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Hume on Causation by Helen Beebee
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Hume is traditionally credited with inventing the 'regularity theory' of causation, according to which the causal relation between two events consists merely in the fact that events of the first kind... -
The Oxford Handbook of Causation by Helen Beebee
Booksplease Price: $112.81Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the... -
Free Will: An Introduction by Helen Beebee 9780230232921
Booksplease Price: $100.88This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current... -
Free Will: An Introduction by Helen Beebee 9780230232938
Booksplease Price: $97.19This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current... -
The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds by Helen Beebee
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $115.46Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of... -
Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis by Helen Beebee 9780192845443
RRP: $191.10Booksplease Price: $184.00David K. Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, writing papers and books, largely but not exclusively in metaphysics, that set... -
Philosophy: Why It Matters Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham) 9781509532155
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $67.31We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are there innate psychological differences between men... -
Philosophy: Why It Matters Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham) 9781509532162
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.93We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are there innate psychological differences between men... -
Making a Difference: Essays on the Philosophy of Causation by Helen Beebee 9780198746911
Booksplease Price: $212.60Making a Difference presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. Collectively, they represent the state of the art on these topics. The... -
Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham) 9781405123679
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $54.77This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views... -
Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World Phil Dowe 9780415408486
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $115.46Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are 'causes' things we can experience, or are they concepts provided by our minds? The study of causation goes back... -
An Identity Theory of Truth by Julian Dodd 9780230573710
Booksplease Price: $190.18Dodd explains that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation between true thought and fact is identity, not correspondence. Facts are not complexes of worldly entities which make... -
Metaphysics: The Key Concepts by Nikk Effingham
RRP: $77.68Booksplease Price: $74.42'Informative, accessible, and fun to read- this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics. I know of no other... -
An Introduction to Ontology Nikk Effingham (University of Birmingham) 9780745652559
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $35.89In this engaging and wide-ranging new book, Nikk Effingham provides an introduction to contemporary ontology - the study of what exists - and its importance for philosophy today. He covers the... -
An Introduction to Ontology by Nikk Effingham 9780745652542
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01In this engaging and wide-ranging new book, Nikk Effingham provides an introduction to contemporary ontology - the study of what exists - and its importance for philosophy today. He covers the... -
Art, Mind, and Narrative: Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie by Julian Dodd 9780198769736
Booksplease Price: $188.71This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its... -
Current Controversies in Metaphysics by Elizabeth Barnes
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied and alive introduction to the field, and cover such... -
Causation and Free Will by Carolina Sartorio 9780198746799
Booksplease Price: $178.14Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom. Although this simple view of freedom clashes with most theories of responsibility, including the most... -
Causation and Free Will by Carolina Sartorio
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $46.75Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom. Although this simple view of freedom clashes with most theories of responsibility, including the most... -
Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties by Alexander Bird 9780199227013
Booksplease Price: $241.25Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional. Alexander Bird... -
Covid-19 and the Philosopher by Dr Vittorio Bufacchi
RRP: $29.40Booksplease Price: $22.37The philosopher Michel de Montaigne said that facing our mortality is the only way to learn the 'art of living'. This book asks what we can learn from COVID-19, both as individuals and... -
Doing Philosophy by Clare Saunders 9781441173041
Booksplease Price: $60.65Doing Philosophy provides a practical guide to studying philosophy for undergraduate students. The book presents strategies for developing the necessary skills that will allow students to get the... -
An Introduction to Philosophical Methods by Chris Daly 9781551119342
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $71.36An Introduction to Philosophical Methods is the first book to survey the various methods that philosophers use to support their views. Rigorous yet accessible, the book introduces and illustrates the...