Secondhand Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP2864

Secondhand Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP2864

Twenty-two philosophy texts spanning Kant to Wittgenstein, from the Enlightenment to the analytic revolution — Blackwell paperbacks, Fontana Modern Masters, and Mentor Philosophers editions that shaped how an entire generation learned to think philosophically.

1. Philosophy of Language — William P. Alston (Foundations of Philosophy Series) — a rigorous and accessible introduction to the major questions of linguistic philosophy: meaning, reference, speech acts, and truth.
2. An Introduction to Philosophy of Education — R.G. Woods and R. St. C. Barrow — what does it mean to educate, and on what philosophical grounds can we justify one approach over another?
3. The Blue and Brown Books — Ludwig Wittgenstein (Blackwell Paperback) — the dictated notes that preceded the Philosophical Investigations: Wittgenstein working through the problems that would define his later philosophy.
4. Lectures on Ethics — Immanuel Kant (Harper Torchbooks) — Kant's lectures on moral philosophy, delivered to his students at Königsberg, warmer and more exploratory than the published works.
5. The Philosophy of Mind — edited by V.C. Chappell — a landmark anthology gathering Farrell, Wisdom, Hamlyn, Malcolm, Strawson, Smart, and others on the central problems of mind, consciousness, and mental language.
6. Philosophy and the Physicists — L. Susan Stebbing — the British philosopher's celebrated critique of popular physics writing, arguing that Eddington and Jeans had smuggled metaphysics into science without noticing.
7. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment — Ernst Cassirer — the definitive intellectual history of Enlightenment thought, by one of the twentieth century's greatest historians of ideas.
8. Zettel — Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, translated by G.E.M. Anscombe (Blackwell Paperback) — a collection of Wittgenstein's remarks on philosophy of psychology, cut and assembled by his literary executors.
9. Wittgenstein — William Warren Bartley III — a controversial and absorbing biography that placed Wittgenstein's philosophy in the context of his extraordinary, tormented life.
10. The Age of Ideology: The 19th Century Philosophers — selected with commentary by Henry D. Aiken (Mentor Philosophers) — basic writings of Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte, Spencer, Marx, Mach, Nietzsche, Dilthey, and Kierkegaard in one volume.
11. The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein — David Pole (Athlone Press) — one of the earliest serious critical examinations of the Philosophical Investigations and what Wittgenstein's later work actually claimed.
12. Sartre — Iris Murdoch (Fontana Library) — the novelist-philosopher's early and brilliant examination of Sartre's philosophy, written before her own novels had made her famous.
13. Philosophical Papers — G.E. Moore — the collected essays of the Cambridge philosopher whose common-sense realism proved as influential, in its quiet way, as anything Russell or Wittgenstein produced.
14. Philosophy: An Introduction (College Outline Series) — John Herman Randall Jr. and Justus Buchler (Barnes & Noble) — keyed to standard textbooks, covering logic, epistemology, axiology, aesthetics, ethics, and metaphysics.
15. Life, Mind and Galaxies — V.A. Firsoff — a scientific and philosophical examination of consciousness, intelligence, and where in the cosmos we might expect to find them.
16. The Enforcement of Morals — Patrick Devlin (Oxford Paperbacks) — the famous argument that society has the right to legislate against immorality, which provoked H.L.A. Hart's celebrated reply and set off a debate still not resolved.
17. Readings in Philosophy (College Outline Series) — John Herman Randall Jr., Justus Buchler, and Evelyn Sprague (Barnes & Noble) — thirty-eight selections from thirty-three philosophers representing all branches of the discipline.
18. Truth — edited by George Pitcher (Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy Series) — the central problem of epistemology examined through essays by the major analytic philosophers of the mid-twentieth century.
19. Freud — Richard Wollheim (Fontana Modern Masters, ed. Frank Kermode) — the philosopher's intellectual biography of Freud, situating psychoanalysis within the history of ideas with characteristic rigour and sympathy.
20. Life: Its Nature, Origins and Distribution — J. Marquand — the philosophical and scientific dimensions of the question that has puzzled biologists and philosophers equally: what exactly is life?
21. Kant: Education — Immanuel Kant — Kant's lectures on pedagogy, arguing that education is the means by which humanity progresses toward its rational destiny.
22. Philosophy of Logic — Hilary Putnam (Essays in Philosophy series) — the Harvard philosopher's concise and forceful account of the nature of logic and its relationship to mathematics, language, and the world.