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Hardback. Pierfrancesco Basile looks at myths: where they came from and why Whitehead rejects them. In doing so, Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics - especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same - and how it is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474404143
- ISBN
- 9781474404143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.66€ 103.50
€ 111.66
€ 103.50
Paperback. This is a translation of three works by Mirandola: "On the Dignity of Man", a document of early Renaissance humanism; "One Being and the One", a treatise on the relationship between unity and being; and "Heptaplus", an interpretation of the first verses of "Genesis". Translator(s): Wallis, Charles Glenn; Miller, Paul J. W.; Carmichael, Douglas. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRC; HRQA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872203969
- ISBN
- 9780872203969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.39
€ 18.99
€ 15.39
Hardback. Scientific and philosophical literature on causality has become highly specialised. It is hard to find suitable access points for students, young researchers, or professionals outside this domain. This book provides a guide to the complex literature, explains the scientific problems of causality and the philosophical tools needed to address them. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; PBB; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 169 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199662678
- ISBN
- 9780199662678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
hardcover. The Philosophical Significance of Immortality in Thomas Aquinas is a comprehensive study of the theme of immortality in Thomas Aquinas. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Edition
- Annotated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761819103
- ISBN
- 9780761819103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.14
€ 117.14
Paperback. Editor(s): Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816616985
- ISBN
- 9780816616985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138777682
- ISBN
- 9781138777682
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Condition: New
€ 50.29
€ 50.29
Paperback. This work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the human genetic structure by the year 2005 - offering the elimination of genetic abnormalities and diseases. Editor(s): Sloan, Phillip R. Series: Studies in Science & the Humanities from the Reilly Centre for Science, Technology & Values. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHMP; PDA; PSX; TCBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 36. Weight in Grams: 907.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268008208
- ISBN
- 9780268008208
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. Are we morally required to act in the interests of others? Does our worth as persons depend in any way on our valuing the good of others? This book addresses these questions which concern the relevance of other-interested considerations - of facts about what is good or bad for others - to the moral status of persons and their actions. Series: Philosophical Studies S. Num Pages: 157 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 157
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792318569
- ISBN
- 9780792318569
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.79
€ 130.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRKN5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628725889
- ISBN
- 9781628725889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.16
€ 14.99
€ 13.16
Hardback. Ce travail est parti de la prise au serieux de la philosophie "comme connaissance", a la difference de la connaissance scientifique, ou encore de la connaissance logique, par laquelle la philosophie formalise la connaissance scientifique, et se prive d'examiner son propre caractere de connaissance. Series: Phaenomenologica S.: Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl Archives, Leuven, Belgium. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402016714
- ISBN
- 9781402016714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Paperback. Philosopher, literary critic, translator, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is one of the leading intellectual figures in France. This volume of six essays deals with the relation between philosophy and aesthetics, particularly the role of mimesis in a metaphysics of representation. Editor(s): Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe. Translator(s): Fynsk, Christopher. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804732826
- ISBN
- 9780804732826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814742266
- ISBN
- 9780814742266
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, the author formulates a sophisticated new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 520 pages, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: HPS; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 520
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226144450
- ISBN
- 9780226144450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.03€ 79.61
€ 94.03
€ 79.61
Paperback. Deals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 488 pages, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: HPS; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226212364
- ISBN
- 9780226212364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.78
€ 41.99
€ 32.78
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199252862
- ISBN
- 9780199252862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.99
€ 67.99
Paperback. Presents an approach to moral philosophy. This work of dry theory, is intended for those intrigued by the questions about goodness and human life. Num Pages: 128 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199265473
- ISBN
- 9780199265473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.66
€ 56.66
Paperback. Examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. The author challenges our conceptions of who we think we are, what we believe we will never do - and how and why almost any of us could be initiated into the ranks of evil doers. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: VSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 22nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846041037
- ISBN
- 9781846041037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.77
€ 21.99
€ 17.77
hardcover. A unique and highly controversial defense of the possibilities in our new technologies to expand our idea of what is real. Zhai's explanation of the role significance of virtual reality is eye-openeing and completely original. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GPFC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780847689835
- ISBN
- 9780847689835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.59
€ 30.99
€ 26.59
Hardcover. This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It advances the argument that criminal justice cannot be reduced to an instrumentally driven operation to achieve fiscal efficiencies or provide investment opportunities to the commercial sector. Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; HPQ; JHBA; JKVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468451
- ISBN
- 9781137468451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardcover. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403918147
- ISBN
- 9781403918147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Illustrator(s): Read, Howard. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 119 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Icon Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848312111
- ISBN
- 9781848312111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.14
€ 10.99
€ 9.14
Hardback. This illuminating book provides a reconstruction of social theory that emphasizes its humanist foundations and the centrality of values in social inquiry. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758628
- ISBN
- 9780804758628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 46.16
€ 47.99
€ 46.16
paperback. Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226716428
- ISBN
- 9780226716428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.10
€ 41.99
€ 36.10
Paperback. Demonstrates that ethical and religious concerns inform even the most technical writings on logic and language. This text also shows that, for Wittgenstein, the need to establish clear limitations is both a logical and an ethical demand, revealing a religious view of the world in his philosophy. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPL; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 238 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226753027
- ISBN
- 9780226753027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.93
€ 34.99
€ 27.93