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Paperback. This text covers the latest approaches in philosophy and the social sciences to understanding preference change. It reviews standard material but focuses on new research such as conditional utilities, non-monotonic logic and complex systems models. Editor(s): Grune-Yanoff, Till; Hansson, Sven Ove. Series: Theory and Decision Library A:. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; HPS; KCC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048185061
- ISBN
- 9789048185061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. Human Capacities and Moral Status examines how one's capacity - active or passive, lower-order or higher-order, etc. - are relevant to one's moral status. Ideas are drawn from the moral frameworks of John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum to support the outlined argument. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFMG; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1090.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048185368
- ISBN
- 9789048185368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.99
€ 131.99
Hardback. In 2007, Melbourne University hosted a workshop to discuss many ethical questions that International NGOs face. This book is borne of that workshop. It fully considers current challenges and dilemmas INGOs confront and offers new ideas for meeting them. Editor(s): Horton, Keith; Roche, Chris. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 537.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048185917
- ISBN
- 9789048185917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.65
€ 132.65
Hardback. By offering an original and challenging approach to the topic of risk and emotion, this book covers new territory. It focuses on risk and emotion from the perspective of moral philosophy and emphasizes that emotions are an important source of moral knowledge. Editor(s): Roeser, Sabine. Series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048186464
- ISBN
- 9789048186464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.46
€ 133.46
Hardback. Cosmopolitanism is an emerging movement in global ethics. This book provides cutting edge essays by leading scholars on cosmopolitanism. It is written in a style accessible to interested lay people as well as scholars and researchers in the relevant fields. Editor(s): Hooft, Stan van; Vandekerckhove, Wim. Series: Studies in Global Justice. Num Pages: 230 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048187034
- ISBN
- 9789048187034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.74
€ 132.74
Hardback. This book develops a debate around responsible social inquiry into new racism, addressing a variety of ways of researching new forms of racism (for example, aversive, modern, cultural, purportedly color-blind, and new racism). Num Pages: 513 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GT; HPQ; JFSL1; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 882.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010
- Number of pages
- 513
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048187270
- ISBN
- 9789048187270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 204.26
€ 204.26
Hardcover. This collection of contributions of the best international experts in the field, entailing some refreshing approaches of new researchers, gives an overview of the most contemporary interpretations of the Husserlian phenomenology of time. Editor(s): Lohmar, Dieter; Yamaguchi, Ichirin. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048187652
- ISBN
- 9789048187652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.72
€ 134.72
Hardback. This book provides an exhaustive analysis and criticism of the main theories of the practice of law-applying officials. It proposes an elaborate model of collective action and the notion of being under a duty qua member of a group. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JHBD; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048187690
- ISBN
- 9789048187690
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.87
€ 131.87
Hardback. Here is an extensive treatment of Natural Deduction and related proof systems, focused on practical aspects of proof methods. Necessary background material is provided, including a presentation of Modal Logics, First-Order Modal and Hybrid Modal Logics. Editor(s): Indrzejczak, Andrzej. Series: Trends in Logic. Num Pages: 506 pages, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PBC; PBKS; UYA; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1980.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 506
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048187843
- ISBN
- 9789048187843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 302.61
€ 302.61
Paperback. This book challenges the accepted distinction between animal welfarists and animal liberationists. It provides a unique and hitherto undocumented history of the animal care and animal welfare movement. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048187874
- ISBN
- 9789048187874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.99
€ 67.99
Hardback. The revised edition of this book uses case studies on genetically modified food, animals in research, nanotechnology and climate change to probe the relationship of ethics to religion and show the relevance of ethical reasoning to land, food and technology. Editor(s): Comstock, Gary L. Num Pages: 482 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 37. Weight in Grams: 990.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 482
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048187911
- ISBN
- 9789048187911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.43
€ 109.43
Hardback. Plato's concept of the world as a cosmic living being, possessed of a soul, was vital to the Stoic and Neo-Platonic philosophers, but faded with the rise of Leibniz and the rationalists. This book discusses how and why the German Romantics of the late 1700s and early 1800s came back to embrace the existence of the world soul. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 449 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 449
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048187959
- ISBN
- 9789048187959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 236.08
€ 236.08
Hardback. This book shows how TIL lends itself to a broad range of applications. It comprises logical analysis of natural language, artificial-intelligence methods of knowledge representation, multi-agent systems in computer science, philosophy of mathematics, and more. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 563 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; GPJ; HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2140.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010
- Number of pages
- 563
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048188116
- ISBN
- 9789048188116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 269.69
€ 269.69
Hardback. This anthology furthers discussion about the relationship between ontology in philosophy and ontology in information technology. It fills a gap in cutting-edge research on ontology in both fields, supplying stage-setting overview articles on history and method. Editor(s): Poli, Dr. Roberto; Healy, Michael; Kameas, Achilles. Num Pages: 576 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; UNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1006.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048188468
- ISBN
- 9789048188468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.91
€ 205.91
Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory: The...
. Ed(S): Menendez, Agustin Jose; Fossum, John...
hardcover. Planned as a celebration of MacCormick's work, this is an homage and salute in which contributors undertake a critical reconstruction, revealing the connections of his writings, and furthering his insights in post-sovereign legal and democratic theory. Editor(s): Menendez, Agustin Jose; Fossum, John Erik. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPSN2; LAB; LAQ; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 637.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048189410
- ISBN
- 9789048189410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.34
€ 195.34
Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
Postema, Gerald J.. Ed(S): Pattaro, Enrico; R...
Hardback. Written from both a theoretical and a historical perspective, this volume discusses issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence. Aimed at jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers, the text includes historical and theoretical concepts, as well as the development of legal thought. Editor(s): Pattaro, Enrico; Roversi, Corrado. Num Pages: 643 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; LAB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1087.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 643
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048189595
- ISBN
- 9789048189595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.29
€ 187.29
Paperback. This book offers both case studies and thorough analysis and reflection on business ethics. Drawing on eleven recent European cases, the book offers a unique vehicle for considering moral reasoning and personal and institutional dimensions. Editor(s): Dubbink, Wim (Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands); Liederkerke, Luc van; Luijk, Henk van. Series: Issues in Business Ethics. Num Pages: 198 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GT; HPQ; KJG; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048189656
- ISBN
- 9789048189656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.78
€ 71.78
Hardback. This book problematizes the concept of religious freedom along legal, constitutional, ethical and theological lines, and especially from the perspective of religious studies, seeking a contemporary understanding that promotes human flourishing. Series: Studies in Global Justice. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRAB; JPA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2012
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048189922
- ISBN
- 9789048189922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
hardcover. Applying Hegel's theories to the field global justice, this volume provides a fresh perspective on topics like universal human rights, cosmopolitanism and justice. The text stages a unique dialogue between Hegel and contemporary theorists, demonstrating the richness of Hegel scholarship. Editor(s): Buchwalter, Andrew. Series: Studies in Global Justice. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048189953
- ISBN
- 9789048189953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.77
€ 194.77
Hardback. This volume examines three questions: Why do we value freedom of speech and expression? How does freedom balance multicultural sensitivity, minority rights and prevention of violence? Can traditional defenses of freedom of speech translate to other cultures? Editor(s): Golash, Deirdre. Series: Amintaphil: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; LAB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048189984
- ISBN
- 9789048189984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.41
€ 132.41