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The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

By Jessica Riskin

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Hardcover:

9780226302928 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 10, 2016, cover price $40.00

In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across Life Sciences

Examines the events of the Cold War by analyzing the relationship of the United States and the Soviet Union and their political and cultural differences throughout history

By Lindley Darden

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Hardcover:

9780226039657 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 3, 2013, cover price $75.00

9780312032142, titled "Privatization and the Penal System: The American Experience and the Debate in Britain" | Palgrave Macmillan, August 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | also contains Privatization and the Penal System: The American Experience and the Debate in Britain

9780312032289, titled "The Last Great Game: USA Versus USSR : Events, Conjunctures, Structures" | Palgrave Macmillan, July 1, 1989, cover price $24.95 | also contains The Last Great Game: USA Versus USSR : Events, Conjunctures, Structures | About this edition: Examines the events of the Cold War by analyzing the relationship of the United States and the Soviet Union and their political and cultural differences throughout history

Paperback:

9780226039794 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 7, 2013, cover price $25.00

ON MECHANISM IN HEGEL'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Product Description: On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegelâs thinking about political and social institutions. It counters as overly simplistic the notion that Hegel has an âorganic concept of societyâ...read more

By Nathan Ross

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9780415963725 | Routledge, March 15, 2008, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegelâs thinking about political and social institutions.

Paperback:

9780415849081 | Routledge, February 28, 2013, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegelâs thinking about political and social institutions.

Miscellaneous:

9780203927199 | Routledge, February 22, 2008, cover price $113.00

Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms

Product Description: The modern view of causation can be traced back to the mechanistic science of Descartes, whose rejection of Aristotelian physics, with its concept of substantial forms, in favor of mechanical explanations was a turning-point in the history of philosophy...read more

By Helen Hattab

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9780521518925 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2009), cover price $99.99

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9781107405158 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 19, 2012), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The modern view of causation can be traced back to the mechanistic science of Descartes, whose rejection of Aristotelian physics, with its concept of substantial forms, in favor of mechanical explanations was a turning-point in the history of philosophy.

Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization: Precursors and Prototypes

By Carl A. Rubino (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780981703213 | Isce Pub, May 31, 2008, cover price $52.99

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9780984216482 | Isce Pub, August 30, 2010, cover price $24.95

Reasoning in Biological Discoveries: Essays on Mechanisms, Interfield Relations, And Anomaly Resolution

By Lindley Darden

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Hardcover:

9780521858878 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2006, cover price $114.99

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9780521117272 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 2009), cover price $49.99

Teleosemantics: New Philosophical Essays

Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate.

By Graham Macdonald (editor) and David Papineau (editor)

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9780199270262 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 6, 2006, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species.

Paperback:

9780199270279 | Clarendon Pr, November 23, 2006, cover price $44.95

Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics

Product Description: In Good and Real, Gary Drescher examines a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, quantum mechanics, and other topics, in an effort to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence...read more

By Gary L. Drescher

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9780262042338 | 1 edition (Bradford Books, May 19, 2006), cover price $37.00 | About this edition: In Good and Real, Gary Drescher examines a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, quantum mechanics, and other topics, in an effort to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence.

De La Mettrie's Ghost: The Story of Decisions

By Chris Nunn

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Hardcover:

9781403994950 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 7, 2005, cover price $26.00

Miscellaneous:

9780230552210 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 7, 2005, cover price $11.99

Boyle On Fire: The Mechanical Revolution In Scientific Explanation

Product Description: The philosophy of Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is a hot topic in early modern philosophy. Boyle was at the centre of the scientific community of 17th-century England, and an accurate view of the Enlightenment scientific revolution is impossible without recognition of the contributions that he made...read more

By William R. Eaton

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9780826478276 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 15, 2004, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: The philosophy of Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is a hot topic in early modern philosophy.

Machine Man and Other Writings

By Julien Offray De LA Mettrie and Ann Thomson

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9780521472586 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $115.00

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9780521478496 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $34.99

The Human Person: Animal and Spirit

Product Description: This study discusses the mind-body problem, arguing that the human person is best understood as an animal who is also spirit. Braine suggests that human beings should be described holistically, in the tradition of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas...read more

By David Braine

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9780268010980 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A philosophical work that addresses the validity of the question: What is it for the human being to be an animal, and for this animal to be a spirit?

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9780268011062 | Reissue edition (Univ of Notre Dame Pr, December 1, 1994), cover price $19.50 | About this edition: This study discusses the mind-body problem, arguing that the human person is best understood as an animal who is also spirit.

A Purpose for Everything: Religion in a Postmodern Worldview

By Charles Birch

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9780896224537 | Twenty Third Pubns, December 1, 1990, cover price $14.95

The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism: A Mechanist Account of Empirical Justification

Product Description: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By W. J. Talbott

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9780824032111 | Routledge, April 1, 1990, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1990.

The Logic of Mind

Product Description: This book presents a mechanist philosophy of mind. I hold that the human mind is a system of computational or recursive rules that are embodied in the nervous system; that the material presence of these rules accounts for perception, conception, speech, belief, desire, intentional acts, and other forms of intelligence...read more

By Raymond John Nelson

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9789027728197 | 2 sub edition (Kluwer Academic Pub, December 1, 1989), cover price $349.00 | About this edition: This book presents a mechanist philosophy of mind.

Logic of Mind

By R. J. Nelson

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9789027728227 | 2 edition (Kluwer Academic Pub, September 1, 1989), cover price $109.00 | About this edition: This book presents a mechanist philosophy of mind.

Privatization and the Penal System: The American Experience and the Debate in Britain

By Mick Ryan and Tony Ward

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Hardcover:

9780312032142 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 1, 1989, cover price $45.00 | also contains In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across Life Sciences

The Last Great Game: USA Versus USSR : Events, Conjunctures, Structures

Examines the events of the Cold War by analyzing the relationship of the United States and the Soviet Union and their political and cultural differences throughout history

By Paul Dukes

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9780312032289 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 1, 1989, cover price $24.95 | also contains In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across Life Sciences | About this edition: Examines the events of the Cold War by analyzing the relationship of the United States and the Soviet Union and their political and cultural differences throughout history

Lawless Mind

Product Description: While the ancients described the world as a single organism and the medieval view was theological in nature, modern thought has envisioned the world as a mechanism composed of smaller mechanisms. Raziel Abelson argues that this mechanistic explanation, when applied to human action, is dangerous because it 'threatens us with a kind of spiritual annihilation [and] it undermines our belief in freedom of the will and with it the reality of choice, value, and moral responsibility...read more

By Raziel Abelson

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9780877225799 | Temple Univ Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $41.50 | About this edition: While the ancients described the world as a single organism and the medieval view was theological in nature, modern thought has envisioned the world as a mechanism composed of smaller mechanisms.

Purposive Behaviour and Teleological Explanations

By Frank George and Les Johnson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9782881241109 | Gordon & Breach Science Pub, December 1, 1985, cover price $166.00

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