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by Thomas C Brickhouse  Publisher Comments This text provides an introduction to Socrates—both the charismatic, controversial historical figure and the essential Socratic philosophy. Written at a beginning level but incorporating recent scholarship, The Philosophy of Socrates offers... (read more)  List Price $30.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by D M Armstrong Publisher Comments This classic work of recent philosophy was first published in 1968, and remains the most compelling and comprehensive statement of the view that the mind is material or physical. In "A Materialist Theory of the Mind," D. M. Armstrong provided insight... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions... (read more) List Price $24.75 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Sokal Publisher Comments In 1996, Alan Sokal published an essay in the hip intellectual magazine Social Text parodying the scientific but impenetrable lingo of contemporary theorists. Here, Sokal teams up with Jean Bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific concepts in the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ted Dracos Publisher Comments As the woman who won a longshot, landmark Supreme Court case to ban prayer in public schools--and also the fraudulent millionaire murdered for her money--Madalyn Murray O'Hair was one of the most powerful personalities of the twentieth century. Drawing... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Epictetus Publisher Comments The essence of perennial Stoic wisdom in aphorisms of stunning insight and simplicity. The West's first and best little instruction book offers thoroughly contemporary and pragmatic reflections on how best to live with serenity and joy.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Metzinger Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [635]-662) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $64.00 Your price $44.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by D Q Mcinerny Publisher Comments Whether regarded as a science, an art, or a skill — ;and it can properly be regarded as all three — logic is the basis of our ability to think, analyze, argue, and communicate. Indeed, logic goes to the very core of what we mean by human... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas C Oden Review [D]iscover a world bursting with both humor and pathos, a world in which despair and hope, doubt and belief, God and self collide in passionate encounter.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alain Finkielkraut Publisher Comments The notion that all the world's peoples constitute a brotherhood of man is not a given among all human beings -- it is rather the product of history. So suggests acclaimed philosopher Alain Finkielkraut in In the Name of Humanity, an unsettling... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tibor R Machan Publisher Comments The Man Without a Hobby is the memoir of Tibor Machan, a first generation refugee who escaped both a political and a personal tyranny early in his life and embarked upon a search for an understanding of what it means to live freely and wisely. The book... (read more) Your price $26.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David H Lund Publisher Comments In philosophical work on the nature of the conscious self, the prevailing views are reductionist and materialist--i.e., the conscious self, if considered to be anything more than a remarkably tenacious illusion, is reduced to a collection of experiences... (read more) List Price $59.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ap Martinich Synopsis This volume has aims to help those with little or no experience in philosophy to write successfully. By improving students' ability to present their knowledge and thoughts clearly, it helps them gain confidence in their essay-writing skills.... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Van Heijenoort Publisher Comments The fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic, some of them never before available in English translation, are here gathered together for the first time. Modern logic, heralded by Leibniz, may be said to have been initiated by Boole,... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Sallis Publisher Comments In Deliminations John Sallis characterizes the end of metaphysics as a limit, or horizon, both enclosing metaphysical thought and opening the fields of thinking beyond it.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yemima Ben Menahem Publisher Comments The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twentieth-century philosophy, constituting a revolution comparable to Kant's Copernican revolution. This is... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $67.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Janet Lowe Publisher Comments Billy Graham, häufig als bekanntester Prediger der Welt bezeichnet, sprach zu mehr Menschen als jeder seiner Vorgänger in der Geschichte der Religion. Der Einfluß dieses charismatischen Mannes reicht weit über die Kanzel hinaus... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter H Spader Publisher Comments Peter Spader has written a magisterial study on Max Scheler, one of phenomenologys earliest and greatest figures, whose theory of ethical personalism has become a major voice in the formulation of phenomenological ethics today. Spader follows Schelers... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry A Hickman Publisher Comments This book does much to disple the old canard that John Dewey was guilty of "scientism" and a reverent worship of technological progress. Indeed, Dewey predated the Frankfurt school in his warnings about the dangers inherent in a machine culture. With new... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments From the awesome thrill of the sublime to the delightful perfection of the beautiful, Edmund Burke gives an involving account of our sensory, imaginative, and judgmental process and its relation to artistic pleasure -- it is a text that influenced the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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