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by John Foster  Publisher Comments Dualism is a doctrine engaged on two fronts. It affirms a thesis about the mind, in opposition to various forms of materialism and mental reductionism, and a thesis about the physical world, in opposition to various forms of mentalism and idealism. "The... (read more)  List Price $26.99 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Plato Publisher Comments The mysterious preamble to Timaeus contains the first account in literature of Atlantis, while the fragmentary Critias, unfinished by its author, expounds the nature of the lost continent's ideal society.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sean P Oconnell Publisher Comments What does it mean to claim to be gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, straight, or to belong to some racial category, or to be a teenager or a senior citizen? Taking as its focal point the articulation of sexual orientation, Outspeak adopts a narrative... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Hume Synopsis This volume includes Hume's chapters on religion from "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" in addition to the three "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", a classic text of 18th century rational theology and the philosophy of religion.... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Heidegger Publisher Comments In a searching exposition of the metaphysical problems underpinning Leibniz's theory of logical judgment, Heidegger establishes that a given theory of logic is rooted in a certain conception of Being. He explores the significance of Western logic as a... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by C D C Reeve Publisher Comments Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. Looking at love in light of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments Simon Blackburn explores the notion of truth, the philosophical wars that have been fought over it and whether such battles can ever be resolved. Both a compelling personal argument and a fascinating exploration of the way the concept has changed through... (read more) Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Krzysztof Ziarek Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking volume, Krzysztof Ziarek rethinks modern experience by bringing together philosophical critiques of modernity and avant-garde poetry. Ziarek explores, through selective readings of avant-garde poetry, the key aspects of the radical... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Machiavelli And Brown Publisher Comments Set amid the ferment and factionalism of early modern Italy, Life of Castruccio Castracani is a vivid and action-packed account of the rise and fall of a very "Machiavellian" prince. A charismatic warlord of the early 14th century, Castruccio Castracani... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by I F Stone Publisher Comments In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $1.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kieron Ohara Publisher Comments Argues that what is important is not 'what facts you know', but 'what you know how to do', and the essential contrast is not between knowledge and belief, but between knowledge and information.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $1.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jurgen Habermas Publisher Comments Student Protest, Science, and Politics Translated by Jeremy J... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugo A. Meynell Synopsis In this provocative book, Hugo A. Meynell sets out to describe what is known about "postmodernism". He criticizes its defects, calls attention to its dangers, and outlines a new way of thinking which combines postmodernism's best features with those of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcia Cavell Publisher Comments Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. A "subject" is a creature, we may say, who recognizes herself as an "I", taking in the world from her own... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Heidegger Publisher Comments In this volume Martin Heidegger confronts the philosophical problems of language and begins to unfold the meaning begind his famous and little understood phrase "Language is the House of Being."<P>The "Dialogue on Language," between Heidegger and a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jay Stevenson Publisher Comments You're no idiot, of course. You think about your home, your family, and how to get to the office on time. But when it comes to understanding what life is all about, you don't know your Plato from your Kierkegaard. Don't stop seeking the answers! The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Nehamas Publisher Comments For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an art of living. This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of all... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Amelie Rorty Publisher Comments Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J. Penella Publisher Comments Fifteen fourth-century A.D. Byzantine orations never translated into English before.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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