Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “vernon pratt”
Skip side bar filters

  • Environment and Philosophy

    by Emily Brady, with Jane Howarth, Vernon Pratt ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
    Environment and Philosophy provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world. These include:* the ideas of science and objectivity* the conventional placement of the human being within the environment* the individualism of convential Modern thoughtWritten in an accessible way for those ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Philosophy and the Social Sciences

    by Vernon Pratt ...
    Published in the year 2004, Philosophy and the Social Sciences is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Economics and Reality

    by Tony Lawson ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    'No reality please. We're economists'. There is a wide spread belief that modern economics is irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. In a controversial and original study, Tony Lawson argues that the root of this irrelevance is in the failure of economists to find methods and tools which are appropriate for the social world it addresses ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Popper and Economic Methodology

    Contemporary Challenges

    Edited by Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman ...
    Series series Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
    This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper.The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography

    by Ben Anderson ...
    Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact within Human Geography. Non-representational theorisation and research has opened up new sets of problematics around the body, practice and performativity and inspired new ways of doing and writing human geography that aim to engage with the taking-place ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Key Debates in Anthropology

    Edited by Tim Ingold ...
    Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book includes the first six of these debates, spanning the period from 1988 to 1993. Each debate has four principal speakers: one to propose the motion, another to oppose it, and two seconders.The first debate addresses the disciplinary character of social ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Reorienting Economics

    by Tony Lawson ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Contemporary economics is characterized by a mismatch between its methods of analysis and the nature of the world it seeks to interpret. Despite regular economic crises and ongoing critique of the discipline, the drift from political economy into applied mathematics appears to continue unabated. In this book, Tony Lawson advocates a relignment of economics with social reality.In analyzing ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Philosophy for A2: Unit 3

    Key Themes in Philosophy, 2008 AQA Syllabus

    by Michael Lacewing ...
    Philosophy for A2: Unit 3 is the definitive textbook for students of the current AQA Advanced Level syllabus. Structured very closely around the AQA specifications for Unit 3: Key Themes in Philosophy, it introduces the student to each of the core themes:philosophy of mindpolitical philosophyepistemology and metaphysicsmoral philosophyphilosophy of religion.All chapters are helpfully subdivided ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Social Research

    by Tim May, Malcolm Williams ...
    This is an accessible introduction to the philosophy of social research which relates philosophical ideas to actual research practice. The book makes effective use of illustrations from the UK, US and Europe to examine specific problems and broader issues. The book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social research methods within sociology, social policy, politics, social ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Reasons and Persons

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Absent Environments

    Theorising Environmental Law and the City

    by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos ...
    Series series Law, Science and Society
    Offering a novel, transdisciplinary approach to environmental law, its principles, mechanics and context, as tested in its application to the urban environment, this book traces the conceptual and material absence of communication between the human and the natural and controversially includes such an absence within a system of law and a system of geography which effectively remain closed to ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Objectivity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Gaukroger ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    - Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. An account is generally considered to be objective if it attempts to capture the nature ... Read more

    $7.99 USD