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The Republic by Plato 9781945186271
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.39Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking... -
Is Nothing Sacred? by Ben Rogers
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $78.79We call many things sacred, from cows, churches and paintings to flags and burial grounds. Is it still meaningful to talk of things being sacred, or is the idea merely a relic of a bygone religious... -
Is Nothing Sacred? by Ben Rogers 9780415304832
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $224.76We call many things sacred, from cows, churches and paintings to flags and burial grounds. Is it still meaningful to talk of things being sacred, or is the idea merely a relic of a bygone religious... -
Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful by Anthony O'Hear 9780521785112
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $54.43Discussions of value play a central role in contemporary philosophy. This book considers the role of values in truth seeking, in morality, in aesthetics and also in the spiritual life. We have got... -
Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility by Abrol Fairweathers 9780195140774
Booksplease Price: $224.28American and British philosophers have recently broken new ground in exploring how the nature of knowledge can be normative (i.e. moral). Virtue Epistemology is a new movement receiving the bulk of... -
Anatomy Questions for the MRCS by Christopher Wood 9781405145077
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $76.15This is the only revision resource devoted to anatomy at MRCS level with over 200 questions grouped by anatomical region, each with five true/false parts. Anatomy Questions for the MRCS comes in a... -
Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price 9781107009844
RRP: $172.20Booksplease Price: $156.72Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this... -
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness Nicholas Humphrey 9780857388292
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research,... -
The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy by Eva Feder Kittay 9780631224273
RRP: $224.60Booksplease Price: $201.75The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. ... -
The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook University) 9780631224280
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $74.36The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. ... -
Reading Parfit Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading) 9780631197263
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $81.50Reading Parfit brings together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to discuss and critique Derek Parfit's outstanding work, Reasons and Persons.About the AuthorJonathan Dancy is... -
Reality, Representation and Projection by John Haldane 9780195078787
Booksplease Price: $209.43This book is an important collection of new essays on various topics relating to realism and its rivals in metaphysics, logic, metaethics, and epistemology. The contributors include some of the... -
Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education by John T. Hamilton 9780226818634
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $131.82A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy. In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn's portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs... -
Meaning, Decision, and Norms: Themes from the Work of Allan Gibbard by Billy Dunaway 9781607854647
RRP: $115.40Booksplease Price: $107.50It is not an exaggeration to say that Allan Gibbard is one of the most significant contributors to philosophy over the last five decades. Gibbard's work covers an impressive number of subfields... -
Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 9781405129527
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $67.87A substantial collection of seminal articles, Foundations of Ethics covers all of the major issues in metaethics. Covers all of the major issues in metaethics including moral metaphysics,... -
What Philosophy is by Havi Carel 9780826472427
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $160.69What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today? How does philosophy relate to science, to politics, to literature? What methods does the modern philosopher use, and how does philosophy progress?... -
Why Truth Matters by Ophelia Benson 9780826476081
RRP: $96.60Booksplease Price: $92.51Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in all its forms and traditions. However, in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to... -
Anatomy at a Glance Omar Faiz (Imperial College, London) 9781444336092
RRP: $65.00Booksplease Price: $57.71Following the familiar, easy-to-use at a Glance format, and in full-colour, this new edition provides an accessible introduction and revision aid for medical, nursing and all health sciences students... -
Knowing Right From Wrong by Kieran Setiya 9780199657452
Booksplease Price: $167.60Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? The thought that we can is beset by sceptical problems. In the face of radical disagreement,... -
Great Ormond Street Handbook of Paediatrics: An Illustrated Guide Stephen D. Marks 9781032006871
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $166.95The product of a world centre of excellence in teaching and medical and surgical practice, this new edition of a bestseller has been revised throughout for easier quick reference. Building on the... -
Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley 9780415371391
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $50.00One of the UK's foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a... -
Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38One of the UK's foremost moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a... -
Truth in Science, the Humanities and Religion: Balzan Symposium 2008 by International Balzan Foundation 9789401781329
Booksplease Price: $190.18by the Academies of the two countries - to the Italian-Swiss University of Lugano for the two-day-Symposium. The question of the meaning of "truth" is central to many areas of contemporary... -
Reading Putnam Bob Hale (University of St Andrews) 9780631199953
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $77.95From the philosophy of mind and language, through physics and mathematics, to the philosophy of the human sciences, morality and religion, there is almost no area of philosophy to which Hilary Putnam... -
The Labyrinth of Mind and World: Beyond Internalism-Externalism by Sanjit Chakraborty 9781032176215
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97This book carries forward the discourse on the mind's engagement with the world. It reviews the semantic and metaphysical debates around internalism and externalism, the location of content and the... -
Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education by John T. Hamilton
Booksplease Price: $39.12A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy. In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn's portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university... -
Greed: The Seven Deadly Sins by Phyllis Tickle 9780195156607
Booksplease Price: $43.66In this highly successful series seven prominent scholars offer a "mediation on temptation" for each of the seven deadly sins. In Greed, Phyllis Tickle argues that it is through an engagement with... -
Kripke's Wittgenstein: Meaning, Rules and Scepticism Ali Hossein Khani 9781839990151
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $161.89This book offers a comprehensive examination of Kripke's influential reading of the later Wittgenstein presented in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982), together with the principal... -
Why I am not a Christian: and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell 9780415325103
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $32.53While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief. Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset... -
The Conception of Value by Paul Grice 9780199243877
Booksplease Price: $105.32The works of Paul Grice collected in this volume present his metaphysical defence of value, and represent a modern attempt to provide a metaphysical foundation for value. Value judgements are viewed... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801422409
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $87.70For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
Philosophers of Our Times by Ted Honderich 9780198712503
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $48.74Eighteen of the world's most eminent philosophers of recent years tackle central questions of philosophy in this collection of the prestigious annual lectures given at the Royal Institute of... -
Semantic Singularities: Paradoxes of Reference, Predication, and Truth by Keith Simmons 9780198791546
Booksplease Price: $172.47This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes. It argues for a unified solution to the paradoxes generated by our concepts of denotation, predicate extension, and truth. The solution... -
Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins by Francine Prose 9780195156997
Booksplease Price: $43.66Part of a series of highly entertaining books on the history of sinning. Eating too much is one of the Western world's greatest problems, but relatively few people would consider it a crime against... -
The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century by Cheryl Misak 9780197266168
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $85.03American pragmatism, born in the 1870s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has as its central insight the idea that our philosophical concepts of truth, knowledge, probability, and so on must start with,... -
Dignity: Its History and Meaning by Michael Rosen
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $37.99Dignity plays a central role in current thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background,... -
The Mind in Nature by C. B. Martin 9780199234103
Booksplease Price: $142.25What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly... -
CSPR;Religion and Hume's Legacy by Professor D. Z. Phillips 9780312225261
Booksplease Price: $190.18Whether one agrees with him or not, there is no avoiding the challenge of Hume for contemporary philosophy of religion. The symposia in this stimulating collection reveal why, whether the discussions... -
Values and the Reflective Point of View: On Expressivism, Self-Knowledge and Agency by Robert Dunn 9781138264908
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $86.92Values are inescapable. They pervade and shape our psychology, our agency, and our lives as reflective and self-knowing subjects. This book explores the crucial ways in which values figure within... -
Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress by Thomas Nagel 9780197690888
RRP: $36.73Booksplease Price: $33.79This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both essays are concerned with moral epistemology and our...