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  • In Search of the Essence of Place

    by Petr Kral ...
    Translated by Christopher Moncrieff ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Armed only with his poetic sensibility, Petr Král sets out to explore our relationship with the places that we inhabit, and with the apparently unremarkable everyday objects which often inform and enrich our lives.Král bears witness to Flaubert's observation that "in order for something to become interesting, we simply have to look at it for a long time". He reveals, not only the inner life-the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Wealth of Nations

    by Adam Smith ...
    The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, "The Wealth of Nations" is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in the following five books: Introduction and plan of the work Part 1 Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive ... Read more

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  • Introducing Philosophy of Science

    A Graphic Guide

    by Ziauddin Sardar ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    What do scientists actually do? Is science "value-free"? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? "Introducing Philosophy of Science" is a clear and incisively illustrated map of the big questions underpinning science. It is essential reading for students, the general public, and even scientists themselves. ... Read more

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  • Dead Letters to Nietzsche, or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy

    by Joanne Faulkner ...
    Series Book 30 - Series in Continental Thought
    Dead Letters to Nietzsche examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche’s reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identification that these readers form with Nietzsche’s texts is an enactment of the kind of ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of the Economy

    An Aristotelian Approach

    by Ricardo F. Crespo ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book develops a philosophical analysis of economic reality and economic science from an Aristotelian point of view. It is the result of many years of thinking and philosophical study about these topics. It differs from other philosophy of economics books as it also deals with economic reality (not only the science) and approaches its subject from an Aristotelian perspective. It differs from ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings

    Edited by Jose Luis Bermudez ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy
    Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers. Addressing in depth the major topics within philosophy of psychology, the editor has carefully selected articles under the following headings:pictures of the mindcommonsense psychologyrepresentation and cognitive architecture.Articles by the ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Israeli Sociology

    Text in Context

    by Uri Ram ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive historical account of sociology in Israel the first history of sociology in Israel, from its beginnings in late 19th-century to the early 21st-century. It locates the ruptures and reorientations of the sociological text within its shifting historical context. Israeli sociology is shown to have evolved in tandem with the development of the Israeli-Jewish nation in ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • The Place of Probability in Science

    In Honor of Ellery Eells (1953-2006)

    Edited by J.H. Fetzer, Ellery Eells ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Science aims at the discovery of general principles of special kinds that are applicable for the explanation and prediction of the phenomena of the world in the form of theories and laws. When the phenomena themselves happen to be general, the principlesinvolved assume the form of theories; and when they are p- ticular, they assume the form of general laws. Theories themselves are sets of laws and ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

  • Norms, Values, and Society

    Edited by Herlinde Pauer-Studer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Norms, Values, and Society is the second Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991. The main part of the book contains original contributions to an international symposium the Institute held in October 1993 on ethics and social philosophy. The papers deal among others with questions of justice, equality, just social institutions, human rights, the connections ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Testimony

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Joseph Shieber ...
    The epistemology of testimony has experienced a growth in interest over the last twenty-five years that has been matched by few, if any, other areas of philosophy. Testimony: A Philosophical Introduction provides an epistemology of testimony that surveys this rapidly growing research area while incorporating a discussion of relevant empirical work from social and developmental psychology, as well ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Rationality, Rules, and Structure

    Edited by Julian Nida-Rümelin, W. Spohn ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    It is an obvious fact that human agency is constrained and structured by many kinds of rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality, persons, and society, and juridical rules. So the question is: what roles are played by social rules and the structural traits of human agency in rational decision making? What bearing does this have on the theory of practical rationality? These ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Search for a Methodology of Social Science

    Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action

    by S. Turner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of the facts of such behavior through statistical inquiry. The disputes were vigorously argued; they were over questions of method, criteria of explanation, interpretations of probability, understandings ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD