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  • The East India Monopoly: Spice Trade Control Mechanics

    Fleets, Shareholders, and the Violent Birth of the First Megacorporation in Global Commerce, 1602–1799

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    Before Wall Street, venture capital, or modern tech monopolies, a single Dutch corporation laid the blueprint for modern capitalism. In 1602, the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie issued public shares, engineered market mechanics, and violently conquered the global spice trade. "The East India Monopoly" pulls back the curtain on the financial and military machinery of history's first ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Tetralogue

    I'm Right, You're Wrong

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep in. In a tradition going back to Plato, Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore questions about truth ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD

  • Overfitting and Heuristics in Philosophy

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series The Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy
    In his Rutgers Lectures, Timothy Williamson explains how contemporary philosophy suffers from a widespread pathology known as overfitting to natural and social scientists, but little understood by most philosophers. Overfitting involves an insufficiently critical attitude towards data, which leads to over-complicated theories designed to fit what are in fact errors in the data. In philosophy, the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • 對與錯的真相：火車上的四人對話錄──我們如何更好地思辨？

    Tetralogue: I’m Right, You’re Wrong

    de 提摩西．威廉森, Timothy Williamson ...
    Traducido por 洪世民 ...
    當代最具影響力的哲學家暨英國牛津大學哲學教授以簡單易懂口吻，引導我們走進一場關於真理的思辨★2015年出版後，再刷不斷，至今仍居英國亞馬遜大眾哲學暢銷榜★★已授權英、德、西、日、韓等多國語文★★王一奇（國立中正大學哲學系教授）、周詠盛（哲普作家、國立臺灣大學哲學博士）專文推薦★一本啟人深思的書。一本幾乎沒有哲學術語的哲學書。一本在你來我往的對話中展現邏輯魅力的書。一本人人都可以讀懂的通俗哲學入門書。莎拉：跟你爭論一點意義也沒有。什麼都不能動搖你對巫術的信仰！鮑勃：有什麼事情可以動搖妳對現代科學的信仰嗎？查克：恕我直言，你們兩位都對對方採取那種高人一等、「我是對的、你錯了」的態度。莎拉：可是我的確是對的，他確實錯了。鮑勃：鬼啦。我才是對的，她錯了。鮑勃的腿因花園圍牆倒塌而受傷，他斷定是隔壁的老太... ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Debating the A Priori

    de Paul Boghossian, Timothy Williamson ...
    What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating chapters which develop radically contrasting views and present detailed replies to each other's arguments. A central case is the nature of basic ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Good as Usual

    Anti-Exceptionalist Essays on Values, Norms, and Action

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    Good as Usual argues that contemporary discussion on the nature of norms and values goes wrong by treating them as exceptional and mysterious, since they do not fit popular philosophical assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. Timothy Williamson shows that, once we throw out those preconceived and outdated ideas, we can understand moral and evaluative features ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Philosophy

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy
    The Philosophy of PhilosophyThe Blackwell / Brown Lectures in PhilosophyThe Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical inquiry. The author ... Leer más

    $38.00 USD

  • Suppose and Tell

    The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    What does 'if' mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue conditional orders. We need to think and talk conditionally for many purposes, from everyday decision-making to mathematical proof. Yet the meaning of ... Leer más

    $18.09 USD

  • Philosophical Method

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Doing Philosophy

    From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD

  • Identity and Discrimination

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    Identity and DiscriminationThis updated edition of Identity and Discrimination, first published in 1990 and the first book by well-known philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued with the inclusion of significant new material. This major work – influential in philosophy of perception and the theory of vagueness – continues in an original and rigorous way to highlight the necessity of ... Leer más

    $27.00 USD

  • Modal Logic as Metaphysics

    de Timothy Williamson ...
    Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD