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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498023887Author Herbert SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494159221Author Laurence OliphantFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 821g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460221013Author Patrick J J PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973769814Author Will DurantFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Promethean PressPublisher Promethean PressWeight(grams) 409gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This book argues that Sellars’ theory of intentionality can be understood as an advancement of a transcendental philosophical approach. It shows how Sellars develops his theory of intentionality through his engagement with the theoretical philosophy of...

The Western intellectual tradition has identified rational thinking with he purely logical, excluding other kinds of thinking (such as thinking by analogy, correlation, imaginative simulation) from philosophy, without denying their indispensability in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451591057Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420968293Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in the Meditations, and will be...

At certain moments in his political essays, Kant conceives of socio-historical emancipation as a process of working ourselves out of pathological legacies, suggesting that emancipation would involve a process of working through our affective attachments...

From 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...

About eighty-five years ago, philosophers and literary intellectuals as diverse as Edmund Husserl, George Santayana, and Paul ValZry, aware of the declining influence of Christianity, spoke of 'the crisis of Western civilization.' In Wretched Aristotle:...

About eighty-five years ago, philosophers and literary intellectuals as diverse as Edmund Husserl, George Santayana, and Paul Valery, aware of the declining influence of Christianity, spoke of "the crisis of Western civilization." In Wretched...

Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781418169688Author William Thomson Baron KelvinFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint University of Michigan LibraryPublisher University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241762216Author James Gates PercivalFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241760168Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241008949Author John AldersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275775046Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Gale, Sabin AmericanaPublisher Gale, Sabin AmericanaWeight(grams) 798g

Aristotle - Cicero - Aquinas - Grotius - Hobbes - Montesquieu - Hume - Rousseau - Kant - Bentham - von Savigny - Hegel - Austin - Mill - von Ihering - Holmes - Ehrlich - Dabin - Dewey - Cardozo - PoundBook InformationISBN 9780812210088Author Clarence...

Asking "big questions" is fundamental to our humanity. What is the meaning and purpose of life? What is truth? How do we know what we claim to know? What is justice? What happens after death? Veteran teachers Steve Wilkens and Alan Padgett...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039106871Author Charles Thomas TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 178g

Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity. In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington elucidates how intellectual ‘tools’ from a...

From the bedtime story by L. Frank Baum to the classic 1939 film, no story has captured the imaginations of generations of children and adults like The Wizard of Oz. The story of Dorothy's journey through Oz, the colorful characters, places, songs,...

Focusing on personal, emotional, and political issues, these witty, brilliant essays from the Harvard Review of Philosophy strive to illuminate those areas of philosophy and life that are most important to living "the good life" to its fullest...

Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world. Although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl, and Kierkegaard, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses, one concentrating on the Critique of Pure Reason...

In this authoritative study Professor Wolfson's purpose is to trace the processes of reasoning by which Philo Judaeus of Alexandria arrived at his philosophic principles. These principles later became the common foundations of Jewish, Christian, and...

This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays the range and diversity of the study of the Classics at...

In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the writings of Baltasar Gracian, a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit whose writings explore the political uses of rhetoric. Best known in the United States for his bestselling collection of aphorisms...

David Braddon-Mitchell and Frank Jackson's popular introduction to philosophy of mind and cognition is now available in a fully revised and updated edition. * Ensures that the most recent developments in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science are...

In this authoritative study Professor Wolfson's purpose is to trace the processes of reasoning by which Philo Judaeus of Alexandria arrived at his philosophic principles. These principles later became the common foundations of Jewish, Christian, and...

Since Hegel, philosophy cannot stop thinking its end. The violent transformations which Hegel's philosophy has uncovered and caused in the structure of philosophical terms and in the terms under which philosophy is possible is Hamacher's topic. Starting...

Emilie du Chatelet was one of the most influential woman philosophers of the Enlightenment. Her writings on natural philosophy, physics, and mechanics had a decisive impact on important scientific debates of the 18th century. Particularly, she took an...

In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Zizek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other...

The use of diagrams in logic and geometry has encountered resistence throughout the years. For a proof to be valid in geometry it must not rely on the graphical properties of a diagram. In logic the teaching of proofs depends on the sentenial...

In this insightful and controversial book, Rosen takes a new look at the famous "quarrel" that the moderns have with the ancients, analyzing and comparing ancient philosophers and modern Continental and analytical thinkers from Plato, Descartes, and Kant...

This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honore Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039106888Author Charles Thomas TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 548Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 178g

Aristotle is generally considered a philosopher whose authority was regognized in the Middle Ages. However, in the sixteenth century alone, more works on Aristotle than throughout the preceding 1000 years were produced. Moreover, the medieval Latin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672174Author Richard YorkFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.