Philosophy
Explore our collection of philosophy books at our online bookstore, featuring the best books on philosophy, philosophical novels, and famous works on stoicism and political philosophy. Discover must-read and best-selling titles that offer deep insights into the world of philosophy.
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On The Shortness of LifeOne of Seneca's most well-known works is also a moral essay that brings powerful reflections on death, human nature, and the art of living. Regarded as one of the most renowned texts of Stoic philosophy, it was structured in the form of letters addressed...
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Neither Victims nor ExecutionersEndorsements: "The reissue of Camus' seminal essay, 'Neither Victims nor Executioners, ' could hardly be more timely. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the hideous march to oblivion goes on apace. America is ironically reversing the ethic proposed by Camus' title. American adventuring, playing the part...
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Más allá del bien y del malM s all del bien y del mal Friedrich NietzscheAuthor: Friedrich Wilhelm NietzschePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 08/05/2016Pages: 102Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21dISBN: 9781536911329Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Mindprints: Thoreau's Material WorldsA rediscovery of Thoreau's interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought. Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, he accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector. In...
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Metaphysics of CausationThis Element presents the main attempts to account for causation as a metaphysical concept, in terms of 1) regularities and laws of nature, 2) conditional probabilities and Bayes nets, 3) necessitation between universals and causal powers, 4) counterfactual dependence, 5) interventions and causal models,...
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Logic as a Tool: A Guide to Formal Logical ReasoningThis textbook, written in a concise yet user-friendly style, will guide the reader in understanding and mastering the use of classical logic as a tool for performing logically correct reasoning. It offers a systematic and precise exposition of classical logic on both propositional and...
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Leibniz's Correspondence in Science, Technology and Medicine (1676 -1701): Core Themes and Core TextsLeibniz's correspondence from his years spent in Paris (1672-1676) reflects his growth to mathematical maturity whereas that from the years 1676-1701 reveals his growth to maturity in science, technology and medicine in the course of which more than 2000 letters were exchanged with more...
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Laws of Form: Spencer-Brown at Esalen, 1973This Special Issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing contains rare material related to G. Spencer-Brown's book Laws of Form and its contents.In 1973 there was a conference at Big Sur at which Spencer-Brown discussed his calculus with a group of scientists. This was the...
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LawnObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large carbon footprint maintenance, its unquenchable...
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Kantian Ethics and Environmental Philosophy: Pursuing the Good in an Age of CrisisHuman beings have desires and obligations. A Kantian framework reveals the morally significant conflict between these two. In the context of looming environmental crises of our own making, we may be forced in many respects to choose between environmental obligations and the pursuit of...
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Kant on Self-ControlThis Element considers Kant's conception of self-control and the role it plays in his moral philosophy. It offers a detailed interpretation of the different terms used by Kant to explain the phenomenon of moral self-control, such as 'autocracy' and 'inner freedom'. Following Kant's own...
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Justice in Plato's Republic: The Lessons of Book 1In Book 4 of Plato's Republic, Socrates introduces what is regarded by scholars as the Platonic account of justice, according to which it is essentially internal and self-regarding, a matter of relations among the parts of a city or soul. In this book, Roslyn...
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Japanese Proverbs: 200 Gems of Traditional Wit and Wisdom"Destroy a nation, but its mountains and rivers remain." -- Japanese Proverb This is a collection of 200 Japanese proverbs with illustrations and explanations for each saying. Japanese Proverbs: 200 Gems of Traditional Wit and Wisdom is a delightfully illustrated compilation of traditional Japanese...
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Jacob Brucker, Critical History of Philosophy: 'Preliminary Discourse' and 'on the Socratic School'Author: Leo CatanaPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.46w x 0.85dISBN: 9780192847140About the AuthorLeo Catana, Associate Professor, Section of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen. Leo Catana gained his PhD on Giordano Bruno from the University of London in 2002. In...
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Interpreting R. G. CollingwoodAn indisputably prominent figure in twentieth-century philosophy, R. G. Collingwood often remains elusive even to those who admire his achievements. This volume of new essays aims to reintroduce Collingwood to twenty-first-century philosophical readers and to show why, and how, his achievements matter. Each essay...
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>Humanitas: From Pliny the Younger to SymmachusThis book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from its origins, the book as a whole focuses on its uses in the pagan literary texts from the Trajanic (late first century...
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How Propaganda WorksHow propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of...
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Historicism and Its Problems: The Logical Problem of the Philosophy of HistoryThis is a translation of Ernst Troeltsch's last (1923) major work. It is an exhaustive study of the methods of historiography and of German, French, English, and Italian philosophies of history during the nineteenth century. It is motivated by the purpose of developing the...
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Heidegger: An IntroductionHeidegger provides a lively and accessible introduction to one of the most influential and intellectually demanding philosophers of the modern era. Covering the entire range of Heidegger's thought but focusing on his key work, Being and Time, Richard Polt skillfully guides readers through the...
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Hegel's Philosophy of NatureAuthor: Marina F. BykovaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/12/2024Pages: 331Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781316519271This title is not returnable
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