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Thought by Gilbert Harman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Thoughts and other mental states are defined by their role in a functional system. Since it is easier to determine when we have knowledge than when reasoning has occurred, Gilbert Harman attempts to... -
Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind by Gilbert Harman 9780198238027
Booksplease Price: £42.59Gilbert Harman presents a selection of fifteen interconnected essays on fundamental issues at the centre of analytic philosophy. The book opens with a group of four essays discussing basic principles... -
Skepticism and the Definition of Knowledge by Gilbert Harman 9781138910188
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Originally published in 1990. This study argues that scepticism is an intelligible view and that the issue scepticism raises is whether or not certain sceptical hypotheses are as plausible as the... -
The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics by Gilbert Harman 9780195021431
Booksplease Price: £90.90Contains an overall account of morality in its philosophical format particularly with regard to problems of observation, evidence, and truth.Reviews"A good book for undergraduates....Allows students... -
Change in View: Principles of Reasoning by Gilbert Harman 9780262580915
Booksplease Price: £28.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262580915Author Gilbert HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint -
Explaining Value: and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy by Gilbert Harman
Booksplease Price: £48.61Explaining Value is a selection of the best of Gilbert Harman's shorter writings in moral philosophy. The thirteen essays, originally published between 1967 and 1999, are divided into four sections,... -
Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity Gilbert Harman (Princeton University) 9780631192114
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.71Do moral questions have objective answers? In this great debate, Gilbert Harman explains and argues for relativism, emotivism, and moral scepticism. In his view, moral disagreements are like... -
Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory by Gilbert Harman 9780262517348
Booksplease Price: £23.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262517348Author Gilbert HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Conceptions of the Human Mind: Essays in Honor of George A. Miller by Gilbert Harman 9781138876347
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84This volume is a direct result of a conference held at Princeton University to honor George A. Miller, an extraordinary psychologist. A distinguished panel of speakers from various disciplines --... -
From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy by Heda Segvic 9780691242231
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in... -
From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy by Heda Segvic
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £50.43This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in... -
Groundless Belief: An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology - Second Edition by Michael Williams
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Inspired by the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Williams launches an all-out attack on what he calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential... -
The Possibility of Altruism by Thomas Nagel
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a related conception of human nature, according to which... -
On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy by J. David Velleman 9780691200958
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.56A moral philosopher's meditations on some of life's most important questionsWe've all had to puzzle over such profound matters as birth, death, regret, free will, agency, and love. How might... -
The Theory and Practice of Autonomy by Gerald Dworkin
Booksplease Price: £25.63This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics... -
The Theory and Practice of Autonomy by Gerald Dworkin 9780521344524
Booksplease Price: £93.52This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics... -
Contractarianism / Contractualism Stephen Darwell (University of Michigan) 9780631231103
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £26.94Contractualism/Contractarianism collects, for the first time, both major classical sources and central contemporary discussions of these important approaches to philosophical ethics. Edited and... -
Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 1 by Tamar Szabo Gendler 9780199285891
Booksplease Price: £46.28Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a major new biennial volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board... -
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics by David Owen Brink 9780521359375
Booksplease Price: £35.47This book is a systematic and constructive treatment of a number of traditional issues at the foundation of ethics, the possibility and nature of moral knowledge, the relationship between the moral... -
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics by David Owen Brink 9780521350808
Booksplease Price: £110.45This book is a systematic and constructive treatment of a number of traditional issues at the foundation of ethics, the possibility and nature of moral knowledge, the relationship between the moral... -
Morality and Action by Warren Quinn 9780521441643
Booksplease Price: £91.54Warren Quinn was widely regarded as a moral philosopher of remarkable talent. This collection of his most important contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy of action has been edited for... -
Arguing About Knowledge Duncan Pritchard 9780415448390
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £47.29What is knowledge? What are the sources of knowledge? What is the value of knowledge? What can we know? Arguing About Knowledge offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the theory of knowledge... -
Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology by Danny D. Steinberg 9780521204996
Booksplease Price: £61.35This 1978 book is a collaborative volume bringing together work in semantics from various disciplines, so that each may inform the other. Papers on philosophy from Charles Caton, David Wiggins,... -
Contractarianism / Contractualism by Stephen Darwell 9780631231097
RRP: £110.95Booksplease Price: £99.16Contractarianism and contractualism are instances of a major approach to normative ethical theory that stresses reciprocity and mutual consent. 'Contractarianism' is the name given to the idea, first... -
Acting and Reflecting: The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy by Wilfried Sieg 9789401076173
Booksplease Price: £92.16In the fall of 1985 Carnegie Mellon University established a Department of Philosophy. The focus of the department is logic broadly conceived, philos- ophy of science, in particular of the social... -
Acting and Reflecting: The Interdisciplinary Turn in Philosophy by Wilfried Sieg 9780792305125
Booksplease Price: £91.42In the fall of 1985 Carnegie Mellon University established a Department of Philosophy. The focus of the department is logic broadly conceived, philos- ophy of science, in particular of the social... -
Robert Nozick Alan Lacey 9781902683256
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Although best known for the hugely influential Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick (1938-2002) eschewed the label 'political philosopher' because the vast majority of his writings and attention... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801422409
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.76For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
Knowledge and Practical Interests by Jason Stanley
Booksplease Price: £25.63Jason Stanley presents a startling and provocative claim about knowledge: that whether or not someone knows a proposition at a given time is in part determined by his or her practical interests, i.e... -
Rationality Through Reasoning John Broome (University of Oxford, UK) 9781118656051
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.22Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning... -
Living Together: Rationality, Sociality, and Obligation by Margaret Gilbert 9780847681518
Booksplease Price: £31.83Following up her landmark work On Social Facts, this collection of essays by noted social philosopher Margaret Gilbert develops and deepens her theory of social groups as 'plural subjects.' She asks,... -
Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 1 by Tamar Szabo Gendler 9780199285907
Booksplease Price: £53.67Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a major new biennial volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board... -
Morality and Action by Warren Quinn 9780521446969
Booksplease Price: £48.26Warren Quinn was widely regarded as a moral philosopher of remarkable talent. This collection of his most important contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy of action has been edited for... -
Rationality Through Reasoning by John Broome 9781405117104
RRP: £74.95Booksplease Price: £67.72Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning... -
Sociality and Responsibility: New Essays in Plural Subject Theory by Margaret Gilbert 9780847697632
Booksplease Price: £43.33Sociality and Responsibility develops and extends the application of her plural subject theory of human sociality, first introduced in the earlier works On Social Facts and Living Together... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801495410
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £21.19For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
Bounded Thinking: Intellectual virtues for limited agents by Adam Morton 9780199658534
Booksplease Price: £77.80Bounded Thinking offers a new account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve many problems that we can easily describe. Adam Morton... -
Ethical Theory: A Concise Anthology by Heimir Geirsson 9781554813988
RRP: £53.50Booksplease Price: £43.78This concise anthology collects important historical and contemporary readings on the central ethical theories, including Divine Command Theory, Consequentialism, Deontology, Virtue Ethics, and... -
The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £15.93"Brilliant...Timely and necessary." -Financial Times"Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly... -
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky
Booksplease Price: £29.56This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a series of penetrating essays, Chomsky cuts through...