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Hardback. Presents mathematical analysis of social systems. This book is for researchers and graduate students in the fields of theoretical sociology and social and general systems theory. Series: Theory and Decision Library A:. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1330.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364436
- ISBN
- 9780792364436
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Condition: New
€ 192.95
€ 192.95
Hardback. A collection of papers that present the work on a problem in practical reasoning - the problem of imperceptible harms and benefits. The puzzles and paradoxes combine worries about our obligations to relieve starvation, mitigate suffering and conserve resources, with metaethical worries about the nature of practical rationality and dynamic choice. Editor(s): Almeida, Michael J. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364641
- ISBN
- 9780792364641
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€ 67.80
€ 67.80
Hardback. Features a methodology for automated deduction in non-classical logics. In this book, the methodology is applied to a range of non-classical systems, covering intuitionistic, intermediate, modal and substructural logics. It can also be used as an introduction to these logical systems from a procedural perspective. Series: Applied Logic Series. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PBCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364733
- ISBN
- 9780792364733
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Condition: New
€ 128.59
€ 128.59
Hardback. Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled. This text reveals Machiavelli's legacy to modernity as the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between the demands of freedom and the imperatives of morality. Series: Topoi Library. Num Pages: 355 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365334
- ISBN
- 9780792365334
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Condition: New
€ 194.32
€ 194.32
Hardback. Offers a theory of the structure of reasoning used in fear and threat appeal argumentation. This book is suitable for professionals and students in law, critical thinking, advertising, speech communication, informal logic, cognitive science, rhetoric, and media studies. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365433
- ISBN
- 9780792365433
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Condition: New
€ 127.74
€ 127.74
Hardback. Contains historical case studies, contributions, and applications to specific sciences. These papers illustrate the variety of functions of metaphors and analogies, as well as the many connections between the study of some of these functions and other subjects and disciplines. Editor(s): Hallyn, Fernand. Series: Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365600
- ISBN
- 9780792365600
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Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Hardback. Temporality has been a central issue in phenomenology since its inception. The authors of the essays collected in this volume continue that tradition, challenging, expanding, and deepening it and aim to show how invaluable phenomenology is for the investigation of time's many faces. Editor(s): Brough, John Barnett; Embree, Lester. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366225
- ISBN
- 9780792366225
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Condition: New
€ 128.21
€ 128.21
Hardback. No theory is more passionately defined, or decried, than is liberalism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. But what is this theory, on which so much ink is spilled? This collection of original essays offers answers to that question, by exploring the theoretical commitments of liberals and some of the practical implications of their view. Editor(s): Narveson, Jan; Dimock, Susan. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 34
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366409
- ISBN
- 9780792366409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.89
€ 127.89
Hardback. Presents for English readers, three of Blondel's most important articles: "Idealist Illusion" (1898), "The Elementary Principle of a Logic of the Moral Life" (1903), and "The Starting Point of Philosophy" (1906). They offer evidence for and explain the nature of the pragmatism in Blondel's thought Series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366546
- ISBN
- 9780792366546
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Condition: New
€ 126.61
€ 126.61
Hardback. Provides a philosophically informed examination of the concept of time in relativity. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366683
- ISBN
- 9780792366683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 224.90
€ 224.90
Hardback. Presents central topics in medieval logic. This book looks at the role of logical consistence in medieval disputation techniques. Editor(s): Yrjonsuuri, Mikko. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1190.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366744
- ISBN
- 9780792366744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.07
€ 128.07
Hardback. Philosophy has often self-consciously presented itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such. This book contains a series of examples of philosophy, venturing into quantum mechanics and political theory, psychoanalysis and environmental ethics, philosophy of language and sociology. Series: Topoi Library. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1090.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367024
- ISBN
- 9780792367024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardback. Die Konstitution von Natur und Geist und die Klarung ihres Verhaltnisses zueinander als Seins- und als Wissenschaftsregionen bildet eines der Hauptthemen von Husserls Philosophie. Series: Husserliana: Edmund Husserl - Gesammelte Werke. Num Pages: 428 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 758.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367147
- ISBN
- 9780792367147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 333.84
€ 333.84
Hardback. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 721 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1188.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 721
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367307
- ISBN
- 9780792367307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 245.39
€ 245.39
paperback. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 721 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1049.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Boston Incorporated United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 721
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367314
- ISBN
- 9780792367314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 244.49
€ 244.49
hardcover. Suggests that medicine reveals deep but rarely explicit themes whose proper comprehension invites a careful phenomenological and hermeneutical explication. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Boston Incorporated United States
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367574
- ISBN
- 9780792367574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.36
€ 191.36
Hardback. The debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language. This book presents some of the theories from Central Europe. Editor(s): Albertazzi, Liliana. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 370 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367994
- ISBN
- 9780792367994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.44
€ 194.44
Hardback. Linnaeus' mature theodicy, his attempt to reconcile the suffering and evil of the world with the omnipotence and goodness of God, is presented in a condensed form in the final editions of his "Systema Naturae" (1758/68). This title presents his work in the natural sciences. Editor(s): Petry, Michael J. Translator(s): Petry, Michael J. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 504 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792368205
- ISBN
- 9780792368205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 250.25
€ 250.25
Hardback. Argues that the theme of Mill's life and work was his belief in human improvement and progress. This study defines the importance of Mill's growth ethic and aims to clear up the misinterpretations surrounding his notions of positive and negative freedom, the status of children, the legitimacy of authority, and support for British colonialism. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792368540
- ISBN
- 9780792368540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.80
€ 190.80
Hardback. Demonstrates, with reference to ongoing debates, how hermeneutical theory provides the ultimate philosophical justification for democratic practice and universal human rights. This book is useful to those concerned with the fate of the core values traditionally defended by philosophy. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1310.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792368595
- ISBN
- 9780792368595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.84
€ 128.84