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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
€ 228.09
€ 228.09
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
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
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.50
€ 17.99
€ 14.50
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
Hardback. Ancient metaphysics and contemporary continental realism have a key goal in common: to investigate how beings exists outside of the descriptions placed on them by language, consciousness, texts and society.This volume addresses the encounters between contemporary and antique philosophies. Editor(s): Greenstine, Abraham Jacob; Johnson, Ryan J. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474412094
- ISBN
- 9781474412094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.33€ 118.95
€ 124.33
€ 118.95
Paperback. Adam Morton argues that any account of evil must help us understand three things: why evil occurs; why it often arises out of banal or everyday situations; and what we mean by evil. Using a wide variety of examples, he argues that evil occurs when internal, mental barriers against it break down. Series: Thinking in Action. Num Pages: 168 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415305198
- ISBN
- 9780415305198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.50
€ 31.99
€ 30.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; UY. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781350027473
- ISBN
- 9781350027473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.02
€ 57.02
Hardback. A new moral theory from an Israeli philosopher and activist emphasizing the existential and political nature of evil. Translator(s): Mazali, Rela; Carel, Havi. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1089.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Edition
- First Edition (1st printing),
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951511
- ISBN
- 9781890951511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.61
€ 46.99
€ 33.61
Hardcover. A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting field. Editor(s): Bardon, Adrian; Dyke, Heather. Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 596 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 173 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1190.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470658819
- ISBN
- 9780470658819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 239.32
€ 239.32
Paperback. A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting field. Editor(s): Bardon, Adrian; Dyke, Heather. Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 600 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 172 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1006.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781119145691
- ISBN
- 9781119145691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.07
€ 64.07
Hardback. Translator(s): Bartlett, A. J.; Ling, Alex. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441189240
- ISBN
- 9781441189240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 41.67
€ 53.29
€ 41.67
Paperback. Translator(s): Bartlett, A. J.; Bartlett, Adam; Clemens, Justin. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474275538
- ISBN
- 9781474275538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.68
€ 19.99
€ 19.68
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
€ 30.69
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
€ 23.99
€ 17.88
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
€ 19.99
€ 15.16
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
€ 45.99
€ 38.20
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
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.86
€ 34.99
€ 25.86
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
€ 124.33
€ 119.62
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
€ 30.99
€ 27.60
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
€ 15.99
€ 14.08