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Who Are We?: Theories of Human Nature by Louis P Pojman Publisher Comments What is our nature? What is this enigma that we call human? Who are we? Since the dawn of human history, people have exhibited wildly contradictory qualities: good and evil, love and hate, strength and weakness, kindness and cruelty, aggressiveness and... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Words Without Objects: Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity by Henry Laycock Publisher Comments A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is however one of the main targets of Henry Laycock's book; for it is seriously incomplete. The picture, he argues, leaves no... (read more) List Price $103.75 Your price: $45.00 Used - Hardcover
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In Search of Civilization by John Armstrong Publisher Comments “A self-effacing, humane and unparanoid call to change our wealthy yet often barbaric world for the better.” * In this provocative cri de coeur, the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization from irrelevance and connects it... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ethics History Theory & Contemporary 2ND Edition by Steven Cahn Publisher Comments The most comprehensive collection of its kind, Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, 2/e is organized into three sections, providing instructors with flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses in moral philosophy. The first... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Introduction to Mill's Utilitarian Ethics by Henry R West Publisher Comments John Stuart Mill was the leading British philosopher of the nineteenth century and his famous essay Utilitarianism is the most influential statement of this philosophical approach. Henry West's introduction to utilitarianism serves as both a commentary... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Richard Rorty: Prophet and Poet of the New Pragmatism (SUNY Series in Philosophy) by David L Hall Publisher Comments This book is a discussion of the nature and import of Richard Rorty's philosophy, particularly as it relates to his reevaluation of American pragmatism.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Human Condition (Thinking in Action) by Janicaud Publisher Comments The potential to clone, augment, and repair human beings is pushing the very concept of the human to its limit. Fantasies and metaphors of a supposedly monstrous and inhuman future increasingly dominate films, art and popular culture. On the Human... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy (Russian Literature and Thought) by Randall A Poole Publisher Comments The appearance of Problems of Idealism in 1902 was a watershed in the vibrant cultural renaissance known as the Russian Silver Age. A collection of twelve essays by some of Russia's most important philosophical thinkers, the volume has become a classic... (read more) List Price $79.75 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Jurgen Habermas Publisher Comments edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff Since its appearance in English translation in 1996, Jürgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms has become the focus of a productive dialogue between German and Anglo-American legal and political... (read more) Your price: $44.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich Publisher Comments Philosophy can be intriguing--and at times baffling. It deals with the central problems of the human condition--with important questions of free will, morality, life after death, the limits of logic and reason--though often in rather esoteric terms. Now,... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paranoia and Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western Thought by John C Hampsey Publisher Comments A hybrid in both content and style, Paranoia and Contentment is a bold and original investigation into Western intellectual history. John Hampsey approaches paranoia not as a clinical term for an irrational sense of persecution but from a uniquely... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays by Isaiah Berlin Publisher Comments "In a dark century, he showed what a life of the mind should be: skeptical, ironical, dispassionate and free."--Michael... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Philosophy: The World's Greatest Thinkers by Philip Stokes Publisher Comments Concise and informative, this book provides an ideal introduction to philosophical ideas and the effect they have had on the wider world. Both easy to use and a stimulating read, this is an ideal reference for anybody interested in philosophy and... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Logic and Its Limits by Patrick Shaw Publisher Comments `This book grew out of the conviction, not in itself strange or startling, that the ordinary person can and should think straight rather than crooked.' Patrick Shaw has written a commonsense introduction to the use of logic in everyday thought and... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981-82 by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, one of the world's most prestigious institutions. Faculty at the Collège give public lectures, in which... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Blackwell Readings in Philosophy #8: Contractarianism/Contractualism by Stephen Darwall Publisher Comments Contractarianism/Contractualism collects for the first time both major classical sources and central contemporary discussions of these important approaches to philosophical ethics. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Religion and Postmodernism) by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. "Let us adopt a naive... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pascal's Wager: The Man Who Played Dice with God by James A Connor Publisher Comments In a major biography of Blaise Pascal, James Connor explores both the intellectual giant whose theory of probability paved the way for modernity and the devout religious mystic who dared apply probability to faith. A child prodigy, Pascal made essential... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Science, Understanding, and Justice: The Philosophical Essays of Martin Eger by Martin Eger Publisher Comments In this collection of essays written between 1972 and 1999, the late Martin Eger applies the hermeneutic approach to the most controversial facets of science, education, and ethics. A prominent aspect of the book is Eger's concern with how scientific... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer Publisher Comments Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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