History of Western philosophy
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History of Western philosophy
Hardback. Offers an examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleontology. This title shows how these wide-ranging pursuits were not only central to Leibniz's philosophical interests. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 halftone. 5 tables. BIC Classification: HPCD; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 690.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141787
- ISBN
- 9780691141787
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€ 68.17€ 53.73
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Hardback. In On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He further argues that if he is wrong, nihilism follows, and nothing matters. In Does Anything Really Matter? leading philosophers present a fascinating set of responses to Parfit. Editor(s): Singer, Peter. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199653836
- ISBN
- 9780199653836
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€ 82.17
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Hardback. Hegel's philosophy of history which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization is widely regarded as a failure today. Terry Pinkard's spirited defense of the Hegelian view, based on a subtle understanding of human subjectivity, will play a central role in contemporary reevaluations of Hegel's work. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 245 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674971776
- ISBN
- 9780674971776
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€ 57.53€ 53.61
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Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231173087
- ISBN
- 9780231173087
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€ 58.77€ 46.96
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Paperback. The role of women and family as central to Rousseau's concept of the modern, enlightened state. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363. Large format paperback.Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- University Press of New England Hanover
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KEX0211815
- ISBN
- 9780819563057
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Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
paperback. Previously published in 1962, a portrait of our philosophical times seen through the lives and writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzche and Kafka. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 106 x 17. Weight in Grams: 117.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scribner United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reissue ed.
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684825892
- ISBN
- 9780684825892
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.88
€ 21.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some cliches about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism"). Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804743488
- ISBN
- 9780804743488
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€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
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Paperback. Long considered 'the noblest of the senses', vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. This work discusses the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, and considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1046. The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. 648 pages. Long considered 'the noblest of the senses', vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. This work discusses the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, and considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPCF. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 38. Weight: 1030.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 648
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520088856
- ISBN
- 9780520088856
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 32.16
€ 43.99
€ 32.16
Paperback. This book is a unique study of the work of Gabriel Marcel, a twentieth-century philosopher of international renown. This book brings a fresh perspective to the examination of Marcel's thought, highlighting facets of interest to many different audiences and presenting a clear exposition of the nature of creative fidelity. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761853671
- ISBN
- 9780761853671
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€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Paperback. This is an in-depth analysis of dramatization as method in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. It provides an account of the value of this method for the study of the political with particular emphasis on the relationship between politics and art. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368631
- ISBN
- 9781349368631
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€ 65.69
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Paperback. Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. This book considers not just the men but also the historical significance of the time and place where their ideas took form. Num Pages: 464 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226272467
- ISBN
- 9780226272467
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Condition: New
€ 33.73
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Hardcover. Called by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. This title clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany's intellectual world. Num Pages: 400 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 766.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226061689
- ISBN
- 9780226061689
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€ 94.03€ 79.61
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Paperback. Revised and enlarged, this edition of John Moriarty's first published work presents a book of revelations, meditated by stories and personal excursions in literture, philosophy and sacred writings. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901866315
- ISBN
- 9781901866315
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Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 17.10
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Hardcover. Frederick Dretske's views on the nature of seeing, the possibility of knowledge, the nature of content or non-natural meaning, the nature of behavior, and the role of content in teh causal explanation of behavior have been profoundly important. Editor(s): McLaughlin, Brian. Num Pages: 438 pages, 6 photographs, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557861986
- ISBN
- 9781557861986
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Condition: New
€ 52.78
€ 52.78
Paperback. Editor(s): Levi Mortera, Emauele. Series: Library of Scottish Philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845400620
- ISBN
- 9781845400620
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Condition: New
€ 22.16
€ 22.16
Hardback. This historically-informed critical assessment of Dummett's account of abstract objects, examines in detail some of the Fregean presuppositions of Dummett's account whilst also engaging with phenomenological approaches and recent work on the problem of abstract entities. Editor(s): Beaney, Michael. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230285194
- ISBN
- 9780230285194
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. This historically-informed critical assessment of Dummett's account of abstract objects, examines in detail some of the Fregean presuppositions of Dummett's account whilst also engaging with phenomenological approaches and recent work on the problem of abstract entities. Editor(s): Beaney, Michael. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPC; HPCF; HPCF5; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349330324
- ISBN
- 9781349330324
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€ 65.88
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Paperback. Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume. Editor(s): Weiss, B. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPC; HPCF5; HPJ; PBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486168
- ISBN
- 9781349486168
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardcover. Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume. Editor(s): Weiss, Bernhard (University of Cape Town, South Africa). Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400697
- ISBN
- 9781137400697
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Covers topics such as Concerning Metaphysics, Man's Knowledge of God, The Existence of God, The Unicity of God, Concerning Human Knowledge, and The Spirituality and Immortality of the Human Soul. Translator(s): Wolter, Allan B. Num Pages: 395 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872200180
- ISBN
- 9780872200180
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
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