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Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting by Daniel C Dennett Publisher Comments Anyone who has wondered if free will is just an illusion or has asked could I have chosen otherwise? after performing some rash deed will find this book an absorbing discussion of an endlessly fascinating subject. Daniel Dennett, whose previous books... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Search for a Method by Jean Paul Sartre Publisher Comments 'Search for a Method' is a separate and introductory essay published together with 'Critique of Dialectical Reason'. It is the search for a method by which the existentialist Marxist may hope to understand both individual persons and history.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin Publisher Comments "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kant, Taken from Great Philosophers #1: Kant by Karl Jaspers Publisher Comments A masterful exploration of Kants intellectual development, theory of knowledge, politics, and ethics. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy by Robert Audi Publisher Comments This is the most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume dictionary of philosophy available in English. It contains over 4,000 entries, which range in length from 100 to 4,000 words. The Dictionary has been written by an international team of over 350... (read more) List Price $200.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Symposium (Penguin Classics) by Plato Publisher Comments In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder Publisher Comments One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? From that strange--but irresistible--beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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How We Think (97 Edition) by John Dewey Publisher Comments The dean of American philosophers shares his views on methods of training students to think well. His considerations include inductive and deductive logic, interpreting facts, concrete and abstract thinking, the roles of activity, language, and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The City of Ladies (Penguin Great Ideas) by Christine De Pizan Publisher Comments The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton Publisher Comments From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles. Solace for the broken heart can be... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Meaning of Friendship by Mark Vernon Publisher Comments A tremendous burden is being placed on friends. Individuals want friends more than family. Couples want to marry a friend - a very novel idea. And at the social level, politicians, sociologists, even bishops realise that in the anonymity of the networked... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) by Eric Hoffer Publisher Comments A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens Staff Pick One of the most informed journalists in the country (he seems to have been everywhere, met everyone, and read everything), he is also one of the most entertaining. His command of the language is legendary; his wit ferocious. His skill in marshalling... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy by Christopher Falzon Synopsis Philosophy Goes to the Movies is a new kind of introduction to philosophy that makes use of the movies to explore philosophical ideas and positions. From art-house movies like Cinema Paradiso to Hollywood blockbusters like The Matrix, the movies we have... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle Publisher Comments This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plato's Phaedo by Plato Publisher Comments English translation. Introduction and glossary. The glossary of key terms is a unique addition to Platonic literature by which concepts central to each dialogue are discussed and cross-referenced as to their occurrences throughout the work. In such a way... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Certainty (69 Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein Publisher Comments Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defense of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Dialogues of Plato (Signet Classics) by Plato Publisher Comments One of the world's most respected classical scholars offers translations of the complete texts of "The Republic, Apology of Socrates, " "Crito, " "Phaedo, " "Ion, " "Meno, " and "Symposium."... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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