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by John Dewey  Publisher Comments The basic postulate of the text: namely, that the distinctive office, problems and subjectmatter of philosophy grow out of stresses and strains in the community life in which a given form of philosophy arises, and that its specific problems vary with the... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Stanley Benn Publisher Comments This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosophy of action, moral philosophy, and political philosophy.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley I Benn Publisher Comments This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosophy of action, moral philosophy, and political philosophy.... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by George Steiner Publisher Comments "We have no more beginnings", George Steiner begins in this radical book. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, he reflects on the different ways people have of talking about beginnings,... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $7.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Dewey Publisher Comments This volume also includes a collection of essays entitled The Educational Frontier, Dewey’s articles on logic, the outlawry of war, and philosophy for the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and his reviews of Alfred North Whitehead&... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Pearson Publisher Comments With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs, and tireless battles against his critics, priests and king, Roger Pearson's "Voltaire Almighty" brings the father of Enlightenment to vivid life.<BR>" "<BR>"Voltaire... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Murray Clarke Publisher Comments In Reconstructing Reason and Representation, Murray Clarke offers a detailed study of the philosophical implications of evolutionary psychology. In doing so, he offers new solutions to key problems in epistemology and philosophy of mind, including... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $21.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments These concise and enlightening explorations of the world's greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in an entertaining and accessible new fashion. Each book includes a sprightly biographical essay, which includes a view of the man and a simplified... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Bertram Publisher Comments Rousseau's "Social Contract" is a benchmark in political philosophy. It has inspired and influenced moral and political thought since publication and is widely studied for this reason. This "GuideBook" takes a thematic look at the text, discussing and... (read more) Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Haack Synopsis In this important new work, Haack develops an original theory of empirical evidence or justification, and argues its appropriateness to the goals of inquiry. In so doing, Haack provides detailed critical case studies of Lewis's foundationalism; Davidson... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Oconnell Publisher Comments A great thinker once said that "all philosophy is merely footnotes to Plato."Through Plato, Father O'Connell provides us here with an introduction to all philosophy. Designed for beginning students in philosophy, Plato on the Human Paradox examines and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Ryan Synopsis When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives, but universally acknowledged as his country's intellectual voice. Many things conspired to give Dewey an... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mari Ruti Publisher Comments Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. <BR>How does the self care for itself in the posthumanist era? What psychic processes might allow the postmodern subject to find meaning and value... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A. C. Grayling Publisher Comments An in-depth biography of one of the giants of philosophy and science examines the life of Ren Descartes, the seminal scientist, mathematician, traveler, soldier, and spy who transformed seventeenth-century Europe and who became the father of modern... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments These articles are corruscating and intriguing, not least because they show that Baudrillard is still susceptible and alert to influences from social movements and the world beyond the hyper-real.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $18.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tit Lucretius Carus Publisher Comments The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, "De Rerum Natura" -- "On the Nature of Things" -- theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses divine intervention. Derived from the philosophical materialism of the... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E J Lowe Publisher Comments Locke on Human Understanding, is a comprehensive introduction to John Locke's major work, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke's Essay remains a key work in many philosophical fields, notably in epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophies of... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Franco Lyotard Publisher Comments Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have... (read more) Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Erasmus Of Rotterdam Publisher Comments The best introduction to the work of Erasmus, this is one of the finest masterpieces of the sixteenth century, updated and superbly translated to reflect the latest scholarly research.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert R Blake Publisher Comments In a challenging look at traditional Christian and other religious teachings from the point of view of modern science, psychology, and human consciousness, the psychologist author interweaves entertaining stories of his own journey from ordained minister... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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