Humanism

Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionism. This theory accords to volitions the status of basic mental actions, maintaining that these...

For centuries, philosophers have been puzzled by the fact that people often respect moral obligations as a matter of principle, setting aside considerations of self-interest. In more recent years, social scientists have been puzzled by the more general...

Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion. But what is it to be disgusting? What unifies the class of disgusting things? Colin McGinn sets out to analyze the content of disgust, arguing that life and death are implicit in its meaning...

Featuring more than 50 colour images, The Inner Rainbow takes the reader on an journey through time, from Ancient India to the present day. This is the journey of human consciousness - the story of an eternal, metamorphic process. As the author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988553637Author Gerald B LorentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Underworld AmusementsPublisher Underworld AmusementsWeight(grams)...

Must we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be good reason to affirm things in the past that we know were unfortunate? In this original work of moral philosophy, R. Jay Wallace shows that the...

Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and might even be able to outlive the death of the body? This book is about how a series of...

Most people feel ambivalent about solitude, both loving and fearing it depending on how they experience being alone at certain points in their lives. In The Value of Solitude, John Barbour explores some of the ways in which experiences of solitude, both...

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers argues that conscious thought is always sensory-based, relying on the resources of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703225Author Donald CalneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 291gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988493865Author Jessica HagyFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Freethought HousePublisher Freethought HouseWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Reasons and reasoning were central to the work of Paul Grice, one of the most influential and admired philosophers of the late twentieth century. In the John Locke Lectures that Grice delivered in Oxford at the end of the 1970s, he set out his...

"Human Nature: Fact and Fiction" brings together a collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and original perspectives on human nature by ten leading writers, scientists and academics. What do we mean by 'human nature'? Is there a genetically determined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615994748Author Frank A GerbodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Applied Metapsychology International PressPublisher Applied Metapsychology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607315Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635610567Author Morris BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Bede Rundle challenges the quasi-mechanical view of human action that is dominant in contemporary philosophy of mind. A materialist view of the mind and a causal theory of action fit together conveniently: the notion of action as caused by thoughts and...

In the decades after its publication, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship served as a touchstone for such major philosophical and literary figures as Schopenhauer, Schleiermacher, and Schlegel, and was widely understood to be one of the greatest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439148686Author Robert Rowland SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Digital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like to be alive in today's technologically textured world and showcases specific digital media technologies that makes this kind of world possible. So much of human experience occurs through...

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch, 1304-1374) is universally regarded as one of the greatest Italian poets and considered to be the "Father of Renaissance Humanism." Petrarch is best known for his poetry, and especially for his sonnets, composed in the...

Judith Hayes, the Erma Bombeck of the secular humanist community, has the unique ability to raise serious points while making us laugh as she throws buckets of cold water on the irrational beliefs and maddening inconsistencies that often characterize...

Leading philosophers and psychologists join forces to investigate a set of problems to do with agency and self-awareness, in seventeen specially written essays. In recent years there has been much psychological and neurological work purporting to show...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602065499Author Henri Louis BergsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Pettit argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, natural and artificial.Reviews`a book to dip into for good ideas, interesting suggestions and, just possibly, long-distance...

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“Written in 1940, and available here for the first time ever in English, Samuel Ramos’ Toward a New Humanism is a prescient discussion of humanism, technology, mortality, and the tensions between the national and the universal. In addition to Sanchez’s...

From Plato and Aristotle and on to the present, many great philosophers have dealt with the nature of love, which is the most central and profound act of the person. Particularly the philosophy of the twentieth century excelled in this regard, most often...

A powerful, engaging, and accessible introduction to Unitarian Universalism. Unitarian Universalists are people of all ages, of many backgrounds, and of many beliefs. They are brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers who create...

In Nature and The Mind, leading neuroscientist Dr Marc Berman explains how nature captures attention in ways that lead to improvements in cognitive performance, but also in self-control, reduced aggression, and crime. His research shows the different...

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry...

This book is the first essay collection on Richard Shusterman, the foremost representative of contemporary pragmatist aesthetics, a philosopher whose books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. The 12 essays, which cover the wide-ranging...

This book evaluates competing theories on speculative topics, such as nature, technology, space, time, and the relation of mind and matter. The general thesis is the actuality of principles in the form of laws, norms and other general principles in a...

Hope: What is it? How do we get it? Is it part of being human? Is it something that carries us through hard times? Is it something illusory? This book, which stems from the 4th Inter-Disciplinary.net conference on Hope: Probing the Boundaries held in...

This volume brings together contributions that, from different disciplinary perspectives, highlight certain aspects and problems related to the configuration of the relationship between the religious and the secular in Japan. In the background stands the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027277735Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint OK PublishingPublisher OK Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989040211Author Jeffrey Thomas BergnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Rambling Ridge Press, LLCPublisher Rambling Ridge Press, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785878936Author Maduabuchi DukorFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788122205220Author Sonia KakarFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Orient PaperbacksPublisher Orient PaperbacksDimensions(mm) 250mm * 200mm * 50mm