Author : Edward Craig
Publisher :
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415187121
Volume seven of a ten volume set which provides full and detailed coverage of all aspects of philosophy, including information on how philosophy is practiced in different countries, who the most influential philosophers were, and what the basic concepts are.
Author : Clark Glymour
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262527200
The second edition of a unique introductory text, offering an account of the logical tradition in philosophy and its influence on contemporary scientific disciplines. Thinking Things Through offers a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and its contemporary significance. It is unique among introductory philosophy texts in that it considers both the historical development and modern fruition of a few central questions. It traces the influence of philosophical ideas and arguments on modern logic, statistics, decision theory, computer science, cognitive science, and public policy. The text offers an account of the history of speculation and argument, and the development of theories of deductive and probabilistic reasoning. It considers whether and how new knowledge of the world is possible at all, investigates rational decision making and causality, explores the nature of mind, and considers ethical theories. Suggestions for reading, both historical and contemporary, accompany most chapters. This second edition includes four new chapters, on decision theory and causal relations, moral and political theories, “moral tools” such as game theory and voting theory, and ethical theories and their relation to real-world issues. Examples have been updated throughout, and some new material has been added. It is suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate classes in philosophy, and as an ancillary text for students in computer science and the natural sciences.
Author : Rene J. Herrera
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1118876393
This book combines recent information and discoveries in the field of human molecular biology and human molecular evolution. It provides an interdisciplinary approach drawing together data from various diverse disciplines to address both the more classical anthropological content and the current more contemporary molecular focus of courses. Chapters include a history of human evolutionary genetics; the human genome structure and function; population structure and variability; gene and genomic dynamics; culture; health and disease; bioethics; future.
Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0671212095
"Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them."--]cProvided by publisher
Author : Marie-Gérard Dubois
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0879076585
This is a rich collection of memories and reflections from the long-time abbot of La Trappe, Dom Marie-Gérard Dubois, OCSO. Starting with his entry into monastic life, he walks the reader through the dramatic changes in the Strict Observance of the Cistercian Order, including its liturgical reform and developments in the role of lay brothers. Dom Dubois also shares stories about the diverse group of men who entered the Order at that time, including WWII veterans, Holocaust survivors, and members of the French literary elite, and why they decided to become monks. His stories offer a fascinating inside view into twentieth-century Cistercian life.
Author : Dakota Decker Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1543424139
Being thrown into prison (or jail) is a soul-crushing life experience, and any prisoner has one of the two following choices pertaining to how they handle the experiencethey can become bitter, or they can become better. The natural choice is to become bittermany times, very, very bitter. Mr. Decker provides the reader his experience and understanding as to the basis of either choice. This is framed as either a fear-based or a love-based choice. This frame applies to both prisoner and nonprisoners alike, including why we incarcerate people in the first place. Using his prison experiences, social science, and many wise peoples quotes, he helps the reader see that if a prisoner or nonprisoner uses only the authors fear-based insights, anyone will naturally become bitter. However, if we all use the authors love-based insights, well become better. Mr. Decker's insights and wisdom can and should be liberally applied to nonprison environments as his insights apply equally to every person in every walk of life. The reader comes away knowing hes able to withstand any and every one of lifes challenges using love and forgiveness. Mr. Decker demonstrates that love-based thinking is the key to our peace of mind. Each one of us is entitled to and capable of the peace of mind he describes.
Author : Arthur Cayley Headlam
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1888
Category : English periodicals
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Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : C.C. Heyde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461301793
Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.
Author : Neil Davidson
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1642599425
Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism, a series of policy decisions gutting the public sector and breaking unions, or as an era of capitalist development with its own logic Bringing his considerable intellectual breadth and characteristic generosity to bear on this question, Neil Davidson shows that to truly appreciate what is unique about neoliberalism, and what marks it out as a continuation of capitalism more generally, it is necessary to examine its social dimensions. What Was Neoliberalism? holds fast to Davidson’s conviction that thoroughly understanding the past means being better prepared for the struggles of the future.
