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by Robert Coles  Publisher Comments Simone Weil (1906-1943) was a writer and philosopher who devoted her life to a search for God while avoiding membership in organized religion. She wrote with the clarity of a brilliant mind educated in the best French schools, the social conscience of a... (read more)  List Price $16.95 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ray Monk Publisher Comments Wittgenstein possessed one of the most acute philosophical minds of the 20th century. In this incisive portrait, Monk offers a unique insight into the life and work of a modern genius who radically redirected philosophical thought in our time.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas White Publisher Comments In this brief history, philosopher Nicholas White reviews 2,500 years of philosophical thought about happiness.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Herrn Smith Publisher Comments controversies, Smith develops fresh ways to understand their motives and energies, and more positive ways to see the operations of intellectual conflict more generally.... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lloyd Spencer Publisher Comments A vital addition to Icon's highly successful and expanding series of Introducing books on philosophy subjects.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edith Wyschogrod Publisher Comments The Ethical is a collection of readings on ethics and the nature of morality by some of the most important contemporary philosophers in the continental tradition.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $22.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Law Publisher Comments As we stuff ourselves with plumped-up turkeys, unwrap the latest useless gadget, and gather round the family tree, what real relevance does the festive season have and why do we perpetuate it? The Xmas Files is designed to be a fun book, but one... (read more) Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jody Azzouni Publisher Comments If we must take mathematical statements to be true, must we also believe in the existence of abstracta, eternal invisible mathematical objects accessible only by the power of pure thought? Jody Azzouni says no, and he demonstrates why not.... (read more) List Price $83.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato Publisher Comments One of Platos most profound and beautiful works, "Phaedrus" takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an amateur rhetorical enthusiast, on the topic of passionate or romantic love. Concerned with establishing principles of rhetoric, it... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Ray Griffin Publisher Comments In this book, David Ray Griffin, best known for his work on the problem of evil, turns his attention to the even more controversial topic of parapsychology. Griffin examines why scientists, philosophers, and theologians have held parapsychology in... (read more) Your price $23.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Merril Squier Publisher Comments Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation--these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R William Franklin Publisher Comments Christian humanism is an aspect of the gospel showing new signs of life. Long neglected and often misunderstood, Christian humanism is nothing other than the traditional message of Christianity with the accent on how the coming of Christ into the world... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henri Bergson Publisher Comments One of the major works of an important modem philosopher, < i> Matter and Memory< /i> investigates the autonomous yet interconnected planes formed by matter and perception on the one hand and memory and time on the other.< br /> < br... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugh J Silverman Publisher Comments The continental tradition in philosophy has long focused its energies on the question of foundations. These ssays reopen conventional understandings of the classical themes on which philosophy has been based since its inception.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aristotle And Lord Publisher Comments This new translation of one of the fundamental texts of Western political thought combines strict fidelity to Aristotle's Greek with a contemporary English prose style. Lord's intention throughout is to retain Aristotle's distinctive style. The... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by C M Woodhouse Publisher Comments This study of the Byzantine philosopher George Gemistos Plethon includes the first complete translation of his treatise, On the Differences of Aristotle from Plato, and summarizes all his other works. Woodhouse emphasizes Plethon's controversy with... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Phillip Ferreira Publisher Comments This book examines some of the central logical and epistemological doctrines of British idealist philosopher, F. H. Bradley. Through a detailed analysis of Bradley's doctrine of judgment and its relation to "feeling", Phillip Ferreira views as mistaken... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alister Mcgrath Publisher Comments In this bold and provocative new book, the author of In the Beginning and The Reenchantment of Nature challenges the widely held assumption that the world is becoming more secular and demonstrates why atheism cannot provide the moral and intellectual... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Bird Publisher Comments Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that causal properties are essentially dispositional properties. Alexander Bird develops and defends a dispositional... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price $46.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Midgley Publisher Comments In "Wisdom, Information and Wonder," Mary Midgley tackles the question at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for? The author rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in today's high technology world and... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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