Physics & ontology
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Physics & ontology
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
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€ 33.99€ 28.52
€ 33.99
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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
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€ 45.99€ 37.89
€ 45.99
€ 37.89
Paperback. Contains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. This title is suitable for students of Heidegger and Hegel and of contemporary Continental philosophy. Translator(s): Emad, Parvis; Maly, Kenneth. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253209108
- ISBN
- 9780253209108
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€ 23.99€ 20.76
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Paperback. Features a revised and expanded translators' introduction and an updated translation, as well as the English versions of author's draft of a portion of the text and of his later critique of his own lectures. Translator(s): Fried, Gregory; Polt, Professor Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300186123
- ISBN
- 9780300186123
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.85
€ 23.99
€ 17.85
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214294
- ISBN
- 9780253214294
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€ 27.99€ 24.07
€ 27.99
€ 24.07
Paperback. Heidegger's innovative dialogue with Kant's transcendental philosophy. Translator(s): Taft, Richard. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253210678
- ISBN
- 9780253210678
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€ 23.99€ 21.76
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Paperback. Includes Heidegger's lectures, which review and makes critical appropriations of the hermeneutic tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey in order to reformulate the question of being on the basis of facticity and the everyday world. Translator(s): Van Buren, John. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 247.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253220219
- ISBN
- 9780253220219
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€ 20.99€ 20.87
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Paperback. To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture, yet here Mary Midgley does so with her customary brilliance and clarity - to read Wickedness is to understand her reputation as one of the great moral philosophers. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415253987
- ISBN
- 9780415253987
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€ 19.99€ 19.52
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Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231156622
- ISBN
- 9780231156622
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. Are humans just complex biochemical machines, mere physical parts of a causally closed materialist universe? Are we approaching the so-called Singularity when human consciousness can (and will) be downloaded into computers? Or is there more to the human person something that might be known as soul or spirit? As this book makes clear, the .." Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. .
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718894924
- ISBN
- 9780718894924
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Condition: New
€ 52.50
€ 52.50
Paperback. Revises Foucault's late concept of the "ontology of actuality" into the project of an "ontological laboratory" thus reinventing philosophy as a pragmatic activity Translator(s): Davies, Richard. Series: Commonalities (FUP). Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, diagrams. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823249695
- ISBN
- 9780823249695
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Condition: New
€ 39.80
€ 39.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472595942
- ISBN
- 9781472595942
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Condition: New
€ 44.89
€ 44.89
Paperback. An analysis of the history and social role of mobile phones today (with an enhancement of their primary writing function) is followed by a proposal of a philosophical theory of objects, which is meant to be complementary to Searle's 'collective intentionality', that places writing at the basis of social reality. Translator(s): De Sanctis, Sarah. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256167
- ISBN
- 9780823256167
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€ 31.99€ 28.34
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Hardback. A discussion of the intersections between Aristotle's works: "Ethics" and "Metaphysics". It debates the ways in which - and even the extent to which - the two texts illuminate one another, examining Aristotle's methods and intellectualism, and analysing issues of matter, form, potency and act. Editor(s): Sim, May. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847679393
- ISBN
- 9780847679393
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Condition: New
€ 173.45
€ 173.45
paperback. Locke was originally published in two volumes, Epistemology and Ontology. This paperback edition has within its covers the full text of both volumes. Series: Arguments of the Philosophers. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HPC; HPJ; HPK; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1016.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 700
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415100304
- ISBN
- 9780415100304
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Condition: New
€ 71.11
€ 71.11
Paperback. Argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 2 Sub
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691011875
- ISBN
- 9780691011875
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Condition: New
€ 64.99€ 50.39
€ 64.99
€ 50.39
Paperback. In Truth and the Past, Dummett, best known as a proponent of antirealism, clarifies his current positions on the metaphysical issue of realism and the philosophy of language. His three John Dewey Lectures were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 166. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy S. 136 pages. In Truth and the Past, Dummett, best known as a proponent of antirealism, clarifies his current positions on the metaphysical issue of realism and the philosophy of language. His three John Dewey Lectures were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 7. Weight: 166.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231131773
- ISBN
- 9780231131773
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Condition: New
€ 26.00€ 22.10
€ 26.00
€ 22.10
Paperback. In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics.This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 278 pages, figures. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823250127
- ISBN
- 9780823250127
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.88
€ 34.99
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paperback. This text argues that Kant's continuing efforts to find a metaphysics that could provide a foundation for the sciences is vital for understanding the development of his philosophical thought, from its earliest beginnings in the thesis of 1747 to his last unpublished writings on the "Opus postumum". Num Pages: 378 pages, 8 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HPC; HPJ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780674500365
- ISBN
- 9780674500365
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Condition: New
€ 51.93€ 47.69
€ 51.93
€ 47.69
Paperback. Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138639348
- ISBN
- 9781138639348
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Condition: New
€ 59.64
€ 59.64