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  • Approaching Infinity

    by M. Huemer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions. The book addresses these paradoxes using a new theory of infinity, which entails that an infinite series is uncompletable when it requires something to possess an infinite intensive magnitude. Along the way, the author addresses the nature of numbers, sets, geometric points, and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Potbelly Syndrome

    How Common Germs Cause Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Disease

    by Russell Farris, Per Marin, M.D., Ph.D. ...
    This book clarifies the cause and consequences of hypercortisolism to help readers do something about it. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

    by Michael Huemer ...
    Series series Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems
    Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry?In this book, two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days. Issues covered include: how intelligence affects the badness of pain, whether ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Epistemology: Contemporary Readings

    Edited by Michael Huemer ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy
    This comprehensive anthology draws together classic and contemporary readings by leading philosophers on epistemology. Ideal for any philosophy student, it will prove essential reading for epistemology courses, and is designed to complement Robert Audi's textbook Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1998).Themes covered include, perception, memory, inductive inference, reason and ... Read more

    Was $72.99 USD Now $64.99 USD

  • Skepticism and the Veil of Perception

    by Michael Huemer ...
    Since Descartes, one of the central questions of Western philosophy has been that of how we know that the objects we seem to perceive are real. Philosophical skeptics claim that we know no such thing. Representationalists claim that we can gain such knowledge only by inference, by showing that the hypothesis of a real world is the best explanation for the kind of sensations and mental images we ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Clinical Examples in Pediatric Rheumatology

    Edited by Christian Huemer, Hermann Girschick ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The book provides an introduction to the differential diagnosis and decision-making in pediatric rheumatological diseases through typical and real cases. One of the aspects in the discussion of various case scenarios is the avoidance of errors and error management. The casebook is useful for specialists and trainees in pediatrics, young doctors, and anyone on the path to specialization in ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Handbook of Business Interest Associations, Firm Size and Governance

    A Comparative Analytical Approach

    Edited by Franz Traxler, Gerhard Huemer ...
    This Handbook presents a theory of Business Interest Associations and fifteen empirical country by country case studies in the EU.The book is organized into three main parts. Part I develops a theory of business associations which centres on firm size as the key explanatory variable. Part II consists of country studies covering the EU-15, which are written along strictly comparable lines of ... Read more

    $385.00 USD

  • The Literary Wittgenstein

    Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer ...
    The Literary Wittgenstein is a stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature.Amid growing recognition that Wittgenstein's philosophy has important implications for literary studies, this book brings together twenty-one articles by the most prominent figures in the field. Eighteen of the articles ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Constitution of Consciousness

    A Study in Analytic Phenomenology

    by Wolfgang Huemer ...
    Series series Studies in Philosophy
    Through the work of philosophers like Sellars, Davidson, and McDowell, the question of how the mind is related to the world has gained new importance in contemporary analytic philosophy. This book demonstrates that Husserl's phenomenological analyses of the structure of consciousness can provide fruitful insights for developing an original approach to these questions. ... Read more

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  • A Sense of the World

    Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge

    Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, Luca Pocci ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate.The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Is Political Authority an Illusion?

    A Debate

    by Michael Huemer, Daniel Layman ...
    Series series Little Debates about Big Questions
    What gives some people the right to issue commands to everyone else and force everyone else to obey them? And why should people obey the commands of those with political power? These two key questions are the heart of the issue of political authority, and, in this volume, two philosophers debate the answers.Michael Huemer argues that political authority is an illusion and that no one is entitled ... Read more

    Was $45.99 USD Now $40.99 USD

  • Can We Know Anything?

    A Debate

    by Bryan Frances, Michael Huemer ...
    Series series Little Debates about Big Questions
    In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether – and how – we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds. Starting with opening statements, the debate moves through two rounds of replies.Frances argues that we lack knowledge because, for example, we cannot rule out the possibility that we are brains in vats being artificially stimulated in such a way as to create an ... Read more

    Was $42.99 USD Now $37.99 USD