Critical Thinking a Concise Guide 2ND Edition
by Tracy Bowell
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Attempts to persuade us - to believe something, to do something, to buy something - are everywhere. What is less clear is how to think critically about such attempts and how to distinguish those that are sound arguments. Critical Thinking: A Concise...
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Epistemology of Language
by Alex Barber
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What must linguistic knowledge be like if it is to explain our capacity to use language? All linguists and philosophers of language presuppose some answer to this critical question, but all too often the presupposition is tacit. In this collection of...
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Descartes: An Intellectual Biography
by Stephen Gaukroger
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Rene Descartes's insights into the nature of knowledge and the mind have inspired awe and debate through the centuries. But while philosophers have sought to understand the ramifications of his theories, they have paid much less attention to how, exactly,...
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The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society
by Regenia Gagnier
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Combining cultural history, economics, and literary criticism, Regenia Gagnier's new work traces the parallel development of economic theory and aesthetic theory, offering a shrewd reading of humans as workers and wanters, born of labor and desire. The...
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Two Treatises of Government
by John Locke
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The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text...
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The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe
by Michael Frayn
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What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Here, the acclaimed playwright and novelist takes on the great questions of his career—and of our lives Humankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal...
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Discourses on Strauss: Revelation and Reason in Leo Strauss and His Critical Study of Machiavelli
by Kim A Sorensen
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Examines a key distinction in Strauss's thought--between revelation and reason, or religion and philosophy--and explores Strauss's views on this distinction through a close examination of the final chapter in Strauss's...
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Introducing Rousseau (Introducing)
by Dave Robinson
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A crucial addition to the illustrated Introducing series, providing unique resources and fascinating graphic guides for students and uninitiated lay readers....
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Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning
by Deborah K Modrak
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This is a book about Aristotle's philosophy of language....
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The Arrogance of Humanism
by David Ehrenfeld
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An inquiry into the origins, dissemination, and consequences of the modern belief that humans can solve any problem and overcome any difficulty, given time and resources enough....
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The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault
by Alexander Nehamas
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For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an art of living. This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of all...
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Discourse on Thinking
by Martin Heidegger
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Martin Heidegger's Discourse on Thinking, which is translate her, was published in 1959. It comprises a statement of the point of view of his later though. Since Heidegger's later though has evoked so much interest among philosophers and, in the last few...
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Conventionalism: From Poincare to Quine
by Yemima Ben Menahem
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This is the first comprehensive study of Conventionalism. This book provides a new perspective on twentieth-century philosophy, with many of the major themes of contemporary philosophy arising from engagement with the challenge of conventionalism....
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How Free Are You?: The Determinism Problem
by Ted Honderich
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In this fully revised and up-to-date edition of Ted Honderich's modern classic, he offers a concise and lively introduction to free will and the problem of determinism, advancing the debate on this key area of moral philosophy. Honderich sets out a...
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Promises, Morals, and Law
by P S Atiyah
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"One of today's most accomplished students of the common law examines the nature of promises and the grounds of their binding force....The book deserves attention not only because it offers a radical reinterpretation of promising. It also raises wider...
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Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles (Studies in Feminist Philosophy)
by Lisa Tessman
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Lisa Tessman's Burdened Virtues is a deeply original and provocative work that engages questions central to feminist theory and practice, from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics. Focused primarily on selves who endure and resist oppression, she...
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Transmitting Culture (Trade Union Industrial Studies)
by Regis Debray
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How do we explain the fact that certain ideas, at certain moments in time, can have earthshaking effects? Or that some cultures have left an indelible mark while others have not? Why did Jesus, rather than Mani the Mesopotamian or the Eastern god Mithra,...
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Hvlderlins Hymn the Ister
by Martin Heidegger
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Martin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hlderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hlderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hlderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Revealing of Heidegger's thought...
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Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein's Life, 1889-1921
by Brian Mcguinness
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Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophers of his age and as a personality of great magnetism and power. Not all who recognize his importance admire him or approve of it; his life and work are...
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The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
by Malcolm Budd
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The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognized that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Everyone delights in the beauty of flowers...
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