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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 timeexamining the full range of descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thoughtthere 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 followerspublished in first edition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 rouencatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare 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 storea 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 websitethe first four parts of the work were first printed in , while the fifth and final part was first printed in the edition under consideration heretext in french; woodcut typographic friezesin the text, about twenty small woodcut scientific illustrations, some of them with re-use of the same woodcut matricesthe work, of anti-libertine stance, is interesting in particular for the treatment of cartesian theories on emptiness and "heavenly mechanics"( numbered pages, including the cover pagetipped-in: a woodcut plate depicting the moon, printed on a folded sheet, repeated three times
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Viewings welcome5 seater “descartes” sofa in “elephant cotton matt velvet”reluctant seller as sofa is too big for our roombeautiful nearly new 2width 195cm height 90cm depth 88cm read more
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Km: ; mint name: paris; subject: descartes read morecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare 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 storeplease 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 morecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare 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 storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki5 cm x 26 cm (see photos)our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitevery lovely rare complete copytracked international shipment5 cm, ornate ribbed spine, title piece, illustrated with 4 large folding boards 33half-leather, large format 26pagination: xv+tables+765 pagesrare vintage book in good condition (see photos)
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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 sectioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare 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 storeplease 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 bindinga lovely copy of this highly esteemed work, which was first published in and has been published in numerous editionsinside in good condition, fresh inside, rare yellowing, lovely headbands, ornamental initials, complete with its 4 fold-out plates
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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 universeoxfam bookshop cheltenham the international bestseller about life, the universe and everythingwhen 14-year-old sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own lifea phenomenal worldwide bestseller, sophie's world sets out to draw teenagers into the world of socrates, descartes, spinoza, hegel and all the great philosopherssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhy 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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Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableon the back of the portrait, we read a satirical handwritten sentence about the authorare 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 storeet touchant les efets que les hommes sont capables de produire par leur communication & leur vertu“très important au point de vue historique et précieux pour l'état de la sorcellerie à cette époqueplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website” 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 consistoryfirst edition of the french translation (the original dutch edition is from )le monde enchante: ou, examen des communs sentimens touchant les esprits, leur nature, leur pouvoir, leur administration, & leurs operationsthe 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 wandla kabbale y est amplement démontrée et bekker donne l'invocation des intelligences qui président aux quatre parties du mondea amsterdam, chez pierre rotterdam, small volumes duodecimo from [] pages, full brown calf, ribbed spine adorned with golden fillets and florets, title pieces, red edgesvery fresh interiorperiod binding in decent condition and very presentable, despite missing headdresses and cracks at the end of the hingesbekker, balthasarhis work, however, had a great impact and prepared for the spirit of the enlightenment
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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 phenomenacatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablevolume 6: les essais moraux et politiques, 415 pagesare 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 storeuncommon edition of these works, completeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitenouvelle éditionvolume 7: les essais sur le commerce, le luxe, l'argent, etchume (david) oeuvres philosophiques de david humevolume 5: les recherches sur les principes de la morale, 319 pagesvolume 2: les quatre derniers essais sur l'entendement humain et les quatre philosophes, 229 pagestraduites de l'anglaiscondition: see photosvolume 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 pagesfresh inside, except for the title pagesvolume 1: les huit premiers essais sur l'entendement humainpaperback, recently refreshed interim bindinglondres (paris), duodecimo volumes, 11 x 17 cma water stain on the two first pages of volume 3, otherwise very good copies
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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 universeoxfam bookshop cheltenham when 14-year-old sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own lifea phenomenal worldwide bestseller, sophie's world sets out to draw teenagers into the world of socrates, descartes, spinoza, hegel and all the great philosopherssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhy 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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The book argues that biology provides the key to understanding the brainthis book ponders connections between psychology and physics, medicine, philosphy and moreunderlying his argument is the evolutionary view that the mind arose at a definite time in historysee oxfam website for delivery information read 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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Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare 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 storeone octavo softcover volume, 334 pages, dedication to georges heuyerla pesée des âmes () lumières sur ma vie iv mercure de france, parisplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitededication to president kelmanmercure de france, paris x 19les confessions sans pénitence, suivi de trois autres entretiens: rousseau, montesquieu, descartes, pascalmercure de franceisraël- clefs de l'orientfirst edition, beautiful dedication to jean cassouparis, plon collection: l'abeillequerelles de familleoctavo softcover, 182 pages, handwritten dedication by the author to andré roussin
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Substances are simple, lacking parts that are themselves substancesheil 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 truthmakerssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 exemplars
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The volume is amply illustrated with diagrams from historical scientific papers, photographs of artefacts, and portraits of some of the subject's leading protagonistslamb, have all contributed to our understanding of tidesthe 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 developoxfam 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 techniquestidal 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 moreit 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 area
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" in mind, searle dismantles these famous and influential theories as he presents a vividly written, comprehensive introduction to the mindsearle 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 philosophysee 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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In 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 responsibilitywhile 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 writingsit contains sixteen essays (four on each philosopher) written by leading specialists in the relevant area 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 wittgensteinin 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 inquiryoxfam bookshop preston sir anthony kenny is one of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of our timea preface by the editors describes anthony kenny's philosophical career, and the volume also includes a complete bibliography of his writingssee oxfam website for delivery information read morestrongly 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 work
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This 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 selfsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 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 physicalin doing so he is in radical conflict with the current philosophical establishmentambitious and controversial, the immaterial self is the most powerful and effective defence of cartesian dualism since descartes' own
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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 speciesoxfam 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, phacker, wolfram hinzen, rosalind hursthouse, peter kail, sarah patterson and richard samuelssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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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 incatawiki’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 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 storea friend of philosophers, he was a regular at mrshe was a teacher and a member of the académie de lyonplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethomas - oeuvres diverses de mbeautiful work by antoine-léonard thomas who was a poet and criticgeoffrin's salons, who pensioned him and bequeathed him a life annuity of francs, from miss de lespinasse, from mrs
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