Category - Philosophy
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides ...
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Philosophy of Mathematics
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The Big Typescript: TS 213 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $53.95 - Original price $53.95Original price $53.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en face En...
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The History of Continua: Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are...
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Plato and Pythagoreanism
PaperbackOriginal price $53.00 - Original price $53.00Original price $53.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the nineteenth century have been more skeptical. Wi...
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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical...
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The Human a Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$134.99$134.99 - $134.99Current price $134.99| /The Human A Priori is a collection of essays by A.W. Moore, one of them previously unpublished and the rest all revised. These essays are all conce...
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Flatland
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the...
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Logic - Language - Ontology: Selected Works
PaperbackOriginal price $139.99 - Original price $139.99Original price $139.99$153.99$153.99 - $153.99Current price $153.99| /How should we think about the meaning of the words that make up our language? How does reference of these terms work, and what is their referent wh...
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The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly) "Let no one ignoran...
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Philosophical Manuscripts
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /David Lewis (1941-2001) was a celebrated and influential figure in analytic philosophy. When Lewis died, he left behind a large body of unpublished...
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Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and science Inspired by A...
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