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Descartes and the Passionate Mind by Deborah J. Brown 9780521857284
RRP: €107.10€80.03Descartes is often accused of having fragmented the human being into two independent substances, mind and body, with no clear strategy for explaining the apparent unity of human experience. Deborah Brown argues that, contrary to this view, Descartes did... -
Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought: Explication as Enlightenment by A.W. Carus 9780521862271
RRP: €124.95€92.21Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany and later a US citizen, he was a founder of the philosophical movement known as Logical Empiricism. He was strongly... -
Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy by Rebecca Kukla 9780521862011
RRP: €107.10€80.50This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays, written specially for this volume, explore core... -
Peirce's Theory of Signs by T.L. Short 9780521843201
RRP: €124.95€92.21In this book, T. L. Short corrects widespread misconceptions of Peirce's theory of signs and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary analytic philosophy of language, mind and science. Peirce's theory of mind, naturalistic but nonreductive, bears on... -
John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus by Greg Forster 9780521842181
RRP: €107.10€80.50The aim of this book is twofold: to explain the reconciliation of religion and politics in the work of John Locke, and to explore the relevance of that reconciliation for politics in our own time. Confronted with deep social divisions over ultimate... -
The Cambridge Companion to Carnap by Richard Creath 9780521840156
RRP: €101.15€69.10Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the... -
Stanley Cavell by Richard Eldridge 9780521770255
RRP: €89.25€61.65Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. At the core... -
Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship by Pauline Kleingeld 9780521764186
RRP: €107.10€83.53This is the first comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism, highlighting its moral, political, legal, economic, cultural and psychological aspects. Contrasting Kant's views with those of his German contemporaries and relating them to current... -
Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion by Michelle Grier 9780521663243
RRP: €107.10€80.50This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a theory of 'illusion' plays a central role in Kant's arguments about... -
The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth by James Allard 9780521834056
RRP: €107.10€80.03This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth-century school of British Idealists. It offers a sustained interpretation of Bradley's Principles of Logic, explaining the... -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Heidelberg Writings: Journal Publications by Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel 9780521833004
RRP: €115.42€97.59This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel's journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816-18), writings which have been previously either untranslated or only partially translated into English. The Heidelberg... -
Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy by Patrick R. Frierson 9780521824002
RRP: €107.10€80.03This book offers a comprehensive account of Kant's theory of freedom and his moral anthropology. The point of departure is the apparent conflict between three claims to which Kant is committed: that human beings are transcendentally free, that moral... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy by Paul Guyer 9780521823036
RRP: €124.95€91.76The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume,... -
Hilary Putnam by Yemima Ben-Menahem 9780521813112
RRP: €89.25€61.65The richness of Putnam's philosophical oeuvre consists not only in the broad spectrum of problems addressed, but also in the transformations and restructuring his positions have undergone over the years. The essays collected in this volume are sensitive... -
Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes by Tad M. Schmaltz 9780521811347
RRP: €107.10€80.50This is a book-length study of two of Descartes's most innovative successors, Robert Desgabets and Pierre-Sylvain Regis, and of their highly original contributions to Cartesianism. The focus of the book is an analysis of radical doctrines in the work of... -
Heidegger's Later Philosophy by Julian Young 9780521809221
RRP: €107.10€80.03Heidegger's later philosophy has often been regarded as a lapse into unintelligible mysticism. While not ignoring its deep and difficult complexities, Julian Young's book explains in simple and straightforward language just what it is all about. It... -
Heidegger's Concept of Truth by Daniel O. Dahlstrom 9780521643177
RRP: €142.80€110.94This major study of Heidegger is the first to examine in detail the concept of existential truth that he developed in the 1920s. Daniel O. Dahlstrom critically examines the genesis, nature and validity of Heidegger's radical attempt to rethink truth as... -
Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer by Frank Cioffi 9780521593076
RRP: €107.10€80.50What is it that troubles and preoccupies us about the anxieties and anguishes of social and private life? Have advances in the disciplines of psychoanalysis, psychology or the social sciences in general ministered to our needs in these areas? In this... -
The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism by Steven Crowell 9780521513340
RRP: €101.15€78.15Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and... -
Wittgenstein and William James by Russell B. Goodman 9780521813150
RRP: €107.10€80.03This 2002 book explores Wittgenstein's long engagement with the work of the pragmatist William James. In contrast to previous discussions Russell Goodman argues that James exerted a distinctive and pervasive positive influence on Wittgenstein's thought... -
Kant and Modern Political Philosophy by Katrin Flikschuh 9780521662376
RRP: €107.10€80.03In this book Katrin Flikschuh examines the relevance of Kant's political thought to major issues and problems in contemporary political philosophy. She advances and defends two principal claims: that Kant's philosophy of Right endorses the role of... -
Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development by Christia Mercer 9780521403016
RRP: €142.80€105.80This book offers a major reassessment of Leibniz's metaphysics. Christia Mercer has exposed the underlying doctrines of Leibniz's philosophy. By analysing Leibniz's early works she demonstrates that the metaphysics of pre-established harmony developed... -
Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies by John Cottingham 9780521191388
RRP: €91.62€77.67Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, published in Latin in 1641, is one of the most widely studied philosophical texts of all time, and inaugurates many of the key themes that have remained central to philosophy ever since. In his original Latin... -
Kant's Construction of Nature: A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science by Michael Friedman 9780521198394
RRP: €148.75€111.66Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is one of the most difficult but also most important of Kant's works. Published in 1786 between the first (1781) and second (1787) editions of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Metaphysical Foundations... -
Hegel on the Modern Arts by Benjamin Rutter 9780521114011
RRP: €107.10€73.74Debates over the 'end of art' have tended to obscure Hegel's work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art's indispensability to Hegel's conception of modernity; he then seeks to reorient discussion toward the... -
The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth by James Allard 9780521174213
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth-century school of British Idealists. It offers a sustained interpretation of Bradley's Principles of Logic, explaining the... -
Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck by Husain Sarkar 9780521037341
RRP: €36.88€28.32Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes' cogito 'I think, therefore I am'. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is... -
Kant on Representation and Objectivity by A. B. Dickerson 9780521037198
RRP: €36.88€28.32This book is a study of the second-edition version of the 'Transcendental Deduction' (the so-called 'B-Deduction'), which is one of the most important and obscure sections of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. By way of a close analysis of the B-Deduction,... -
Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of Seventy Years in Philosophy by Dorothy Emmet 9780333670132
RRP: €107.09€106.95With a wealth of anecdote Dorothy Emmet looks back on the philosophers who made a personal impact on her. She brings to life the Oxford of the 1920s, and writes particularly about H.A. Pritchard and R.G. Collingwood. She knew A.N. Whitehead and Samuel... -
Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation by John Harwood 9780333641804
RRP: €53.54€53.51'...a book which should be read by all students contemplating enrolment for a university course in modern English or European literary studies.' - Roy Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement Eliot to Derrida is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the... -
The Meaning of Heidegger: A Critical Study of an Existentialist Phenomenology by Thomas Langan 9780313241246
€99.06An exegesis of Heidegger's existentialist philosophy.Book InformationISBN 9780313241246Author Thomas LanganFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Mystery of Matter by Jennifer Trusted 9780312221454
RRP: €107.09€106.95As Russell said The word matter is, in philosophy, the name of a problem and our scientific investigations and philosophical inquiries show that it becomes more and more complex and interesting as we study it. This book seeks to show how ideas of matter... -
The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672-1686 by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 9780300205053
€43.55This book gathers together for the first time an important body of texts written between 1672 and 1686 by the great German philosopher and polymath Gottfried Leibniz. These writings, most of them previously untranslated, represent Leibniz's sustained... -
Unmodern Observations (Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen) by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780300180190
€38.33This translation of Nietzsche's early Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen consists of four long essays and notes for a fifth. Nietzsche planned these works as part of an extremely ambitious critique of German culture. Although the project was never completed,... -
Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey by Frank M. Oppenheim 9780268159863
€62.67Josiah 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... -
The Self-Organizing Social Mind by John Bolender 9780262549134
€38.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549134Author John BolenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought: The Politics of MERCOSUR by Chris Firestone 9780268029067
RRP: €38.08€36.82In The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs, and thirteen other contributors examine the role of God in the thought of major European philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The... -
Nietzsche's Gay Science: Dancing Coherence by M. Langer 9780230580688
RRP: €107.09€106.95A step by step illumination of the intricacy, 'logic', and importance of one of Nietzsche's richest and most complex works. In a clear and accessible manner the author explains the interconnectedness of The Gay Science's seemingly unrelated sections... -
The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham by Nafsika Athanassoulis 9780230527560
RRP: €53.54€53.51A collection of essays by leading philosophers on the work of John Cottingham, focussing on his work in moral philosophy, discussing themes from his contributions to the debate on partiality and impartiality, the role of the emotions in the good life and... -
Out from the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy by Sharon L. Crasnow 9780199855476
RRP: €70.21€44.70Out from the Shadows showcases the work of 18 analytical feminists from a variety of traditional areas of philosophy: social and political philosophy, normative ethics, virtue theory, metaethics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and...