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  • The Cambridge Companion to Galileo

    Edited by Peter Machamer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Descartes's Changing Mind

    by Peter Machamer, James E. McGuire ...
    Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works--and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes. The first comprehensive study of the most significant ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Scientific Controversies

    Philosophical and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Peter Machamer, Marcello Pera, Aristides Baltas ...
    Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social constructionists have claimed that the outcome of scientific debates is strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the participants. This volume of previously unpublished essays by well-known ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Perception

    An Annotated Bibliography

    Edited by Kathleen Emmett, Peter Machamer ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Perception
    Originally published in 1976, the bibliography presented here was intended to provide a useful research tool for scholars and students of perception. The primary concentration of the authors’ efforts has been on the philosophical literature during the period of 1935-1974. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference

    Edited by Athanassios Raftopoulos, Peter Machamer ...
    One of the perennial themes in philosophy is the problem of our access to the world around us; do our perceptual systems bring us into contact with the world as it is or does perception depend upon our individual conceptual frameworks? This volume of new essays examines reference as it relates to perception, action and realism, and the questions which arise if there is no neutral perspective or ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception

    Edited by Mohan Matthen ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introductions to contemporary issues in the epistemology, ontology and aesthetics of perception, treatments of the individual sense modalities and of the things we perceive by means of ... Read more

    $165.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience

    Edited by Ian Phillips ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Experience is inescapably temporal. But how do we experience time? Temporal experience is a fundamental subject in philosophy – according to Husserl, the most important and difficult of all. Its puzzles and paradoxes were of critical interest from the Early Moderns through to the Post-Kantians. After a period of relative neglect, temporal experience is again at the forefront of debates across a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Meaning, Mind and Communication

    Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics

    Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Göran Sonesson, Piotr Konderak ...
    This volume constitutes the first anthology of texts in cognitive semiotics – the new transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication that combines concepts and methods from semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics – from a multitude of established and younger scholars. The chapters deal with the interaction between language and other semiotic resources, the role of consciousness ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Research on the Couch

    Single-case studies, subjectivity and psychoanalytic knowledge

    by R.D. Hinshelwood ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' Series
    Is psychoanalysis knowledge? Is psychoanalysis a science, or is it hermeneutics? Can clinical material be considered research data?Psychoanalysis is ambiguous about whether it is about meaning or about truth, and the relations between these two compelling experiences. Psychoanalysts often think of their work as closer to the humanities than to medical and natural science. The wider the gap between ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Non-Linear Mind

    Psychoanalysis of Complexity in Psychic Life

    Edited by James Rose, Graham Shulman ...
    Series series The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
    This book is concerned with whether we can develop our understanding of the mind through the application of new approaches to the study of complex systems. It is divided into two sections. The first is concerned with the application of non-linear systems theory to the psychoanalytic study of the mind. The second is concerned with the technical application of the ideas of chaos theory to the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences

    Edited by Patrick Colm Hogan ...
    Have you lost track of developments in generative linguistics, finding yourself unsure about the distinctive features of minimalism? Would you like to know more about recent advances in the genetics of language, or about right hemisphere linguistic operation? The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences addresses these issues, along with hundreds of others. It includes basic entries for ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • The Wisdom of Sartre

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    An invaluable introduction to the leading French intellectual of the twentieth centuryThe Wisdom of Sartre offers key excerpts from the eloquent French writer, playwright, and philosopher's masterpiece, Being and Nothingness. From this collection, readers will discover the strongest themes in his early philosophical work: an ontological account of what it means to be human, and the role of ... Read more

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