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The Architecture of Matter Stephen Toulmin 9780226808406
Booksplease Price: £24.80"Warmly recommended. It is that rare achievement, a lively book which at the same time takes the fullest possible advantage of scholarly knowledge."-Charles C. Gillespie, New York Times Book... -
Return to Reason by Stephen Toulmin 9780674012356
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82The turmoil and brutality of the twentieth century have made it increasingly difficult to maintain faith in the ability of reason to fashion a stable and peaceful world. After the ravages of global... -
Metaphysical Beliefs by Stephen Toulmin 9780334046172
Booksplease Price: £19.07During the mid-1950s, three books appeared which, while theologically unfashionable at the time, can now be seen to have pointed the way forward that theology had to take. New Essays in Philosophical... -
The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature by Stephen Toulmin
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89"Can we rely on the discoveries that scientists make about one or another part, or aspect, of the world as a basis for drawing conclusions abou the Universe as a Whole?" Thirty years ago, the... -
The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature by Stephen Toulmin 9780520306820
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29"Can we rely on the discoveries that scientists make about one or another part, or aspect, of the world as a basis for drawing conclusions abou the Universe as a Whole?" Thirty years ago, the... -
Cosmopolis: Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780226808383
Booksplease Price: £23.87In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature... -
Continuities in Cultural Evolution Margaret Mead 9780765806048
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.53Margaret Mead once said, "I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples--faraway peoples--so that Americans might better understand themselves." Continuities in Cultural Evolution... -
Ethics and Medical Decision-Making Michael Freeman 9781138629424
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.69This title was first published in 2001: Ethical thinking about medical decision-making has roots deep in history. This collection of contemporary essays by leading international scholars traces the... -
Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us by Morton Schapiro
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.81A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature-and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few... -
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities by Gary Saul Morson 9780691176680
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a... -
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities by Gary Saul Morson 9780691183220
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities-especially the study of literature-offer economists ways to make their models more... -
Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Michael Ruse 9780691135540
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.23Wittgenstein famously remarked in 1923, "Darwin's theory has no more relevance for philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Yet today we are witnessing a major revival of interest in... -
Hobbes and the Law of Nature by Perez Zagorin 9780691139807
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature. Hobbes remains... -
Wittgenstein's Vienna by Allan Janik
Booksplease Price: £16.21This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna,... -
Pride and Authenticity by Ulrich Steinvorth 9783319341163
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies. The author explores the nature of the self and free will,... -
The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning by Albert R. Jonsen 9780520069602
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.28In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its... -
Pride and Authenticity by Ulrich Steinvorth 9783319816807
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book explores the morality of pride, a value that has been condemned through history and is still largely unwelcome in many societies. The author explores the nature of the self and free will,... -
Transnational Taiwan: Crossing Borders into the 21st Century by David Pendery 9789811943676
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.44This book is a study of transnationalism, focusing on experience of migrants, immigrants, travelers, expatriates, aliens, expatriates, evacuees, refugees, and nomad in the world, broadly, and Taiwan,... -
The Uses of Argument by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780521827485
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.00A central theme throughout the impressive series of philosophical books and articles Stephen Toulmin has published since 1948 is the way in which assertions and opinions concerning all sorts of... -
The Uses of Argument by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780521534833
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99A central theme throughout the impressive series of philosophical books and articles Stephen Toulmin has published since 1948 is the way in which assertions and opinions concerning all sorts of... -
Civility by Leroy S. Rouner 9780268022556
Booksplease Price: £97.50In this lively conversation on an increasingly significant theme, major philosophers and religious scholars argue the issue on three levels. The first is manners: Henry Rosemont argues the Confucian... -
Civility by Leroy S. Rouner 9780268022563
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.93In this lively conversation on an increasingly significant theme, major philosophers and religious scholars argue the issue on three levels. The first is manners: Henry Rosemont argues the Confucian... -
Wittgenstein's Doctrine of the Tyranny of Language: An Historical and Critical Examination of His Blue Book: Photomechanical Reprint by M. Engel 9789024711857
Booksplease Price: £90.56STEPHEN TOULMIN George Santayana used to insist that those who are ignorant of the history of thought are doomed to re-enact it. To this we can add a corollary: that those who are ignorant of the... -
The Fabric of the Heavens by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780226808482
Booksplease Price: £23.87Conceived as three companion volumes that form an introduction to the central ideas of the modern natural sciences, these books--intelligent, informative, and accessible--are an excellent source for... -
What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays by Norwood Russell Hanson 9789402417418
Booksplease Price: £46.28Fifty years have passed since Norwood Russell Hanson's unexpected death, yet he remains an important voice in philosophy of science. This book is a revised and expanded edition of a collection of... -
What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays by Norwood Russell Hanson 9789402417388
Booksplease Price: £46.28Fifty years have passed since Norwood Russell Hanson's unexpected death, yet he remains an important voice in philosophy of science. This book is a revised and expanded edition of a collection of... -
Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? by Leonard V. Kaplan 9780814747421
Booksplease Price: £90.57With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it... -
Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? by Leonard V. Kaplan 9780814747438
Booksplease Price: £30.78With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it... -
Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited by Allan Janik
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian... -
Discours de La Methode/Discourse on the Method: A Bilingual Edition with an Interpretive Essay by Rene Descartes 9780268008710
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £25.29No text has defined the self-understanding of the present time like Jean-Francois Lyotard's La condition postmoderne, Rapport sur le savoir (1979). But few participants in the dialogue between the... -
Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein, Revised Edition by Gerald Holton 9780674877481
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.76The highly acclaimed first edition of this major work convincingly established Gerald Holton's analysis of the ways scientific ideas evolve. His concept of "themata," induced from case studies with... -
Lost Souls: The Philosophic Origins of a Cultural Dilemma by David Weissman 9780791457566
Booksplease Price: £26.07Traces the history of mind-body dualism.Lost Souls examines the origins and consequences of the philosophic idea that mind and body are distinct. The author traces mind-body dualism from Plato,... -
Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? by Craig Calhoun 9780814772843
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it... -
A Quarter Century of Common Knowledge: Eleven Conversations by Jeffrey M. Perl 9781478004905
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66To commemorate the journal's quarter-century, this double issue consists of foundational pieces arranged in conversation with one another. Common Knowledge has opened lines of communication among... -
The Case for Pragmatic Psychology by Daniel Fishman 9780814726747
Booksplease Price: £90.87Web Site The interested reader is urged to contact the author and join a Pragmatic Psychology Dialogue Group at the following web site: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dfishman/ "At long last, a... -
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics by Carl Elliott 9780822326465
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that,... -
A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, and Identity Carl Elliott 9780415919401
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul Auster and Graham Greene, A Philosophical Disease brings to the bioethical discussion larger philosophical... -
Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes by L. S. Vygotskii
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £20.33Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of cognitive development in his own words-collected and translated by an outstanding group of scholars."A landmark book." -Contemporary PsychologyThe great Russian...