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 | Flannery, Kevin L. - ACTS AMID PRECEPTS : The Aristotelian Logical Structure of Thomas Aquinas`s Moral Theory(T & T, Edinburgh
, 2001) pp. xxiv, 327 Pages Hardcover. Very Fine (unused) cloth brds in VF d/w Price: $19.80 |
| Stecker, Robert - ARTWORKS : DEFINITION, MEANING, VALUE(Pennsylvania State University Press
, 1997) xi, 322 Pages Aesthetics. In addition to offering original answers to major questions of aesthetics, it covers most major issues in contemp analytic aesthetics and discusses Stanley Fish, Joseph Margolis, Richard Rorty, Richard Shusterman. Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $18.65 |
| Lukacs, John - AT THE END OF AN AGE(Yale University Press
, 2002) pp.x, 230 Pages A deeply informed and rewarding reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. PHILOSOPHY Hardcover. Very fine. D/w tear repaired. Price: $11.00 |
| Russell, Bertrand - AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL(George Allen and Unwin Ltd
, 1967, 1968, 1969 1st Editions) 230, 268, 232 Pages Three Volume Set: 1872-1914, 1914-1944, 1944-1967. All unmarked First British Editions. A most DESIRABLE HARDCOVER (!) complete set of the Russell Autobiography in their most collectable form. HARDCOVER Fine unmarked cloth boards in VG unclipped d/ws with some edgewear. Price: $66.00 |
| Armstrong, Tim (ed) - American Bodies - Cultural Histories Of The Physique(Sheffield Academic Press
, 1996) pp.212 Pages Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $12.10 |
| Robertson, Robin - BEGINNER`S GUIDE TO REVELATION : A Jungian Interpretation(Nicholas-Hays
, 1994) pp.x, 255 Pages Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $16.45 |
| Swartz, Norman - BEYOND EXPERIENCE : Metaphysical Theories and Philosophical Constraints(University of Toronto Press
, 1991) xiii, 449 Pages Fascinating introduction to the subject of metaphysics. Even for the professional philosopher, it presents a uniquely refreshing perspective on a central area of the discipline. Refs: Aquinas, Augustine, Butterfield, Euclid, Feigl, Feyerabend, Hempel,, Heidegger, Kant, Locke, Lucas, Plato, Rescher, Santayana, Wittgenstein... (View image) Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $16.45 |
| Kuczewski, Mark G. and Ronald Polansky - BIOETHICS : Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues(MIT Press / Bradford Book
, 2002) pp.xiii, 304 Pages Contemporary bioethicists and scholars of ancient philosophy explore the import of classical ethics on such pressing bioethical concerns as managed care, euthanasia, suicide and abortion. Softcover. Fine Price: $19.80 |
| Dann, Kevin T. - BRIGHT COLORS FALSELY SEEN : Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge(Yale University Press
, 1998) xi, 225 Pages In conversation with his physician, a 19th c. Parisian described sensations of colour generated by the sounds of trains passing in the night. This patient - a synaesthete - experienced `colour hearing` for letters, words and most sounds. Synaesthesia, a phenomenon now known to science for more than a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other senses and is closely related to EIDETICISM. (View image) Fine cloth brds in Fine d/w Price: $33.00 |
| Caws, Peter (ed.) - CAUSES OF QUARREL, THE : Essays on Peace, War and Thomas Hobbes(Beacon press, Boston
, 1989) ix, 224 Pages Hobbes is usually viewed as an apostle of violence on the international stage. This collection demonstrates that Hobbes`s sensitivity to the propensity for war also makes him a rich source of ideas about the resolution of conflict and reminds us that Hobbes`s first law of nature is to `endeavour peace`. (View image) Very Fine cloth brds in VF d/w Price: $18.65 |
| Andrew, Edward G. - CONSCIENCE AND ITS CRITICS: Protestant Conscience, Enlightenment Reason and Modern Subjectivity(University of Toronto
, 2001) 259 Pages Examines opposition between Protestant conscience and Enlightenment reason in 17th & 18th c., the liberal Enlightenment`s attempt to deconstruct conscience as an innate practical principle. The ontological basis for individualism in the 17th c., conscience was replaced in the 18th c. by public opinion and conformity to social expectations. In the 19th and 20th c. he traces the unresolved relationship between reason and conscience through to the modern conception of the liberty of conscience. Very Fine cloth brds in Very Fine d/w Price: $30.80 |
| Kamm, F. M. - CREATION AND ABORTION : A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy(Oxford University Press
, 1992) viii, 227 Pages `Rigorous, penetrating and subtle throughout and Kamm is impressively fair ... in this often polarized debate. Hers is, I believe, the best book on abortion.` (Philosophy & Public Affairs) (View image) Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $16.45 |
| Dallery, Arleen B; Charles E Scott & P Holley Roberts (eds) - CRISES IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 16)(State University of New York Press
, 1990) x, 283 Pages Punctuates the moments of crisis in continental thought from the foundational crisis of reason in Husserl`s call for a rigorous science of phenomenology to the current crisis of postmodernism and its rejection of Husserl`s metanarrative of history and rationality. (View image) HUSSERL PHENOMENOLOGY POSTMODERNISM HABERMAS FOUCAULT FEMINIST DERRIDA HEIDEGGER SADE Very Fine (unused) hardcover, no d/w Price: $16.45 |
| Talaska, Richard A. (ed) - CRITICAL REASONING IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE(Sate University of New York Press
, 1992) xxxviii, 422 Pages Diverse perspectives on the meaning, conditions and goals of critical reasoning in contemporary culture and evaluations of aspects of critical thinking such as creativity, interpretation, intellectual prejudice and the historical and temporary aspects of thought. (View image) Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $18.65 |
| Peterson, Richard T. - DEMOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE(Pennsylvania State University Press
, 1996) vii, 344 Pages Debates over postmodernism, analyses of knowledge and poer, and the recurring issue of Heidegger`s Nazism have all deepened questions about the relation between philosophy and the social roles of intellectuals. (View image) Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $18.65 |
| Dunning, Stephen N. - DIALECTICAL READINGS : Three Types of Interpretation(Pennsylvania State University Press
, 1997) vi, 191 Pages Distinguishes three dialectical types of interpretation: theoretical interpretation assumes binary oppositions, transactional interpretation seeks reciprical relations and transformational interpretation discerns paradoxical meanings. Applied to science & technology (Skinner, Ellul, Kuhn), mythology (Levi-Strauss, Douglas, Campbell), history (Benson, Carr, Niebuhr), love (Barthes, Fromm, Kierkegaard), human identity (Nietsche, Buber, Tillich), theory and interpretation (Foucault, Hirsch, Ricoeur). VIEW IMAGE Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $16.45 |
| Corrington, Robert S. - ECSTATIC NATURALISM: Signs of the World(Indiana University Press
, 1994) xiv, 218 Pages Semiotic theory. A systematic philosophical position integrating naturalistic metaphysics in the traditions of Peirce and Justus Buchler with the phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions associated with postmodernism. Mint cloth brds in Mint d/w Price: $18.65 |
| Hodder, Alan D. - EMERSON`S RHETORIC OF REVELATION : `Nature`, the Reader and the Apocalypse Within(Pennsylvania State University Press
, 1989) xiv, 170 Pages Emerson`s `Nature` and its links with the Christian Bible, specifically the Book of Revelation. (View image) JOEL PORTE BARBARA PACKER HAROLD BLOOM JULIE ELLISON Very Fine (unused) cloth brds in VF d/w Price: $14.25 |
| Beattie, Tina - EVE`S PILGRIMAGE : A Woman`s Quest for the City of God(Burns & Oates
, 2002) pp.xi, 224 Pages Synthesis of art history, biblical insight, gender theory and social concern that becomes an investigation of what it means to be a catholic in the modern world. Very Fine (unused) softcover Price: $16.50 |
| Lennon, Kathleen - EXPLAINING HUMAN ACTION(Duckworth, London
, 1990) 176 Pages One of the principal problems in the philosophy of mind is the explanation of human action. How are we to reconcile our own rationalizing accounts of why we do things with the biology and physiology that condition our body movements? Very Fine (unused) cloth brds in VF d/w Price: $18.65 |
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