Physics & ontology
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Physics & ontology
Hardback. In More Kinds of Being E.J. Lowe, one of the world's most distinguished contemporary metaphysicians, thoroughly reworks and expands upon the philosophical concepts first put forth in his acclaimed book Kinds of Being (1989). Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405182560
- ISBN
- 9781405182560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.71
€ 114.71
Paperback. This book explores the Nuu-chah-nulth understanding of the universe as an integrated and orderly whole, providing a viable theoretical alternative that both complements and expands the view of reality presented by Western science. Num Pages: 168 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 2 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: HPD; HPJ; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780774810852
- ISBN
- 9780774810852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.84
€ 40.99
€ 35.84
Paperback. Riddles of Existence makes metaphysics genuinely accessible, even fun. Its lively, informal style brings the riddles to life and shows how stimulating they can be. Anyone wanting to think about life's most profound questions will find it provocative and entertaining. This edition is updated throughout, and features two brand new chapters. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198724049
- ISBN
- 9780198724049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.14
€ 14.99
€ 12.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Editions Scholasticae
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783868385441
- ISBN
- 9783868385441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.28
€ 28.28
hardcover. This book addresses whether personal identity is analyzable, with innovative discussion of 'complex' and 'simple' theories. Editor(s): Gasser, Georg; Stefan, Matthias. Num Pages: 268 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512. Complex or Simple?. 268 pages. Editor(s): Gasser, Georg; Stefan, Matthias. This book addresses whether personal identity is analyzable, with innovative discussion of 'complex' and 'simple' theories. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight: 530.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 268
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107014442
- ISBN
- 9781107014442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.82
€ 69.82
Hardcover. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 261 pages, Illustrations plans transparencies :Includes index. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press Ohio
- Number of pages
- 261
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227617
- ISBN
- 9780821406885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In his new Preface E.O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how "The Insect Societies" led him to write "Sociobiology," and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016385
- ISBN
- 9780674016385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.53
€ 36.99
€ 30.53
Paperback. Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique , this explores the nature of physical suffering. Num Pages: 400 pages, halftone frontispiece. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Number of pages
- 396
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195049961
- ISBN
- 9780195049961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.45
€ 23.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Eleanore Holveck presents Simone de Beauvoir's theory of literature and metaphysics, including its relationship to the philosophers Husserl, Heidegger, Kant, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, with reference to the literary tradition of Goethe, Maurice Barres, Rimbaud, Andre Breton and Paul Nizan. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HPJ; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742513365
- ISBN
- 9780742513365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.83
€ 64.83
Paperback. As notions of postmodernism and deconstruction have become exceedingly fashionable, scholars have attempted to remake epistemology as a subjectivist enterprise. This book deplores this state of affairs and attempts to correct it by reviving rational metaphysics as well as some of the ideas of the Vienna circle. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812696035
- ISBN
- 9780812696035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 39.44
€ 48.99
€ 39.44
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.63
€ 29.99
€ 23.63
Paperback. 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: 154 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362333
- ISBN
- 9780822362333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
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
€ 114.02
€ 114.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Grosz, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485909
- ISBN
- 9780801485909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.92
€ 38.99
€ 34.92
Paperback. Extremely well done. will universally be referred to, not by its title, but as 'Kraus's Companion'..-Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 190 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPJ; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217960
- ISBN
- 9780823217960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.17
€ 45.99
€ 40.17
Hardback. "Extremely well done.. will universally be referred to, not by its title, but as 'Kraus's Companion'.." -Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 190 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217953
- ISBN
- 9780823217953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.69
€ 106.69
Hardback. Drawing on Woolf's novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual's connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474421676
- ISBN
- 9781474421676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.56
€ 101.56
Paperback. First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it. Editor(s): Rolland, Jacques. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5106 x 3150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741408
- ISBN
- 9780804741408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.27
€ 24.99
€ 23.27
Hardback. First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it. Editor(s): Rolland, Jacques. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5106 x 3150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804741392
- ISBN
- 9780804741392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.77
€ 100.77
Paperback. Translator(s): Abbeele, Georges van den. Series: Theory Out of Bounds. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 21. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First edition
- SKU
- V9780816622603
- ISBN
- 9780816622603
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802868596
- ISBN
- 9780802868596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.38€ 43.19
€ 56.38
€ 43.19
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.25
€ 35.99
€ 32.25
Paperback. In this work, the Catholic philosopher Etienne Gilson deals with one of the most important and perplexing metaphysical problems: the relation between our notion of God and demonstrations of his existence. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300092998
- ISBN
- 9780300092998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.92
€ 16.99
€ 13.92
Paperback. Translator(s): Beranek, Erik; Howles, Tim. Series: Univocal. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 203 x 25. .
- Publisher
- Univocal Publishing LLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937561505
- ISBN
- 9781937561505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.47
€ 30.99
€ 27.47