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Tom Stoneham offers a clear and detailed study of Berkeley's metaphysics and epistemology, as presented in his classic work Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, originally published in 1713 and still widely studied today. Stoneham writes for...

Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two...

What is meaning? Paul Horwich presents an original philosophical theory, demonstrates its richness, and defends it against all comers. At the core of his theory is the idea, made famous by Wittgenstein, that the meaning of a word derives from its use;...

The ideas of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege lie at the root of the analytic movement in philosophy; Michael Dummett is his leading modern critical interpreter and one of today's most eminent philosophers. This volume collects...

Self 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...

This 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...

Barry Stroud's work has had a profound impact on a very wide array of philosophical topics, including epistemological skepticism, the nature of logical necessity, the interpretation of Hume, the interpretation of Wittgenstein, the possibility of...

This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past twenty-five years. The essays in Part I include his celebrated "The Unity of Descartes' Man," in which he argues that Descartes accepts the...

Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic presence in American philosophy literary criticism, and cultural studies for years. Even as, he continues to produce new writing of a high quality - an example of which is included in this collection -...

Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers known as the British Empiricists-Locke, Berkeley, and Hume-to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers but Waxman argues that,...

Taking up a single question-"What does it mean to say a proposition of law is true?"-this book advances a major new account of truth in law. Drawing upon the later philosophy of Wittgenstein, as well as more recent postmodern theory of the...

This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy, one which does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. The distinguished...

Within democratic societies, a deep division exists over the nature of community and the grounds for political life. Should the political order be neutral between competing conceptions of the good life or should it be based on some such conception? This...

This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will-those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina. Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known...

In this collection, a wide variety of American philosophers attempt to explain why they were drawn to philosophy and the difference it has made in their lives. Among the contributors are: Henry E. Kyburg, Jr., Joel Feinberg, Alfred Mele, Walter B...

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Since art is essential to the love of one’s neighbor as oneself and to love’s chief goal of building up one another, we cannot understand love without also understanding its art. Observing that praise is ubiquitous in Søren Kierkegaard’s writings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513219936Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

This book offers new perspectives on the theoretical elements of the Opus postumum (OP), Kant’s project of a final work which remained unknown until eighty years after his death. The contributors read the OP as a central work in establishing the relation...

This book is the first devoted to Hume’s conception of testimony. Hume is usually taken to be a reductionist with respect to testimony, with trust in others dependent on the evidence possessed by individuals concerning the reliability of texts or...

This book provides a systematic treatment of Locke’s theory of probable assent, and shows how the theory applies to Locke’s philosophy of science, moral epistemology, and religious epistemology.There is a powerful case to be made that the most important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586084366Author Ernest GellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PaladinPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 160g

Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader" and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this compelling book, Yvonne Sherratt...

John Macmurray was a Scot who fought in World War I and subsequently became a philosopher and broadcaster. In his Gifford Lectures he set out to challenge certain presuppositions in traditional thinking on the nature of the "self", which have led to its...

A clear summary of Husserl's often obscure and always complex writings. . . . very instructive.-EthicsBook InformationISBN 9780823203369Author Quentin LauerFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University Press

The incidental writings of Soren Kierkegaard, published in the twenty-volume Danish edition of the Papirer, provide direct access to the thought of the many-faceted nineteenth-century philosopher who exerted so profound an influence on Protestant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782877142953Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackImprint DistribooksPublisher DistribooksWeight(grams) 132g

In this groundbreaking work, the author effects the first extended rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through Modernism by Moses...

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Hume is one of the greatest of all British philosophers, and even in his own lifetime was celebrated as one of the pivotal figures of the Enlightenment. A central theme of his philosophy is the conviction that questions traditionally thought of as...

A collection of essays that provides an introduction to the emerging postmodern world. The reader is guided through the subject and shown how it affects psychology, philosophy, religion and science.Book InformationISBN 9780006863700Author Walter Truett...

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There has been, over the last decades, a deep crisis in the models which, for a long time, have been central metaphors governing thought and research in the social sciences. The main symptom in this paradigmatic shift has been the increasing centrality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498225519Author Christopher R AltieriFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786204161815Author Alphonse BouaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783839155226Author Walter a KochFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789528006923Author Kai AlhanenFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...