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101 Philosophy Problems
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by Routledge
Paperback (26 December, 2001)
(10 reviews) 4.6 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: ANOTHER COOL BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Routledge publishes great books on philosophy for the general reader, and this one is no exception.
A Brief History of Western Philosophy
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by Blackwell Publishers
Paperback (01 September, 1998)
(6 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Should be briefer!: On p. 309 there is this sentence: "It is not a matter of doubt that we possess free will." Quite apart from the fact that this fundamental question in philosophy is answered in the negative by the great philosophers of whom Kenny should have more than a nodding acquaintance - Hobbes,

A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell Reference)
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by Blackwell Publishers
Hardcover (01 September, 1995)
(1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Companion to American Thought: This book has a wealth of information on American idealogy. I used this book originally for a research project on Transcendentalism that focused on Thoreau,
A Companion to Philosophical Logic (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
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by Blackwell Publishers
Hardcover (01 February, 2002)

A Companion to the Philosophy of Science (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
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by Blackwell Publishers
Paperback (01 November, 2001)
A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes
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by Yale University Press
Hardcover (01 October, 2004)

A History of Philosophy: Volume IX: Modern Philosophy from the French Revolution to Sartre,
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by Image
Paperback (01 February, 1994)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Buy now/read now: Copelston is one of the pre-emienent thinkers of philosophical history. Every one should read his entire works including this fine volume.
A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy : in the 16th, 17th and 18th centurie
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by Continuum Pub Group
Hardcover (01 March, 1999)

A History of Western Philosophy : Hobbes to Hume, Volume III (History of Western
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by Wadsworth Publishing
Paperback (01 April, 1969)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Philosophy comes of age...: This book, 'Hobbes to Hume', is the third volume of a five-volume series on the history of Western Philosophy by W.T
A History of Western Philosophy: The Twentieth Century of Quine and Derrida, Volume
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by Wadsworth Publishing
Paperback (22 November, 1996)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Even more modern...: This book, 'The Twentieth Century to Quine and Derrida', is the revised fifth volume of a five-volume series on the history of Western Philosophy by W.T

A New Stoicism
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (01 July, 1999)
(5 reviews) 3.4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Stoicism: The Key to Success?: I spent much time considering why I would ever want to undertake the maximally arduous task of perfecting (improving) my agency,
A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger
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by Open Court Publishing Company
Paperback (30 November, 2000)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Changing social dynamics and ways of thought: A Parting Of The Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, And Heidegger by Michael Friedman (Ruth N.

A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to
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by University of Notre Dame Press
Paperback (01 February, 1998)
(3 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Serious shortcomings: Professor MacIntyre's book is in some respects fine, in other respects terrible. The good thing is that he offers valuable insights and arguments for an historical approach to the analysis of moral judgments.
A Short History of Philosophy
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 February, 1996)
(7 reviews) 4.71 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Philosophy to Go: Authors Solomon and Higgins have written a very readable history of philosophy matching philosopher's names with a brief explanation of their pet concepts.

A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present
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by Verso
Paperback (November, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Between perpectivalist situation and global-capital mandate: Jameson forges a backing-and-filling book that gives his own 'congnitive mapping' of postmodernity and cultural capitalist glut a new dimensionality and openness worthy of a vigilant,
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 March, 2000)
(9 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: The Greatest Achievement of Our Greatest Philosopher: Before he chose to diddle away his later years writing book after book of history,

About Philosophy (8th Edition)
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by Prentice Hall
Hardcover (16 December, 1999)
(4 reviews) 3.25 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Professor's Perspective: Wolff's perennial textbook, now in its eighth edition, has faults. This is a given for any book or other work in the print medium,
Adorno : Disenchantment and Ethics (Modern European Philosophy)
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (23 July, 2001)

Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction
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by University of Hawaii Press
Paperback (01 June, 1969)
(2 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A great introduction to Advaita: This is an excellent book. Very clear and concize. People who have studied vedanta the conventional way will also gain few insights.
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume
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by New Press
Paperback (01 September, 1999)
(2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: For nerds and for new comers: It is not so easy to determine where Foucault is attempting to go with his published books. In this sense,

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (01 November, 2001)
(4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Brilliant!: Sir Isaiah Berlin was the greatest exponent of Liberal Pluralismin the 20th Century. "Against The Current" is probably his best collection of essays.
All Life Is Problem Solving
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by Routledge
Paperback (01 March, 2001)
(2 reviews) 3.5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Fun read, but there are many better.: I am a long-time Karl Popper fan. I've read all but, I believe, 4 books of his. To my knowledge,

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts)
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 May, 1999)
(15 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A great book, but flawed philosophically: Hume is rightfully an important philosopher. Philosophy had been mainly a metaphysical/rationalistic field until Hume (in addition to Locke and Berkeley) came along.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass
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by Blackwell Publishers
Paperback (15 July, 2002)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A must read: This is just an excellent book. With questions that all early physics students ask and are usually shunned for asking them.

Antigone's Claim
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by Columbia University Press
Paperback (15 March, 2002)
(7 reviews) 2.71 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Does this woman know any Greek?: I have located several misquotations and several mispellings of what little Greek she uses. Apart from it being gruesomely written,
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom
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by Harcourt
Hardcover (15 October, 2003)
(9 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Interesting Comparison of World Views: I enjoyed the book and I recommend the book. His style is very readable. The first chapters are especially good.

Blacked Out Through Whitewash: Exposing the Quantum Deception/Rediscovering and Recovering
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by A-Kar Productions
Paperback (01 December, 1999)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: **Attention** all Afrikan People (People of African Decent): This text is a true landmark. It lays legitimacy to the claims of several "pro-black" groups.
Broken Hegemonies (Studies in Continental Thought)
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by Indiana University Press
Paperback (01 October, 2003)

Causation and Counterfactuals (Representation and Mind)
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by Bradford Books
Paperback (01 June, 2004)
Common Sense : and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)
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by Modern Library
Paperback (11 February, 2003)

Confessions of a Philosopher : A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from
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by Modern Library
Paperback (18 May, 1999)
(33 reviews) 4.3 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Obsessively readable!: I am a soon-to-be master's student in the Humanities and I've always been somewhat of an ameteur philosopher.
Consciousness: An Introduction
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 October, 2003)
(3 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: CONSCIOUSNESS: THE HARD PROBLEM: Susan Blackmore has written an excellent book dealing with one of the most challenging problems confronting human kind as we enter the 21st century: What is consciousness and how do we explain it.

Core Questions in Philosophy: A Text with Readings (3rd Edition)
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by Prentice Hall
Hardcover (26 June, 2000)
(3 reviews) 3.67 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Maybe I'm being too harsh?: Sober's Core Questions in Philosophy is an introductory text to philosophy and includes a brief introduction to the different types of arguments philosophers use (deductive,
Critique of Cynical Reason (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 40)
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by University of Minnesota Press
Paperback (01 January, 1988)
(4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Fantastic Phenomenology of the Spirit, Like Hegel...: Sloterdijk adheres to the theories advanced by Immanuel Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason,

Critique of Pure Reason
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (February, 1999)
(30 reviews) 4.03 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A Critique of Pure Idiocy: I'm simply bewildered by two of the reviews of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Giving the Critique two or three stars shows an absolute lack of understanding for its role in the history of modern philosophy.
Critique of Pure Reason
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by Palgrave Macmillan
Paperback (06 September, 2003)

DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE
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by Simon & Schuster
Paperback (12 June, 1996)
(118 reviews) 3.74 out of 5 stars
Editorial Review: One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution.
Discourses on Livy
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by University of Chicago Press
Hardcover (15 July, 1996)
(3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Another Machiavelli. Different from the often known one.: No one who wants to have a fair outlook of the whole political reflexions of Machiavelli,

Donald Davidson (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus)
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by Cambridge University Press
Paperback (21 July, 2003)
Doubt, a History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates
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by HarperSanFrancisco
Hardcover (14 October, 2003)
(11 reviews) 4.18 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: relief: As a child I was forced to go to church by my parents. They didn't go them selves, except of course on holidays. There was a lot of Latin,

Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons (Suny Series in Chinese
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by State University of New York Press
Paperback (01 March, 2002)
Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (The Gifford
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 January, 2003)

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
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by Verso
Paperback (December, 2002)
(5 reviews) 3 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Sooo Bad: This book largely consists of bad reasoning and rhetorical, statetist platitudes. It has little to do with evil and a lot to do with leftover propaganda from the era of Marcuse and other peddlers of communitarian/Marxist nonsense.
Existentialism
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by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Paperback (01 February, 1974)
(4 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: good, cheap existential dread, fits in your pocket: This is a diverse and engaging collection of excerpts from a range of works,

Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology
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by Oxford University Press
Paperback (01 December, 1999)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Great Overview: Dr. Cahn puts together an interesting and essential collection of essays which explore both the issues that philosophers have dealt with over the centuries and those which inspire the contemporary,
From Frege to Godel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931
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by Harvard University Press
Paperback (2002)
(4 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Oops: "Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence" was published 13 years after Heijenoort's.

From Kant to Davidson: Philosophy and the Idea of the Transcendental (Routledge Studies
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by Routledge
Hardcover (01 June, 2002)
From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies (Paper)
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by Blackwell Publishers
Paperback (01 March, 2003)
(1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: A diverse introduction: Even if one is only marginally interested in postmodernism, this book is nonetheless valuable. It reprints substantial excerpts from writings that put forth numerous important ideas,

From Shakespeare to Existentialism
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by Princeton University Press
Paperback (01 July, 1980)
(5 reviews) 3.4 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: diverse, provocative: A wonderfully diverse, provocative collection of essays on Freud, Jaspers, Nietzsche, Goethe and others by the noted Nietzsche-biographer and perhaps unjustifiably neglected philosopher.
From Socrates to Sartre : The Philosophic Quest
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by Bantam
Paperback (01 January, 1985)
(16 reviews) 4.12 out of 5 stars
Customer Review: Excellent Introduction: To the layman (like myself) looking for an introduction to some (but not all) of the defining philosophic movements of Western Civilization,

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