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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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 498
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363194
- ISBN
- 9780792363194
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Condition: New
€ 250.20
€ 250.20
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.
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- 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
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€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardback. Human agency has rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality, persons, and society, and juridical rules. These papers ask what roles are played by social rules and the structural traits of human agency in rational decision making and practical rationality? Editor(s): Nida-Rumelin, Julian; Spohn, Wolfgang. Series: Theory and Decision Library A:. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363262
- ISBN
- 9780792363262
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€ 127.52
€ 127.52
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363644
- ISBN
- 9780792363644
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Condition: New
€ 127.52
€ 127.52
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363712
- ISBN
- 9780792363712
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€ 128.21
€ 128.21
Hardback. Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. This collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1250.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364085
- ISBN
- 9780792364085
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€ 128.32
€ 128.32
Hardback. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 327 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 642.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 327
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364245
- ISBN
- 9780792364245
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€ 191.23
€ 191.23
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364436
- ISBN
- 9780792364436
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Condition: New
€ 192.95
€ 192.95
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364641
- ISBN
- 9780792364641
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Condition: New
€ 67.80
€ 67.80
Hardback. Features a methodology for automated deduction in non-classical logics. In this book, the methodology is applied to a range of non-classical systems, covering intuitionistic, intermediate, modal and substructural logics. It can also be used as an introduction to these logical systems from a procedural perspective. Series: Applied Logic Series. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PBCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364733
- ISBN
- 9780792364733
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Condition: New
€ 128.59
€ 128.59
Hardback. Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled. This text reveals Machiavelli's legacy to modernity as the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between the demands of freedom and the imperatives of morality. Series: Topoi Library. Num Pages: 355 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 698.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365334
- ISBN
- 9780792365334
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Condition: New
€ 194.32
€ 194.32
Hardback. Offers a theory of the structure of reasoning used in fear and threat appeal argumentation. This book is suitable for professionals and students in law, critical thinking, advertising, speech communication, informal logic, cognitive science, rhetoric, and media studies. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365433
- ISBN
- 9780792365433
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Condition: New
€ 127.74
€ 127.74
Hardback. Contains historical case studies, contributions, and applications to specific sciences. These papers illustrate the variety of functions of metaphors and analogies, as well as the many connections between the study of some of these functions and other subjects and disciplines. Editor(s): Hallyn, Fernand. Series: Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792365600
- ISBN
- 9780792365600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.15
€ 128.15
Hardback. Temporality has been a central issue in phenomenology since its inception. The authors of the essays collected in this volume continue that tradition, challenging, expanding, and deepening it and aim to show how invaluable phenomenology is for the investigation of time's many faces. Editor(s): Brough, John Barnett; Embree, Lester. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366225
- ISBN
- 9780792366225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.21
€ 128.21
Hardback. No theory is more passionately defined, or decried, than is liberalism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. But what is this theory, on which so much ink is spilled? This collection of original essays offers answers to that question, by exploring the theoretical commitments of liberals and some of the practical implications of their view. Editor(s): Narveson, Jan; Dimock, Susan. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 34
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366409
- ISBN
- 9780792366409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.89
€ 127.89
Hardback. Presents for English readers, three of Blondel's most important articles: "Idealist Illusion" (1898), "The Elementary Principle of a Logic of the Moral Life" (1903), and "The Starting Point of Philosophy" (1906). They offer evidence for and explain the nature of the pragmatism in Blondel's thought Series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion. Num Pages: 156 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366546
- ISBN
- 9780792366546
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Condition: New
€ 126.61
€ 126.61
Hardback. Provides a philosophically informed examination of the concept of time in relativity. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366683
- ISBN
- 9780792366683
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Condition: New
€ 224.90
€ 224.90
Hardback. Presents central topics in medieval logic. This book looks at the role of logical consistence in medieval disputation techniques. Editor(s): Yrjonsuuri, Mikko. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1190.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366744
- ISBN
- 9780792366744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.07
€ 128.07
Hardback. Philosophy has often self-consciously presented itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such. This book contains a series of examples of philosophy, venturing into quantum mechanics and political theory, psychoanalysis and environmental ethics, philosophy of language and sociology. Series: Topoi Library. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1090.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367024
- ISBN
- 9780792367024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardback. Die Konstitution von Natur und Geist und die Klarung ihres Verhaltnisses zueinander als Seins- und als Wissenschaftsregionen bildet eines der Hauptthemen von Husserls Philosophie. Series: Husserliana: Edmund Husserl - Gesammelte Werke. Num Pages: 428 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792367147
- ISBN
- 9780792367147
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 333.84
€ 333.84