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Personal Agency: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action by E. J. Lowe 9780199592500
RRP: £46.49Booksplease Price: £36.04Personal 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... -
Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint by Joseph Heath 9780199768332
RRP: £47.49Booksplease Price: £29.78For 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... -
The Meaning of Disgust by Colin McGinn 9780199829538
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £43.39Disgust 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... -
The Inner Rainbow: An Illustrated History of Human Consciousness from Ancient India to the Present Day by Henk van Oort 9781906999605
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.84Featuring 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... -
HOMO, 99 and 44/100% NONSAPIENS: Revised With New Introduction by Gerald B Lorentz 9780988553637
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.10Apologies 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)... -
The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of Regret by R. Jay Wallace 9780199941353
Booksplease Price: £86.03Must 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... -
Materialism from Hobbes to Locke by Stewart Duncan 9780197613009
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £69.71Are 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... -
The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography by John D. Barbour 9780813922898
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Most 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: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought by Peter Carruthers 9780198738824
Booksplease Price: £84.26The 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... -
Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior by Donald Calne 9780375703225
RRP: £17.51Booksplease Price: £14.81Apologies 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)... -
The Humanist's Devotional: 366 Daily Meditations from Some of the World's Greatest Thinkers by Jessica Hagy 9780988493865
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.63Apologies 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 *... -
Aspects of Reason by Paul Grice 9780199278435
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £45.76Reasons 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 - Literature, Science and Human Nature by Robin Headlam-Wells 9780826485465
Booksplease Price: £24.04"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... -
Applied Metapsychology Dictionary by Frank A Gerbode 9781615994748
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.09Apologies 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... -
Up from Eden: Transpersonal View of Human Evolution by Ken Wilber 9780835607315
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.34Apologies 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. -
Are We There Yet? by Morris Berman 9781635610567
Booksplease Price: £17.64Apologies 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)... -
Mind in Action by Bede Rundle 9780198236917
Booksplease Price: £75.54Bede 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... -
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Philosophy by Sarah V. Eldridge
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £31.02In 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... -
Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day by Robert Rowland Smith 9781439148686
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.18Apologies 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 by Stacey O'Neal Irwin 9781498537100
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.17Digital 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... -
The Life of Solitude by Francesco Petrarch 9781481317122
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.80Francesco 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... -
The Happy Heretic by Judith Hayes 9781573928021
Booksplease Price: £21.45Judith 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... -
Agency and Self-Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology by Johannes Roessler 9780199245628
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £59.33Leading 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... -
Matter and Memory by Henri Louis Bergson 9781602065499
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.93Apologies 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 *... -
The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society, and Politics by Philip Pettit 9780195106459
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £39.60Pettit 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... -
Marx's Concept of Man by Erich Fromm 9781614270218
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In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla's Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy by Lodi Nauta 9780674032699
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Toward a New Humanism: and Related Writings by Samuel Ramos 9781647922276
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.74“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... -
True Love by Josef Seifert 9781587318894
Booksplease Price: £12.42From 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... -
The Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide: Seventh Edition by Sofa Betancourt 9781558969674
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.06A 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... -
Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical and Social Wellbeing by Dr Dr Marc Berman 9781785045271
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.55In 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... -
Beyond Posthumanism: The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities by Alexander Mathäs 9781836950745
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £25.01Kant, 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... -
Shusterman's Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics by Dorota Koczanowicz 9789042034860
Booksplease Price: £76.71This 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... -
Speculative Evaluations: Essays on a Pluralistic Universe by Hugh P. McDonald 9789042034846
Booksplease Price: £109.59This 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... -
The Resilience of Hope by Janette McDonald 9789042030220
Booksplease Price: £60.84Hope: 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... -
Secularities in Japan by Ugo Dessì 9789004517363
Booksplease Price: £56.95This 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... -
Emile & The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9788027277735
Booksplease Price: £15.43Apologies 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 -
Against Modern Humanism: On the Culture of Ego by Jeffrey Thomas Bergner 9780989040211
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £13.51Apologies 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 -
Theistic Humanism of African Philosophy: The Great Debate on Substance and Method of Philosophy by Maduabuchi Dukor 9789785878936
RRP: £43.66Booksplease Price: £40.62Apologies 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 -
The Little Book of Good Health Facts, Tips and Habits by Sonia Kakar 9788122205220
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £8.38Apologies 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