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The Problems of Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell |
In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative cr… |
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The emergence of sexuality
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Arnold Ira Davidson |
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Nominalism and its aftermath
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Dena Shottenkirk |
"Nelson Goodman's disparate writings are often written about only within their own particular discipline, such that the epistemology is discussed in contrast to others' epistemology, the aesthetics i… |
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Reasons for belief
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Andrew Evan Reisner,Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen |
"Philosophers have long been concerned about what we know and how we know it. Increasingly, however, a related question has gained prominence in philosophical discussion: what should we believe and w… |
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Plato's Charmides
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Thomas M. Tuozzo |
"This book argues that Plato's Charmides presents a unitary but incomplete argument intended to lead its readers to substantive philosophical insights"--
"This book argues that Plato's Charmides pre… |
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The postmodern condition
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Jean-François Lyotard |
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends th… |
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Kuhn's evolutionary social epistemology
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K. Brad Wray |
"Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scie… |
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The Classical Moment
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James V. Schall |
The essay is one of the great inventions of the human mind. It can talk about anything and everything. It can be lightsome or solemn. It can be witty or informative. Above all, it is short. It likes … |
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The world-time parallel
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Cresswell, M. J. |
"Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happe… |
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The development of Byron's philosophy of knowledge
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Emily A. Bernhard Jackson |
"Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of th… |
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Knowledge on trust
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Paul Faulkner |
"We know a lot about the world and our place in it. We have come to this knowledge in a variety of ways. And one central way that we, both as individuals and as a society, have come to know what we d… |
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Knowing without thinking
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Zdravko Radman |
"A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspire… |
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The Signal and the Noise
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Nate Silver |
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was th… |
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Introduction to humans in engineered systems
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Roger W. Remington |
"This book provides a repository of cases and articles on the broad applications of human factors knowledge across the globe. Written by highly experienced authors in this field, this book takes a co… |
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The visible and the invisible
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
[This book] contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book [the author] was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, a… |
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The Knowledge
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Lewis Dartnell |
"How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be … |
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The black box society
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Frank Pasquale |
Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior - silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portaits created are i… |
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Anspruch Und Rechtfertigung
Phaenomenologica
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Sophie Loidolt |
"Anspruch und Rechtfertigung entwickelt eine phänomenologische Theorie des 'rechtlichen Denkens'. Dabei handelt es sich um eine erste systematische Untersuchung derjenigen Bewusstseinsstrukturen, die… |
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Learning in Depth
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Kieran Egan |
"For generations, schools have aimed to introduce students to a broad range of topics through curriculum that ensure that they will at least have some acquaintance with most areas of human knowledge … |
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Webble Technology
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Oksana Arnold |
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Webble World Summit, WWS 2013, held in Erfurt, Germany, in June 2013. The focus of the event is on Webble technology and its applications. … |
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