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It will be a focal point of debate for many years to come in the fields of social and political theory, sociology, politics and philosophybetween facts and norms is an outstanding work by one the most important social and political thinkers of our timein our complex, pluralistic societies, the legitimacy of political decision-making processes depends on a robust civil society and a vibrant public spheresee oxfam website for delivery information read morehabermas develops a distinctive account of the nature of law, arguing that law is characterized by an internal tension between factual and normative aspectshe links this account to a broader argument concerning the formation of the modern constitutional state and the role of democratic deliberation as a means of securing the legitimacy of legal norms in complex, pluralistic societiesif the formal processes of law-making in modern societies are to sustain their legitimacy, they must be capable of taking account of the concerns of ordinary citizensoxfam shop wolverhampton in between facts and norms habermas works out the legal and political implications of his theoretical approach, bringing to fruition the project announced more than three decades ago in the structural transformation of the public spherehabermas develops a proceduralist conception of democracy which emphasizes the importance of citizens organizing themselves in informal associations and voicing their concerns in a variety of public settingsbetween facts and norms is a major contribution to current debates on the role of law and the prospects for the development of democracy in contemporary societies
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Structured to follow the entire mrcpsych exam syllabus, the book covers the following key areas, along with the cacs examination: paper 1: - general and adult psychiatric disorder - history and mental state examination - cognitive assessment - neurology and psychology for psychiatrists - psychopathology - history of psychiatry and psychiatric ethics paper 2: - psychopharmacology - neurobiology for psychiatrists - psychiatric genetics - epidemiology - advanced psychological processes and treatments paper 3: - critical appraisal - learning disability - child and adolescent psychiatry - old age psychiatry - forensic psychiatry - consultation liaison psychiatry - neuropsychiatry - psychosexual medicine fully updated with recent references and many additional figures, this third edition features a wealth of new material (including nice guidelines) and updates the dsm-iv-tr criteria to the new dsm-5it is an essential study aid for all those preparing for postgraduate examinations in psychiatry and a superb reference for practising psychiatristsoxfam bookshop ashbourne revision notes in psychiatry, third edition continues to provide a clear and contemporary summary of clinical psychiatry and the scientific fundamentals of the disciplinedesigned to meet the needs of today's candidates, revision notes in psychiatry, third edition continues to provide a source of trusted expert information to ensure examination success for all those taking higher examinations in psychiatrycondition is very good with no remarkable damage or wear see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Provides conceptual maps for students and researchers in cognitive neuroscience and psychologyconstitutes an essential reference work for elucidation of concepts in cognitive neuroscience and psychologycover slightly creased in this provocative survey, a distinguished philosopher and a leading neuroscientist outline the conceptual problems at the heart of cognitive neurosciencesurveys the conceptual problems inherent in many neuroscientific theoriesoxfam bookshop preston some highlighting from previous owner, books text is clear howeverwritten by a distinguished philosopher and leading neuroscientistencourages neuroscientists to pay more attention to conceptual questionsavoids the use of philosophical jargonsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Finally there are essays that explore and assess wittgensteinian ideas, in some cases as developed by hacker, in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind, or in related areas such as the philosophy of action and the philosophy of neuroscienceothers deal with central topics from the history of analytic philosophysome deal with issues of wittgenstein scholarship and interpretation, including areas that have attracted an increasing amount of attention, such as ethics and religionoxfam bookshop preston peter hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of wittgenstein's work, a powerful and sophisticated exponent of wittgensteinian ideas, and a distinguished historian of the analytic traditiontheir contributions deal with a variety of themes associated with wittgensteinthirteen leading philosophers and wittgenstein scholars offer specially written essays in honour of hackersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Biological psychology, an introduction to behavioural, cognitive and clinical neurosciencein a great conditionby breedlove, watson and rosenzweig
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This focus not only confers unity upon his treatment of the topic, but also connects that treatment with fundamental questions in the philosophy of psychology (taking issue with davidsonian approaches to these matters, for example)oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells on being in the world: wittgeinstein and heidegger on seeing aspects by stephen mulhall this study aims to cast new light on a neglected but important area of wittgenstein's philosophy, and to reveal its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary analytic philosophyit highlights what is distinctively "human" about human behaviour in relation to things in the world, and elements which distinguish human practical activity from that of automataits starting point is the belief that wittgenstein's seemingly unsystematic remarks on seeing aspects of pictures and words, are in fact focused on a phenomenon which he labels "continuous aspect perception"by setting seeing aspects within this interpretative framework, the author seeks to demonstrate parallels between wittgenstein's interest, and concerns at the heart of heidegger's "being and time"in very good condition, with clean pages and a cover only faintly marked at the backthis work strives to show that wittgenstein's investigation of aspect perception is designed to illuminate much more than a bizarre type of visual experiencesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Wonderful life: insights on finding a meaningful existence, hardcover by martela, frank, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk a finnish philosopher and psychology researcher describes how to find joy and sustain it, no matter what your life circumstances, in a collection of essays that draw from history, philosophy, psychology and pop culturefirst printing
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Oxfam bookshop preston disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to philosophy for clues about how to think about lifein a systematic and lucid way, he takes the reader through the conceptual problems associated with metaphysics, the biology of the mind, the paradox of intentionality, the structure of consciousness and the organization of the social universe to present a brilliantly coherent account of what philosophy can -- and cannot dosee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, commonsense, consciousness and society lack the means, background and structure to discuss them with any confidenceafter disentangling the major questions we face when we try and engage with the world, searle then focuses on those forces that inhibit that engagementjohn searle stresses throughout this book that there exists a real material world and condemns the belief that the reality of our world depends on our perception of it
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Writing with what steven pinker has called "his trademark wit and lack of pretension," gazzaniga ranges across neuroscience, psychology and ethics to show how incorrect it is to blame our brains for our behavioursee oxfam website for delivery information read morenot so, argues the renowned neuroscientist michael seven given the latest insights into the physical mechanisms of the mind, he explains, we are responsible agents who should be held accountable for our actions, because responsibility is found in how people interact, not in brainsan extraordinary book, combining a light touch with profound implications, who's in charge? is a lasting contribution from one of the leading thinkers of our timegazzaniga as he explains how the mind, "constrains" the brain just as cars are constrained by the traffic they createoxfam bookshop wallingford the prevailing orthodoxy in brain science is that since physical laws govern our physical brains, physical laws therefore govern our behaviour and even our conscious selvesfree will is meaningless, goes the mantra; we live in a "determined" world
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Each adventure is woven with findings in mythology and anthropology, natural history and neuroscience, literature and philosophy - this is a graceful meditation on the allure of darkness, the power of mystery, and our eternal desire to connect with what we cannot seeunderground is both a personal exploration of hunt's obsession and a panoramic study of how we are all connected to the underground, how caves and other dark hollows have frightened and enchanted us through the ages' michael finkel, author of the stranger in the woods'a unique history of a culturally and scientifically important netherworld most people barely know existshe tracks the origins of life with a team of nasa microbiologists a mile beneath the black hills, camps out for three days with urban explorers in the catacombs and sewers of paris, descends with an aboriginal family into a -year-old mine in the australian outback, and glimpses a sacred sculpture moulded by paleolithic artists in the depths of a cave in the pyreneessee oxfam website for delivery information read more' booklist'an unusual and intriguing travel bookin a narrative spanning continents and epochs, hunt follows a cast of subterraneaphiles who have dedicated themselves to investigating underground worldsoxfam books & music durham 'a mesmerizingly fascinating tale, one astonishing adventure after anotheri could not stop reading this beautifully written book'kirkus (starred review) when will hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in providence, rhode islanda vivid illumination of the dark and an effective evocation of its profound mysteryhis first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of new york city to sacred caves, catacombs, tombs, bunkers and ancient underground cities in more than twenty countries around the world
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It draws from philosophy and psychology, the two fields that have grappled most fundamentally with these issuesin this wide-ranging volume, the contributors explore such issues as how free will is connected to rational choice, planning, and self-controlthis volume is aimed at readers who wish to move beyond debates about the existence of free will and the efficacy of consciousness and closer to appreciating how free will and consciousness might operatein very good conditionoxford university pressoxfam bookshop chipping norton hardbacksee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Gives deep insight into the philosophy of life and its practical applicationemphasizes the practical application of the several facets of the teachingsswami rama's translation and commentary on one of the world's most sacred and inspiring scriptures
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The book presents the reader with a compendium of accessible essays illustrating the connection between meta-theory, theory and substantive research across sociology, philosophy, literary studies, politics, media studies, psychology and science studiespublished see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe last few years have seen a growing interest in critical realism as a possible, alternative way of moving forwardthe flexibility of critical realism is illustrated in the range of topics discussed - ranging from quantum mechanics to cyberspace, to literary theory, nature, smoking, the future of marx, the unconscious and, of course, postmodernism and the future of theory itselfthe virtues of critical realism lie in its successful provision of a philosophical grounding for the social sciences and humanities and of a methodology applicable to many different fields of analysisafter postmodernism brings together some of the best-known names in the field to present the first truly interdisciplinary introduction to critical realismoxfam shop fulwood road what comes after 'postmodernism'? a buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion
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In this path-breaking work, paul thagard draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a theory of conceptual change capable of accounting for all major scientific revolutionsthe history of science contains dramatic episodes of revolutionary change in which whole systems of concepts have been replaced by new systemsthagard examines the copernican and the darwinian revolutions and the emergence of newton's mechanics, lavoisier's oxygen theory, einstein's theory of relativity, quantum theory, and the geological theory of plate tectonicsthagard provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the transformation of scientific conceptual systemshe discusses the psychological mechanisms by which new concepts and links between them are formed, and advances a computational theory of explanatory coherence to show how new theories can be judged to be superior to previous onesoxfam books & music wells a very good clean copy of this hard cover book with no internal markings or annotations and no damage to the dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop preston the routledge encyclopedia of philosophy is the most ambitious international philosophy project in many yearsit covers: - the core of most anglo-american philosophy - the metaphysical, epistemological and logical questions - the usual menu of ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy - the philosophy of other cultures - from chinese, arabic and jewish philosophy to the philosophy of africa and latin america the most impressive range of authors have been gathered together on this unique project: william alston, roderick chisolm, fred dretske, joel feinberg, sandra harding, larry laudan, martha nussbaum, richard popkin, richard rorty, alan ryan, gyatri chakravorty spivak, stephen stich, patrick suppes and bernard williams, to name just a fewedited by edward craig and assisted by thirty specialist subject editors, the rep consists of ten volumes of the world's most eminent philosophers writing for the needs of students and teachers of philosophy internationally10 large volumes bound in blue cloth with red and silver stamping, with bookmark ribbonsthe entire set is in pristine, unread conditionthe rep is a project on an unparalleled scale: - over entries ranging from 500 to words in length - thematic, biographical and national - 10 volumes consisting of over 5 million words of text plus considerable bibliographic material - a chief editor and thirty specialist subject editors from across the world - over authors from all over the worldthe importance of the rep is not to be found just in the sheer size of the project but also in its breadth of subject mattersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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8 psychology textbooks from a level to university - include; angles on psychology (as and a level), psychology for a2 level, biopsychology (undergrad), cognitive psychology (undergrad), research methods and statistics (undergrad), forensic & criminal psychology (undergrad), fundamentals of development (undergrad)worn but still good condition
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34 psychology books for a applied psychology degree book list organizational behaviour by judith r gordon, health and social care,psychology nicky hayes & sue orrell,understand psychology games people play, eric berne,md 50 ideas moheb costandi many more read more
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Clinical psychiatry by wmayer-gross, martin roth and eliot slater (, hardcover) postage cost - not included read more
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Oxfam bookshop preston key concepts in philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and topics encountered in the study of philosophythe series builds to give a solid grounding in philosophy and each book is also ideal as a companion to further studyphilosophy undergraduates will find this an invaluable aid to study, one that goes beyond simple definitions and summaries to open up a new and stimulating range of ideasepistemology - inquiry into the nature, possibility and scope of human knowledge - has been at the heart of the philosophy from ancient greek times to the presentthe text highlights continuities and contrasts between early and contemporary approaches, and between the sorts of thinking that have typified the mainstream analytic and the modern 'continental' lines of descentchristopher norris provides a lucid survey and analysis of the issues that have shaped that enterprise and continue to dominate present-day discussionnorris introduces the main topics of debate, among them arguments for and against adopting a realist position with regard to various fields of knowledge, from mathematics to the physical sciences and historyhe also brings out with exceptional clarity the ways in which certain 'technical' issues in epistemology can have a decisive bearing on matters of practical concernspecially written to meet the needs of students and those with little prior knowledge of the subject, these books open up a whole range of important, yet often difficult ideassee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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His seminal individuals rehabilitated metaphysics as a respectable enterprise within analytic philosophythe collection ranges from kant interpretation and the history of analytic philosophy through philosophical logic, metaphysics, and epistemology to the philosophy of mind and aestheticsamong the contributors are leading kant scholars, metaphysicians and historians of analytic philosophythe questions discussed are of central importance not just to kant scholarship but also to contemporary analytic philosophythey include the question of whether philosophy can achieve a priori insights and whether these insights concern reality or our way of thinking about reality, the nature of the self, the character of aesthetic appreciation and of perception, and the prospects for meeting the challenge of scepticismit also inaugurated a distinctly kantian project - descriptive metaphysics - and placed the idea of transcendental arguments at the centre of epistemological, metaphysical, and methodological debatesome of them (strawson, glock, hacker, bird, cassam, stroud) deal with general questions concerning the nature of strawson's kantianism and of his rehabilitation of metaphysicsin others, (grundmann and misselhorn, stern, hyman), the focus is more on strawson than on kantsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit combines strawson's own account of that relation with papers by eminent pupils, admirers and criticswhile there have been anthologies on strawson and on transcendental arguments, this is the first book to cover strawson's relation to kant as a wholethis was followed by the bounds of sense, a brilliant and provocative discussion of the first critique which continues to influence kant scholarship by way of inspiration and opposition alikethe papers divide into three kindssome (westphal, rosefeldt, de gaynesford, allison, förster) are devoted to more specific topics in kantin this, it reflects the range of strawson's own philosophical interests and achievementsoxfam bookshop preston sir peter strawson is not just among the greatest living philosophers, but also the leading proponent of analytic kantianism
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For sale 3 psychology books in great condition psychology for dummies psychology a graphic guide the big psychology book £15
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If you want it text neuroscience exploring the brain 3rd editionin new conditionposted by aysha in books, comics & magazines, books in whitechapel
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I have over 20 books on psychiatry on a few different subjects handbook of individual therapy edited by windy dryden manic-depressive illness by frederick kgoodwin kay redfield jamison dr raj persaud staying sane
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Buddha's brain the practical neuroscience of happiness, love, and wisdom by rick hanson (paperback, a %0a delivery%0a uk delivery is within 3 to 5 working days%0a international delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Bios instant notes in neuroscience by alan longstaff (paperback, )dispatched with royal mail 2nd classcondition is very good
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*great for psychology students* cash onlyblurb: "where did psychology originate? how has it evolved? these questions are at the heart of understanding the key debates that are central to psychologyin this highly approachable introduction, fairholm tackles the big questions in psychology covering the ever controversial nature vscollection or free delivery within lancaster & morecambesome pencil notes and underlining of text (could easily be erased)whatever your level of study, this introduction will guide you through the most important issues that psychologists continue to dispute in the twenty-first centurynurture debate, free will and determinism, and other important topicsoverall good condition, but some pages are creased
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"-michael ruse, biology and philosophy see oxfam website for delivery information read more"-natalie angier, new york times book review"by far the most professional and thorough case in favour of an evolutionary philosophy of science ever to have been madebowler, archives of natural history "i have been doing philosophy of science now for twenty-five years, and whilst i would never have claimed that i knew everything, i felt that i had a really good handle on the nature of science, again and again, hull was able to show me just how incomplete my understanding washull takes an unusual approach to his subjectit is one of a distinguished series of books, which hull himself editsbecause of hull's deep concern with the ways in which research is actually done, science as a process begins an important project in the study of sciencei share his vision of a serious account of the social and intellectual dynamics of science that will avoid both the rosy blur of legend and the facile charms of relativismhe applies the rules of evolution in nature to the evolution of science, arguing that the same kinds of forces responsible for shaping the rise and demise of species also act on the development of scientific ideasit contains excellent short histories of evolutionary biology and of systematics (the science of classifying living things); an important and original account of modern systematic controversy; a counter-attack against the philosophical critics of evolutionary philosophy; social-psychological evidence, collected by hull himself, to show that science does have the character demanded by his philosophy; and a philosophical analysis of evolution which is general enough to apply to both biological and historical change"-philip kitcher, nature "in science as a process, david hull argues that the tension between cooperation and competition is exactly what makes science so successful"-mark ridley, times literary supplement"hull is primarily interested in how social interactions within the scientific community can help or hinder the process by which new theories and techniques get acceptedthe claim that science is a process for selecting out the best new ideas is not a new one, but hull tells us exactly how scientists go about it, and he is prepared to accept that at least to some extent, the social activities of the scientists promoting a new idea can affect its chances of being acceptedmoreover, science as a process is one of the most compulsively readable books that i have ever encounteredoxfam books & music crouch end "legend is overdue for replacement, and an adequate replacement must attend to the process of science as carefully as hull has done
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Oxfam bookshop preston featuring updates and the inclusion of nine new chapters, analytic philosophy: an anthology, 2nd edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative collection of the most influential readings in analytic philosophy written over the past hundred yearsaustin, other bodies by tyler burge, individualism and supervenience by jerry fodor, responsibility and avoidability by roderick chisholm, alternative possibilities and moral responsibility by harry frankfurt, and personal identity by derek parfit * offers diverse approaches to analytic philosophy by including readings from austin, wittgenstein, quine, and davidsonsmart, selections from sense and sensibilia by jmoore, criteria, defeasibility, and knowledge by john mcdowell, sensations and brain processes by j* features broad coverage of analytic philosophy, including such topics as ethics, methodology, and freedom and personal identity * focuses on classic or seminal articles that were especially influential or significant * new articles in this edition include proof of an external world by gsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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1 x oxford revision guides as level psychology 1 x collins psychology for a2-level 1 x oxford psychology a2 3rd edition £10 for all three read more
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