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  • The Observable

    Heisenberg’s Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

    by Patrick Aidan Heelan ...
    Series Book 1 - History and Philosophy of Science
    Patrick Aidan Heelan’s The Observable offers the reader a completely articulated development of his 1965 philosophy of quantum physics, Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity. In this previously unpublished study dating back more than a half a century, Heelan brings his background as both a physicist and a philosopher to his reflections on Werner Heisenberg’s physical philosophy. Including considerably ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

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  • The Republic

    Enriched edition. Exploring Justice, Ideal Society, and Human Soul: A Philosophical Dialogue on Ethics, Politics, and Virtue

    by Plato, Lydia Marchmont ...
    Translated by Benjamin Jowett ...
    In "The Republic," Plato presents a foundational text of Western philosophy through a Socratic dialogue that explores the nature of justice, the ideal state, and the role of the philosopher-king. Written in the fourth century BCE, this seminal work integrates metaphysics, ethics, and political theory, offering a vision of a society governed by reason and wisdom. Stylistically, Plato employs a ... Read more

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  • Writing History in the Global Era

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written.Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Politics of History

    by Howard Zinn ...
    This book presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction, the author responds to critics of his original work and comments further on the radicalization of history. ... Read more

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  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Frege on Sense and Reference

    by Mark Textor ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. He was first and foremost a mathematician, but his major works also made important contributions to the philosophy of language.Frege’s writings are difficult and deal with technical, abstract concepts. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Frege On Sense and Reference helps ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Oral History

    Edited by Donald A. Ritchie ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at all levels. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Scripting Revolution

    A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions

    Edited by Keith Michael Baker, Dan Edelstein ...
    The "Arab Spring" was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians have studied revolutions as distinct and separate events. Drawing on ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815

    Search for a Reasonable World

    by Lisa Rosner, John Theibault ...
    A concise survey that introduces readers to the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era. The authors draw on gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history to frame the essential argument of the work. ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Computability and Logic

    by George S. Boolos, John P. Burgess, Richard C. Jeffrey ...
    Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic course, such as Godel's incompleteness theorems, but also a large number of optional topics, from Turing's theory of computability to Ramsey's theorem. This 2007 fifth edition has been thoroughly revised ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Quantitative Methods for Historians

    A Guide to Research, Data, and Statistics

    by Konrad H. Jarausch, Kenneth A. Hardy ...
    The pioneering texts in quantitative history were written over two decades ago, but as a command of methodological context, computer experience, and statistical literacy have become increasingly important to the study of history, the need for an introductory text addressing these matters has increased. Quantitative Methods for Historians is a theoretical and practical guide for the application of ... Read more

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  • The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic

    From Aristotle to Tarski

    Edited by Alex Malpass, Dr Marianna Antonutti Marfori ...
    The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic introduces ideas and thinkers central to the development of philosophical and formal logic. From its Aristotelian origins to the present-day arguments, logic is broken down into four main time periods:Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Aristotle and The Stoics)The early modern period (Bolzano, Boole)High modern period (Frege, Peano & Russell and Hilbert ... Read more

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  • Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography

    by Tor Egil Førland ...
    Bringing sophisticated philosophy to bear on real-life historiography, Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography rekindles and invigorates the debate on two perennials in the theory and methodology of history. One is the tension between historians' values and the ideal—or illusion—of objective historiography. The other is historical explanation.The point of departure for the treatment ... Read more

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