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  • Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate

    Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science

    Edited by Julie Zahle, Finn Collin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals. This is the focus of discussions between ontological individualists and ontological holists. Secondly, to what extent social scientific ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Social Reality

    by Finn Collin ...
    Series series Problems of Philosophy
    Social reality is currently a hotly debated topic not only in social science, but also in philosophy and the other humanities. Finn Collin, in this concise guide, asks if social reality is created by the way social agents conceive of it? Is there a difference between the kind of existence attributed to social and to physical facts - do physical facts enjoy a more independent existence? To what ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Science Studies as Naturalized Philosophy

    by Finn Collin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies. This is a novelty, since extant literature on this topic tends either to narrate the history of the field, with little criticism, or to criticize Science Studies from a philosophical ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • On What Matters

    Volume Two

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Rorty

    by Gideon Calder ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Popular Great Philosopher's Series.An accessible overview of the work of one of our most influential living philosophers, as part of the popular Great Philosophers series. Richard Rorty is often cited as the most prominent philosophical defender of postmodernism. Best known for his unusually readable books and articles on philosophy - most notably Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Philosophy Made Simple: Flash

    by Mel Thompson ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Philosophy is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to philosophy. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover the ideas of all the key figures, from Socrates to Wittgenstein. Ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Deconstruction and Pragmatism

    by Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, Richard Rorty ...
    Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences of post-war developments in Anglo-American philosophy, and Derridian deconstruction, which extends and troubles the phonomenological and Heideggerian ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action

    Translated by Christian Lenhardt, Shierry Weber Nicholsen ...
    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    In this important book Habermas develops his views on a range of moral and ethical issues. Drawing on his theory of communicative action, Habermas elaborates an original conception of 'discourse ethics', seeking to reconstruct a moral point of view from which normative claims can be impartially judged.Habermas connects communicative ethics to the theory of social action via an examination of ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1

    Philosophical Papers

    by Richard Rorty ...
    Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society

    by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos ...
    Series series Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers
    Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society presents the work of sociologist Niklas Luhmann in a radical new light. Luhmann’s theory is here introduced both in terms of society at large and the legal system specifically, and for the first time, Luhmann’s texts are systematically read together with theoretical insights from post-structuralism, deconstruction, phenomenology, radical ethics, feminism and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Richard Rorty

    by Neil Gascoigne ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty’s work. He demonstrates to the general reader and to the student of philosophy alike how the radical views on truth, objectivity and rationality expressed in Rorty’s widely-read essays on contemporary culture and politics derive from his earliest work in the philosophy of mind and language. He avoids the partisanship that ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Pragmatism

    An Introduction

    by Michael Bacon ...
    Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This wide-ranging and accessible study explores the work of the classical pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, as well as more recent philosophers including Richard Rorty, Richard J. ... Read more

    $22.00 USD