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Product Description: Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought...read more
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9780199661763 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 15, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010.
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9780192804426 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 14, 2009, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Presenting an introduction to ethics, this work tackles the moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire, and freedom.
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9781847080332 | Granta Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: David Hume is generally recognized as England's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist.
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9780521113502 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 18, 2009), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK.
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9781444312515 | Blackwell Pub, May 5, 2009, cover price $37.95
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9780521108225 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 9, 2009), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: An original study of the philosophical problems associated with inductive reasoning.
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9780198610144 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 19, 2006), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: More than four hundred new entries are contained in the revised and updated edition of this wide-ranging and authoritative reference that covers every aspect of philosophy, from Aristotle to Zen, and contains more than three thousand alphabetical entries that encompasses world philosophical traditions, hundreds of influential philosophers, terms and concepts, and more.
9780192116949 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 8, 1994, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The 25,000 entries to different concepts in philosophy discuss the origin, current thought, and philosophers associated with each theory
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9780199541430 | 2 revised edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 2, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Gambler's Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Pascal's Wager--philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling.
9780198610137 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 28, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Containing over 3,000 entries, this paperback dictionary of philosophy includes entries, as well as biographies of nearly 500 philosophers.
9780192831347 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The Gambler's Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Pascal's Wager, Buridan's Ass, Wittgenstein's Beetle in the Box--philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling.
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9781405145077 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, May 2, 2008), cover price $41.95 | About this edition: This is the only revision resource devoted to anatomy at MRCS level with over 200 questions grouped by anatomical region, each with five true/false parts.
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9788483067345 | Debate Editorial, September 30, 2007, cover price $19.95
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9781400133901 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, July 1, 2007), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: A detailed analysis of Plato's influential philosophical treatise reveals how 'The Republic' laid the political foundations of Western culture; explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in the volume; and examines its influence on the modern world.
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9781400153909 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, July 30, 2007), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A detailed analysis of Plato's influential philosophical treatise reveals how 'The Republic' laid the political foundations of Western culture; explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in the volume; and examines its influence on the modern world.
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9781400103904 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, July 30, 2007), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A detailed analysis of Plato's influential philosophical treatise reveals how 'The Republic' laid the political foundations of Western culture; explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in the volume; and examines its influence on the modern world.
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9780195168242 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 17, 2005, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: A distinguished philosopher illuminates the age-old war over truth between one side that believes in plain, unvarnished facts and the other side that believes that judgment is clouded with false notions of absolute truth, in an exploration of the long-standing philosophical battle.
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9780195315806 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 8, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to explain philosophy to the general reader.
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9780195162004 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 12, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities.
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9780195312072 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 2006, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities.
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9780195308655 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 2, 2006, cover price $125.65
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9788449317064 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 30, 2005), cover price $7.95
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Product Description: What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today? How does philosophy relate to science, to politics, to literature? What methods does the modern philosopher use, and how does philosophy progress? Does philosophy differ from place to place? What can philosophy do for us? And what can it not do? This book, with contributions from such exciting and influential contemporary philosophers as Simon Blackburn, Michael Friedman, Simon Critchley and Manuel DeLanda, offers us a fascinating picture of the character and methods of philosophy; its possibilities and its limitations...read more
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9780826472410 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, June 1, 2004, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today?
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Product Description: What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today? How does philosophy relate to science, to politics, to literature? What methods does the modern philosopher use, and how does philosophy progress? Does philosophy differ from place to place? What can philosophy do for us? And what can it not do? This book, with contributions from such exciting and influential contemporary philosophers as Simon Blackburn, Michael Friedman, Simon Critchley and Manuel DeLanda, offers us a fascinating picture of the character and methods of philosophy; its possibilities and its limitations...read more
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9780826472427 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, March 1, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today?
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9780192100528 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 28, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a companion volume to Think, a leading philosopher offers an eloquent study of ethics, discussing the philosophical arguments of Hume, Kant, Aristotle, and other thinkers regarding ethics and exploring its relevance in everyday human life.
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9780192853776 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 17, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Writing with wit and elegance, Simon Blackburn tackles the basic questions of ethics in this lively book, highlighting the complications and troubling issues that spring from the very simple question of how we ought to live.
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9788449312052 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, April 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: No es sólo en nuestras horas más bajas cuando sentimos que la ética está amenazada por el escepticismo, el relativismo, la hipocresía y el nihilismo.
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9788449310379 | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, March 26, 2001, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Éste es un libro sobre las grandes cuestiones de la vida: ¿qué soy?
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9780198247852 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 14, 1999, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Why do we behave as we do?
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9780199241392 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 11, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling and original philosophy of human motivation and morality.
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9780192100245 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 14, 1999, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An introduction to philosophy explores basic themes and the work of major philosophers
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Product Description: The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198752516 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 7, 1999, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader.
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9780198752509 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 7, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume is designed to set out some of the central issues in the theory of truth.
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9780195080414 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 17, 1993, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world.
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9780195082241 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 17, 1993, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world.
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