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Philosophy: metaScience & Technology

Paperback. Bunge proposes a clear definition of the concept of emergence to replace that of supervenience and clarifies the notions of system, real possibility, inverse problem, interdiscipline, and partial truth that occur in all fields. Series: Toronto Studies in Philosophy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442628212
ISBN
9781442628212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.66

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.72

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.05

Hardback. Translator(s): Haase, Ullrich; Sinclair, Mark. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253022660
ISBN
9780253022660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.88

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.84

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.86

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.03

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.90

Paperback. Presents the reconstructed text of a lecture delivered by Martin Heidegger to the Marburg Theological Society in 1924. This work offers an insight into the developmental years leading up to the publication, in 1927, of his magnum opus "Being and Time", itself one of the most influential philosophical works this century. Num Pages: 72 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631184256
ISBN
9780631184256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 40.76

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
€ 20.87

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156639
ISBN
9780231156639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.49

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.45

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 164.07

Hardcover. Frederick Dretske's views on the nature of seeing, the possibility of knowledge, the nature of content or non-natural meaning, the nature of behavior, and the role of content in teh causal explanation of behavior have been profoundly important. Editor(s): McLaughlin, Brian. Num Pages: 438 pages, 6 photographs, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557861986
ISBN
9781557861986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.41

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.15

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.86

Hardcover. Aims to introduce the student to central metaphysical issues while at the same time pursuing a coherent metaphysical view. Exercises designed to stimulate further thinking and to indicate further dimensions of the topics are posed throughout to encourage a more advanced study of the discipline. Series: Contemporary Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557868589
ISBN
9781557868589
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.69

Paperback. aeo Discusses a diversity of metaphysical issues such as colour, modality, and fiction. aeo Includes exercises throughout to encourage further thought and study. Series: Contemporary Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557868596
ISBN
9781557868596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.78

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