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Knowledge Monopolies: The Academisation of Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Historians and sociologists chart the consequences of the expansion of knowledge; philosophers of science examine the causes. This book bridges the gap. The focus is on 'academisation'.
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Philosophy of War and Peace (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book considers historical and current events from the standpoint of moral philosophy.
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1975 Referendum on Europe: Volume 2. Current Analysis and Lessons for the Future (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides an analysis of the relationship between the UK and the EU, treating the key overarching issues in the 1975 referendum and looking ahead to the prospect (eventually) of further referendums on the subjects of EMU and a European...
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Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Law making is a primary function of government, and how well the three devolved UK legislatures exercise this function will be a crucial test of the whole devolution project. This book provides the first systematic study and authoritative data to start that assessment.
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World in My Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Not consciousness, but knowledge of consciousness: that is what this book communicates in a fascinating way.
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Making God: A New Materialist Theory of the Person (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Developments in psychology mean that our view of persons is unlike the great teachers of the Axial Age -- the Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, etc. -- and... Læs mere
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Nature and Uses of Lotteries (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His The Nature and Uses of Lotteries (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division.
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Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This volume examines historical and contemporary engagements of anarchism and literary production.
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Nelson, Hitler and Diana: Studies in Trauma and Celebrity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Clinical psychologist Richard Ryder approaches three iconic celebrities -- Horatio Nelson, Adolph Hitler, and Diana Princess of Wales -- as though they were his patients and presents a short psycho-biography of each.
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Paradoxical Primate (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences.
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Lectures in the History of Political Thought (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, are now available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings.
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Reclaiming Cognition: The Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Traditional cognitive science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world. The authors depart radically from this model.
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