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Solipsism: The Ultimate Empirical Theory of Human Existence

Product Description: "The specter haunting modern philosophy is not the ghost in the machine: it is solipsism."

By Richard A. Watson

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9781587315893 | St Augustine Pr Inc, April 30, 2016, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: "The specter haunting modern philosophy is not the ghost in the machine: it is solipsism.

The Philosopher's Enigma: God, Body and Soul: God, Disembodied Spirits, Free Will, Determinism, and the Mind-Body Problem

Book Description: The atheists Daniel Dennett in Breaking the Spell and Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion talk down to believers. Sam Harris in The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation insults believers outright. All three assume that believers are not very bright...read more

By Richard A. Watson

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9781587316494 | St Augustine Pr Inc, June 14, 2013, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The atheists Daniel Dennett in Breaking the Spell and Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion talk down to believers.

Descartes's Ballet: His Doctrine of the Will and His Political Philosophy

By Richard A. Watson

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9781587311758 | St Augustine Pr Inc, January 10, 2008, cover price $27.00

Compositional Evolution: The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, And Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution

By Richard A. Watson

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9780262232432 | Mit Pr, February 17, 2006, cover price $11.75

In the Dark Cave

A cave cricket, a cave rat, and a bat live contentedly in the dark until suddenly one day an explorer appears, bringing with him a beam of light.

By Richard A. Watson

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Hardcover:

9780399227387 | Philomel Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A cricket, a bat, and a rat live in a dark cave visited only once by a spelunker with a light.

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9781595720382 | Star Bright Books, October 30, 2005, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A cave cricket, a cave rat, and a bat live contentedly in the dark until suddenly one day an explorer appears, bringing with him a beam of light.

Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems

By Mark Bedau (editor), Phil Husbands (editor), Takashi Ikegami (editor), Jordan Pollack (editor) and Richard A. Watson (editor)

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9780262661836 | Bradford Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $80.00

Cartesian Views: Papers Presented to Richard A. Watson

Product Description: Many kinds of Cartesian views are treated by these papers: the views that Descartes held, views from our perspective on those views, views on Descartes held by his early critics and followers, and views that are Cartesian in outlook (not for nothing is Descartes still regarded as the father of modern philosophy...read more

By Thomas M. Lennon (editor) and Richard A. Watson (editor)

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9789004132993 | Brill Academic Pub, October 1, 2003, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Many kinds of Cartesian views are treated by these papers: the views that Descartes held, views from our perspective on those views, views on Descartes held by his early critics and followers, and views that are Cartesian in outlook (not for nothing is Descartes still regarded as the father of modern philosophy.

The Philosopher's Demise: Learning French

Product Description: Richard Watson, scholar and spelunker extraordinaire is back. Having told how to win the fight against fat in The Philosopher's Diet, and having painted the definitive portrait of philosopher RenÃÂ© Descartes (Cogito, Ergo Sum), here he confronts his most difficult challenge: how he learned to speak French...read more

By Richard A. Watson

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Hardcover:

9780826210036 | Univ of Missouri Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $22.50

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9781567922271 | David R Godine Pub, June 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Richard Watson, scholar and spelunker extraordinaire is back.

Mark Twain's Letters: 1874-1875

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By Michael B. Frank (editor), Harriet E. Smith (editor), Mark Twain and Richard A. Watson (creator)

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9780520237728 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $99.95

Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes

By Richard A. Watson

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9781567921847 | 1 edition (David R Godine Pub, April 1, 2002), cover price $35.00

Democracia americana/ American Democracy

By Richard A. Watson

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9789681821944 | 2 edition (Editorial Limusa S.A. De C.V., January 1, 2002), cover price $50.00

The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight and Change the World

Explains how the attempt to take off twenty pounds--and keep it off--could be a path to individual truth, a way of changing one's self without harming anyone, and a means toward making the world better (view table of contents)

By Richard A. Watson

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9780316924658 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explains how the attempt to take off twenty pounds--and keep it off--could be a path to individual truth, a way of changing one's self without harming anyone, and a means toward making the world better

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9781567920840, titled "The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight & Change the World" | Revised edition (David R Godine Pub, April 1, 1999), cover price $14.95

9780871130792 | Reprint edition (Atlantic Monthly Pr, May 1, 1986), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Explains how the attempt to take off twenty pounds--and keep it off--could be a path to individual truth, a way of changing one's self without harming anyone, and a means toward making the world better

The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics

Product Description: Combines historical research and philosophical analysis to cast light on why and how Cartesianism failed as a complete metaphysical system. Far more radical in its conclusions than his 1966 study The Downfall of Cartesianism (a slightly revised version of which forms the main body of the current work), Watson argues that Descartes's ontology is incoherent and vacuous, his epistemology deceptive, and his theology unorthodox--indeed, that Descartes knows nothing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard A. Watson

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9780872204072 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Combines historical research and philosophical analysis to cast light on why and how Cartesianism failed as a complete metaphysical system.

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9780872204065 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $17.00

The High Road to Pyrrhonism

Product Description: In this sequel to his classic study The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, Popkin examines the important role played by the revival and reformulation of classical scepticism in eighteenth-century philosophy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By James E. Force and Richard A. Watson (editor)

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9780872202528 | Reprint edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, November 1, 1993), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this sequel to his classic study The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, Popkin examines the important role played by the revival and reformulation of classical scepticism in eighteenth-century philosophy.

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9780872202511 | Reprint edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, October 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this sequel to his classic study The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, Popkin examines the important role played by the revival and reformulation of classical scepticism in eighteenth-century philosophy.

Good Teaching: A Guide for Students

Product Description: From junior college to Ivy League university, the level of teaching ranges from "great to awful," according to Richard A. Watson, who explains not only how to survive but how to profit from and enjoy your college experience.To help students make important personal choicesâwhat school? what major? what classes?âWatson explains such broad areas as administrative structure, institutional goals, and faculty aspirations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard A. Watson

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9780809321117 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: From junior college to Ivy League university, the level of teaching ranges from "great to awful," according to Richard A.

Representational Ideas: From Plato to Patricia Churchland

By Richard A. Watson

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9780792334538 | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 1995, cover price $209.00

The Presidential Contest: With a Guide to the 1996 Presidential Race

By Joseph August Pika and Richard A. Watson

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9780871878373 | 5th edition (Cq Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $20.95

Malebranche's First and Last Critics: Simon Foucher and Dortous De Mairan

Product Description: In this engrossing double volume, the work and thought of Nicolas Malebranche is examined through the eyes of Simon Foucher and Dortous de Mairan. Part 1 consists of Richard A. Watsonâs translation of the first published critique, by Simon Foucher, of Malebrancheâs main philosophical work, Of the Search for the Truth...read more

By Marjorie Glicksman Grene and Richard A. Watson (editor)

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9780809319725 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this engrossing double volume, the work and thought of Nicolas Malebranche is examined through the eyes of Simon Foucher and Dortous de Mairan.

Niagara

Product Description: In this turn-of-the-century novel, Watson introduces Jean Francois Gravelet and Anna Edson Taylor, two adventurers who challenge Niagara Falls. 2 cassettes.

By Richard A. Watson

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9781571210036 | Victory Audio Video Services, January 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In this turn-of-the-century novel, Watson introduces Jean Francois Gravelet and Anna Edson Taylor, two adventurers who challenge Niagara Falls.

Niagara: A Novel

Two daredevils, a tightrope walker who walked across Niagra Falls, and a former schoolteacher who went over the falls in a barrel, look back on their lives

By Richard A. Watson

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9781566890069 | Coffee House Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Two daredevils, a tightrope walker who walked across Niagra Falls, and a former schoolteacher who went over the falls in a barrel, look back on their lives

Writing Philosophy: A Guide to Professional Writing and Publishing

By Richard A. Watson

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9780809318100 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $22.00

The Presidential Contest: With a Guide to the 1992 Presidential Race

Product Description: Book by Pika, Joseph August, Mosley, Zelma, Watson, Richard A.

By Zelma Mosley, Joseph August Pika and Richard A. Watson

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9780871876232 | 4 sub edition (Cq Pr, November 1, 1991), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Book by Pika, Joseph August, Mosley, Zelma, Watson, Richard A.

The Philosopher's Joke: Essays in Form and Content

By Richard A. Watson

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9780879756017 | Prometheus Books, December 1, 1990, cover price $24.99

The Skeptical Mode in Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Richard H. Popkin

By James E. Force (editor) and Richard A. Watson

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9789024735846 | Kluwer Academic Print on Demand, July 1, 1988, cover price $259.00

The Dream of Descartes

Product Description: The late Gregor Sebba was fond of describing his monumental Bibliographia Cartesiana: A Critical Guide to the Descartes Literature, 1800Â1960 as a by-product of his research begun in 1949 for an article he had in mind titled The Dream of Descartes...read more

By Gregor Sebba and Richard A. Watson

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9780809314133 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The late Gregor Sebba was fond of describing his monumental Bibliographia Cartesiana: A Critical Guide to the Descartes Literature, 1800Â1960 as a by-product of his research begun in 1949 for an article he had in mind titled The Dream of Descartes.

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