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  • Truth: The Basics

    by Jc Beall, Ben Middleton ...
    Series series The Basics
    Truth: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to philosophical theories about the nature of truth. The two authors – leading philosophers in this field – build the book around a single question: what, if anything, is common to all truths, which makes them true? The book explores five important answers (‘theories’) to the given question: correspondence, semantic, verifiability, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Japan and the High Treason Incident

    Edited by Masako Gavin, Ben Middleton ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    The ‘High Treason Incident’ rocked Japanese society between 1910 and 1911, when police discovered that a group of anarchists and socialists were plotting to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. Following a trial held in camera, twelve of the so-called conspirators were hanged, but while the executions officially brought an end to the incident, they were only the initial outcome as the state became ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Mind

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Edward Feser ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    In this lively and entertaining introduction to the philosophy of mind, Edward Feser explores the questions central to the discipline; such as 'do computers think', and 'what is consciousness'; and gives an account of all the most important and significant attempts that have been made to answer them. ... Read more

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  • Modern Japan

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Goto-Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it ... Read more

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  • Mind, Language And Society

    Philosophy In The Real World

    by John R Searle ...
    Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from their abstract heights to the terra firma of real ... Read more

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  • Godel's Proof

    by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The GuardianIn 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was partly based on ... Read more

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  • Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering

    Japan in the Modern World

    by John W. Dower ...
    "A series of astute academic essays on the forging of postwar Japan" from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize ( Kirkus Reviews).Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship between the United States and Japan since the end of World War II. In this provocative and probing series of ... Read more

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  • Ontological Mathematics for the Curious: An Introduction to Ontological Thinking

    by Dr. Cody Newman ...
    There’s a new kid on the block, a subject that can revolutionize humanity’s understanding of reality, while being completely rational and logical, and scrupulously avoiding faith and mysticism. It’s the long-awaited replacement for science. Only one subject can take over from science and that is the subject that is already at the core of science and gives it all of its power and success, namely ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Mind of Jawaharlal Nehru

    by Dr Sarvepalli Gopal ...
    This is the text of the Heras Memorial Lectures delivered in Mumbai in December 1977. They contain: 1. Formative Ideology2. Democracy and Socialism3. Internationalism ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    A Contemporary Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures

    by James Robert Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value?This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-standard topics such ... Read more

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  • A New Humanism

    The University Addresses of Daisaku Ikeda

    by Daisaku Ikeda ...
    'The natural sympathy and understanding of people everywhere must be the soil in which the new humanism can thrive.' For Daisaku Ikeda, whose words these are, education has long been one of the fundamental priorities of his work and teaching. And his emphasis on the intellectual legacy bequeathed to humanity by the great teachers of civilization is in this volume encapsulated by the notion of a ... Read more

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  • Re-inventing Japan

    Nation, Culture, Identity

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD