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  Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE

  by Patrick McCarthy

  Patrick McCarthy analyzes The Stranger, one of the vital texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. McCarthy examines how the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction and explores parallels and contrasts between Camus's work and that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing students with a useful companion to The Stranger, this second... (more)
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  Introduction to Aristotle

  by Aristotle

  Following the conviction that Aristotle's works are themselves the best introduction to what Aristotle thought and meant, Richard McKeon has skillfully compiled and edited this collection of texts from the treatises. An important tool for instructors and students alike.
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  The Evolution of Morality (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)

  by Richard Joyce

  Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality , Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence supports an innate basis to human... (more)
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  Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 8 (Japanese Edition)

  by Hiromu Arakawa

  In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Alric lost his arm and his leg. He was lucky...his brother Alphonse lost his entire body. With Alphonse's soul grafted into a suit of armor, and the other brother equipped with mechanical limbs, they become government alchemists, serving the state on deadly missions and fighting the evil alchemists called the Seven Deadly Sins.
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  A Dual Autobiography

  by Will Durant

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  Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Penguin Classics)

  by Rene Descartes

  A new, superb translation of Descartes' seminal contribution to modern philosophy and science. The age of Newton marks one of the great turning points in intellectual history, and Descartes has a key place at its very heart. Designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science, this is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin... (more)
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  Diogenes The Cynic: The War Against The World

  by Luis E. Navia

  In this comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and engaging book, philosopher Luis E. Navia undertakes the task of reconstructing Diogenes' life and extracting from him lessons that are valuable in our time.
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  Hume (Oneworld Thinkers)

  by Harold Noonan

  The father of modern scepticism and perhaps the most important English philosopher, Hume was lauded within his own lifetime as a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment. His 'naturalist' approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original theories of perception, personal identity, causation, politics, morality, and religion, many of which were extremely controversial and continue to make... (more)
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  The Philosopher's Apprentice: A Novel

  by James Morrow

  A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose gratefully accepts an offer no starving ethicist could refuse. He must travel to a private tropical island and tutor Londa Sabacthani, a beautiful, brilliant adolescent who has lost both her memory and her moral sense in a freak accident. Londa's soul is an empty vessel—and Mason's job will be to fill it. But all is not as it seems on... (more)
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  Conditionals (Bradford Books)

  by Nicholas Rescher

  This book by distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher seeks to clarify the idea of what a conditional says by elucidating the information that is normally transmitted by its utterance. The result is a unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This approach, argues Rescher, makes it easier to understand how... (more)
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  Gödel, Putnam, and Functionalism: A New Reading of Representation and Reality (Bradford Books)

  by Jeff Buechner

  In the late 1950s, with mind-brain identity theories no longer dominant in philosophy of mind scientific materialists turned to functionalism, the view that the identity of any mental state depends on its function in the cognitive system of which it is a part. The philosopher Hilary Putnam was one of the primary architects of functionalism and was the first to propose computational functionalism, which views the... (more)
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  Fear and Trembling

  by Sören Kierkegaard

  As one of Soren Kierkegaard's most widely read works, FEAR and TREMBLING presents careful arguments about important biblical topics. Most notably, Kierkegaard acts more-or-less as a defense attorney for Abraham for his even contemplating the murder of his son. In the book, Kierkegaard considers whether Abraham was not subject to the ethical laws of the everyday universe that the rest of use live by every day--when... (more)
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  The Sunday Philosophy Club (aka Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries): Book 2

  Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

  by Alexander McCall Smith

  In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s bestselling detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie gets caught up in a highly unusual affair of the heart. When Isabel is asked to cover for vacationing Cat at her delicatessen, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly haunted by memories of events that never... (more)
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  The Sunday Philosophy Club (aka Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries): Book 3

  The Right Attitude to Rain

  by Alexander McCall Smith

  The delectable new installment in the best-selling and beloved adventures of Isabel Dalhousie. When Mimi, Isabel’s cousin from Dallas, arrives in Edinburgh with her husband, Joe, several confounding situations unfurl. First, Mimi and Joe introduce Isabel to Tom Bruce–a bigwig back home in Texas. The roving eye of Tom’s young fiancée leads Isabel to believe that money may be at the root of her love for Tom. But... (more)
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  The Sunday Philosophy Club (aka Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries): Book 1

  The Sunday Philosophy Club

  by Alexander McCall Smith

  Introducing Isabel Dalhousie the heroine of the latest bestselling series from the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency . Isabel, the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics and an occasional detective, has been accused of getting involved in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. In this first installment, Isabel is attending a concert in the Usher Hall when she witnesses a man fall... (more)
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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and radical thinker, exerted an enormous influence over contemporaries as varied as Wordsworth, Southey and Lamb. He was also a dedicated reformer, and set out to use his reputation as a public speaker and literary philosopher to change the course of English thought. This collection represents the best of Coleridge's poetry from every period of his life, particularly... (more)