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Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics by Courtney D. Fugate 9780198783886
£78.22Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (17141762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant. For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both because... -
Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology by Anik Waldow 9780198779650
£81.65J. G. Herder is enjoying a renaissance in philosophy and across the humanities. This book offers important new insights into the complexity and depth of his thought. This unprecedented collection fills a gap in the secondary literature, highlighting the... -
Sellars and his Legacy by James R. O'Shea 9780198766872
£77.21This collection of new essays on the systematic thought and intellectual legacy of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) comes at a time when Sellars's influence on contemporary debates about mind, meaning, knowledge, and metaphysics has... -
Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical by Anthony Rudd 9780198752189
£46.76Anthony Rudd introduces, explains, and discusses of some of Kierkegaard's central ideas, showing their relevance to current debates in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. Rudd uses these ideas to illuminate questions about the... -
Locke's Touchy Subjects: Materialism and Immortality by Nicholas Jolley 9780198737094
£69.12In seventeenth-century philosophy the mind-body problem and the nature of personal immortality were two of the most controversial and sensitive issues. Nicholas Jolley seeks to show that these issues are more prominent in Locke's philosophy than has been... -
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature by Manuel Dries 9780198722236
RRP: £75.00£73.28This volume presents new essays exploring important aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy in connection with two major themes: mind and nature. A team of leading experts address questions including: What is Nietzsche's conception of mind? How does mind... -
Idealist Epilogue by G.R.G. Mure 9780198245834
£52.12The author is not sure that his philosophical career merits an epilogue, but he had an itch to write one, and he thought of composing it in dialogue form, mainly for brevity's sake but also in the hope of imparting a touch of vitality. Yet writers of... -
Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism by Paul Crowther 9780198236238
£43.25In this monograph Paul Crowther seeks to overcome some of the antagonistic positions taken in recent debates about postmodernism. He addresses such issues as the relation between art and politics, artistic creativity, and sublimity and the postmodern... -
Responsibility by J. R. Lucas 9780198235781
£48.26Responsibility is a key concept in our moral, social and political thinking, but is not itself properly understood. In this book J R Lucas elucidates it in terms of answerability - the obligation to answer the question 'Why did you do it?' He develops... -
Henry Sidgwick by Ross Harrison 9780197262498
£35.53These essays constitute a welcome addition to the current re-engagement with the ethical thought of a prominent late Victorian philosopher and reformer. Henry Sidgwick wrote the first professional work of modern moral philosophy, yet one century after... -
Shifting Ground: Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness by Naomi Scheman 9780195395112
RRP: £64.00£55.40This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental... -
Reflection and the Stability of Belief: Essays on Descartes, Hume, and Reid by Louis E. Loeb 9780195368765
RRP: £64.00£55.80A unifying theme of Loeb's work is epistemological - that Descartes and Hume advance theories of knowledge that rely on a substantial 'naturalistic' component, adopitng one or another member of a cluster of psychological properties of beliefs as the goal... -
Classics of Philosophy: Volume III: The Twentieth Century by Louis P. Pojman 9780195132830
RRP: £77.99£48.17This is Volume 3 of the most comprehensive anthology of writings in Western philosophy in print. It assembles the classic essays of Western philosophy of the twentieth century which have given shape and value to its character and structure. From logical... -
The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion by Paul Russell 9780195110333
£62.71Although it is widely recognized that David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) belongs among the greatest works of philosophy, there is little agreement about the correct way to interpret his fundamental intentions. It is an established... -
Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray by Emily Anne Parker 9780190275594
RRP: £110.00£97.63Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray famously insisted on their philosophical differences, and this mutual insistence has largely guided the reception of their thought. What does it mean to return to Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray in light of... -
Anscombe's Intention: A Guide by John Schwenkler 9780190052027
RRP: £98.00£79.92Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of... -
Family Pictures: A Philosopher Explores the Familiar by Laura Kaplan 9780812693621
RRP: £12.99£11.67"Family Pictures" reveals the immediate and important application that classical philosophical questions have to our aspirations, emotional ties with others, jobs, concrete relationships, and daily routines. In this volume, a philosopher writes in the... -
The Philosophy of Michael Dummett by Randall E. Auxier 9780812696226
RRP: £42.99£39.80For over 50 years, Sir Michael Dummett has been a major philosophical voice in a wide range of fields, including epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of language. This comprehensive volume treats all of these subjects and more in detail. It... -
Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate by Brian Treanor 9780823226849
£84.41"Every other is truly other, but no other is wholly other." This is the claim that Aspects of Alterity defends. Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, this book asks what it means for something or... -
Being and Some 20th Century Thomists by John F.X. Knasas 9780823222483
£85.39In this powerfully argued book, Knasas engages a debate at the heart of the revival of Thomistic thought in the twentieth century. Richly detailed and illuminating, his book calls on the tradition established by Gilson, Maritain, and Owen, to build a... -
The Anthropological Turn: The Human Orientation of Karl Rahner by Anton Losinger 9780823220663
£71.62The form and content of the study of theology in the present, modern epoch are marked by a vast quantity and variety of the most diverse and, in part, the most divergent points of departure. The classical unity and perspicuity of the world of theological... -
A Thoughtful Profession: The Early Years of the American Philosophical Association by James Campbell 9780812696028
RRP: £35.99£30.29A profession that contemplates timeless truth, philosophy is rarely seen through a historian's eyes, with its own discrete history and relationship to domestic and international politics. This fascinating, richly detailed account charts the development... -
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy by Robert Almeder 9780812693799
RRP: £37.99£31.85Does science have all the answers? The view that it does is known as scientific naturalism or scientism, and is now commonly advanced under the label 'naturalized epistemology'. Scientism holds that the only legitimate claims about the world are those... -
Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical by Helene Beatrice Han 9780804737081
£72.46This book uncovers and explores the constant tension between the historical and the transcendental that lies at the heart of Michel Foucault's work. In the process, it also assesses the philosophical foundations of his thought by examining his... -
Nietzsche: An Introduction by Gianni Vattimo 9780804737982
£105.61This book is both a concise and lucid introduction to Nietzsche and an original contribution to critical debates concerning Nietzsche interpretation and reception. This overview takes issue with the prevailing tendency to focus on Nietzsche's later work,... -
God, Death, and Time by Emmanuel Levinas 9780804736657
£106.95This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written at a time when he had just published his most... -
Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity by Anthony Giddens 9780804735681
£53.85Anthony Giddens has been described as "the most important English social philosopher of our time." Over 25 years, with a dazzling series of books that attest to his unrelenting productivity, he has established himself as today's most widely... -
Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy by Joshua Billings 9780691159232
RRP: £45.00£35.32Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by... -
Kierkegaard and Consciousness by Adi Shmueli 9780691647173
£83.52Kierkegaard's philosophy is the description of the structure and behavior of human consciousness. Adi Shmueli reconstructs that philosophy by showing that it always reflects the structure in question, and thus provides a useful key to Kierkegaard's work... -
Diderot's Chaotic Order: Approach to Synthesis by Lester G. Crocker 9780691645520
£81.89Because of its fragmentary, evolving, exploratory, and dialectical character, Diderot's thought has continuously resisted overall synthesis. In the ideas of "order" and "disorder," ideas important in all of eighteenth-century thought,... -
The Spiritual Automaton: Spinoza's Science of the Mind by Eugene Marshall 9780199675531
£69.12Eugene Marshall presents an original, systematic account of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, in which the mind is presented as an affective mechanism, one that, when rational, behaves as a spiritual automaton. The central feature of the account is a novel... -
The Enchantment of Words: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Denis McManus 9780199585526
RRP: £53.00£52.39Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Enchantment of Words is a study of that book, offering novel readings of all its major themes and shedding light on issues in... -
Berkeley's Three Dialogues: New Essays by Stefan Storrie 9780198755685
RRP: £69.00£59.26This is the first volume of essays devoted to Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, a classic of early modern philosophy. Leading experts examine all the central issues in Berkeley's work. The Three Dialogues is a dramatization of... -
French Philosophy, 1572-1675 by Desmond M. Clarke 9780198749578
RRP: £52.00£51.83Desmond M. Clarke presents a thematic history of French philosophy from the middle of the sixteenth century to the beginning of Louis XIV's reign. While the traditional philosophy of the schools was taught throughout this period by authors who have faded... -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume VII by Daniel Garber 9780198748717
£110.05Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-the extraordinary period of intellectual... -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume VII by Daniel Garber 9780198748724
£33.73Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-the extraordinary period of intellectual... -
Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Jose L. Zalabardo 9780198743941
£90.34Jose L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He shows the origins of Wittgenstein's... -
Leibniz's Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra 9780198712664
£84.29Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra presents an original study of the place and role of the Identity of Indiscernibles in Leibniz's philosophy. The Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles rules out numerically distinct but perfectly similar things; Leibniz... -
Questions of Order: Confederation and the Making of Modern Canada by Cary Boucock 9781487522186
RRP: £20.99£18.37What happened on July 1, 1867? Over 150 years after Canadian Confederation, it seems like a question with an obvious answer. Questions of Order argues that Confederation was not just a political deal struck by politicians in 1867, but was a process of... -
Heidegger and the Measure of Truth by Denis McManus 9780199694877
£89.34Denis McManus presents a new interpretation of Heideggers early vision of our subjectivity and of the world we inhabit. Heideggers fundamental ontology allows us to understand the creature that thinks as also one which acts, moves, even touches the world...