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Hardback. This text is an examination of what it means to say "No". Eva Brann considers the different forms "No" takes, such as a resistance of will or as a preventative measure or warning, and argues that to understand something of imagination, memory and time an inquiry should be made into what "No" means. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFD; CFG; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742512283
- ISBN
- 9780742512283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.29
€ 92.29
hardcover. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781474422772
- ISBN
- 9781474422772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.17
€ 143.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Collin, Finn; Jensen, Uffe Juul; Gron, Arne; Mikkelsen, Jorgen; Nordenbo, Sven-Erik; Koch, Carl Henrik. Series: Danish Yearbook of Philosophy. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: 1DND; GBCY; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772895437
- ISBN
- 9788772895437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.28
€ 38.99
€ 28.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages, 84 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 810.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783764319243
- ISBN
- 9783764319243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
The Wave Function. Essays on the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics.
. Ed(S): Albert, David; Ney, Alyssa
Paperback. This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? What is the nature of the fundamental space (or space-time manifold) of quantum mechanics? Editor(s): Albert, David; Ney, Alyssa. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199790548
- ISBN
- 9780199790548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.20
€ 69.20
Paperback. Many social scientists have sought to show that nature is not an eternal constant but an intrinsically unstable concept - a historical, cultural and social construct with powerful emotional, moral and political connotations. This book sets out to explore some of the implications of and lacunae in this push to 'denaturalise nature'. Editor(s): Roepstorff, Andreas; Bubandt, Nils. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 174 x 21. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772889450
- ISBN
- 9788772889450
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Condition: New
€ 16.51
€ 16.51
Hardback. * A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience. * Contains a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics. * Examines a wide range of ontological categories, including both particulars and universals. * Mounts a forceful and persuasive case for anti-reductionism. Series: Contemporary Philosophy S. Num Pages: 288 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631186946
- ISBN
- 9780631186946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.17
€ 136.17
Paperback. * Outstanding contributors including both long--established and younger writers * Specially--commissioned essays* Wide ranging discussions stemming from the work of David Wiggins and his contribution to philosophy* Contains Wigginsa replies to each of the papers thus offering a guide to his present thinking. . Editor(s): Lovibond, Sabina; Williams, S. G. Series: Aristotelian Society Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631220688
- ISBN
- 9780631220688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.20
€ 52.20
Hardback. Includes revisions to existing encyclopedic entries Features more than 30 all-new "A to Z" entries Offers a section of in-depth, essays from renowned metaphysicians Provides the most complete and up-to-date reference guide for students and professionals alike. . Editor(s): Kim, Jaegwon; Sosa, Ernest; Rosenkrantz, Gary S. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 180 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405152983
- ISBN
- 9781405152983
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Condition: New
€ 52.20
€ 52.20
Hardback. Finding biopolitics unable to adequately reveal the mechanisms of power that govern contemporary life, Elizabeth A. Povinelli offers "geontopower" as a new theory of power that operates through the regulation of clear distinctions between life and nonlife. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; JHMC; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822362111
- ISBN
- 9780822362111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Paperback. The first major study of the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001), not only a friend and student of Wittgenstein's but also in her own right one of the most important philosophers of recent times.Teichmann presents a unified overview of her substantial oeuvre, in particular bringing out the interconnections among her ideas. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCF5; HPJ; HPM; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199603350
- ISBN
- 9780199603350
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Condition: New
€ 58.61
€ 58.61
Paperback. Presents both a critical analysis of C S Peirce's conception of causation, and an approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. This book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of 'cause'. It uncovers the inadequacies in the received views of causation. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402009778
- ISBN
- 9781402009778
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Condition: New
€ 126.01
€ 126.01
Hardback. This book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask what changes in our present humanities debates about biopower and Animal Studies if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804795715
- ISBN
- 9780804795715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.35
€ 110.35
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442235755
- ISBN
- 9781442235755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.60
€ 126.60
Paperback. With Part I presenting a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition, and Part II taking up the question of lexical meaning in the context of possible-world semantics, this book is of interest to metaphysicians, possible-world semanticists, philosophers of language, and linguists concerned with lexical semantics. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 359 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
- Number of pages
- 359
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792330073
- ISBN
- 9780792330073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 189.40
€ 189.40
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199606214
- ISBN
- 9780199606214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 141.57
€ 141.57
Hardback. Richard Capobianco makes the case that the core matter of Heidegger's lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things. Series: New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649637
- ISBN
- 9781442649637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.85
€ 45.99
€ 45.85
Hardback. In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller's work, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature, and Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics, Metapatterns embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the grand-scale patterns that help explain the functioning of our universe. Num Pages: 296 pages, 87 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231067508
- ISBN
- 9780231067508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Hardback. Presents a case for 'egocentric presentism', a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. This book maintains that people's experiences give them grounds for believing that they have a special, distinguished place in the world. Num Pages: 136 pages, 24 line illus. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135311
- ISBN
- 9780691135311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.62
€ 54.99
€ 39.62
Paperback. Using the combined tools of science, philosophy and the social sciences, this title explores various facets of what we understand reality to mean. It focuses on the human side, especially on the individual experience of reality as manifested through personality, cognitive power, self-consciousness, and rationalistic and communicative endowments. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 133
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194444
- ISBN
- 9781845194444
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.48
€ 36.99
€ 33.48
Paperback. Editor(s): Von Samsonow, Elisabeth. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Diaphanes AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783037345962
- ISBN
- 9783037345962
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.41
€ 30.99
€ 24.41
The Principles of History. And Other Writings in Philosophy of History...
Collingwood, R. G.. Ed(S): Dussen, W. J. Van ...
Paperback. This work on the philosophy of history, by the Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) also includes two conclusions written by Collingwood for lectures which were eventually revised and published as "The Idea of Nature". Editor(s): Dussen, W. J. van der. Num Pages: 382 pages, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBA; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199243150
- ISBN
- 9780199243150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 85.33
€ 85.33
Hardback. Presents an accessible, up-to-date and broad-ranging survey of one of the most dynamic and often daunting sub-fields in contemporary philosophy Introduces readers to the seminal works of contemporary and historic philosophers, including Descartes, Leibniz, Russell, David Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, David M. Series: Fundamentals of Philosophy. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405195744
- ISBN
- 9781405195744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.40
€ 130.40
hardcover. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 451.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823213658
- ISBN
- 9780823213658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.23
€ 105.23