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Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium
Menger, Karl. Ed(S): Golland, Louise (Univers...
Hardback. Karl Menger (1902-1985), a pure mathematician, also took an active interest in both philosophy and economics. In this memoir, he relates how these subjects developed against the Viennese background, and describes his membership of the Vienna Circle and of the Mathematical Colloquium. Editor(s): Golland, Louise (University of Chicago, Illinois, USA); McGuinness, Brian. Series: Vienna Circle Collection. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFA; HBTB; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792327110
- ISBN
- 9780792327110
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€ 134.21
€ 134.21
Hardback. Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked and also a poorly understood concept in philosophy and literary theory. Over the years, several interesting approaches to metaphor have been presented or outlined. The authors of some of the most important approaches re-present their views or illustrate them by means of applications. Editor(s): Hintikka, Jaakko. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792327868
- ISBN
- 9780792327868
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€ 201.14
€ 201.14
Hardback. An interdisciplinary study reflecting the emergence of various particular forms of 'phenomenological philosophy of ..'. This book includes fields such as psychology, social sciences and history, as well as environmental philosophy, ethnic studies, religion and even practical disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, politics, and technology. Editor(s): Daniel, Mano; Embree, Lester. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 354 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 680.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792327929
- ISBN
- 9780792327929
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€ 202.80
€ 202.80
Hardback. Is common language conceptually prior to idiolectics? What is a theory of meaning? Does constructivism provide a satisfactory account of mathematics? What are indefinitely extensible concepts? Can we change the past? This book addresses these questions. Editor(s): McGuinness, Brian; Oliveri, Gianluigi. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 394 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328049
- ISBN
- 9780792328049
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€ 203.87
€ 203.87
Hardback. Editor(s): Waithe, Mary Ellen. Series: History of Women Philosophers. Num Pages: 471 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 901.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 471
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328070
- ISBN
- 9780792328070
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€ 261.85
€ 261.85
Hardback. A collection of essays in appreciation, analysis and honor of Paul Ziff, one of the leading American philosophers of the post-World War II period. It addresses questions that loomed large in Ziff's own work. It contains essays by Zeno Vendler, Jay Rosenberg, and Tom Patton who address topics in philosophy of language. Editor(s): Jamieson, Dale. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 512.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328100
- ISBN
- 9780792328100
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€ 200.31
€ 200.31
Hardback. This volume brings together a number of scholarly studies on the definition, assessment and measurement of human quality of life. The book contains fundamental analyses of basic concepts such as welfare, well-being, happiness and quality of life itself. Editor(s): Nordenfelt, Lennart. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328247
- ISBN
- 9780792328247
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€ 257.36
€ 257.36
Hardback. Features 14 essays by specialists in critical theory, comparative literature, philosophy, and English literature. The book includes an introductory chapter that examines how attention to negation - the inescapable nescience that is posited in any and every linguistic expression - enhances the hermeneutic possibilities present in language. Editor(s): Fischlin, Daniel. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 664.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328339
- ISBN
- 9780792328339
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€ 202.60
€ 202.60
Hardback. Deals with the question of moral theory. The author delineates a fresh route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328919
- ISBN
- 9780792328919
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€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardback. Presents 26 papers by some of the leading philosophers, demonstrating the cosmopolitan variety of approach to Peirce's epistemology. This book groups the contributions under three general headings: Knowledge, truth and the pragmatic principle; Peirce and the epistemological tradition; and Knowledge, language and semeiotic. Editor(s): Debrock, G.; Hulswit, Menno. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 324 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 646.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792328988
- ISBN
- 9780792328988
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€ 202.20
€ 202.20
Hardback. Studies the theory of knowledge and asserts that all such work is based on the false assumption that what makes knowledge possible is in itself knowable in some way. This book says that it is necessary to seek the basis of the possibility of knowledge on entirely different levels. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329091
- ISBN
- 9780792329091
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€ 134.00
€ 134.00
Hardback. This text is an outcome of two conferences held in Poland in 1987 and 1990. Both conferences dealt with the problem of rationality. It presents a comprehensive current account of the manifold approaches to the problem of rationality and related issues. Editor(s): Misiek, Jozef. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 602.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329251
- ISBN
- 9780792329251
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€ 195.10
€ 195.10
The Logic of the Living Present. Experience, Ordering, Onto-Poiesis of...
Anna-Teresa . Ed(S): Tymieniecka
Hardback. Offers documentation of the seriousness, depth and originality with which phenomenology has been received and grafted upon the living tree of philosophical reflection in the Orient. This title also presents an interpretation of "Locke's theory of knowledge". Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 321 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 321
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329305
- ISBN
- 9780792329305
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€ 195.44
€ 195.44
Hardback. Presents phenomenological thought and the phenomenological movement within philosophy and within various other disciplines. This work contains an introduction that briefly chronicles the changing phenomenological agenda and compares phenomenology with other 20th Century movements. Editor(s): Embree, Lester. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 779 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 193 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1562.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 779
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329565
- ISBN
- 9780792329565
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€ 627.07
€ 627.07
Critical Rationalism, the Social Sciences and the Humanities
. Ed(S): Jarvie, I. C.; Laor, Nathaniel
Hardback. This volume considers such questions as: Agassi's philosophy of education, in practice as well as in theory; the impact of psychology on philosophy; the origins of critical rationalism in the Bible; and the debates in economics stimulated by the work of Popper and Agassi. Editor(s): Jarvie, I. C.; Laor, Nathaniel. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 615.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329619
- ISBN
- 9780792329619
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Condition: New
€ 201.86
€ 201.86
The Question of Hermeneutics. Essays in Honor of Joseph J. Kockelmans....
Timothy J. . Ed(S): Stapleton
Paperback. Features essays that are illustrative of the depth and breadth of possibilities provided by hermeneutic philosophy and by a hermeneutically oriented phenomenology. This work explores questions such as: How is hermeneutics situated within the general, twentieth century philosophical climate? How does hermeneutics relate to traditional philosophy? Editor(s): Stapleton, Timothy J. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 506 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1570.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 506
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329640
- ISBN
- 9780792329640
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Condition: New
€ 136.33
€ 136.33
Paperback. This text describes the birth and early development of the International Astronomical Union. Attention is paid to the Union's bridging political controversies and maintaining the ties between astronomers in times of war or heavy political tension. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 563.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329800
- ISBN
- 9780792329800
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Condition: New
€ 196.53
€ 196.53
Hardback. Presents essays in honor of Robert S Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. This work discusses issues of contemporary social and political thought, and its bearing on science. It explains the relations of Marxism to science, and specifically, to the philosophies of science of Carnap and Popper, as well as Soviet Marxism. Editor(s): Gavroglu, Kostas; Stachel, J. J.; Wartofsky, Marx W. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 416 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 785.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329893
- ISBN
- 9780792329893
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Condition: New
€ 204.32
€ 204.32
Hardback. Features essays in honor of Robert S Cohen that focuses on issues in contemporary epistemology, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind as well as on the relations of science and human values in ethical and religious thought. Editor(s): Gavroglu, Kostas; Stachel, J. J.; Wartofsky, Marx W. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 471 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 471
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792329909
- ISBN
- 9780792329909
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Condition: New
€ 260.70
€ 260.70
Hardback. This text presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. "Worlds" themselves are understood as structured sets of properties. The book also takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 359 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792330066
- ISBN
- 9780792330066
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Condition: New
€ 202.92
€ 202.92