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  • How to Do Things with Words
    J. L. Austin / J. O. Urmson
    In this groundbreaking work of 20th-century philosophy, J.L. Austin reshapes our understanding of language and its power-not merely to describe the world, but to act within it. Based on a series of lectures delivered at Harvard University, How to Do Things with Words introduces the now-famous theory of 'speech acts,' revealing how utterances can function as actions-promising, o...
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    30,64 €

  • The Emotive Theory of Ethics
    J. O. Urmson
    Originally published in 1968, this book traces the development of the emotive theory of ethics.  Attention is paid to the positive features of the ethical theory whilst the author also shows how a more adequate view can be reached through critical reflection on it. ...
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    66,92 €

  • Simplicius
    Peter Lautner / Simplicius / J. O. Urmson
    Aristotle’s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2, as involving the actualisation of the potential or of the changeable. Alexander of Aphrodisias is reported as thinking that the second ver...
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    66,94 €

  • Philoponus
    J. O. Urmson / Paul Lettinck
    Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus’ commentary on Physics Books 5-7, with two final comments on Book 8. The Simplicius text, which con...
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    66,61 €

  • Simplicius
    J. O. Urmson
    This companion to J. O. Urmson’s translation in the same series of Simplicius’ Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius’ commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle’s Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800 years’ discussion of Aristotle’s views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle’s claim that time requires change, or consciousness....
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    66,82 €

  • Simplicius
    J. O. Urmson
    Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps?Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the la...
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    67,15 €

  • Simplicius
    J. O. Urmson
    The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle’s On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for a wider readership to assess the disputed question of authorship. Is the work by Simplicius, or by his colleague Priscian, or by another commentator? In the second volume, Priscian’s Paraphrase...
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    66,72 €

  • Simplicius
    J. O. Urmson
    Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle’s Physics , lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle’s works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle. In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of th...
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    66,94 €

  • Greek Philosophical Vocabulary
    J. O. Urmson / James O. Urmson
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    51,43 €

  • Simplicius
    J.O. Urmson
    Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle’s Physics , lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle’s works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle. In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of th...
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    206,75 €

  • Simplicius
    J.O. Urmson
    The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle’s On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for a wider readership to assess the disputed question of authorship. Is the work by Simplicius, or by his colleague Priscian, or by another commentator? In the second volume, Priscian’s Paraphrase...
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    206,51 €

  • Philoponus
    J.O. Urmson / Paul Lettinck
    Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus’ commentary on Physics Books 5-7, with two final comments on Book 8. The Simplicius text, which con...
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    206,42 €

  • Simplicius
    J.O. Urmson
    Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps?Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the la...
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    207,06 €

  • Simplicius
    J.O. Urmson
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    206,63 €