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Hardback. A study of Sigmund Freud's philosophy of mind. This book charts Freud's intellectual development as he deals with the mind-body problem, the nature of consciousness, folk psychology versus scientific psychology, the relationship between language and thought, realism and antirealism in psychology, and the nature of unconscious mental events. Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358824
- ISBN
- 9780792358824
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€ 132.29
€ 132.29
Hardback. Presents papers which are collected from a conference held in Montreal, 1-3 June 1995. This volume deals with the problem of consciousness in relation to intentionality. It also deals with the problem of 'qualia', a notion closely related to phenomenal consciousness, approached in the context of perception. Editor(s): Fisette, Denis. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 703.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359074
- ISBN
- 9780792359074
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€ 201.34
€ 201.34
Hardback. Provides an overview of the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist, nomological and causal process approaches. This book also covers work on the nature of laws of nature, with emphasis on the scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base, the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of things. Editor(s): Sankey, Howard. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 375 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1530.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359142
- ISBN
- 9780792359142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.20
€ 201.20
Hardback. Medicine's concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts and means change with the advance of science and social life. Presented here is a panorama of medical discussions with their philosophical underpinnings and queries as they have evolved from the past. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa; Zalewski, Zbigniew. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 653.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 335
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359623
- ISBN
- 9780792359623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.59
€ 200.59
Hardback. Captures the main issues addressed in the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science. This volume contains three kinds of papers corresponding to three of the main disciplines in cognitive science: philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Editor(s): Korta, Kepa; Sosa, Ernest; Arrazola, Xabier. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359739
- ISBN
- 9780792359739
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Condition: New
€ 131.90
€ 131.90
hardcover. Features results concerning the genuinely logical aspects of fuzzy sets in relation to algebraic considerations, knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning. This work offers a look at multiple-valued and fuzzy set-based logics, in an artificial intelligence perspective. Editor(s): Dubois, Didier; Prade, Henri; Klement, Erich Peter. Series: Applied Logic Series. Num Pages: 425 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PBCH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 791.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 425
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359777
- ISBN
- 9780792359777
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Condition: New
€ 202.67
€ 202.67
Hardback. A collection of 11 essays composed by members of the North American Spinoza Society, dedicated exclusively to topics, problems or questions raised by the teachings found in Baruch Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus. Editor(s): Bagley, Paul J. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359845
- ISBN
- 9780792359845
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€ 200.14
€ 200.14
Hardback. Features essays that disentangle us from the opposition between universalism and relativism in which so many of the debates in contemporary philosophy have been caught. This title shows that what is in fact returning in these discussions and maneuvering them into a pre-set course is the very ambiguity, 'the subject', which they seek to repress. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 423 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 774.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 423
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359852
- ISBN
- 9780792359852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 257.67
€ 257.67
hardcover. Quine is one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosophers. This book contains essays that touch on the turnings in Quine's work. It also features an essay by Quine himself, and his replies to each of the papers. Editor(s): Orenstein, Alex; Kotatko, Petr. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 457 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 813.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 457
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359869
- ISBN
- 9780792359869
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€ 75.87
€ 75.87
Hardback. This introduction to Leibniz's early philosophy throws light on the development of some of the doctrines with which he is associated. After an overview of his formative years, papers reflect on his wide-ranging interests in philosophical and related subjects, including law, physics and theology. Editor(s): Brown, Stuart. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792359975
- ISBN
- 9780792359975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.21
€ 200.21
Hardback. Explores the concept of disease and philosophy of diagnosis. The author proposes 'value-dependent realism' as a way to show how value judgements can be foundational for the practice of diagnosis without losing the sense that diseases are real entities. It is of interest to philosophers of medicine, value theorists, bioethicists, and physicians. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360292
- ISBN
- 9780792360292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.02
€ 201.02
Hardback. This text on rights, equality and liberty asks questions such as: What are moral rights? What role do they play in liberalism? Which rights do we have? Does the language of rights impose formal constraints? And which rights and duties does equality force us to acknowledge? Editor(s): Spector, Professor Horacio; Pincione, Guido. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 449.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Reprinted from THE JOURNAL OF ETHICS, 4:1-2, 1999
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360599
- ISBN
- 9780792360599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.30
€ 131.30
Hardback. This work is a challenge to G.E.M. Anscombe in "Modern Moral Philosophy". It makes a contribution to the debate on virtue theory and anti-theory, and shows the relevance of such theoretical discussion to moral issues such as abortion, suicide, and the moral status of animals. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 990.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360933
- ISBN
- 9780792360933
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€ 131.30
€ 131.30
Hardback. This text addresses anyone who wonders, as the author does, about what can be achieved by argumentation and why it can be achieved. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361480
- ISBN
- 9780792361480
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Condition: New
€ 132.38
€ 132.38
Hardback. The success of sociologists in understanding the social dimensions of science and technology has led to a relative decline of sociological studies of the humanities in general, philosophy in particular. This anthology seeks to correct that neglect. Editor(s): Kusch, Maren. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 642.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361503
- ISBN
- 9780792361503
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Condition: New
€ 134.75
€ 134.75
Hardback. A collection of phenomenological investigations of the political domain. This work contains essays that analyze basic concepts such as action, community, and the relation of the political to the ethical, investigate fundamental issues such as the nation-state, leadership, sovereignty, and responsibility. Editor(s): Thompson, Kevin; Embree, Lester. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361633
- ISBN
- 9780792361633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.05
€ 132.05
Hardback. According to the neutrality thesis, in designing state policies governments should not allow themselves to be informed by any particular conceptions of the good life. The aim of this book is to contribute to the debate about this thesis in two specific ways. Editor(s): Hartogh, Govert A. den. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361671
- ISBN
- 9780792361671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.18
€ 131.18
Hardback. Providing a survey of Martin-Lof's constructive type theory, this book surveys the prehistory of type theory and its highly complex development through eight different stages from 1970 to 1995. It also provides a systematic presentation of the theory, as offered by Martin-Lof at Leiden University in Fall 1993. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361800
- ISBN
- 9780792361800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.34
€ 201.34
Hardback. Suggests that the true sense of fine arts, enchantment, needs to be revived. This book states that in the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense, and that it lies at the imaginative heart of all arts, there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'. Editor(s): Kronegger, Marlies; Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792361831
- ISBN
- 9780792361831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.42
€ 200.42
Hardback. Contributes to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. This book explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 190 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1000.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362067
- ISBN
- 9780792362067
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Condition: New
€ 131.35
€ 131.35
Hardback. Although autonomy has become the primary standard of bioethics, little has been done to link it to the ways people actually behave, nor to its roots in the healing relationship. This work offers an examination of the difficulties of honouring the patient's and the physician's autonomy. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362074
- ISBN
- 9780792362074
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€ 131.95
€ 131.95
Hardback. The problem of misrepresentation is one of the central issues in contemporary philosophy of mind. Here, the author criticizes the way all contemporary theories of mental representation seek to account for misrepresentation, concluding that it cannot be explained naturistically. Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems. Num Pages: 438 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1820.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362159
- ISBN
- 9780792362159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.12
€ 203.12
Hardback. Questions concerning truth have been perennial throughout the history of philosophy from the Ancient Greeks. Metaphysics asks: does truth relate to being? These questions are treated by question, objections to a positive answer, answer and thesis, and comments and reply to the objections. Series: Episteme. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 532.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362241
- ISBN
- 9780792362241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.29
€ 128.29
hardcover. Exposes serious flaws in the reductionist assumptions about Mind and Matter of Naturalism and Constructivism, which underlie research and theorizing on cognition, language and action within academic psychology. This book argues for alternative, radically different assumptions about the relationship between the mental and material reality. Num Pages: 492 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1990.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 492
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362302
- ISBN
- 9780792362302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 268.59
€ 268.59