496円 Aristotle's Poetics is the oldest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includ...

3,805円 Mele's ultimate purpose in this book is to help readers think more clearly about free will. He identifies and makes vivid the most important conceptual obstacles to justified belief in the existence of free will and meets them head on. Mele clarifies the central issue in the philosophical debate ...

496円 The Critique of Judgment, or in the new Cambridge translation Critique of the Power of Judgment, also known as the third Critique, is a 1790 philosophical piece of writing by Immanuel Kant. In it, Kant lays the foundations for modern aesthetics. This edition has formatted for your reader, with a...

496円 Plato's Phaedo, also known to ancient readers as Plato's On The Soul, is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's fourth and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days, f...

496円 About the book: This compilation contains three crucial works of the ancient philosophical era.  Included are Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates.  The Apology is Plato's version of the oration given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC  against the charges of "cor...

5,073円 Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene have aroused fierce controversy by arguing for the powerful influence of genes on human behavior. But are we entirely at the mercy of our chromosomes? In Are We Hardwired?, scientists William R. Clark and Michael Grunstein say the answer is both ye...

6,060円 In this book Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P. F. Strawson. As McKenna demonstrates, moral responsibility can be explained on analogy with a conversation. The relation between a morally responsible agent and those who hold her moral...

6,201円 In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with "deep control." Fischer defines deep control as the middle ground between two untenable extreme positions: "superficial control" and "to...

7,610円 This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest meta...

5,777円 The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first ...

0円 Is a person's decision to kill himself always wrong? Is his thinking irrational? Who has the right to stop him? This is a continuation and expansion of David Hume's essay with the same name. A modern-language version of David Hume's essay follows. A link is provided to the original essay.

6,342円 This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E. Bratman of Stanford University. They revolve around his influential theory, know as the "planning theory of intention and agency." Bratman's primary concern is with what he calls "strong" forms of hum...