A Prism Of Thought

Author : Aljoscha Berve,Helmut Maassen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443860918

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A.N. Whitehead's Thought through a New Prism by Aljoscha Berve,Helmut Maassen Pdf

This volume brings together the proceedings of the “European Summer School for Process Thought”, which took place in Mülheim, Germany, in August 2012. It explores Alfred North Whitehead’s thinking in different fields of science, connecting his philosophical writings with physics, religion, education, psychology and aesthetics. The first part of the book is concerned with Whitehead’s philosophical methodology, discussing a plethora of subjects, including the interdependence between some of Whitehead’s works, the role of logic in his style of argument, concepts of time, the role of symbolism, and the relation between specialized terminology and the colloquial in Whitehead’s philosophy. The second part explores applications for the concepts of Whitehead’s thinking in a broader context. In scientific fields as diverse as physics, theological and classical Chinese religious thought, concepts of education and psychological theories of embodiment, Whitehead’s basic philosophical concepts have been implemented in various different ways. As such, this book holds an interdisciplinary appeal for Whitehead scholars from different scientific backgrounds.

Author : Francis Mont
Publisher : Montland Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099490942X

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The Prism of My Mind by Francis Mont Pdf

Collected poems from 2000 to 2013. The collection is organized in seven groups, each corresponding to one of the seven emotions, expressed by the poems in that group: hope, joy, humour, love, sadness, anger and despair. These feelings are also represented by the rainbow: from the happy warm colours to the sad cool ones. In addition, the poems also comment on the most important lessons the author learned in a long and adventurous life

Author : Brent Weeks
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316087544

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The Black Prism by Brent Weeks Pdf

In a world where magic is tightly controlled, the most powerful man in history must choose between his kingdom and his son in the first book in the epic NYT bestselling Lightbringer series. Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart. If you loved the action and adventure of the Night Angel trilogy, you will devour this incredible epic fantasy series by Brent Weeks.

Author : Tom Roeper
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262250580

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The Prism of Grammar by Tom Roeper Pdf

Exploring the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar—and reveal the innate structures of the mind. Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a stream of sound, linking diverse strings of information to different domains of mind—memory, vision, emotions, intentions. In The Prism of Grammar, Tom Roeper brings the abstract principles behind modern grammar to life by exploring the astonishing intricacies of child language. Adult expressions provide endless puzzles for the child to solve. The individual child's solutions ("Don't uncomfortable the cat" is one example) may amuse adults but they also reveal the complexity of language and the challenges of mastering it. The tiniest utterances, says Roeper, reflect the whole mind and engage the child's free will and sense of dignity. He offers numerous and novel "explorations"—many at the cutting edge of current work—that anyone can try, even in conversation around the dinner table. They elicit how the child confronts "recursion"—the heartbeat of grammar—through endless possessives ("John's mother's friend's car"), mysterious plurals, contradictory adjectives, the marvels of ellipsis, and the deep obscurity of reference ("there it is, right here"). They are not tests of skill; they are tools for discovery and delight, not diagnosis. Each chapter on acquisition begins with a commonsense look at how structures work—moving from the simple to the complex—and then turns to the literary and human dimensions of grammar. One important human dimension is the role of dialect in society and in the lives of children. Roeper devotes three chapters to the structure of African-American English and the challenge of responding to linguistic prejudice. Written in a lively style, accessible and gently provocative, The Prism of Grammar is for parents and teachers as well as students—for everyone who wants to understand how children gain and use language—and anyone interested in the social, philosophical, and ethical implications of how we see the growing mind emerge.

Author : National Library of Poetry (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1575534053

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A Prism of Thought by National Library of Poetry (Firm) Pdf

See page 523 for the poem entitled "Fall Out," by Wendy Miller '98, student at Pioneer Central High School, Yorkshire, New York.

Author : Olga Valentinova,Vladimir Denisenko,Sergey Preobrazhenskii,Mikhail Rybakov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793647726

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The Systemic View as a Basis for Philological Thought by Olga Valentinova,Vladimir Denisenko,Sergey Preobrazhenskii,Mikhail Rybakov Pdf

In The Systemic View as a Basis for Philological Thought, Olga Valentinova, Vladimir Denisenko, Sergey Preobrazhenskii, andMikhail Rybakov explore the interrelation of language material, structure, and functions in various subjects of philological research, such as grammatical systems of language, semantics, linguistic personality, literary text, and formal aspects of verse. Their systemic approach is rooted in the theories of Wilhelm von Humboldt and his followers, including Russian scholars Alexander Potebnya, Gustav Shpet, and more recently Gennadii Prokop’evichMel’nikov (1928–2000). The authors use the concept of systematicity as an opportunity to see the studied whole in development, to show and explain the functional interaction of linear and supra-linear connections, to explain their interdependence, and to predict further changes within the system. This book displays the scientific potential of the systemic approach to linguistics and related spheres, employing the framework of systematicity to revise the modern trends of philology and to map out an alternative paradigm for linguistic and philological thought that could restore the status of philology as a holistic science.

Author : William L. Richter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461636564

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Approaches to Political Thought by William L. Richter Pdf

Approaches to Political Thought raises three important questions concerning traditional political thought: (1) Why study the political writings and ideas of Plato, Machiavelli, and other long-dead writers? (2) Who among the writers, and which of their works, are worth studying? (3) How should they be studied? The book then explores ten contemporary approaches to understanding political thought and the diverse answers to these questions. The approaches covered include those of Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Eric Voegelin, Sheldon Wolin, the Cambridge School (Quentin Skinner and J.G.A. Pocock), Psychobiography, Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas), Hermeneutics (Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer), Michel Foucault, and Feminist Criticism (Susan Moller Okin and Jean Elshtain). Each chapter includes an introductory essay and edited selections that illustrate or discuss that approach. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and suggestions for further exploration, including books, articles, and web sites. This exploration of contending contemporary approaches to political thought touches upon ongoing methodological and philosophical issues that are relevant to several academic disciplines, including political science, history, philosophy, and psychology.

Author : E C baroness de Calabrella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Block printing
ISBN : BL:A0020254414

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The Prism of Thought by E C baroness de Calabrella Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Jones Towne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : New Thought
ISBN : UVA:X030803903

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Nautilus Magazine of New Thought by Elizabeth Jones Towne Pdf

Author : Rachel Cohen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374720827

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Austen Years by Rachel Cohen Pdf

One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020 "A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer’s commitment to another." --The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice) "An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again." —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live "About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author." In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen’s novels. Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen’s novels, the scope of Austen Years widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen's novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father’s last letter, a moment paired with the grief of Sense and Sensibility and the social bonds of Pride and Prejudice. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples with her growing children, teaching, and her father’s legacy, all refracted through the denser, more complex Mansfield Park and Emma. With unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen’s life and literature, and guided by Austen’s mournful and hopeful final novel, Persuasion, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large.

Author : Nenad Miscevic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030810825

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Thought Experiments by Nenad Miscevic Pdf

This book offers a readable introduction to the main aspects of thought experimenting in philosophy and science (together with related imaginative activities in mathematics and linguistics). It presents the main options in understanding thought experiments, from empiricism to Platonism, and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. However, it also provides some original perspectives on the topic. Firstly, it provides a new definition and analysis of thought experimenting that brings it closer to laboratory experimenting. Secondly, it develops the author’s earlier theory of “mental modelling”, proposed some decades ago by him, and some other researchers in the field as the crucial procedure in thought experimenting. The mental modelling approach links work with thought experimenting to cognitive science and to research on mental simulation which is a hot topic in present-day research. Thirdly, it proposes a principled way to respond to criticism of thought experimenting by “experimental philosophers” as they have been dominating the present-day debates. The response suggests a possible ameliorative, self-help project for thought experimenting. Finally, the book provides a way to systematize the history of important thought experiments in science and philosophy and thus connects, in an original way, the systematic investigation of experimenting to the historical work of famous thought experiments. It is of interest to scholars interested in history of ideas and philosophy of science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074640122

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Library Magazine of American and Foreign Thought by Anonim Pdf

Author : Morris Kline
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990-03-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199770465

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Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume 1 by Morris Kline Pdf

The major creations and developments in mathematics from the beginnings in Babylonia and Egypt through the first few decades of the twentieth century are presented with clarity and precision in this comprehensive historical study.

Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199568031

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The Political Theory of Political Thinking by Michael Freeden Pdf

This book is the first to explore systematically what it means to think 'politically'. Using detailed contemporary and historical material, and investigating both professional and 'amateur' forms of political thinking, this study challenges much accepted wisdom on the topic, arguing that it is to be approached as a cluster of interacting features.

Author : Robert L. Flood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415185297

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Rethinking The Fifth Discipline by Robert L. Flood Pdf

Explains the ideas of The Fifth Discipline and critiques the ideas in straightforward terms. Flood establishes crucial developments in this area in the context of the learning organisation, including creativity and organisational change.