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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
Hardback
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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Condition: New
€ 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.
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- 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
Hardback. Discuses about Labelled deduction which is an approach to providing frameworks for presenting and using different logics in a uniform and natural way by enriching the language of a logic with additional information of a semantic proof-theoretical nature. Editor(s): Basin, David; D'Agostino, Marcello (University of Ferrara, Italy); Gabbay, Dov M.; Matthews, Sean (Logica GmbH, Franfurt am Main, Germany); Vigano, Luca (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg, Germany). Series: Applied Logic Series. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362371
- ISBN
- 9780792362371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.16
€ 133.16
Hardback. The notion of belief figures prominently in contemporary philosophy of language and mind and in cognitive science. This work features essays that address a range of issues concerning the complexity of our belief attitudes, their contents, and the influence of motivational factors on beliefs. Editor(s): Engel, Pascal. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362388
- ISBN
- 9780792362388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.76
€ 133.76
The Origins of Life. The Primogenital Matrix of Life and its Context.
Anna-Teresa . Ed(S): Tymieniecka
hardcover. Aims to unravel the network of the origin of the various spheres of sense that carry life onwards. This volume elucidates the main riddles of the scientific / philosophical controversies concerning the status of various spheres that seek to make sense of life. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362463
- ISBN
- 9780792362463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.68
€ 201.68
Hardback. What are the conditions which must be met for a person to be justly held responsible for his or her moral faults and failures? This text pays systematic attention to ontological issues impinging on this question. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362555
- ISBN
- 9780792362555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.87
€ 199.87
The Origins of Life. The Origins of the Existential Sharing-in-Life. O...
Anna-Teresa . Ed(S): Tymieniecka
Hardback. Understanding life through its origins reveals the underlying autonomous generative matrixes. Following the primogenital matrix of generation, three generative matrixes of the human sense of life establish humanness within the creative human condition as the existential sharing-in-life. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 512 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 879.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362760
- ISBN
- 9780792362760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.93
€ 203.93
Phenomenology on Kant, German Idealism, Hermeneutics and Logic
. Ed(S): Wiegand, Olav K.; Dostal, Robert J.;...
Hardback. Comprises systematic as well as historical essays, including contributions intended to give comprehensive overviews of such areas as genetic phenomenology, transcendental phenomenology, philosophy and history of logic and mathematics, Kant, hermeneutics, Hegel, and philosophy of language. This book is addressed to phenomenologists. Editor(s): Wiegand, Olav K.; Dostal, Robert J.; Embree, Lester; Kockelmans, Joseph J.; Mohanty, Jitendra Nath. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362906
- ISBN
- 9780792362906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.08
€ 201.08
hardcover. Kant's "Critique of Judgment" accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. In order to appreciate Kant's project, this work aims to retrieve the connection between appearance and judgment in the "Critique of Judgment". Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2000th Edition
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363101
- ISBN
- 9780792363101
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.31
€ 70.31
Hardback. The education of humanity is the key to 21st-century culture, social and practical life. The main concerns of education are perennial, but the continuous flood of inventions, technological innovations that re-shape life, demands a re-appraisal of the situation, such as only philosophy can provide. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 498 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 879.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 498
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363194
- ISBN
- 9780792363194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 259.20
€ 259.20
Paperback. A book about the concept of disease and the philosophy of diagnosis. It proposes 'value-dependent realism' as a way to show how value judgments can be foundational for the practice of diagnosis without losing the sense that diseases are real entities. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363224
- ISBN
- 9780792363224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.23
€ 69.23
Hardback. This text tackles one of the most difficult problems facing the Western theistic tradition: to show the consonance between eternal punishment and the goodness of God. The author develops an understanding of hell, combining historical breadth with detailed argumentation. Series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363644
- ISBN
- 9780792363644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.05
€ 132.05
Hardback. In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. This book turns this basic feature of life with HIV into the vantage point for an analysis of Western subjectivity. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1210.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363712
- ISBN
- 9780792363712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.77
€ 132.77
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364436
- ISBN
- 9780792364436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.87
€ 199.87
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364641
- ISBN
- 9780792364641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.16
€ 70.16