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Critical Complexity
Collected Essays
Av Paul Rika Cilliers Preiser, Rika Preiser
Inbunden, 2016
1490 kr
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This book is a collection of all the single authored essays by Paul Cilliers, published between 1990-2011. Being one of few authors who approached the study of complexity from a philosophical perspective, the main themes in these papers explore:- Qualitative characterization of complexity and the …
More Than Life Itself
A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
Av A. H. Louie
Inbunden, 2009
2932 kr
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A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a …
Cities, Real and Ideal
Categories for an Urban Ontology
Inbunden, 2010
2321 kr
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Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to …
Art of Philosophy
A Selection of Jerzy Perzanowski's Works
Av Jerzy Perzanowski, Janusz Sytnik-Czetwertynski
Inbunden, 2012
1962 kr
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Jerzy Perzanowski’s ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a quotient of ontology by logic. Perzanowski began as a logician, his early works being on modal logic, then gradually shifted his interest to “logical …
Against the Current
Selected Philosophical Papers
Av Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock
Inbunden, 2013
2621 kr
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The present collection of seventeen papers, most of them already published in international philosophical journals, deals both with issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language and epistemology. The first part contains critical assessments and …
Zone Morality
Inbunden, 2014
1482 kr
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Traditional moral theory usually has either of two emphases: virtuous moral character or principles for distributing duties and goods. Zone Morality introduces a third focus: families and businesses are systems created by the causal reciprocities of their members. These relations embody the duties …
Spinoza’s Dream
On Nature and Meaning
Inbunden, 2016
1612 kr
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Meaning (significance) and nature are this book’s principal topics. They seem an odd couple, like raisins and numbers, though they elide when meanings of a global sort—ideologies and religions, for example—promote ontologies that subordinate nature. Setting one against the other makes reality …
