Product Description: The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions. It's a story with plot twists, a murder, accidental discoveries, disastrous love affairs, geniuses, idiots, monks, and vagabonds...read more

Product Description: What could be more central to philosophy than the meaning of life? Perfectly respectable philosophical discussions can look ridiculous compared to questions about the point and purpose of life. Until we have an answer to the ultimate question, both philosophical debates and those ordinary questions that make up everyday life, are just games...read more

Product Description: Featuring thirteen specially commissioned chapters on core subjects, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Mind is an essential tool for all those studying and working in the field, purpose-built for use on courses in this area of philosophy...read more

Product Description: Written with the general reader in mind, this book provides an ideal introduction to philosophical ideas and the effect these have had on the wider world. From the Greek triumvirate of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the social theorist Michel Foucault and other modern thinkers, the greatest names of philosophy are represented here...read more

Product Description: From new questions concerning qualia, representation, embodiment and cognition to fresh thinking about the long-standing problems of physicalism, dualism, personal identity and mental causation, this book is an authoritative guide to the latest research in the Philosophy of Mind...read more

Product Description: "Open this book and James Garvey is right there making real sense to you... in a necessary conversation, capturing you to the very end."-Ted Honderich, Grote Professor Emeritus of The Philosophy of Mind & Logic, University College London, UK...read more

Product Description: The essential guide to the top twenty greatest books in philosophy for those who have just never quite found the time to read them. In this witty and engaging book, James Garvey offers an introductory account of the must-read books from the whole history of philosophical writing...read more