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Physics & ontology
Hardcover. Brings together essays by leading theologians and philosophers on the fundamental importance of human reason and philosophy for Catholic theology and human cultures generally. This edited collection studies the contributions of reason, with its acquired wisdom, science, and scholarship, in five sections. Editor(s): Lamb, Fr. Matthew L. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPJ; HRCC7; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813228396
- ISBN
- 9780813228396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.97
€ 81.97
Hardcover. This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie. Topics covered include the role of narrative thinking in our lives, the nature of our imaginative engagement with fiction, the emotions and their role in motivating action, and the nature of conceptual art. Editor(s): Dodd, Julian. Series: Mind Association Occasional Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPM; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198769736
- ISBN
- 9780198769736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.45
€ 121.45
The Wave Function. Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics.
. Ed(S): Albert, David; Ney, Alyssa
Paperback. This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? What is the nature of the fundamental space (or space-time manifold) of quantum mechanics? Editor(s): Albert, David; Ney, Alyssa. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199790548
- ISBN
- 9780199790548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.20
€ 69.20
Hardback. This text presents: a reconstruction of Brentano's life and contributions to philosophy; separate studies of Brentano's most important students (von Ehrenfels, Husserl, Marty, Meinong, Stumpf, and Twardowski); separate studies of the main philosophical problems or areas of Brentano's writing. Editor(s): Albertazzi, Liliana; Libardi, M. (Centro Studi per la Filosofia Mitteleuropea Trento, Italy); Poli, Dr. Roberto. Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 495 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 866.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 495
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792337669
- ISBN
- 9780792337669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 335.43
€ 335.43
Hardback. Editor(s): Bilimoria, Professor Purushottama; Hemmingsen, Michael. Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; HPD; HPJ; HPL; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319178721
- ISBN
- 9783319178721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.07
€ 68.07
hardcover. Aim's to give a working representation of metaphysics. This work reveals the roots of metaphysical themes and how the methods are linked to their Aristotelian and Leibnizian past. It is useful for any researcher in metaphysics, and PhD student with ontological interests. Editor(s): Bottani, Andrea Clemente; Massimiliano, Carrara; Giaretta, Pierdaniele. Series: Topoi Library. Num Pages: 501 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 906.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 501
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- SKU
- V9781402005480
- ISBN
- 9781402005480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 250.28
€ 250.28
Paperback. This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing. Editor(s): Bradley, Ben; Feldman, Fred; Johansson, Jens. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ; HPS; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 172 x 31. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190271459
- ISBN
- 9780190271459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.32
€ 74.32
Paperback. The book collects previously published articles on fatalism and the relationship between divine foreknolwedge and human freedom and includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. Editor(s): Fischer, John Martin; Todd, Patrick. Num Pages: 416 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 248 x 27. Weight in Grams: 548.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199942411
- ISBN
- 9780199942411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.05
€ 67.05
Hardback. Explores the key aspects of the transmission of learning and the transformation of thought from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. Focusing on the topics in early modern metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory, this work views developments in the early modern period against the backdrop of late-medieval scholasticism. Editor(s): Friedman, Russell L. (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Nielsen, Lauge O. (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 349 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HPJ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 349
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402016318
- ISBN
- 9781402016318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.97
€ 193.97
Hardback. The Volume 10 of the "Handbook of Philosophical Logic" first published in the period 1983-1989, this title is a reference work to both students and researchers in formal philosophy, language and logic. Editor(s): Gabbay, D. M.; Guenthner, Franz. Series: Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Num Pages: 348 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402016448
- ISBN
- 9781402016448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.89
€ 193.89
The contents of linguistic and mental representations may seem to be individuated by what they are about. But a problem arises with regard to representation of the non-existent - words and thoughts that are about things that don't exist. Fourteen new essays get to grips with this much-debated problem. Editor(s): Garcia-Carpintero, Manuel; Marti, Genoveva. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPL; HPM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199647057
- ISBN
- 9780199647057
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.41
€ 135.41
hardcover. Jaap Mansfeld and Frans de Haas bring together in this volume a distinguished international team of ancient philosophers, presenting a systematic, chapter-by-chapter study of one of the key texts in Aristotle's science and metaphysics: the first book of On Generation and Corruption. Editor(s): Haas, Frans de; Mansfeld, Jaap. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 687.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780199242924
- ISBN
- 9780199242924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 217.03
€ 217.03
Hardback. Provides an English translation of "Lectura" I 39, a key text of the medieval theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus, together with an introduction and a commentary. Scotus was the first scholar to develop a consistent analysis of the basic Christian notions of "contingency" and "freedom". Editor(s): Jaczn, Anthonie Vos; Veldhuis, Henri; Looman-Graaskamp, Aline H.; Dekker, E.; Bok, Nico W. den. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792327073
- ISBN
- 9780792327073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
This volume presents twelve original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some critical, on constructivist understandings - Kantian or otherwise - of morality and reason. Editor(s): Lenman, James; Shemmer, Yonatan. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199609833
- ISBN
- 9780199609833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.32
€ 148.32
Hardback. While earlier research considered Simone de Beauvoir in the perspectives of Existentialism or Feminism, this work emphasizes her reflective and descriptive approach and the full range of issues she addresses. It provides insight into collective as well as individual human life. Editor(s): O'Brien, Wendy; Embree, Lester. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370642
- ISBN
- 9780792370642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.52
€ 128.52
Hardback. This volume aims to illustrate that through the application of formal methods the ancient discipline of ontology may be put on a firm methodological basis. The essays illuminate the nature of ontology and its relation to other areas, in language, logic and everyday life. Editor(s): Poli, Dr. Roberto; Simons, Peter. Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792341048
- ISBN
- 9780792341048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.10
€ 193.10
Paperback. Papers by leading figures on metaphysical issues pertaining to epistemology. Topics treated include the metaphysics of perception and of experience, disjunctivism, content externalism, epistemic abilities, the lottery paradox, the epistemology of consciousness, the metaphysics of knowledge as a state, and the ontology of reasons. Editor(s): Sosa, Ernest; Villanueva, Enrique. Series: Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405182249
- ISBN
- 9781405182249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.86
€ 68.86
Paperback. Editor(s): Valentina, Tamma; Cranefield, Stephen; Finin, Timothy W.; Willmott, Steven. Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; U. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764372378
- ISBN
- 9783764372378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.28
€ 82.28
Paperback. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? The author tracks historical ideas of friendship, gathers a diversity of friendship stories from the annals of myth and literature, and provides unexpected insights into our friends, ourselves, and the role of friendships in an ethical life. Series: Vices and Virtues. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; JFFP; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300205367
- ISBN
- 9780300205367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.44
€ 17.99
€ 14.44
Paperback. This book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes and provides a compelling case for why metaphysics matters. Series: The Evolution of Modern Philosophy. Num Pages: 692 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 500
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521616553
- ISBN
- 9780521616553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.03
€ 51.03