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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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Moral Literacy
by Barbara Herman Publisher Comments A distinguished moral philosopher and a leading interpreter of Kant's ethics, Barbara Herman draws on Kant to address timeless issues in ethical theory as well as ones arising from current moral problems, such as obligations to distant need, the history...
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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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Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections
by Keith Robinson Publisher Comments Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections is the first book length collection of essays exploring the relations between the work of Gilles Deleuze, Alfred North Whitehead and Henri Bergson. With contributions by established international...
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The Book of Absolutes: A Critique of Relativism and a Defence of Universals
by William D. Gairdner Publisher Comments Gairdner refutes the popular belief in cultural relativism by showing that there are hundreds of well-established cross-cultural human universals. He then discusses the many universals found in physics - as well as Einstein's personal regret at how his...
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Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics (St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs)
by Grant Gillett Synopsis This work examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity. Gillett goes on to discuss the effects of neurological interventions, such as psychosurgery, on the image of the human....
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Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
by Elisabeth Roudinesco Publisher Comments For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a great generation of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and...
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History of Western Philosophy
by Karen Warren Synopsis This is a unique, groundbreaking study in the history of philosophy, combining leading men and women philosophers across 2600 years of Western philosophy, covering key foundational topics, including epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Introductory...
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French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception
by David Pettigrew Synopsis A sustained philosophical engagement with significant and creative French interpretersmof Heidegger....
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Quine in Dialogue Quine in Dialogue
by W. V. Quine Publisher Comments Over the course of his life, W. V. Quine, one of the twentieth century's great philosophers, engaged and inspired, interviewed and critiqued countless scholars, critics, and students. The qualities that distinguished him in any discussion are on clear...
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An Introduction to Islamic Philosophy
by Massimo Campanini Synopsis This broad, comprehensive, and yet concise introduction presents a reading of Islamic philosophy as it evolved in the Middle Ages, investigating how Islamic philosophers thought and what they thought about. The book is divided into two parts: the first...
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Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and Conflict in the Absolute Idealist Tradition (Continuum Studies in British Philosophy)
by Colin Tyler Synopsis Showing the inseparability of the British idealists' social and political radicalism from the inherent logic of idealism, this book makes extensive use of previously unpublished British idealist manuscripts....
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Provisional Politics: Kantian Arguments in Policy Context
by Elisabeth Ellis Publisher Comments If we are to vindicate moral reasoning in politics, Elisabeth Ellis argues in this original and provocative work, we must focus on the conditions of political discourse rather than the contents of any particular ethical system. Written in an engaging...
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Animal Welfare: Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications
by Richard P. Haynes Publisher Comments Members of the a oeanimal welfare science communitya, which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than...
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