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  • Descartes' Natural Philosophy

    Edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, John Sutton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Descartes-Agonistes

    Physico-mathematics, Method & Corpuscular-Mechanism 1618-33

    by John Schuster ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes’ projects in physico-mathematics, analytical mathematics, universal method, and, finally, systematic corpuscular-mechanical natural ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

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  • What Is Philosophy?

    by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ...
    Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Graham Burchell ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication of What Is Philosophy? in English marks the culmination of Deleuze's career.Deleuze and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    This bestselling dictionary is written by one of the leading philosophers of our time, and it is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen. With clear and concise definitions, it provides lively and accessible coverage of not only Western philosophical traditions, but also themes from Chinese, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Course in General Linguistics

    by Ferdinand la Saussure ...
    The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Descartes

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tom Sorell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world. But Descartes did not intend the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Embodiment

    A History

    Edited by Justin E.H. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition is the central concern of the present volume. The problem includes, but also goes beyond, the philosophical problem of body: that is, what the essence of a body is, and how, if at all, it ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All?

    by Ian Hacking ...
    This truly philosophical book takes us back to fundamentals - the sheer experience of proof, and the enigmatic relation of mathematics to nature. It asks unexpected questions, such as 'what makes mathematics mathematics?', 'where did proof come from and how did it evolve?', and 'how did the distinction between pure and applied mathematics come into being?' In a wide-ranging discussion that is both ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Henri Bergson

    Translated by Nils F. Schott ...
    by Vladimir Jankelevitch ...
    Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankélévitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives. Here Jankélévitch covers all aspects of Bergson's thought, emphasizing the concepts of time and ... Read more

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  • Leibniz

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Maria Rosa Antognazza ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times. More than anything else, he was a man who wanted to improve the life of his fellow human beings through the advancement of all the sciences and the establishment of a stable and just political order. In this Very Short Introduction ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz

    The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics

    by Roger Woolhouse ...
    This book introduces student to the three major figures of modern philosophy known as the rationalists. It is not for complete beginners, but it is an accessible account of their thought. By concerning itself with metaphysics, and in particular substance, the book relates an important historical debate largely neglected by the contemporary debates in the once again popular area of traditional ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Realism and the Aim of Science

    From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery

    by Karl Popper ...
    Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery. The Postscript is the culmination of Popper’s work in the philosophy of physics and a new famous attack on subjectivist approaches to philosophy of science.Realism and the Aim of Science is the first volume of the Postcript. Popper here formulates and explains his non ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD