Physics & ontology
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Physics & ontology
Hardback. Empiricism and the Problem of Metaphysics develops and defends an empiricist solution to the problem of metaphysics, then examines the implications of such a solution for skeptical arguments and the is-ought gap. At the heart of the solution is an empirically verifiable empiricist view of the a priori. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739142554
- ISBN
- 9780739142554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.69
€ 132.69
Hardback. Do cultural artifacts admit of only one single admissible interpretation? Or do they admit of several interpretations? This book considers the conditions under which singularism obtains, multiplism obtains and where neither singularism nor multiplism obtains interpretation. Series: Philosophy and the Global Context. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 365.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511682
- ISBN
- 9780742511682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.77
€ 176.77
Paperback. Do cultural artifacts admit of only one single admissible interpretation? Or do they admit of several interpretations? This book considers the conditions under which singularism obtains, multiplism obtains and where neither singularism nor multiplism obtains interpretation. Series: Philosophy and the Global Context. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 146 x 10. Weight in Grams: 255.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511699
- ISBN
- 9780742511699
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Condition: New
€ 63.75
€ 63.75
Hardback. How can there be sensory qualities - all that which gives meaning and value to life - if this world is really more or less as modern science tells us it is? This text proposes that physics describes only a selected aspect of all that exists - that aspect which determines the way events unfold. Series: Philosophy and the Global Context. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742512269
- ISBN
- 9780742512269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.80
€ 156.80
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742512283
- ISBN
- 9780742512283
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08
€ 94.08
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742513365
- ISBN
- 9780742513365
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Condition: New
€ 64.83
€ 64.83
Hardback. Finite, Contingent, and Free is a Roman Catholic perspective that views acceptance as the proper response to the conditions of human existence, and the foundation for ethics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742514041
- ISBN
- 9780742514041
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Condition: New
€ 158.78
€ 158.78
Paperback. Finite, Contingent, and Free is a Roman Catholic perspective that views acceptance as the proper response to the conditions of human existence, and the foundation for ethics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742514058
- ISBN
- 9780742514058
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Condition: New
€ 60.21
€ 60.21
Hardback. Socializing Metaphysics supplies diverse answers to the basic questions of social metaphysics, from a broad array of voices. It will interest all philosophers and social scientists concerned with mind, action, or the foundations of social theory. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742514287
- ISBN
- 9780742514287
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Condition: New
€ 187.37
€ 187.37
Paperback. Socializing Metaphysics supplies diverse answers to the basic questions of social metaphysics, from a broad array of voices. It will interest all philosophers and social scientists concerned with mind, action, or the foundations of social theory. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742514294
- ISBN
- 9780742514294
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Condition: New
€ 79.82
€ 79.82
Hardback. This textbook introduction offers a new way of approaching metaphysics and epistemology -- via links to ethical and social questions. It asks questions such as: Fundamentally, what are we? And what, if anything, do we know? Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 393.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748616640
- ISBN
- 9780748616640
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Condition: New
€ 161.37
€ 161.37
Hardback. This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as opposed to the moral, issues pertaining to death. For example, the authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death is a bad thing. Editor(s): Fischer, John. Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy. Num Pages: 444 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 33. Weight in Grams: 660.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720465
- ISBN
- 9780804720465
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Condition: New
€ 185.52
€ 185.52
Hardback. This is an exploration and reassessment of the philosophical notion of relation. In contrast to the scholastic, ontological conception of relation as a thing of diminished being, this book views relation as the minimal and elemental theme and structure of philosophy. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 33. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736763
- ISBN
- 9780804736763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.91
€ 162.91
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804795715
- ISBN
- 9780804795715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.27
€ 111.27
Hardback. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812690996
- ISBN
- 9780812690996
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.26
€ 36.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812694567
- ISBN
- 9780812694567
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.01
€ 36.99
€ 31.01
paperback. The cult sci-fi movie, "The Matrix", presented a fake world made of nothing but perceptions. This text contains 20 essays on philosophical problems raised by the film, which focus on the issue, "Can we be sure the world is really there, and if not, what should we do about it?". Editor(s): Irwin, William. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: APF; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780812695021
- ISBN
- 9780812695021
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.05
€ 32.99
€ 27.05
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812696035
- ISBN
- 9780812696035
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 39.44
€ 49.99
€ 39.44
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
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Condition: New
€ 93.86
€ 93.86
Hardback. Offers a critical examination of how Heidegger uses the concept of mood in his philosophy of being. The author focuses specifically on a particular kind of mood, namely anxiety, distinguishing this authentic mood from inauthentic ones. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819179784
- ISBN
- 9780819179784
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Condition: New
€ 111.07
€ 111.07
Paperback. 'Robert Almeder has clearly summarized an extensive body of evidence and argues its merits with the skill of a professional philosopher.'-Ian Stevenson, M.D., University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRQM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822630166
- ISBN
- 9780822630166
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Condition: New
€ 53.44
€ 53.44
Hardback. The most accessible of Ricoeur's early texts, Fallible Man offers an introduction to phenomenological method. Translator(s): Kelbley, Charles A. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823211500
- ISBN
- 9780823211500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.31
€ 89.31
Paperback. Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant, written in a style devoid of the metaphysical intricacies of his later works, Symbolism makes accessible his theory of perception and his more general insights into the function of symbols in culture and society. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823211968
- ISBN
- 9780823211968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.72
€ 48.72
Hardback. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 33. Weight in Grams: 689.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823212279
- ISBN
- 9780823212279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.31
€ 74.31