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Agency and Action by John Hyman 9780521603560
Booksplease Price: $91.01One of the most exciting developments in philosophy in the last fifty years is the resurgence in the philosophy of action. The concept of action now occupies a central place in ethics, metaphysics... -
Action, Knowledge, and Will by John Hyman 9780198735779
Booksplease Price: $192.95Human agency has four irreducibly different dimensions -- psychological, ethical, intellectual, and physical -- which the traditional idea of a will tended to conflate. Twentieth-century philosophers... -
Action, Knowledge, and Will by John Hyman 9780198769316
Booksplease Price: $85.22What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause... -
Investigating Psychology: Sciences of the Mind After Wittgenstein John Hyman 9781138206816
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78Originally published in 1991, the essays in this volume are written by philosophers who were convinced that Wittgenstein's investigations in philosophical psychology were of direct relevance to... -
The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art by John Hyman
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $83.58This, in a nutshell, is the central problem in the theory of art. It has fascinated philosophers from Plato to Wittgenstein. And it fascinates artists and art historians, who have always drawn... -
Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock Christoph C. Pfisterer 9781032065878
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to debates in contemporary philosophy. It brings together... -
Meaning and Representation by Emma Borg 9780631235774
RRP: $41.48Booksplease Price: $38.93This prestigious collection of papers discusses the relationship between meaning and representation. Illustrates the differences that exist on the question of how formal representations relate to... -
Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind by Severin Schroeder 9780333918715
Booksplease Price: $193.52Each essay in this volume discusses some prevalent views in contemporary philosophy of mind by confronting them with Wittgensteinian ideas. Part One addresses the views of Quine and Dennett,... -
Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue: Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria by Christian Kanzian 9783110328608
RRP: $191.10Booksplease Price: $131.46What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? - This question was the general theme of the 29th international symposium of the Austrian... -
Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction by Catharine Abell 9780199585960
Booksplease Price: $231.25Pictures are representations that depict their objects. Although depiction plays as important a role as language in contemporary culture and communication, its function is relatively poorly... -
Creativity and Philosophy by Berys Gaut
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.69Creativity matters. We want people to be more creative and admire those who are. Yet creativity is deeply puzzling. Just what is it to be creative? Why is it valuable? Who or what can be creative and... -
A Companion to Wittgenstein Hans-Johann Glock 9781119307945
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $77.72A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein's thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote... -
Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning by Jonathan Dancy
RRP: $49.33Booksplease Price: $49.14Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to action. Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical... -
An Introduction to Art Charles Harrison 9780300247138
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.17At once engaging, personal, and analytical, this book provides the intellectual resources for the critical understanding of art Charles Harrison's landmark book offers an original, clear, and... -
Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures by Dominic McIver Lopes 9780199277346
Booksplease Price: $201.39Looking at pictures, we see in them the scenes they depict, and any value they have springs from these experiences of seeing-in. Sight and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive... -
New Essays on the Explanation of Action by Constantine Sandis 9781349356683
Booksplease Price: $190.18These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to... -
New Essays on the Explanation of Action by Constantine Sandis 9780230522022
Booksplease Price: $190.81These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to...