Category: Philosophy

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

By: Abbott, Edwin

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing : 2010

Seller ID: 26342

ISBN-13: 9781603863742

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. First published in 1884 and written pseudonymously by "A Square".

The book uses the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but its more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. 16 illustrations by the author. 156p.
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Perception Beyond Inference

By: Albertazzi, Liliana; Van Tonder, Gert J ; Vishwanath, Dhanraj (editors)

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: MIT Press : 2011

Seller ID: 24172

ISBN-13: 9780262015028

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Dust jacket. 525p. Illustrated.

Authors include Liliana Albertazzi, Ohad Ben-Sahar. Ernest Edmonds, Timothy L. Hubbard, Amy Ione, Jan J. Koenderink, Ilona Kovacs, Rainer Mausfeld, Baingio Pinna, Shinsuke Shimojo, Gert J. van Tonder, Dhanraj Vishwanath and Stephen W. Zucker.
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Introduction to Aristotle

By: Aristotle; McKeon, Richard (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: A Modern Library Book : 1947 (copyright)

Seller ID: 26153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Unmarked inside. Edited with a general introduction to the particular works by Richard McKeon. The essence of Aristotle's philosophy in a volume of over 650 pages, including Organon, Physics, Ethics, On the Soul, Metaphysics, Politics and Poetics. Modern Library edition. No dust jacket.
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Offprint: Methodological Approaches to the Question of the Commons

By: Bardhan, Pranab; Ray, Isha

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Economic Development and Cultural Change : 2006

Seller ID: 33326

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked offprint from Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 54, Number 3, April 2006. pp656-676.

This article argues that the key barriers to interdisciplinary work between economists and anthropologists are differences of methodology and epistemology. This article is an effort to stimulate discussions that lead economists and anthropologists to reexamine the assumptions and modes of analysis that prevail within the disciplines and to open up new conversations in new directions.
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Food to Nurture the Mind

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: The Children's Foundation : 1970

Seller ID: 33544

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Sunned spine. 24p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches.

Text of a lecture Bruno Bettelheim delivered to the Children's Foundation in December 1969.

Bruno Bettelheim (1904-1990) was an Austrian-born psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States.

Much of his work was discredited after his death due to fraudulent academic credentials, allegations of patient abuse, accusations of plagiarism, and lack of oversight by institutions and the psychological community.
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Causality in Science and Philosophy: A Historical and Critical Survey

By: Bhattacharya, B. K.

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Calcutta, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar : 1969

Seller ID: 15896

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Bumped edges. Some age wear on cover. 201p. Winner of the Griffith Prize in Arts of Calcutta University in 1955.
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Voltaire and the New Testament

By: Bingham, Alfred J.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Institut et Musee Voltaire, Les Delices, Geneve : 1963

Seller ID: 18442

Binding: Staplebound Wraps

Condition: Good

Offprint from Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth century XXIV/XXVII: 1963. pp183--218. Signed to previous owner. Some fading on the cover.
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Right Brain: A New Understanding of Our Unconscious Mind and Its Creative Power

By: Blakeslee, Thomas R.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Anchor Press, Doubleday : 1980

Seller ID: 32243

ISBN-13: 9780385150996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Bends and rubbing on jacket. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. First edition. 275p. Measures 6x8.5 inches.

This book explores the duality of the human mind and its implications for education and human happiness, detailing how the right half of the brain affects athletic prowess, problem-solving skills, and sexual prowess.
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Imagery (Bradford Books)

By: Block, Ned (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The MIT Press : 1981

Seller ID: 27057

ISBN-13: 9780262520720

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Examines the cognitive science debate on the nature of mental images. 270p. References. Index.

Contributors include: Roger Brown and Richard Herrnstein (on the work of Roger N. Shepard), Daniel Dennett, Jerry Fodor, Robert Schwartz, Stephen Kosslyn, Steven Pinker, George Smith, Steven Schwartz, and Zenon Pylyshyn.
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The Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies (New Series No. 2, Fall 1986)

By: Bloom, Alfred (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Pacific World : 1986

Seller ID: 27844

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Topics include interpretive studies, a critical study, etc. Contributors include Yoshifumi Ueda, Tetsuo Unno, Robald Y. Kanasone, Minor L. Rogers, John Isihara, Shoji Matsumoto, Alfred Bloom, Hoyu Ishida, Arnold McKinley, Kenneth Tanakka, etc. 80p.
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Darwinism (Twayne's Studies in Intellectual and Cultural History)

By: Bowler, Peter J.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Twayne : 1993

Seller ID: 24023

ISBN-13: 9780805786385

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. 120p. Index. Notes, References, Bibliographic essay.

Defines Darwinism in the context of 19th century thought and traces the scientific, philosophical, and religious reactions to the theory.
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Teilhard de Chardin: In Quest of the Perfection of Man

By: Browining, Geraldine O.; Alioto, Joseph L; Farber, Seymour M. (editors)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : 1973

Seller ID: 24021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. Proceedings of an international symposium. 290p.

Contributors include Theodosius Dobzhansky, Robert A. Thronton, Ralph R. Greenson, Pearce Young, Jeanne Marie Mortier, and others.
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Reductionism and the Development of Knowledge (Jean Piaget Symposia Series)

By: Brown, Terrance; Smith, Leslie (Editors)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates : 2002

Seller ID: 27492

ISBN-13: 9780805840698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Previous owner's name inside cover. The papers collected in this volume are all derived from the 29th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society.

Authors examine reductionism in several sciences, including biology, psychology, and sociology and from the point of view of the practical effects of reductionistic doctrine on daily life.

Authors include Willis F. Overton, William C. Wimsatt, Mark H. Bickhard, Luisa Morgado, Cynthia Lightfoot, and others. Index. 237p.
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Seven States of Consciousness: A Vision of Possibilities Suggested by the Teaching of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

By: Campbell, Anthony

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Perennial Library : 1974

Seller ID: 33121

ISBN-13: 9780060802899

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Toned pages. 178p. Measures 4.25x7 inches. A classic book on Transcendental Meditation (TM).
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Mapping the Mind

By: Carter, Rita

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: University of California Press : 1999

Seller ID: 28225

ISBN-13: 9780520224612

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. French flaps. Ding on cover. Over 150 illustrations. Charts the way human behavior and culture have been molded by the landscape of the brain. 224p. Measures 8x10.5 inches.
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(Integrity)

By: Carter, Stephen L.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Basic Books : 1996

Seller ID: 27949

ISBN-13: 9780465034666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. Notes. Index. Integrating everyday examples with incisive conjecture on their significance, a thoughtful study of integrity.
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Boundaries and Barriers: On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge

By: Casti, John L. and Anders Karlqvist

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman : 1996

Seller ID: 30556

ISBN-13: 9780201555707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Contributors include (among others) John Casti, James Hartie, Harold Morowitz, Anders Karlqvist, John D. Barrow, Walter Fontan, Piet Hut, Leo W. Buss. Index. 262p. References. Proceedings of 1995 conference.
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Toward A Science of Consciousness: Registration Brochures for 1996 and 1998 (3)

By: Center for Consciousness Studies

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Extended University, The University of Arizona : 1996

Seller ID: 29714

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Three registration brochures for the bi-annual conferences in Tucson. One is for Tucson II, April 8-13, 1996. Two are for Tucson III, April 27-May 2, 1998. Includes information about speakers and registration. One was folded for mailing and has the address information blacked out on back.
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Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives

By: Chapple, Christopher Key (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: State University of New York Press : 1993

Seller ID: 25537

ISBN-13: 9780791417409

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Varied approach to the issue of environmental concern. Addresses pressing issues that will shape ecological awareness and activism.

Contributors include Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis, J. Baird Callicott, Patricia C. Wright, and Albert J. Fritsch, S.J. Index. 236p.
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Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition

By: Churchland, Patricia S.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Norton : 2019

Seller ID: 33648

ISBN-13: 9780393358469

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Illustrated in black-and-white. 226p. Measures 5.5x8.25 inches.

A finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, explores why all social groups have moral systems and how these systems are formed.
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Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real

By: Coyne, Richard

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: MIT Press : 1999

Seller ID: 29354

ISBN-13: 9780262032605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 398p. Index. Notes. Bibliography. An introduction to the application of contemporary theory to information technology, raising issues of representation, space, time, interpretation, identity, and the real.
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Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

By: Crick, Francis

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Scribner : 1994

Seller ID: 29987

ISBN-13: 9780684194318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Closed tear on dust jacket. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. 317p.

Argues that consciousness and what has long been called the soul are now accessible to scientific investigation.
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Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

By: Danto, Arthur C.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Noonday Press : 1991

Seller ID: 26601

ISBN-13: 9780374523275

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Essays that probe the meaning and inspiration behind the work of some of the 20th century's most influential artists, including Georges Braque, Gustav Klimt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pablo Picasso, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990.
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Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

By: Dennett, Daniel C.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The MIT Press : 1978

Seller ID: 23777

ISBN-13: 9780897060028

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on front end page. Corner crease on cover. Notes. Index. 353p. A collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will.
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Experience And Education

By: Dewey, John

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Collier Books : 1967

Seller ID: 24978

ISBN-13: 9780684838281

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Previous owner's sticker on front end page. 91p. Analyzes both traditional and progressive education.

Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received.

Title in the Kappa Delta Pi Lecture Series.
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Category: Philosophy