×


 x 

Shopping cart

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Results 649 - 672 of 1387

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Paperback. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding, and is one of the classic philosophical works of the seventeenth century. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 198 x 46. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840227321
ISBN
9781840227321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.08

Paperback. Provides an account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate in us, this title argues that it derives from sense perceptions and experience, as analysed and developed by reason. Editor(s): Woolhouse, Roger. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPC; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 37. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434828
ISBN
9780140434828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Part of a two-volume set of work containing words of all four books comprising the "Essay", this book provides marginal analyses of almost every paragraph, and explanatory footnotes which comment, elaborate and explain difficult points. Editor(s): Winkler, Kenneth P. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Hackett Pub Co
Number of pages
380
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Abridged Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872202160
ISBN
9780872202160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.28

John Lemos' "Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism" offers an up-to-date introduction to free will (and associated) debates in an engaging, dialogic format that recommends it for use by beginning students in philosophy as well as by undergraduates in intermediate courses in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and action theory. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603849319
ISBN
9781603849319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.13

Paperback. John Lemos' "Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism" offers an up-to-date introduction to free will (and associated) debates in an engaging, dialogic format that recommends it for use by beginning students in philosophy as well as by undergraduates in intermediate courses in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and action theory. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603849302
ISBN
9781603849302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.68

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 126 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647753
ISBN
9780691647753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.96

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645285
ISBN
9780691645285
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 182.55

Paperback. * Volume 24 of Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, which aims to publish original essays by the foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume focusing on a major area of philosophical research . Series: Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444339550
ISBN
9781444339550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226978550
ISBN
9780226978550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every action. This title draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780241953907
ISBN
9780241953907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.47

Paperback. At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. This title raises questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and exactly what it means to be human. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HRQM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141041889
ISBN
9780141041889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardback. Natural and social sciences seem very often to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial. Collecting the philosophers of science in the field, this volume presents a discussion of the issue. It is useful for those involved in ceteris paribus laws. Editor(s): Earman, John; Glymour, Clark; Mitchell, Sandra D. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 439.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Edition
2003rd Edition
SKU
V9781402010200
ISBN
9781402010200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.62

Paperback. Explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means Riding to work in the morning has become commonplace. The author argues that our transportation technologies are not merely transient phenomena but the vehicle for an important metaphor about post modernism, or even constitutive of post modernism. Series: Philosophy in Transit. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846146008
ISBN
9781846146008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Aims to forge a collaboration between hermeneutics and deconstruction. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253204424
ISBN
9780253204424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

Paperback. What can we never do? The end of each century leads to a stocktaking of human achievement and our expectations about the future. This book looks at what limits there might be to human discovery and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. Num Pages: 304 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA; PDR; PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
VINTAGE London
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099772118
ISBN
9780099772118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.51

Paperback. Presents a commentary on - and reinterpretation of - the founding work of modern philosophy, "Descartes' Meditations". This title provides a reading of the text, giving an account of the positions against which Descartes was reacting, and revealing anew the unity, meaning, and originality of the Meditations. Num Pages: 528 pages, 2 line illus. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 756.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691135618
ISBN
9780691135618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning that differs significantly from much existing philosophical thinking. Series Editor(s): Sosa, Ernest. Series: Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118656051
ISBN
9781118656051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.38

Hardback. There has been a surprising absence of a general philosophical overview of progress as a method of articulating human meaning. This book attempts to fill this gap. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: HBA; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838635032
ISBN
9780838635032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.67

Paperback. This volume offers an appreciation of Ernest Sosa's wide philosophical purview, a nuanced assessment of the detail of his thought, and a spur to examine the linkages between the varied topics explored by the subtle mind of this great American scholar. Editor(s): Turri, John. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 373.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401780568
ISBN
9789401780568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.10

Paperback. This book argues that thinking is bounded by neither the brain nor the skin of an organism. Cognitive systems function through integration of neural and bodily functions with the functions of representational vehicles. The integrationist position offers a fresh contribution to the emerging embodied and embedded approach to the study of mind. Editor(s): Protevi, John. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPCF5; HPK; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349542284
ISBN
9781349542284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Paperback. The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism features twenty-six newly commissioned chapters by top figures in the field. It explains important kinds of skeptical reasoning, examines the responses to skeptical arguments, and delves into the important contemporary issues revolving around skepticism. Editor(s): Greco, John. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 624 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCD; HPCF; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 33. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199836802
ISBN
9780199836802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 86.12

Paperback. This volume includes seventeen articles on the central topics of epistemology, including scepticism, realism, rationality, moral epistemology and social epistemology. Each essay incorporates background material to clarify the history and logic of the topic. In the BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO PHILOSOPHY series. Editor(s): Greco, John; Sosa, Ernest. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 26. Weight in Grams: 784.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631202912
ISBN
9780631202912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 44.66

Hardback. Intuitionistic type theory can be described, somewhat boldly, as a fulfillment of the dream of a universal language for science. In particular, intuitionistic type theory is a foundation for mathematics and a programming language. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 212 pages, 8 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK; HPL; PBC; PBKS; UM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400717350
ISBN
9789400717350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.65

"Theories of Human Nature". Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603842938
ISBN
9781603842938
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.32
€ 42.14

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!