Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXVII: Winter 2004 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy)
by David Sedley


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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and... (read more)

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Introducing Political Philosophy New Edition
by Dave Robinson


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Introducing Political Philosophy explains the central concepts of this intriguing branch of philosophy. It also describes and evaluates the key ideas of all the major political theorists, from Plato to Foucault, who have tried to think systematically... (read more)

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True to Life: Why Truth Matters (Bradford Books)
by Michael P Lynch


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Why does truth matter, when politicians so easily sidestep it and intellectuals scorn it as irrelevant? Why be concerned over an abstract idea like truth when something that isn't true -- for example, a report of Iraq's attempting to buy materials for... (read more)

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On Truth and Meaning: Language, Logic and the Grounds of Belief
by Christopher Norris


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Examining key issues in the philosophy of logic, mind and language, this book proposes grounds for a different era of cooperation and mutual interrogative exchange between the two schools of thought. It explores both traditions alongside one another in... (read more)

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Experience & Religion: A Lay Essay in Theology (British Literature Series)
by Nicholas Mosley


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Mosley came to a mutual crisis point in both his life and his faith, and rather than abandoning religion as unfashionable or even irrelevant. He managed to sort out that faith and experience might just be able to work together. In this agile and... (read more)

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Introduction To Philosophy Classical & Cont 3RD Edition
by Louis P Pojman


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The readings in this acclaimed topically organized collection cover five major areas of philosophy--philosophy of religion, theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, freedom and determinism, and ethics. Editor Louis P. Pojman enhances the topical... (read more)

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Theory of objective mind :an introduction to the philosophy of culture
by Hans Freyer


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This is the first work by an important neo-Hegelian German philosopher to be published in English. First published in 1923, it had a notable influence on German thinkers who followed and on American social theorists Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils... (read more)

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Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk about Their Calling
by David D Karnos


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David Lynn Hall's love of philosophy began with a fifty-cent paperback. Then an adolescent facing an 18-hour bus trip across the great Southwest, desperate for anything to read, Hall bought Alfred North Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas at a rest stop in... (read more)

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The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin
by George Crowder


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Political philosopher Berlin (1909-1997) distinguished between positive and negative liberty in his influential "Two Concepts of Liberty" lecture at Oxford University in 1958. Arguing against idealism and utopianism, he advocated value pluralism ("the... (read more)

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Dover Philosophical Classics)
by David Hume


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How do we know that God exists? One of Britain's greatest 18th-century philosophers addresses the age-old question in this timeless dialogue. Equally captivating as a philosophical argument and as a work of literature, this classic is particularly... (read more)

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A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works
by Jacques Barzun


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Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more)

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The Little Philosophy Book
by Robert C Solomon


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In The Little Philosophy Book, acclaimed author Robert C. Solomon provides a brief, lively, and engaging introduction to deep and perennial philosophical questions. He leads readers through an exploration of the self, the universe, and the nature of... (read more)

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God from the Machine: Artifical Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition (Cognitive Science of Religion)
by William Bainbridge


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A demonstration of how religion and religious belief can emerge using computer simulations... (read more)

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Understanding Plato
by David J Melling


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This incisive book fills the longstanding need for a sound, reliable, and balanced guide to the whole of Plato's philosophical work. Melling describes the different stages in Plato's philosophical development, introduces his different methods and styles... (read more)

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Nietzsche (Oneworld Philosophers)
by Robert Wicks


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This is an objective and unsensational assessment of Nietzsche's achievements, from his rejection of Christianity to the development of his unique philosophical views, and his much-debated association with Nazism.... (read more)

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Evidentialism
by Earl Conee


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Evidentialism is a theory of knowledge whose essence is the traditional idea that the justification of factual knowledge is entirely a matter of evidence. Earl Conee and Richard Feldman present the definitive exposition and defence of this much-contested... (read more)

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Nietzsche's Ethics and His War on 'Morality'
by Simon May


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Nietzsche famously attacked traditional morality, and propounded a controversial ethics of "life-enhancement". Simon May presents a radically new view of Nietzsche's thought, which is shown to be both revolutionary and conservative, and to have much to... (read more)

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The Will to Believe, Human Immortality
by William James


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Two books bound together, from religious period of one of the most renowned and representative thinkers. Written for laymen, thus easy to understand, it is penetrating and brilliant as well. Illuminations of age-old religious questions from a pragmatic... (read more)

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