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Truth by Simon Blackburn 9780198752509
Booksplease Price: £62.80The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently... -
On Truth by Simon Blackburn 9780190867218
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190867218Author Simon BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60This bestselling dictionary is written by one of the leading philosophers of our time, and it is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every... -
Reason and Prediction by Simon Blackburn 9780521108225
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning. Like most of the main questions in epistemology, the classical problem of induction arises from doubts about a... -
Truth: Ideas in Profile by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Truth has always been a thorny topic. How does it work? Who decides what it is? And why is it seen as so important? In this lucid introduction to the topic, leading scholar Simon Blackburn describes... -
Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. As Simon Blackburn says in his introduction, "the ground is complicated, strewn with abandoned... -
Truth: A Guide by Simon Blackburn 9780195315806
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.69The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.44This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how... -
Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a... -
How To Read Hume by Simon Blackburn 9781847080332
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' David Hume David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and... -
Essays in Quasi-Realism by Simon Blackburn 9780195080414
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £91.68In these essays, Simon Blackburn explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgements relate to the world. This debate has centred on realism,... -
Essays in Quasi-Realism by Simon Blackburn 9780195082241
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £30.54This volume collects together some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgements relate to the... -
Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn 9780192100245
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £18.33What am I? What is consciousness? What is the difference between past and future? Does the world presuppose a creator? Do we always act out of self-interest? This is a book about the big... -
Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins by Simon Blackburn 9780195162004
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.71Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this... -
Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning by Simon Blackburn 9780199241392
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £31.34Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are... -
Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of Language by Simon Blackburn 9780198246510
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £42.96Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major philosophical theories attempting to explain the workings of language.ReviewsOriginal, provocative, and illuminating....Deserves to be widely read... -
Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning by Simon Blackburn 9780198247852
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are... -
Practical Tortoise Raising: and other philosophical essays by Simon Blackburn 9780199661763
RRP: £34.49Booksplease Price: £28.01Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as... -
Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics by Simon Blackburn 9780521113502
Booksplease Price: £32.12A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691161426
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691169118
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism... -
A Little Book of Quotes from Karl Marx by Simon Blackburn 9780993524202
Booksplease Price: £7.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993524202Author Simon BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Proletarius BooksPublisher... -
Practical Tortoise Raising: and other philosophical essays by Simon Blackburn 9780199548057
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £47.56Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as... -
Passions and Projections: Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn by Robert N. Johnson 9780198723172
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £64.30This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, one of the UK's most influential contemporary philosophers. Blackburn is best known to the general... -
What Do We Really Know?: The Big Questions in Philosophy Simon Blackburn 9781780875873
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In What Do We Really Know? Simon Blackburn addresses the twenty most-asked philosophical questions, including 'Can machines think?', 'What is the meaning of life?', 'Is death to be feared?', 'Why be... -
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Plato's Republic: A Biography [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition] by Simon Blackburn 9780369372246
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369372246Author Simon BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher... -
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What Do We Really Know?: The Big Questions in Philosophy by Simon Blackburn 9781780875873 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.90In What Do We Really Know? Simon Blackburn addresses the twenty most-asked philosophical questions, including 'Can machines think?', 'What is the meaning of life?', 'Is death to be feared?', 'Why be... -
The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten: And 99+ Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini 9781803510477
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Baggini offers us a tempting smorgasbord of some of the most baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever envisaged... enjoy these mind-boggling tales from the outer limit of... -
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy Julian Baggini 9781783782307
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer A groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, travelling the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought One of the great... -
Philosophy: Why It Matters Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham) 9781509532155
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05We 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.30We 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... -
Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing by Audun Dahl 9780674292086
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.76A psychologist explains why-and how-moral views change across different life stages, situations, and historical eras.We like to believe that moral truths are obvious and unchangeable: cheating is... -
Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals by Peter Goldie
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Understanding Emotions presents eight original essays on the emotions from leading contemporary philosophers in North America and the U.K: Simon Blackburn, Bill Brewer, Peter Goldie, Dan Hutto, Adam... -
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality by Patricia S. Churchland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02A provocative new account of how morality evolvedWhat is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia... -
Morality and Objectivity: A Tribute to J. L. Mackie by Ted Honderich 9780415677424
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The late J. L. Mackie and his work were a focus for much of the best philosophical thinking in the Oxford tradition. His moral thought centres on that most fundamental issue in moral philosophy - the... -
Visuality and Virtuality: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective by Whitney Davis 9780691171944
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £47.29A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A... -
The Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature by Francis-Noel Thomas 9780691609195
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noel Thomas argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent... -
Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times by Joseph Chan 9780691158617
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method... -
Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times by Joseph Chan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method...