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Physics & ontology

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Physics & ontology

Paperback. Explicates Descartes's aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism. This text includes discussion of central differences from, and similarities with the scholastics and how these discriminations affected Descartes's defence of body. Num Pages: 304 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009684
ISBN
9780674009684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. What is the meaning of 'being' - or, rather, 'existence' - and how does that concept relate to the totality of what there is? This title presents an ontology based on the concept of fields of sense. Series: Speculative Realism. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692897
ISBN
9780748692897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.72

Paperback. Marina Warner's study of the products of fantasy deepens our understanding of the supernatural in relation to self and society. This surprising story explores the metaphors and media that have been the stock in trade of poets, scientists, magicians, and visionaries, including wax and cloud, smoke and mirrors, ether, ectoplasm, and celluloid. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8pp color plates, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HPJ; HRQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 742.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199239238
ISBN
9780199239238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.90

Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199917648
ISBN
9780199917648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.64

Paperback. Suitable for moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and those who reflect seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another, this title brings together the essays that reexamine evil in the context of a 'postmetaphysical' world. Editor(s): Lara, Maria Pia. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520226340
ISBN
9780520226340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.73

Hardcover. Brings Deleuze and Guattari's work into conversation with the philosophy of nature. As the spatial orientation of the philosophy of nature is critiqued, this book shows that a philosophy of time is a more adequate guide to nature. It reformulates the philosophy of nature in terms of time and technology. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748691579
ISBN
9780748691579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.49
€ 107.92

Paperback. .
Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
125
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447141853
ISBN
9781447141853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.19
€ 22.84

hardcover. Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. In addition, mathematicians regard some proofs as explaining why the theorems being proved do in fact hold. This book proposes new philosophical accounts of many kinds of non-causal explanations in science and mathematics. Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 512 pages, 56. BIC Classification: HPJ; PBB; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 182 x 39. Weight in Grams: 826.
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Publication date
2016
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780190269487
ISBN
9780190269487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.14

Paperback. Examines arguments for belief in God and finds them all untenable. This book lays down reasons for atheism. It looks at the differences between agnosticism and atheism, and explores the common criticism that atheists dismiss the wrong god. It clarifies why proofs for God fail. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HRAB; HRQA5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Broadview Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551119625
ISBN
9781551119625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 40.39

Paperback. Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects.' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of causal relationships, the asymmetry of cause and effect, and necessary connection, and it relates causation to functional and statistical laws and to teleology. Series: Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy. Num Pages: 340 pages, diagrams. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198246428
ISBN
9780198246428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

Hardback. M C Dillon (1938-2005) was widely regarded as a world-leading Merleau-Ponty scholar. This book offers a highly original interpretation of Nietzsche's ontology of becoming. It also offers a ethical theory based on Merleau-Ponty's account of carnal intersubjectivity. Editor(s): Hass, Lawrence. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821419991
ISBN
9780821419991
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.77

paperback. Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138989825
ISBN
9781138989825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.11

Paperback. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319392219
ISBN
9783319392219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.50

Paperback. * Outstanding contributors including both long--established and younger writers * Specially--commissioned essays* Wide ranging discussions stemming from the work of David Wiggins and his contribution to philosophy* Contains Wigginsa replies to each of the papers thus offering a guide to his present thinking. . Editor(s): Lovibond, Sabina; Williams, S. G. Series: Aristotelian Society Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220688
ISBN
9780631220688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.62

Paperback. This volume presents an introduction to 20 core areas of philosophical logic including classical logic, modal logic, alternative logics and close examinations of key logical concepts. It should engage both the general reader and experienced logician and provide a foundation for further study. Editor(s): Goble, Lou. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Num Pages: 520 pages, 5. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 176 x 28. Weight in Grams: 868.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631206934
ISBN
9780631206934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.92

Paperback. What sort of interaction is there between, for example, slow-moving objects like climate and comparatively fast-moving objects like governments? Using real-world examples, the author shows how a networked concept of space and time is at the heart of our central political concerns. Series: Speculative Realism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b&w line art illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748679973
ISBN
9780748679973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.08

Paperback. With this text, Leszek Kolakowski demonstrates that no matter how hard man strives for purely rational thought, there has always been - and always will be - a resevoir of mythical images that lend "being" and "consciousness" a specifically human meaning. Translator(s): Czerniawski, Adam. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226450575
ISBN
9780226450575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

Paperback. Series: Incitements. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 191 x 25. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474418256
ISBN
9781474418256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. Series: Forms of Living. Num Pages: 472 pages, 448 color illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 231 x 42. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823269419
ISBN
9780823269419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

Hardback. Martin Heidegger is among the most important philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Within the continental tradition, almost every great figure has been deeply influenced by his work. For this reason, a full understanding of the course of modern philosophy is impossible without at least a basic grasp of Heidegger. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745664910
ISBN
9780745664910
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.77

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