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  • Current Developments in Hodge Theory

    Proceedings of Hodge Theory at IMSA

    Edited by Phillip Griffiths, Ludmil Katzarkov, Carlos Simpson ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book brings together contributions by top-level experts from a wide range of topics in modern Hodge theory, originating in the authors’ participation in the special years on Hodge theory at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA) in Miami.One of the main themes is the study of moduli spaces and their compactifications. Several articles speak of the singularities occuring ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Principles of Algebraic Geometry

    by Phillip Griffiths, Joseph Harris ...
    A comprehensive, self-contained treatment presenting general results of the theory. Establishes a geometric intuition and a working facility with specific geometric practices. Emphasizes applications through the study of interesting examples and the development of computational tools. Coverage ranges from analytic to geometric. Treats basic techniques and results of complex manifold theory, ... Read more

    $155.00 USD

  • Ethics

    Edited by Allen Phillips-Griffiths ...
    Series series Talking Philosophy
    Ethical questions are often associated with practical dilemmas: questions in morality, in other words. This volume, by contrast, asks questions about morality: what it is, and to what it owes its precarious authority over us. The focus on metaethics is sustained throughout, via a wide range of philosophical perspectives. Distinguished luminaries who include R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams address ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Rational Homotopy Theory and Differential Forms

    by Phillip Griffiths, John Morgan ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This completely revised and corrected version of the well-known Florence notes circulated by the authors together with E. Friedlander examines basic topology, emphasizing homotopy theory. Included is a discussion of Postnikov towers and rational homotopy theory. This is then followed by an in-depth look at differential forms and de Tham’s theorem on simplicial complexes. In addition, Sullivan’s ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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  • Ethics

    Inventing Right and Wrong

    by J.L. Mackie ...
    An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • John Stuart Mill - Thought and Influence

    The Saint of Rationalism

    Edited by Georgios Varouxakis, Paul Kelly ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    More than two hundred years after his birth, and 150 years after the publication of his most famous essay On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the Western tradition. This book combines an up-to-date assessment of the philosophical legacy of Mill’s arguments, his complex version of liberalism and his account of the relationship between character and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ethical Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Russ Shafer-Landau ...
    Series Book 13 - Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
    The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral philosophy.Brings together 82 classic and contemporary pieces by renowned philosophers, from seminal works by Hume and Kant to contemporary views by Derek Parfit, Susan Wolf, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and ... Read more

    $69.00 USD

  • Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy.Presenting a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, Williams reorients ethical theory towards ‘truth, truthfulness and ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Truth and Truthfulness

    An Essay in Genealogy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine.Modern culture exhibits two ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Moral Luck

    Philosophical Papers 1973–1980

    by Bernard Williams ...
    A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last deacde, and philosophers have both broadened and deepened ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Morality

    An Introduction to Ethics

    by Bernard Williams ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyses and distinguishes a number of key positions, from the purely amoral to notions of subjective or relative morality, testing their coherence ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge

    by Dallas Willard ...
    Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral life and of its conduct is no longer routinely available from the social institutions long thought to be responsible for it. In this sense, moral ... Read more

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