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by Michael A Bishop  Publisher Comments Bishop and Trout here present a unique and provocative new approach to epistemology (the theory of human knowledge and reasoning). Their approach aims to liberate epistemology from the scholastic debates of standard analytic epistemology, and treat it as... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard Rorty Publisher Comments In "Achieving Our Country", one of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role its might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J V Luce Synopsis Describes the origins of philosophy, discusses the work of Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and examines basic philosophical concepts.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerry A Fodor Publisher Comments The renowned philosopher Jerry Fodor, a leading figure in the study of the mind for more than twenty years, presents a strikingly original theory on the basic constituents of thought. He suggests that the heart of cognitive science is its theory of... (read more) Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Hobbes Publisher Comments 'S. A. Lloyd proposes a radically new interpretation of Hobbes\'s Leviathan that shows transcendent interests - interests that override the fear of death - to be crucial to both Hobbes\'s analysis of social disorder and his proposed remedy to it. Most... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher S Hill Publisher Comments There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts--as when one says that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Christopher Hill presents a theory of the content of... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Irwin 
Publisher Comments This unconventional and lighthearted introduction to the ideas of the major Western philosophers examines The Simpsons — TV’s favorite animated family. The authors look beyond the jokes, the crudeness, the attacks on society — and see a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Irwin Publisher Comments Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school--they actually paid $5.98 for The $... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Pinkard Publisher Comments A complete, up-to-date account of his life and an overview of the philosophical concepts in Hegel’s work.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by A E Taylor Publisher Comments Foremost Platonist examines Aristotle's thought, historical background, influence, present-day application.... (read more) Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, "Truth" manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Powell Synopsis Although no one knows exactly what postmodernism is, "Postmodernism for Beginners" gives a perfectly clear explanation of the subject. Author Jim Powell describes postmodernism as a series of "maps" that helps people find their way through a changing... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Diderot Publisher Comments Denis Diderot (1713-84), editor of the Encyclopedie and supreme figure of the Enlightenment, began writing The Nun as a practical joke.The joke got out of hand and resulted in one of the most remarkable novels of the eighteenth century. Through the story... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aristotle And Roberts Publisher Comments Focusing on the use of language as both a vehicle and a tool to shape persuasive argument, Aristotle delineates with remarkable insight both practical and aesthetic elements and their proper combination in effective presentation, oral or written. He also... (read more) Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bo Dahlbom Publisher Comments This volume includes a critical assessment of Dennett's views on behaviorism and the subjectivity of consciousness, the nature of perception and mental representation. (Philosophy)... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Justin D Kaplan Publisher Comments In this volume of selections from Aristotle, the editor has included the most widely read, studied and quoted works of the great philosopher.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Harry G Frankfurt Publisher Comments This beautifully written book by one of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gertrude Himmelfarb Publisher Comments In these brilliant essays, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most respected scholars of Victorian thought and culture, explores the many facets, public and private, of the Victorian idea of morality. Incisively and provocatively she illuminates the... (read more) List Price $18.90 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David R. Cerbone Publisher Comments Understanding Phenomenology traces phenomenology's historical development, beginning with its founder, Edmund Husserl, and his pure or transcendental phenomenology and continuing with the later, existential phenomenology of Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley J Grenz Publisher Comments Grenz examines the topography of postmodernism, a phenomenon everyone acknowledges, but has difficulty describing with precision. Of particular significance is his discussion of the challenges this cultural shift presents to the church.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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