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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roy t cook”
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  • LEGO and Philosophy

    Constructing Reality Brick By Brick

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is “very”! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated televisions shows, feature films, a vibrant adult fan base with over a dozen yearly conventions, an educational robotics program, an award winning series of videogames, hundreds of books, ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • Paradoxes

    by Roy T. Cook ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth, knowledge, and belief.In this volume Roy T Cook provides a sophisticated, yet accessible and entertaining, introduction to the study of ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Yablo Paradox

    An Essay on Circularity

    by Roy T Cook ...
    Roy T Cook examines the Yablo paradox--a paradoxical, infinite sequence of sentences, each of which entails the falsity of all others later than it in the sequence--with special attention paid to the idea that this paradox provides us with a semantic paradox that involves no circularity. The three main chapters of the book focus, respectively, on three questions that can be (and have been) asked ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Comics

    Edited by Frank Bramlett, Aaron Meskin, Roy T Cook ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics

    Edited by Geoffrey Hellman, Roy T. Cook ...
    Series Book 9 - Outstanding Contributions to Logic
    This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to Putnam’s work.It includes 12 papers that analyze, develop, and constructively criticize this notable ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Art of Comics

    A Philosophical Approach

    by Aaron Meskin, Roy T. Cook ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Aesthetics
    THE ART OF COMICSThe Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics. The volume, which includes a preface by the renowned comics author Warren Ellis, contains ten cutting-edge essays on a range of philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. These include the ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

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  • A Theory of Everything

    An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality

    by Ken Wilber ...
    A concise, comprehensive overview of the “M Theory” and its application in today’s world, by a renowned American philosopherKen Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of our time, but his work has seemed inaccessible to readers who lack a background in consciousness studies or evolutionary theory—until now. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, non-technical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rules of Play

    Game Design Fundamentals

    by Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman ...
    Gain a deeper understanding of games and game design through 18 pioneering frameworks—with examples from board games, computer games, video games, and more.As pop culture, games are as important as film or television—but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Language

    by Scott Soames ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Anime and Philosophy

    Wide Eyed Wonder

    by Josef Steiff, Tristan D. Tamplin ...
    Series Book 47 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Anime and Philosophy focuses on some of the most-loved, most-intriguing anime films and series, as well as lesser-known works, to find what lies at their core. Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z, Ghost in the Shell, and Spirited Away are just a few of the films analyzed in this book. In these stories about monsters, robots, children, and spirits who grapple with the important questions in life we find ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Body in the Mind

    The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason

    by Mark Johnson ...
    An exploration of the central role the human imagination plays in all meaning, understanding, and reasoning."There are books . . . which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity." — San ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transformers and Philosophy

    More than Meets the Mind

    Edited by John R. Shook, Liz Stillwaggon Swan ...
    Series series Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Transformers began with toys and a cartoon series in 1984 and has since grown to include comic books, movies, and video games - its science fiction story has reached an audience with a wide range second only to that of Star Wars. Here, in Transformers and Philosophy, a dream team of philosophers pursues the fascinating questions posed by humankind’s encounter with an artificially intelligent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD