Philosophy: metaScience & Technology
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Philosophy: metaScience & Technology
Paperback. A collection of essays by scholars, philosophers, and scientists offering penetrating answers to some of the most important questions of the day. Editor(s): Zarandi, Mehrdad. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- World Wisdom Books United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780941532471
- ISBN
- 9780941532471
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€ 21.99€ 21.38
€ 21.99
€ 21.38
Hardcover. A critique of the widespread view that the task of philosophical theology is to overcome ontotheology. Robbins argues that ontotheology, far from being a problem to overcome, is instead the very condition of being and thought. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921631
- ISBN
- 9780813921631
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Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Hardback. Accessible and wide-ranging, this introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Action guides the reader through the major views and arguments. The topics addressed include the nature of intentional action and its explanation, the nature of reasons, the role of desire and intention in action, the nature of autonomy and the possibility of group agents. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232808
- ISBN
- 9780230232808
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Condition: New
€ 127.21
€ 127.21
Paperback.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232815
- ISBN
- 9780230232815
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Condition: New
€ 125.49
€ 125.49
Hardback. This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation arguments, and Frankfurt's famous argument against the 'Principle of Alternate Possibilities. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232921
- ISBN
- 9780230232921
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. What are species? Are they objective features of the world? If so, what sort of features are they? Slater presents a novel approach to these questions, aiming to accommodating the attractions to both realism and antirealism about species. Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230393240
- ISBN
- 9780230393240
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€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardback. These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons. Editor(s): Sandis, Constantine. Num Pages: 442 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 33. Weight in Grams: 666.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 442
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522022
- ISBN
- 9780230522022
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€ 129.47
€ 129.47
Hardback. This first comparative study of the philosophers and literary critics, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin, focuses on the two thinkers' conceptions of experience and form, investigating parallels between Bakhtin's theories of responsibility, dialogue, and the novel, and Benjamin's theories of translation, montage, allegory, and the aura. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 437.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535350
- ISBN
- 9780230535350
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Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardback. A collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by some of the best young philosophers working on the myriad problems of action and agency. Each one has already made important contributions to the philosophy of action and cognate areas. The chapters reflect their research and make a significant contribution to some debate in the field. Editor(s): Aguilar, Jesus; Buckareff, Andrei; Frankish, Keith. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 495.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580602
- ISBN
- 9780230580602
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Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardback. What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving the concept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today. Editor(s): Wright, Cory D.; Pederson, Nikolaj J. L. L. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 331 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 545.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 331
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580701
- ISBN
- 9780230580701
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Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This study is a systematic investigation into the metaphysical foundations of identity over time. The author elaborates and evaluates the most common theory about the persistence of objects through time and change, namely the classical theory of spatio-temporal continuity. Num Pages: 237 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 20 x 25. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1993rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333593516
- ISBN
- 9780333593516
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Condition: New
€ 194.08
€ 194.08
Hardback. Begins with the idea that political theory is a set of four alternative practices marked by divergent ontologies and epistemologies. Three of the conceptions of political theory identified in the book are applied to produce markedly different readings of the works of John Stuart Mill. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; HPK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 433.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333696095
- ISBN
- 9780333696095
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Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Paperback. The author here is investigating and clarifying the premise that the distinctive nature of human consciousness is misrepresented by many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aim to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological and computational terms. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333800225
- ISBN
- 9780333800225
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Condition: New
€ 52.60
€ 52.60
Hardback. The papers included in this volume are illustrative of the application of careful, rigorous logical analysis (and sometimes logical systems) to critical philosophy of religion and what has been called constructive metaphysics. Editor(s): Harris, James Franklin. Series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion. Num Pages: 153 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 415.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792314547
- ISBN
- 9780792314547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.84
€ 130.84
Hardback. Develops a novel defense of Platonism, arguing, first, that abstracta - nonqualitative haecceities - are needed to explain concreta's being diverse at a time; and second, that unexemplified haecceities are then required to accommodate the full range of cases in which there are possible worlds containing individuals not present in the actual world. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792324386
- ISBN
- 9780792324386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.37
€ 199.37
Hardback. Issues surrounding the status and nature of "nonexistent objects" constitue one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book, Perszyk takes readers through this thicket, informed both historically and at the level of contemporary discussion of relevant themes. Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 642.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792324614
- ISBN
- 9780792324614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.47
€ 200.47
Hardback. Provides an English translation of "Lectura" I 39, a key text of the medieval theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus, together with an introduction and a commentary. Scotus was the first scholar to develop a consistent analysis of the basic Christian notions of "contingency" and "freedom". Editor(s): Jaczn, Anthonie Vos; Veldhuis, Henri; Looman-Graaskamp, Aline H.; Dekker, E.; Bok, Nico W. den. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792327073
- ISBN
- 9780792327073
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Condition: New
€ 131.83
€ 131.83
Hardback. This text presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. "Worlds" themselves are understood as structured sets of properties. The book also takes up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 359 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792330066
- ISBN
- 9780792330066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.14
€ 201.14
Hardback. Many, perhaps most textbooks of quantum mechanics present a Copenhagen, single system angle; fewer present the subject matter as an instrument for treating ensembles, but the two methods have been silently coexisting since the mid-Thirties. This work resolves this dichotomy by examining the mutual relation between single systems and ensembles. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792335658
- ISBN
- 9780792335658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.42
€ 200.42
Hardback. This text presents: a reconstruction of Brentano's life and contributions to philosophy; separate studies of Brentano's most important students (von Ehrenfels, Husserl, Marty, Meinong, Stumpf, and Twardowski); separate studies of the main philosophical problems or areas of Brentano's writing. Editor(s): Albertazzi, Liliana; Libardi, M. (Centro Studi per la Filosofia Mitteleuropea Trento, Italy); Poli, Dr. Roberto. Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 495 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 495
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792337669
- ISBN
- 9780792337669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 347.55
€ 347.55