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Physics & ontology

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Physics & ontology

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCB; HPJ; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 201 x 27. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141983844
ISBN
9780141983844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.96

Hardback. Formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a conception of wholes as 'Unities', and demonstrates the advantages of this conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles. This title suggests that conceiving wholes as Unities offers us a way of understanding the world in non-reductive terms. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 651.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402016608
ISBN
9781402016608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.97

Paperback. For Plato the soul was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. In 'De Anima', Plato's student, Aristotle sought to set out his theory of soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced a masterpiece of philosophical insight. Translator(s): Lawson-Tancred, Hugh. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140444711
ISBN
9780140444711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.44

Paperback. Presents the author's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hard-headed view that all processes are the material. In this book, the author argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms. Editor(s): Lawson-Tancred, Hugh. Translator(s): Lawson-Tancred, Hugh. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446197
ISBN
9780140446197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624664397
ISBN
9781624664397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.99

Paperback. A close translation of the fourth, fifth and sixth books of the "Metaphysics", in which Aristotle discusses the nature and scope of metaphysics. The translation is accompanied by an interpretative and critical commentary. The second edition includes an expanded bibliography. Translator(s): Kirwan, Christopher. Series: Clarendon Aristotle Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, index, glossary, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; HPCA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198240877
ISBN
9780198240877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.25

Hardback. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402018596
ISBN
9781402018596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.06

hardcover. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2007th Edition
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402055331
ISBN
9781402055331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.01

Hardback. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
V9780231052184
ISBN
9780231052184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.94
€ 106.84

Hardback. The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century. This title presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147178
ISBN
9780691147178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.74
€ 40.69

Hardback. Understanding "what something is" has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the nature of being than Aristotle. Focusing on a reinterpretation of the concept of energeia as "activity," Aryeh Kosman reexamines Aristotle's ontology and some of our most basic assumptions about the great philosopher's thought. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072862
ISBN
9780674072862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.32
€ 52.13

Paperback. Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume. Editor(s): Weiss, B. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPC; HPCF5; HPJ; PBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486168
ISBN
9781349486168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

paperback. This text examines what the concept of truth has come to mean in the philosophical tradition, what is wrong with many of the ways of conceiving truth and why philosophers refuse to confront squarely the question of the value of truth. Coverage spans from the pre-Socratics to the 1990s. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674910911
ISBN
9780674910911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.51

Paperback. This fully revised edition of this standard work on the philosophy of time and space includes two new chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, new material on dynamic time, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and time and consciousness, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844651917
ISBN
9781844651917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.03

Paperback. Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, grounded in the continuity we find in our streams of consciousness: this is the key to explaining how we can undergo changes but remain the same person. He has original things to say about personal identity, the conditions of our existence and survival, and our relation to our bodies. Num Pages: 472 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HPK; HPM; JMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199692248
ISBN
9780199692248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.83

Paperback. * A student-friendly collection of key contemporary texts in metaphysics. * Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context. * Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views. Editor(s): Beebee, Helen; Dodd, Julian. Series: Reading Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405123679
ISBN
9781405123679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.94

Paperback. Series: Thomistic Studies. Num Pages: 640 pages, diagrams. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020354
ISBN
9780268020354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.25
€ 54.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Temple Lodge Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780904693980
ISBN
9780904693980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.80

Paperback. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own. Translator(s): Beardsworth, Richard; Collins, George. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 316 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730419
ISBN
9780804730419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.82

Paperback. An incisive, original, compelling alternative to current mainstream cultural views and assumptions. Num Pages: 251 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785350184
ISBN
9781785350184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.88

Paperback. Presents an introduction to logical atomism and its application to ontology and epistemology. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPJ; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415474610
ISBN
9780415474610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.35

Paperback. What did Spinoza ever do for us? This vtitle shows how Spinoza's theory of bodies transforms our understanding of music, and how it grounds 'collective subjectivity' in contemporary politics.It deals with Spinoza's connection to literature, politics, the environment and beyond. Editor(s): Lord, Beth. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474404723
ISBN
9781474404723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.48

Paperback. Beth Lord looks at Kant's philosophy in relation to four thinkers who attempted to fuse transcendental idealism with Spinoza's doctrine of immanence. Examining Jacobi, Herder, Maimon and Deleuze, Lord argues that Spinozism is central to the development of Kant's thought, and opens new avenues for understanding Kant's relation to Deleuze. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPCF; HPJ; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349362790
ISBN
9781349362790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.18

Hardback. For centuries people have debated the nature of the human self. Running beneath these various arguments lie three certainties -- we are born, reproduce sexually, and die. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745622781
ISBN
9780745622781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.64

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