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1	The image; knowledge in life and society more books like this by Kenneth Ewart Boulding add to wishlist Boulding discusses the image as the key to understanding society and human behavior see all copies from $2.50! new only from $46.58! \| first editions
2	The Life of Forms in Art more books like this by Henri Focillon, Professor George Kubler (Translator) add to wishlist In this study, the author explores the ways in which several art forms have changed over time, noting the various reasons why artists have developed specific techniques, created new styles, and experimented with new materials. In doing so, he asserts that the evolution of art is autonomous and perseveres through political, social, and economic ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $12.46! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Parsimonious Universe: Shape and Form in the Natural World more books like this by Stefan Hildebrandt, Anthony Tromba add to wishlist The variety of sizes, shapes, and irregularities in nature is endless. Through illustrations and text, the authors of The Parsimonious Universe describe the efforts by scientists and mathematicians since the Renaissance to identify and describe the basic laws underlying the shape of natural forms. Can one set of laws account for both the symmetry ... see all copies from $18.56! first editions
4	Mathematics and Optimal Form: Coll.Pa more books like this by Stefan Hildebrandt, Anthony J. Tromba add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms more books like this by Gail Fine add to wishlist "The Peri ideon" ("On Ideas") is the only work in which Aristotle systematically sets out and criticizes arguments for the existence of Platonic forms. Gail Fine presents the first full-length treatment in English of this important but neglected work . She asks how, and how well, and why and with what justification he favours an alternative ... see all copies from $56.12! new only from $60.43! \| SVS
6	Plato's Introduction of Forms more books like this by R M Dancy add to wishlist Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and between those who see a development in the thought of the dialogues and those who do not. In this important book Russell Dancy focuses on the arguments and defends a developmental picture. He explains ... see all copies from $37.74! new only from $37.74! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Philosopher's Joke more books like this by Richard A Watson add to wishlist This unorthodox volume of related literary-philosophical essays is sure to ruffle a few feathers by making merry with the styles of philosophy fashionable today, and in each of the last four decades. Beginning with a strictly formalistic treatment of the relationship of perfection of form to truth of content in literature, Watson (author of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Conditions of Music more books like this by Alan Durant add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Finale in Western Instrumental Music more books like this by Michael Talbot add to wishlist The knowledge that finales are by tradition (and perhaps also necessarily) 'different' from other movements has been around a long time, but this is the first time that the special nature of finales in instrumental music has been examined comprehensively and in detail. Three main types of finale, labelled 'relaxant', 'summative', and 'valedictory' ... see all copies from $74.47! new only from $176.20! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides more books like this by Samuel C Rickless add to wishlist There is a mystery at the heart of Plato's Parmenides. In the first part, Parmenides criticizes what is widely regarded as Plato's mature theory of Forms, and in the second, he promises to explain how the Forms can be saved from these criticisms. Ever since the dialogue was written, scholars have struggled to determine how the two parts of the ... see all copies from $33.69! new only from $33.69! \| SVS
11	Plato on the Self-Predication of Forms: Early and Middle Dialogues more books like this by John Malcolm add to wishlist Much of the recent literature published on Plato's metaphysics has involved the Third Man Argument found in his dialogue Parmenides. This argument depends upon construing Forms both as universals and as paradigm examples, and thus as being subject to self-predication. Professor Malcolm first presents a new and radical interpretation of Plato's ... see all copies from $68.55! new only from $89.03! \| first editions
12	Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking more books like this by Catherine N. Parke add to wishlist Samuel Johnson, who has been described as England's first complete man of letters, was a popular and influential biographer and theorist of biography. In a career that spanned most of the second half of the 18th century, he wrote over 60 biographies. His fascination with biography extended well beyond an interest merely in the genre - he believed ... see all copies from $5.97! new only from $35.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms more books like this by Francis A Grabowski add to wishlist This is an important new monograph on Plato's metaphysics, focusing on the theory of the forms, which is the central philosophical concept in Plato's theory.Few philosophical doctrines have been as influential and as widely discussed as Plato's theory of Forms; yet few have been as misunderstood. Most philosophers, following the recommendation of ... see all copies from $76.68! new only from $117.35!
14 view cover	Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues: The Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, and Statesman more books like this by Kenneth Dorter add to wishlist In this analysis, Plato's four eleatic dialogues are treated as a continuous argument. In Kenneth Dorter's view, Plato reconsiders the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and through an examination of the theory's limitations, reaffirms and proves it essential. Contradicted are both those philosophers who argue that Plato espoused ... see all copies from $55.00! new only from $512.63! \| first editions
15 view cover	Plato on Knowledge and Forms (Selected Essays) more books like this by Gail Fine add to wishlist This text brings together a set of connected essays by Gail Fine, in her main area of research since the late 1970s: Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. She discusses central issues in Plato's metaphysics and epistemology, issues concerning the nature and extent of knowledge, and its relation to perception, sensibles, and forms; and issues ... see all copies from $115.00! new only from $139.20! \| SVS
16 view cover	Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays more books like this by Gail Fine add to wishlist "Plato on Knowledge and Forms" brings together a set of connected essays by Fine, written over a period of twenty-five years, on Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. It also includes a previously unpublished introductory essay, which pulls together connected threads, responds to some criticisms of the original essays, and revises or modifies some ... see all copies from $60.32! new only from $60.32! \| SVS
17 view cover	Shapes of Forms more books like this by Liliana Albertazzi (Editor) add to wishlist The development of research connected with artificial intelligence and the cognitive sciences obliges us to confront further components of the traditional problem of form. In particular, the debate about bottom up and top down processes seems to suggest that the difference in cognitive processes is more a difference of degree than of kind ... see all copies from $159.16! new only from $159.16! \| SVS
18 view cover	Wittgenstein, Concept Possession and Philosophy: A Dialogue more books like this by H A Knott add to wishlist This book offers a Wittgensteinian study of concept possession and of the nature of conceptual investigation in philosophy. It is both an ideal advanced introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy and an original treatment of some of its most crucial yet least developed regions. The book is written as a Socratic dialogue, which frames the discussion ... see all copies from $73.65! new only from $88.42!
19	Accent on Form: An Anticipation of the Science of Tomorrow more books like this by Lancelot Law Whyte add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! first editions
20 view cover	Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation more books like this by William A - Welton add to wishlist Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation is an ambitious work that brings together, in a single volume, widely divergent approaches to the topic of the Forms in Plato's dialogues. see all copies from $100.76! new only from $100.76!
21	Aspects of form: a symposium on form in nature and art. more books like this by Lancelot Law Whyte (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.75!
22	The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form more books like this by Norma E. Emerton add to wishlist see all copies from $29.19!
23	Structure in Science and Art: Proceedings of the Third C. H. Boehringer Sohn Symposium Held at Kronberg, Taunus, 2nd-5th May 1979 more books like this by P B Medawar add to wishlist see all copies from $11.99!
24	Philosophie de La Forme Eidos, Idea, Morphe Dans La Philosophie Grecque Des Origines a Aristote more books like this by A Motte (Editor), Chr Rutten (Editor), P Somville (Editor) add to wishlist Toutes les occurences des trois termes presentes dans les fragments des philosophes presocratiques ainsi que dans les oeuvres de Platon et d'Aristote ont ete examinees par une quinzaine de professeurs et de chercheurs issus des Universites de Liege, de Bruxelles, de Louvain-la-Neuve et de Leuven. Les resultats de l'enquete ont ete presentes et ... see all copies from $179.40! new only from $179.40!
25	The work of music and the problem of its identity more books like this by Roman Ingarden add to wishlist see all copies from $52.95!

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