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Paperback. In "Evolution as a Religion", Mary Midgley examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it. She exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRAB; PDA; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415278331
ISBN
9780415278331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.03

Paperback. In this major work, Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals tells us that humans are rather more like animals than we have previously allowed ourselves to believe. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415289870
ISBN
9780415289870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.08

Paperback. Science can answer any question we choose to put to it, even the most fundamental about ourselves, our behaviour, and our cultures. The author here, puts forth her corrective view that without poetry or literature, or music, or history, or even theology we cannot hope to understand our humanity. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415378482
ISBN
9780415378482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.36

Paperback. To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture, yet here Mary Midgley does so with her customary brilliance and clarity - to read Wickedness is to understand her reputation as one of the great moral philosophers. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415253987
ISBN
9780415253987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.81

Paperback. Explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. This title argues that simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the 'selfish gene' tendency in neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic. Series: Heretics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPX; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182. Darwin and the Selfish Gene. Series: Heretics. 176 pages. Explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. This title argues that simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the 'selfish gene' tendency in neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HPX; PDA. Dimension: 197 x 132 x 12. Weight: 160.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844652532
ISBN
9781844652532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

Paperback. Mary Midgley is one of the UK's foremost moral philosophers. This book presents her story in this moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a profound love of teaching. It sheds light on Mary's friends, her moral philosophy and her meetings with major philosophers, including Wittgenstein and Isaiah Berlin. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415371391
ISBN
9780415371391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. Originally published: 2004. With new foreword. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415610247
ISBN
9780415610247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.39

Paperback. Contradicts the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically. This book argues that Plato was concerned with what makes something a something and that he solved the problem in a radically different way than did Aristotle. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691029399
ISBN
9780691029399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.30
€ 55.14

Paperback. Editor(s): Gill, Mary Louise; Lennox, James G. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 390 pages, 6 line illus. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691603902
ISBN
9780691603902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.98

Paperback. Investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This title reconstructs Polanyi's scientific and political milieus in Budapest, Berlin, and Manchester from the 1910s to the 1950s. Num Pages: 432 pages, 17 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103174
ISBN
9780226103174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.71

hardcover. Defends moral cognitivism with a fresh approach. This book argues that if a moral theory can be developed, which can account for widely held, well-established moral beliefs, this would provide a set of truth conditions for moral judgments. It presents a theory designed to do this - and through which major moral disagreements can be resolved. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
2002nd Edition
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402006876
ISBN
9781402006876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.99

hardcover. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780761810568
ISBN
9780761810568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.61

Hardback. Editor(s): Waithe, Mary Ellen. Series: History of Women Philosophers. Num Pages: 471 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 901.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
471
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792328070
ISBN
9780792328070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 250.21

Hardback. The theme that runs through all of Stein's work is an inquiry into the nature of the human person. Beginning with her dissertation on empathy, and following through to the works of her maturity, the reader becomes aware of the thrust toward revealing the person as person, in its universality. Editor(s): Baseheart, Mary Catherine. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792344902
ISBN
9780792344902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPQ; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231171748
ISBN
9780231171748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 79.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPQ; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231171755
ISBN
9780231171755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.41

Hardback. Modal Logic is a branch of logic with applications in many related disciplines such as computer science, philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence. This book treats multi-dimensional modal logics in a uniform way, linking their mathematical theory to the research tradition in algebraic logic. Series: Applied Logic Series. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1190.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792343455
ISBN
9780792343455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

paperback. An acclaimed translation of one of Marx's most important texts, along with essays discussing its contemporary relevance. Editor(s): Cowling, Mark; Martin, James. Translator(s): Carver, Terrell. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745318301
ISBN
9780745318301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; KJG; KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 231.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554812172
ISBN
9781554812172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.28

Paperback. In this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Moses Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions--ideas that have embattled readers of Maimonides since the twelfth century. Series: Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Num Pages: 370 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226259420
ISBN
9780226259420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

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