Physics & ontology
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Physics & ontology
paperback. A collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. It is critically sympathetic to the Platonic project, at least to the extent that it argues that many features of the Platonic cosmology are more intelligible and coherent than usually supposed by critics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 438. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Parmenides Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034279
- ISBN
- 9781930972018
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€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Philosophical naturalism, according to which philosophy is continuous with the natural sciences, has dominated the Western academy for well over a century; but the author claims that it is without rational foundation, and that the costs of embracing it are surprisingly high. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034395
- ISBN
- 9780199247608
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€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? Matter Matters explores a seventeenth-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. Kurt Smith establishes the claim that mathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 684. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034510
- ISBN
- 9780199583652
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. This title addresses the matter of time and temporalities. It includes topics such as the deep antiquity, and the timeless time of eternity. Editor(s): Miller, Tyrus. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789639776272
- ISBN
- 9789639776272
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Condition: New
€ 209.55
€ 209.55
paperback. Presents a theory of the basic constituents of thought. This accessible study suggests that the heart of a cognitive science is its theory of concepts, and that cognitive scientists have gone badly wrong in many areas because their assumptions about concepts have been seriously mistaken. Series: Oxford Cognitive Science Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 288. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSK0000566
- ISBN
- 9780198236368
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. John T. Roberts presents and defends a radical new theory of laws of nature. His Measurability Account affirms that there is an important sense in which laws govern the universe, rather than simply describing it economically. He argues that what is essential to laws is that they guarantee the reliability of methods of measuring natural quantities. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 790. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSK0000620
- ISBN
- 9780199557707
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
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. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSK0000728
- ISBN
- 9780415100304
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. This volume in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy looks at Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. It includes essays on Socratic method, the theory of forms, knowledge and belief, being and not-being, and the philosophy of language. Editor(s): Fine, Gail. Series: Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Num Pages: 522 pages, bibliography, index, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA; HPJ; HPK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666. Volume 1 only. Good clean copy with minor age & shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0035157
- ISBN
- 9780198752066
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. In "Thinking with Whitehead, " Isabelle Stengers one of today s leading philosophers of science goes straight to the beating heart of Whitehead s thought. Both an erudite yet accessible introduction and a highly advanced commentary, it establishes the mathematician-philosopher as a daring thinker on par with Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault. Num Pages: 554 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 38. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780674416970
- ISBN
- 9780674416970
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.56
€ 30.99
€ 27.56
paperback. Translator(s): Langer. Num Pages: 113 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1953
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0035313
- ISBN
- 9780486200514
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. A sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560. Good clean copy with minor age and shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0035463
- ISBN
- 9780521593946
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Launches a surprising defence of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artefact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 256. 176pp
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press New Haven
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300171259
- ISBN
- 9780300171259
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Condition: New
€ 23.34
€ 23.34
Paperback. This introductory study looks at Bergson's use of philosophical form itself and aims to dispel the view that Bergson ever stuck to one type of philosophy at all, be it vitalism or phenomenology. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748609574
- ISBN
- 9780748609574
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 37.74
€ 42.99
€ 37.74
hardcover. The author examines current philosophical problems concerning perception, in particular visual perception. He defends a species of "direct realism" according to which perceiving is taken to be a two-place relation between perceivers and mind-independent objects in the environment. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 line drawing, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 643. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0036086
- ISBN
- 9780195104981
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0036978
- ISBN
- 9780801441080
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. In this book the metaphysical system of Graham Harman is presented in lucid form, aided by helpful diagrams. Num Pages: 157 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 10. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Zero Books
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KAM0000945
- ISBN
- 9781846947001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 6.49
€ 6.49
paperback. A study of the debate that began as modern science separated itself from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book explores the two dominant approaches to causation, as a metaphysical problem and as a scientific problem. Classical discussions of causation are also combined with recent thinking on the topic. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0036683
- ISBN
- 9780415914772
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Through Aquinas' metaphysics, clarke helps the reader develop a holistic view of the meaningfulness of our universe and of human life. His work rescues the essence of Aquinas' metaphysics, making his body of thought accessible to students and interested readers not trained in Thomistic terminology. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0036694
- ISBN
- 9780268037079
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: What does reality consist of? This work sets out the author's views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. It puts forward his controversial view of reality as indeterminate: there may be no fact of the matter about whether an object does or does not have a given property. Series: Lines of Thought S. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 265. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0037033
- ISBN
- 9780199207275
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Presents a case for 'egocentric presentism', a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. This book maintains that people's experiences give them grounds for believing that they have a special, distinguished place in the world. Num Pages: 136 pages, 24 line illus. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0037172
- ISBN
- 9780691135311
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00