Philosophy and Thought

John Moriarty - In His Words - PB - BRAND NEW ( Edited by Michael W. Higgins & Seán Aherne)

In Introducing John Moriarty Canadian theologian and academic Michael W. Higgins compiles the essential writings of Irish philosopher and mystic, John Moriarty. This distillation of Moriarty’s texts on ecology, mysticism and spirituality is a...

Paul Reps ( Compiler) - Zen Flesh, Zen Bones : A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings- Vintage PB

Zen Buddhism conveys its profound truths through epigrams, parable and brief enigmatic and often amusing stories of the masters. In addition to "101 Zen Stories", this volume contains "The Gateless Gate", a collection of "koans" or puzzles and "10...

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

Daniel C. Dennett / Consciousness Explained

This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. What people think...

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...

Viktor E. Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning - PB

When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the years since then, this book - at once a memoir, a self-help book, a...

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...

Neil Postman / Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Examines the ways in which television has transformed public discourse--in politics, education, religion, science, and elsewhere--into a form of entertainment that undermines exposition, explanation and knowledge         All...

David Mills Daniel / Briefly: Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics: Book I-III, VI and X

Presents a support resource for students being introduced to philosophical texts and to philosophy in general. This work contains a glossary of terms relating to the philosopher's use of terms.         All of our books are...

Mary Midgley / Are You an Illusion?

In "Are You an Illusion?" today's scientific orthodoxy, which treats the self as nothing more than an elaborate illusion, comes under spirited attack. In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, Mary Midgley...

Martin Heidegger / The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

"To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume—intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader—call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of...

Yi-Fu Tuan / Cosmos and Hearth

In a volume that represents the culmination of his life's work in considering the relationship between culture and landscape, eminent scholar Yi-Fu Tuan argues that "cosmos" and "hearth" are two scales that anchor what it means to be fully and...

Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America

The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;...

Dave Robinson / Nietzsche and Postmodernism

The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism.         All of our books are second hand, and while you...

George Myerson / Heidegger, Habermas and the Mobile Phone

Move over e-commerce, mantra of the late 20th century... welcome in-commerce, catchword of the new millennium! Everyone remembers 'It's good to talk, the cosy slogan of the telephone at the end of the last century. But now we are witnessing a global...

Mary Midgley / The Myths We Live By

Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as...

Ivan Illich / Disabling Professions

Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays...

D.K. Publishing / Big Ideas The Little Book Of Philosophy

      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 stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

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...

Mary Wollstonecraft / A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In these pages you will find the essence of her argument - for the education of women and for an increased female...

John Dupré / Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Hardback)

John Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but in everyday life, we find one set of experts who seek to explain the ends...

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...

David Bakhurst / Jerome Bruner: Language, Culture and Self (Hardback)

Jerome Bruner is one of the grand figures of psychology. From his role as a founder of the cognitive revolution in the 1950s to his recent advocacy of cultural psychology, Bruner′s influence has been dramatic and far-reaching. Such is the breadth...

Maxwell Richard Bennett / Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language (Hardback)

In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter...

Mary Midgley / Science and Poetry (Hardback)

Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism. All products of a 17th century scientific inheritance which looks at the parts of our existence at the expense of the whole.Cutting through myths of scientific omnipotence, Mary Midgley...

Edward W. Said / Representations of the Intellectual (Hardback)

A new collection of essays by the author of Culture and Imperialism explores the changing role of the intellectual in modern society, drawing on both current events and literary examples to support his arguments.     All of our books are second...

André Comte-Sponville / A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life (Hardback)

An utterly original exploration of the timeless human virtues and how they apply to the way we live now, from a bold and dynamic French writer.In this graceful, incisive book, writer-philosopher André Comte-Sponville reexamines the classic human...

Theodore Roszak - The Making of a Counter Culture | Where the Wasteland Ends ( 2 Book Lot ) - Vintage PB

Where the Wasteland Ends - Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society - 1973 PB,  Anchor Books USA. A903 - 0385027389 The Making of a Counter Culture - Reflections on the Technocratic Society and its Youthful Opposition - 1969 PB, Anchor...

Steve Fuller / Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Hardback)

In 1965 Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper met at the University of London to stage what has turned out to be the most momentous philosophical debate of the 20th century. At stake was no less than the soul of science itself...No discipline remained untouched by...

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...

David Edward Cooper / The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (Hardback)

David Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a "mystery." Other views are shown to be hubristic. Humanists, for whom "man is the measure" of reality, exaggerate our capacity to...

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...

Jeffrey J. Kripal / Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (Hardback)

Jeffrey Kripal here recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been a world leader in alternative and experiential education and stands today at the center of the human potential movement. Forged in the literary and mythical...

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...

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...

Christian Metz / Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film (Large Paperback)

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept...

Mark Perryman / Altered States: Postmodernism, Politics, Culture (Large Paperback)

Altered States looks back at the election of 1992 in the light of postmodern political theory and highlights some of the lessons to be learnt from that defeat. The contributors consider where the left is situated now, how the theoretical structures of...

Jean Vanier / Jean Vanier : Essential Writings (Large Paperback)

In 1964 Jean Vanier, a philosopher and former naval officer, moved into a dilapidated house in France with two companions and started the first L'Arche community. In time this grew into an international network of communities in which people with...

Peter Vardy / The Puzzle of Ethics

A guide to the complex subject of ethics explained in clear and entertaining language. This new edition is fully revised and updated. This popular introduction to the subject of ethics poses vital contemporary questions and explores the approach of...

Alice Kaplan / French Lessons : A Memoir

Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of...

Pedro Alexis Tabensky / The Positive Function of Evil (Hardback)

This collection explores the controversial and perhaps even abject idea that evils, large and small, human and natural, may have a central positive function to play in our lives. For centuries a concern of religious thinkers from the Christian...

Joan Smith / Moralities - Sex, Money and Power in the 21st Century (Hardback)

Why do sex scandals no longer sweep presidents from power? What political impetus has produced the first war crimes trial since Nuremburg? What social currents cause thousands to demonstrate against globalisation? If the 20th century was characterised by...

Richard Hoggart / The Way We Live Now : Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture (Hardback)

'This is his most powerful book since THE USES OF LITERACY and. . . deserves to be equally widely read. ' SUNDAY TIMES Richard Hoggart is one of Britain's most distinguished cultural critics. In this clear-eyed and controversial book he sets himself...

Anthony Kenny / The Unknown God : Agnostic Essays (Hardback)

A major new book by the preeminent British philosopher Sir Anthony Kenny about the frontiers between philosophy and theology. Kenny "By profession I am a and in the present century philosophers in this country have been keen to emphasise not only the...

Reuben Hersh / What Is Mathematics Really (Hardback)

What is Mathematics, Really? Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human...

Simon Blackburn / Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (Hardback)

From political scandals at the highest levels to inflated repair bills at the local garage, we are seemingly surrounded with unethical behavior, so why should we behave any differently? Why should we go through life anchored down by rules no one else...

Alan Macfarlane / Letters to Lily : On How the World Works (Hardback)

What is love? Why are families so difficult? How do we get justice? Who is God? What makes us individuals? And why are we here in the first place? In responding to his granddaughter’s challenging questions, social anthropologist Alan Macfarlane...

Harry J. Gensler / Formal Ethics (Hardback)

Formal Ethics is the study of formal ethical principles. The most important of these, perhaps even the most important principle of life, is the golden "Treat others as you want to be treated". Although the golden rule enjoys support amongst different...

Damian Thompson / Counterknowledge (Hardback)

We are being swamped by dangerous nonsense. From 9/11 conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial, creationism to alternative medicine, we are all experiencing an epidemic of demonstrably untrue descriptions of the world. For Damian Thompson, these unproven...