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Paperback. With Part I presenting a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition, and Part II taking up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics, this book is of interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 359 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Number of pages
359
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792330073
ISBN
9780792330073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 191.68

Hardback. This text offers a reappraisal of the reputation of Plato in England between 1423 and 1603. With a comprehensive survey of allusions to Plato, it shows that the English were far less interested in Plato than most historians have thought. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792330608
ISBN
9780792330608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.52

Hardback. Contains contributions to an international symposium that the Vienna Circle Institute held in October 1993 on ethics and social philosophy. This book contains papers which deal among others with questions of justice, equality, human rights, the connections between rationality and morality and the methodological problems of applied ethics. Editor(s): Pauer-Studer, Herlinde. Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792330714
ISBN
9780792330714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.12

Hardback. Sets out the foundations, methodology and practice of a formal framework for the description of language. The approach embraces the trends of lexicalism and compositional semantics in computational and theoretical linguistics by developing categorial grammar into a logic of signs. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792330950
ISBN
9780792330950
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.47

Hardback. What does it mean to say that one experience is synthesized with others? This book provides examination of synthesis in Husserl's major early work. It offers Husserl scholars a range of original interpretations, on issues ranging from closed and unclosed linguistic expressions, to indeterminacy of perspective, to the ego's return to itself. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792331056
ISBN
9780792331056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.68

Hardback. Containing contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of the study of mind, this book addresses such topics as: the place of a priori inquiry in philosophy of mind, moral psychology, consciousness, social dimensions of intentionality, relation of logic to philosophical psychology, objectivity and the mind, and privileged access. Editor(s): Murray, Michael J.; Hawthorne, John O'Leary. Series: Philosophical Studies S. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
335
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792331438
ISBN
9780792331438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.65

Hardback. Rescher offers an explanation of the presuppositions and methods of rational enquiry, and an exercise in metaknowledge, developing a systematic body of knowledge about the scope and limits of knowledge itself. Series: Episteme. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792331483
ISBN
9780792331483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.56

Hardback. Brings a collection of essays which offer a systematic account of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and contribute in an absolutely new and original way to illuminating his later conception of human perceptive, emotional and cognitive language from both a theoretical and an historical point of view. Editor(s): Egidi, Rosaria. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; PDA; PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792331711
ISBN
9780792331711
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.47

Hardback. Develops the concepts presented in "Surrender and Catch" (1976) and applied to sociology and its history in "Survival and Sociology" (1991) and autobiography in "O Loma!" (1989). This title explores how author's hypothesis of Surrender(-and-Catch) bears on aspects of autobiography (emigre status, field work), sociology of knowledge, and poetry. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 541.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792331780
ISBN
9780792331780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

Hardback. A critical reconstruction and exposition of G.E. Moore's indirect, sophisticated, and non-hedonistic form of utilitarianism - a neglected side of his ethical thought. The book places his normative ethics with respect to traditional utilitarianism, and assesses his case for consequentialism. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792332237
ISBN
9780792332237
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.37

paperback. Sets out the foundations, methodology and practice of a formal framework for the description of language. The approach embraces the trends of lexicalism and compositional semantics in computational and theoretical linguistics by developing categorial grammar into a logic of signs. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1020.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Number of pages
307
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792332268
ISBN
9780792332268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 190.99

Hardback. In relation to the problems faced, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question 'What is knowledge?'. This work deals with problems of knowing and believing, of the kinds and criteria of knowledge, of truth and fallibility, and of the cultural as well as individual factors in cognition. Editor(s): Kucuradi, Ioanna; Cohen, Robert S. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792332411
ISBN
9780792332411
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.22

Hardback. A study of the comprehensive examination of a problem: the basis of our knowledge that others have minds. It insists, against the received wisdom, that no theory of mind can avoid the problem or make it easier to solve. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 168 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 437.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792332459
ISBN
9780792332459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.68

Hardback. Suitable for philosophers in general, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students, this title offers an explanation of the origin of the Theory of Forms that is true both to the dialogues and to Plato's place in history. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792332756
ISBN
9780792332756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.68

Hardback. This volume marks a phase in the work of the World Phenomenology Institute in unfolding a dialogue between Occidental phenomenology and the Oriental/Chinese classic philosophy. It aims at reviving Occidental thinking, reaching to its intuitive sources. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792333739
ISBN
9780792333739
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.17

Hardback. Augustine's christianization of Plato and Thomas Aquinas' of Aristotle provided the two main foundations of medieval Judeo- Christian philosophy. This book shows that Greek scepticism played a similar role in the development of a major strand of modern religious thought. It is suitable for scholars interested in Pascal, Kierkegaard and Shestov. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792333814
ISBN
9780792333814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.36

Hardback. Includes a selection of papers presented at the international conference 'Applied Logic: Logic at Work', held in Amsterdam in December 1992. The papers in this work focus on the application of logic to the study of natural language, in syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and the effect of these studies on the development of logic. Editor(s): Polos, Laszlo; Masuch, Michael. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792334323
ISBN
9780792334323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.18

Paperback. Since 1979, when Richard Rorty's "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" appeared, there has been a flood of scholarship on the philosophy of John Dewey. Many of the authors of this collection are philosophers who have created some of the most original and influential work in this new scholarship. Editor(s): Garrison, Jim. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; JNA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
Reprinted from STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATIO
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792334460
ISBN
9780792334460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardback. Provides introductions to the subject from the points of view of mathematics, linguistics, and theoretical computer science. This book has been prepared in parallel with "Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation, Volume Two". It is useful for logicians, mathematicians, philosophers, linguists and computer scientists. Editor(s): Krynicki, Michal; Mostowski, Marcin (Department of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Poland). Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 424 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792334484
ISBN
9780792334484
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.83

Hardback. Contains twelve research papers devoted to generalized quantifiers and their applications. This volume offers a survey of logical methods that are useful in investigations involving generalized quantifiers. It represents model-theoretical and proof-theoretical approaches. Editor(s): Krynicki, Michal; Mostowski, Marcin (Department of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Poland); Szczerba, L.W. (Siedlce University, Poland). Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792334491
ISBN
9780792334491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.52

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