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Hardback. This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation arguments, and Frankfurt's famous argument against the 'Principle of Alternate Possibilities. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232921
- ISBN
- 9780230232921
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€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. Philosophy of Religion provides an engaging analysis of the current state of play in philosophy of religion, focusing on several central issues in the field. It is inclusive in its approach and designed for students, but it will also be useful to scholars and others seeking such an evaluation and interpretation of this field. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 226.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232914
- ISBN
- 9780230232914
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Condition: New
€ 78.49
€ 78.49
Hardback. Philosophy of Religion provides an engaging analysis of the current state of play in philosophy of religion, focusing on several central issues in the field. It is inclusive in its approach and designed for students, but it will also be useful to scholars and others seeking such an evaluation and interpretation of this field. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232907
- ISBN
- 9780230232907
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232815
- ISBN
- 9780230232815
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Condition: New
€ 125.49
€ 125.49
Hardback. Accessible and wide-ranging, this introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Action guides the reader through the major views and arguments. The topics addressed include the nature of intentional action and its explanation, the nature of reasons, the role of desire and intention in action, the nature of autonomy and the possibility of group agents. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232808
- ISBN
- 9780230232808
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.21
€ 127.21
Hardback. The author presents a new philosophical theory according to which we need intuitions and emotions in order to have objective moral knowledge, which is called affectual intuitionism. Affectual Intuitionism combines ethical intuitionism with a cognitive theory of emotions. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232679
- ISBN
- 9780230232679
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Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Hardcover. Modernism is fundamentally determined by its relationship to its own notions of style: oscillating between the poles of 'pure' style and 'purely' style, this traces the stylistic self-conceptualization of modernism from Schopenhauer and Flaubert in the 1850s, through Nietzsche and the symbolists in the 1880s, to the high modernists of the 1920s. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230965
- ISBN
- 9780230230965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardback. The author draws on lesser known archival materials, including Marx's notebooks on women and patriarchy and technology to offer a new interpretation of Marx's concept of alienation as this concept develops in his later works. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224407
- ISBN
- 9780230224407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224322
- ISBN
- 9780230224322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardback. A useful resource for anybody interested in contemporary thinking on happiness, Philosophy and Happiness encompasses a variety of philosophical traditions and draws from empirical work in psychology and economics to answer some of the oldest, and most pressing, questions about what contributes to individual well-being and life satisfaction. Editor(s): Bortolotti, Lisa. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HPQ; JMQ; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224292
- ISBN
- 9780230224292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. Are any nonhuman animals conscious? Why, if at all, should we strive to conserve natural environments? In what sense are we parts of nature? Simon James draws on a range of philosophical and literary sources to develop original answers to these and other questions, setting out a refreshingly new approach to environmental philosophy. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222366
- ISBN
- 9780230222366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations that currently limit the fields of philosophy of technology and science and technology studies. Editor(s): Selinger, Evan; Riis, Assoc Prof Soren. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; TB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220003
- ISBN
- 9780230220003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Paperback. Thirteen promising young researchers write on what they take to be the right philosophical account of mathematics and discuss where the philosophy of mathematics ought to be going. New trends are revealed, such as an increasing attention to mathematical practice, a reassessment of the canon, and inspiration from philosophical logic. Editor(s): Bueno, Otavio; Linnebo, Oystein. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219434
- ISBN
- 9780230219434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 99.97
€ 99.97
Hardback. Music has extraordinary power to move us, but how and why does it affect us? What is going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when listeners have strong emotional responses to music? This is a highly readable, original and philosophically important book for anyone who has ever been moved by music. Num Pages: 183 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; HPM; HPN; JMR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230209893
- ISBN
- 9780230209893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.06
€ 73.06
Hardcover. Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning. This book overturns such thinking, demonstrating the coherence of James's efforts to develop a flexible but rigorous framework for individuals and societies seeking freedom, meaning, and justice in a world of interdependence, uncertainty, and change. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117822
- ISBN
- 9780230117822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. "The Courage of the Truth" is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditions based on courage and conviction. Editor(s): Davidson, A. Translator(s): Burchell, Graham. Series: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the College de France. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112889
- ISBN
- 9780230112889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.62
€ 84.62
Paperback. In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBTZ1; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112735
- ISBN
- 9780230112735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.06
€ 127.06
hardcover. With contributions from leading figures, this book traces the philosophical roots behind contemporary understandings of cognition. The book presents a convincing case for the centrality of philosophy to the history of neuroscience and cognitive psychology and discusses how ideas have developed, influenced and moulded our view of the mind. Editor(s): Brook, Andrew. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2006th Edition
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013391
- ISBN
- 9780230013391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardback. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding of all philosophical works. The text follows the second edition of 1787, with a translation of all first edition passages altered or omitted. For this reissue of Kemp Smith's classic 1929 edition, Gary Banham contributes a major new Bibliography of secondary sources on Kant. Editor(s): Smith, Norman Kemp. Num Pages: 735 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 735
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013377
- ISBN
- 9780230013377
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 210.67
€ 210.67
Hardback. In this book leading cultural commentators including Slavoj Zizek, J. Hillis Miller, Gayatri Spivak and Alain Badiou pay homage to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, revealing his influence and inspiration to their own work. Editor(s): Douzinas, Costas. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007147
- ISBN
- 9780230007147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardback. This book offers arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology, a view which Ratcliffe suggests is a theoretically motivated abstraction. His alternative account draws on phenomenology, neuroscience and developmental psychology, exploring patterned interactions in shared social situations. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007109
- ISBN
- 9780230007109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.18
€ 139.18
Hardback. Fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars address the question 'Can intellectual property rights be fair?' What differentiates intellectual from real property? Should libertarians or Rawlsians defend IP rights? What's wrong with free-riding? How can incentives be taken into account by theories of justice? Editor(s): Gosseries, Axel; Marciano, Alain; Strowel, Alain. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB; LNR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230007093
- ISBN
- 9780230007093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardback. That knowledge about the world and self is imparted through narrative is widely accepted; the techniques used to construct this knowledge have received less attention. This book uses a semiotic methodology to analyze works by Merleau-Ponty, Kierkegaard and Austin, and explore how conceptualizations of reality are formed through narrative strategy. Num Pages: 202 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230005327
- ISBN
- 9780230005327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardback. This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. The essays refine, develop or contest previous readings, and blur the distinction between liberal humanist and theoretical positions, suggesting negotiations between them. Editor(s): Rowe, Anne. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003446
- ISBN
- 9780230003446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60