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The Concept of Mind
A sustained attack on what Ryle calls the official doctrine about the mind, inherited from Descartes: that each person is a body plus a private, non-physical mind that…
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Mortal Questions
A collection of fourteen essays, most first published in journals in the 1970s, on the meaning, nature and value of human life. It opens with 'Death', which asks…
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
A large work of sociology, built on surveys of French tastes carried out in the 1960s, that answers Kant's philosophy of aesthetic judgement with empirical evidence. Bourdieu argues…
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How to Do Things with Words
Twelve lectures Austin gave as the William James Lectures at Harvard in 1955, published after his death from his notes, edited by J. O. Urmson. Austin begins by…
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The Language of Thought
A defence of the idea that thinking takes place in an internal, language-like system of mental representations, often called Mentalese. An introduction defends psychology as a special science…
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
Žižek's first book in English, which rereads the theory of ideology through the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and the philosophy of Hegel. The opening chapter argues that Marx,…
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Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics
A book that helped restore metaphysics to respectability in post-war analytic philosophy. Strawson distinguishes revisionary metaphysics, which tries to produce a better structure of thought than the one…
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Matter and Consciousness
A short introduction to the philosophy of mind, written for students and general readers, that also connects the subject with neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Churchland sets out the…
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
The first volume of Agamben's long Homo Sacer project, joining Carl Schmitt's theory of sovereignty with Michel Foucault's biopolitics and Hannah Arendt's work on totalitarianism. Part One analyses…
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Studies in the Way of Words
A collection of Grice's main papers, assembled near the end of his life with a long retrospective epilogue. Part One reprints his 1967 William James Lectures, including 'Logic…
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