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  • The Human Animal

    Personal Identity without Psychology

    by Eric T. Olson ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argues that such approaches face daunting problems, and he defends in their place a radically non-psychological account of personal identity. He defines human beings as biological organisms, and claims that ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Do We Have a Soul?

    A Debate

    by Eric T. Olson, Aaron Segal ...
    Series series Little Debates about Big Questions
    Are we made entirely of matter, like sticks and stones? Or do we have a soul—a nonphysical entity—where our mental lives take place?The authors Eric T. Olson and Aaron Segal begin this accessible and wide-ranging debate by looking at the often-overlooked question of whether we appear in ordinary experience to be material things. Olson then argues that the dependence of our mental lives on the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • What Are We?

    A Study in Personal Ontology

    by Eric T. Olson ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial or temporal parts of organisms, bundles of perceptions, or what have you. The result of this neglect has been centuries of wild proposals and clashing intuitions. What Are We? is the first general study of this ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Heaven and Philosophy

    by Michaël Bauwens, Helen L. Daly, Cruz Davis, Jean-Baptiste Guillon, Blake Hereth, Anthony G. Holdier, Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Eric T. Olson, Joshua Rasmussen, Eric Yang ...
    This volume is a collection of essays analyzing different issues concerning the nature, possibility, and desirability of heaven as understood by the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity. and Islam. Topics include whether or not it is possible that a mortal could, upon bodily death, become an inhabitant of heaven without loss of identity, where exactly heaven might be located, whether or not ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • What Are We?

    A Study in Personal Ontology

    by Eric T. Olson ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    From the time of Locke, discussions of personal identity have often ignored the question of our basic metaphysical nature: whether we human people are biological organisms, spatial or temporal parts of organisms, bundles of perceptions, or what have you. The result of this neglect has been centuries of wild proposals and clashing intuitions. What Are We? is the first general study of this ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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    A Compact History of Infinity

    by David Foster Wallace ...
    "A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

    by Adrian Bardon ...
    Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • 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

    $5.99 USD

  • This is Philosophy of Mind

    An Introduction

    by Pete Mandik ...
    Series Book 22 - This is Philosophy
    This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the core issues related to the philosophy of mind.Includes issues related to the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, free will, the nature of consciousness, and moreWritten to be accessible to philosophy students early in their studiesFeatures supplemental online resources on <a href="https://www ... Read more

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  • Visual Intuitionism: The Handbook of use of visual logic thinking in everyday life

    by Al Mastavich ...
    This book presents the technique of visual logic thinking. The technique consists of separate consecutive parts, which as whole become "skeleton" for information processing with following topics: mnemonic technique of memorization of events and dialogues, visual analysis of events in space and time, visualization of semantic connections and taxonomical groups of abstract essences, estimation of ... Read more

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  • Aristotle's Revenge

    The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

    by Edward Feser ...
    Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • 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

    $57.99 USD