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Hardcover. In the first full length examination of the topic, Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive contribution to how we might understand citizenship today. Leading international scholars bring together theory and practice to explore its historical roots, contemporary relevance and application to international politics. Editor(s): Brooks, Dr. Thom. Series: Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; LNDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 171 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329950
- ISBN
- 9781137329950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. Human Agency and Neural Causes provides an analysis of our everyday thought about our conduct, and the neuroscience research concerning voluntary agency. J.D. Runyan argues that our findings through neuroscience are consistent with what would be expected if we are, in fact, voluntary agents. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JML; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329486
- ISBN
- 9781137329486
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Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardcover. This book uses rare pathologies to inform questions on topics such as consciousness and rationality. Rather than trying to answer these by inventing far-fetched scenario or 'thought experiments', it is better to utilize a rich but under-used clinical resource. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137329318
- ISBN
- 9781137329318
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Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Of the two kinds of philosophical questions - epistemic and ethical - raised by the public debate about climate change, professional philosophers have dealt almost exclusively with the ethical. This book is the first to address both and examine the relationship between them. Num Pages: 130 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326270
- ISBN
- 9781137326270
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardback. As thinkers in the market for knowledge and agents aspiring to morally responsible action, we are inevitably subject to luck. This book presents a comprehensive new theory of luck in light of a critical appraisal of the literature's leading accounts, then brings this new theory to bear on issues in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of action. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326096
- ISBN
- 9781137326096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Thinking about Religion examines cutting-edge breakthroughs from across the sciences concluding that religion persists because the mind is primed for faith, ready to grasp and fiercely defend beliefs that make sense but defy logic. Series Editor(s): Wielenberg, Erik J.; Nagasawa, Yujin. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324740
- ISBN
- 9781137324740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardback. The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical political philosophy. Editor(s): Yaffe, Martin D.; Ruderman, Richard S. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 330 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HPS; JPA; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137324382
- ISBN
- 9781137324382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.84
€ 128.84
Hardcover. Shaw addresses the 'ethical turn' in contemporary sociological thinking, by exploring the contribution of sociology and the social sciences to bioethical debates about morality and tissue exchange practices. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137312587
- ISBN
- 9781137312587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin, by negating the Leninist-Stalinist theory of dialectical materialism and tracing Marx's political philosophy to the Classical Humanism of Aristotle, overthrows the stultifying entrapment of Stalinist Bolshevism and contributes to the revitalization of Marx's method. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTK; HBTV; HPS; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137309259
- ISBN
- 9781137309259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Hardcover. When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and the social sciences. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JFM; JHBA; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308795
- ISBN
- 9781137308795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GT; HPK; JNA; JNM; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303011
- ISBN
- 9781137303011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.62
€ 82.62
Hardcover. This exploration of Hegel's critique of the individualistic ethos of modernity and the genesis of his alternative vision traces the conceptual schemes Hegel experimented with to show how he settled on the concepts of 'ethical life' (Sittlichkeit) and Spirit as the means for overcoming subjectivity and domination. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302120
- ISBN
- 9781137302120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche revive an ancient approach to ethics that evaluates different ways of life considered as a whole. Comparing and contrasting their respective ideals of faith and individual sovereignty, this work reveals a valuable new path for contemporary ethics. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 174 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302090
- ISBN
- 9781137302090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.19
€ 151.19
Hardcover. This systematic and historical treatment of Russell's contributions to analytic philosophy, from his embrace of analysis in 1898 to his landmark theory of descriptions in 1905, draws important connections between his philosophically motivated conception of analysis and the technical apparatus he devised to facilitate analyses in mathematics Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPL; PBB; PBCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302069
- ISBN
- 9781137302069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. In a lively and subversive analysis, psychologist John Lambie explains how to see another person's point of view while remaining critical - in other words how to be 'critically open-minded'. Using entertaining examples from history and psychology, Lambie explores the implications of critical open-mindedness for scientific and moral progress. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 figures, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JMH; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301048
- ISBN
- 9781137301048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This book searches for the origins of modern thinking in one of the best-known stories of our cultural heritage. By applying institutional and constitutional economics to biblical interpretation, it uses new approach to reconstruct the Paradise story. The author challenges the old conceptual dualism between economics and theology/philosophy. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137287694
- ISBN
- 9781137287694
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Paperback. Philosophy of mind is one of the core disciplines in philosophy. The questions that it deals with are profound, vexed and intriguing. This volume of 15 new cutting-edge essays gives young researchers a chance to stir up new ideas. The topics covered include the nature of consciousness, cognition, and action. Editor(s): Sprevak, Mark; Kallestrup, Jesper. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137286727
- ISBN
- 9781137286727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
hardcover. Philosophy of mind is one of the core disciplines in philosophy. The questions that it deals with are profound, vexed and intriguing. This volume of 15 new cutting-edge essays gives young researchers a chance to stir up new ideas. The topics covered include the nature of consciousness, cognition, and action. Editor(s): Sprevak, Mark; Kallestrup, Jesper. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137286710
- ISBN
- 9781137286710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.69
€ 128.69
hardcover. This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281814
- ISBN
- 9781137281814
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible. It investigates how psychologists, philosophers and literary artists worked to articulate its causes, and its potential cures. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; HPM; JMTD; MMZS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268730
- ISBN
- 9781137268730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Based on an insightful and innovative reading of Kant's theory of knowledge, this book explores the political implications of Kant's philosophical writings on knowledge. It suggests that Kant offers a stable foundation for the reconsideration of the idea of progress as crucial in matters of political management at the outset of the 21st Century. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137264374
- ISBN
- 9781137264374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.53
€ 67.53
Hardcover. In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263537
- ISBN
- 9781137263537
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. What is depiction? A new answer is given to this venerable question by providing a syncretistic theory of depiction that tries to combine the merits of the previous theories on the matter while dropping their defects. Thus, not only perceptual, but also both conventional and causal factors contribute in making something a picture of something else. Num Pages: 284 pages, 67. BIC Classification: ABA; HPM; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263285
- ISBN
- 9781137263285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the question of how the communities within which justice applies are constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem, arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of 'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of distributive and commutative justice. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263247
- ISBN
- 9781137263247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03