Product Description: Introducing Bertrand Russell celebrates the life and work of a very extraordinary man. We meet a passionate eccentric, an aristocrat with socialist and pacifist beliefs, a deeply religious man who hated all organised religion, and an advocate of women's rights who married several times and had numerous affairs...read more

Product Description: Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles—how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. InIntroducing Bertrand Russellwe meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religion, and education...read more

Product Description: "Introducing Rousseau" presents a maverick thinker whose ideas revolutionised our understanding of childhood, education, government, language and much else. What is the value of civilisation? Rousseau first posed this question. His answer - that civilisation corrupts natural goodness and increases inequality between humans - shocked his Enlightenment contemporaries and still challenges us today...read more

Product Description: Musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, a philosopher who denied being one, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first to ask: “What is the value of civilization?” His answer shocked Enlightenment contemporaries and still challenges us today...read more

Product Description: Introducing Political Philosophy explains the subject’s central concepts and presents the major political theorists from Plato to Michel Foucault. How did governments get started? Why should they be obeyed? Could we live without them? How much power should they have? Is freedom a right? Which is the best form of government...read more

Product Description: What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define "rights", self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience?"Introducing Ethics" confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics...read more

Product Description: "With Our Own Four Hands" is the account of how a young couple, grubbing away with hand tools back in the 1940's, brought reality to their wartime dream of creating a ski area for western New York skiers. It also touches on the history of skiing and the development of ski equipment starting with a single toe strap to hold the boot against the ski...read more

Product Description: Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and the first modern theologian. Philosophy, in Kierkegaard's radical view, was of no use unless it permanently changed people's lives. His distrust of grand abstract schemes, particularly Hegel's, and his insistence that philosophy is essentially writing also identify him as a forerunner of postmodernism...read more

Explains how philosophers such as Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought; provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge and how this theory directed his provocative views on politics, ethics, and individual liberty; offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism; and reveals how Plato's philosophy stimulated the work of important modern thinkers such as Karl Popper, Martha Nussbaum, and Jacques Derrida.

Product Description: Introducing Descartes is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions he asked about human beings and their place in the world.

Product Description: This text begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty...read more

Brief text commenting on ethical dilemmas prevalent in today's world accompanies cartoon-type illustrations recounting philosophical arguments from ancient to postmodern philosophers.

Brief text commenting on the origins of philosophical inquiry and the major questions which philosophy attempts to answer accompanies cartoon-type illustrations recounting the teachings of the most important philopsphers.

Product Description: Ethics has become the burning issue of current moral philosophical thought, raising the spectre of responsibility at a time when responsibility seems entirely replaced by uncertainty and relativism. What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is 'identity' now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define 'rights', self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience? This book confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics...read more

Product Description: Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? Empiricist philosophers accept a 'commonsense' view of the phenomena we observe and yet conclude that all we can ever know are 'ideas'...read more

An accessible introductory guide to philosophy guides readers through the traditions of Western philosophy, from Heraclitus to Derrida, navigating some of the most vexing questions posed by the study of philosophy, such as what is the nature of reality? Reprint.

Product Description: Kierkegaard para Principiantes es un relato acerca de la extraña vida y las ideas de un hombre torturado por su afán de cambiar las prioridades del pensamiento occidental.

Product Description: This book provides graduate students and professors with an excellent introduction to topics and issues that are central to current psychology. Full coverage is given to Human Relationships, Psychology and Paranormal Phenomena, Substance Abuse, and Criminological Psychology...read more

This text covers the core topic areas of the AQA (B) A2 specification. Each chapter provides the student and teacher with reflective and practical activities which help develop a critical understanding of psychology. Specimen questions, written in the AQA examination style, are provided.

Product Description: This introduction to the philosophy behind moral questioning traces the arguments of the great moral thinkers of the past, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and concludes with developments of postmodern ethical thought.

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Product Description: An explanation and examination of the key arguments and ideas of the central philosophers dating from Heraclitus to Derrida originally published as Philosophy for Beginners.