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Instructive Journey

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761805869

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Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and came to the USA at the age of ten. He attended Queens College in New York City and Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. while still twenty-two. Since 1961 he has been University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he has also served as Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. The author of more than seventy books in various areas of philosophy, works by Mr. Rescher have been translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese. One of the few contemporary exponents of philosophical idealism, Mr. Rescher has been active in the rehabilitation on the coherence theory of truth and in the reconstruction of philosophical pragmatism in line with the idealistic tradition. He has pioneered the development of inconsistency-tolerant logics and, in the philosophy of science, the exponential retardation theory of scientific progress based on the epistemological principle that knowledge increases merely with the logarithm of the increase in information. Books about Rescher's work have appeared in English, German, and Italian. His contributions to philosophy have been recognized repeatedly by honorary degrees awarded by universities in the U.S.A. and abroad. In 1977 its fellow elected him an honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and in 1983 he received an Alexander von Humboldt Humanities Prize, awarded under the auspices of the Federal Republic of Germany 'in recognition of the research accomplishments of humanistic scholars of international distinction.' In this autobiographical work, Rescher describes his boyhood in Nazi Germany, his family's struggles to make a new life for themselves in the USA of the 1930's, and the vicissitudes attending his own labors as a professional philosopher. The book provides a vivid and humane portrait of the intellectual and personal formation of America's most productive philosophical author.

L’CHAYIM! A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR’S AMERICAN JOURNEY

Author : Paul A. Schwarzbart
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496970633

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L’CHAYIM! A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR’S AMERICAN JOURNEY by Paul A. Schwarzbart Pdf

After being asked so many times by readers and listeners alike about what happened next, I decided to start at my arrival in the US at age 15 and reveal my story to the present day, as I approach my 82nd birthday. The exciting journey of a young Holocaust and WWII survivor in this land of milk and honey is a vibrant testimony to an indomitable human spirit, incorrigible optimism, and tremendous good fortune. Only in America could I have made such a life for myself and my loved ones — not anywhere else.

Goal Invention: The Mental Therapy, Sport, and Hobby

Author : Russel Alden Arlotta
Publisher : Thecyclecasenumber Goalinventionsystemauthor
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9798986003702

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Goal Invention: The Mental Therapy, Sport, and Hobby by Russel Alden Arlotta Pdf

A reader interactive hardcover textbook that instructs The Cycle Case Number Goal Invention System, a system which promotes goal invention. Study the system chapter by chapter and perform the mental therapy, sport, and hobby of goal invention, as you become the co-author of this textbook. This reader interactive textbook, Goal Invention: The Mental Therapy, Sport, and Hobby, is structured in two halves. The first half of this textbook instructs The Cycle Case Number Goal Invention System. The second half of the textbook contains the reader interactive Goal Invention Workbook entitled “The 10-Cycle Goal Invention Journey”. The 10-Cycle Goal Invention Journey is the preformatted workbook section for you to perform goal invention as a mental therapy, sport, and hobby, while using the systematic procedures of The Cycle Case Number Goal Invention System. In Goal Invention: the Mental Therapy, Sport, and Hobby, you perform the cycle case number goal invention system and become the Author of this book. You are The Cycle Case Number Goal Invention System Author

Instructed and Instructive Actions

Author : Michael Lynch,Oskar Lindwall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000981667

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Instructed and Instructive Actions by Michael Lynch,Oskar Lindwall Pdf

The contributors to this volume take up the theme of instructed and instructive actions. Harold Garfinkel, the founder of ethnomethodology, initiated the study of instructed actions as a way to elucidate the embodied production of social order in real time. Studies of instructions and the actions of following them provide empirical content to the classical theoretical issue of how rules, norms, and other normative guidelines are conveyed, understood, and used for producing social actions and structures. The studies in this volume address novel technologies of instructed action and non-obvious ways in which ordinary actions turn out to be instructive for participants in immediate situations of action and interaction. In some cases, the studies address specialized practical, artistic, and recreational activities, and in others they address commonplace modes of action and interaction. In all cases, they focus on how the manifest organization of specific activities is organized with and without explicitly formulated instructions. This book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in ethnomethodological approaches to research by contributing to understandings of how specific actions are instructed and instructive in the circumstances in which they are produced.

Excursions into Modernism

Author : Dr Joyce E Kelley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472444226

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Excursions into Modernism by Dr Joyce E Kelley Pdf

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel narratives by women of the period who felt increasingly free to journey abroad and redefine themselves through travel. In an era when Western artists, writers, and musicians sought 'primitive' ideas for artistic renewal, Joyce E. Kelley locates a key similarity between fiction and travel writing in the way women authors use foreign experiences to inspire innovations with written expression and self-articulation. She focuses on the pairing of outward journeys with more inward, introspective ones made possible through reconceptualizing and mobilizing elements of women’s traditional corporeal and domestic geographies: the skin, the ill body, the womb, and the piano. In texts ranging from Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott’s Escapade to Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Kelley explores how interactions between geographic movement, identity formation, and imaginative excursions produce modernist experimentation. Drawing on fascinating supplementary and archival materials such as letters, diaries, newspaper articles, photographs, and unpublished drafts, Kelley’s book cuts across national and geographic borders to offer rich and often revisionary interpretations of both canonical and lesser-known works.

Odd Fellows' Magazine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014708275

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The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England

Author : D K Smith
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475125

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The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England by D K Smith Pdf

Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.

Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction

Author : Amanda Guillán
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319630434

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Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction by Amanda Guillán Pdf

This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science. The author offers a full characterization of Rescher’s system of philosophy. She presents readers with a comprehensive philosophico-methodological analysis of this important work. Her research takes into account different thematic realms: semantic, logical, epistemological, methodological, ontological, axiological, and ethical. The book features three, thematic-parts: I) General Coordinates, Semantic Features and Logical Components of Scientific Prediction; II) Predictive Knowledge and Predictive Processes in Rescher’s Methodological Pragmatism; and III) From Reality to Values: Ontological Features, Axiological Elements, and Ethical Aspects of Scientific Prediction. This insightful analysis offers a critical reconstruction of Rescher’s philosophy. The system he created is often characterized as pragmatic idealism that is open to some realist elements. He is a prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism who has made a great deal of contributions to the study of this topic. This area is crucial for science and it has been little considered in the philosophy of science.

The "descent" to the Chariot

Author : Annelies Kuyt
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 316146284X

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In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway

Author : Edmund Lenihan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781856355797

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In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway by Edmund Lenihan Pdf

Trains are unlikely to ever again run between Ennis and Kilkee. For what was a railway is now a disjointed succession of pieces linking not just places but in a way two worlds: one unhurried and traditional, the other brash, frenzied and modern. This work paints a picture of a time when the railway breathed life into West Clare.

Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation

Author : James McCosh,George Dickie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Biology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044023309198

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Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation by James McCosh,George Dickie Pdf

Browsing Through My Candy Store

Author : Tom Corbett, Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781499078190

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Browsing Through My Candy Store by Tom Corbett, Ph.D. Pdf

Tom Corbett takes us on a wild ride over the past four decades of welfare reform and antipoverty policy making. Drawing on his personal experiences in both academia and government, he exposes the raw realities of doing policy. Tom celebrates his policy life as an adventure, both challenging yet totally rewarding. He tells this story with a deft and light touch, bringing the characters and events to life with wit, wisdom, and sensitivity. It is a journey accessible to all who care about our nation and about our most vulnerable citizens.