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On Truth by Simon Blackburn 9780190867218
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190867218Author Simon BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.67This 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... -
Truth: Ideas in Profile by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Truth 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91This 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... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $16.11Booksplease Price: $12.62This 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... -
How To Read Hume by Simon Blackburn 9781847080332
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'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... -
Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.74It 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... -
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The Big Questions: Philosophy by Simon Blackburn 9781849160001 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.32The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691169118
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03Everyone 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... -
Meaning, Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics by Simon Blackburn 9780521113502
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What Do We Really Know?: The Big Questions in Philosophy by Simon Blackburn 9781780875873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.45In 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... -
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy Julian Baggini 9781783782307
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'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... -
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality by Patricia S. Churchland
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07A 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... -
Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley 9780415371391
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.45One of the UK's foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a... -
Why I am not a Christian: and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell 9780415325103
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.63While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief. Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset... -
Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins by Joseph Epstein 9780195158120
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.16Part of a series of highly entertaining books on the history of sinning. While each of the other six deadly sins area a guilty pleasure, 'the green-eyed monster', as it is often called, is no fun... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801495410
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $35.35For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes Anthony Gottlieb 9780300180473
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.66The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century According to the philosopher... -
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls 9780674005112
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $32.02This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as... -
The Meaning of Thought Markus Gabriel 9781509538362
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.29From populist propaganda attacking knowledge as 'fake news' to the latest advances in artificial intelligence, human thought is under unprecedented attack today. If computers can do what humans can... -
What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $24.82"This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years." -Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right... -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality David Edmonds 9780691225241
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.76From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942-2017) is the... -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.95From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942-2017) is the... -
Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics by Philip Pettit
Booksplease Price: $45.43Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense... -
Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World by Iddo Landau 9780190092221
RRP: $22.56Booksplease Price: $21.44Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to... -
Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy Bernard Williams 9780691271767
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.01What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams... -
Secularism: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Copson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in... -
Natural Law - Reflections On Theory & Practice Jacques Maritain 9781890318680
Booksplease Price: $11.15Can there be universal moral principles in a culturally and religiously diverse world? Are such principles provided by a theory of natural law? Jacques response to both questions is 'yes.' These...