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A Teacher's Life by Robert B Talisse 9781725286672
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725286672Author Robert B TalisseFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint
A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy by Robert B. Talisse 9780415998468
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In recent years there has been a renewed interest in American pragmatism. In political philosophy, the revival of pragmatism has led to a new appreciation for the democratic theory of John Dewey. In...
Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert B. Talisse 9780826498588
Booksplease Price: £27.89This is a student's guide to the historical context, key thinkers and central themes of pragmatism, a concept central to American philosophy.The recent revival of interest in pragmatism has...
Democracy and Moral Conflict by Robert B. Talisse 9780521513548
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £56.92Why democracy? Most often this question is met with an appeal to some decidedly moral value, such as equality, liberty, dignity or even peace. But in contemporary democratic societies, there is deep...
Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert B. Talisse 9780826498571
Booksplease Price: £102.21The recent revival of interest in pragmatism has reintroduced into mainstream philosophy the insights and arguments of great American philosophers such as C.S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey...
Democracy and Moral Conflict by Robert B. Talisse 9780521183901
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Why democracy? Most often this question is met with an appeal to some decidedly moral value, such as equality, liberty, dignity or even peace. But in contemporary democratic societies, there is deep...
The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present by Robert B. Talisse
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.65The Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key writing by a leading pragmatist thinker, and represents a...
Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance Robert B. Talisse 9780197752166
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.07An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action. But is group collaboration truly...
A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn by Robert B. Talisse 9780739122884
Booksplease Price: £95.49Steven Cahn belongs to that exclusive class of professors who have not only contributed influentially to the leading debates of their discipline, but have also written insightfully about the academic...
Engaging Political Philosophy: An Introduction Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University, USA) 9780415808330
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Engaging Political Philosophy introduces readers to the central problems of political philosophy. Presuming no prior work in the area, the book explores the fundamental philosophical questions...
Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side by Robert B Talisse 9780197556450
Booksplease Price: £26.08Democracy is not easy. Citizens who disagree sharply about politics must nonetheless work together as equal partners in the enterprise of collective self-government. Ideally, this work would be...
Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place by Robert B. Talisse 9780197619100
Booksplease Price: £16.49We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those...
Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place by Robert B. Talisse 9780190924195
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.60We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those...
The Democracy Reader: From Classical to Contemporary Philosophy by Steven M. Cahn 9781538157558
Booksplease Price: £55.71This timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increase student comprehension across the...
Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason Scott Aikin 9781138087422
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason presents an accessible and engaging introduction to the theory of argument, with special emphasis on the way...
Democratic Deliberation in the Modern World Paul Gunn 9781032927176
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Would ordinary citizens benefit if public decisions were increasingly based on an inclusive and fair exchange of reasons rather than mere voting or choices in the market? Debates amongst deliberative...
Dialogues on Democracy Julia Maskivker 9781032913575
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Dialogues on Democracy offers a panoramic overview of recent and classical debates on the meaning of democracy as a philosophical ideal. It features some of the most central discussions that exist in...
Epistemic Paternalism: A Defence by Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij 9780230347892
Booksplease Price: £46.28Any attempt to help us reason in more accurate ways faces a problem: While we acknowledge that others stand to benefit from intellectual advice, each and every one of us tends to consider ourselves...
Democracy After Liberalism: Pragmatism and Deliberative Politics by Robert Talisse 9780415950190
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book critically evaluates liberalism, the dominant attempt in the tradition of political philosophy to provide a philosophical foundation for democracy, and argues for a conception of...
Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy by Scott F. Aikin
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08For the past fifteen years, Aikin and Talisse have been working collaboratively on a new vision of American pragmatism, one which sees pragmatism as a living and developing philosophical idiom that...
Political Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: Essential Essays Steven M. Cahn 9780813346908
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Moving beyond the work of Rawls and his critics, this concise collection contains critical essays in contemporary political philosophy. All have been chosen for their importance and accessibility,...
The New American Social Compact: Rights and Responsibilities in the Twenty-first Century by Jane A. Grant 9780739119754
Booksplease Price: £96.35The New American Social Compact examines the need to redefine the social compact in twenty-first-century America. Grant explores the two components of this compact-the rights and obligations of...
The New American Social Compact: Rights and Responsibilities in the Twenty-first Century by Jane A. Grant 9780739119761
Booksplease Price: £51.70The New American Social Compact examines the need to redefine the social compact in twenty-first-century America. Grant explores the two components of this compact_the rights and obligations of...
Maimonides and His Heritage by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein 9780791476567
Booksplease Price: £25.54This volume celebrates the depth and breadth of Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides' (1138-1204) achievements. The essays gathered here explore the rich diversity of a heritage that extends over...
The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism by Scott F. Aikin 9781032347707
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters-written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers-that assess the past, present, and...
Aristotle's Politics Today by Lenn E. Goodman 9780791472279
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Examines the implications of Aristotle's political thought for contemporary political theory.According to Aristotle, man's essential sociality implies a distinctive conception of politics, one in...
Pluralism and Liberal Politics by Robert Talisse 9780415704052
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In this book, Robert Talisse critically examines the moral and political implications of pluralism, the view that our best moral thinking is indeterminate and that moral conflict is an inescapable...
Pragmatic Reason: Christopher Hookway and the American Philosophical Tradition Robert Talisse 9780367761462
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy. This book reflects on Hookway's work...
Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy by Steven M. Cahn 9780199791156
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £95.85Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy provides in one volume the major writings from nearly 2,500 years of political and moral philosophy, from Plato through the twentieth century. The most...
Political Argument in a Polarized Age: Reason and Democratic Life Scott F. Aikin 9781509536535
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79From obnoxious public figures to online trolling and accusations of "fake news", almost no one seems able to disagree without hostility. But polite discord sounds farfetched when issues are so...
Political Argument in a Polarized Age: Reason and Democratic Life Scott F. Aikin 9781509536528
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30From obnoxious public figures to online trolling and accusations of "fake news", almost no one seems able to disagree without hostility. But polite discord sounds farfetched when issues are so...
Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching by Steven M. Cahn 9781624667442
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.59In these essays, 24 of our most celebrated professors of philosophy address the problem of how to teach philosophy today: how to make philosophy interesting and relevant; how to bring classic texts...
The Cambridge Companion to Dewey by Molly Cochran 9780521874564
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.13John Dewey (1859-1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not the originator of American pragmatism, he was...
The Cambridge Companion to Dewey by Molly Cochran
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.57John Dewey (1859-1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not the originator of American pragmatism, he was...
Navigating Academic Life: How the System Works by Steven M. Cahn
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.79This engaging collection of recent essays reveals how a professorial career involves not only pursuit of a scholarly discipline but also such unwelcome features as the tribulations of graduate...
Pragmatist Egalitarianism by David Rondel
Booksplease Price: £109.82Pragmatist Egalitarianism argues that a deep impasse plagues philosophical egalitarianism, and sets forth a novel conception of equality rooted in American pragmatist thought that successfully...
The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy by Christopher Beem 9780271093949
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.87The insurrection of January 6, 2021, demonstrated conclusively that tribalism in the United States has become dangerous. The "other side" is no longer viewed as a well-intentioned opponent but as an...
The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty Giancarlo Marchetti (University of Perugia, Italy) 9781032128788
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, and politics. Inspired by James' and Dewey's...
Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century by Joshua L. Cherniss 9780691220932
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and...
Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century by Joshua L. Cherniss
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and...