Product Description: Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language, and analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many areas of philosophy. Jonathan Bennett, one of the world's leading experts, distils many years' work and teaching into this Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, the fullest and most authoritative treatment of the subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this major new book, the internationally renowned thinker Jonathan Bennett offers a deeper understanding of what is going on in our own moral thoughts about human behavior. The Act Itself presents a conceptual analysis of descriptions of behavior on which we base our moral judgements, and shows that this analysis can be used as a means toward getting more control of our thoughts and thus of our lives...read more

Product Description: This stimulating work takes the concept of 'rationality', a concept that more than any other is supposed to express the essence of what it means to be human, and submits it to a careful and penetrating analysis. The conclusions drawn often challenge those previously suggested by both philosophers and psychologists...read more

Product Description: "With an astonishing erudition ...and in a direct no-nonsense style, Bennett expounds, compares, and criticises Spinoza's theses ...No one can fail to profit from it. Bennett has succeeded in making Spinoza a philosopher of our time." - W N A Klever, Studia Spinoza.

Product Description: '...advances aggressively through pertinent and lively argument...There are numerous brief and incisive responses to important philosophers of language (Sellars, Quine, Dummett, Putnam, Chomsky, Ziff) on issues of major significance and no little controversy' - Margaret Urban Coyne, "International Philosophical Quarterly"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Jonathan Bennett here examines the second half of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Dialectic, where Kant is concerned with problems about substance, the nature of the self, the cosmos, freedom and the existence of God. In this study of the Dialectic in English, the author aims to make accessible and intelligible to students this complex and extremely important part of Kant's great work...read more

Product Description: The thoughts of three philosophers on three topics: meaning, causality, and objectivity, are the focus of this study. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)