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Glück - Tugend - Zeit
J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2013; US$ 43.08Hauptbeschreibung Wann können wir sagen, dass wir glücklich sind? In der Ethik Aristoteles' ist dies eine wichtige Frage. Ist glücklich, wer über eine tugendhafte Seelenverfassung verfügt oder braucht es äußere Güter? Reicht eine kurze Zeit aus oder bedarf es eines ganzen tugendhaften Lebens, um das höchste Gut - um 'eudaimonia' zu erreichen? Dieser... more...
The Price of Doubt
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 44.95This important contribution to the problem of scepticism offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. It questions the value of the sceptic's argument and provides a potential remedy to anti-sceptical epistemology. more...
Knowing the Difference
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95Including contributions from an international list of renowned authors, this text seeks to address the controversial issue of difference in feminist philosophy, using approaches from both analytic and continental thinking. more...
Sceptical Challenge
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 147.00Do we really know the things we think we know? Are any of our beliefs reasonable? Scepticism gives a pessimistic reply to these important epistemological questions - we don't know anything; none of our beliefs are reasonable. But can such a seemingly paradoxical claim be more than an intellectual curiousity? And if it is, can it be refuted? Ruth Weintraub... more...
Knowledge of the External World
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 147.00Many philosophers believe that the traditional problem of our knowledge of the external world was dissolved by Wittgestein and others. They argue that it was not really a problem - just a linguistic `confusion' that did not actually require a solution. Bruce Aune argues that they are wrong. He casts doubt on the generally accepted reasons for putting... more...
Introducing Persons
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95Stimulating introduction to the most central and interesting issues in the philosophy of mind. Topics covered include dualism versus the various forms of materialism, personal identity and survival, and the problem of other minds. more...
101 Philosophy Problems
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 19.95Now in its second edition, this ever-engaging, humorous and extremely popular book challenges readers to think philosophically about every day dilemmas. This fully updated new edition includes brand new problems, such as 'A Nasty Transplant' and the 'Three Embryos', from the field of medical ethics, and 'Deep Thought Speaks', which tackles issues in... more...
Truth, Politics, Morality
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95Cheryl Misak argues that truth ought to be reinstated to a central position in moral and political philosophy. She argues that the correct account of truth is one found in a certain kind of pragmatism: a true belief is one upon which inquiry could not improve, a belief which would not be defeated by experience and argument. This account is not only... more...
Philosophical Darwinism
Routledge 1993; US$ 140.00Examines knowledge in the light of biology and in particular Darwin's theory of natural selection. Munz argues that the acquisition of knowledge is continuous right from the protozoa to the most advanced scientific theories. more...
Personal Identity
Routledge 2003; US$ 47.95A comprehensive introduction to the nature of the self and its relation to the body, this title places the problem of personal identity in the context of more general puzzles about identity, and discusses the major related theories. more...









