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Ethics Matters: Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Perspective by Nicholas Rescher 9783030520380
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and... -
Ethics Matters: Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Perspective by Nicholas Rescher 9783030520359
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and... -
Beyond Sets: A Venture in Collection-Theoretic Revisionism by Nicholas Rescher 9783110319286
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £62.30This book is the product of a collaboration stretching the years 2007-10, whose initial fruit was a paper on "Plenum Theory" published in Nous. The work grew out of the author's conviction that... -
Philosophical Clarifications: Studies Illustrating the Methodology of Philosophical Elucidation by Nicholas Rescher 9783030152680
Booksplease Price: £56.12This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new insights into key philosophical concerns ranging from methodological issues to substantive doctrines... -
Al-Farabi's Short Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics by Nicholas Rescher 9780822983828
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.13During the years 800-1200 A.D., Arabic scholars studied many of the works of Greek philosophy, and recorded their interpretations. Significant Arabic interpretations of Aristotle's Prior Analytics,... -
Studies in the Philosophy of Science: A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement by Nicholas Rescher 9783110325447
RRP: £114.50Booksplease Price: £77.62Since Rescher's earliest publication of the middle 1950's in this field, the philosophy of science has constituted one focus of his interest and preoccupation. Some dozen of Rescher's contributions... -
Strife of Systems, The: An Essay on the Grounds and Implications of Philosophical Diversity by Nicholas Rescher 9780822984924
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05The disagreement of philosophers is notorious. In this book, Rescher develops a theory that accounts for this conflict and shows how the basis for philosophical disagreement roots in divergent... -
Philosophical Reasoning: A Study in the Methodology of Philosophizing Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh) 9780631230182
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81This book is a study in the methodology of philosophical inquiry. It expounds and defends the thesis that systematization is the proper instrument of philosophical inquiry and that the effective... -
Error: (On Our Predicament When Things Go Wrong ) by Nicholas Rescher 9780822960119
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.13In Error, Nicholas Rescher presents a fresh analysis of the occurrence, causality, and consequences of error in human thought, action, and evaluation. Rescher maintains that error-avoidance and... -
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III: Metaphilosophical Inquiries by Nicholas Rescher 9780691608198
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63This is the third and final volume of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books and articles, which... -
Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry: Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies by Nicholas Rescher 9783319309026
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and... -
Kant and the Reach of Reason: Studies in Kant's Theory of Rational Systematization by Nicholas Rescher 9780521667913
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.43The essays collected in this volume have a strong thematic and interpretative unity. Their underlying concern is with the overall nature of Kant's philosophical system, and thus with his deepest... -
Kant and the Reach of Reason: Studies in Kant's Theory of Rational Systematization by Nicholas Rescher 9780521661003
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.43The essays collected in this volume have a strong thematic and interpretative unity. Their underlying concern is with the overall nature of Kant's philosophical system, and thus with his deepest... -
Risk Theory: Rational Decision in the Face of Chance, Uncertainty, and Risk by Nicholas Rescher 9783030785017
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management, this book has one principal aim. With situations of chancy outcomes certain key factors-including outcome possibilities,... -
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II: The Validity of Values, A Normative Theory of Evaluative Rationality by Nicholas Rescher 9780691603537
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This is the second of the three volumes of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books and articles,... -
Reasonable Faith by Annika Isberg 9780415430258
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51In this awaited follow up to his book Faithful Reason, the well-known philosopher and Catholic thinker John Haldane brings his unrivalled insight to bear on questions of the existence of God and the... -
Facing Evil by John Kekes
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of... -
Critical Approaches to Science and Philosophy Mario Bunge 9780765804273
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £47.24This collection of essays, written on four continents by scientists, philosophers and humanists, was initially presented to Karl R. Popper on his sixtieth birthday as a token of critical admiration... -
Epistemic Logic: A Survey of the Logic of Knowledge by 9780822961307
Booksplease Price: £45.54Epistemic logic is the branch of philosophical thought that seeks to formalize the discourse about knowledge. Its object is to articulate and clarify the general principles of reasoning about claims... -
Leibniz's Legacy and Impact by Julia Weckend
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume tells the story of the legacy and impact of the great German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Leibniz made significant contributions to many areas, including philosophy,... -
Theory of Categories: Key Instruments of Human Understanding by Dr. Patrick Grim 9781839988134
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09Categorization is an essential and unavoidable instrumentality for conceptually navigating a world-indeed for being able to conceptualize a world to be navigated. Classification is a pivotal... -
What If?: Thought Experimentation in Philosophy by Howard Rosenthal
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity, when Xenophanes of Colophon speculated that if horses had gods, they would be equine in form... -
From a Philosophical Point of View: Selected Studies by Morton White 9780691119595
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £69.68One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Morton White has spent a career building bridges among the increasingly fragmented worlds of the humanities, social sciences, and natural... -
Systematicity: The Nature of Science by Paul Hoyningen-Huene 9780190298333
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £27.46In Systematicity, Paul Hoyningen-Huene answers the question "What is science?" by proposing that scientific knowledge is primarily distinguished from other forms of knowledge, especially... -
Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal's Wager by Jeff Jordan 9780847678341
Booksplease Price: £51.20Gambling on God brings together a superb collection of new and classic essays that provide the first sustained analysis of Pascal's Wager and the idea of an infinite utility as well as the first... -
Philosophy of Logic: An Anthology by Dale Jacquette 9780631218678
RRP: £128.95Booksplease Price: £119.23This volume provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of logic.About the AuthorDale Jacquette is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State... -
Tense Logic by R.L. McArthur 9789048183456
Booksplease Price: £90.56This monograph is designed to provide an introduction to the principal areas of tense logic. Many of the developments in this ever-growing field have been intentionally excluded to fulfill this aim... -
Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction: A Philosophical System and Its Approach to Prediction in Science by Amanda Guillan 9783319630427
Booksplease Price: £46.58This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher's system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the... -
Philosophy of Logic: An Anthology Dale Jacquette (Pennsylvania State University) 9780631218685
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £39.11This volume provides a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the philosophy of logic.About the AuthorDale Jacquette is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State... -
Self and Substance in Leibniz by Marc Elliott Bobro 9789048165728
Booksplease Price: £47.57There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, in his classic 1948 text, Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution,... -
The Future of Naturalism by John R. Shook
Booksplease Price: £33.50Naturalism is widely regarded as the dominant philosophical worldview in the West. The prestige of science and the power of technology have driven naturalism to prominence, even as deep questions... -
Tense Logic by R.L. McArthur 9789027706973
Booksplease Price: £90.56This monograph is designed to provide an introduction to the principal areas of tense logic. Many of the developments in this ever-growing field have been intentionally excluded to fulfill this aim... -
Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction: A Philosophical System and Its Approach to Prediction in Science by Amanda Guillan 9783319874616
Booksplease Price: £46.28This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher's system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the... -
The Philosophy of Time: A Collection of Essays by R. Gale 9780333000427
Booksplease Price: £91.68In what sense does time exist? Is it an objective feature of the external world? Or is its real nature dependent on the way man experiences it? Has modern science brought us closer to the answer to... -
Self and Substance in Leibniz by Marc Elliott Bobro 9781402020247
Booksplease Price: £46.28There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's mind between the notions of self and substance. R. W. Meyer, in his classic 1948 text, Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution,... -
The Structure and Development of Science by G. Radnitzky 9789027709943
Booksplease Price: £90.86TIus is the second, and fmal, volume to derive from the exciting Kronberg conference of 1975, and to show the intelligent editorial care of Gerard Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson that was so evident... -
The Ultimate Why Question: Why Is There Anything at All Rather than Nothing Whatsoever? by John F. Wippel 9780813218632
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57This volume gathers studies by prominent scholars and philosophers about the question how have major figures from the history of philosophy, and some contemporary philosophers, addressed... -
The Structure and Development of Science by G. Radnitzky 9789027709950
Booksplease Price: £90.56TIus is the second, and fmal, volume to derive from the exciting Kronberg conference of 1975, and to show the intelligent editorial care of Gerard Radnitzky and Gunnar Andersson that was so evident... -
Extraterrestrials: A Philosophical Perspective by Andre Kukla 9780739142455
Booksplease Price: £43.33The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, has attracted both praise and sharp criticism from the mainstream scientific community over the years. Extraterrestrials: A Philosophical... -
Writing and Publishing for Academic Authors by Joseph M. Moxley 9780847682584
Booksplease Price: £37.42Writing and Publishing for Academic Authors offers an insider's look at how to publish scholarly articles, book reviews, grants, magazine articles, and commercial and scholarly books. This new...