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Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 halftones. 9 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: CFD; HPM; JMAQ; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Updated edition with a New Foreword
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691160948
ISBN
9780691160948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.52

Hardback. Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. It shows how the recursive mind was critical to survival in the harsh conditions of the Pleistocene epoch. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. 9 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: CFD; HPM; JMAQ; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145471
ISBN
9780691145471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 324 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226777153
ISBN
9780226777153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Surveys the crucial phases of Jewish thought concerning correct conduct as codified in the commandments. This work provides the author's own insights about the intellectual, emotional, pedagogical, and pragmatic reasoning advanced by the major Jewish thinkers. It covers Jewish thinkers from the Bible, rabbis and Hellenistic philosophers. Translator(s): Levin, Leonard. Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843048
ISBN
9781934843048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.27

Paperback. The follow-up to THE MEANING OF THINGS which continues AC Grayling's philosophical journey through life Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753817131
ISBN
9780753817131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Hardcover. Translator(s): Lewis, Stephen E. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931784
ISBN
9780813931784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.11

paperback. Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138989825
ISBN
9781138989825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.11

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107630161
ISBN
9781107630161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.56

Hardback. This text provides a comprehensive survey of the often controversial thinker Raymond Tallis. From nihilism, Theorrhoea and literary theory, to the role of the unconscious, it guides the reader through the panoptic sweep of Tallis' critical insights. Editor(s): Grant, Michael. Num Pages: 412 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 786.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
412
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333772713
ISBN
9780333772713
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.19

Hardback. There is an important division in the human mind between perception and reasoning. We reason from information that we have already, but perception is a means of taking in new information. Susanna Siegel argues that these two aspects of the mind become deeply intertwined when beliefs, fears, desires, or prejudice influence what we perceive. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198797081
ISBN
9780198797081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.77

Hardback. Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz stand out as the great 17th century rationalist philosophers who sought to construct a philosophical system in which theological and philosophical foundations serve to explain the physical, mental and moral universe. In her new book Pauline Phemister explores their contribution to the development of modern philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745627434
ISBN
9780745627434
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Paperback. This text brings together articles on the most discussed thinkers in the rationalist movement: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Malebranche. These articles address the topics in metaphysics and epistemology that figure most prominently in contemporary work on these philosophers. Editor(s): Pereboom, Derk. Series: Critical Essays on the Classics Series. Num Pages: 388 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847689118
ISBN
9780847689118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.14

Paperback. In this work philosopher Wolfgang Iser offers a fresh perspective on questions such as why do human beings need fictions? And why do human beings need to interpret, despite the fact that complete interpretation is unattainable? Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119030
ISBN
9780231119030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. In this work philosopher Wolfgang Iser offers a fresh perspective on questions such as why do human beings need fictions? And why do human beings need to interpret, despite the fact that complete interpretation is unattainable? Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119023
ISBN
9780231119023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.33
€ 83.28

Hardcover. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745691145
ISBN
9780745691145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 127 x 190 x 22. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745691152
ISBN
9780745691152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.48

Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153782
ISBN
9780231153782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.82
€ 75.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 209 x 11. Weight in Grams: 260. 184 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPS. Dimension: 143 x 209 x 11. Weight: 250.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153799
ISBN
9780231153799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

hardcover. This is an intellectual and cultural biography of Solomon Maimon, a brilliant and controversial Jewish philospher and memoirist of the eighteenth century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751360
ISBN
9780804751360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.04

Hardback. Deals with the question of moral theory. The author delineates a fresh route along which the philosophical question of justification raised in the analytic tradition can be answered on the basis of phenomenology. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792328919
ISBN
9780792328919
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.60

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