The Great Philosophers: The Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers

Explores the history of jokes, and discovers that most of those we trade are several years old. As well as containing jokes, this title also looks at how these jokes changed with time.

Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? This book introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers since the era of the ancient Greeks.

These works by Warburton introduce philosophy through history and its key writings. Without assuming any previous knowledge of philosophy, this is a clear and concise introduction to important features such as Plato's Republic .

Features a beguiling question about everyday things. This book lets you find a friend or family member, and ask a 'Thunk', disagree with their answer.

Examining the 'gift economy', this title argues defence of the place of creativity in our increasingly market-orientated society.

A companion volume to The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten , it provides rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. It focuses on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life.

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces many themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, and other writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of doing philosophy, explains how many areas of philosophy are related, and explores the contexts in which philosophy was and is done.

The narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son becomes a text which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.

A revised edition of the best-selling dictionary of philosophy, now with recommended web links. Contains over 3,000 entries, including biographies of nearly 500 philosophers. A wide-ranging and authoritative source of reference for students, teachers and an excellent introduction to philosophy for the general reader.

Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of 'The Happy Man', this book is written by Bertrand Russell.