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hardcover. Offers a study of the truth-bearers problem, that is, the question of which category of items the predicates 'true' and 'false' are predicated. This book has two dimensions: historical and systematic, which focus around Tarski's semantic theory of truth. It is useful for those interested in the evolution of Austrian philosophy. Editor(s): Rojszczak, Artur. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- SKU
- V9781402033964
- ISBN
- 9781402033964
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€ 126.72
€ 126.72
Hardback. Presents some of the important philosophical papers by Peter Gardenfors. Spanning a period of more than 20 years of his research, they cover many topics, from early works on decision theory, belief revision and nonmonotonic logic to his work on conceptual spaces, inductive reasoning, semantics and the evolutions of thinking. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 615.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402033988
- ISBN
- 9781402033988
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Condition: New
€ 244.39
€ 244.39
Hardback. Argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate reality as a plurality of mind-like immaterial beings. Presented in the light of his sustained commitment to the reality of bodies, this book re-examines his dynamics, the doctrine of pre-established harmony and his views on freedom. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402034008
- ISBN
- 9781402034008
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Condition: New
€ 190.33
€ 190.33
Hardback. Offers a comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Howard E Gruber, who is noted for his contributions both to the psychology of creativity and to the history of science. This book includes papers from a range of topics. It presents a comprehensive contribution to our understanding of the creative process. Editor(s): Gruber, H. E.; Bodeker, Katja. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 556 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 934.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 556
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402034916
- ISBN
- 9781402034916
Hardback
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€ 278.69
€ 278.69
paperback. Presenting the work by political philosophers and political theorists in the area of global justice, this volume includes papers that cover both theoretical and applied issues. It also deals with the scope of the field and the direction of the debates, and is meant for those interested in understanding the issues in Global Justice Studies. Editor(s): Brook, Gillian; Moellendorf, Darrel. Series: Studies in Global Justice. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 980.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade United States
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- SKU
- V9781402034947
- ISBN
- 9781402034947
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Condition: New
€ 187.88
€ 187.88
Hardback. Intended to comprise some 18 volumes and provides an in-depth coverage of major topics in philosophical logic and its applications in many fields relating to computer science, language, argumentation, and more. This work is aimed at students and researchers whose work or interests involve philosophical logic and its applications. Editor(s): Gabbay, Dov M.; Guenthner, Franz. Series: Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2005
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402035203
- ISBN
- 9781402035203
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Condition: New
€ 244.00
€ 244.00
Hardback. Includes contributions from some of the philosophers working in philosophical logic, philosophy of logic, epistemology and metaphysics. This book illustrates the manifold contributions that logic makes to philosophical progress, both by the application of formal methods to traditional philosophical problems. Editor(s): DeVidi, David; Kenyon, Tim. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402035333
- ISBN
- 9781402035333
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€ 126.66
€ 126.66
Hardback. Editor(s): Melle, Ullrich. Series: Husserliana: Edmund Husserl. Num Pages: 696 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPL; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1144.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 696
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402035739
- ISBN
- 9781402035739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 540.38
€ 540.38
Hardback. Identifying illusion with deception, we tend to oppose it to the reality of life. This collection of essay's looks at questions such as: Does not illusion open the seeming confines of factual reality into horizons of imagination which transform it? and, Does it not, like art, belong essentially to the makeup of human reality? Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 610.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402035777
- ISBN
- 9781402035777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.21
€ 190.21
Hardback. During its century-long unfolding, spreading in numerous directions, Husserlian phenomenology while loosening inner articulations, has nevertheless maintained a somewhat consistent profile. This title shows that the numerous conceptions and theories advanced in the various phases of reinterpretations have remained identifiable with phenomenology. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 508 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1990.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402036781
- ISBN
- 9781402036781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 257.59
€ 257.59
Hardback. The human being is today at the center of scientific, social, ethical and philosophical debates. This title retrieves the classical principles - human subject, ego, self, body, soul, person - and reinterprets them to counter the naturalistic critique (Tymieniecka). Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 516 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 901.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 516
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402037061
- ISBN
- 9781402037061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 248.37
€ 248.37
Hardback. Provides a comprehensive discussion of moral education in the light of a range of ethical theories. This book addresses important contemporary issues and controversies (morality and citizenship, family values, sexual morality). Series: Philosophy and Education. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 459.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402037085
- ISBN
- 9781402037085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 189.31
€ 189.31
Hardback. A number of Jewish philosophers active in Spain and Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Abraham Bibago, Baruch Ibn Ya'ish, Abraham Shalom, Eli Habillo, Judah Messer Leon) wrote Hebrew commentaries and questions on Aristotle. This book aims to give an idea of the extent and character of this hitherto neglected "Hebrew Scholasticism". Series: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 395
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402037153
- ISBN
- 9781402037153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.90
€ 191.90
Hardback. Does human existence have a purpose? This title lets us follow the logos of life as it spins in innumerable ways the interplay of natural factors, human passions, social forces, science and experience - through interruptions and kairic moments of accomplishment - in the human creative imagination and intellective reasoning. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 576 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 877.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402037177
- ISBN
- 9781402037177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 246.44
€ 246.44
Hardback. Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results. Coming closer and closer to phenomenology, the sciences of life find the common ground of the reality in the ontopoiesis of life. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 372 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402037368
- ISBN
- 9781402037368
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Condition: New
€ 192.99
€ 192.99
Paperback. Provides an introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology. Translator(s): Farin, Ingo; Hart, James. Series: Husserliana: Edmund Husserl - Collected Works. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2006th Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402037887
- ISBN
- 9781402037887
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Condition: New
€ 186.05
€ 186.05
Hardback. Examines the introduction of Marxist philosophy to China from the early 1920s to the mid 1940s, through an examination of the philosophical activities and writings of four Chinese Marxist philosophers central to this process - Qu Qiubai, Ai Siqi, Li Da and Mao Zedong. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1200.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402038051
- ISBN
- 9781402038051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.25
€ 126.25
Hardback. Experts in a variety of fields offer advice and solutions. But where professional expertise often involves mastering certain facts, ethics expertise is distinct. Including applications of ethics expertise in such areas as bioethics consultation, expert witnessing and policy making, this book examines philosophical conceptions of ethics expertise. Editor(s): Rasmussen, Lisa. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 566.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402038198
- ISBN
- 9781402038198
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Condition: New
€ 189.59
€ 189.59
Hardback. Deals with the fundamental questions concerning the nature of intrinsic value, from a variety of viewpoints. These questions include how to understand the concept of intrinsic value, what sorts of things can have intrinsic value, and how to compute intrinsic value. Editor(s): Ronnow-Rasmussen, Toni; Zimmerman, Michael. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 428 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 829.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402038457
- ISBN
- 9781402038457
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Condition: New
€ 193.93
€ 193.93
Hardback. What is it to have a right? Previous answers to this question can be divided into two groups. Some hold interest/benefit theories of rights while others hold choice/will theories of rights. This book defends an alternative to both of the traditional views, the justified-constraint theory of rights. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1260.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402039768
- ISBN
- 9781402039768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.62
€ 126.62
Hardback. What makes an event count as an action? Perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states, but not when caused in other ways. This book argues that this type of answer is methodologically and substantially mistaken. It offers an externalist, anti-foundationalist account of what makes an event count as an action. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402039966
- ISBN
- 9781402039966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.30
€ 126.30
Hardback. Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is an original systematic thinker and representative of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism. This book offers an analysis of Cohen's System of Philosophy - the three-volume classic on logic, ethics, and aesthetics - and his writings on Judaism and religion. It highlights Cohen's contributions in these fields. Editor(s): Munk, Reinier W. (Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Series: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy. Num Pages: 436 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402040467
- ISBN
- 9781402040467
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Condition: New
€ 246.97
€ 246.97
Hardback. Aims to supply ways of thinking of, and dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument. Applied ethics is that intellectual locale where theory meets praxis. This book is designed to make that meeting point explicit, by presenting a series of issues in philosophical formulations. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402041037
- ISBN
- 9781402041037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.18
€ 126.18
Hardback. Consisting four related parts, this book provides an overview of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and its relevance to information systems. It explains his late philosophy of language and mind, and discusses the relevance of his philosophy to understanding some of the problems inherent in information systems. Series: Information Science and Knowledge Management. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402041129
- ISBN
- 9781402041129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.31
€ 186.31