Philosophy

In This Comprehensive New Study Of Human Free Agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom Critically Surveys Contemporary Philosophical Literature And Provides A Novel Ac...

Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we w...

A Journalist Recounts His Odyssey Retracing The Cross-country Motorcycle Trip Taken By Robert Pirsig And His Son, Chris, That Inspired The Classic Philosoph...

A Problem-Centered, Argument-Driven Approach to Teaching Philosophy. Jacobsen’s An Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality is a single-authored ...

First Philosophy brings together fifty-four classic and contemporary readings on seven central philosophical topics. Mindful of the intrinsic difficulty of...

This Book Argues That An Attentive Encounter With Nature Is Of Key Importance For The Development Of An Environmentally Appropriate Culture. The Fundamental...

First published in 1998. The emphasis upon differences, plurality and multiculturalism has led to an outpouring of information that has been interpreted by ...

Knowledge, The Enlightenment believed, could protect us from the follies of ideology. But Saul maintains that 'knowing' has not made us "conscious'. Instea...

What did God create on the 6th day? Who was hidden in a well covered with corn? All kinds of fill-in-the-blank and matching questions, challenging word puzz...

Karen Armstrong explains how to practise the religion of compassion that her last books have preached.In November 2009 Armstrong and TED launched The Charte...

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issu...

Electoral Shocks: The Volatile Voter In A Turbulent World Offers A Novel Perspective On British Elections, Focusing On The Role Of Electoral Shocks In The C...

Emil Fackenheim, now retired from the University of Toronto, is one of Canada's most influential and internationally recognized philosophers. Bringing toge...

This anthology explores a variety of positions on recent, controversial, social problems—all of which involve government policy. The wide-range of contempor...

This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi's ideas on pluralism, religious identity, non-violence, satyagraha, and modernity...

Michael G. Titelbaum presents a new Bayesian framework for modeling rational degrees of belief, called the Certainty-Loss Framework. Subjective Bayesianism ...

Your conceptual toolkit for the study of political thoughtPraise for the first edition'This seems really to have been written with the first-year student in...

One of the most enthusiastically received introductory books in recent years, The Philosophical Journey is a topically organized text presented in an intera...

Presents The Classic Study Of Power And Politics Written In 1513 By A Florentine Diplomat That Recommends Guile And Ruthlessness To Achieve And Maintain Pol...

Carnap, R. Empiricism, Semantics, And Ontology.--quine, W. V. Two Dogmas Of Empiricism. Meaning And Translation.--sellars, W. Empiricism And The Philosophy ...

A Reflection On Everyday Existence In The ‘sphere Of Consumption Of Late Capitalism’, This Work Is Adorno’s Literary And Philosophical Masterpiece. Th...

Stefan Nowak. -- Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: Science & Math History & PhilosophyGeneral

David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, composed before the author was twenty-six years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. Its importance was not generally...

Dynamic combinations of first-rate philosophers and fiction writers make Philosophy: A Literary & Conceptual Approach an important tool for introductory...

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. #1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gate...