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The Last Word
by Thomas Nagel  Publisher Comments If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view - principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this...
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Hume : Very Short Introduction (01 Edition)
by Alfred J. Ayer Publisher Comments Hume's "naturalist" approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original theories about perception, self-identity, causation, morality, politics, and religion, all of which are discussed in this stimulating introduction by A.J...
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Action Philosophers! #02: The Lives and Thoughts of History's A-List Brain Trust
by Fred Van Lente Publisher Comments KARL MARX: The People'ss Hero! JACQUES DERRIDA: The Deconstructonator! ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Three Hundred Pounds of Theological Thaumaturgy! They'sre not just great thinkers... They also make great comics! ACTION PHILOSOPHERS details the lives and...
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Happiness & Contemplation
by Josef Pieper Publisher Comments "The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation".<P>In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom in order to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological...
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Thinking From a To Z (3RD 07 Edition)
by Nigel Warburton Publisher Comments What is ???humpty-dumptying???? Do ???arguments from analogy??? ever stand up? How do I know when someone is using ???weasel words???? What??'s the difference between a ???red herring??? and a ???straw man???? This superb book, now in its third edition...
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Art and Intellect in the Philosophy of Etienne Gilson (Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy)
by Francesca Aran Murphy Publisher Comments In Art and Intellect in the Philosophy of Etienne Gilson, Francesca Aran Murphy tells the story of this French philosopher's struggle to reconcile faith and reason. In his lifetime, Gilson often stood alone in presenting Saint Thomas Aquinas as a...
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Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder
by Isaiah Berlin Publisher Comments "Isaiah Berlin's main preoccupation throughout his productive life was understand the nature of the modern reaction against the Enlightenment. These essays on Vico, Herder, and Hamann belong with his other profound and influential studies of the leading...
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 5: Modern Philosophy: The British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume
by Frederick Copleston Publisher Comments Conceived originally as a serious presentatin of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume "A History Of Philosophy" has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as...
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Naturalistic Inquiry
by Yvonna Lincoln Publisher Comments Naturalistic Inquiry provides social scientists with a basic but comprehensive rationale for non-positivistic approaches to research. It confronts the basic premise underlying the scientific tradition that all questions can be answered by employing...
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Popular Culture and Philosophy #4: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale
by James B South Publisher Comments How can Buffy’s religious symbolism be squared with creator Joss Whedon’s professed atheism? Is Buffy truly a Kierkegaardian knight of faith? Do Faith’s corruption and return to the good life demonstrate Platonic eudaimonism? Or do they...
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 9: Modern Philosophy from the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss
by Frederick Copleston Publisher Comments Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as...
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Western Philosophy: An Illustrated Guide
by David Papineau Publisher Comments What does it mean for someone to exist? What is truth? Are we free to choose to think or act? What is consciousness? Is human cloning justifiable? These are just some of the questions philosophers have attempted to answer, striking right at the heart of...
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The Grateful Dead and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
by Steven (edt) Gimbel Publisher Comments "The Grateful Dead and Philosophy" contains essays from 20 professional philosophers whose love of the Dead's music and scene have led them to reflect on different philosophical questions that have arisen from the enigma that is the Grateful Dead. Coming...
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Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism
by Dieter Henrich Publisher Comments Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German Idealism were the first contact a major German philosopher had made with an American audience since the onset of World War II. They remain one of...
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Complete Essays : Montaigne (91 Edition)
by Michel De Montaigne Publisher Comments In 1572 Montaigne retired from public life and began the reading and writing which were to develop into "assays" of his thoughts and opinions. Nobody in Western civilization had ever tried to do what Montaigne set out to do. In a vivid, contemporary...
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)
by Paul M. Johnson Publisher Comments A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril...
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History of Western Philosophy (45 Edition)
by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit....
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Talking Philosophy: Dialogues with Fifteen Leading Philosophers
by Bryan Magee Publisher Comments Based on a highly successful BBC television series, this book presents fifteen dialogues between author and broadcaster Bryan Magee and some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Isaiah Berlin considers the fundamental question...
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All Life Is Problem Solving
by Karl Popper Publisher Comments "All Life is Problem Solving" is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on some of the main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. The collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in...
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Thomas Kuhn (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus)
by Thomas Nickles Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-284) and index....
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