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An Introduction to Western Philosophy

The age of reason

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The age of reason (17th century philosophers)

The central questions of philosophy

Philosophy of the ancients

Nietzsche

Philosophy in the twentieth century I-IV.

An introduction to Zen buddhism

The english philosophers from Bacon to Hill

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

It is no common thing to find an artist who, even if he be willing to try, is capable of expressing his aims and ideals with any clearnes...

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) (Latin for Logical Philosophical Treatise or Treatise on Logic a...

The story of philosophy

The Ironic Hume

Many of the seemingly bland assertions and bald statements of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume contain more than the mind im...

The Meaning of Suffering - An Interpretation of Human Existence from the Viewpoint of Time

Suffering is a fact of human existence. In his interdisciplinary investigation of the causes, types, value, and outcome of human sufferin...

Reasons and Persons

Reasons and persons challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal id...

The worldly philosophers

Language Mysticism - The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett, and Celan

This book examines an ambivalence to language deeply rooted in Western culture, as seen in the writings of Eliot, Beckett, and Celan, and...

Aristotle on the Perfect Life

Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years. Did he hold that happi...

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

"Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to ...

Cowboy Metaphysics - Ethics and Death in Westerns

Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. I...

The Great Philosophers - An Introduction to Western Philosophy

Conversations with 15 contemporary writers and philosophers provide an accessible and exciting account of Western philosophy and its grea...

A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time

An indispensable guide to the major work of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers.

A Short History of Ethics - A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century

An important contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. Ideal for all philosophy students interested in ethic...

History of Philosophy Volume 11 - Logical Postivism and Existentialism

'A monumental history . . . learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive.' NEW STATESMAN 'We can only applaud at the end of each act and loo...

Introducing Ken Wilber - Concepts for an Evolving World

Ken Wilber's revolutionary thinking is beginning to shift the orientation of Western culture. Wilber combines his knowledge as mystic, sc...

Henri Bergson - The Philosophy Of Change

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

What is Man?

This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of...

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chao...

Man, Morals and Society

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...

The Meaning of the War

Henry Bergson was a major French philosopher in the early 1900's. This lecture was delivered in 1914 and addresses the topic of war and i...

Representative Men - Seven Lectures by Emerson

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Does Truth Matter? - Democracy and Public Space

On the political level many seem to agree that democracy doesn't need foundations, nor are its citizens expected to discuss the worth or ...

Disability Bioethics - Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

This book reconceives disability as a set of social relations and practices, as experienced embodiment, and as an emancipatory movement, ...

Error and Inference - Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science

Explores the nature of error and inference, drawing on exchanges on experimental reasoning, reliability, and the objectivity of science.

Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender

'Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender' brings together three tightly related topics, which have so far been dealt separately in bioet...

Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy - Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles

Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points ...

A Commentary on Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Michael Inwood, an eminent scholar of German philosophy, presents a full and detailed new commentary on a classic work of the nineteenth ...

Learning from Words - Testimony as a Source of Knowledge

Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by t...

On Life

'On Life' and 'What is religion?' were published by the Fee Age Press in England; a publishing house set up to side-step the censorship o...

A Philosophy of Political Myth

Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth.

Science in the Context of Application

We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science do...

The Promise of Happiness

"At a time when happiness studies are all the rage and feminism is accused of destroying women's happiness, Sara Ahmed offers a bold crit...

Reconstructionist Confucianism - Rethinking Morality After the West

Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers...

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 8: Volume 8

The 8th Volume of the Letters of Marsilio Ficino contains letters written in 1488 and 1489, with a preface added in 1490. It also include...

Rethinking Time

Questions about the temporality and historicity of knowledge have gained new urgency in the human sciences in recent decades. New modes o...

Der Mensch und Sein Werk 1.Band Jehuda Halevi Fünfundneunzig Hymnen und Gedichte Deutsch und Hebräisch - Der sechzig Hymnen und Gedichte dritte Ausgabe

In einem Brief an Martin Buber schrieb FR, am 25. Oktober 1925, daB sich seine eigentliche "literarische Entwicklung" seit 1920 im Uberse...

How Great Thou Art - Reverse Path Back Home

The Greatest Stories Ever Written & Retold by the Greatest Saints that ever Walked upon the Earth. They Lived & Evolved unto the Highest ...

Mathematics, Models, and Modality - Selected Philosophical Essays

Burgess's essays address key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation.

Bodies That Matter - On the Discursive Limits of Sex

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material...

A Little History of Philosophy

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his d...

Words of Wisdom - A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition

Like their predecessors throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have emphasized the i...

INTERIOR LIGHTS In A Dark Universe

INTERIOR LIGHTS expresses a philosophy of interior self and a defense of metaphysical reality. The bulk of the book is composed of "trech...

Preludes to Pragmatism - Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy

In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism

Double Vision - Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama

Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher a...

Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul - A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

This title is printed in full color throughout. From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an e...

After Virtue

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark wo...

The Politics of Aesthetics

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is oft...

Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals

This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological ...

Human Rights - The Hard Questions

This volume addresses the philosophical and theoretical ramifications of human rights, and challenges made to them.