Physics & ontology
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Physics & ontology
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.
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- 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
€ 63.51
€ 63.51
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
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.87
€ 19.99
€ 19.87
Hardback. An analysis and discussion of the nature of time and eternity, focusing on the timelessness of God. After considering two theories of time in the light of modern science and philosophy, the author argues for a "process" notion of time. Series: Library of Philosophy and Religion. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333563199
- ISBN
- 9780333563199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPDF; HPJ; HRAB; HREZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543493
- ISBN
- 9781137543493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.67
€ 105.67
Paperback. The first edition of this book introduced a coherence theory of law that influenced the development of non-monotonic logics for the analysis of legal reasoning. This edition contains a new Introduction that fully explores that development. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPL; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402097065
- ISBN
- 9781402097065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 254.22
€ 254.22
Hardback. To understand the role of time within the scope of 20th century ontology, after the fundamental works of E Husserl, M Heidegger, P Ricoeur, and E Levinas, means to develop simultaneously the ontology of time. This book aims to demonstrate that in a definite sense the postmodern onto-logy is chrono-logy. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1150.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402006821
- ISBN
- 9781402006821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.38
€ 132.38
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.
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- 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
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Condition: New
€ 30.87
€ 30.87
Hardcover. Addressing contemporary interest in the relationship between metaphysics Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813219653
- ISBN
- 9780813219653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.77
€ 85.77
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
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.86
€ 23.99
€ 17.86
Paperback. A collection of new essays by young scholars on the cutting edge of this ancient philosophical area. Diverse topics, including ontology, free will, fundamental properties, and causation, the volume will appeal both to specialists and to anyone interested in the present and future state of metaphysics in the English-speaking world. Editor(s): Hazlett, Allan. Series: New Waves in Philosophy. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222335
- ISBN
- 9780230222335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.89
€ 44.99
€ 37.89
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€ 25.93
€ 34.99
€ 25.93
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
€ 129.55€ 119.92
€ 129.55
€ 119.92
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
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.68
€ 29.99
€ 27.68
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
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.15
€ 15.99
€ 14.15
Paperback. This text aims to recover the ancient philosophical ideal of self-knowledge, in the context of our historical situation. It considers and rejects claims that we can attain self-knowledge through theory, anti-theory, or narrative and defends philosophy as a humanist rather than scientific, endeavor. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847684182
- ISBN
- 9780847684182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardback. Focuses on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across particular subject-specific ontological domains, investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power's relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation. Editor(s): Marmodoro, Anna. Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics. Num Pages: 204 pages, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415876858
- ISBN
- 9780415876858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.87
€ 193.87
Hardback. Attempts to approach and deal with some of the basic problems for a theory of tropes. This book proceeds from three basic assumptions: tropes exist, only tropes exist, and, that the main-function for tropes is to serve as truth-makers for atomic propositions. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1030.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402006562
- ISBN
- 9781402006562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.57
€ 131.57
Hardback. The nature of life consists in a constructive becoming. This selection of studies envisages life in the Aristotelian perspective in which energia, forces, and dynamisms of life at work are at the fore. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 432 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 769.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402006272
- ISBN
- 9781402006272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 257.61
€ 257.61