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Interpreting Avicenna
Critical Essays
2015 || Paperback || Peter Adamson || Cambridge University Press
This volume examines the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. Leading scholars deal with his ideas in areas ranging from medicine to theology and his impact on the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions. The book is of interest to graduate students of Arabic and medieval philosophy.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy
2003 || Paperback || A. S. McGrade || Cambridge University Press
This volume, first published in 2003, spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It includes not only the thinkers of the Latin West but also the profound contributions of Islamic and Jewish thinkers. Supplementary material includes chronological charts and biographies of the major thinkers.
Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1995 || Paperback || Mary Wollstonecraft || Cambridge University Press
This edition brings together Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), her most famous work, and the earlier text A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), her first formulation of a wide-ranging moral and political critique of her times.
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge / 2nd edition
2020 || Paperback || Noah Lemos || Cambridge University Press
Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides an accessible introduction to the fundamental problems in the theory of knowledge. Written primarily for students taking a first course in epistemology, it will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about this important area of philosophy.
The Philosophy of Language
2013 || Paperback || A.P. Martinich e.a. || Oxford University Press
What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, considered the essential text in its field, is an excellent introduction to such fundamental questions. This revised edition collects forty-eight of the most important articles in the field, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the subject. Revised toaddress changing trends an...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy
1999 || Paperback || Rene Descartes || Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method , bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
Being Good
A Short Introduction to Ethics
2002 || Paperback || Simon Blackburn || Oxford University Press
It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive.
Simon Blackburn, author of thebest-selling Think, structures th...
ISE Critical Thinking / 13th edition
2020 || Paperback || Brooke Noel Moore e.a. || McGraw-Hill
Critical Thinking focuses on skills students need to think for themselves. Through a practical and accessible approach core concepts in critical thinking are illustrated through real-world examples, extensive practice, and a thoughtful set of pedagogical features.
Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
Key Themes and Thinkers
2005 || Paperback || Alan D. Schrift || Wiley
This unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers. Offers discussion and cross-referencing of ideas and figuresProvides Appendix on the distinctive nature of French academic culture.
Ethics - Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
2009 || Paperback || David Wiggins || Harvard University Press
Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. In "Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, " David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions-gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians and the post-utilitaritarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws not only on Hume but on other sources as diverse as Aristotl...