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Moral Philosophy by Anthony O'Hear
Booksplease Price: £23.66What is moral philosophy? That is the question with which this important volume grapples. Its starting point is the famous critique made in 1958 by Elizabeth Anscombe, who argued that moral... -
The Philosophy of Mind by Anthony O'Hear
Booksplease Price: £23.96A deep concern with consciousness and intentionality is one of the several things that has lately moved into the centre of the philosophy of mind. The issue of consciousness is often treated as... -
Philosophy and Sport by Anthony O'Hear
Booksplease Price: £29.56Philosophy and Sport brings together the lectures given in the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2012-13. In the Olympic year, it seemed fitting to consider some of the many... -
Philosophy of Action by Anthony O'Hear
Booksplease Price: £28.58Philosophy of Action is based on the lectures given in the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual London lecture series 2015-16. This volume brings together an internationally distinguished team of... -
Epistemology by Anthony O'Hear 9780521138581
Booksplease Price: £33.50Based on the London Lecture Series of the Royal Institute of Philosophy for 2006-7, this collection brings together essays from leading figures in a rapidly developing field of philosophy... -
Political Philosophy by Anthony O'Hear 9780521695596
Booksplease Price: £26.61This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy, first published in 2007, looks at a wide range of topics in political philosophy ranging from issues such as terrorism,... -
Karl Popper by Anthony O'Hear 9781009230094
Booksplease Price: £21.68Sir Karl Popper was a major thinker of the twentieth century, one who - as Anthony O'Hear writes in his new Foreword - 'has had a beneficent influence on those who have come under the spell of his... -
Mind, Self and Person by Anthony O'Hear
Booksplease Price: £29.56The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2013-14 brought together contributions from a distinguished group of leading figures in the philosophy of mind. The topic the lecturers... -
Conceptions of Philosophy by Anthony O'Hear 9780521138574
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £32.42Is philosophy capable of establishing truths scientifically? If not, what can it do? What is its standing and what are its credentials? Is philosophy an essential element in humane study? Can... -
Philosophy and Religion by Anthony O'Hear 9781107615984
Booksplease Price: £29.56Surprising as it might have seemed not so long ago, in recent times religion has once again become a focus of lively debate. The exchanges between those for and against religion have, however, often... -
Introducing Jesus: A Graphic Guide by Anthony O'Hear
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.48Christianity depends on the belief that the Jesus of history is identical with the Christ of faith, and that God in the person of Jesus intervened finally and decisively in human history. But is the... -
Philosophy at the New Millennium by Anthony O'Hear 9780521005081
Booksplease Price: £27.60Where is philosophy at the year 2000 and where should it be going in the new millennium? Based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture Series 1999-2000, this book is written by leading... -
Popper-Arg Philosophers Anthony O'Hear 9780415488181
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical... -
Philosophy New Century by Anthony O'Hear 9780826451545
Booksplease Price: £47.28O'Hear argues that philosophy should work with the grain of tradition and commonsense to help us understand politics, religion, aesthetics and the vast number of ethical questions that continue to... -
Philosophy, Biology and Life by Anthony O'Hear 9780521678452
Booksplease Price: £41.37It has been claimed that following the decline of Marxism and Freudianism, Darwinism has become the dominant intellectual paradigm of our day. In the mass media there are many bitter disputes between... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Anthony O'Hear 9780198248132
Booksplease Price: £62.77This book is a balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science. It covers all the main topics in the area, as well as introducing the student to the moral and social reality of... -
Verstehen and Humane Understanding by Anthony O'Hear 9780521587426
Booksplease Price: £33.50This 1997 collection of essays addresses topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all. Is there a mode of thinking peculiar to human life and its concerns, which is different from and... -
Modern Moral Philosophy by Anthony O'Hear 9780521603263
Booksplease Price: £41.37Although this collection of articles is not formally a commentary on Elizabeth Anscombe's famous article of the same title, in which she criticised the moral philosophy prevalent in 1958, a number of... -
Logic, Thought and Language by Anthony O'Hear 9780521529662
Booksplease Price: £43.34Much contemporary philosophical debate centres on the topics of logic, thought and language, and on the connections between these topics. This collection of articles is based on the Royal Institute... -
Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful by Anthony O'Hear 9780521785112
Booksplease Price: £28.58Discussions 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... -
The Prism of Truth: Reflections on Myth by Anthony O'Hear 9781666781021
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666781021Author Anthony O'HearFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint -
German Philosophy since Kant by Anthony O'Hear 9780521667821
Booksplease Price: £36.75This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy shows the connections and interrelations between the analytic and hermeneutic strains in German philosophy since Kant, partly to... -
Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind by Anthony O'Hear 9780521639279
Booksplease Price: £41.67What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and the world? What is consciousness? What is experience? How free are we? Do we have special insights into ourselves? These perennial questions are... -
The Prism of Truth: Reflections on Myth by Anthony O'Hear 9781666781014
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666781014Author Anthony O'HearFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint -
Karl Popper: Philosophy and Problems by Anthony O'Hear 9780521558150
Booksplease Price: £38.42Few philosophers in this century have had either Karl Popper's range or his influence, inside and outside philosophy. This collection of essays by fifteen distinguished philosophers, several of whom... -
Experience, Explanation and Faith: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Anthony O'Hear
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18In this book Anthony O'Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the... -
Philosophy in the New Century (Continuum Compact) Anthony O'Hear 9780826471321
Booksplease Price: £31.86In this powerful re-examination of the purpose and direction of philosophy for the next century, Anthony OGAaA-Hear engages with our most pressing questions: Is there knowledge outside of science?... -
Philosophy and the Arts Anthony O'Hear (Royal Institute of Philosophy, London) 9781107661745
Booksplease Price: £35.59In this volume a group of distinguished aestheticians consider the distinctive ways painting, sculpture, music, poetry and the cinema approach their subject matter and add to our aesthetic... -
Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation by Anthony O'Hear 9780198250043
Booksplease Price: £44.60Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining... -
The School of Freedom: A liberal education reader from Plato to the present day by Anthony O'Hear 9781845401344
Booksplease Price: £26.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401344Author Anthony O'HearFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint -
Education, Society and Human Nature (RLE Edu K): An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education Anthony O'Hear 9781138007581
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Intended primarily for education students this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of education that tackles educational problems and at the same time relates them to the mainstream of... -
The Element of Fire (Routledge Revivals): Science, Art and the Human World Anthony O'Hear (The University of Buckingham, U.K.) 9780415727808
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69First published in 1988, the aim of this book can be stated in Nietzsche's words: 'To look at science from the perspective of the artist, but at art from that of life'. The title contests the notions... -
In Defence of Liberal Education: Philosophy and Controversies by Anthony O’Hear 9781915643438
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915643438Author Anthony O'HearFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation: From Philosophy to Religion by 9780367533076
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded... -
Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia by Natasha O'Hear 9780199689019
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.61The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as the Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the... -
Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia by Natasha O'Hear
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £13.60The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as The Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the... -
The Reach of the Aesthetic: Collected Essays on Art and Nature Ronald W. Hepburn 9781138726659
Booksplease Price: £110.39This title was first published in 2001. This book focuses on the rich web of interrelations between aesthetic and wider human concerns. Among topics explored are concepts of truth and falsity (within... -
Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach David S. Oderberg (University of Reading) 9780631219057
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £36.26Applied Ethics focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue, and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems,... -
The Reach of the Aesthetic: Collected Essays on Art and Nature Ronald W. Hepburn 9781138726635
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This title was first published in 2001. This book focuses on the rich web of interrelations between aesthetic and wider human concerns. Among topics explored are concepts of truth and falsity (within... -
The Demoralization of Western Culture by Ralph Fevre 9780826478993
Booksplease Price: £40.79There is a continuing popular debate in the Western world about values, and in particular those values by which we conduct our private lives. This debate reflects a genuine confusion about morality;...