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Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics
ISBN: 9780415090223 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the course of the book, Roger Woolhouse provides a systematic treatment of the central metaphysical views of these important and interrelated philosophers, considering their areas of agreement and disagreement. Going beyond the conventional classification of the three as the rationalists, he explores their accounts of what is real and how this lies at the heart of their philosophies. In particular, he shows how they provided the conceptual foundation to the 17th-century science of mechanics.
In the course of the book, Roger Woolhouse provides a systematic treatment of the central metaphysical views of these important and interrelated philo...
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195,06 zł |
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Post-Secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology
ISBN: 9780415097772 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Nietzsche to the present, the Western philosophical tradition has been dominated by a secular thinking that has dismissed discussion of God as largely irrelevant. In recent years however, the issue of theology has returned to spark some of the most controversial debates within contemporary philosophy. Discussions of theology by key contemporary philosophers such as Derrida and Levinas have placed religion at centre stage.
Post-Secular Philosophy is one of the first volumes to consider how God has been approached by modern philosophers and consider the links between theology... From Nietzsche to the present, the Western philosophical tradition has been dominated by a secular thinking that has dismissed discussion of God as la...
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707,28 zł |
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Real Time II
ISBN: 9780415097802 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Real Time II extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time, Real Time. This new book answers such basic metaphysical questions about time as: how do past, present and future differ, how are time and space related, what is change, is time travel possible? His Real Time dominated the philosophy of time for fifteen years. Real TIme II will do the same for the next twenty. GET /english/edu/Studying_at_SU/History_of_Literature.html HTTP/1.0
Real Time II extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time, Real Time. This new book answers such ba...
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780,44 zł |
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Real Time II
ISBN: 9780415097819 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Real Time II extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time, Real Time. This new book answers such basic metaphysical questions about time as: how do past, present and future differ, how are time and space related, what is change, is time travel possible? His Real Time dominated the philosophy of time for fifteen years. Real TIme II will do the same for the next twenty. GET /english/edu/Studying_at_SU/History_of_Literature.html HTTP/1.0
Real Time II extends and evolves DH Mellor's classic exploration of the philosophy of time, Real Time. This new book answers such ba...
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219,45 zł |
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Time, Change and Freedom: An Introduction to Metaphysics
ISBN: 9780415102483 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to metaphysics is tied together by the idea of time. It explores ideas such as whether there was a beginning of time and the possibility of an infinite past and an eternal future. It looks at what happens when things change, and what affect that has on us and our personal identity. The book also asks if we can be free and what is the relationship of human freedom to various theories of divine foreknowledge and determinism? The final part of the book brings students up to date with theories of relativity and contemporary cosmology about time and the universe.
This introduction to metaphysics is tied together by the idea of time. It explores ideas such as whether there was a beginning of time and the possibi...
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707,28 zł |
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Time, Change and Freedom: An Introduction to Metaphysics
ISBN: 9780415102490 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first introduction to metaphysics which is tied together by the idea of time. Time, Change and Freedom explores ideas such as whether there was a beginning of time and the possibility of an infinite past and an eternal future. It looks at what happens when things change, and what affect that has on us and our personal identity. The book also asks if we can be free and what is the relationship of human freedom to various theories of divine foreknowledge and determinism? The final part of the book...
This is the first introduction to metaphysics which is tied together by the idea of time. Time, Change and Freedom explores ideas such as whe...
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209,70 zł |
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Substance: Its Nature and Existence
ISBN: 9780415112505 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work investigates the very nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. It provides an introduction to the history and contemporary debates of this important and often complex issue. Starting with a critical survey of the main historical attempts by Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume to provide an analysis of substance, the authors present the view that a substance must satisfy an independence condition which could not be satisfied by an insubstantial entity. Throughout the book the authors also consider problems for the...
This work investigates the very nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. It provides an intr...
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707,28 zł |
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Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus: In Focus
ISBN: 9780415115759 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues and problems raised by Kant. Starting with the Carus translation of Kant's work, the edition offers a substantive new introduction, six papers never before published together and a comprehensive bibliography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Kant and David Hume, whose philosophical investigations, according to Kant's famous quote, first interrupted Kant's 'dogmatic slumber'.
This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues and problem...
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707,28 zł |
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Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics in Focus: In Focus
ISBN: 9780415115766 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues and problems raised by Kant. Starting with the Carus translation of Kant's work, the edition offers a substantive new introduction, six papers never before published together and a comprehensive bibliography. Special attention is paid to the relationship between Kant and David Hume, whose philosophical investigations, according to Kant's famous quote, first interrupted Kant's 'dogmatic slumber'.
This collection of seminal essays on the Prolegomena provides the student of philosophy with an invaluable overview of the issues and problem...
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190,19 zł |
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Verificationism: Its History and Prospects
ISBN: 9780415125970 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and the 1960s. The verificationist principle - the concept that a belief with no connection to experience is spurious - is the most sophisticated version of empiricism. More flexible ideas of verification are now being rehabilitated by a number of philosophers.
C.J. Misak surveys the precursors, the main proponents and the rehabilitators. Unlike traditional studies, she follows verificationist theory beyond the demise of positivism to examine its... Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and th...
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634,12 zł |
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Verificationism: Its History and Prospects
ISBN: 9780415125987 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and the 1960s. The verificationist principle - the concept that a belief with no connection to experience is spurious - is the most sophisticated version of empiricism. More flexible ideas of verification are now being rehabilitated by a number of philosophers.
C.J. Misak surveys the precursors, the main proponents and the rehabilitators. Unlike traditional studies, she follows verificationist theory beyond the demise of positivism to examine its... Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and th...
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229,20 zł |
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The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality
ISBN: 9780415135559 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject.
Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history, and the perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exagerrate what science... In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and...
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195,06 zł |
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Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction
ISBN: 9780415135566 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, this text raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what Popper calls big issues - too big for easy answers, but too important to be ignored.
Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, this text raises problems connected with human freedom, creativi...
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209,70 zł |
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Time
ISBN: 9780415139472 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Time offers a comprehensive history of the philosophy of time in western philosophy from the Greeks through to the twentieth century.
In the first half of the book, Philip Turetzky explores theories in ancient and modern philosophy chronologically: from Aristotle to Nietzsche. In the latter half, Turetzky describes the philosophy of time in three twentieth-century philosophical traditions: * analytic philosophy including philosophers such as McTaggart and Mellor * phenomenology Husserl and Heidegger * a distaff tradition which Turetzky identifies as including Bergson and... Time offers a comprehensive history of the philosophy of time in western philosophy from the Greeks through to the twentieth century.
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634,12 zł |
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Time
ISBN: 9780415139489 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers a history of the philosophy of time in Western philosophy from the Greeks through to the 20th century. In the first half of the book, Philip Turetzky explores theories in ancient and modern philosophy chronologically: from Aristotle to Nietzsche. In the latter half, Turetzky describes the philosophy of time in three 20th-century philosophical traditions: analytic philosophy including philosophers such as McTaggart and Mellor; phenomenology, Husserl and Heidegger; and distaff tradition which Turetzky identifies as including Bergson and Deleuze.
This text offers a history of the philosophy of time in Western philosophy from the Greeks through to the 20th century. In the first half of the book,...
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195,06 zł |
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Substance: Its Nature and Existence
ISBN: 9780415140324 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy. Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz explain the nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. Specifically written for students new to this important and often complex subject, Substance provides both the historical and contemporary overview of the debate.
Great Philosophers of the past, such as Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, and Berkeley were profoundly interested in the concept of substance. And, the authors argue, a... Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy. Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz explain the nature and...
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238,96 zł |
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Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East-Asian Influences on His Work
ISBN: 9780415140386 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heidegger's Hidden Sources documents for the first time Heidegger's remarkable debt to East Asian philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, Reinhard May shows conclusively that Martin Heidegger borrowed some of the major ideas of his philosophy - on occasion almost word for word - from German translations of Chinese Daoist and Zen Buddhist classics.
The discovery of this astonishing appropriation of non-Western sources will have important consequences for future interpretations of Heidegger's work. Moreover, it shows Heidegger as a pioneer of comparative philosophy and... Heidegger's Hidden Sources documents for the first time Heidegger's remarkable debt to East Asian philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, R...
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195,06 zł |
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Dispositions: A Debate
ISBN: 9780415144322 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished philosophers - D.M. Armstrong, C.B. Martin and U.T. Place - on the many problems associated with dispositions, which reveals their own distinctive accounts of the nature of dispositions. These are then linked to other issues such as the nature of mind, matter, universals, existence, laws of nature and causation.
Dispositions are essential to our understanding of the world. Dispositions: A Debate is an extended dialogue between three distinguished phil...
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707,28 zł |
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The Subject in Question: Sartre's Critique of Husserl in the Transcendence of the Ego
ISBN: 9780415213691 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Subject in Question provides a fascinating insight into a debate between two of the twentieth century's most famous philosophers - Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl - over the key notions of conscious experience and the self. Sartre's The Transcendence of the Ego, published in 1937, is a major text in the phenomenological tradition and sets the course for much of his later work. The Subject in Question is the first full-length study of this famous work and its influence on twentieth-century philosophy. It also investigates the relationship between Sartre's...
The Subject in Question provides a fascinating insight into a debate between two of the twentieth century's most famous philosophers - Jean-P...
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707,28 zł |
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The Structure of Metaphysics
ISBN: 9780415225267 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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277,99 zł |