a fresh look at two of the most controversial topics in Hobbes's philosophy: morality and sovereignty. It distinguishes between the two versions of the covenant provided by Hobbes, one of which establishes a genuine system or morality... -
Stalking Nietzsche by Raymond A. Belliotti 9780313307003
£65.53This introduction to Nietzsche's thought is geared to those who approach his work with grave skepticism. Belliotti begins each chapter with a brief exposition of a broad theme in Nietzsche's work, raising important questions of interpretation. He then... -
How Philosophy Uses its Past by John Herman Randall 9780313241277
£65.53The author sets forth the relevance of philosophy's past to present day concerns and issues. He shows how philosophizing has arisen from and played a central role in the complex process of cultural change. The author maintains that awareness of past... -
The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism. by Gustav Bergmann 9780313202353
£48.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313202353Author Gustav BergmannFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Philosophy in World Perspective: A Comparative Hermeneutic of the Major Theories by David A. Dilworth 9780300051261
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Thomistic Papers VI by John F.X. Knasas 9780268018863
£96.51The essays in this volume offer a critique of From Unity to Pluralism: The Internal Evolution of Thomism by Gerald McCool, SJ. Twelve philosophers in this collection analyse key aspects of McCool's interpretation of Aquinas, which stands opposed to the... -
Other Voices: Readings in Spanish Philosophy by John R. Welch 9780268044190
RRP: £34.00£29.23English-speaking philosophers are generally attuned to the German and French philosophical traditions but not to the Spanish. Why, for example, does someone with the vivid appeal of Bartolome de Las Casas remain almost completely unknown in North... -
Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law: From Aquinas to International Human Rights by C. Fred Alford 9780230622791
RRP: £44.99£44.97Beginning with Saint Thomas Aquinas and ending with the latest developments in international human rights, 'Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law: From Aquinas to International Human Rights,' brings a fairly traditional interpretation of the natural law... -
Medicine after the Holocaust: From the Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond by Sheldon Rubenfeld 9780230621923
RRP: £74.99£70.19Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a fuhrer over God, and personal gain over professional ethics.Book... -
Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism by Pierre Wagner 9780230282599
RRP: £99.99£99.71The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on... -
Frege's Notations: What They Are and How They Mean by Gregory Landini 9780230247741
RRP: £44.99£44.97A new approach to reading Frege's notations that adheres to the modern view that terms and well-formed formulas are any disjoint syntactic categories. On this new approach, we can at last read Frege's notations in their original form revealing striking... -
On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative by Karin de Boer 9780230247543
RRP: £44.99£44.97Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of Hegel's philosophy. Drawing on Hegel's early account of tragic conflicts, De Boer brings into play a form of negativity that challenges... -
The Russell/Bradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth Century Philosophy by Stewart Candlish 9780230230514
RRP: £99.99£89.87In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines... -
Semantic Perception: How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and Persists by Jody Azzouni 9780199967407
RRP: £87.00£68.85Jody Azzouni argues that we involuntarily experience certain physical items, certain products of human actions, and certain human actions themselves as having meaning-properties. We understand these items as possessing meaning or as having (or being... -
Descartes on Causation by Tad M. Schmaltz 9780199958504
RRP: £31.99£25.94This book is a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that provides its proper historical context. The argument presented here is that even though Descartes offered a... -
Shapes of Freedom: Hegel's Philosophy of World History in Theological Perspective by Peter C. Hodgson 9780199654956
RRP: £92.00£65.53Peter C. Hodgson explores Hegel's bold vision of history as the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Following an introductory chapter on the textual sources, the key categories, and the modes of writing history that Hegel distinguishes, Hodgson... -
Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition by Frederick Neuhouser 9780199542673
RRP: £112.50£81.43This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour propre ) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour propre is the passion that drives human individuals... -
World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism by Michael C. Rea 9780199247608
RRP: £107.50£104.27Philosophical naturalism, according to which philosophy is continuous with the natural sciences, has dominated the Western academy for well over a century; but Michael Rea claims that it is without rational foundation, and that the costs of embracing it... -
Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy by Robert Hanna 9780199272044
RRP: £66.00£54.30Robert Hanna presents a fresh view of the Kantian and analytic traditions that have dominated continental European and Anglo-American philosophy over the last two centuries, and of the relation between them. The rise of analytic philosophy decisively... -
Hegel: Lectures on the Proofs of the Existence of God by Peter C. Hodgson 9780199213849
RRP: £130.00£104.27The Hegel Lectures Series Series Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin... -
The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition by D.C. Feeney 9780198149385
RRP: £80.00£65.93The role of the gods in the classical world's epic tradition has been the subject of controversy since ancient times, and many modern readers continue to find their presence a source of frustration. Although the problem of the gods in some individual... -
Kant's Impure Ethics: From Rational Beings to Human Beings by Robert B. Louden 9780195160307
RRP: £41.49£29.35This is the first book-length study in any language to examine in detail and critically assess the second part of Kant's ethics-an empirical, impure part, which determines how best to apply pure principles to the human situation. Drawing attention to... -
The Joy of Philosophy: Thinking Thin versus the Passionate Life by Professor Robert C. Solomon 9780195165401
RRP: £45.99£31.79The Joy of Philosophy is a return to some of the perennial questions of philosophy-questions about the meaning of life; about death and tragedy; about the respective roles of rationality and passion in the good life; about love, compassion, and revenge;... -
New Essays on the Rationalists by Rocco J. Gennaro 9780195165418
RRP: £80.00£59.05This collection presents some of the most vital and original recent writings on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, the three greatest rationalists of the early modern period. Their work offered brilliant and distinct integrations of science, morals,... -
Kant and the Sciences by Eric Watkins 9780195133059
RRP: £76.00£64.82Kant and the Sciences aims to reveal the deep unity of Kant's conception of science as it bears on the particular sciences of his day and on his conception of philosophy's function with respect to these sciences. It brings together for the first time... -
Pathways in Philosophy: An Introductory Guide with Readings by Dale Jacquette 9780195131314
RRP: £165.99£80.91This introduction to philosophy combines the two approaches most commonly employed to teach philosophy to college freshmen - the problems approach and the historical approach. It includes chapters on the major problems or questions in philosophy - what... -
Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective by Dan Sperber 9780195141153
RRP: £127.50£107.99This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or... -
The Study of Human Nature: A Reader by Leslie Stevenson 9780195127157
RRP: £91.99£47.17This anthology provides an introduction to a variety of views about human nature, from various cultures over three millennia. It ranges from ancient religious texts down to contemporary theories based on evolutionary science. It can be used as a reader... -
Philosophical Interpretations by Robert J. Fogelin 9780195071627
RRP: £122.50£103.17Robert Fogelin here collects fifteen of his essays, organized around the theme of interpreting philosophical texts. The book begins with an essay that lays down a set of principles governing the interpretation of difficult texts. Fogelin places... -
Practical Reason by Stephen Kvrner 9780300105421
£20.24"Five major papers and fifteen comments and replies constitute this volume of the Proceedings of the First Bristol Conference on Critical Philosophy. Each explores a dimension of the relationships between practical reason, theoretical reason, and...