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hardcover. This book examines the virtues and the way women were represented and represented themselves as capable of exercising virtue in the late medieval and early renaissance period. It reveals the complexity and diversity of medieval attitudes to female virtue. Editor(s): Green, Karen; Mews, Dr Constant J. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPQ; HR; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 541.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400705289
- ISBN
- 9789400705289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Paperback. The author of this book offers a uniquely comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. He has drawn on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others to produce a challenging work. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400705333
- ISBN
- 9789400705333
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Condition: New
€ 131.00
€ 131.00
Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today
. Ed(S): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa; Muhtaroglu...
Paperback. This collection of studies presents classic issues of Islamic theology and philosophy from a contemporary perspective. As a result, this work renews the precious ties between Islamic and Western thinkers that were formed in the Middle Ages and then disrupted. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa; Muhtaroglu, Nazif. Series: Islamic Philosophy & Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPD; HPJ; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400705371
- ISBN
- 9789400705371
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Condition: New
€ 128.99
€ 128.99
Hardback. This book offers readers a critical assessment of transcendentalism, defined as the understanding of consciousness structured as a system of a priori laws of the mind. It shows how the work of philosophers such as Kant and Husserl informed later thinkers. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 740 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1268.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 740
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400706231
- ISBN
- 9789400706231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 255.03
€ 255.03
Hardcover. This timely volume presents current developments in ICT and privacy/data protection. Readers will find an alternative view of the Data Protection Directive, the contentious debates on data sharing with the USA (SWIFT, PNR), and the judicial and political resistance against data retention. Editor(s): Gutwirth, Serge; Poullet, Yves; Hert, Paul de; Leenes, Ronald E. Num Pages: 481 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JKV; LAB; LN; UBJ; UR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 242 x 35. Weight in Grams: 948.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400706408
- ISBN
- 9789400706408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 252.88
€ 252.88
Hardcover. This exploration of modern logic theory focuses on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics. It reflects new and ambitious developments in human reasoning. Editor(s): Benthem, Johan van; Gupta, Amitabha; Pacuit, Eric. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; KCH; PBC; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400707139
- ISBN
- 9789400707139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardback. This unique collection of studies reveals the spiritual source common to the Occidental as well as the Islamic cultures. In seeking out the shared intuitions of Occidental and Islamic spirit, the book yields a rare panorama of human cultural inheritance. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Islamic Philosophy & Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 547.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400707597
- ISBN
- 9789400707597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.39
€ 128.39
Hardback. This book argues that respect for persons as moral agents requires consideration of individuals' subjective moral judgments, independent of their validity or reasonableness. The focus is on coercion and domination, key ideas in moral and political theory. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2012
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400707658
- ISBN
- 9789400707658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardback. Literature seeks threads of "the sense of life", "the inward quest", "the frames of experience" in reaching the inward sources of 'destiny'. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form a sense of life stretching between destiny and doom. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400707726
- ISBN
- 9789400707726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.73
€ 195.73
Hardcover. This book provides discussions of both the concept of responsibility and punishment as well as individual and collective responsibility. It demonstrates how the concepts of responsibility and punishment apply to some of the most important problems of our time. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GT; HP; JKV; JMK; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 239 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 4th ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400707757
- ISBN
- 9789400707757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.53
€ 128.53
Hardback. This is an updated overview of the most important thinking of Joseph C. Pitt of Virginia Tech, the prominent philosopher of technology. It challenges the idea that eternal philosophical issues transcend the impact of technologies on humans and their world. Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400708198
- ISBN
- 9789400708198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.21
€ 128.21
Hardback. Grounded in a desire to theorize 'religion-state' relations in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious, secular city-state of Singapore, this work identifies the points of contact between religious and state institutions as well as the processes that sustain them. Series: ARI - Springer Asia Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMS; HRAM; HRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400708860
- ISBN
- 9789400708860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.87
€ 128.87
Hardback. Here is a thoroughly elaborated logical theory of generalized truth-values, presenting the idea of a trilattice of truth values - a specific algebraic structure with information ordering and two distinct logical orderings, one for truth and another for falsity. Series: Trends in Logic. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PBC; UMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400709065
- ISBN
- 9789400709065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.44
€ 128.44
Hardback. Editor(s): Dieks, Dennis; Gonzalez, Wenceslao J.; Hartmann, Stephan; Uebel, Thomas E.; Weber, Marcel. Series: The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective. Num Pages: 548 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 979.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 548
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400711792
- ISBN
- 9789400711792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 286.00
€ 286.00
Hardback. Drawing on data from the Reuters Corpus, this book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts. The book focuses on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, 12 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400712874
- ISBN
- 9789400712874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardback. Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about. A novel theory of the ethics of imposing risks is developed and the author analyses the political implications. Series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPA; LNKJ; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400713291
- ISBN
- 9789400713291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
The Growing Gap Between Emerging Technologies and Legal-Ethical Oversi...
. Ed(S): Marchant, Gary Elvin; Allenby, Brade...
Hardback. This book examines the growing gap between the pace of science and technology and the lagging response of legal and ethical oversight that society relies on to govern emerging technologies. Offers potential paths to more responsive regulation and governance. Editor(s): Marchant, Gary Elvin; Allenby, Braden R.; Herkert, Jospeh R. Series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; LAB; TDPB; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400713550
- ISBN
- 9789400713550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.29
€ 128.29
Hardback. One of the first publications to synthesize reproductive ethics and post-structuralist philosophy, this monograph offers insightful discussion of key issues in reproductive ethics such as liberal eugenics, human enhancement and disability discrimination. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400714267
- ISBN
- 9789400714267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. This critical analysis of all the classic logical paradoxes, both ancient and modern, systematically surveys different approaches, introduces original solutions to many prominent paradoxes, and assesses the role played by paradoxes in philosophy and ontology. Translator(s): Gensler, Marek. Series: Trends in Logic. Num Pages: 196 pages, 43 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400714755
- ISBN
- 9789400714755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardback. Philosophy's Moods is a collection of original essays interrogating the inseparable bond between mood and philosophical thinking. It offers the first systematic and comprehensive contribution to the contemporary philosophical debate on the nature of moods. Editor(s): Kenaan, Hagi; Ferber, Ilit. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 493.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400715028
- ISBN
- 9789400715028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.50
€ 194.50