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Pyrrhonian Buddhism: A Philosophical Reconstruction by Adrian Kuzminski 9780367631642
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Pyrrhonian Buddhism reconstructs the path to enlightenment shared both by early Buddhists and the ancient Greek sceptics inspired by Pyrrho of Elis, who may have had extended contacts with Buddhists... -
Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empircus by Tad Brennan
Booksplease Price: £90.68This book defends the consistency, plausibility, and interest of the brand of Ancient Skepticism described in the writings of Sextus Empiricus (c. 150 AD), both through detailed exegesis of the... -
Pyrrhonian Buddhism: A Philosophical Reconstruction Adrian Kuzminski 9780367631321
Booksplease Price: £60.08Pyrrhonian Buddhism reconstructs the path to enlightenment shared both by early Buddhists and the ancient Greek sceptics inspired by Pyrrho of Elis, who may have had extended contacts with Buddhists... -
Skepticism in Philosophy: A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction by Henrik Lagerlund
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As... -
Epistemology: Contemporary Readings by Michael Huemer
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.44This comprehensive anthology draws together classic and contemporary readings by leading philosophers on epistemology. Ideal for any philosophy student, it will prove essential reading for... -
The Toils of Scepticism by Jonathan Barnes 9780521043878
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98In the works of Sextus Empiricus, scepticism is presented in its most elaborate and challenging form. This book investigates - both from an exegetical and from a philosophical point of view - the... -
How to Be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism by Richard Bett
Booksplease Price: £32.12What was it like to be a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism? This important volume brings together for the first time a selection of Richard Bett's essays on ancient Pyrrhonism, allowing readers a... -
Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals by Rod Preece
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts.Awe for... -
The Toils of Scepticism by Jonathan Barnes 9780521383394
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14In the works of Sextus Empiricus, scepticism is presented in its most elaborate and challenging form. This book investigates - both from an exegetical and from a philosophical point of view - the... -
Systematic Atheology: Atheism’s Reasoning with Theology by John R. Shook
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Atheology is the intellectual effort to understand atheism, defend the reasonableness of unbelief, and support nonbelievers in their encounters with religion. This book presents a historical overview... -
Ancient Philosophy: Textual Paths and Historical Explorations Lorenzo Perilli 9781138668812
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £40.49'We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece', the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny... -
Greek Skepticism: A Study in Epistemology by Charlotte L. Stough 9780520307889
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29Greek Skepticism examines the evolution of skeptical philosophy in ancient Greece, focusing on epistemological concerns such as knowledge, belief, and perception, while framing these inquiries within... -
The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life by Kurt Lampe 9780691161136
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus... -
Rehearsals of Manhood: Athenian Drama as Social Practice by David M. Halperin
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generationWhen John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a... -
The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life by Kurt Lampe 9780691176383
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus... -
Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries by G. Anthony Bruno 9780367886684
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Skepticism is one of the most enduring and profound of philosophical problems. With its roots in Plato and the Sceptics to Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein, skepticism presents a challenge that... -
Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia by Christopher I. Beckwith
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.96Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek... -
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.36An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics-the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding storiesAristotle's Poetics is the most... -
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic by Richard Bett 9780691206042
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgmentAlong with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy... -
Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity by Peter T. Struck
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination-the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity... -
Descartes's Method of Doubt by Janet Broughton 9780691117324
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Descartes thought that we could achieve absolute certainty by starting with radical doubt. He adopts this strategy in the Meditations on First Philosophy, where he raises sweeping doubts with the... -
Aenesidemus of Cnossus: Testimonia by Roberto Polito 9781009014885
Booksplease Price: £38.42This book provides the first edition of all the testimonia on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus, who is deemed to be the source of Sextus Empiricus, the main surviving authority on... -
Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition by Kathy Eden
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins... -
Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays by Paul Oskar Kristeller
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art... -
Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics: Selected Essays by Mario Mignucci Andrea Falcon 9781032177854
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic. Collected here for the first time are... -
Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity by Peter T. Struck 9780691169392
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.73Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination--the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical... -
Commentary on Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript: With a new introduction by Niels Thulstrup 9780691612478
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £52.17In the first comprehensive commentary on Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript the eminent Kierkegaard specialist Niels Thulstrup clarifies the book's intricate allusions to the... -
Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle by Jason L. Saunders 9780684836430
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Lucretius, Epicurus, Epictetus, Stocism, Sextus Empiricus, Lucian and Philo of Alexandria were among the greatest philosophers of the Hellenistic Age. In carefully chosen selections of their... -
Hegel and Ancient Philosophy: A Re-Examination by Glenn Alexander Magee 9780367666903
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Hegel's debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History of Philosophy is devoted to ancient philosophy,... -
The Sceptics R.J. Hankinson 9780415184465
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14The Sceptics is the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of Greek scepticism, from the beginnings of epistemology with Xenophanes, to the final full development of Pyrrhonism as presented in the... -
Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics by Matthew Duncombe 9780198846185
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £63.20Ideas about relativity underlie much ancient Greek philosophy, from Protagorean relativism, to Plato's theory of Forms, Aristotle's category scheme, and relational logic. In Ancient Relativity... -
Dialectic after Plato and Aristotle by Thomas Benatouil 9781108471909
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09Ancient dialectic started as an art of refutation and evolved into a science akin to our logic, grammar and linguistics. Scholars of ancient philosophy have traditionally focused on Plato's and... -
Knowledge and virtue in early Stoicism by Havard Lokke 9789400721524
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics. It discusses such questions as: How is knowledge possible, and what is it? How do we perceive things and acquire... -
Aenesidemus of Cnossus: Testimonia by Roberto Polito 9780521190251
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £102.81This book provides the first edition of all the testimonia on the Sceptic philosopher Aenesidemus of Cnossus, who is deemed to be the source of Sextus Empiricus, the main surviving authority on... -
Scepticism by Christopher Hookway
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Scepticism is a subject which has preoccupied philosophers for two thousand years. This book presents an historical perspective on scepticism by considering contrasting views, such as those of Sextus... -
Knowledge and virtue in early Stoicism by Havard Lokke 9789401776974
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics. It discusses such questions as: How is knowledge possible, and what is it? How do we perceive things and acquire... -
Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality by Diego E. Machuca 9783030912123
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy. Not only did Pyrrhonism play an important part in the... -
In Defense of Informal Logic by Don S. Levi 9780792361480
Booksplease Price: £90.56My impulse when I decided to collect into a single volume the essays on topics in logical theory and related subjects that I have written in the last fifteen years was to borrow from the title of a... -
Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality by Diego E. Machuca
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy. Not only did it play an important part in the philosophical... -
In Defense of Informal Logic by Don S. Levi 9789048153886
Booksplease Price: £90.56My impulse when I decided to collect into a single volume the essays on topics in logical theory and related subjects that I have written in the last fifteen years was to borrow from the title of a...