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The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee 9780691173900
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.38The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her... -
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy by Eric Anthony Beerbohm 9780691168159
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies... -
Social Policy and Public Policy: Inequality and Justice by Lee Rainwater
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.73This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society, specifically the complex social problems of the... -
Mystical Doctrines of Deification: Case Studies in the Christian Tradition by John Arblaster 9780367586997
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27The notion of the deification of the human person (theosis, theopoiesis, deificatio) was one of the most fundamental themes of Christian theology in its first centuries, especially in the Greek world... -
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument by Bernard Williams
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a... -
Physicalism, or Something Near Enough by Jaegwon Kim
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have largely been shaped by physicalism, the doctrine that all phenomena are ultimately physical. Here, Jaegwon Kim presents the most comprehensive and... -
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner by Martin Gardner 9780691169699
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.29Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland... -
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner by Martin Gardner 9780691159911
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland... -
Unequivocal Justice by Christopher Freiman 9780367233617
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €53.30Unequivocal Justice challenges the prevailing view within political philosophy that broadly free market regimes are inconsistent with the basic principles of liberal egalitarian justice. Freiman... -
The Epistemological Skyhook: Determinism, Naturalism, and Self-Defeat Jim Slagle (University of Portland, USA) 9780367737061
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent. By accepting determinism or naturalism,... -
Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language by Hanne Appelqvist
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein's work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of... -
Interventions in Ethics by Professor D. Z. Phillips 9781349115419
Booksplease Price: €55.07This collection of essays explores the area of ethics in relation to issues such as the nature of moral endeavour and the request for a justification of moral endeavour. Professor Phillips considers... -
Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach Larry May 9781612058399
RRP: €103.52Booksplease Price: €90.71This best-selling text continues to fill an existing gap in the literature taught in applied ethics courses. As a growing number of courses that include the perspectives of diverse cultures are being... -
The Ideal of Equality by Matthew Clayton 9780333971192
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.78One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to... -
Death and Philosophy by J. E. Malpas
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €62.40Death and Philosophy considers these questions with different perspectives varying from the existentialist - deriving from Camus, Heidegger or Sartre, to the English speaking analytic tradition of... -
Consequentialism and its Critics by Samuel Scheffler 9780198750734
RRP: €73.77Booksplease Price: €46.74This volume presents papers discussing arguments on both sides of the consequentialist debate. The distinguished contributors include John Rawls, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, among... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Nagel
Booksplease Price: €35.18In this lucid and accessible book, Thomas Nagel explores the central questions of philosophy thoughtfully, clearly, and with humour. He demonstrates that philosophy is an indispensable key to... -
Content and Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett 9781138834491
Booksplease Price: €131.36Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this... -
Content and Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €22.30Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this... -
Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader by Keith DeRose 9780195118278
Booksplease Price: €128.95Recently, new life has been breathed into the ancient philosophical topic of scepticism. It has been the subject of some of the best and most provocative work in contemporary philosophy by both... -
The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive James Cooke 9781633889927
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633889927Author James CookeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Morality and Self-Interest by Paul Bloomfield 9780195305852
Booksplease Price: €48.97The relationship between morality and self-interest is a perennial one in philosophy, at the center of moral theory. It goes back to Plato's Republic, which debated whether living morally was in a... -
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A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: With "On My Religion" by John Rawls 9780674047532
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €27.70John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of... -
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick 9780465051007
Booksplease Price: €27.24Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement , Anarchy, State and Utopia ... -
God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments by Yujin Nagasawa 9781107407862
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €47.71In God and Phenomenal Consciousness, Yujin Nagasawa bridges debates in two distinct areas of philosophy: the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. First, he introduces some of the most... -
Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection by H.L Dyke 9789048162970
Booksplease Price: €109.47Ethics seeks answers to questions about the moral status of human actions and human lives. Actions and lives are temporal things. Thus, one would think that answers to ethical questions should take... -
Equality: Selected Readings by Louis P. Pojman 9780195102505
Booksplease Price: €51.04Louis Pojman and Robert Westmorland have compiled the best material on the subject of equality, ranging from classical works by Aristotle, Hobbes and Rousseau to contemporary works by John Rawls,... -
Public and Private Morality by Stuart Hampshire 9780521293525
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €34.25How far can we apply the same moral principles to both public and private behaviour. In the interests of effective political action, are we right to accept acts of deceit, exploitation or force which... -
Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection by Heather Dyke 9781402013126
Booksplease Price: €107.77Ethics seeks answers to questions about the moral status of human actions and human lives. Actions and lives are temporal things. Thus, one would think that answers to ethical questions should take... -
Biological Naturalism and the Mind-Body Problem by Jane Anderson 9783030996864
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand “the mind-body problem”. The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as “what it... -
Biological Naturalism and the Mind-Body Problem by Jane Anderson 9783030996833
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "the mind-body problem". The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as "what it... -
Moral Aggregation by Iwao Hirose 9780199933686
Booksplease Price: €100.95Some ethical theories tolerate or require aggregation -- a trade-off between benefits to a group of individuals and losses to another group of individuals. Since aggregation is an essential feature... -
The Freud Wars: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis Lavinia Gomez (in private practice, London, UK) 9781583917114
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €42.17The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis.Part I examines three powerful critiques of psychoanalysis in the context of a recent... -
Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine by Institute of Medicine 9780309051323
Booksplease Price: €126.35Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses ways for people to handle today's... -
As If: Idealization and Ideals by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780674237711
RRP: €18.98Booksplease Price: €16.89"Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range... [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection... A rich and illuminating book."-Thomas Nagel, New York Review... -
The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy: Ethics after Wittgenstein by Paul Johnston
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €59.37The Contradictions of Modern Moral Philosophy is a highly original and radical critique of contemporary moral theory. Paul Johnston demonstrates that much recent moral philosophy is confused about... -
The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice by Liam Murphy 9780195176568
Booksplease Price: €48.29In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice. Taxes arouse strong passions,... -
Modernity on Endless Trial by Leszek Kolakowski
Booksplease Price: €33.97Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have... -
God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments by Yujin Nagasawa 9780521879668
RRP: €70.21Booksplease Price: €67.73In God and Phenomenal Consciousness, Yujin Nagasawa bridges debates in two distinct areas of philosophy: the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. First, he introduces some of the most... -
Justice to Future Generations and the Environment by Hendrik Philip Visser 'T Hooft 9789048152407
Booksplease Price: €109.41The analysis of justice between generations proposed in this book is based first of all on a critical reading of Rawls' theory of justice, but it also pays attention to the existential and cultural...