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Kantian Ethics, Dignity and Perfection by Dr. Paul Formosa 9781107189249
RRP: £92.99£83.67In this volume Paul Formosa sets out a novel approach to Kantian ethics as an ethics of dignity by focusing on the Formula of Humanity as a normative principle distinct from the Formula of Universal Law. By situating the Kantian conception of dignity... -
Kant and his German Contemporaries: Volume 2, Aesthetics, History, Politics, and Religion Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University) 9781107178168
RRP: £90.00£81.43Kant's philosophical achievements have long overshadowed those of his German contemporaries, often to the point of concealing his contemporaries' influence upon him. This volume of new essays draws on recent research into the rich complexity of... -
Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics: A Critical Guide by Courtney D. Fugate 9781107176980
RRP: £90.00£83.98Kant divided his course of lectures on metaphysics into six parts: a section entitled 'prolegomena' followed by chapters on ontology, cosmology, empirical psychology, rational psychology, and natural theology. This volume's ten chapters, written by... -
Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life by Andreja Novakovic 9781107175969
RRP: £90.00£81.03What does it take to be subjectively free in an objectively rational social order? In this book Andreja Novakovic offers a fresh interpretation of Hegel's account of ethical life by focusing on his concept of habit or 'second nature'. Novakovic addresses... -
Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: A Critical Guide Gordon Michalson 9781107018525
RRP: £90.00£81.03Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason was written late in his career. It presents a theory of 'radical evil' in human nature, touches on the issue of divine grace, develops a Christology, and takes a seemingly strong interest in the issue... -
John Searle by Joshua Rust 9780826497529
£29.35This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to his work and thought, ideal for students coming to his philosophy for the first time. John Searle is one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers working today. He has made... -
Essays in Honor of Burleigh Wilkins: From History to Justice by Aleksandar Jokic 9780820451619
RRP: £54.50£48.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820451619Author Aleksandar JokicFormat HardbackPage Count 363Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 640g -
Seeing Wittgenstein Anew by William Day 9780521838436
RRP: £54.00£48.90Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is a collection which examines Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing, showing that it was not simply one more topic of investigation in Wittgenstein's later writings but rather a pervasive and guiding... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dewey by Molly Cochran 9780521874564
RRP: £85.00£77.00John Dewey (1859-1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not the originator of American pragmatism, he was instrumental to its articulation as a philosophy and the... -
Saul Kripke by Alan Berger 9780521858267
RRP: £85.99£77.87This collection of essays on Saul Kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished writings by Kripke. Its essays, written by distinguished philosophers in the field, present a broader picture... -
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) by Allen W. Wood 9780521772730
RRP: £94.99£81.77The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-eight... -
Kant's Doctrine of Right: A Commentary by B. Sharon Byrd 9780521196642
£97.16Published in 1797, the Doctrine of Right is Kant's most significant contribution to legal and political philosophy. As the first part of the Metaphysics of Morals, it deals with the legal rights which persons have or can acquire, and aims at providing... -
Kant and Rational Psychology by Corey W. Dyck 9780199688296
RRP: £88.00£80.20Corey W. Dyck presents a new account of Kant's criticism of the rational investigation of the soul in his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, in light of its eighteenth-century German context. When characterizing the rational psychology that is Kant's... -
Michel Foucault: Sesh Porjayer Tattavabhana by Pradip Kumar Bose 9780199494552
RRP: £15.99£14.75This new Bangla book discusses Michel Foucault's political and philosophical thoughts in the last decade of his career. The author argues that this decade was one of his most restless, creative, and fascinating. He discusses and analyses Foucauldian... -
Austin's Way with Skepticism: An Essay on Philosophical Method by Mark Kaplan 9780198824855
£74.17J. L. Austin is famous for writing as if he thought it a condition, on the adequacy of what we say while doing epistemology, that it accord faithfully with what we would say in ordinary circumstances. A durable consensus formed after Austin's death that... -
Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics by Julian Wuerth 9780199587629
RRP: £97.00£88.23In this book Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of Kant's theories of mind, action, and ethics. As the author of a Copernican revolution in philosophy, Kant grounded his philosophy in his positive theory of the mind, which remains an... -
American Philosophy before Pragmatism by Russell B. Goodman 9780199577545
RRP: £58.00£52.76Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the writers of The Federalist, and... -
Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Gordon Graham 9780199560684
£107.92A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of... -
Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke by Stephen Gaukroger 9780198779643
RRP: £79.00£71.78This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in... -
Kant's Transcendental Deduction by Alison Laywine 9780198748922
RRP: £87.00£79.31In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. What is it supposed to accomplish and how? She collects evidence from the Critique and his other writings to determine what Kant... -
Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and his Realism by Lucy Allais 9780198747130
£86.70At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position. Despite the centrality of transcendental idealism in Kant's... -
Mill's Progressive Principles by David O. Brink 9780198744399
RRP: £31.99£29.35In Mill's Progressive Principles David Brink provides a systematic reconstruction and assessment of John Stuart Mill's contributions to the utilitarian and liberal traditions, examining his first principles and their application to issues of... -
Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation by Robert Stern 9780198722298
RRP: £99.00£90.01This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's account of obligation and his view of autonomy, arguing that this leaves room for Kant to be a realist about... -
Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray by Emily Anne Parker 9780190275600
RRP: £33.99£31.12Simone 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... -
P. F. Strawson and his Philosophical Legacy by Sybren Heyndels 9780192858474
RRP: £80.00£73.06This volume offers a collective study of the work of P. F. Strawson (1919-2006) and an exploration of its relevance for current philosophical debates. It is the first book since Strawson's death to cover the full range of his philosophy, with chapters by... -
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza by Don Garrett 9781107096165
RRP: £85.00£77.00Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most systematic, inspiring, and influential philosophers of the early modern period. From a pantheistic starting point that identified God with Nature as all of reality, he sought to demonstrate an... -
Leibniz on Causation and Agency by Julia Jorati 9781107192676
RRP: £92.99£83.67This book presents a comprehensive examination of Gottfried Leibniz's views on the nature of agents and their actions. Julia Jorati offers a fresh look at controversial topics including Leibniz's doctrines of teleology, the causation of spontaneous... -
Mandeville and Hume: Anatomists of Civil Society by Mikko Tolonen 9780729410687
£85.99The Fable of the bees and the Treatise of human nature were written to define and dissect the essential components of a 'civil society'. How have early readings of the Fable skewed our understanding of the work and its author? To what extent did... -
Essays -- Moral Political & Literary, 2nd Edition by David Hume 9780865970557
£27.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970557Author David HumeFormat HardbackPage Count 684Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1286g -
Hammer of the Gods: Apocalyptic Texts for the Criminally Insane Friedrich Nietzsche 9780983884262
RRP: £9.95£6.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983884262Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Sun Vision PressPublisher Sun Vision PressWeight(grams) 277g -
On Leibniz: Expanded Edition by Nicholas Rescher
£54.96Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as “the most intelligent human being who has ever lived.” The German philosopher, mathematician, and logician invented calculus (independently of Sir Isaac... -
Bentham: Selected Writings of John Dinwiddy by John R. Dinwiddy
£54.30Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, made a powerful impact on several major areas of thought and policy: ethics, jurisprudence, political and constitutional theory, and social and administrative reform. Yet from the start his ideas have been... -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume VI by Daniel Garber
RRP: £47.99£47.55Oxford 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 V by Daniel Garber
£30.16Oxford 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... -
Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition by Dalia Nassar
RRP: £86.00£83.24The long nineteenth-century—the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I—was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism,... -
Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi by Mark Timmons
RRP: £40.99£40.79For over thirty years, Robert Audi has produced important work in ethics, epistemology, and the theory of action. This volume features thirteen new critical essays on Audi by a distinguished group of authors: Fred Adams, William Alston, Laurence BonJour,... -
"Chatter": Language and History in Kierkegaard by Peter Fenves
£76.99"Chatter" cannot always be taken lightly, for the insignificance and insubstantiality of "idle talk," "prattle," "nonsense," and so forth challenge the very notions of substance and significance through which... -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £18.95£17.48Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings includes the Social Contract, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and "Preface to Narcissus." Each text has been newly translated, and includes a... -
The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory and Moral Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Christopher Berry by Robin Mills
£110.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474467315Author Robin MillsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory by Axel Honneth
RRP: £20.00£18.19This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the...