An Indispensable Truth

Author : Francis Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441978202

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Recent books have raised the public consciousness about the dangers of global warming and climate change. This book is intended to convey the message that there is a solution. The solution is the rapid development of hydrogen fusion energy. This energy source is inexhaustible and, although achieving fusion energy is difficult, the progress made in the past two decades has been remarkable. The physics issues are now understood well enough that serious engineering can begin.The book starts with a summary of climate change and energy sources, trying to give a concise, clear, impartial picture of the facts, separate from conjecture and sensationalism. Controlled fusion -- the difficult problems and ingenious solutions -- is then explained using many new concepts.The bottom line -- what has yet to be done, how long it will take, and how much it will cost -- may surprise you. Francis F. Chen's career in plasma has extended over five decades. His textbook Introduction to Plasma Physics has been used worldwide continuously since 1974. He is the only physicist who has published significantly in both experiment and theory and on both magnetic fusion and laser fusion. As an outdoorsman and runner, he is deeply concerned about the environment. Currently he enjoys bird photography and is a member of the Audubon Society.

Author : Francis F. Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1441978194

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An Indispensable Truth by Francis F. Chen Pdf

Recent books have raised the public consciousness about the dangers of global warming and climate change. This book is intended to convey the message that there is a solution. The solution is the rapid development of hydrogen fusion energy. This energy source is inexhaustible and, although achieving fusion energy is difficult, the progress made in the past two decades has been remarkable. The physics issues are now understood well enough that serious engineering can begin.The book starts with a summary of climate change and energy sources, trying to give a concise, clear, impartial picture of the facts, separate from conjecture and sensationalism. Controlled fusion -- the difficult problems and ingenious solutions -- is then explained using many new concepts.The bottom line -- what has yet to be done, how long it will take, and how much it will cost -- may surprise you. Francis F. Chen's career in plasma has extended over five decades. His textbook Introduction to Plasma Physics has been used worldwide continuously since 1974. He is the only physicist who has published significantly in both experiment and theory and on both magnetic fusion and laser fusion. As an outdoorsman and runner, he is deeply concerned about the environment. Currently he enjoys bird photography and is a member of the Audubon Society.

Author : Margaret Dauler Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000300871

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Leibniz' Doctrine of Necessary Truth by Margaret Dauler Wilson Pdf

Originally published in 1990. This study was first written in 1965 when interest in Leibniz was intensifying. The book looks in detail at the doctrine of necessity – that necessary truths are those derivable from the principle of identity by the substitution of definitions. It first considers views of philosophic predecessors, relating Leibniz’ doctrine to Aristotle and Hobbes among others. The second section examines the conflict between his reductionistic and formalistic views and the opposing intuitionism and anti-reductionism of Descartes and Locke. The author critically examines the theory of necessity, including Leibniz’s arguments against the views of Hobbes and Locke, concluding with distinctions between necessary and contingent truths.

Author : William M. Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190499266

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Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose by William M. Sullivan Pdf

In a remarkable experiment lasting over a decade, a group of 88 independent campuses, ranging from comprehensive universities to intimate colleges, have demonstrated the value of an emerging educational agenda focused on meaning and purpose. These programs have shown that college can provide emerging adults with an understanding of themselves within today's insecure and highly competitive world that enhances their ability to develop the "grit" needed to create meaningful lives. By focusing on the exploration of vocation and its theological foundations, the programs have produced remarkable outcomes in enhanced student engagement in the learning process and more effective entry into adult life. Discernment of vocation provides for many students a synthetic and compelling focus for intellectual and practical exploration. Sustained by articulate reflection and grounded in communities of learning that include faculty as well as students, undergraduate life takes on new significance and urgency. Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose analyzes a series of successful efforts to reconfigure undergraduate education as a journey toward life purpose. Examining the experiences of students and faculty, William M. Sullivan reveals the concrete importance of this educational agenda for individual lives and particular campuses. By connecting the several dimensions of undergraduate experience through reflection on purpose, Sullivan demonstrates how these programs expanded the bandwidth of academic learning in energizing and exploratory ways. Within the larger, troubled environment of contemporary higher education, these pioneering efforts hold promise for a significant rethinking of the undergraduate experience to better serve students and society.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226922089

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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling by Michel Foucault Pdf

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault’s early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. Ranging broadly from Homer to the twentieth century, Foucault traces the early use of truth-telling in ancient Greece and follows it through to practices of self-examination in monastic times. By the nineteenth century, the avowal of wrongdoing was no longer sufficient to satisfy the call for justice; there remained the question of who the “criminal” was and what formative factors contributed to his wrong-doing. The call for psychiatric expertise marked the birth of the discipline of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as its widespread recognition as the foundation of criminology and modern criminal justice. Published here for the first time, the 1981 lectures have been superbly translated by Stephen W. Sawyer and expertly edited and extensively annotated by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. They are accompanied by two contemporaneous interviews with Foucault in which he elaborates on a number of the key themes. An essential companion to Discipline and Punish, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling will take its place as one of the most significant works of Foucault to appear in decades, and will be necessary reading for all those interested in his thought.

Author : Theodora Achourioti,Henri Galinon,José Martínez Fernández,Kentaro Fujimoto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401796736

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Unifying the Philosophy of Truth by Theodora Achourioti,Henri Galinon,José Martínez Fernández,Kentaro Fujimoto Pdf

This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the nature of truth, with papers selected from key conferences in 2011 such as Truth Be Told (Amsterdam), Truth at Work (Paris), Paradoxes of Truth and Denotation (Barcelona) and Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Oxford). Studying the nature of the concept of ‘truth’ has always been a core role of philosophy, but recent years have been a boom time in the topic. With a wealth of recent conferences examining the subject from various angles, this collection of essays recognizes the pressing need for a volume that brings scholars up to date on the arguments. Offering academics and graduate students alike a much-needed repository of today’s cutting-edge work in this vital topic of philosophy, the volume is required reading for anyone needing to keep abreast of developments, and is certain to act as a catalyst for further innovation and research.

Author : Michael P. Lynch,Jeremy Wyatt,Junyeol Kim,Nathan Kellen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262542067

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The Nature of Truth, second edition by Michael P. Lynch,Jeremy Wyatt,Junyeol Kim,Nathan Kellen Pdf

The definitive and essential collection of classic and new essays on analytic theories of truth, revised and updated, with seventeen new chapters. The question "What is truth?" is so philosophical that it can seem rhetorical. Yet truth matters, especially in a "post-truth" society in which lies are tolerated and facts are ignored. If we want to understand why truth matters, we first need to understand what it is. The Nature of Truth offers the definitive collection of classic and contemporary essays on analytic theories of truth. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated, incorporating both historically central readings on truth's nature as well as up-to-the-moment contemporary essays. Seventeen new chapters reflect the current trajectory of research on truth.

Author : Frederic Dan Huntington,Edmund Hamilton Sears,Rufus Ellis,James William Thompson,John Hopkins Morison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015074645592

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Monthly Religious Magazine by Frederic Dan Huntington,Edmund Hamilton Sears,Rufus Ellis,James William Thompson,John Hopkins Morison Pdf

Author : James BUCHANAN (Minister of St. Stephen's Free Church, Edinburgh.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018965556

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Analogy, considered as a Guide to Truth, and applied as an Aid to Faith by James BUCHANAN (Minister of St. Stephen's Free Church, Edinburgh.) Pdf

Author : James Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Analogy (Religion)
ISBN : OXFORD:590177207

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Analogy Considered as a Guide to Truth and Applied as an Aid to Faith by James Buchanan Pdf

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466800335

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A Passion for Truth by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

In A Passion For Truth, Heschel delves into the exploration of hope and despair in Hasidism. Heschel drew on his own experiences from his study of the Kotzker and the Baal Shem Tov to create this classic work.

Author : Neville Earl Walker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781456827182

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The Voice of Truth by Neville Earl Walker Pdf

Church fellowship and witnessing are two necessary everyday activities that are practiced by the Church that helps to sustain its existence by perfecting brethren in righteousness and in winning souls for the Lord. These activities were promoted by Jesus Christ for the ongoing work of salvation and for unity of spirit in the bond of peace. Thus fellowship and witnessing are mandatory for spiritual and corporeal growth. The togetherness provides mutual help and mentoring in support of being edified concerning the gospel and in performing the will and work of the Lord. Without this togetherness in working and living for the Lord among the body of Believers, spiritual and corporeal growth would be lacking and there would be a great possibility for the extinction of the Church. Thus, the only wise God instituted fellowship and witnessing to uphold the need for the Church, which is the only vehicle instituted to keep us separated from the world through righteous standards with the intent to transport us into eternity. This association also make it possible with the help of the Holy Spirit, to defeat The gates of hell (evil opposition) by human intensity in the Churchs war against demonic forces (Mat. 11:12).

Author : S. J. FINNEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0018965463

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The Bible; is it of Divine Origin, Authority, and Influence?. by S. J. FINNEY Pdf

Author : RICHARD J. KOSCIEJEW
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781491850138

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The Corpses of Times Generations by RICHARD J. KOSCIEJEW Pdf

Anyone who has ever tried to present a rather abstract scientific subject in a popular manner knows the great difficulties of such an attempt. Either he succeeds in being intelligible by concealing the core of the problem and by offering to the reader only superficial aspects or vague allusions, thus of deluding the reader by arousing in him the deceptive illusion of comprehension; Or else he gives an expert account of the problem, but as the untrained reader is unable to follow the exposition and becomes discouraged from reading any further. If these two categories are omitted from todays popular scientific literature, surprisingly little remains. But the little left is very valuable indeed. It is very important that the public is given an opportunity to experience-consciously and intelligently-the efforts and results of scientific research. It is not sufficient that each successive progression is taken up, elaborated, and applied by a few specialists in the field. Restricting the body of knowledge to a small group deadens the philosophical spirit of these people and leads to spiritual poverty. THE CORPSES OF TIMES GENERATIONS represents a valuable contribution to popular scientific writing. The main ideas to Theory are extremely well presented. Moreover, the presents state of our knowledge in which the paradigms of science are aptly characterized. Mr. Kosciejew shows how the criterial growth of our factual knowledge, with the striving for a unified conception comprising all empirical data, has led to the present situation which is characterized -despite all successes by an uncertainty concerning the choice of the basic theoretical concept.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000004519737

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The Wheel of Time; Collaboration; Owen Wingrave by Henry James Pdf