Philosophy: metaScience & Technology
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Philosophy: metaScience & Technology
Hardback. What kinds of things are events? Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. The author argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. Series: Crosscurrents. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 242 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474400343
- ISBN
- 9781474400343
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Condition: New
€ 157.74
€ 157.74
Paperback. Series: Forms of Living. Num Pages: 472 pages, 448 color illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 231 x 42. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269419
- ISBN
- 9780823269419
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€ 41.99€ 37.30
€ 41.99
€ 37.30
Paperback. Series: Incitements. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 191 x 25. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474418256
- ISBN
- 9781474418256
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€ 33.99€ 30.47
€ 33.99
€ 30.47
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; BGH; HPJ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691637693
- ISBN
- 9780691637693
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€ 147.24
€ 147.24
Paperback. With this text, Leszek Kolakowski demonstrates that no matter how hard man strives for purely rational thought, there has always been - and always will be - a resevoir of mythical images that lend "being" and "consciousness" a specifically human meaning. Translator(s): Czerniawski, Adam. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226450575
- ISBN
- 9780226450575
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. What sort of interaction is there between, for example, slow-moving objects like climate and comparatively fast-moving objects like governments? Using real-world examples, the author shows how a networked concept of space and time is at the heart of our central political concerns. Series: Speculative Realism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b&w line art illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748679973
- ISBN
- 9780748679973
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€ 40.99€ 33.09
€ 40.99
€ 33.09
It not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JD; HPCD; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894435
- ISBN
- 9780801894435
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€ 93.86
€ 93.86
Paperback. This volume presents an introduction to 20 core areas of philosophical logic including classical logic, modal logic, alternative logics and close examinations of key logical concepts. It should engage both the general reader and experienced logician and provide a foundation for further study. Editor(s): Goble, Lou. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Num Pages: 520 pages, 5. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 176 x 28. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631206934
- ISBN
- 9780631206934
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Condition: New
€ 49.67
€ 49.67
Paperback. * Outstanding contributors including both long--established and younger writers * Specially--commissioned essays* Wide ranging discussions stemming from the work of David Wiggins and his contribution to philosophy* Contains Wigginsa replies to each of the papers thus offering a guide to his present thinking. . Editor(s): Lovibond, Sabina; Williams, S. G. Series: Aristotelian Society Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220688
- ISBN
- 9780631220688
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€ 52.18
€ 52.18
paperback. Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138989825
- ISBN
- 9781138989825
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€ 61.05
€ 61.05
From the pre-Socratics to Ovid and Plotinus, and from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, this title traces the secret tradition of the idea of eternal recurrence and situates it as the grounding thought of Western philosophy and literature. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC; HPJ; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322733
- ISBN
- 9780822322733
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€ 32.99€ 25.44
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Hardback. M C Dillon (1938-2005) was widely regarded as a world-leading Merleau-Ponty scholar. This book offers a highly original interpretation of Nietzsche's ontology of becoming. It also offers a ethical theory based on Merleau-Ponty's account of carnal intersubjectivity. Editor(s): Hass, Lawrence. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
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- New
- SKU
- V9780821419991
- ISBN
- 9780821419991
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€ 87.04
€ 87.04
Paperback. Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects.' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of causal relationships, the asymmetry of cause and effect, and necessary connection, and it relates causation to functional and statistical laws and to teleology. Series: Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy. Num Pages: 340 pages, diagrams. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198246428
- ISBN
- 9780198246428
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€ 70.34
€ 70.34
Paperback. Examines arguments for belief in God and finds them all untenable. This book lays down reasons for atheism. It looks at the differences between agnosticism and atheism, and explores the common criticism that atheists dismiss the wrong god. It clarifies why proofs for God fail. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HRAB; HRQA5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551119625
- ISBN
- 9781551119625
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€ 44.99€ 40.51
€ 44.99
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Digital (delivered electronically). Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan to show how technology, which bypasses the nature-artifice distinction, is an essential dimension of the philosophy of nature. Series: Plateaus New Directions in Deleuze Studies Eup. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425797
- ISBN
- 9781474425797
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.85
€ 33.99
€ 29.85
Hardcover. Brings Deleuze and Guattari's work into conversation with the philosophy of nature. As the spatial orientation of the philosophy of nature is critiqued, this book shows that a philosophy of time is a more adequate guide to nature. It reformulates the philosophy of nature in terms of time and technology. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748691579
- ISBN
- 9780748691579
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Condition: New
€ 117.84€ 112.46
€ 117.84
€ 112.46
Paperback. Suitable for moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and those who reflect seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another, this title brings together the essays that reexamine evil in the context of a 'postmetaphysical' world. Editor(s): Lara, Maria Pia. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520226340
- ISBN
- 9780520226340
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€ 35.99€ 26.35
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Paperback. Marina Warner's study of the products of fantasy deepens our understanding of the supernatural in relation to self and society. This surprising story explores the metaphors and media that have been the stock in trade of poets, scientists, magicians, and visionaries, including wax and cloud, smoke and mirrors, ether, ectoplasm, and celluloid. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8pp color plates, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HPJ; HRQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199239238
- ISBN
- 9780199239238
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€ 25.76
€ 25.76
Paperback. What is the meaning of 'being' - or, rather, 'existence' - and how does that concept relate to the totality of what there is? This title presents an ontology based on the concept of fields of sense. Series: Speculative Realism. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692897
- ISBN
- 9780748692897
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€ 33.99€ 28.52
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Paperback. Explicates Descartes's aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism. This text includes discussion of central differences from, and similarities with the scholastics and how these discriminations affected Descartes's defence of body. Num Pages: 304 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009684
- ISBN
- 9780674009684
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.89
€ 45.99
€ 37.89