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Western Philosophy: An Illustrated Guide by David Papineau Publisher Comments What does it mean for someone to exist? What is truth? Are we free to choose to think or act? What is consciousness? Is human cloning justifiable? These are just some of the questions philosophers have attempted to answer, striking right at the heart of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.75 Sale - Hardcover 
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Whats It All About by Julian Baggini Publisher Comments What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous and perhaps more than a little absurd. Is there one... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis by Steven Katz Review "Valuable....Provocative."--Religious Studies Review "Excellent....Careful reading by the untrained will yield a rich reward....Scattered throughout are gems of practical wisdom....An important contribution to the field of mystical studies."--Cross... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day by Robert Rowland Smith Publisher Comments Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith thought he would... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kierkegaard Anthology by Soren Kierkegaard Publisher Comments This anthology covers the whole of Kierkegaard's literary career. These are climaxed by the beautiful and moving religious discourses which accompany them; finally, there is the biting satire of his Attack Upon 'Christendom.'... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The World As Will & Idea, Abridged in One Volume by Arthur Schopenhauer Publisher Comments The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art, and the only lasting good through ascetic renunciation. Unique in... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas by Ronald A Lindsay Synopsis After describing in detail the proper way to approach and resolve a dispute in bioethics, Lindsay proceeds to analyze several different cutting-edge issues. Through his insightful analysis, Lindsay demonstrates how to achieve pragmatic, progressive... (read more) List Price $28.98 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists by Susan Nieman Publisher Comments "Susan Neiman's profound wisdom, courage and vision . . . [make her] a beacon of light and hope in our morally debased times."--Cornel West "Morally and politically compelling--and a delight to read."--Michael... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Why I Am So Wise (Great Ideas) by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Language in Thought & Action 5TH Edition by S I Hayakawa Publisher Comments In an era when communication has become increasingly diverse and complex, this classic work on semantics—now fully revised and updated—distills the relationship between language and those who use it. Renowned professor and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery by David Edward Cooper Publisher Comments David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $21.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch Publisher Comments The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of significance by age thirty, Rousseau seemed an unlikely... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Portable Plato (Viking Portable Library) by Plato Publisher Comments Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000 by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so clearly played out as in the Cool Memories series... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics by Steven E Landsburg Publisher Comments In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex, Slate columnist and economics professor Steven Landsburg employs concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics in this sprightly tour of the deepest... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Real Materialism: And Other Essays by Galen Strawson Publisher Comments Real Materialism draws together papers written over twenty years by Galen Strawson in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Strawson focuses on five main areas of enquiry: [1] the nature of the physical, consciousness, the "mind-body problem," and the... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $25.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason by Steven Nadler Publisher Comments "The Best of All Possible Worlds is a wonderfully engaging book. Nadler, with his characteristic clarity, has produced a true and rare philosophical page-turner."--Michael Della Rocca, Yale... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How Philosophy Can Save Your Life: 10 Ideas That Matter Most by Marietta Mccarty Publisher Comments Discover how great philosophers can help you live a more purposeful and peaceful life. This inspiring new book from the bestselling author of Little Big Minds reveals how the heartbeats of philosophy- clear thinking, quiet reflection, and good... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.) by David Edmonds Publisher Comments In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris Publisher Comments Sam Harriss first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists—agree on one point... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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