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A History of Western Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
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Since its first publication in 1945, Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject — unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit... (read more)

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Would You Eat Your Cat?: Key Ethical Conundrums and What They Tell You about Yourself
Would You Eat Your Cat?: Key Ethical Conundrums and What They Tell You about Yourself
by Jeremy Stangroom
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Would You Eat Your Cat? challenges you to examine these and many other philosophical questions. This unique collection of classic and modern problems and paradoxes is guaranteed to test your preconceptions. Jeremy Stangroom creates contemporary versions... (read more)

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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by Sarah Bakewell
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Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a... (read more)

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I and Thou
I and Thou
by Martin Buber
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Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as... (read more)

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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
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Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize–winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries... (read more)

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The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions
The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions
by Alex Rosenberg
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We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics... (read more)

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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
by Jim Holt
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“Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?” remains the darkest and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt now enters this... (read more)

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A New History of Western Philosophy (New History of Western Philosophy)
A New History of Western Philosophy (New History of Western Philosophy)
by Anthony Kenny
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The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" (Times Higher Education Supplement) and "genial and highly accessible" (London Review of Books). Now these... (read more)

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God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales
by Penn Jillette
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FROM THE LARGER, LOUDER HALF OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS MAGIC DUO PENN & TELLER comes a scathingly funny reinterpretation of The Ten Commandments. They are The Penn Commandments, and they reveal one outrageous and opinionated atheist’s experience in... (read more)

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Heidegger: A (Very) Critical Introduction
Heidegger: A (Very) Critical Introduction
by S. J. McGrath
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"Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is one of the greatest conundrums in the modern philosophical world, by turns inspiring and mind-bogglingly frustrating. In this critical introduction S. J. McGrath offers not a comprehensive summary of Heidegger but a... (read more)

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Descartes (Oneworld Philosophers)
Descartes (Oneworld Philosophers)
by Harry M Bracken
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THis is an indispensible guide to the life and philosophy of Rene Descartes, one of the most controversial figures of his age, and the founder of modern rational thought.... (read more)

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Becoming William James
Becoming William James
by Howard M Feinstein
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For William James work was the problem. Ultimately, going to work was the resolution, and James's quest for meaningful work remains as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. Weaving letters, diaries, drawings, and... (read more)

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Rhetorical Homologies: Form, Culture, Experience (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique)
Rhetorical Homologies: Form, Culture, Experience (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique)
by Barry Brummett
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One of the most widely used ideas in scholarship of the humanities and social sciences is that of homology: a formal pattern structuring different kinds of texts, ideas, and experiences.  Rhetorical Homologies explores the central meaning of this... (read more)

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The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
by Jack Huberman
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Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over... (read more)

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Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
by Greg Epstein
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A provocative and positive response to Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and other New Atheists, Good Without God makes a bold claim for what nonbelievers do share and believe. Author Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard... (read more)

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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)
by Kwame Anthon Appiah
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Kwame Anthony Appiah's landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of "cosmopolitanism,... (read more)

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Experience and Education
Experience and Education
by John Dewey
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Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey'... (read more)

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Republic of Plato 2ND Edition
Republic of Plato 2ND Edition
by Allen Bloom
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Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Platos Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom... (read more)

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Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell
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Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions... (read more)

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Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
by H H Dalai Lama
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“A book that brings people together on the firm grounds of shared values, reminding us why the Dalai Lama is still one of the most important religious figures in the world.” —Huffington Post, “Best Religious Books of 2011... (read more)

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