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by Colin Mcginn  Publisher Comments Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life lived on both sides of the Atlantic.The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England... (read more)  List Price $25.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Catherine Osborne Publisher Comments A lively and thematic (rather than chronological), treatment of early Greek philosophy.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul M Churchland Publisher Comments A new picture of the mind is emerging, and explanations now exist for what has so long seemed mysterious. This real understanding of how the biological brain works -- of how we work -- has generated a mood of excitement that is shared in a half-dozen... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon During Publisher Comments The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance in the formation of the 'new historicism' and 'culture materialism' which currently dominate international literary studies.... (read more) Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard N. Tuttle Publisher Comments The twenty-first century needs a new paradigm for philosophy, because both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy have ended in analytic sterility and deconstructive nihilism. They have ignored the radical reality of human life, which all other... (read more) Your price $32.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carl Pletsch Publisher Comments Provocative and ...persuasive...{Pletsch} has illuminated the process by which a gifted but awkward philology student became one of the modern world's most original thinkers... Deserves to be read...by anyone interested in the dynamics of creative... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R M Sainsbury Publisher Comments This revised and expanded edition provides a valuable and accessible introduction to paradoxes.... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Boyle Publisher Comments An important treatise by one of the leading mechanical philosophers of the seventeenth century.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by F W J Schelling Publisher Comments Appearing here in English for the first time, this isF.W.J. Schelling's vital document of the attempts of German idealism and Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Swindal Publisher Comments Jurgen Habermas, particularly in his master work Theory of Communicative Action (1981), takes us several of the basic insights of the philosophical tradition of reflection initiated by Kant, and sets it on a new and highly original emancipative path. He... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $15.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hilary Putnam Publisher Comments "Words and Life" offers a sweeping account of the sources of several of the central problems of philosophy, past and present. A unifying theme of the volume is that reductionism, scientism, and old-style disenchanted naturalism tend to be obstacles to... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Hunter Publisher Comments This book presents a new view of Robert Boyle (1627-91), the leading British scientist in the generation before Newton. It comprises a series of essays by scholars from Europe and North America that scrutinize Boyle's writing on science, philosophy and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $31.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dionysius Longinus Publisher Comments It must be a very unpleasing reflection to anyone who has a just and critical taste of the writings of the ancients to consider how many noble and useful works have been swallowed up in the ocean of time. Of what important value several of them were is... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ludwig Wittgenstein Publisher Comments "Zettel," an en face bilingual edition, collects fragments from Wittgenstein's work between 1929 and 1948 on issues of the mind, mathematics, and language.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancey Murphy Publisher Comments The book examines the shift from modern to postmodern in three areas: epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. Murphy contends that whole clusters of terms in each of these disciplines have taken on new uses in the past fifty years and that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by W V Quine Publisher Comments The appellation "polymath" is often lightly bestowed, but it can be applied with confidence to the celebrated philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine's areas of interest are panoramic, as this lively book amply demonstrates. Moving from A (alphabet... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard B Brandt Publisher Comments The essays reprinted in this collection span a period of almost 30 years and include many classic pieces in metaethical and normative ethical theory.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $31.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roslyn Weiss Publisher Comments In The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies, Roslyn Weiss argues that the Socratic paradoxes—no one does wrong willingly, virtue is knowledge, and all the virtues are one—are best understood as Socrates’ way of combating sophistic views... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rush Rhees Publisher Comments This original critique of Wittgenstein's analogy between language and games, written by one of the philosopher's literary executors and closest friends, has now been updated to include two additional articles. Updated edition of this original critique... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gilbert Harman Publisher Comments This book is a philosophical introduction to ethics. It differs from existing texts by focusing on a basic philosophical problem about morality, its apparent immunity from observational testing. Other texts either ignore this issue altogether, in order... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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