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Teach Yourself Political Philosphy (Teach Yourself: Philosophy & Religion)
by Mel Thompson  Publisher Comments Understand political philosophy without help from a pundit Teach Yourself Political Philosophy is a fascinating guide to the principles upon which our legal and political systems are founded. It explores the key political concepts that underpin our...
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What I Know: And the Press Isn't Telling
by Jan R. Adams M. D. Publisher Comments On the 10th of November, 2007, a patient (and friend) of mine died in the late-postoperative period. A media circus ensued and the importance of that person to me, her family, and friends got lost in the parade of opportunists who crawled from under...
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New Morning: Emerson in the Twenty-First Century
by Arthur S. Lothstein Synopsis Essays and poems explore the contemporary relevance of Emerson's work and thought....
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A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society
by Margaret Gilbert Publisher Comments Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do? Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups in general and political...
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Spinoza
by Michael Rocca Publisher Comments Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was one of towering philosophers of the Seventeenth century. Renowned for his metaphysics, he also made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy...
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Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
by John Searle Publisher Comments Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless,...
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de Rerum Natura (the Nature of Things): A Poetic Translation
by Titus Lucretius Carus Publisher Comments This elegant new translation at last restores the poetry to one of the greatest and most influential poems in the Western tradition. De Rerum Natura is Lucretius's majestic elaboration of Greek Epicurian physics and psychology in an epic that unfolds...
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Modal Logic: An Introduction to Its Syntax and Semantics
by Nino B. Cocchiarella Publisher Comments In this text, a variety of modal logics at the sentential, first-order, and second-order levels are developed with clarity, precision and philosophical insight. All of the S1-S5 modal logics of Lewis and Langford, among others, are constructed. A matrix,...
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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science #12: Modalities and Multimodalities
by Walter Carnielli Publisher Comments This book is intended to provide a philosophically- and historically-based introduction to modal logic, offering to every reader, even those with little specific background, a conceptually clear path through the labyrinth of contemporary modal logic...
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The Future of Citizenship
by Jose V. Ciprut Publisher Comments The ongoing expansion in the field of citizenship studies is one of the most important and remarkable recent trends in social sciences and humanities research. Some scholars raise questions about citizenship within a larger critique of liberalism and its...
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Could There Have Been Nothing?
by Geraldine Coggins Publisher Comments Could there have been nothing? is the first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism – the claim that there could have been no concrete objects. It critically analyses the debate around nihilism and related questions about the metaphysics of...
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Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissable Harm
by F. M. Kamm Publisher Comments Reading F.M. Kamm's latest book is like watching a brilliant astronomer map an uncharted galaxy--the meticulousness and the display of mental stamina must inspire awe. There is a kind of beauty in the performance alone. Intricate Ethics is a major event...
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Reasons and the Good
by Roger Crisp Publisher Comments In Reasons and the Good Roger Crisp answers some of the oldest questions in moral philosophy. Fundamental to ethics, he claims, is the idea of ultimate reasons for action; and he argues controversially that these reasons don't depend on moral concepts...
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Freedom: Reassessment and Rephrasings
by Jose V. Ciprut Publisher Comments Some philosophers conceive freedom as a state; others view it as an ideal. A songwriter sees it as a way of life: Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free. The embattled statesman and the political...
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Truth and Predication
by Donald Davidson Publisher Comments This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predicationbrings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the...
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Art and Sex (Art And...)
by Gray Watson Publisher Comments This "no-holds barred" volume surveys the vast array of images of sex and sexuality in contemporary art, finding sex in some surprising places and drawing some fascinating conclusions. Working outwards from the individual to the world Gray Watson looks...
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Religion After Postmodernism: Retheorizing Myth and Literature (Studies in Religion and Culture)
by Victor E. Taylor Publisher Comments In this critical examination of the role of the imagination in the modern and postmodern periods, Victor E. Taylor looks at the 'fable' as a narrative form that addresses the ultimate questions of how to live and why. He assesses various literary...
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Art of Living #5: Sport
by Colin Mcginn Synopsis This book is about the human love of sport. Sport is a lived experience of the integration of mind and body: anyone who has hit a winning serve, a perfect drive, a home run knows that mind and body are completely interwoven at that moment. If a happy...
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Derrida from Now on
by Michael Naas Publisher Comments Written in the wake of Jacques Derrida's death in October 2004, Derrida From Now On attempts both to do justice to the memory of Derrida and demonstrate the continuing significance of Derrida's work for contemporary philosophy and literary theory. If...
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Material Phenomenology
by Michel Henry Synopsis Material Phenomenology offers Michel Henry's most sustained investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision, Henry reveals the decisive methodological assumptions that led Husserlian phenomenology in the direction...
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