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Language, Truth and Logic A.J. Ayer 9780141186047
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct... -
Logical Positivism by A. J. Ayer 9780029011300
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.65Featuring a detailed introduction from Professor A.J. Ayer, the concepts and main ideas of logical positivism and its revolutionary theories and explained and discussed in this bibliography featuring... -
Freedom and Morality and other Essays by A. J. Ayer 9780198247319
Booksplease Price: €116.35This is a representative collection of the work of the late A.J. Ayer, one of the most influential contemporary philosophers.ReviewsThere is not a sentence in it but sparkles with lucidity and grace... -
Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups William Miller 9781788160377
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.79Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill. It's unremarkable in many ways, unless you notice the lady... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Knowledge by Jennifer Trusted 9780333691861
Booksplease Price: €56.26A short account of the philosophy of knowledge for students reading philosophy for the first time. It also serves as a general introduction to those interested in the subject. Jennifer Trusted... -
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Sir Karl Popper 9780415278447
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €22.60Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of... -
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Sir Karl Popper
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €108.27Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of... -
Not Finding Wittgenstein: Peter Lepus Poems J. S. Harry 9781852249281
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €8.25The poems in "Not Finding Wittgenstein" feature Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who searches the world for philosophers, conversing with Ludwig Wittgenstein in Antarctica, Bertrand Russell in... -
Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays by P. F. Strawson 9780415448505
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €35.09By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and... -
The Cultural Politics of Analytic Philosophy: Britishness and the Spectre of Europe by Thomas L. Akehurst 9781441126573
Booksplease Price: €48.54The Cultural Politics of Analytic Philosophy examines three generations of analytic philosophers, who between them founded the modern discipline of analytic philosophy in Britain. The book explores... -
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: €4.75Booksplease Price: €4.49Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton... -
Mind and Brain: A Theory of Determinism, Volume 1 by Ted Honderich 9780198242826
Booksplease Price: €58.06The magnum opus of a distinguished philosopher Mind and Brain was originally published as the first two parts of a single-volume hardback edition. In it, Ted Honderich considers the exact nature... -
Immortality by Paul Edwards
Booksplease Price: €22.90Is there life after death or do we simply cease to exist? Renowned scholar Paul Edwards has compiled Immortality, a superb group of philosophical selections featuring the work of both classical and... -
Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes That Define Philosophy by Gary Cox 9781350066588
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.38Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a witty and compelling commentary along the way. This... -
Introduction to Philosophical Problems by Joseph Margolis 9780826490636
Booksplease Price: €38.26This is a classic introduction to philosophy in the tradition of Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" and A.J. Ayer's "Central Questions of Philosophy". As in those books, here Margolis... -
Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir by Rick Gekoski 9781780331195
Booksplease Price: €24.63Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho MarxOutside of a Dog is the captivating account of twenty-five books drawn from the fields of... -
Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds: Treating the 'whole' person in psychiatry by Eric Matthews 9780198566441
Booksplease Price: €73.43How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in... -
Margaret Macdonald and Analytic Philosophy in the 1930s: Unpublished Letters with Biographical and Interpretive Essays Michael Kremer 9780198875734
RRP: €91.63Booksplease Price: €84.11This volume examines the important but, until recently, forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Macdonald's career spanned one of the most significant and fascinating... -
The Oxford University Socratic Club, 1942–1972: A Life Jim Stockton 9781666932249
Booksplease Price: €96.07Through a comprehensive account of the Socratic Club's history, Jim Stockton draws focus to the significant role that the club played in shaping mid-twentieth century philosophical and theological...