Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
Paperback. "A fascinating and timely treatment of the objectivism versus relativism debates occurring in philosophy of science, literary theory, the social sciences, political science, and elsewhere."--Choice Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812211658
- ISBN
- 9780812211658
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.59
€ 37.99
€ 35.59
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761816638
- ISBN
- 9780761816638
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Condition: New
€ 129.12
€ 129.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; HPK; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624663659
- ISBN
- 9781624663659
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€ 20.99€ 17.06
€ 20.99
€ 17.06
Paperback. In this third updated edition of a classic book first published in 1960, there are three new chapters, one on Savonarola, one on Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and one on Pascal. This authoritative treatment of the theme of scepticism and its historical impacts should appeal to scholars and students of early modern history Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 222 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Rev Exp
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195107685
- ISBN
- 9780195107685
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Condition: New
€ 68.82
€ 68.82
Hardback. What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. This book presents the authors' radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality. Translator(s): McCuaig, William. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 121 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140140
- ISBN
- 9780231140140
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.47
€ 26.99
€ 20.47
Paperback. American pragmatist Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality. "What's the Use of Truth?" is a rare opportunity to experience each side of this impassioned debate clearly and concisely. Translator(s): McCuaig, William. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 107 x 174 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140157
- ISBN
- 9780231140157
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.88
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, black & white illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: HPK; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 580. Intimations of a New World View. 592 pages, black & white illustrations throughout. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPK; JFCX. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight: 600.
- Publisher
- Plume
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780452288591
- ISBN
- 9780452288591
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.20
€ 23.99
€ 21.20
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474410991
- ISBN
- 9781474410991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.60€ 107.06
€ 112.60
€ 107.06
Hardback. Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this book, Richmond Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes. Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847689187
- ISBN
- 9780847689187
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Condition: New
€ 172.39
€ 172.39
Paperback. Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this book, Richmond Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes. Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847689194
- ISBN
- 9780847689194
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Condition: New
€ 63.20
€ 63.20
Hardcover. Reforming the Art of Living Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319052809
- ISBN
- 9783319052809
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Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Paperback. What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? This book provides a theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know? It shows that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge. Editor(s): Proctor, Robert; Schiebinger, Londa. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 table, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759014
- ISBN
- 9780804759014
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
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Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442205130
- ISBN
- 9781442205130
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Condition: New
€ 163.78
€ 163.78
Paperback. Epistemology, or 'the theory of knowledge', is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience. This title explains the concepts and theories central to understanding knowledge. Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415879231
- ISBN
- 9780415879231
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Condition: New
€ 63.06
€ 63.06
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
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.41
€ 54.99
€ 39.41
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
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Condition: New
€ 53.34€ 42.00
€ 53.34
€ 42.00
Hardcover. Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GT; HPK; JNA; JNM; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303011
- ISBN
- 9781137303011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.96
€ 78.96
Hardback. William James' celebrated lecture on "The Will to Believe" has kindled spirited controversy since the day it was delivered. In this title, the author contributes some fresh contentions: that James' argument should be viewed against his indebtedness to Pascal and Renouvier; that it works primarily to validate our over-beliefs. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217274
- ISBN
- 9780823217274
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Condition: New
€ 103.48
€ 103.48
Paperback. 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
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691613659
- ISBN
- 9780691613659
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.93
€ 52.99
€ 37.93
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
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Condition: New
€ 112.60€ 85.15
€ 112.60
€ 85.15
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
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
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€ 33.37
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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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.55
€ 49.55