Oxford University Press, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Why does agency -- the capacity to make choices and to act in the world -- matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity, that they embody what we..... More

Mentor Book, 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More

Harper Torchbook / The Academy library / Harper & Brothers, January 1961. Paper Back. Heavily underlined with side notes and other handwritten contributions by previous owner. Spine darkened. Cover stained, with flacking along spine edge of front and back cover. Passable reading copy for those not distracted by the underlining..... More

Clarendon Press, April 2002. Hardcover. Ranging from Joseph Bellamy to Hilary Putnam, and from early New England Divinity Schools to contemporary university philosophy departments, historian Bruce Kuklick recounts the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the United States. Readers will explore the thought of early American philosophers such..... More

Appleton Century Crofts, January 1955. Cloth. Octavo. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering and decorative border in green green rectangles on front panel & along spine. Mild edgewear & wear to ribbed hinges. Worn corners. Previous owner's name written in ink upper right corner of FFEP. [523 pages]..... More

Harvard University Press, January 1957. Paper Back. Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. This book presents a study of human intelligence beginning with a semantic theory and leading into a critique of music. By implication it sets up a theory of all the arts; the..... More

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition (U.S.); Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering & decorative device (beginning to fade) on spine and author's initial in gold front panel. Spine and edges darkened. End pages heavily darkened/tanned fanning out from gutter front and back. A...... More

Vanderbilt University Press, February 2003. Trade Paperback. In this new contribution to moral theory, Todd Lekan argues for a pragmatist conception of morality as an evolving, educational, and fallible practice of everyday life. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, Lekan asserts that moral norms are neither timeless truths nor..... More

University of California Press, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses, taking the reader..... More

Cambridge University Press, January 1987. Hardcover. This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and skeptical schools of philosophy. The material is organized by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume..... More

Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., March 1995. Trade Paperback. With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest philosophy of mind scholarship in an introduction, and also includes an annotated bibliography, selected criticism and chronology of the authors' lives and times. More

Doubleday, May 2022. Hardcover. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE NEW YORKER - A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley--who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II..... More

Northwestern University Press, April 1993. First Edition. Cloth. To read Working through Derrida is to plunge into the midst of a lively debate on the place of Jacques Derrida and the thought associated with him in today's literary and philosophical consciousness. With essays by major philosophers such as Richard Rorty..... More