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Kant's Early Critics on Freedom of the Will by Jörg Noller 9781108729673
€30.29This book offers translations of early critical reactions to Kant's account of free will. Spanning the years 1784-1800, the translations make available, for the first time in English, works by little-known thinkers including Pistorius, Ulrich,... -
Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology: Nature, Spirit, and Life by Andrea Staiti 9781107066304
€142.80Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is regarded as the founder of transcendental phenomenology, one of the major traditions to emerge in twentieth-century philosophy. In this book Andrea Staiti unearths and examines the deep theoretical links between Husserl's... -
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution by David Marshall Miller 9781107046733
€142.80The novel understanding of the physical world that characterized the Scientific Revolution depended on a fundamental shift in the way its protagonists understood and described space. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, spatial phenomena were... -
Nietzsche's Last Laugh: Ecce Homo as Satire by Nicholas D. More 9781107050815
€142.80Nietzsche's Ecce Homo was published posthumously in 1908, eight years after his death, and has been variously described ever since as useless, mad, or merely inscrutable. Against this backdrop, Nicholas D. More provides the first complete and compelling... -
William James on Ethics and Faith by Michael R. Slater 9780521760164
€142.80This book offers a new interpretation of William James's ethical and religious thought. Michael Slater shows that James's conception of morality, or what it means to lead a moral and flourishing life, is intimately tied to his conception of religious... -
Heidegger's Concept of Truth by Daniel O. Dahlstrom 9780521103992
RRP: €36.88€34.13This 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... -
Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity by Matthew Rampley 9780521651554
RRP: €67.83€60.84Nietzsche, Aesthetics and Modernity analyses Nietzsche's response to the aesthetic tradition, tracing in particular the complex relationship between the work and thought of Nietzsche, Kant and Hegel. Focusing in particular on the critical role of... -
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future by Richard Schacht 9780521640855
RRP: €67.83€60.84This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In... -
The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche by Steven Nadler 9780521622127
RRP: €49.98€45.65The French philosopher and theologian Nicolas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold and unorthodox thinker, he tried to synthesize the new philosophy of Descartes with religious Platonism. This is the first... -
Kant and the Laws of Nature by Michela Massimi 9781107120983
RRP: €69.02€62.37Laws of nature play a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy and are crucial to understanding his philosophy of science in particular. In this volume of new essays, the first systematic investigation of its kind, a distinguished team of scholars... -
Charles Peirce and Modern Science by T. L. Short 9781009223546
RRP: €89.25€80.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009223546Author T. L. ShortFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant: The Violence and the Charity by Morganna Lambeth 9781009239257
RRP: €101.15€91.15Heidegger has a reputation for reading himself into the philosophers he interprets, and his interpretation of Kant has therefore had little uptake in anglophone Kant scholarship. In this book, Morganna Lambeth provides a new account of Heidegger's method... -
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics by Gabriele Gava 9781009172103
RRP: €101.15€91.15In two often neglected passages of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant submits that the Critique is a 'treatise' or a 'doctrine of method'. These passages are puzzling because the Critique is only cursorily concerned with identifying adequate procedures of... -
Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell by Gregory Landini 9780521870238
RRP: €67.83€61.32Wittgenstein's Tractatus has generated many interpretations since its publication in 1921, but over the years a consensus has developed concerning its criticisms of Russell's philosophy. In Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell, Gregory Landini... -
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion by Julian Young 9780521854221
RRP: €67.83€60.84In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This... -
The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics by Michael B. Gill 9780521852463
RRP: €78.54€70.73Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, in this volume Michael Gill shows how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy. They effected a... -
Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jonathan Marks 9780521850698
RRP: €64.26€57.72In Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jonathan Marks offers an interpretation of the philosopher's thought and its place in the contemporary debate between liberals and communitarians. Against prevailing views, he argues... -
Mary Astell: Theorist of Freedom from Domination by Patricia Springborg 9780521841047
RRP: €78.54€70.73Philosopher, theologian, educational theorist, feminist and political pamphleteer, Mary Astell was an important figure in the history of ideas of the early modern period. Among the first systematic critics of John Locke's entire corpus, she is best known... -
Kant and his German Contemporaries: Volume 1, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Science and Ethics Corey W. Dyck (University of Western Ontario) 9781107140899
€142.80This collection of new essays, the first of its kind in English, considers the ways in which the philosophy of Immanuel Kant engages with the views of lesser-known eighteenth-century German thinkers. Each chapter casts new light on aspects of Kant's... -
The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9781107045002
RRP: €85.68€77.93This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these... -
Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide by Yitzhak Y. Melamed 9780521882293
RRP: €67.83€61.32Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was published anonymously in 1670 and immediately provoked huge debate. Its main goal was to claim that the freedom of philosophizing can be allowed in a free republic and that it cannot be abolished without also... -
Kant's Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy by Anne Margaret Baxley 9780521766234
RRP: €67.83€60.84Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant's later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues... -
Kant's Anatomy of Evil by Sharon Anderson-Gold 9780521514323
RRP: €67.83€60.84Kant infamously claimed that all human beings, without exception, are evil by nature. This collection of essays critically examines and elucidates what he must have meant by this indictment. It shows the role which evil plays in his overall philosophical... -
An Introduction to Kant's Moral Philosophy by Jennifer K. Uleman 9780521199629
RRP: €59.50€53.53Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy is one of the most distinctive achievements of the European Enlightenment. At its heart lies what Kant called the 'strange thing': the free, rational, human will. This introduction explores the basis of Kant's... -
The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically by Robert Piercey 9780521517539
RRP: €67.83€60.84In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre and other historically-minded... -
The Philosophy of Karl Popper by Herbert Keuth 9780521839464
RRP: €67.83€61.32Karl Popper is one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Perhaps his greatest book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, sets out his epistemology of critical rationalism, while his most famous book, The Open Society... -
The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege by Richard L. Mendelsohn 9780521836692
RRP: €67.83€60.84This analysis of Frege's views on language and metaphysics in On Sense and Reference, arguably one of the most important philosophical essays of the past hundred years, provides a thorough introduction to the function/argument analysis and applies... -
Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck Husain Sarkar (Louisiana State University) 9780521821667
RRP: €64.26€57.72Perhaps 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Quine by Roger F. Gibson, Jr. 9780521630566
RRP: €58.31€52.96W. V. Quine (1908-2000) was quite simply the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended... -
Leibniz and his Correspondents by Paul Lodge 9780521834100
RRP: €64.26€58.19Unlike most of the other great philosophers Leibniz never wrote a magnum opus, so his philosophical correspondence is essential for an understanding of his views. This collection of essays by pre-eminent figures in the field of Leibniz scholarship is a... -
Kant on Representation and Objectivity by A. B. Dickerson 9780521831215
RRP: €64.26€57.72This 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,... -
Locke's Philosophy of Language by Walter R. Ott 9780521831192
RRP: €64.26€57.72This book examines John Locke's claims about the nature and workings of language. Walter Ott proposes an interpretation of Locke's thesis in which words signify ideas in the mind of the speaker, and argues that rather than employing such notions as sense... -
Meaning in Spinoza's Method by Aaron V. Garrett 9780521826112
RRP: €67.83€60.84Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been daunted, and sometimes been enchanted, by the geometrical method which he employs in his philosophical masterpiece the Ethics. In Meaning in Spinoza's Method Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests... -
Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought by Michael Losonsky 9780521806121
RRP: €64.26€57.72Kant believed that true enlightenment is the use of reason freely in public. This book systematicaaly traces the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity. Michael Losonsky... -
Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency by Allen Speight 9780521791847
RRP: €52.36€47.25Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has attracted much attention recently from philosophers, but none of the existing English-language books on the text addresses one of the most difficult questions the book raises: Why does the Phenomenology make such rich... -
Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment by Henry E. Allison 9780521791540
RRP: €73.78€66.54This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Kant, Henry Allison, offers a comprehensive, systematic, and philosophically astute account of all aspects of Kant's... -
Donald Davidson by Kirk Ludwig 9780521790437
RRP: €58.31€52.48Donald Davidson has been one of the most influential figures in modern analytic philosophy and has made seminal contributions in a wide range of subjects: philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics and the... -
Berkeley's Principles and Dialogues: Background Source Materials by George Berkeley 9780521496810
RRP: €54.74€49.35This volume sets Berkeley's philosophy in its historical context by providing selections from: firstly, works that deeply influenced Berkeley as he formed his main doctrines; secondly, works that illuminate the philosophical climate in which those... -
Spinoza and the Stoics by Jon Miller 9781107000704
RRP: €70.21€62.94For many years, philosophers and other scholars have commented on the remarkable similarity between Spinoza and the Stoics, with some even going so far as to speak of 'Spinoza the Stoic'. Until now, however, no one has systematically examined the... -
Descartes' Deontological Turn: Reason, Will, and Virtue in the Later Writings by Noa Naaman-Zauderer 9780521763301
RRP: €67.83€60.84This book offers a way of approaching the place of the will in Descartes' mature epistemology and ethics. Departing from the widely accepted view, Noa Naaman-Zauderer suggests that Descartes regards the will, rather than the intellect, as the most...