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  • Philosophy and the Human Paradox

    Essays on Reason, Truth and Identity

    by Alan Montefiore ...
    This book collects essays by Alan Montefiore on the role philosophy plays in the formation of the self, and how philosophical questions regarding the nature of reason, truth, and identity inform ethics and politics. It offers a comprehensive overview of Montefiore’s influential, non-dogmatic philosophical voice.Throughout his 70-year career, Montefiore sought to bridge the analytic/continental ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Modern Introduction to Moral Philosophy

    by Alan Montefiore ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
    Originally published in 1958, this book shows how a systematic consideration of what exactly may be meant by calling anything ‘good’, inevitably leads on to the more general and fundamental problem of the relations between value-judgments and statements of fact. It does on to explain some of the difficult and far-reaching issues which this problem involves. The book is intended as an introduction ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin

    by Henry Hardy, Avishai Margalit, Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, Bernard Williams, Bryan Magee, Charles Taylor, Evan Zimroth-Wollman, G A Cohen, George Crowder, Humphrey Carpenter0, Aileen Kelly1, Ian Buruma2, Isaiah Berlin3, James Billington4, James Chappel5, Jennifer Holmes6, Joseph Brodsky7, Joshua Cherniss8, Katharine Graham9, Kei Hiruta0, Leon Wieseltier1, Alan Montefiore2, Mendel Berlin3, Michael Hughes4, Michael Ignatieff5, Nicholas Henderson6, Nick Rankin7, Patricia Utechin8, Peter Oppenheimer9, Robert Silvers0, Robert Wokler1, Samuel Guttenplan2, Alan Ryan3, Serena Moore4, Shlomo Avineri5, Steffen Gross6, Stuart Hampshire7, Alfred Brendel8, Alistair Cooke9, Anatoly Naiman0, Anthony Quinton1, Arthur Schlesinger Jr2 ...
    Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and conformity. His generous, open vision of life is displayed with special immediacy in his brilliant pen-portraits of contemporaries, Personal Impressions, in which he sees the point of radically differing personalities, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Philosophical Retrospective

    Facts, Values, and Jewish Identity

    by Alan Montefiore ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity such as his carried with it, as a matter of given fact, certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view, emphasized by his studies in philosophy, according to which there can be no rationally ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Integrity in the Public and Private Domains

    Edited by Alan Montefiore, David Vines ...
    Integrity in the Private and Public Domains explores the issue of public and private integrity in politics, the media, health, science, fund-raising, the economy and the public sector.Over twenty essays by well-known figures such as Amelie Rorty, David Vines, the late Hugo Gryn, Alan Montefiore and Hilary Lawson present a compelling insight into debates over integrity today.A key chapter of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Philosophy and Personal Relations

    An Anglo-French Study

    Edited by Alan Montefiore ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973, Philosophy and Personal Relations raises some fundamental questions like can philosophical argument modify, undermine or reinforce the terms of certain personal relationships? If so, how? This collection of studies, by a group of English-speaking philosophers focuses on these questions. The contributors discuss such topics as the teaching of moral philosophy, the notion of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Goals, No-Goals and Own Goals

    A Debate on Goal-Directed and Intentional Behaviour

    Edited by Alan Montefiore, Denis Noble ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989*, Goals, No-Goals and Own Goals* presents a stimulating debate between three scientists and three philosophers about the significance and nature of goal-directed and intentional behaviour. At one extreme David McFarland brings into radical question the need for either of these concepts, at least in the scientific study of animal behaviour. At the other extreme, Alan ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays

    by P. F. Strawson ...
    By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and Resentment collects some of Strawson's most important work and is an ideal introduction to his thinking on such topics as the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics.Beginning with ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre

    by Jonathan Webber ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Webber argues for a new interpretation of Sartrean existentialism. On this reading, Sartre is arguing that each person’s character consists in the projects they choose to pursue and that we are all already aware of this but prefer not to face it. Careful consideration of his existentialist writings shows this to be the unifying theme of his theories of consciousness, freedom, the self, bad faith, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Contemporary Metaethics

    An Introduction

    by Alexander Miller ...
    This new edition of Alexander Miller’s highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Scepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties

    by P. F. Strawson ...
    By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. Unavailable for many years, Scepticism and Naturalism is a profound reflection on two classic philosophical problems by a philosopher at the pinnacle of his career.Based on his acclaimed Woodbridge lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1983, Strawson begins with a ... Read more

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  • The Metaphoric Process

    Connections Between Language and Life

    by Gemma Corradi Fiumara ...
    Metaphor is much more than just a linguistic phenomena, argues Gemma Corradi Fiumara, it is in fact the key process by which we construct and develop our ability to understand the world and the people we share it with. Rationality as understood by philosophers has led to a disembodied view of ourselves in which interaction between life and language has been downplayed. By looking at the metaphoric ... Read more

    $57.99 USD