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Essays in Analysis

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037353088

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Words that Count: A Guide to Writing Analytical Essays about Fiction

Author : Kate Sheckler
Publisher : Editions JFD
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782897990695

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Words that Count: A Guide to Writing Analytical Essays about Fiction by Kate Sheckler Pdf

Language is complex. Written or spoken, the complexity of language makes the medium the versatile tool we need but also creates the potential for a wide variety of misunderstandings and mistakes. Whether we are attempting to understand a piece of fiction or writing a text to make our thoughts comprehensible to others, the complexity of language is both necessary and fraught. That said, the inevitable pitfalls don’t mean we need to sacrifice precision or accuracy. This guide is a step by step process that offers hands-on methods for accurate analysis and precise essay construction. Chapter one deals with a variety of methods by which to approach stories and novels such that your analysis is structured on carefully constructed, logical progression founded on the primary text rather than on hunches and guesswork, and chapter two offers infrastructures and scaffolding on which any essay can be structured. The structures included in chapter two are not a template and thus do not limit style or content; rather, they are based on a series of tasks that must be completed for an argument to be convincing. As such, the tasks offer a kind of map through the process of essay writing that always indicates your next step. Contrary to accepted mythologies about analyzing fiction and writing essays, neither is a guessing game, and this text can help you remove the guesswork from your own process.

Essays in Commutative Harmonic Analysis

Author : C. C. Graham,O. C. McGehee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461299769

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This book considers various spaces and algebras made up of functions, measures, and other objects-situated always on one or another locally compact abelian group, and studied in the light of the Fourier transform. The emphasis is on the objects themselves, and on the structure-in-detail of the spaces and algebras. A mathematician needs to know only a little about Fourier analysis on the commutative groups, and then may go many ways within the large subject of harmonic analysis-into the beautiful theory of Lie group representations, for example. But this book represents the tendency to linger on the line, and the other abelian groups, and to keep asking questions about the structures thereupon. That tendency, pursued since the early days of analysis, has defined a field of study that can boast of some impressive results, and in which there still remain unanswered questions of compelling interest. We were influenced early in our careers by the mathematicians Jean-Pierre Kahane, Yitzhak Katznelson, Paul Malliavin, Yves Meyer, Joseph Taylor, and Nicholas Varopoulos. They are among the many who have made the field a productive meeting ground of probabilistic methods, number theory, diophantine approximation, and functional analysis. Since the academic year 1967-1968, when we were visitors in Paris and Orsay, the field has continued to see interesting developments. Let us name a few. Sam Drury and Nicholas Varopoulos solved the union problem for Helson sets, by proving a remarkable theorem (2.1.3) which has surely not seen its last use.

Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences

Author : Melanie Frappier,Derek Brown,Robert DiSalle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400725829

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Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences by Melanie Frappier,Derek Brown,Robert DiSalle Pdf

The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profound problems of theoretical interpretation-- problems that transcend both the methodological concerns of general philosophy of science, and the technical concerns of philosophers of particular sciences. A fruitful approach to these problems combines the study of scientific detail with the kind of conceptual analysis that is characteristic of the modern analytic tradition. Such an approach is shared by these contributors: some primarily known as analytic philosophers, some as philosophers of science, but all deeply aware that the problems of analysis and interpretation link these fields together.

Analysis and Metaphysics

Author : Keith Lehrer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401090988

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AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH This collection of essays in honor of Roderick M. Chisholm is the work of his former students. The book was conceived and the original con tributors invited by Richard Taylor. We restricted the contributors to former students of Chisholm as a special tribute to his acknowledged as a teacher of philosophy. The profundity of his contributions to genius epistemology and metaphysics are acknowledged throughout the phil osophical world. Those who have been present at his lectures and semi nars, who have been incited to philosophical cerebration by the clarity and precision of his exposition, know that his impact on contemporary philosophy far exceeds the influence of the written word. It is, we think, appropriate that his students should reserve for themselves the privilege of honoring Chisholm in this way as his 60th birthday draws near. The tribute paid to Chisholm in Taylor's essay conveys a personal impression. I shall, consequently, refrain from personal reminiscence here, and instead, mention some of the highlights of an illustrious life. Chisholm was born on November 27, 1916 in North Attleboro, Massachu setts. He married Eleanor F. Parker in 1943 and raised three children with her. He received an A. B. from Brown in 1938, a Ph. D. from Harvard in 1942, and served in the U. S. Army from 1942 to 1946.

Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social Analysis

Author : Lawrence Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319980058

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In 2011, Lawrence Davidson founded his website, tothepointanalyses.com, as a home for his brief essays on contemporary issues touching on US domestic and foreign policy. Over the last few years, Davidson's analytic reflections on contemporary politics have garnered over six million views. Now, for the first time, these essays are collected together to form a coherent, punchy look at American Politics in 2018. Contextualized by a new prologue and new conclusion, as well as updated with new material throughout, these essays provide a cogent demonstration of the power of analytical thinking to create clear and understandable descriptions of issues that impact us all, but are most often obfuscated by propaganda, lying by omission, or other forms of distortion. For those who encounter this work, it is hoped that they will come away with a clearer, if not happier, idea of what sort of world we are all living in.

Power, Trust, and Meaning

Author : S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226195562

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Power, Trust, and Meaning by S. N. Eisenstadt Pdf

S. N. Eisenstadt is well known for his wide-ranging investigations of modernization, social stratification, revolution, comparative civilization, and political development. This collection of twelve major theoretical essays spans more than forty years of research, to explore systematically the bases of human action and society. Framed by a new introduction and an extensive epilogue, which are themselves important statements about processes of institutional formations and cultural creativity, the essays trace the major developments of contemporary sociological theory and analysis. Examining themes of trust and solidarity among immigrants, youth groups, and generations, and in friendships, kinships, and patron-client relationships, Eisenstadt explores larger questions of social structure and agency, conflict and change, and the reconstitution of the social order. He looks also at political and religious systems, paying particular attention to great historical empires and the major civilizations. United by what they reveal about three major dimensions of social life—power, trust, and meaning—these essays offer a vision of culture as both a preserving and a transforming aspect of social life, thus providing a new perspective on the relations between culture and social structure.

Naturalizing Power

Author : Sylvia Yanagisako,Carol Delaney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136652943

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Naturalizing Power by Sylvia Yanagisako,Carol Delaney Pdf

This collection of essays analyzes relations of social inequality that appear to be logical extensions of a "natural order" and in the process demonstrates that a revitalized feminist anthropology of the 1990s has much to offer the field of feminist theory. Contributors:Susan McKinnon, Kath Weston, Rayna Rapp, Janet Dolgin, Harriet Whitehead, Carol Delaney, Brackette Williams, Sylvia Yanagisako, Phyllis Chock, Sherry Ortner and Anna Tsing.

Arguing on the Toulmin Model

Author : David Hitchcock,Bart Verheij
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402049385

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Arguing on the Toulmin Model by David Hitchcock,Bart Verheij Pdf

In The Uses of Argument (1958), Stephen Toulmin proposed a model for the layout of arguments: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Since then, Toulmin’s model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. This book assembles the best contemporary reflection in these fields, extending or challenging Toulmin’s ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments.

Music Theory, Analysis, and Society

Author : RobertP. Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351557146

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Robert P. Morgan is one of a small number of music theorists writing in English who treat music theory, and in particular Schenkerian theory, as part of general intellectual life. Morgan‘s writings are renowned within the field of music scholarship: he is the author of the well-known Norton volume Twentieth-Century Music, and of additional books relating to Schenkerian and other theory, analysis and society. This volume of Morgan‘s previously published essays encompasses a broad range of issues, including historical and social issues and is of importance to anyone concerned with modern Western music. His specially written introduction treats his writings as a whole but also provides additional material relating to the articles included in this volume.

Berio's Sequenzas

Author : JanetK. Halfyard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351574211

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Berio's Sequenzas by JanetK. Halfyard Pdf

Between 1958 and 2002, Luciano Berio wrote fourteen pieces entitled Sequenza, along with several versions of the same work for different instruments, revisions of the original pieces and also the parallel Chemins series, where one of the Sequenzas is used as the basis for a new composition on a larger scale. The Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century - a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilities of a solo instrument and its player, making extreme technical demands of the performer whilst developing the musical vocabulary of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece both initiates and potentially exhausts the repertoire of a new genre. The Sequenzas have significantly influenced the development of composition for solo instruments and voice, and there is no comparable series of works in the output of any other composer. Series of pieces tend to be linked by the instruments for which the composer writes, but this is a series in which the pieces are linked instead by the variety of instruments for which Berio composed. The varied approaches taken by the contributors in discussing the pieces demonstrate the richness of this repertoire and the many levels on which Berio and these landmark compositions can be considered. Contributions are arranged under three main headings: Performance Issues; Berio's Compositional Process and Aesthetics; and Analytical Approaches.

Exercises in Analysis

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521256844

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This is a volume of specially commissioned essays of analytical philosophy, on topics of current interest in ethics and the philosophy of logic and language. Among the topics discussed are the making of wicked promises, G. E. Moore's early ethical views, as well as indexicals, tense, indeterminism, conventionalism in mathematics, and identity and necessity. The essays are all by former students of Casimir Lewy, until recently Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and an exponent of a particularly thoroughgoing form of philosophical analysis. Together, they represent some of the best work in these areas at present, and express what may be described as a characteristic 'Cambridge' voice.

Essays in Conceptual Analysis

Author : H. Brotman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:263441579

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Engaging Music

Author : Deborah Jane Stein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114292795

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This collection of 21 model essays written by contemporary North American scholars in music theory is designed to provide advanced undergraduates and graduates majoring in music with exemplary models of music analysis. The book would be a useful supplement to the scores that are studies in upper level Form and Analysis courses.

Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Author : Carl Gustav Jung
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0415080282

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This volume from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung has become known as perhaps the best introduction to Jung's work. In these famous essays he presented the essential core of his system. This is the first paperback publication of this key work in its revised and augmented second edition. The earliest versions of the essays are included in an Appendices, containing as they do the first tentative formulations of Jung's concept of archetypes and the collective unconscious, as well as his germinating theory of types.