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  • What Is Information?

    by Peter Janich ...
    Translated by Eric Hayot, Lea Pao ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinkerIt is widely agreed that we live in an “information age,” but what exactly is information? This small, seemingly facile question is in fact surprisingly difficult, and it has occupied many of the best philosophical minds of the modern age.In this wholly original addition to the quest to understand ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Virtue of Selfishness

    by Ayn Rand ...
    A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy.Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works—Anthem, The Fountainhead, and *Atlas Shrugged—*have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality—the ethics of rational self-interest—that ... Read more

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  • The Island of Knowledge

    The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

    by Marcelo Gleiser ...
    Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what's "out there." In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tetralogue

    I'm Right, You're Wrong

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep in. In a tradition going back to Plato, Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore questions about truth ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception

    by Bence Nanay ...
    Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply the remarkably elaborate and sophisticated conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception to questions in aesthetics, we can make real progress. The aim of this book is to bring the discussion of aesthetics and perception together. Bence Nanay ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Discourse on Method and Related Writings

    by René Descartes, Desmond Clarke ...
    Translated by Desmond M. Clarke ...
    This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • On the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics

    by Immanuel Kant ...
    Collected here in this omnibus edition are Immanuel Kant's three most important works on the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics. Included are Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, and The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics. Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • On The Improvement Of Understanding

    by Benedict de Spinoza, R. H. M. Elwes ...
    On the Improvement of Understandingby Benedict de Spinoza Translated by R. H. M. Elwes"On the Improvement of Understanding by Benedict de Spinoza [1883]." ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Kant's Transcendental Deduction

    An Analytical-Historical Commentary

    by Henry E. Allison ...
    Henry E. Allison presents an analytical and historical commentary on Kant`s transcendental deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding in the Critique of Pure Reason. He argues that, rather than providing a new solution to an old problem (refuting a global skepticism regarding the objectivity of experience), it addresses a new problem (the role of a priori concepts or categories stemming ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein Reads Freud

    The Myth of the Unconscious

    Translated by Carol Cosman ...
    by Jacques Bouveresse ...
    Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis, and it is of utmost importance to Lacanian analysts, whose main project has been to stress Freud's scientific grounding. Here Jacques Bouveresse, a noted authority on ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Dialectic of the Ladder

    Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and Modernism

    by Ben Ware ...
    Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Concept of Knowledge

    The Ankara Seminar

    Edited by Ioanna Kuçuradi, Robert S. Cohen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $143.99 USD