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Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present by Diego Machuca 9781350097131
Booksplease Price: $109.20Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and... -
The Skeptical Dynamis and Its Pragmatic Possibilities by Rodrigo Pinto de Brito 9783030924065
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $214.62This monograph reevaluates a school of thought concerned with truth and inquiry. It examines the critique which asserts that it's not possible to live this Early Greek philosophy in practice. The... -
Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Christopher W. Gowans 9780415217125
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54Can moral disagreements be rationally resolved? Can universal human rights be defended in face of moral disagreements? The problem of moral disagreement is one of the central problems in moral... -
Ancient Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary Nick Smith (Lewis & Clark College) 9781405135634
RRP: $71.30Booksplease Price: $69.64Part of The Blackwell Readings in Philosophy Series, this survey of ancient philosophy explores the scope of ancient philosophy, focusing on the key philosophers and their texts, examining how the... -
Ancient Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary Nick Smith (Lewis & Clark College) 9781405135627
RRP: $186.80Booksplease Price: $172.43Part of The Blackwell Readings in Philosophy Series, this survey of ancient philosophy explores the scope of ancient philosophy, focusing on the key philosophers and their texts, examining how the... -
The Skeptical Dynamis and Its Pragmatic Possibilities by Rodrigo Pinto de Brito 9783030924096
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $214.62This monograph reevaluates a school of thought concerned with truth and inquiry. It examines the critique which asserts that it's not possible to live this Early Greek philosophy in practice. The... -
Prolepsis and Ennoia in the Early Stoa by Henry Dyson 9783110212280
RRP: $277.20Booksplease Price: $187.28This book reconstructs the Stoic doctrine of prolepsis. Prolepses are conceptions that develop naturally from ordinary experience. They are often identified with preconceptions (i.e. the first... -
Keats and Scepticism by Li Ou 9781032258751
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54Keats and Scepticism explores Keats's affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats's poetry anew in the light of this affinity. It suggests Keats's links with the origin of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism by Richard Bett
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $61.07This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism by Richard Bett 9780521874762
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $170.37This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments... -
Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica' by Philip Weller 9789048142545
Booksplease Price: $236.08Models of the History of Philosophy. From its Origins in the Renaissance to the `Historia philosophica' (a translation of a work published in 1981 in Italian - the bibliography has been updated)... -
Ancient Scepticism Harald Thorsrud 9781844651313
Booksplease Price: $106.49Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is... -
The Limits of Doubt: The Moral and Political Implications of Skepticism by Petr Lom
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.07The Limits of Doubt studies the skepticism of Nietzsche, Sextus Empiricus, Hobbes, Diderot, and Montaigne in order to illustrate how different forms of skepticism can produce remarkably different... -
Post-transcendental Communication: Contexts of Human Autonomy by Colin B. Grant 9783039110322
RRP: $99.23Booksplease Price: $89.67Compared with other human and social sciences, communication theory appears to be of recent origin. Appearances deceive, however, for the antecedents of this growing field of work can be found in the... -
The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy by John Sellars 9781853997242
Booksplease Price: $66.91It is a commonplace to say that in antiquity philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but precisely what such claims amount to has remained unclear. If ancient philosophers did... -
Episteme, etc.: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Barnes by Benjamin Morison 9780199696482
Booksplease Price: $231.25The sixteen essays written in honour of Jonathan Barnes for this volume reflect the impressive scope of his contributions to philosophy. Six are on knowledge, five on logic and metaphysics, five on... -
Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by John Christian Laursen 9781442649217
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $99.18In this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus on early modern political thought. Classical... -
Plato and the Divided Self by Rachel Barney 9780521899666
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $200.13Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It... -
Stoic Logic by Benson Mates 9780520374225
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $148.87Stoic Logic by Benson Mates is a groundbreaking study that reconstructs the logical system of the early Stoic philosophers, particularly Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus. Long overshadowed by... -
Stoic Logic by Benson Mates 9780520349063
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $65.71Stoic Logic by Benson Mates is a groundbreaking study that reconstructs the logical system of the early Stoic philosophers, particularly Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus. Long overshadowed by... -
Plato and the Divided Self by Rachel Barney 9781107654273
RRP: $98.70Booksplease Price: $95.36Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It... -
The Question of Eclecticism: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy by J. M. Dillon 9780520362338
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $148.87The Question of Eclecticism: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy offers a rigorous reexamination of a period often dismissed as intellectually stagnant-the first century B.C. to the second century A.D... -
Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China by Christopher W. Gowans
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $170.90Philosophies in several ancient traditions aimed to alleviate people's anxieties and improve their lives. In contrast to the contemporay world, in which philosophy is mostly an academic subject and... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information Luciano Floridi (University of Bari; University of Oxford) 9780631229193
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $76.78This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing. A complete guide to the philosophy of... -
Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi by Paul Kjellberg 9780791428924
Booksplease Price: $54.75The Chinese philosophical text Zhuangzi, written in part by a man named Zhuangzi in late fourth century B.C.E. China, is gaining recognition as one of the classics of world literature. Writing in... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information by Floridi 9780631229186
RRP: $275.00Booksplease Price: $250.38This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing. A complete guide to the philosophy of... -
The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism by Casey Perin 9780199655175
Booksplease Price: $86.42Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism is one of the most important and influential texts in the history of Greek philosophy. In The Demands of Reason Casey Perin exams those aspects of Pyrrhonian... -
New Perspectives on Platonic Dialectic: A Philosophy of Inquiry by Jens Kristian Larsen 9780367629144
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35For Plato, philosophy depends on, or is perhaps even identical with, dialectic. Few will dispute this claim, but there is little agreement as to what Platonic dialectic is. According to a now... -
Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychological Issues in Plato and Aristotle by Marcelo D. Boeri 9783030087272
Booksplease Price: $235.45This book offers new insights into the workings of the human soul and the philosophical conception of the mind in Ancient Greece. It collects essays that deal with different but interconnected... -
The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism by Casey Perin 9780199557905
Booksplease Price: $112.71Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism is one of the most important and influential texts in the history of Greek philosophy. In The Demands of Reason Casey Perin examines those aspects of... -
On Pyrrho and Time Jean-Paul Martinon 9783031676192
Booksplease Price: $233.16Today's understanding of time remains mostly Aristotelian and Newtonian/Einsteinian: time is what has been abstracted from the mundane realities of life and reduced to its measurement. Any somatic,... -
The Measure of Homer: The Ancient Reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey by Richard Hunter
RRP: $98.70Booksplease Price: $90.30Homer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. In this book, Richard Hunter explores central themes in the poems' reception in antiquity, paying particular attention to Homer's importance in... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson
RRP: $28.33Booksplease Price: $23.08Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson 9780198728023
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $53.84Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the... -
Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach Nicholas Tampio 9781035320349
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $56.83Political theory deals with profound questions about human nature, political principles, and the limits of knowledge. In Teaching Political Theory, Nicholas Tampio shows how political theorists may... -
Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism by Adrian Kuzminski 9780739125076
Booksplease Price: $96.08Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief...