Physics & ontology
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Physics & ontology
Hardback. Examining the case for and against the belief in personal survival of bodily death, this text discusses philosophical questions, such as: Is a "next world" conceivable? It also examines arguments for the immortality of the soul, and focuses on types of prima facie evidence of survival. Series: Library of Philosophy and Religion. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333616338
- ISBN
- 9780333616338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Paperback. This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's storied career. Num Pages: 404 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCF5; HPJ; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199992928
- ISBN
- 9780199992928
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Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research. Editor(s): Hawthorne, John; Turner, Jason. Series: Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume. Num Pages: 300 pages, figures. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118330852
- ISBN
- 9781118330852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.75
€ 62.75
Paperback. Contains papers from a conference on realism and relativism. This title includes fifteen substantial papers by leading figures, who have contributed papers representative of their work. Editor(s): Sosa, Ernest; Villanueva, Enrique. Series: Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Volume 12
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631233848
- ISBN
- 9780631233848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.58
€ 51.58
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
€ 25.76
€ 25.76
Paperback. Students of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as wishful thinking, bad faith, and false consciousness. The book has six sections, each exploring self-deception and related phenomena from a different perspective. Editor(s): McLaughlin, Brian P.; Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg. Series: Topics in Philosophy. Num Pages: 568 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 230 x 35. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520061231
- ISBN
- 9780520061231
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.94
€ 45.99
€ 32.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 164 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631134329
- ISBN
- 9780631134329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.93
€ 50.93
Hardcover. Peirce and Biosemiotics Editor(s): Romanini, Vinicius; Fernandez, Eliseo. Series: Biosemiotics. Num Pages: 262 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400777316
- ISBN
- 9789400777316
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.89
€ 202.89
Hardcover. Paul Tillich's Philosophical Theology takes up the challenge as to whether his thought remains relevant fifty years after his death. In opposition to those who believe that his writings have little to say to us today, this book argues that his thought is largely exemplary of open theological engagement with the contemporary intellectual situation. Num Pages: 126 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454461
- ISBN
- 9781137454461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
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. Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture, and he draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PHR. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198793335
- ISBN
- 9780198793335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.43
€ 115.43
Paperback. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it. Editor(s): Bennett, Karen; Zimmerman, Dean W. Series: Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198729259
- ISBN
- 9780198729259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing. Editor(s): Bradley, Ben; Feldman, Fred; Johansson, Jens. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ; HPS; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 172 x 31. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190271459
- ISBN
- 9780190271459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.77
€ 77.77
Paperback. In Oppositions and Paradoxes, John L. Bell uses conceptual puzzles and paradoxes as a window into fundamental concepts of mathematics and physics. Num Pages: 170 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PBB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554813025
- ISBN
- 9781554813025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 35.64
€ 48.99
€ 35.64
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850362268
- ISBN
- 9780850362268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54
Hardback. Features the essays that examine philosophical issues concerning the concepts of poesis and praxis relevant to Marx's ideas of production. Translator(s): Haver, William. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351641
- ISBN
- 9780822351641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
Paperback. Three Essays. Series: Asia-Pacific. 224 pages. Features the essays that examine philosophical issues concerning the concepts of poesis and praxis relevant to Marx's ideas of production. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 8. Weight: 306. Translator(s): Haver, William.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351801
- ISBN
- 9780822351801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.17
€ 26.99
€ 25.17
Hardback. The first book in English to offer an extended comparative analysis of Heidegger and Deleuze. Those familiar with Heidegger's and Deleuze's thinking will find a detailed, well-researched book that comes to an innovative conclusion, while those new to both will find a clear, well-written exposition of their key concepts. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404558
- ISBN
- 9781137404558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF7; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487363
- ISBN
- 9781349487363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.88
€ 65.88