Philosophy and Thought

Ian Olasov / Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important – and Most Unexpected – Questions (Hardback)

A collection of answers to the philosophical questions on people's minds—from the big to the personal to the ones you didn't know you needed answered.Based on real-life questions from his Ask a Philosopher series, Ian Olasov offers his answers to...

Harry G. Frankfurt / On Bullshit (Hardback)

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize...

Daniel Miller ( Editor) / Materiality (Large Paperback)

Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here...

Dominique Janicaud / Beginner's Guide to Philosophy (Large Paperback)

The ideal introduction history of western thought. An illuminating discourse on the major thinkers, from Plato to Descartes to Nietzsche. A small marvel, A Beginner’s Guide to Philosophy provides an instructive and delightful introduction to...

Ruth Berry / Jung: A Beginner's Guide

This beginner's guide to Jung provides the essential facts and concepts behind the life and work of the "father of analytical psychology." It examines Jung's background, the times he lived in, and the development of Jungian analysis. Key...

Paul Strathern / Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series)

"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished." Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language & sought to solve the...

Robert Mugerauer / Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Responses (Environ Architect Phen (Large Paperback)

In this book, Mugerauer emphasizes the interplay between European continental philosophy and North American environments and architecture. Drawing on a keen understanding of conceptual trends in both scholarship and the design professions, he clarifies...

Keith Devlin / Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind (Large Paperback)

Keith Devlin chronicles scientists' centuries-old quest to discover the laws of thought, from the astonishingly adept efforts of the ancient Greeks, to the invention of the first primitive "thinking machine" in the late nineteenth century, to radical...

Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man - PB 1966 ( Originally 1964)

Published by Beacon Press, USA, 1966. Bookshop sticker to front cover .  One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way...

Lee Hoinacki / The Challenges of Ivan Illich: A Collective Reflection (Large Paperback)

This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called "the greatest social critic of the twentieth century." The essays--all by people Illich has influenced personally--discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study,...

John Roberts / The Necessity of Errors (Large Paperback)

Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In The Necessity of Errors, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth and needs to...

Mark Poster / What's the Matter with the Internet? (Large Paperback)

In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has...

Christine Roche / I'M NOT FEMINIST BUT... (Large Paperback)

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Peter Pesic / Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature (Large Paperback)

The unknown history of surveillance in relation to changing systems of representation and visual arts practice. The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is...

Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN.  How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?...

Martin Heidegger / Discourse on Thinking (Exact Copy)

Martin Heidegger's Discourse on Thinking was published in 1959. It comprises a statement of the point of view of his later thought. Since Heidegger's later thought has evoked so much interest among philosophers and, in the last few years, theologians, it...

R. G. H. Siu / The Tao of Science (Exact Copy)

''An essay on western knowledge and Eastern Wisdom'', originally 1964.  Siu applies Oriental philosophy to the problems of Western executives and program directors. The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there...

Robert Wright / The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Large Paperback)

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind...

William J. Bennett / The Moral Compass (Large Paperback)

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Joseph Dunne / Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique (Large Paperback)

Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a...

Tess Harper-Molloy / Jung at Heart: Tools for Psychological Hygiene (Large Paperback)

Have you ever wanted to know more about the work of Carl Jung but not quite known how to gain access to it? Although Jung writes beautifully in his 18 Volumes of COLLECTED WORKS they are a bit intimidating as a starting point. ‘Jung at Heart,...

Tom Moylan / Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Large Paperback)

A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan – one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies – explores the utopian process in its...

Meredith Williams / Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning (Large Paperback)

Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental. This book addresses...

David R. Olson / The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading (Large Paperback)

What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature and ourselves? Drawing on recent advances in history, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, the author offers a bold new perspective on how writing...

Geoffrey Nunberg / The Future of the Book (Large Paperback)

The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays...

Lawrence Weschler / Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (Large Paperback)

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color...

Ilpo Koskinen / Professional Mobile Image (Large Paperback)

What would you do if you could take photographs, look at them immediately on a camera screen, and send your best shots a minute later to a friend in Australia? What kinds of images would you take? Or send? Would you make up stories? Or put pictures...

Joshua D. Greene / Moral Tribes : Emotion, Reason and teh Gap Betweeen Us and Them

Moral philosophy  - a statment of the utilitarian case.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing...

Laura Ross ( Editor) / I Ching ( The Book of Changes)

Developed over 3000 years ago in China, the I Ching is a complex, interactive work of philosophy, mysticism and divination. This new edition comprises James Legge's 1899 translation of the main text and the appendices attributed to Confucius, along...

Paul Stathern ( Editor) / The Essential Hume ( Virgin Philosophers Series)

In his day, Hume was acknowledge as the finest philosopher in Europe. Yet "the greatest mind Scotland has ever produced" remained for many years unrecognized. He bore his obscurity and apparent failure with the same good-hearted sanity as his...

John Moriarty - A Hut at the Edge of the Village - PB - BRAND NEW (Edited by Martin Shaw)

The new collection from John Moriarty, edited by Martin Shaw. There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear...

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore)

Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold...

Susan Stebbing - Thinking to Some Purpose - PB - 1959 ( Originally 1939)

W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985)

A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the...

W.B Gallie - Peirce and Pragmatism - Vintage Pelican PB 1952

Condition - spine darkened heavily, internally very good, light tanning only.  Peirce's pragmatism was the first time the scientific method was proposed as an epistemology for philosophical questions. A theory that succeeds better than its rivals in...

Witold Rybczynski / Waiting for the Weekend

Exploring the time we think of as our own, the author discusses the evolution of leisure time in Western civilization, from Aristotle, through the Middle Ages, to the present.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Dave Robinson / Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life: A Practical Guide

A Practical Guide to ethics and every day decisions. Written by an expert, it includes straightforward, easy-to-follow ways to use ethics in making real life choices in areas such as friendships, marriage, parenting, and work.Dave Robinson has taught...

Sherry Turkle / Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (Hardback)

For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal...

Winin Pereira / From Western Science to Liberation Technology (Vintage Paperback)

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Paul Savchenko / What is Labour? (Vintage Paperback)

ABC of Social and Political Knowledge Series. A 1987 Soviet era book on the role of labour in Communist society. Translated from the original Russian. Publishged by Progress House, Moscow.      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the...

Michael Kaplan ( Editor) / Essential Works of Pavlov (Vintage Paperback)

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Robert Owen / A New View of Society and Other Writings(Vintage Paperback)

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Anthony Flew / Thinking about Thinking (Vintage Paperback)

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Paul Karl Feyerabend, Bert Terpstra / Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being (Hardback)

From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of...

Jack D. Zipes / Ernst Bloch: The Pugnacious Philosopher of Hope (Hardback)

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his famous three-volume opus, The Principle of Hope , while living in exile in...

David Seamon / Dwelling, Place & Environment: Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World (Hardback)

This volume considers how buildings, places, and environments might sustain a more powerful sense of human wholeness, identity, and life. Contributors include philosophers, geographers, architects, and psychologists, who use a phenomenological approach...

John Macnamara / Through the Rearview Mirror: Historical Reflections on Psychology (Hardback)

In this lively book, John Macnamara shows how a number of important thinkers through the ages have approached problems of mental representation and the acquisition of knowledge. He discusses the relevance of these approaches to modern cognitive...

Jon Elster, Steven Rendall / Reason and Rationality (Hardback)

One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between...

John Stuart Mill / Autobiography ( Vintage Paperback)

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The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader (Vintage Paperback)

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Richard Butler - The Life and World of George Santayana - PB -1960

Paperback, Gateway Books USA 1960.  Partly biographical, part study of the importance of Santayana as a key thinker and philosopher during his life ( 1863-1952) 

G.I Warnock - Berkeley ( Pelican Philosophy) - Vintage PB -1953

Berkeley is one of the most influential and yet most misunderstood of eighteenth-century philosophers. In this classic 1953 introduction, G.J. Warnock examines all Berkeley's major philosophical works and discusses his most original and interesting...