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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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
€ 65.13€ 50.79
€ 65.13
€ 50.79
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
€ 43.59
€ 43.59
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Anthroposophic Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880106238
- ISBN
- 9780880106238
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.96
€ 24.99
€ 19.96
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Temple Lodge Publishing
- Number of pages
- 62
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906999551
- ISBN
- 9781906999551
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.44
€ 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
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.86
€ 35.99
€ 30.86
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
€ 94.73€ 79.10
€ 94.73
€ 79.10
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€ 22.24
€ 30.99
€ 22.24
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
€ 67.50€ 64.22
€ 67.50
€ 64.22
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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
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
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.79
€ 20.99
€ 16.79
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
€ 150.11
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
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
Paperback. This text presents classic essays on the conceptual and theoretical problems in the study of vision. In a style that is accessible to the non-expert, it lays out core issues in the theory of vision and then sets up a dialogue on the topics among philosophers and psychologists, past and present. Editor(s): Schwartz, Robert. Series: Blackwell Readings in Philosophy. Num Pages: 376 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPK; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631224228
- ISBN
- 9780631224228
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Condition: New
€ 49.92
€ 49.92
Paperback. Offers a theory of rationality, the one characteristic deemed to fix humanity's "specialness." This book combines speculations with investigations to portray the nature and status of rationality and the essential role that imagination plays in this singular human aptitude. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691020969
- ISBN
- 9780691020969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 40.81
€ 46.99
€ 40.81
Paperback. Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Without knowledge, scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can't analyse the world around us. But what exactly is it and how do we obtain it? Should we trust our senses? This title covers topics ranging from scepticism and induction to Kant's transcendentalism. Series: Beginner's Guides. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851687329
- ISBN
- 9781851687329
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. This text proposes a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows a view of adult development similar to that of child development: an open-ended process, born of the dynamic interaction of cultural demands and emerging mental capabilities. Num Pages: 416 pages, 12 line illustrations, 13 tables. BIC Classification: HPK; JMA; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674445888
- ISBN
- 9780674445888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.12
€ 42.99
€ 36.12
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691629902
- ISBN
- 9780691629902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.49€ 85.82
€ 112.49
€ 85.82
hardcover. In the most influential chapter of his most important philosophical work, the "Phenomenology of Spirit", Hegel makes the central and disarming assertions that 'self-consciousness is desire itself' and that it attains its 'satisfaction' only in another self-consciousness. This book presents a fresh interpretation of these revolutionary claims. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148519
- ISBN
- 9780691148519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.32
€ 53.29
€ 42.32
Hardback. Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading critics of empiricism--a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Robert Brandom clarifies what Sellars had in mind when he talked about moving analytic philosophy from its Humean to its Kantian phase and why such a move might be of crucial importance today. Num Pages: 266 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674187283
- ISBN
- 9780674187283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.13
€ 47.99
€ 40.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691156484
- ISBN
- 9780691156484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.70
€ 54.99
€ 39.70