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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Paperback. Fabricating Origins builds on a series of posts that originally appeared, in earlier forms, at the blog for Culture on the Edge. In these posts each member of the group focused on the problem of origins, examining how we repeatedly conjure up an authorized past that suits the needs of the continually changing present. Editor(s): McCutcheon, Russell T. Series: Working with Culture on the Edge. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781791752
ISBN
9781781791752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.84

Hardcover. Fabricating Origins builds on a series of posts that originally appeared, in earlier forms, at the blog for Culture on the Edge. In these posts each member of the group focused on the problem of origins, examining how we repeatedly conjure up an authorized past that suits the needs of the continually changing present. Editor(s): McCutcheon, Russell T. Series: Working with Culture on the Edge. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781791745
ISBN
9781781791745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.06

Hardback. Supposes that people are not usually act knowingly against their interests or other purposes. This title presents an economic account of what an individual can come to know and applies this account to many areas of ordinary life: political participation, religious beliefs, popular knowledge of science, liberalism, extremism, and moral beliefs. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691137551
ISBN
9780691137551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.19
€ 50.69

Paperback. Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field Editor(s): Shafer-Landau, Russ. Series: Oxford Studies in Metaethics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPQ. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198805083
ISBN
9780198805083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.33

Paperback. * Authoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work, On Certainty, by one of his closest friends. * Debunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's On Certainty and shows that it is an essay on logic. * Exposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and the radical character of his conclusions. Editor(s): Phillips, Professor D. Z. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405134248
ISBN
9781405134248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Paperback. .
Publisher
Anthroposophic Press Inc United States
Number of pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880106238
ISBN
9780880106238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.40

Paperback. .
Publisher
Temple Lodge Publishing
Number of pages
62
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906999551
ISBN
9781906999551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.44

Paperback. This volume asserts that many philosophical controversies really depend upon whether a particular language should be used. The author explores a "Principle of Tolerance", by which everyone is free to mix and match the rules of language. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Open Court
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812695243
ISBN
9780812695243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.59

Hardcover. Provides an approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. The author shows that a crucial task of hermeneutical critique is to establish priorities among the contexts that may be brought to bear on the interpretation of history and culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226249315
ISBN
9780226249315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.82
€ 78.78

Paperback. Contains essays that aim to disentangle us from the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many of the debates in philosophy have found themselves caught. This volume shows, what is in fact returning in these discussions and manoeuvring them into a pre-set course is the very ambiguity which they seek to repress. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 423 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792363972
ISBN
9780792363972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 243.44

Hardback. Features essays that disentangle us from the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many of the debates in contemporary philosophy have been caught. This title shows that what is in fact returning in these discussions and maneuvering them into a pre-set course is the very ambiguity, 'the subject', which they seek to repress. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 423 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 774.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
423
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792359852
ISBN
9780792359852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 247.02

Hardback. Editor(s): Perrett, Roy W. Series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion. Num Pages: 209 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792304371
ISBN
9780792304371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.62

Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872205376
ISBN
9780872205376
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Hardback. A collection of essays, it presents a survey of the main aspects of Georg Henrik von Wright's philosophy. It covers the developments in Von Wright's thought up to the end of the 1990s. It focuses on the chief areas of Von Wright's interests that include: practical rationality; human action and determinism; and, philosophical logic. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPC; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 527.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792358107
ISBN
9780792358107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349240364
ISBN
9781349240364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 184.24

Paperback. Provides a general discussion of approaches to reasoning about knowledge and its applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game theory. Num Pages: 536 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: HPK; JMR; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 872.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
491
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st MIT Press Paperback Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262562003
ISBN
9780262562003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.56
€ 64.22

Hardcover. Ron Mallon explores how thinking and talking about kinds of person can bring those kinds into being. He considers what normative implications this social constructionism has for our understanding of our practices of representing human kinds, like race, gender, and sexual orientation, and for our own agency. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; JM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198755678
ISBN
9780198755678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.21

Paperback. A collection of essays that explores the myths of mass culture. It deciphers the symbols and signs embedded deep in familiar aspects of modern life, unmasking the hidden ideologies and meanings which implicitly affect our thought and behaviour. Translator(s): Lavers, Annette. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529750
ISBN
9780099529750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Includes the interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, that speak about the development of the author's thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists, novelists, poets, painters and film-makers who have inspired him, and discussing how his life became dedicated to an exploration of semiotics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BM; CF; HPK; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099528340
ISBN
9780099528340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.73

Hardback. Areas covered in this text include: tense and tenselessness; periods and instants; the measurement of time; and time, change and causation. The author attempts to show how considerations in the philosophy of logic and language are needed to settle many of the issues here. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333645505
ISBN
9780333645505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.28

Hardback. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792303909
ISBN
9780792303909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.90

hardcover. The predicate "beautiful" indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this concept of form, in particular the role of presentation in what Kant refers to as mere form, which involves not only the understanding, but also reason as the faculty of ideas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: HPK; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804746137
ISBN
9780804746137
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.11

Paperback. The predicate "beautiful" indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this concept of form, in particular the role of presentation in what Kant refers to as mere form, which involves not only the understanding, but also reason as the faculty of ideas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: HPK; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746212
ISBN
9780804746212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Challenges gendered views of birth and death Editor(s): Schott, Robin May. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222374
ISBN
9780253222374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

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