Introducing Empiricism (Robinson Dave)(Paperback)

Introducing Empiricism (Robinson Dave)(Paperback)

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? This graphic guide by popular Introducing series philosopher Dave Robinson introduces the concept of empiricism and what it could mean to accept a common sense view of the world we

Introducing Political Philosophy: A Graphic Guide (Robinson Dave)(Paperback)

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

Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide (Robinson Dave)(Paperback)

Introducing Plato provides a clear account of Plato's theory of knowledge and explains how this directed his provocative views on politics, ethics, and individual liberty. Offering detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, it also charts Plato's influence on modern

Introducing Rousseau: A Graphic Guide (Robinson Dave)(Paperback)

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. Introducing Rousseau guides us through a turbulent

Essays in Radical Empiricism (James William)(Paperback)

Essays in Radical Empiricism shows William James concerned with ultimate reality and moving toward a metaphysical system. The twelve essays originally appeared in journals between 1904 and 1906. James himself collected them to illustrate what he called 'radical empiricism,' but this volume was not

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Sellars Wilfrid)(Paperback)

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring

Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Roffe Jon)(Paperback)

This guide explains the key arguments of Empiricism and Subjectivity, organised thematically. It features an Appendix with a propositional summary of the book, a final chapter on with the movement of the themes of Empiricism and Subjectivity through Deleuze's later work and a substantial

Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead (Debaise Didier)(Paperback)

A radically new philosophy of experience and speculation, based on a reading of Whitehead's Process and Reality Can experience be thought systematically without transforming the richness of the world as it is lived into reductive philosophical generalities? Can the method of empiricism ever be

Gilead (Robinson Marilynne)(Paperback)

Jack (Robinson Marilynne)(Paperback)

Introducing Intersectionality (Romero Mary)(Paperback)

Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life (Deleuze Gilles)(Paperback)

Essays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism.The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply 'a life.' They capture a problem that runs throughout his work--his long search for a new and

A Portable Paradise (Robinson Roger)(Paperback)

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

Introducing Hinduism (Lal Vinay)(Paperback)

Introducing Hinduism offers a guide to the key philosophical, literary, mythological and cultural traditions of this extraordinarily diverse faith. It untangles the complexities of Hinduism's gods and goddesses, its caste system and its views on sex, everyday life and asceticism. This work answers

Introducing Teddy (Walton Jessica)(Paperback / softback)

The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Jeffers Robinson)(Paperback)

In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers--in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s

Gilles Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism: From Tradition to Difference (Rlli Marc)(Paperback)

Deleuze's readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However, Deleuze's arguments against those critiques - by Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger - consolidate the philosophy of immanence that can be called 'transcendental

Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Guide (Thody Philip)(Paperback)

Introducing Barthes brilliantly elucidates Roland Barthes application of semiotics to literature, popular culture, clothes, and fashion, and explains why his thinking in this area made him a key figure in the structuralist movement of the

Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature (Deleuze Gilles)(Paperback)

At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of David Hume's philosophy, the work is invaluable for understanding the progress of Deleuze's

Robinson Crusoe (Daniel DeFoe)(Paperback / softback)

Old Inverkeithing (Robinson Edward)(Paperback / softback)

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Pawed Piper (Robinson Michelle)(Paperback / softback)