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Oxfam books & music aberdeen the cambridge descartes lexicon is the definitive reference source on rené descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all timepublished in first edition see oxfam website for delivery information read morethere are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, god, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, meditations on first philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countriescumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followersexamining the full range of descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought
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Gabriel daniel was best known as a historian of the kingdom of france, but he also wrote controversial and popular works on descartes and pascalthe work is a treatise on the theories of the famous french philosopher and scientist of the seventeenth century renèe descartes by a jesuit native of rouentipped-in: a woodcut plate depicting the moon, printed on a folded sheet, repeated three timesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiin the text, about twenty small woodcut scientific illustrations, some of them with re-use of the same woodcut matricestext in french; woodcut typographic friezesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe first four parts of the work were first printed in , while the fifth and final part was first printed in the edition under consideration herecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe work, of anti-libertine stance, is interesting in particular for the treatment of cartesian theories on emptiness and "heavenly mechanics"a copy in good condition; traces of wear to the binding; a small tear along the vertical folding line on one of the three tipped-in plates depicting the mooncoeval havana-coloured full leather binding; on the spine, red tag with tile and author at the top, then a lozenge decoration among the friezes, all printed in gold; faded red edgesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website( numbered pages, including the cover page
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Width 195cm height 90cm depth 88cm read more5 seater “descartes” sofa in “elephant cotton matt velvet”reluctant seller as sofa is too big for our roomviewings welcomebeautiful nearly new 2
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Km: ; mint name: paris; subject: descartes read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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1 x 100 descartes francs dated , see images, secure shipping, double envelope, letter r 3, insurance read moreare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Pagination: xv+tables+765 pagesrare vintage book in good condition (see photos)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikitracked international shipmenthalf-leather, large format 26very lovely rare complete copyour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available5 cm, ornate ribbed spine, title piece, illustrated with 4 large folding boards 335 cm x 26 cm (see photos)please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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It provides a fairly complete overview of the physical knowledge of time: mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, gnomonics, descartes and newton systems, celestial physics, physics of earth and atmosphere, also with a historical and biographical sectiona lovely copy of this highly esteemed work, which was first published in and has been published in numerous editionsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeinside in good condition, fresh inside, rare yellowing, lovely headbands, ornamental initials, complete with its 4 fold-out platescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteaimé-henri paulian - dictionnaire de physique - - tome premier (a à c) binding in good condition, work in its period brown calfskin binding, light peeling on the covers, lightly rubbed crowns and corners, red pigmented edges, adorned ribbed spine, gilded titling and volume number on morocco label, sound and elegant binding
49 €
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A brilliantly original and fascinating story with many twists and turns, it raises profound questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universewhen 14-year-old sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own lifeoxfam bookshop cheltenham the international bestseller about life, the universe and everythingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea phenomenal worldwide bestseller, sophie's world sets out to draw teenagers into the world of socrates, descartes, spinoza, hegel and all the great philosopherswhy does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? who is the other girl? and who, for that matter, is sophie herself? to solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined
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” bekker was a dutch preacher, an admirer of descartes' ideas, but after the publication of his book he was prevented from preaching and sidelined and censored by the amsterdam consistoryet touchant les efets que les hommes sont capables de produire par leur communication & leur vertubekker, balthasarare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikila kabbale y est amplement démontrée et bekker donne l'invocation des intelligences qui président aux quatre parties du mondeon the back of the portrait, we read a satirical handwritten sentence about the authorour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablefirst edition of the french translation (the original dutch edition is from )a amsterdam, chez pierre rotterdam, small volumes duodecimo from [] pages, full brown calf, ribbed spine adorned with golden fillets and florets, title pieces, red edgesperiod binding in decent condition and very presentable, despite missing headdresses and cracks at the end of the hingesvery fresh interiorthe first volume is decorated with the portrait of the author, and the fourth of 6 plates engraved out of text including 5 featuring characters in costumes showing us the various ways to use the divinatory wandhis work, however, had a great impact and prepared for the spirit of the enlightenmentplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitele monde enchante: ou, examen des communs sentimens touchant les esprits, leur nature, leur pouvoir, leur administration, & leurs operations“très important au point de vue historique et précieux pour l'état de la sorcellerie à cette époque
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Founder of modern empiricism (with locke and berkeley), one of the most radical in his scepticism, david hume particularly opposed descartes and philosophies that considered the human mind from a theological and metaphysical point of view: he thus paved the way for the use of experimental methods in mental phenomenacondition: see photoshume (david) oeuvres philosophiques de david humenouvelle éditionvolume 2: les quatre derniers essais sur l'entendement humain et les quatre philosophes, 229 pagesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikilondres (paris), duodecimo volumes, 11 x 17 cmvolume 6: les essais moraux et politiques, 415 pagesa water stain on the two first pages of volume 3, otherwise very good copiespaperback, recently refreshed interim bindingfresh inside, except for the title pagesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storevolume 7: les essais sur le commerce, le luxe, l'argent, etccatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableuncommon edition of these works, completevolume 1: les huit premiers essais sur l'entendement humainvolume 5: les recherches sur les principes de la morale, 319 pagestraduites de l'anglaisplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitevolume 3: l'histoire naturelle de la religion, 200 pages volume 4: les dissertations sur les passions, sur la tragédie et sur la règle du goût, 135 pages
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A brilliantly original and fascinating story with many twists and turns, it raises profound questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universesee oxfam website for delivery information read morea phenomenal worldwide bestseller, sophie's world sets out to draw teenagers into the world of socrates, descartes, spinoza, hegel and all the great philosopherswhy does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? who is the other girl? and who, for that matter, is sophie herself? to solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imaginedoxfam bookshop cheltenham when 14-year-old sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life
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The book argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brainsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunderlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in historythis book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosphy and moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham in this book, one of the world's brain scientists takes us on a dazzling tour that covers such topics as computers, evolution, descartes, schrodinger, and the nature of perception, language, and individuality
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Les confessions sans pénitence, suivi de trois autres entretiens: rousseau, montesquieu, descartes, pascalla pesée des âmes () lumières sur ma vie iv mercure de france, parisare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikioctavo softcover, 182 pages, handwritten dedication by the author to andré roussinparis, plon collection: l'abeilleone octavo softcover volume, 334 pages, dedication to georges heuyermercure de franceour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableisraël- clefs de l'orientdedication to president kelmanquerelles de famillemercure de france, paris x 19please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitefirst edition, beautiful dedication to jean cassou
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Oxfam bookshop preston what does reality encompass? is reality exclusively physical? or does reality include nonphysical -mental, and perhaps 'abstract' -aspects? what is it to be physical or mental, or to be an abstract entity? what are the elements of being, reality's raw materials? how is the manifest image we inherit from our culture and refine in the special sciences related to the scientific image as we have it in fundamental physics? can physics be understood as providing a 'theory of everything', or do the various sciences make up a hierarchy corresponding to autonomous levels of reality? is our conscious human perspective on the universe in the universe or at its limits? what, if anything, makes ordinary truths, truths of the special sciences, and truths of mathematics true? and what is it for an assertion or judgment to be 'made true'? in the universe as we find it, john heil offers answers to these questions framed in terms of a comprehensive ontology of substances and properties inspired by descartes, locke, their successors, and their latter day exemplarssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreheil argues that the deep story about the nature of these truthmakers can only be told by fundamental physicsproperties are modes -particular ways particular substances are -and arrangements of propertied substances serve as truthmakers for all the truths that have truthmakerssubstances are simple, lacking parts that are themselves substances
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Tidal physics has puzzled some of the world's greatest scientists and mathematicians: amongst many others, galileo, descartes, bacon, kepler, newton, bernoulli, euler, laplace, young, whewell, airy, kelvin, gsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelamb, have all contributed to our understanding of tidesoxfam shop haverfordwest this book, first published in , provides a history of the study of the tides over two millennia, from the primitive ideas of the ancient greeks to present sophisticated space-age techniquesthe volume is amply illustrated with diagrams from historical scientific papers, photographs of artefacts, and portraits of some of the subject's leading protagonistsit will particularly interest specialists in oceanography, hydrography, geophysics, geodesy, astronomy and navigation the book is a good readable copy but does have some water damage to base of spine and several pages but this does not impact on the reading areathe history of the tides is in part the history of a broad area of science and the subject provides insight into the progress of science as a whole: this book will therefore appeal to all those interested in how scientific ideas develop
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Searle begins with a look at the twelve problems of philosophy of mind--which he calls "descartes and other disasters"--problems which he returns to throughout the volume, as he illuminates such topics as the freedom of the will, the actual operation of mental causation, the nature and functioning of the unconscious, the analysis of perception, and the concept of the selfhere readers will find one of the world's most eminent thinkers shedding light on the central concern of modern philosophy" in mind, searle dismantles these famous and influential theories as he presents a vividly written, comprehensive introduction to the mindsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston "the philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes john searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false
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A preface by the editors describes anthony kenny's philosophical career, and the volume also includes a complete bibliography of his writingsin contrast to many of his contemporaries, who have played down philosophy's debt to its past, kenny's work has always been rooted in the great tradition of western philosophical inquiryin the wide range and historical breadth of his interests, he has influenced many parts of the philosophical landscape, especially in the philosophy of mind and the theory of human action and responsibilitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhile keeping to the highest standards of scholarship and philosophical rigour, the volume aims to be engaging and comprehensible to a wide audience, thus mirroring the clarity and accessibility that are the hallmarks of kenny's own philosophical writingsstrongly linked together by their focus on philosophy of mind, action and responsibility, the papers make a significant contribution to those areas of philosophy that kenny has made particularly his own, and constitute a timely celebration of his workoxfam bookshop preston sir anthony kenny is one of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of our time mind, method and morality celebrates kenny's work by focusing on the four great philosophers to whom kenny has given special attention, namely aristotle, aquinas, descartes, and wittgensteinit contains sixteen essays (four on each philosopher) written by leading specialists in the relevant area
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Ambitious and controversial, the immaterial self is the most powerful and effective defence of cartesian dualism since descartes' ownsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein doing so he is in radical conflict with the current philosophical establishment john foster's new book exposes the inadequacies of the dominant materialist and reductionist accounts of the mindit holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physicalthis book examines and defends the most famous dualist account of the mind, the cartesian, which attributes the immaterial contents of the mind to an immaterial selfoxfam bookshop preston dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brainboth are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world
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Questions such as 'what is human nature?', 'is there such a thing as an exclusively human nature?', 'through what methods might we best discover more about our nature?', and 'to what extent are our actions and beliefs constrained by it?' are of central importance not only to philosophy, but to our general understanding of ourselves as part of the human specieshacker, wolfram hinzen, rosalind hursthouse, peter kail, sarah patterson and richard samuelssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston an understanding of human nature has been central to the work of some of the greatest philosophical thinkers including plato, descartes, hume, hobbes, rousseau, freud and marxthis volume addresses such questions through the inclusion of special commissioned essays by specialists including john cottingham, hans-johann glock, p
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He is famous for having praised the great men; he won five times the prize for eloquence at the académie: in with the honours of the marshal of saxony, the chancellor of aguesseau, duguay-trouin, sully and descartes (four of these honours can be found in this book), which did not prevent him from being awarded the poetry prize inhe was a teacher and a member of the académie de lyonbeautiful work by antoine-léonard thomas who was a poet and criticare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithomas - oeuvres diverses de mour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethomas - pages - binding in good condition, volume in its period full brown leather, covers and spine in good condition, friction from use especially on the spine, the headcap and the tailcap, the back cover is getting a little loose, slightly rubbed corners, red edges, adorned spine, gilded titling - interior in good condition, lovely headpieces, sometimes engraved, a loose sheet, marbled endpapers - delivery service provided by chronopost within a few days - read moregeoffrin's salons, who pensioned him and bequeathed him a life annuity of francs, from miss de lespinasse, from mrsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitea friend of philosophers, he was a regular at mrs
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