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  • Hume-Arg Philosophers

    by Barry Stroud ...
    Series series Arguments of the Philosophers
    The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This volume seeks to provide a comprehensive interpretation of Hume’s philosophy and to expound and discuss his central problems against the background ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Seeing, Knowing, Understanding

    Philosophical Essays

    by Barry Stroud ...
    Barry Stroud presents nineteen of his philosophical essays written since 2001, on topics to do with knowing, seeing, and understanding. He discusses the nature of philosophy, sense experience, the possibility of perceptual knowledge, intentional action and self-knowledge, the reality of the colours of things, alien thought and the limits of understanding, moral knowledge, meaning, use, and ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • The Quest for Reality

    Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour

    by Barry Stroud ...
    We say "the grass is green" or "lemons are yellow" to state what everyone knows. But are the things we see around us really colored, or do they only look that way because of the effects of light rays on our eyes and brains? Is color somehow "unreal" or "subjective" and dependent on our human perceptions and the conditions under which we see things? Distinguished scholar Barry Stroud investigates ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Reconciling Our Aims

    In Search of Bases for Ethics

    by Allan Gibbard ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics. In the first lecture he explores the role of intuitions in moral thinking and offers a way of thinking about the intuitive method of moral inquiry that both places this activity within the natural world and makes sense of it as an indispensable part of our ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction

    Modality and Value

    by Barry Stroud ...
    We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. And in acting intentionally we all take certain things to be good reason to believe or do certain things. In this book Barry Stroud argues that some beliefs of each of these kinds are ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Logical Alien

    Conant and His Critics

    by James Conant, Jocelyn Benoist, Matthew Boyle, Martin Gustafsson, Arata Hamawaki, Adrian Moore, Barry Stroud, Peter Sullivan, Charles Travis ...
    “A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.”—Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of VirginiaCould there be a logical alien—a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking? Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic, think that two ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

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    General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology

    by Edmund Husserl ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new foreword by Dermot Moran‘the work here presented seeks to found a new science – though, indeed, the whole course of philosophical development since Descartes has been preparing the way for it – a science covering a new field of experience, exclusively its own, that of "Transcendental Subjectivity"’ - Edmund Husserl, from the author’s preface to the English EditionWidely regarded as the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

    That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason

    by Immanuel Kant, Gary Hatfield ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This revised edition of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Logical Investigations Volume 1

    by Edmund Husserl ...
    Series series International Library of Philosophy
    Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology and the Logical Investigations is his most famous work. It had a decisive impact on twentieth century philosophy and is one of few works to have influenced both continental and analytic philosophy.This is the first time both volumes have been available in paperback. They include a new introduction by Dermot Moran, placing the Investigations in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 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 Essence of Faith

    Philosophy of Religion

    by Albert Schweitzer ...
    The Nobel Peace Prize–winning doctor, theologian, and missionary explores the essence of faith in this masterful early work on Kantian metaphysics.Famous for his medical missionary work in what is now the West African country of Gabon, Albert Schweitzer was an accomplished theologian, philosopher, and international bestselling author. While studying for his PhD at the Sorbonne, Schweitzer ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Language and Reality

    The Philosophy of Language and the Principles of Symbolism

    by Wilbur Marshall Urban ...
    First published in 2002. This is Volume XV of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1939, this book looks at Language and Reality and the Philosophy of Language and the Principles of Symbolism and is related to the movement of Logical Positivism, initiated by Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD