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The Nature of Rationality by Robert Nozick
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a broad audience beyond the confines of his discipline, addressing ethical and social problems that... -
Robert Nozick Alan Lacey 9781902683256
RRP: $77.68Booksplease Price: $74.42Although 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... -
Robert Nozick by David Schmidtz 9780521006712
Booksplease Price: $64.16This is a 2002 introductory volume to Robert Nozick, one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. It is part of a new series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Each volume in the... -
Socratic Puzzles by Robert Nozick 9780674816541
RRP: $92.30Booksplease Price: $77.20One of the foremost philosophers of our time, Robert Nozick continues the Socratic tradition of investigation. This volume, which illustrates the originality, force, and scope of his work, also... -
Robert Nozick by David Schmidtz 9780521782265
Booksplease Price: $173.67This is a 2002 introductory volume to Robert Nozick, one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. It is part of a new series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Each volume in the... -
Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick 9780674664791
RRP: $75.50Booksplease Price: $68.82In this highly original work, Robert Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified philosophical perspective. It is many years since a major work in English... -
Anarchy State and Utopia Robert Nozick 9780631197805
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $55.36Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age -- liberal, socialist and conservative... -
Robert Nozick by Ralf M. Bader 9781441180094
Booksplease Price: $69.17In 1974, Robert Nozick's book Anarchy, State, and Utopia moved libertarianism from a relatively neglected subset of political philosophy to the center of the discipline, as one of the most cogent... -
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick 9780465051007
Booksplease Price: $56.11Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement , Anarchy, State and Utopia ... -
The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations by Robert Nozick 9780671725013
Booksplease Price: $24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671725013Author Robert NozickFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint -
Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World by Robert Nozick 9780674012455
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $70.69Recent scientific advances have placed many traditional philosophical concepts under great stress. In this pathbreaking book, the eminent philosopher Robert Nozick rethinks and transforms the... -
Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State by Jonathan Wolff 9780745606033
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.00Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and... -
The Emergence of Logical Empiricism: From 1900 to the Vienna Circle by Robert Nozick
Booksplease Price: $98.26First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorSahotra Sarkar Dibner Institute at MIT and McGill University, Robert NozickBook... -
Positive Liberty: An Essay in Normative Political Philosophy by L. H. Crocker 9789400988392
Booksplease Price: $192.91Liberty is perhaps the most praised of all social ideals. Rare is the modern political movement which has not inscribed "liberty," "freedom," "liber ation," or "emancipation" prominently on its... -
Positive Liberty: An Essay in Normative Political Philosophy by L. H. Crocker 9789024722914
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $181.44Liberty is perhaps the most praised of all social ideals. Rare is the modern political movement which has not inscribed "liberty," "freedom," "liber ation," or "emancipation" prominently on its... -
Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal by D. Conway 9780312219321
Booksplease Price: $84.82This text defends the ideal of minimum government against the charges put forward by egalitarian welfare liberals, communitarians and conservatives, arguing it best advances human well being.Springer... -
Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide by Lester H. Hunt 9780470675014
Booksplease Price: $188.66Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick's highly influential 1974 work on free-market... -
The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem by Niko Kolodny
RRP: $96.50Booksplease Price: $79.82A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.Niko Kolodny argues that, to a... -
Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide Lester H. Hunt (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781118880470
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $52.96Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick's highly influential 1974 work on free-market... -
Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Larry May 9781405183888
RRP: $201.50Booksplease Price: $186.71Philosophy of Law provides a rich overview of the diverse theoretical justifications for our legal rules, systems, and practices. Utilizes the work of both classical and contemporary philosophers to... -
Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality by Troy Jollimore 9781138974692
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54First Published in 2001. Morality is viewed as a demanding and unsympathetic taskmaster, and as an external, foreign, even alien force. The moral life, on such a view, is a labor not of love, but of... -
A Defense of Simulated Experience: New Noble Lies Mark Silcox 9781032094212
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This book defends an account of the positive psychological, ethical, and political value of simulated human experience. Philosophers from Plato and Augustine to Heidegger, Nozick, and Baudrillard... -
Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick: Volume 22, Part 1 by Ellen Frankel Paul 9780521615143
Booksplease Price: $87.51This collection of essays is dedicated to the memory of the late Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick, who died in 2002. The publication of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia in 1974 revived serious... -
Distributive Justice and Taxation by Jorgen Pedersen
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Providing a thorough examination of distributive justice, Distributive Justice and Taxation presents and discusses different theories of what constitutes a just society, and how goods should be... -
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
Booksplease Price: $83.75What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword... -
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile by Roger Scruton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.71Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom... -
Jung on Alchemy by C. G. Jung 9780691010977
Booksplease Price: $55.44The ancient practice of alchemy, which thrived in Europe until the seventeenth century, dealt with the phenomenon of transformation--not only of materials (ore into gold) but also of the human spirit... -
How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly by Seneca
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.78How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others-and ourselves-more fairly and mercifully There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deserve-that we've been... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.21Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate... -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton 9780691168753
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of... -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.18A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of... -
Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism by Wai-chee Dimock
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view... -
The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan 9780691163680
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and... -
Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France by Zeev Sternhell 9780691006291
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $109.56"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the... -
The Possibility of Altruism by Thomas Nagel
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94Just 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... -
Thought by Gilbert Harman
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.94Thoughts 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... -
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy by Eric Anthony Beerbohm 9780691154619
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $98.36When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies... -
Having Reasons: An Essay on Rationality and Sociality by Frederic Schick 9780691612959
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.94This important contribution to choice theory examines two theories of motivation and two kinds of explanation of behavior that they support. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy... -
Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff 9780691149004
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.55G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Ralf M. Bader 9780521120029
Booksplease Price: $64.16Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing...