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Nature and Future of Philosophy
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Product Description: Philosophy is a discipline that makes no observations, conducts no experiments, and needs no input from experience. It is an armchair subject, requiring only thought. Yet that thought can advance knowledge in unexpected directions, not only through the discovery of new facts but also through the enhancement of what we already know...read more
By Michael Dummett
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9780231150521, titled "The Nature and Future of Philosophy" | Columbia Univ Pr, April 15, 2010, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: Philosophy is a discipline that makes no observations, conducts no experiments, and needs no input from experience.

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9780231150538, titled "The Nature and Future of Philosophy" | Columbia Univ Pr, April 15, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Philosophy is a discipline that makes no observations, conducts no experiments, and needs no input from experience.

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9780231522182, titled "The Nature and Future of Philosophy" | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $55.99

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Thought and Reality
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Product Description: In this short, lucid, rich book Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality consist of? To answer this, Dummett holds, it is necessary to say what kinds of fact obtain, and what constitutes their holding good...read more
By Michael Dummett
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9780199552245 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In this short, lucid, rich book Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy.

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Truth and the Past
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Product Description: Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures -- "The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time" -- were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays by Dummett, "Truth: Deniers and Defenders" and "The Indispensability of the Concept of Truth...read more
By Michael Dummett
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9780231131766 | Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures -- "The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time" -- were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002.

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9780231131773 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures -- "The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time" -- were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002.

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Sobre Inmigracion Y Refugiados
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By Michael Dummett
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9788437621173, titled "Sobre inmigracion y refugiados / On Immigration and Refugees" | Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2004, cover price $17.95

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A History of Games Played With the Tarot Pack: The Games of Triumphs
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Product Description: This two-volume book gives as comprehensive a history as can be achieved at the present time of a family of card games that originated in the first quarter of the XV century, and is therefore one of the very oldest still practiced...read more
By Michael Dummett and John McLeod
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9780773464490 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: This two-volume book gives as comprehensive a history as can be achieved at the present time of a family of card games that originated in the first quarter of the XV century, and is therefore one of the very oldest still practiced.

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A History of Games Played With the Tarot Pack: The Games of Trumps
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Product Description: This two-volume book gives as comprehensive a history as can be achieved at the present time of a family of card games that originated in the first quarter of the XV century, and is therefore one of the very oldest still practiced...read more
By Michael Dummett and John McLeod
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9780773464476 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This two-volume book gives as comprehensive a history as can be achieved at the present time of a family of card games that originated in the first quarter of the XV century, and is therefore one of the very oldest still practiced.

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A History of the Occult Tarot: 1870-1970
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Product Description: When the Tarot pack was invented in Italy in the early 15th century, it was simply a pack of cards, used for playing games. Esoteric interpretations of the pack date from late eighteenth-century France, and were confined to that country for a hundred years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett
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9780715631225 | Duckbacks, November 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When the Tarot pack was invented in Italy in the early 15th century, it was simply a pack of cards, used for playing games.

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On Immigration and Refugees
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Product Description: Michael Dummett, philosopher and social critic, is also one of the sharpest and most prominent commentators and campaigners for the fair treatment of immigrants and refugees in Britain and Europe. This book insightfully draws together his thoughts on this major issue for the first time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Michael Dummett
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9780415227070 | Routledge, August 1, 2001, cover price $108.00 | About this edition: Michael Dummett, philosopher and social critic, is also one of the sharpest and most prominent commentators and campaigners for the fair treatment of immigrants and refugees in Britain and Europe.

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9780415227087 | Routledge, June 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Michael Dummett, philosopher and social critic, is also one of the sharpest and most prominent commentators and campaigners for the fair treatment of immigrants and refugees in Britain and Europe.

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Elements of Intuitionism
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Product Description: This is a long-awaited new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides. The book gives an informal but thorough introduction to intuitionistic mathematics, leading the reader gently through the fundamental mathematical and philosophical concepts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Michael Dummett
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9780198505242 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 17, 2000), cover price $199.00 | About this edition: This is a long-awaited new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides.
9780198531586 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1977, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This is a long-awaited new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides.

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9780198532972 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is a long-awaited new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides.

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Principles of Electoral Reform
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Product Description: Electoral reform is currently an extremely significant political issue in many countries, yet there is little real understanding or systematic discussion of it. In this timely and accessible new book, Professor Dummett, one of the most distinguished scholars in the field, analyzes the main forms of electoral systems used in legislative systems around the world, and generates a set of criteria that help to explain how we should decide which system we should have...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Michael Dummett
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9780198292470 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 29, 1997, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Electoral reform is currently an extremely significant political issue in many countries, yet there is little real understanding or systematic discussion of it.

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9780198292463 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 29, 1997, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: Electoral reform is currently an extremely significant political issue in many countries, yet there is little real understanding or systematic discussion of it.

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A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot
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Amazon.com Review: The authors, experts in the fields of art history, games, and the tarot, trace the history of the tarot deck from its origins in the game room to its current role in occult circles. Their thorough research cuts through the misconceptions and glamorization surrounding the cards' rather mundane beginnings, while revealing the rich history of psychological, political, and religious influences on our perceptions of what is now a common tool of many occult practitioners...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett
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9780312162948 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Origins of Analytical Philosophy
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Product Description: For half a century analytical philosophy has dominated professional philosophy in English-speaking countries. When contrasted with "Continental" philosophy, analytical philosophy is often called "Anglo-American." Michael Dummett argues that this is a misnomer: "Anglo-Austrian" would be a more accurate label, for analytical philosophy arose in the same milieu as the principal rival school of phenomenology...read more
By Michael Dummett
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9780674644724 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: For half a century analytical philosophy has dominated professional philosophy in English-speaking countries.

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9780674644731 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1996), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: For half a century analytical philosophy has dominated professional philosophy in English-speaking countries.

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The Seas of Language
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Product Description: Michael Dummett is a leading contemporary philosopher whose work on the logic and metaphysics of language has had a lasting influence on how these subjects are conceived and discussed. This volume contains some of the most provocative and widely discussed essays published in the last fifteen years, together with a number of unpublished or inaccessible writings...read more
By Michael Dummett
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9780198240112 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 16, 1993, cover price $55.00

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9780198236214 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 27, 1996), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Michael Dummett is a leading contemporary philosopher whose work on the logic and metaphysics of language has had a lasting influence on how these subjects are conceived and discussed.

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Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics
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Product Description: No one has figured more prominently in the study of the German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett. His magisterial Frege: Philosophy of Language is a sustained, systematic analysis of Frege's thought, omitting only the issues in philosophy of mathematics...read more
By Michael Dummett
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9780674319356 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: No one has figured more prominently in the study of the German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett.

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9780674319363 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: No one has figured more prominently in the study of the German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett.

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Frege: Philosophy of Language
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By Michael Dummett
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9780674319318 | 2 reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $43.00

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The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards
Shows a fifteenth-century Italian deck of tarot cards, and discusses the background of each card and its design
By Michael Dummett
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9780807611401 | George Braziller, April 1, 1986, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Shows a fifteenth-century Italian deck of tarot cards, and discusses the background of each card and its design

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9780807611418 | George Braziller, April 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Shows a fifteenth-century Italian deck of tarot cards, and discusses the background of each card and its design

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Truth and Other Enigmas
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Product Description: This collection of Michael Dummett's philosophical essays, spanning more than twenty years, ranges in topic from time to the philosophy of mathematics, but is unified by a steady philosophical outlook. The essays are, in one way or another, informed by Dummett's concern with metaphysical questions and his belief that the correct approach to them is via the theory of meaning...read more
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9780674910751 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1978, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: This collection of Michael Dummett's philosophical essays, spanning more than twenty years, ranges in topic from time to the philosophy of mathematics, but is unified by a steady philosophical outlook.

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9780674910768 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1981, cover price $40.50 | About this edition: This collection of Michael Dummett's philosophical essays, spanning more than twenty years, ranges in topic from time to the philosophy of mathematics, but is unified by a steady philosophical outlook.

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Twelve Tarot Games
By Michael Dummett
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9780715614853 | Duckbacks, March 1, 1981, cover price $32.50

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9780715614884 | U S Games Systems, June 1, 1980, cover price $12.95

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Game of Tarot
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Product Description: Sir Michael Dummett, a well-known British philosopher, is the foremost scholar in the field of Tarot history, with numerous books and articles to his credit. He is a founding member of the International Playing Card Society, in whose journal "The Playing Card" he regularly publishes opinions, research, and reviews of current literature on the subject...read more
By Michael Dummett
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9780715610145 | U S Games Systems, June 1, 1980, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Sir Michael Dummett, a well-known British philosopher, is the foremost scholar in the field of Tarot history, with numerous books and articles to his credit.

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