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Paperback. The Images of Time is a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines the ways in which we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent change and movement in art, and the nature of fictional time. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199575510
- ISBN
- 9780199575510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
hardcover. This anthology collects the works of scholars from a broad range of disciplines, each examining the nature of the body and the necessity of embodiment to the human experience. The essays offer a sustained attack on Cartesian dualism and methodological positivism. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847682812
- ISBN
- 9780847682812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.23
€ 150.23
Hardcover. Series: Studies in Philosophy & the History of Philosophy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 705.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813219608
- ISBN
- 9780813219608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.86
€ 86.86
Hardback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPN; HPS; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 252 x 35. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231178761
- ISBN
- 9780231178761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.06€ 56.82
€ 73.06
€ 56.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJ; 3JM; HPCF; HPJ; PHQ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- SelectBooks
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590793961
- ISBN
- 9781590793961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.47
€ 25.99
€ 23.47
Paperback. The Logic Manual is the ideal introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students. It offers a concise but complete introductory course, giving a firm grounding in the logic that is needed to study contemporary philosophy. Exercises, examples, and sample examination papers are provided on an accompanying website. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199587841
- ISBN
- 9780199587841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.37
€ 18.37
Hardback. Recounts the remarkable history of efforts by significant medieval thinkers to accommodate the ontology of the Trinity within the framework of Aristotelian logic and ontology Series: Medieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece, figures. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823234769
- ISBN
- 9780823234769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.30
€ 83.30
Paperback. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This book explores the phenomenon and its causes and offers a fresh interpretation of this turning point in Western history and its consequences. Num Pages: 432 pages, 47 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300121391
- ISBN
- 9780300121391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.63
€ 26.99
€ 20.63
Paperback. Humans have the ability to imitate and copy behaviours, or memes, from one another. This is an investigation of whether genes and memes can lead to discoveries about the nature of the inner self and whether the inner self is only an illusion created by the memes for the sake of replication. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; JHM; JMRL; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 59. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192862129
- ISBN
- 9780192862129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.14
€ 18.99
€ 15.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813209654
- ISBN
- 9780813209654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.13
€ 52.13
Paperback. Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the material. In this book, the author argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms. Editor(s): Lawson-Tancred, Hugh. Translator(s): Lawson-Tancred, Hugh. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446197
- ISBN
- 9780140446197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Hardback. Some philosophers regard relativism as neither true nor false but simply incoherent. The author demonstrates that the way to defend relativism is not by establishing its truth but by clarifying its content. Num Pages: 250 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674725713
- ISBN
- 9780674725713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.79€ 48.11
€ 51.79
€ 48.11
Paperback. This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as opposed to the moral, issues pertaining to death. For example, the authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death is a bad thing. Editor(s): Fischer, John Martin. Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy. Num Pages: 444 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 29. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721042
- ISBN
- 9780804721042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.41
€ 42.99
€ 38.41
Hardback. This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as opposed to the moral, issues pertaining to death. For example, the authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death is a bad thing. Editor(s): Fischer, John. Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy. Num Pages: 444 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 33. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720465
- ISBN
- 9780804720465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.09
€ 195.09
hardcover. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 451.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823213658
- ISBN
- 9780823213658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.25
€ 111.25
Hardback. "Extremely well done.. will universally be referred to, not by its title, but as 'Kraus's Companion'.." -Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 190 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217953
- ISBN
- 9780823217953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.13
€ 112.13
Hardback. Focuses on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across particular subject-specific ontological domains, investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power's relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation. Editor(s): Marmodoro, Anna. Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics. Num Pages: 204 pages, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415876858
- ISBN
- 9780415876858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.87
€ 193.87
paperback. Translator(s): McMahon, John. Series: Great Books in Philosophy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Prometheus United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879756710
- ISBN
- 9780879756710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.07
€ 21.07
Paperback. Are humans just complex biochemical machines, mere physical parts of a causally closed materialist universe? Are we approaching the so-called Singularity when human consciousness can (and will) be downloaded into computers? Or is there more to the human person something that might be known as soul or spirit? As this book makes clear, the .." Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. .
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718894924
- ISBN
- 9780718894924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.93
€ 51.93
Paperback. Offers a study of the origins of all that exists, including explanations of the entire material world. This title traces the responses of philosophers and scientists to the most elemental and haunting question of all: Why is anything here - or anything anywhere? Why is there something rather than nothing? Why not nothing? Editor(s): Leslie, John; Kuhn, Robert Lawrence. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470673553
- ISBN
- 9780470673553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.66
€ 35.66