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With Respect For Nature: Living As Part Of The Natural World
State University of New York Press

In this book philosopher J.

A Companion to Applied Ethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Wiley-Blackwell, First Edition

Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years.

Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Contemporary Debates in Philosophy)
Wiley-Blackwell, First Edition

Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today.

A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
Oxford University Press, USA

Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Vagueness and Contradiction
Oxford University Press, USA

Roy Sorenson offers a unique exploration of an ancient problem: vagueness. Did Buddha become a fat man in one second? Is there a tallest short giraffe?

Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction
Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy, 2nd Edition

Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible survey of main themes, positions and debates in philosophy of mind.

The Cambridge Companion to Quine (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press

The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of W.V. Quine's philosophy.

Philosophy of Mind: A Guide and Anthology
Oxford University Press

Edited by a renowned scholar in the field, this anthology provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the philosophy of mind.

Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series)
Scarecrow Press

The Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy includes many entries on Descartes's writings, concepts, and findings.

Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes
Cornell University Press

Although the basis of modern biology is Cartesian, Descartes's theories of biology have been more often ridiculed than studied.

Life's Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul
Cornell University Press

Dennis Des Chene explores how Western philosophers understood life and the soul in the early modern period-before Descartes radically changed how the universe was conceived.

Thought Experiments
Oxford University Press, USA

Can merely thinking about an imaginary situation provide evidence for how the world actually is--or how it ought to be? In this lively book, Roy A.

Derrida and Phenomenology (Contributions to Phenomenology)
Springer

Derrida and Phenomenology is a collection of essays by various authors, entirely devoted to Jacques Derrida's writing on Edmund Husserl's phenomenology.

Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done
Routledge

A fast-moving, fascinating alternative history of twentieth century analytic philosophy. Using many examples, Sorenson explains how problems are dissolved rather than solved.

Perspectives on Quine (Philosophers and their Critics)
Wiley-Blackwell

Perspectives on Quine, now available in paperback, is a collection of twenty-one new essays dealing with the thought of America's most distinguished living philosopher, Willard Van Orman...

Mental Imagery: On the Limits of Cognitive Science
Yale University Press

A philosophical study of mental imagery in which Rollins aims to show that there are no logical or methodological reasons why the brain cannot store information in the form of pictures.

Strategies of Deconstruction: Derrida and the Myth of the Voice
University of Minnesota Press

Strategies of Deconstruction focuses on the early work of Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher who introduced deconstruction in Speech and Phenomena,his study of Edmund...

Blindspots
Oxford University Press, USA

Sorensen here offers a unified solution to a large family of philosophical puzzles and paradoxes through a study of "blindspots": consistent propositions that cannot be rationally accepted by...

Enlightened Empiricism
University Press of Florida

 

An Examination of W. V. Quine's Theory of Knowledge

The Metaphysics of Transcendental Subjectivity
John Benjamins Pub Co

The general topic of this book is the metaphysics of the subject in Kantian transcendental philosophy.

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