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by Immanuel Kant Publisher Comments The second, corrected edition of the first and only complete English translation of Kant's highly influential introduction to philosophy, presenting both the terminological and structural basis for his philosophical system, and offering an invaluable key... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Soren Kierkegaard Publisher Comments A simple psychologically deliberation on the dogmatic issue of hereditary sin.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jacques Bouveresse Publisher Comments Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis, and it is of utmost... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Kurtz Publisher Comments "Kurtz is one of the rare intellectuals of our time, the most energetic and best informed of the humanists". -- The Christian... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas Robe Malthus Publisher Comments The principal objects which human punishments have in view are undoubtedly restraint and example; restraint, or removal, of an individual member whose vicious habits are likely to be prejudicial to the society'; and example, which by expressing the sense... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Terence Irwin Publisher Comments This exceptional book examines and explains Plato's answer to the normative question, "How ought we to live?" It discusses Plato's conception of the virtues; his views about the connection between the virtues and happiness; and the account of reason... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Perez Zagorin Synopsis Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution. Zagorin's is the first biography in many years to present a comprehensive account of the entire sweep of Bacon's thought and its enduring influence. 20... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jean Jacqu Rousseau Publisher Comments This modern translation of this key work of 18th-century philosophy includes a brief introduction to the works as well as abundant notes that range from simple explanations to speculative interpretations.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Colin Mcginn Publisher Comments McGinn's latest brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that illuminates both. Setting out to enrich the domain of moral reflection by showing the value of literary texts as sources of moral illumination, McGinn starts by setting... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James Garvey Publisher Comments From Plato to Popper, Descartes to Wittgenstein, this essential guide profiles the top 20 greatest books in philosophy for those who have just never quite found the time to read them.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Sylvan Barnet Publisher Comments - A concise text on critical thinking, reading, writing, and argument. The three chapters in Part One show students how to recognize and evaluate assumptions as a prelude to annotating, summarizing, and analyzing arguments. The three chapters in Part Two... (read more) List Price $51.25 Your price $8.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Heil Publisher Comments This book aims at reconciling the emerging conceptions of mind and their contents that have, in recent years, come to seem irreconcilable. Post-Cartesian philosophers face the challenge of comprehending minds as natural objects possessing apparently non... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $22.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Rorty Publisher Comments Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David S Ferris Publisher Comments This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin.... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bryan Magee Publisher Comments Based on a highly successful BBC television series, this book presents fifteen dialogues between author and broadcaster Bryan Magee and some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Isaiah Berlin considers the fundamental question... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mary Warnock Publisher Comments In an intelligent and engaging memoir, philosopher Mary Warnock reflects on some of the people who have influenced or intrigued her during her career, offering a highly personal view of an important period in 20th-century history.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $1.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Henry S Richardson Publisher Comments This book argues against philosophical opponents, that we can determine our ends or goals rationally.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $34.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Roger Pol Droit Publisher Comments Say your name aloud to yourself in a quiet room. Imagine peeling an apple in your mind. Take the subway without trying to get anywhere. The simple meditations in this book have the potential to shake us awake from our preconceived certainties: our own... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Hume Publisher Comments How do we know that God exists? One of Britain's greatest 18th-century philosophers addresses the age-old question in this timeless dialogue. Equally captivating as a philosophical argument and as a work of literature, this classic is particularly... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jim Powell Synopsis Although no one knows exactly what postmodernism is, "Postmodernism for Beginners" gives a perfectly clear explanation of the subject. Author Jim Powell describes postmodernism as a series of "maps" that helps people find their way through a changing... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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