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Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy by Stephen Gaukroger 9780521005258
RRP: £33.99£28.38Towards the end of his life, Descartes published the first four parts of a projected six-part work, The Principles of Philosophy. This was intended to be the definitive statement of his complete system of philosophy, dealing with everything from... -
Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith by Jacob Howland 9780521862035
RRP: £75.00£59.62This volume is a study of the relationship between philosophy and faith in Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments. It is also the first book to examine the role of Socrates in this body of writings, illuminating the significance of Socrates for... -
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics by Olli Koistinen 9780521853392
RRP: £86.99£77.49Since its publication in 1677, Spinoza's Ethics has fascinated philosophers, novelists, and scientists alike. It is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and contested works of Western philosophy. Written in an austere, geometrical fashion, the work... -
Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common Laws of England. Questions relative to Hereditary right by Alan Cromartie 9780198237020
RRP: £150.00£118.50This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession,... -
The Oxford Handbook of Hegel by Dean Moyar 9780199355228
£110.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge: A Philosophy of How Man Perceives, Learns and Forms Ideas Through Experience (Hardcover) by George Berkeley 9780359009978
RRP: £26.45£23.00George Berkeley's investigation of human epistemology remains one of the most respected of its time - this edition contains the treatise in full, complete with the author's preface. One of Berkeley's most important beliefs was that of immaterialism. The... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hume by David Fate Norton 9780521859868
RRP: £69.00£62.67Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history,... -
Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': An Introduction by Jill Vance Buroker 9780521853156
RRP: £71.99£63.30In this introductory textbook to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Jill Vance Buroker explains the role of this first Critique in Kant's Critical project and offers a line-by-line reading of the major arguments in the text. She situates Kant's views in... -
Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) by Corey W. Dyck 9780198803300
RRP: £87.00£78.81Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian... -
Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey by Frank M. Oppenheim 9780268040192
RRP: £103.00£86.95Josiah Royce and William James lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Irving Street, just two doors apart, and Charles Peirce grew up only blocks away. John Dewey was born and educated in nearby Vermont. These four great thinkers shared more than... -
Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man by Seymour W. Itzkoff 9780268009373
RRP: £27.99£15.94Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man by Seymour W. Itzkoff is currently one of the few books available in the English language that discusses the philosophy of twentieth-century German philosopher Ernst Cassirer. Itzkoff's study... -
Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928-1938 by Ronald Bruzina 9780300182965
£50.87Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl's research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist's life, a period in which Husserl's philosophical ideas were radically recast. In this landmark book, Ronald Bruzina shows that Fink was actually a... -
New Governance for Rural America: Creating Intergovernmental Partnerships by Beryl A. Radin 9780700607716
RRP: £26.95£18.09In this analysis of the National and State Rural Development Councils (NRDC and SRDC), the authors examine the successes and failures of the original eight councils in Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Washington... -
Dialectic of Romanticism by Peter Murphy 9780826487865
£75.11Dialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity. An exploration of the internal critique of modernism treats romanticism (later historicism and post-modernism) as central to... -
Historical Dictionary of Feminist Philosophy by Catherine Villanueva Gardner 9780810853461
RRP: £105.00£85.27Having only emerged in the past few decades, Feminist Philosophy is rapidly developing its own thrust in areas of particular importance to feminism-and women more generally-while also reevaluating and reshaping most other fields of philosophy, from... -
German Essays on Philosophy by Wolfgang Schirmacher 9780826413598
£38.14Includes: Gunther Anders, "Victims of Aggression"; Hannah Arendt, "From the Life of the Mind"; Ernst Bloch, "On Fine Arts in the Machine Age, From "The Principle of Hope"; Karl Jaspers, "Existential... -
Derrida and Disinterest by Sean Gaston 9780826491633
RRP: £59.99£59.61Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and importance have been disputed, and its definition reworked by such pivotal figures as Nietzsche, Shaftesbury, Locke and Kant. In this groundbreaking book,... -
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction by Todd May 9780521843096
RRP: £75.00£51.81This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Spinoza by Henry E. Allison 9781009098199
RRP: £75.00£54.73Aimed at those new to studying Spinoza, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to his thought, placing it in its historical and philosophical contexts, and assessing its critical reception. In addition to providing an analysis of Spinoza's... -
Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism by David Depew 9780275965242
£39.49American pragmatism can be best understood against the background of 20th-century American culture and politics. The essays in this volume, by philosophers, cultural critics, and historians, explore the development of pragmatism in this context. The... -
Derrida's "Writing and Difference": A Reader's Guide by Sarah Wood 9780826491916
RRP: £100.00£99.72"Writing and Difference" is widely perceived to be an excellent starting place for those new to Derrida and this "Reader's Guide" is the perfect accompaniment to the study of one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th... -
Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist by Robert Merrihew Adams 9780195084603
RRP: £122.50£96.92Legendary in his own time and since as a universal genius, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) contributed significantly to almost every branch of learning. One of the creators of modern mathematics, and probably the most sophisticated logician between... -
Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism by Kenneth R. Westphal 9780521833738
RRP: £90.00£67.65This book is the first detailed study of Kant's method of 'transcendental reflection' and its use in the Critique of Pure Reason to identify our basic human cognitive capacities, and to justify Kant's transcendental proofs of the necessary a priori... -
Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind: New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga by Kelly James Clark 9780199766864
RRP: £110.00£88.78In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of... -
Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard by Michelle Kosch 9780199289110
RRP: £94.00£81.03Michelle Kosch's book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency - how is moral responsibility consistent with the possibility of theoretical explanation? is moral agency essentially rational agency? can autonomy be the foundation of ethics? -... -
German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and beyond by Michael N. Forster 9780199604814
RRP: £112.50£81.43Michael Forster here presents a ground-breaking study of German philosophy of language in the nineteenth century (and beyond). His previous book, After Herder, showed that the eighteenth-century philosopher J.G. Herder played the fundamental role in... -
Propositions, Functions, and Analysis: Selected Essays on Russell's Philosophy by Peter Hylton 9780199543625
RRP: £36.99£29.60The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development. The essays collected in this volume, by one of the leading authorities on Russell's philosophy, all aim at recapturing and... -
Kant and the Reach of Reason: Studies in Kant's Theory of Rational Systematization by Nicholas Rescher 9780521661003
RRP: £75.00£47.90The essays collected in this volume have a strong thematic and interpretative unity. Their underlying concern is with the overall nature of Kant's philosophical system, and thus with his deepest intentions and basic commitments. The book falls into three... -
Lectures on Anthropology by Immanuel Kant 9780521771610
RRP: £122.00£103.67Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the... -
Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic by John Protevi 9780485006193
RRP: £100.00£99.72Political Physics analyses the work of two of the most influential thinkers of our time - Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. The book takes the reader on a transversal journey, crossing the boundaries of philosophy and science.Political Physics explores... -
The Radical Empiricism of William James. by John Daniel Wild 9780313226410
£48.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313226410Author John Daniel WildFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy by Aaron James 9780199344567
RRP: £39.49£26.91If the global economy seems unfair, how should we understand what a fair global economy would be? What ideas of fairness, if any, apply, and what significance do they have for policy and law? Working within the social contract tradition, this book argues... -
Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought by Michah Gottlieb 9780195398946
RRP: £80.00£63.31Two major interpretations of Mendelssohn's achievements have attained prominence in recent works. One interpretation, defended most recently by David Sorkin and Edward Breuer, casts Mendelssohn as a Jewish traditionalist who uses the language of... -
Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide by Karen Detlefsen 9780521111607
RRP: £90.00£56.69Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the Meditations... -
The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom by Robert R. Clewis 9780521516686
RRP: £90.00£67.65In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a republic - fit together and deepen our understanding of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hayek by Edward Feser 9780521849777
RRP: £85.00£63.71F. A. Hayek (1899-1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an 'anti-Marx' who did more than any... -
Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed by Gary Kemp 9780826484864
RRP: £100.00£99.72Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject... -
Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility by Claus Dierksmeier 9781013275630
RRP: £52.95£46.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013275630Author Claus DierksmeierFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Scepticism in the Enlightenment by Richard H. Popkin 9780792346432
RRP: £89.99£89.87Starting with Richard Popkin's essay of 1963, `Scepticism in the Enlightenment', a new investigation into philosophical scepticism of the period was launched. The late Giorgio Tonelli and the late Ezequiel de Olaso examined in great detail the kinds of... -
Exercises in Constructive Imagination by Ermanno Bencivenga 9780792367024
RRP: £89.99£89.87Philosophy in this century has often self-consciously presented itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of the philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such. The basis for such self-description may well be a deep-seated anxiety...