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by Milton Munitz  Publisher Comments When we read that scientists have come close to pinpointing the "origin of the universe" by means of a Big Bang cosmology, or are engaged in formulating a "theory of everything," as in current ten-dimensional superstring theories of particle physics, can... (read more)  List Price $23.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Garff Publisher Comments Acclaimed as a major cultural event on its publication in Denmark in 2000, this biography, presented in an exceptionally crisp and elegant translation, will be the definitive account of Kierkegaard's life for years to come.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by H Blocker Publisher Comments This book brings philosophical aesthetics into a broader cultural interest in the fine arts and draws together the classics of the history of aesthetics, the mid-twentieth century or "Analytic" aesthetics, and late-twentieth century or "Continental" post-... (read more) List Price $87.95 Your price $18.00 (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 $9.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marsilio Ficino Publisher Comments The Platonic Theologyis a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Guy P Harrison Publisher Comments Whether youre a believer, a complete skeptic, or somewhere in between, youll find Harrisons review of traditional and more recent arguments for the existence of God refreshing, approachable, and enlightening.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato Review "Very usable source. I like the professional inclusion o introduction, notes, bibliography and clear Stephans numbering. All contribute to introducing students to a scholarly text. Book opens easily for ease in reading. I will consider it for future... (read more) List Price $83.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Francis Pears Publisher Comments This is the first of two volumes describing the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy from the Notebooks and the Tractatus to Philosophical Investigations and his other later writings. Volume I is divided into two parts: Part I surveys the whole of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Strathern Publisher Comments Far from being a novelty, this book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Kolak Publisher Comments That what we are directly in contact with is not the objective mind-independent world out there but our own mind is the most difficult insight for philosophy students to grasp. The representational nature of perception, the interpretive elements in our... (read more) List Price $80.95 Your price $14.95 (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 $30.00 Your price $21.95 (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 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 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 David Mills Daniel Publisher Comments A summarized version of "David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", this text is designed to assist university and sixth-form students. With its adherence to Hume's text, it has brief biography of Hume, and examines the importance of the issues... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gianni Vattimo Publisher Comments Vattimo's affirmation of Christianity provides an original and engaging contribution to the debate on religion.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.25 (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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by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments Surprising readers again and again, cultural critic Ilan Stavans creates a dialogue with Vernica Albin to explore love in its many variations.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Zencey Publisher Comments With this remarkable book Eric Zencey changes the way we think about nature by changing how we think about history. "The ecological crisis is also a historical crisis", he writes. "If we are out of place in nature, we are also out of place in time, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ludwig Wittgenstein Publisher Comments Two boys, one who thinks he is too tall and the other who feels too short, become friends and teach their classmates not to judge them because of their size.... (read more) List Price $12.10 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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