Metaphysics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886940154Author Dolores CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Ozark Mountain PublishingPublisher Ozark Mountain PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the...

M. J. Levett's elegant translation of Plato's Theaetetus, first published in 1928, is here revised by Myles Burnyeat to reflect contemporary standards of accuracy while retaining the style, imagery, and idiomatic speech for which the Levett translation...

A strong and growing intuition in society today is the idea that our thoughts create our own reality. Yet it seems obvious that, try as we might, our lives are not quite what we fantasize. Is the intuition thus wrong? Through a rational, methodic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692233689Author Shanon AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Shanon AllenPublisher Shanon AllenWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very...

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as...

Metaphysics: An Introduction, Second Edition combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999543573Author David AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Shanon AllenPublisher Shanon AllenWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

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What is time? This is one of the most fundamental questions we can ask. Traditionally, the answer was that time is a product of the human mind, or of the motion of celestial bodies. In the mid-seventeenth century, a new kind of answer emerged: time or...

In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces - ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940265292Author Dolores CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ozark Mountain PublishingPublisher Ozark Mountain PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780029352106Author Alfred North WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 251gDimensions(mm)...

Offera a guide to Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork, A Thousand Plateaus. The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? Brent Adkins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946774804Author Hermes TrismegistusFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Quick Time PressPublisher Quick Time PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892810222Author R.A.Schwaller De LubiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938289699Author don Miguel Ruiz Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hierophant PublishingPublisher Hierophant Publishing

What is reality, really?Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive?How does this change the way we understand the world?We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786188021600Author Andreas M KalogerasFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint Angeliki Anagnostou KalogeraPublisher Angeliki Anagnostou KalogeraWeight(grams)...

The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume,...

Since its original publication in 1929, Martin Heidegger's provocative book on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has attracted much attention both as an important contribution to twentieth-century Kant scholarship and as a pivotal work in Heidegger's own...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'The final philosopher to perform the most profound surgery on philosophy ... concise yet exceptionally clear' Ai WeiweiWidely regarded as one of the...

Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who is Course Leader in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire, Nietzsche: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas...

For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These were to become known as the Pensees, and they occupy a...

This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the...

This richly annotated, scrupulously accurate, and consistent translation of Aristotle's De Anima fits seamlessly with other volumes in the series. Sequentially numbered endnotes provide the information most needed at each juncture, while a detailed Index...

Schelling came of age during the pivotal and exciting years at the end of the eighteenth century, as Kant's philosophy was being incorporated into the German academic world. At this time, in addition to delving into the new Kantian philosophy, Schelling...

First published in 1988 as volume 63 of his Collected Works, Ontology-The Hermeneutics of Facticity is the text of Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Freiburg during the summer of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954596030Author Ryuu ShinoharaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Omen PublishingPublisher Omen PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory. One of the most influential trends in the humanities and social...

This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361187Author Galen StrawsonFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 20mm

In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better...

Book Award of the Parapsychological Association, 2017 Winner of the Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2017 (Spiritual) First Place, Nautilus Book Awards 2017 (Science, Cosmology and Expanding Consciousness) First Place, International Excellence Mind, Body...

In Being and Time Heidegger gives an account of the distinctive features of human existence, in an attempt to answer the question of the meaning of being. He finds that underlying all of these features is what he calls 'original time'. In this clear and...

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very...

Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of Physics World, including - accessibly described here for the first time - the favourite equation of all, Euler's equation.Each is an equation that captures with...

Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was the outstanding philosopher-theologian of the Latin West between Augustine and the thirteenth century. As a public figure, especially as Archbishop of Canterbury, he corresponded with kings and nobles, popes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800821Author G.I. GurdjieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc