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Hardback. Consciousness has become a major topic of scientific interest. This book explains why consciousness is a riddle for science, and demonstrates how this riddle can be solved. It examines questions which speak directly to neuroscientists, computer scientists, psychologists, and philosophers. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792379362
- ISBN
- 9780792379362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.43
€ 132.43
Hardback. A collection of philosophical essays on the ethical dimensions of agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) crops. This book addresses such concerns as the possibility of genetic engineering producing unanticipated allergens in previously safe foods, unexpectedly toxic health supplements, and novel GM diseases. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSAD; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792379874
- ISBN
- 9780792379874
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Condition: New
€ 200.14
€ 200.14
Hardback. Addresses the issue of ethics and real estate from a variety of perspectives. This book features chapters divided into five sections including: policy issues; industry practice; environmental issues; and, ethical issues involving tenants. It offers a point for considering the interaction of ethical issues in real estate theory and practice. Editor(s): Roulac, Stephen E. Series: Research Issues in Real Estate. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KFFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 669.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792382287
- ISBN
- 9780792382287
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.86
€ 200.86
Hardback. Addresses different facets of the globalization of business. This title is suitable both for the student of business ethics, as well as for those who want to explore the interrelationship between business, ethics, and religion in order to discover how collaboration between people in these three fields can contribute to a more just society. Editor(s): Minus, Paul M. Series: Issues in Business Ethics. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792393344
- ISBN
- 9780792393344
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Condition: New
€ 132.11
€ 132.11
Hardcover. The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argues for a simple care ethical slogan: dependency relationships generate responsibilities. It uses this slogan to unify, specify and justify the wide range of views found within the care ethical literature. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFF; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137011442
- ISBN
- 9781137011442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.44
€ 160.44
Hardcover. In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137012258
- ISBN
- 9781137012258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Remembering 9/11 recalls the afterlife of the tragedy and the shock that led many to ask 'why do they hate us so much?' Engaging with the different voices that attempted to make sense of the trauma, Seidler traces the narratives of fear, loss and vulnerability and the ways in which they evolved into feelings of rage and retribution. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137017680
- ISBN
- 9781137017680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71
Hardcover. How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why they differ and why they change. Series: Consumption and Public Life. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFCD; JFFT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137022493
- ISBN
- 9781137022493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Epistemic Reasoning and the Mental integrates the epistemology of reasoning and philosophy of mind. By examining the fundamental competencies involved in reasoning, Gerken argues that reasoning depends on the external environment in ways that are both surprising and epistemologically important. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 355 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025517
- ISBN
- 9781137025517
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Condition: New
€ 68.00
€ 68.00
Hardcover. Treating David Hume as a partner in a continuing philosophical dialogue, this book tries to come to terms with Hume's influential thoughts on scepticism and naturalism in a way that sheds light on contemporary philosophy and its relationship to science. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137025548
- ISBN
- 9781137025548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. According to a long tradition, questions about the nature of knowledge are to be answered by analyzing it as a species of true belief. In light of the apparent failure of this approach, knowledge first philosophy takes knowledge as the starting point in epistemology. Knowledge First? offers the first overview of this approach. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026453
- ISBN
- 9781137026453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.00
€ 127.00
Hardcover. A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137026637
- ISBN
- 9781137026637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardcover. By exploring the concepts of 'crisis' and 'critique', this study offers a thought-provoking re-examination of the political and social thought of Cornelius Castoriadis in light of the current world crisis and with regard to his radical critique of both the traditional Left and contemporary capitalist societies. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA; JPA; JPFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034458
- ISBN
- 9781137034458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
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
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
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
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
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
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
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
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
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
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
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
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
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
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
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.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301048
- ISBN
- 9781137301048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
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
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
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
€ 151.22
€ 151.22
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
€ 128.05
€ 128.05