Introductory Philosophy Products

By Elliott Sober

Writing in an engaging lecture-style format, Elliott Sober shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construct sound theories. Well known historical texts are included, not as a means to honor the dead or merely to discuss what various…

Paperback – 2020-03-01 
Routledge

By Berys Gaut, Morag Gaut

Co-written by a professor of philosophy and an experienced teacher, Philosophy for Older Children is a concise, practical guide which explains how to conduct philosophical enquiries with children from the age of nine upwards. This book contains detailed plans for conducting 24 philosophical…

Paperback – 2020-02-18 
David Fulton Publishers

By Oswald Külpe

First published in 1927, this translation of Kulpe’s ‘Einleitung in die Philosophie’, 1895, covered psychology, logic, ethics, esthetics and general philosophy. The author adopted a uniform approach of positivity, interest and impartiality, aiming his work at a wider public than students of…

Paperback – 2020-01-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Maria Pia Paganelli

Adam Smith (1723-1790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics, and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians, business leaders, economists and philosophers. However, considering his fame few people have actually read the whole of his magnum opus The Wealth of…

Paperback – 2019-12-19 
Routledge
The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

By Irving M. Copi, Carl Cohen, Victor Rodych

For more than six decades, and for thousands of students, Introduction to Logic has been the gold standard in introductory logic texts. In this fifteenth edition, Carl Cohen and Victor Rodych update Irving M. Copi’s classic text, improving on its many strengths and introducing new and helpful…

Hardback – 2019-09-05
Routledge

By Nicholas Jolley

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was hailed by Bertrand Russell as ‘one of the supreme intellects of all time’. A towering figure in seventeenth-century philosophy, he was the author of a complex system of thought that has been championed and satirized in equal measure, most famously in…

Paperback – 2019-09-05
Routledge
The Routledge Philosophers

By Tracy Bowell, Robert Cowan, Gary Kemp

We are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us – to influence our beliefs and actions – by giving us reasons to believe this or that. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identification, analysis…

Paperback – 2019-08-20
Routledge

By Jonathan Wolff

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry, second edition subjects important and controversial areas of public policy to philosophical scrutiny. Jonathan Wolff, a renowned philosopher and veteran of many public committees, introduces and assesses core problems and controversies in public…

Paperback – 2019-08-19
Routledge

Edited by David Edmonds

Arguments about ethics often centre on traditional questions of, for instance, euthanasia and abortion. Whilst these questions are still in the foreground, recent years have seen an explosion of new moral problems. Moral and political clashes are now as likely to be about sexuality and gender and…

Paperback – 2019-06-07
Routledge

By Robin Gordon Brown, James Ladyman

The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas. For much of its history it has been aligned with toleration and enlightened thinking, but it has also aroused strong, often violent, passions amongst both its opponents and proponents. This book explores the…

Paperback – 2019-05-13
Routledge

By Alfred Cobban

First published in 1934, and revised and expanded in 1964, this book is the standard work on the political thought of Rousseau. It was acclaimed by English reviewers as ‘an excellently arranged, lucidly written, unbiased account of Rousseau’s political theory’, a ‘scholarly book, distinguished for…

Hardback – 2019-05-02
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy

By I.C. Tipton

This book, first published in 1974, presents a critical examination of Berkeley’s immaterialism. It is based on a detailed study of his writings (in particular of his notebooks), and while it places his ideas against their eighteenth-century background it also takes into account the various…

Hardback – 2019-05-02
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy