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6 reviews

Princeton University Press, 2004

A Book to be Almost Unconditionally Loved
Reasons of Love consists of three somewhat revised lectures given at University College London, in 2001. I take these lectures to be a more filled-out analysis of love and caring from his earlier articles, particularly, "Autonomy, Necessity, and Love," "The Faintest Passion," "On the Necessity of Ideals," and "The Importance of What We Care About." In a sense, Reasons of Love might be thought ...

Necessity, Volition, and Love

1 review
Harry G. Frankfurt

Cambridge University Press, 1998

Frankfurt's Second Volume
Harry Frankfurt is one of those philosophers who have the ability to provoke new and interesting discussions in philosophy. This volume contains Frankfurt's articles on Descartes, a few papers in philosophical theology, one paper on egalitarianism, a paper that corrected John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza on whether alternate possibilities were required for being responsible for omissions, and ...

Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt

Suhrkamp Verlag KG, 2006

On Truth

13 reviews

Knopf, 2006

Pithy and Insightful
This book simply gets right to the point. Our society, which values the useful so much, needs to look as well at the underlying affirmation of the true which follows from these values. This succinct little treatise makes the reasons for this lucid. The author maintains a pleasant balance of accessibility and depth throughout. An inexpensive addition that belongs on both the working and thinking ...

Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting It Right

1 review
Harry G. Frankfurt

Stanford University Press, 2006

Fantastic book, great buy
As far as the book's content is concerned, I knew what to expect. Frankfurt has long been one of the most rigorous, insightful, and engaging philosophers anywhere in contemporary philosophy. This is a great book for anyone interested in philosophy, whether continental or analytic. As far as the service, I could not be happier. The book arrived on time and in a very secure package.

On Bullshit

174 reviews

Princeton University Press, 2008

Reference guide to business ethics
Quirky and very small (67 pages in a pocket-sized hardback format), this purports to be an academic consideration of the meaning of the titular word. And in fact it does give serious thought to the distinction between lying and BS-ing. Intriguing is the best review I can think of for this book, which is easily read in one hour, although it might bear repeated reference during the course of a ...

The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays

3 reviews
Harry G. Frankfurt

Cambridge University Press, 1988

Best short philosophy book of the 1980s
This book collects Frankfurt's most important essays from 1969 - 1988. It begins with "Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility," the most important essay on the conditions of moral responsibility in the second half of the twentieth-century. This essay introduced "Frankfurt-style" counterexamples to the principle that to be responsible for an action (or intention, decision, etc) ...

Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's "Meditations"
Harry G. Frankfurt

Princeton University Press, 2007

In this classic work, best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations , but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to provide any justification for the truth of our beliefs? Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen provides an ingenious account of Descartes's defense of reason against his own famously ...

On Bullshit: sobre la manipulacion de la verdad

1 review
Harry G. Frankfurt

Ediciones Paidos Iberica, 2006

Book Review
I did not read this book because I returned it, and I do not think my account was credited for the return.