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by Christopher S Hill  Publisher Comments There is an important family of semantic notions that are applied to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts--as when one says that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Christopher Hill presents a theory of the content of... (read more)  List Price $23.00 Your price $9.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Al Gini Publisher Comments Faced with ethical decisions on a daily basis, Ali Gini examines why it's so difficult for individuals and corporations to do the right thing. He considers how being good involves an active relationship towards others and that merely being good by... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Francine Du Pl Gray Publisher Comments This stirring portrait of Simone Weil (1909-1943), one of the most brilliant and profoundly passionate women of our time, follows the life of this enigmatic French philosopher from her early days as a non-conformist, left-wing student to her anarchist... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Paul Sartre Publisher Comments Truth and Existence, written in response to Martin Heidegger's Essence of Truth, is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging text not... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Avrum Stroll Publisher Comments Spanning Ludwig Wittgenstein's entire career, from his student days at Cambridge to entires inserted into a notebook two days before his death, this guide outlines the unconventional backdrop to Wittgenstein's philosophical achievements: his dramatic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments In Derrida in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Derrida's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Derrida's writings; a... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by G S Kirk Publisher Comments Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century B.C. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hazel Rowley Publisher Comments Passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are one of the world's legendary couples. Their committed but notoriously open union generated no end of controversy in their day. Biographer Hazel Rowley... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Arneil Publisher Comments This book considers the context of the colonial policies of Britain, Locke's contribution to them, and the importance of these ideas to his theory of property. It also reconsiders the debate about John Locke's influence in America, challenging a number... (read more) List Price $59.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Owen J Flanagan Publisher Comments Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter Flanagan develops a neurophilosophical theory of subjective mental life. He... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claude Mediavilla Publisher Comments Claude Mediavilla brings to the Greek text his training as both a painter and calligrapher, marrying modern variants of both medium and style with classical forms in a way that brings Epictetus’ words to life with beauty and startling immediacy... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Franck Publisher Comments In an inspirational act of faith and hope, nearly one hundred contributors--social activists, thinkers, artists and spiritual leaders--reflect with poignant candor on our shared human condition and attempt to define a core set of human values in our... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Frame Synopsis These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive notes helping students appreciate the depth and clarity of Montaigne's thinking. The text includes Books 1,... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Franz Kafka Publisher Comments The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Illness set him free to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Isaiah Berlin Publisher Comments "These are not only wonderfully engaging lectures, but by now also a historical document of considerable importance.... What was so good about the way Berlin tackled Romanticism was that he allowed for the variety of ideas and attitudes that so marked... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Keith Yandell Publisher Comments This book addresses fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion. Can religious experience provide evidence for religious belief? If so, how? Keith Yandell argues against the notion that religious experience is ineffable, while advocating the view... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dave Robinson Publisher Comments Philosophers have always enjoyed posing awkward but fundamentally important questions. What is truth? Without being obscure or solemn, here is a comprehensive guide to all significant philosophers of the Western world.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Immanuel Kant Publisher Comments A new edition of a seminal text in the history of moral philosophy.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Isaiah Berlin Publisher Comments The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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