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Physics & ontology

Paperback. This fully revised edition of this standard work on the philosophy of time and space includes two new chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, new material on dynamic time, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and time and consciousness, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844651917
ISBN
9781844651917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.14

paperback. This text examines what the concept of truth has come to mean in the philosophical tradition, what is wrong with many of the ways of conceiving truth and why philosophers refuse to confront squarely the question of the value of truth. Coverage spans from the pre-Socratics to the 1990s. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674910911
ISBN
9780674910911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.86

Hardback. The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century. This title presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147178
ISBN
9780691147178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 42.35

paperback. Editor(s): Laitinen, Arto; Ikaheimo, Heikki. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 cm. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Imprint Academic United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845400866
ISBN
9781845400866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.88

Hardback. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
V9780231052184
ISBN
9780231052184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.02
€ 112.30

Hardcover. Aristotle Metaphysica Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HPCA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1957
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Greek
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198145134
ISBN
9780198145134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.60

"Metaphysics: Books 7 to 10". Translator(s): Furth, Montgomery. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9780915145898
ISBN
9780915145898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.74

Paperback. "Metaphysics: Books 7 to 10". Translator(s): Furth, Montgomery. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
166
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780915145904
ISBN
9780915145904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.05

Paperback. Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the material. In this book, the author argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms. Editor(s): Lawson-Tancred, Hugh. Translator(s): Lawson-Tancred, Hugh. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446197
ISBN
9780140446197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. For Plato the soul was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. In 'De Anima', Plato's student, Aristotle sought to set out his theory of soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced a masterpiece of philosophical insight. Translator(s): Lawson-Tancred, Hugh. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140444711
ISBN
9780140444711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCB; HPJ; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 201 x 27. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141983844
ISBN
9780141983844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.37

paperback. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Imprint Academic United Kingdom
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845400903
ISBN
9781845400903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
Edition
74th Edition
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589661271
ISBN
9781589661271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.08

Paperback. Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPN; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335146
ISBN
9780822335146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.60

Hardback. This collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging 'materialist landscape. Editor(s): Radman, Andrej; Sohn, Heidi. Series: New Materialisms. Num Pages: 328 pages, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA; HPJ; HPN; HPS; PDA; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474421119
ISBN
9781474421119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.33
€ 119.62

Paperback. What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. This title explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDZ; PSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300171525
ISBN
9780300171525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.86

Hardcover. How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong? Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm this skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a ratio-nal capacity. In this book, she develops a metaphysics of the mind as existing through knowledge of itself. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 244 x 27. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674416116
ISBN
9780674416116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.20

paperback. Finding Zero is an adventure-filled saga of Amir Aczel's lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals. Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty texts, cross examining scholars who offered wildly differing sets of facts, and ultimately penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof. Num Pages: 256 pages, black and white photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Condition
New
SKU
9781250084910
ISBN
9781250084910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. Canadian poet links cosmology, mythology, and the human heart in a range of poetic forms. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; HPJ; PDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120912
ISBN
9781772120912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.88

Paperback. * A collection of original papers by philosophers whose work is at the forefront of debate about the relevance of substantial metaphysical theories to science. * Responds in particular to recent publications by Brian Ellis on scientific essentialism, especially on the topics of laws, natural kinds and realism. Editor(s): Drewery, Alice. Series: Ratio Special Issues. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405145145
ISBN
9781405145145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.69

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