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  • Sociology of the Next Society

    Multiple Modernities, Glocalization and Membership Order

    by Gerhard Preyer, Reuss-Markus Krausse ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes. It particularly reviews and critiques existing theories of globalization and analyses how global changes affect all subsystems of social membership systems: the scientific, academic, legal and political systems. The ... Read more

    $153.99 CAD

  • Reality and Humean Supervenience

    Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis

    by Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt, D M. Armstrong, Jonathan Bennett, John Bigelow, Daniel Bonevac, Phillip Bricker, Peter Forrest, Terence Horgan, Harold W. Noonan, Paul Teller, Michael Tye ...
    Series series Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory
    If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis. The core of Lewis's many contributions to philosophy, including his work in philosophical ontology, intensional logic and semantics, probability and decision theory, topics within philosophy of science as well as ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics

    Edited by Gerhard Preyer ...
    The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; linguists document speakers' knowledge of meaning; psychologists investigate the mechanisms of understanding and production. Up through the early 2000s, these investigations were generally compartmentalized: indeed, researchers often ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • China's Modernization II

    ProtoSociology Volume 29

    Edited by Gerhard Preyer ...
    Series Book 30 - ProtoSociology
    The idea of only one way leading to a modern society seems to be hardly tenable. But even if we agree to this, our theories and terms describing modernization are gained on our own Western history. So social science has to reconsider its basic terms to describe China’s modernization, and maybe even the understanding of modernization itself. The second of two volumes on China’s modernization ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Concepts: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

    ProtoSociology Volume 30

    Edited by Gerhard Preyer ...
    Series Book 30 - ProtoSociology
    “Concept” in a historic and systematic perspective In his paper “What Happened to the Sense of a Concept-Word?”, Carlo Penco deals with the boundary between semantics and pragmatics and discusses some misunderstandings in the shift from the sense/reference distinction in Frege to the intension/extension distinction in semantics. Building on Fodor, Margolis and Laurence Jacob Beck defends in “Sense ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Joint Commitment Account: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Sociality of Margaret Gilbert with Her Comments

    ProtoSociology Vol. 35

    Edited by Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter ...
    Series Book 35 - ProtoSociology
    The Joint Commitment Account: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Sociality of Margaret Gilbert with Her Comments ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pre-reflective Consciousness

    Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

    Edited by Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer, Clara Morando ...
    Pre-reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind delves into the relationship between the current analytical debates on consciousness and the debates that took place within continental philosophy in the twentieth century and in particular around the time of Sartre and within his seminal works.Examining the return of the problem of subjectivity in philosophy of mind and the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality

    Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Raimo Tuomela with His Responses

    Edited by Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of the philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela and it also offers it offers new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate. It specifically looks at Tuomela's book Social Ontology and its accounts of collective intentionality and related topics.The book contains eight essays written by expert contributors that present different ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Education in the Era of Globalization

    Edited by Yvonne Raley, Gerhard Preyer ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    Terrorism, ethnocentrism, religious tension, competition over limited resources, war - these are just a few of the problems and challenges that have emerged in today's global economy. Globalization both implies and requires economic interdependence; and this should bring with it a heightened sense of the interconnectedness of the participating societies. But unfortunately, as recent events ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Thirty Years of ProtoSociology - Three Decades Between Disciplines

    by Georg Peter, Reuß-Markus Krauße ...
    Series Book 38 - ProtoSociology - An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
    The contributions to the "Thirty Years Volume" represented in this volume reflect the historical focus of the ProtoSociology project. Colleagues are represented who contributed to the focus. This is also true thematically, as contributions on language theory, the philosophy of the mental, and the sociology of contemporary societies are represented. The contributions to the "Thirty Years Volume" ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An Advanced Introduction

    by Thomas Lemke, Lisa Jean Moore, Monica Casper ...
    Series Book 5 - Biopolitics
    The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational ... Read more

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  • The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)

    A Feminist Critique of Political Economy

    by J.K. Gibson-Graham ...
    In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End of Capitalism and outline the economic research and activism they have been ... Read more

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