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  • Cybernetics and the Origin of Information

    One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English. Raymond Ruyer—who was a major influence on Simondon and Deleuze, among others—originally wrote this book, one of the first critiques of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics program, in 1954. At once critical and analytical, it is a deep exploration of information theory, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Journey to Infinity: The Quest for Eternal Life and the Secrets of Immortality

    Religion and Spirituality

    by Dr. Jilesh ...
    Series series Religion and Spirituality
    Are you ready to embark on a captivating odyssey that delves into the timeless quest for eternal life? Join us on an extraordinary journey through the ages, as we unlock the enigmatic secrets of immortality in "Journey to Infinity: The Quest for Eternal Life and the Secrets of Immortality."In this thought-provoking and enlightening exploration, we unravel the mysteries that have captivated ... Read more

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  • Apocalypso – The New Revelation

    This revelatory project carries on from earlier ones of a similar aphoristic nature by John O'Loughlin the task of highlighting the axial distinctions between Social Theocracy and Social Democracy, being more terminologically exacting than ever before with what its author holds to be well-nigh irrefutable conclusions. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Custodian of Grammar

    Essays on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Morphology

    The nature of method has always been a topic at the very heart of western philosophical traditions, especially in the 20th century. One of the most influential philosophers of the last century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, changed not just his philosophical standpoint at least twice in his lifetime, but the very method of studying philosophy as well. A Custodian of Grammar discusses Wittgenstein's method ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Comments on John Deely's Book (1994) New Beginnings

    by Razie Mah ...
    Series series Peirce's Secondness and Aristotle's Hylomorphism
    In New Beginnings: Early Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Thought (1994), John Deely argues that the Baroque scholastics elucidated the causality inherent in sign. This causality is not the “cause and effect” of science. As such, semiotics, the study of sign, belongs to postmodern inquiry. Indeed, it defines postmodern inquiry.In these comments on Deely's text, the category-based nested form is ... Read more

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  • Robotics in Germany and Japan

    Philosophical and Technical Perspectives

    Series Book 5 - Dresden Philosophy of Technology Studies / Dresdner Studien zur Philosophie der Technologie
    Germany and Japan are two of the worldwide leading countries in robotics research. Robotics as a key technology introduces technical as well as philosophical and cultural challenges. How can we use robots that have a human-like appearance in everyday life? Are there limits to technology? What are the cultural similarities and differences between Germany and Japan? These are some of the questions ... Read more

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  • The Primacy of Method in Historical Research

    Philosophy of History and the Perspective of Meaning

    by Jonas Ahlskog ...
    Series Book 40 - Routledge Approaches to History
    How does history relate to the past? According to leading historical theorists, the relation to the past in history is reducible to evidential, psychological, practical and retrospective concerns. In contrast, this volume claims that historical relations to the past are irreducible products of the logical commitments of history as method. Ahlskog argues that the method of history shapes and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Principles of Philosophy

    Principles of Philosophy was written in Latin by René Descartes. Published in 1644, it was intended to replace Aristotle's philosophy and traditional Scholastic Philosophy. This volume contains a letter of the author to the French translator of the Principles of Philosophy serving for a Preface and a letter to the most serene princess, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Frederick, King of Bohemia, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Art of War

    by Sun Tzu. ...
    The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to ... Read more

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  • Kant's Prolegomena

    To Any Future Metaphysics

    by Immanuel Kant ...
    These Prolegomena are destined for the use, not of pupils, but of future teachers, and even the latter should not expect that they will be serviceable for the systematic exposition of a ready-made science, but merely for the discovery of the science itself.There are scholarly men, to whom the history of philosophy (both ancient and modern) is philosophy itself; for these the present Prolegomena ... Read more

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  • On Beauty and Being: Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Virginia Woolf’s Hermeneutics of the Beautiful

    Series Book 33 - Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
    The book is an exploration of the affinities between Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and Virginia Woolf’s philosophy of beauty and Being embodied in her oeuvre. The study addresses beauty as a mode of being rather than a mere adornment of human existence. Tracing Plato’s legacy in the two authors, it espouses the proximity of truth and beauty, and argues for beauty’s restorative ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

    by Mary Gregory ...
    In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Kant's Notion of a Transcendental Schema

    The Constitution of Objective Cognition between Epistemology and Psychology

    Series Book 32 - Studia philosophica et historica
    The main aim of this book is to provide a critical and historical inquiry into Kant’s schematism chapter contained in the Critique of Pure Reason. More specifically, the book argues that Kant’s schematism chapter is a necessary step within the project of the Critique. It deals with a problem of its own, one which is not the object of the previous chapters: How can categories be applied to ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Black Sabbaticals

    Few books can have undergone so many re-evaluations as this one, which has developed a fresh approach to terms which the author was apt to take for granted in recent years, never imagining that, one day, they would undergo such extensive re-evaluation as has transpired in this, arguably his most comprehensively exacting and significant work to-date, the overall significance of which is also due to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The German Gita

    Hermeneutics and Discipline in the Early German Reception of Indian Thought

    How did the Bhagavadgãtà first become an object of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles, and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study of the figures who ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Atoms and Pseudo-Atoms

    An intensely metaphysical work of aphoristic philosophy with a fresh take on atoms and what the author has called 'pseudo-atoms'in relation to axial polarity coupled to gender and class differentiation. This title marks a radical step beyond his previous thoughts on the subject, albeit one which derives from prior material and has been able to build upon it to a groundbreaking extent. Brings a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Holistic Science

    New Paradigm

    INTRODUCTIONMustafa ÖZCAN's book on "HOLISM"With the beginning of the Renaissance in the 17th century, a new way of thinking was initiated in the world of philosophy and science. Although the holistic approach was a popular way of thinking among philosophers in ancient Greece, it cannot be said that there was an important theoretical recovery in these periods. This movement in Europe is primarily ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rantings of a Mad Man

    by Abu Malik ...
    A rib-tickling, pithy look at life and its idiosyncrasies … Run after money, it will keep you fit.Have sex, it will keep you alive.The more you look and behave like a monkey, the more successful you will be.Too much knowledge brings pain into your life.Read Rantings of a Mad Man for more such practical nuggets to tackle life’s endless marathon.The book urges you to make the most of your existence ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Doing Chinese Philosophy

    A Focus on Philosophical Methodology

    by Shaoming Chen ...
    This book focuses on "doing Chinese philosophy", the concept of which is a derivative form of Ludwig Wittgenstein's expression "doing philosophy". On the one hand, its approach differs from the traditional philosophical study method, which tends to discuss rather than do; on the other, it focuses on the unique features of Chinese philosophy. The concept of "Chinese philosophy" combines classical ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Celtic Dragon Myth

    by J.F. Campbell ...
    The Celtic Dragon Mythby J.F. Campbell"The Scottish folklorist J.F. Campbell pieced together the tale of the Celtic Dragon, an intricate oft-told story involving not just dragons but mermaids, giants, and sidhe (fairies). This story, or portions thereof, is found in many Indo-European folklore traditions, as far afield as India. Campbell includes not only his merged narrative, but original Gaelic ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Language and the Ineffable

    A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications

    One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the difficulties they raise in multiple disciplines. This breakthrough study sees past failures as inevitable, since reformers retained key detrimental ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein

    To Follow a Rule

    Edited by S HOLTZMAN, C M LEICH ...
    First published in 2005. The essays and replies in this volume represent, with some modifications, the proceedings of a colloquium held in Oxford in Trinity Term, 1979. With occasional exceptions, critical response to the Philosophical Investigations following publication focused on a limited range of topics - an unsystematic book was discussed in an unsystematic fashion. This book employs a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein

    Series series Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
    This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes that appeared between 1996 and 2019. It is divided into three parts, with a common trajectory laid out in a substantial introduction. The first part links meaning, necessity and normativity. It defends and modifies Wittgenstein’s claim that the idea of a ‘grammatical rule’ holds the key to understanding linguistic meaning ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling

    Unasked Questions, Open Answers

    by Ora Gruengard ...
    Series series Philosophical Practice
    Philosophy in Philosophical Counseling: Unasked Questions, Open Answers offers a base for criticizing approaches to philosophical counseling that fail to be philosophical or relevant to the counselees' concerns. It analyses the impact of tacit, unexamined, philosophical assumptions and examines their influence on the search for solutions, while explaining how such assumptions may obstruct that ... Read more

    $40.99 USD