Best-selling Books in Philosophy

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The following is a list of best-selling books in philosophy from August 2008 to this month, provided by Library Journal.

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1) Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Portrait of Your Head

Tallis, Raymond

Yale University Press

2008. ISBN 0300142226 [9780300142228]. $28

2) Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography

Antognazza, Maria Rosa

Cambridge University Press

2009. ISBN 0521806194 [9780521806190]. $39.95

3) Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

Shorto, Russell

Doubleday

2008. ISBN 038551753x [9780385517539]. $26

4) Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza

Lefebvre, Alexandre

Stanford University Press

2008. ISBN 0804759847 [9780804759847]. $70

5) Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption

Herwitz, Daniel Alan

Columbia University Press

2008. ISBN 0231145403 [9780231145404]. $24.50

6) Trust: Self-Interest and the Common Good

Kohn, Marek

Oxford University Press

2008. ISBN 0199217912 [9780199217915]. $21.95

7) Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame

Scanlon, Thomas

Belknap: Harvard University Press

2008. ISBN 0674031784 [9780674031784]. $29.95

8) Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic

Rowland, Ingrid D.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

2008. ISBN 0809095246 [9780809095247]. $27

9) Violence: Six Sideways Reflections

Zizek, Slavoj

Picador USA: St Martin’s

2008. ISBN 0312427182 [9780312427184]. $14

10) Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume

Baier, Annette

Harvard University Press

2008. ISBN 0674030907 [9780674030909]. $39.95

11) Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding

Zaretsky, Robert

Yale University Press

2009. ISBN 0300121938 [9780300121933]. $27.50

12) Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

Dutton, Denis

Bloomsbury USA

2008. ISBN 1596914017 [9781596914018]. $25

13) Norms and Practices

Wallace, James D.

Cornell University Press

2009. ISBN 0801447194 [9780801447198]. $42.50

14) Oxford Handbook of Plato

Fine, Gail

Oxford University Press

2008. ISBN 0195182901 [9780195182903]. $150

15) Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension

Clark, Andy

Oxford University Press

2008. ISBN 0195333217 [9780195333213]. $35

16) Cynics

Desmond, William D.

University of California Press

2008. ISBN 0520258355 [9780520258358]. $50

17) Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars

McDowell, John Henry

Harvard University Press

2009. ISBN 0674031652 [9780674031654]. $39.95

18) Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

Roudinesco, Elisabeth

Columbia University Press

2008. ISBN 0231143001 [9780231143004]. $26.50

19) Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics

Gibbard, Allan

Oxford University Press

2008. ISBN 0195370422 [9780195370423]. $24.95

20) Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy

Rogers, Melvin L.

Columbia University Press

2009. ISBN 0231144865 [9780231144865]. $45