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Consciousness and Moral Status by Joshua Shepherd 9780367734374
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for... -
Obligation and Responsibility by Ishtiyaque Haji 9780197657829
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £56.42Many philosophers have sought to distinguish moral obligation from moral responsibility. In this book, author Ishtiyaque Haji argues that these concepts, though still distinct, are more similar than... -
Kant on Freedom and Rational Agency by Markus Kohl 9780198873143
Booksplease Price: £98.40Kant on Freedom and Rational Agency provides a novel interpretation and rational reconstruction of Kant's doctrine of freedom. Markus Kohl shows how Kant defends the belief that we are free from... -
Kissed by a Spring Snowflake Jenna Bryan 9781836283089
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Carla-Jane Lewis balances working in recruitment in the city with being a single-parent to her inquisitive seven-year-old son, Kasey. Having recently broken up with her long-term partner, she draws... -
Rediscovering the Law of Negligence by Allan Beever 9781841136868
Booksplease Price: £103.41Rediscovering the Law of Negligence offers a systematic and theoretical exploration of the law of negligence. Its aim is to re-establish the notion that thinking about the law ought to and can... -
Believing and Acting: The Pragmatic Turn in Comparative Religion and Ethics by G. Scott Davis 9780199583904
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £41.85How should religion and ethics be studied if we want to understand what people believe and why they act the way they do? In the 1980s and '90s postmodernist worries about led to debates that turned... -
The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism by Lynne Rudder Baker 9780521120296
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.89Lynne Rudder Baker presents and defends a unique account of the material world: the Constitution View. In contrast to leading metaphysical views that take everyday things to be either non-existent or... -
A New Model of Capital Asset Prices: Theory and Evidence by James W. Kolari 9783030651961
Booksplease Price: £50.73This book proposes a new capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM that outperforms other popular models in empirical tests using US stock returns. The ZCAPM is derived from Fischer Black's... -
Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest by Peter Carruthers
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £23.99The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for... -
Flash Forward: A Series of Futuristic Vignettes by Nora Savage 9789814669443
Booksplease Price: £38.49This book contains fascinating vignettes depicting future societies and the implications which increasing technological change has on society and the environment. The topics discussed include... -
Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge by Jennifer Lackey 9780199219162
RRP: £112.50Booksplease Price: £82.02Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge. We rely on the reports of those around us for everything from the ingredients in our food and medicine to the identity of our family members. Recent... -
Socrates and Self-Knowledge by Christopher Moore 9781107558472
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35In this book, the first systematic study of Socrates' reflections on self-knowledge, Christopher Moore examines the ancient precept 'Know yourself' and, drawing on Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and... -
Man and Woman: An Inside Story by Professor Donald W. Pfaff 9780195388848
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £33.55The saga of sex differences in brain and behavior begins with a tiny sperm swimming toward a huge egg, to contribute its tiny Y chromosome plus its copies of the other chromosomes. Genetic, anatomic... -
The Alternatives to War: From Sanctions to Nonviolence by James Pattison
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.95If states are not to go to war, what should they do instead? In The Alternatives to War, James Pattison considers the case for the alternatives to military action to address mass atrocities and... -
Naturalization of the Soul: Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century John Barresi 9780415333559
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first... -
Alex Hanimann: Trapped by 9783906803333
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £30.67This is a book of snapshots of domestic and exotic animals, mostly taken at night by automatically triggered "camera traps". So they are lucky shots. The artist Alex Hanimann has succeeded in... -
The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind Meg Harris Williams 9781855753105
Booksplease Price: £55.68The post-Kleinian model of the mind, as developed by W. R. Bion and Donald Meltzer, is essentially an aesthetic one. It is founded on Melanie Klein's discovery of the "internal object" with its... -
Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex Benjamin Wilson 9780674976085
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.81An eye-opening reconsideration of the Cold War arms control movement, showing how scientists who presented themselves as independent-minded opponents of the arms race in fact functioned as agents of... -
Elementary Differential Geometry A.N. Pressley 9781848828902
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.10Elementary Differential Geometry presents the main results in the differential geometry of curves and surfaces suitable for a first course on the subject. Prerequisites are kept to an absolute... -
Beyond Neural Correlates of Consciousness by Morten Overgaard
Booksplease Price: £44.55Drawing on neuroscientific research and metacognitive theory, this groundbreaking volume examines the theoretical implications that are elicited when neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) are... -
Anglican Identities: Logos Idealism, Imperial Whiteness, Commonweal Ecumenism by Gary Dorrien 9781481320931
Booksplease Price: £79.93The Anglican Communion currently finds itself at an inflection point as it weighs its future prospects in light of discordant social, political, ecclesiological, and theological commitments. In this... -
Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life by David DeGrazia 9780190232443
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £25.12The ethics of creating -- or declining to create -- human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of... -
Truth and Irony: Philosophical Meditations on Erasmus by Terence J. Martin 9780813228099
Booksplease Price: £56.04Tapping into selected works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, this book offers a series of philosophical meditations designed to retrieve and deploy a distinctively Erasmian manner of thinking-one that is... -
Bringing Strategy Back: How Strategic Shock Absorbers Make Planning Relevant in a World of Constant Change Jeffrey L. Sampler 9781118830093
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.58Reconsider Strategy and Make Planning Relevant In Bringing Strategy Back, strategy expert Jeffrey Sampler cuts through the clutter to reveal exactly why the usual tools of strategy are so sorely out... -
The Constitutive A Priori: Developing and Extending an Epistemological Framework by Arthur Sullivan 9781498547116
Booksplease Price: £86.43The question of the a priori-can an adequate epistemology be developed without appeal to a non-empirical source of justification?-is a core issue running throughout the history of philosophy, and... -
The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of Reproduction by Michael Mulkay 9780521571807
RRP: £97.99Booksplease Price: £88.79Scientific research involving human embryos was a major topic of public debate in Britain during the 1980s. Despite strong support from the scientific community, embryo research was initially... -
Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines by Jonathan Mooney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.37Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of thinking about how we live and learn - individually, uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain... -
SCRUDE: How the 1973 oil crisis saved me, ruined you and came back fifty years later to do it all again by Mark Newham 9781739649821
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.85An eye-witness account of one who became entangled in the 1973 global oil crisis, ending up part of a team dispatched by the oil industry majors to hunt down new reserves of oil in Africa and the... -
Biodiversity: Law, Policy and Governance by Usha Tandon 9780367886776
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Conservation of biodiversity is a fundamental concern towards securing a sustainable future. This volume argues that despite various domestic and international policies and legal frameworks on... -
1 & 2 Peter and Jude: A Theological Commentary on the Bible by Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez 9780664232023
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £37.48Historical- critical approaches to Scripture rule out some readings and commend others, but they rarely offer much help to either theological reflection or the preaching of the Word. They do not... -
Rediscovering the Law of Negligence by Allan Beever 9781841139753
Booksplease Price: £46.05Rediscovering the Law of Negligence offers a systematic and theoretical exploration of the law of negligence. Its aim is to re-establish the notion that thinking about the law ought to and can... -
Revolutionary Europe 1780-1850 Jonathan Sperber 9781138643482
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.71Jonathan Sperber's Revolutionary Europe 1780-1850 is a history of Europe in the age of the French Revolution, from the end of the old regime to the outcome of the revolutions of 1848. Fully revised... -
Embodied Minds in Action by Robert Hanna 9780199230310
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £93.09In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and... -
The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of Reproduction by Michael Mulkay 9780521576833
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £32.12Scientific research involving human embryos was a major topic of public debate in Britain during the 1980s. Despite strong support from the scientific community, embryo research was initially... -
Pragmatism and Educational Research by Gert J. J. Biesta 9780847694778
Booksplease Price: £33.84This volume offers an overview of the pragmatic understanding of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge, and its implications for the conduct of educational research. Pragmatism and Educational... -
Challenging the New Atheism: Pragmatic Confrontations in the Philosophy of Religion by Aaron Pratt Shepherd
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against religion made by the New Atheism movement. The author argues that analytic and empirical philosophies of religion-the mainstream... -
Standing Up for Philosophy: Armchairs, experiments, and the case for methodological reform Joshua Alexander 9780192856982
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.68In Standing up for Philosophy, Jonathan Weinberg and Joshua Alexander seek to radically reformulate the debate over armchair philosophy. Have results in experimental philosophy shown... -
Practical Knowledge: Selected Essays by Kieran Setiya 9780190462925
Booksplease Price: £100.13In the last forty years, action theory has revitalized moral philosophy. Philosophers have explored the nature of agency, what is involved in acting for a reason, how we know what we are doing, the... -
Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies by Ulf Zackariasson 9781666903010
Booksplease Price: £81.47In Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies, Ulf Zackariasson argues for the fruitfulness of pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics... -
Pragmatism and Educational Research by Gert J. J. Biesta 9780847694761
Booksplease Price: £103.11This volume offers an overview of the pragmatic understanding of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge, and its implications for the conduct of educational research. Pragmatism and Educational...