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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984615476Author Barry FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint All Things That Matter PressPublisher All Things That Matter PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437601472Author Justus HartnackFormat PaperbackImprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.

Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this important book,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798823380652Author Elaine YoshikawaFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543700725Author Swapna GopinathFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Partridge IndiaPublisher Partridge IndiaWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543781908Author Tatsuya SuzukiFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Partridge Publishing SingaporePublisher Partridge Publishing SingaporeWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798230260431Author Alex HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint Alex HarperPublisher Alex HarperWeight(grams) 785g

The contributions gathered in this volume present the state of the art in key areas of current social ontology. They focus on the role of collective intentional states in creating social facts, and on the nature of intentional properties of groups that...

This book - which is the result of several years of research, discussion, writing and re-writing - consists of three parts and eight chapters. The rst part is given by the two rst chapters introducing the issue of validity and facticity in law. The...

This book is most easily described as philosophy of history; however, this descr- tion may be a little misleading. Truly, this is a work of applied philosophy that was originally conceived not in a philosophy seminar but in a school of public policy. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604505245Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Serenity Publishers, LLCPublisher Serenity Publishers, LLCWeight(grams) 191g

Philosophy of Happiness: Seeking Wisdom and a Life of Human Flourishing presents readers with an exploration into diverse perspectives on the concept of happiness, beginning with historical insights from ancient Greek and Roman philosophers and moving...

The primary objective of An Inquiry into the Nature of Aesthetic Theory in Its Relation to Theory of Knowledge in Kant’s Critical Philosophy is to investigate Kant’s aesthetic theory and its problematic relation to theory of knowledge in his...

Despite the disapproval that "visibly" Muslim women face in the West, the U.S. does not ban the hijab or niqab. Nevertheless, it does find a way to manage assertive Muslim women. How so? Subtly and without outright confrontation: through the courts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838216980Format PaperbackImprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press

This book investigates the relationships between gestures and artefacts theoretically and historically, by analyzing different phenomena stemming from a variety of fields such as robotics, archaeology, gesture studies, anthropology, philosophy, and...

Premodern societies believed in something sacred that obliged unconditionally. Modern societies rely on fallible science. Do they also need something absolute, a secular sacred? Steinvorth analyzes the writings of modern philosophers who claim that there...

This book provides an accessible and thorough analysis of "The Doctrine of Being," the first part of Hegel's Science of Logic. Though it received much scholarly attention in the past, interpreters of this text have generally refrained from...

In this book, Reinhold Kramer explores a variety of important social changes, including the resistance to objective measures of truth, the rise of "How-I-Feel" ethics, the ascendancy of individualism, the immersion in cyber-simulations, the...

This book is the first to offer a full account of the philosophical work of Else Voigtländer. Locating the sources of her thought in the philosophy and psychology of the nineteenth and twentieth19th and 20th centuries in figures such as Nietzsche and...

This book argues for evolutionary epistemology and distinguishing functionality from physicality in the social sciences. It explores the implications for this approach to understanding in biology, economics, psychology and political science. Presenting a...

This book studies various perspectives in the history of European philosophy on the relationship between time and movement. Ever since the pre-Socratic thinker Zeno of Elea linked time and space to understand bodily movement, his so-called paradoxes of...

This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789024702855Author Edward Goodwin BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 410g

This is the first book devoted entirely to exploring Zizek's peculiar kind of Paulinism. It seeks to provide a full map of the Marxist philosopher's interpretations of Paul and critically engage with it. As one of several radical leftists of European...

This book approaches work by Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou through their shared commitment to multiplicity, a novel approach to addressing one of the oldest philosophical questions: is being one or many? Becky Vartabedian examines major statements of...

Nietzsche’s Immoralism begins a two-volume critical reconstruction of a socialist, democratic, and non-liberal Nietzschean politics. Nietzsche’s ideal of amor fati (love of fate) cannot be individually adopted because it is incompatible with deep freedom...

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical investigation of ignorance. Using a set of cognitive tools and models, it discusses features that can describe a state of ignorance if linked to a particular type of cognition affecting the agent's social...

This book is a collection of English articles by Pan Guangdan, one of China's most distinguished sociologists and eugenicists and also a renowned expert in education. Pan is a prolific scholar, whose collected works number some fourteen volumes. Pan's...

caused in the western camp. A further factor which operates to our disadvantage is the fact that in our democracies the role played by the mass of uprooted humanity is becoming increasingly important, and the problem of control and guidance of the masses...

A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604946963Author Imad F AbdullahFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 163g

Derrida's Social Ontology: Institutions in Deconstruction presents the first dedicated study of Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of institutions. While previous studies of Derrida’s thought have considered his engagement with individual institutions—from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027703187Author Karl MengerFormat HardbackPage Count 119Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 810g

This book on Alain Badiou’s philosophy begins with a central theme: the attempt to trace how Badiou has replaced the tradition of critical theory and negation with an affirmative support of his four generic procedures (art, science, love, and art) as...

This work is an essay in Peirce's epistemology, with about an equal emphasis on the "epistemology" as on the "Peirce's." In other words our intention has not been to write exclusively a piece of Peirce scholarshiJ> hence, the reader...

This book is a collection of English articles by Pan Guangdan, one of China's most distinguished sociologists and eugenicists and also a renowned expert in education. Pan is a prolific scholar, whose collected works number some fourteen volumes. Pan's...

Uniqueness of style versus plurality of styles: in terms of these aesthetic categories one of the most important differences between the recent past and the present can be described. This difference manifests itself in all spheres of life - in fashion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027703194Author Karl MengerFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 220g

This book is at once a deeply learned and original reading of Heidegger and a primary text in its own right. It demonstrates the relevance of Heidegger's thought in responding to the moral and religious challenges of 21st century existence. It shows that...