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Physics & ontology

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691643274
ISBN
9780691643274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.05

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

€ 52.54

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

€ 50.87

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

€ 72.46

paperback. Editor(s): Laitinen, Arto; Ikaheimo, Heikki. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 cm. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Imprint Academic United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845400866
ISBN
9781845400866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.17

Hardcover. Aristotle Metaphysica Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HPCA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 187 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1957
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Greek
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198145134
ISBN
9780198145134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.11

Paperback. Aristotle's great work translated into English with an index giving Greek, Latin, and English forms of key terms Translator(s): Hope, Richard (Bob). Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 127 x 204 x 25. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1952
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472060429
ISBN
9780472060429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.37

"Metaphysics: Books 7 to 10". Translator(s): Furth, Montgomery. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9780915145898
ISBN
9780915145898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.71

Paperback. "Metaphysics: Books 7 to 10". Translator(s): Furth, Montgomery. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
166
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780915145904
ISBN
9780915145904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.74

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

€ 38.99
€ 28.52

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

€ 17.99
€ 13.11

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
€ 11.61

Hardback. Examines the two main insights that govern Claude Bruaire's ontology of gift (ontodology). First, gift is being in its spiritual way of being. Second, being itself (ipsum esse) is gift only because the fullness proper to pure act is first of all an absolutely free donation in itself and to itself before being donation to another (creation). Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813214436
ISBN
9780813214436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.50

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

€ 17.99
€ 13.11

Hardback. Focuses on questions concerning the metaphysics of powers that cut across particular subject-specific ontological domains, investigating the metaphysical structure of powers, the nature of the manifestation of powers, the necessity or contingency of a power's relation to its manifestations, and powers and causation. Editor(s): Marmodoro, Anna. Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics. Num Pages: 204 pages, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415876858
ISBN
9780415876858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.13

paperback. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 710.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Imprint Academic United Kingdom
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845400903
ISBN
9781845400903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.63

Paperback. This text aims to recover the ancient philosophical ideal of self-knowledge, in the context of our historical situation. It considers and rejects claims that we can attain self-knowledge through theory, anti-theory, or narrative and defends philosophy as a humanist rather than scientific, endeavor. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847684182
ISBN
9780847684182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
Edition
74th Edition
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589661271
ISBN
9781589661271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.79

Paperback. Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPN; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335146
ISBN
9780822335146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474293174
ISBN
9781474293174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.65

Hardback. This collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging 'materialist landscape. Editor(s): Radman, Andrej; Sohn, Heidi. Series: New Materialisms. Num Pages: 328 pages, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA; HPJ; HPN; HPS; PDA; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474421119
ISBN
9781474421119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.80
€ 121.20

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.21

Hardcover. How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong? Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm this skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a ratio-nal capacity. In this book, she develops a metaphysics of the mind as existing through knowledge of itself. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 244 x 27. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674416116
ISBN
9780674416116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.20

paperback. Offers an overview of the state of Leibniz research. This volume revisits 2 key topics in Leibniz's thought, on which he engaged both contemporary and historical arguments. It features articles which provide a framework to situate Leibniz's philosophy of nature and the congenial home for a morally significant freedom that he took it to provide. Editor(s): Rutherford, Donald; Cover, J. A. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033306
ISBN
9780195143751
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. .
Publisher
Tarcher
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874777987
ISBN
9780874777987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.11

paperback. Finding Zero is an adventure-filled saga of Amir Aczel's lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals. Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty texts, cross examining scholars who offered wildly differing sets of facts, and ultimately penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof. Num Pages: 256 pages, black and white photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Condition
New
SKU
9781250084910
ISBN
9781250084910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 30 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 18. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415640756
ISBN
9780415640756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.39

Paperback. Canadian poet links cosmology, mythology, and the human heart in a range of poetic forms. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; HPJ; PDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772120912
ISBN
9781772120912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.37

Hardcover. Addressing contemporary interest in the relationship between metaphysics Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813219653
ISBN
9780813219653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.73

Paperback. * A collection of original papers by philosophers whose work is at the forefront of debate about the relevance of substantial metaphysical theories to science. * Responds in particular to recent publications by Brian Ellis on scientific essentialism, especially on the topics of laws, natural kinds and realism. Editor(s): Drewery, Alice. Series: Ratio Special Issues. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405145145
ISBN
9781405145145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Bartlett, A. J.; Bartlett, Adam; Clemens, Justin. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474275538
ISBN
9781474275538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.36

Hardback. Translator(s): Bartlett, A. J.; Ling, Alex. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441189240
ISBN
9781441189240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.28
€ 40.67

Paperback. Slavoj Zizek is an important philosopher, known chiefly for his theoretical explorations of popular culture and contemporary politics. This book focuses on the philosophical core of Zizek's work. It addresses two philosophical problems: the relationship of mind and body, and the nature of human freedom. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810124561
ISBN
9780810124561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.00

Paperback. A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting field. Editor(s): Bardon, Adrian; Dyke, Heather. Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 600 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 172 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1006.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781119145691
ISBN
9781119145691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.18

Hardcover. A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting field. Editor(s): Bardon, Adrian; Dyke, Heather. Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 596 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 173 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1190.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470658819
ISBN
9780470658819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 290.22

Paperback. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a concise and accessible survey of the history of philosophical and scientific developments in understanding time and our experience of time. It discusses prominent ideas about the nature of time, plus many subsidiary puzzles about time, from the classical period through the present. Num Pages: 200 pages, 21illus. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199301089
ISBN
9780199301089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.51

Hardback. A new moral theory from an Israeli philosopher and activist emphasizing the existential and political nature of evil. Translator(s): Mazali, Rela; Carel, Havi. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Zone Books
Edition
First Edition (1st printing),
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951511
ISBN
9781890951511
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; UY. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781350027473
ISBN
9781350027473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.82

Paperback. Adam Morton argues that any account of evil must help us understand three things: why evil occurs; why it often arises out of banal or everyday situations; and what we mean by evil. Using a wide variety of examples, he argues that evil occurs when internal, mental barriers against it break down. Series: Thinking in Action. Num Pages: 168 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415305198
ISBN
9780415305198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.72

Hardback. Ancient metaphysics and contemporary continental realism have a key goal in common: to investigate how beings exists outside of the descriptions placed on them by language, consciousness, texts and society.This volume addresses the encounters between contemporary and antique philosophies. Editor(s): Greenstine, Abraham Jacob; Johnson, Ryan J. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474412094
ISBN
9781474412094
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.80
€ 124.51