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Berkeley by Margaret Atherton 9781405149174
RRP: $40.85$36.08Presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of George Berkeley's thought and the impact of his intellectual contributions to philosophy In this latest addition to the Blackwell Great Minds series, noted scholar of early modern philosophy Margaret... -
Saul Kripke by Alan Berger
RRP: $60.43$52.20This 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of essays on Saul Kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished writings by Kripke.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... -
Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza's Metaphysics by Martin Lin
RRP: $148.20$103.76In Being and Reason, Martin Lin offers a new interpretation of Spinoza's core metaphysical doctrines with attention to how and why, in Spinoza, metaphysical notions are entangled with cognitive, logical, and epistemic ones. For example, according to... -
Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation by Robert Stern
RRP: $65.31$59.83This 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... -
On Historicizing Epistemology: An Essay by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
RRP: $33.13$29.39Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel,... -
John Searle by Barry Smith 9780521797047
RRP: $56.53$47.62From his groundbreaking book Speech Acts to his most recent studies of consciousness, freedom and rationality John Searle has been a dominant and highly influential figure amongst contemporary philosophers. This systematic introduction to the full range... -
Descartes: An Analytic and Historical Introduction by Georges Dicker 9780195380323
RRP: $84.81$58.79A solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes is essential for understanding modern thought, and a necessary entree to the work of the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant. It is also crucial to the study... -
Badiou Reframed by Alex Ling
$40.89He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce,... -
Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker by Thomas Sheehan 9781412810845
RRP: $89.68$78.25Many people consider Martin Heidegger the most important German philosopher of the twentieth century. He is indisputably controversial and influential. Athough much has been written about Heidegger, this may be the best single volume covering his life,... -
Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education by Iain Thomson 9780521616591
RRP: $44.83$38.14Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his later philosophy remains shrouded in confusion and controversy. Restoring Heidegger's understanding of metaphysics... -
Husserl and the Search for Certitude by Leszek Kolakowski 9781890318291
$15.60[Husserl] better than anybody, compelled us to realize the painful dilemma of knowledge: either consistent empiricism, with its relativistic, skeptical results (a standpoint which many regard discouraging, inadmissible, and in fact ruinous for culture)... -
Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography by Bart Schultz 9780521829670
RRP: $204.75$182.97Henry Sidgwick was one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. He also wrote on economics, politics,... -
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume 10, Journals NB31-NB36 by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691178981
RRP: $276.90$217.74For over a century, the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and... -
In the Beginning, She Was by Luce Irigaray 9781441106377
RRP: $50.68$49.63In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses and Antigone, she demonstrates how, from the... -
Nietzsche: The Man and his Philosophy by R. J. Hollingdale 9780521640916
RRP: $202.80$172.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Another Mother: Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism by Cesare Casarino
RRP: $46.78$37.42A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable... -
Philosophical Essays in Memory of Edmund Husserl by Marvin Farber 9780674282681
$107.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282681Author Marvin FarberFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 658g -
Self and World by Quassim Cassam 9780198238959
$78.49Self and World is an exploration of the nature of self-awareness. Quassim Cassam challenges the widespread and influential view that we cannot be introspectively aware of ourselves as objects in the world. In opposition to the views of many empiricist... -
On ne nait pas femme: on le devient: The Life of a Sentence by Bonnie Mann 9780190608811
RRP: $161.85$130.73This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne nait pas femme: on le devient," finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions. Since... -
Descartes and the First Cartesians by Roger Ariew 9780199563517
$184.06Descartes and the First Cartesians adopts the perspective that we should not approach Rene Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so as to engage them and elements of his society into his... -
Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value by Rebecca Copenhaver 9780198733676
$200.62This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy. A team of leading experts in the field explore the significance of Reid's thought in his time and ours, focusing in particular... -
Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings by Ron Mallon 9780199775255
RRP: $230.08$109.88Recently, the fields of empirical and experimental philosophy have generated tremendous excitement, due to unexpected results that have challenged philosophical dogma. Responding to this trend, Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings is the... -
Heidegger and Nazism by Victor Farias 9780877228301
RRP: $54.58$42.26Originally published in a French translation in 1987, this controversial work has received a tumultuous reception throughout Europe and continues to be the object of intense debate. In this first English edition, Victor Farias tracks the career of Martin... -
The Problem of God in Modern Thought by Philip Clayton 9780802864789
RRP: $74.08$56.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802864789Author Philip ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
The Badiou Dictionary by Steven Corcoran
RRP: $56.53$53.25Alain Badiou's philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His concepts are becoming indispensable tools in a variety of... -
Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language by Marie McGinn 9780199244447
$118.38Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie McGinn's principal aim in this book is to develop an... -
The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume's Treatise from the Inside Out by Jay L. Garfield 9780190933401
RRP: $165.75$116.34Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume's Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues that we cannot understand Hume's project without an appreciation of... -
Between Deleuze and Derrida by Paul Patton 9780826459732
$136.87Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. Both theorists have been widely studied but very little has been done to examine the relation between them. Between Deleuze and Derrida is the first book to... -
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber 9780199566648
RRP: $209.63$132.87Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist... -
New Approaches to Neo-Kantianism by Nicolas de Warren
RRP: $60.43$46.41After the demise of German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism flourished as the defining philosophical movement of Continental Europe from the 1860s until the Weimar Republic. This collection of new essays by distinguished scholars offers a fresh examination of... -
Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin by Alain Badiou 9780745685700
RRP: $29.23$26.48Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents, gathered here for their first-ever debate, have... -
Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography by Frederick C. Beiser 9780198828167
$210.44This book is the first complete intellectual biography of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) and the only work to cover all his major philosophical and Jewish writings. Frederick C. Beiser pays special attention to all phases of Cohen's intellectual development,... -
Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics: Volume 1, The Critical Philosophy and its Roots by Carl Posy
RRP: $60.43$53.43The late 1960s saw the emergence of new philosophical interest in Kant's philosophy of mathematics, and since then this interest has developed into a major and dynamic field of study. In this state-of-the-art survey of contemporary scholarship on Kant's... -
To Be Human by Jiddu Krishnamurti
RRP: $44.85$29.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570625961Author J. KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique by William F. Bristow 9780199290642
$111.74William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel describes the method of this work as a 'way of despair', meaning thereby that the reader who undertakes... -
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes by Stanley Cavell 9780804745437
RRP: $46.78$40.64This book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that... -
Hegel and Aristotle by Alfredo Ferrarin 9780521037754
RRP: $87.73$75.15Hegel is, arguably, the most difficult of all philosophers. To find a way into his thought interpreters have usually approached him as though he were developing Kantian and Fichtean themes. This book demonstrates in a systematic way that it makes much... -
Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise Of Evolutionary Epistemology by Michel Ter Hark 9780521830744
RRP: $105.30$94.58This book is about Karl Popper's early writings before he began his career as a philosopher. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that Popper's philosophy of science, with its emphasis on the method of trial and error, is largely based on the... -
Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames
RRP: $81.90$64.43In this book, one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field - its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135106
RRP: $93.60$74.10During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading...