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Dispositional Properties
by David Weissman  Publisher Comments In Dispositional Properties, David Weissman attacks a problem central to the philosophy of mind and, by implication, to the theory of being: Are there potentialities, capabilities, which dispose the mind to think in one way rather than another? The...
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Subversion and Subsidy: Contemporary Art and Aesthetics (French List)
by Rainer Rochlitz Publisher Comments Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themselves...
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iPod and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
by Dylan E. Wittkower Publisher Comments The iPod is transforming the lives of millions, changing their relationship to music and to each other. In iPod and Philosophy, 18 philosophers with diverse specialties and points of view bring their expertise to bear on this international cultural...
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Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
by Leonard Koren Publisher Comments This is an updated version of the enduring classic that first introduced the concept of imperfect beauty to the West. Text, images, and book design seamlessly meld into a wabi-sabi-like experience. Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent...
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Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future: Insurrection, Movement, Commons
by Werner Bonefeld Publisher Comments This collection of critical essays examines the socio-historical constitution of capitalism and its dynamic. It analyzes the contemporary means of subversion-in-movement, and assesses the trajectory of struggles in the Americas, from Argentina to Mexico,...
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Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" (Indiana Philosophical Guides)
by Douglas Burnham Synopsis Everything you need to know about Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" in one volume...
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Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
by R. Buckminster Fuller Publisher Comments Buckminster Fuller (1895a 1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his...
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An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
by Karyn L. Lai Publisher Comments This comprehensive introductory textbook to early Chinese philosophy covers a range of philosophical traditions which arose during the Spring and Autumn (722-476 BCE) and Warring States (475-221 BCE) periods in China, including Confucianism, Mohism...
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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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Philosophy and Sex
by Robert B. Baker Synopsis This classic sourcebook, which has for three decades helped thousands rethink their views of ethics and human sexuality, is all new and totally revised for the challenges of the 21st century....
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About Philosophy
by Robert P. Wolff Synopsis An introductory philosophy text that covers all the major fields of philosophy in easy-to-read language, interspersed with short selections from the major philosophers. The text has been a best-selling leader in the field for more than thirty years...
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A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy
by James Bono Publisher Comments A Future for the Humanities: Praxis, Heteronomy, Invention brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the pressing question of...
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Existentialism for Beginners (For Beginners)
by David Cogswell Publisher Comments Existentialism For Beginners is a lighthearted romp through the history of a philosophical movement that had broad-reaching influence on Western culture, politics and the arts during the period of mid-19th century through the late 20th century, and still...
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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William Braxton Irvine Publisher Comments One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular...
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All We Need Is a Paradigm All We Need Is a Paradigm: Essays on Science, Economics, and Logic from the "Harvard Essays on Science, Economics, and Logic
by S. Phineas Upham Publisher Comments The Harvard Review of Philosophy has long been a forum for new thoughts in the field — this collection includes some of the most important essays from that publication. Exploring the unexpected ways that philosophy impacts our world, this book...
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Event and World (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
by Claude Romano Publisher Comments The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However central they may be to the question of being in...
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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 book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. It examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity...
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Paradoxes
by R. M. Sainsbury Publisher Comments A paradox can be defined as an unacceptable conclusion derived by apparently acceptable reasoning from apparently acceptable premises. Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary...
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Oxford Handbook of Skepticism
by John Greco Publisher Comments In the history of philosophical thought, few themes loom as large as skepticism. Skepticism has been the most visible and important part of debates about knowledge. Skepticism at its most basic questions our cognitive achievements, challenges our ability...
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Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence
by David Benatar Publisher Comments Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about whether...
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