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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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Theodor W Adorno Publisher Comments Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world. Adorno attempts here to make Kant's thought comprehensible to students by focusing on what he regards as problematic aspects of Kant's philosophy. Adorno examines Kant's dualism and what he calls... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Christina Howells Publisher Comments This is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date surveys of the philosophy of Sartre, by some of the foremost interpreters in the United States and Europe. The essays are both expository and original, and cover Sartre's writings on ontology... (read more) List Price $32.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Douglas Krueger Publisher Comments Many questions and concerns arise when believers question the purpose and meaning they suspect is lacking in the lives of nonbelievers. Douglas Krueger contends that atheism is a powerful alternative to religion, yet it is also one of the most... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John D Caputo Publisher Comments John D. Caputo undertakes a passionate, poetic, and satiric search for the basis of an ethics in the postmodern situation. Caputo defends the notion of obligation without ethics, of responsibility without the support of ethical foundations.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bernard Rosen Book News Annotation Rosen (Ohio State U.) argues that normative ethical theory is properly the focus of moral philosophy. He supports his contention with the meta-philosophical position that the theories function as do other theories, even empirical ones, in explaining... (read more) Your price $8.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James V Schall Publisher Comments To the ears of ceaselessly busy and ambitious modern Westerners, it will come as a shock, and perhaps as an insult, to be told that human affairs are "unserious." But this fundamental truth is exactly what James Schall, following Plato, has to teach us... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by George Berkley Publisher Comments 'Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous'. Edited by Kenneth Winkler.... (read more) Your price $0.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Raymond W Gibbs Publisher Comments This volume examines the role that authorship plays in people??'s experience of language and art as meaningful human artifacts.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Frederick Doepke Publisher Comments PHILOSOPHY: CONFRONTING THE UNAVOIDABLE is a broad yet highly coherent presentation of philosophy in a story-like format, linking successively issues in logic (which, using the Kantian taxonomy, includes epistemology), metaphysics, ethics, and social... (read more) Your price $45.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Clendenning Publisher Comments Now back in print, The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce reappears in a substantially rewritten and expanded edition of the first comprehensive biography, originally published to great acclaim in 1985. Newly discovered material has allowed John... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Luc Ferry Publisher Comments PrefaceIntroduction1. The Revolution of Taste2. Between Heart and Reason3. The Kantian Moment: The Subject of Reflection4. The Hegelian Moment: The Absolute Subject or the Death of Art5. The Nietzschean Moment: The Shattered Subject and the Onset of... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Clare Carlisle Publisher Comments Soren Kierkegaard's proposal of "repetition" as the new category of truth signaled the beginning of existentialist thought, turning philosophical attention from the pursuit of objective knowledge to the movement of becoming that characterizes each... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $41.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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