Planethood

Author : Harry J. Bury Ph.D.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781426952425

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An Invitation to Think and Feel Differently in the New Millennium by Harry J. Bury Ph.D. Pdf

Harry J. Bury has a dream, a vision of how the world can be immensely better in the future than it is today. In An Invitation to Think and Feel Differently in the New Millennium, Bury presents his hope for the world and provides a path to achieve this goal. An Invitation to Think and Feel Differently in the New Millennium describes a practical way of looking at life positively that brings meaning and fulfillment to oneself and others. This guide tells stories that touch the deepest layers of our humannessawakening our imagination and transforming our understanding in a manner that makes us happy. Bury generates these stories for the new millennium in order to overcome cynicism with reasonable hopefulness while suggesting practical measures we can take to make life better for ourselves and for everyone in the world. He invites citizens to participate in creating an emerging and global worldview that enables humans to meet the challenges and opportunities of the new millennium. An Invitation to Think and Feel Differently in the New Millennium encourages us to change our mind to change the world.

Author : David Moshman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134650392

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Epistemic Cognition and Development by David Moshman Pdf

Epistemic cognition, the philosophical core of metacognition, concerns people’s knowledge about the justification and truth of beliefs. Multiple literatures in psychology and education address aspects of epistemic cognition. In the absence of a coherent conceptual framework, however, these literatures mostly fail to communicate with each other and often connect only loosely to genuine epistemology. This complicates any effort to achieve a systematic theoretical understanding of epistemic cognition and its development. Deanna Kuhn writes in her foreword, "Moshman is not the first to take on this challenge, but he fulfills it elegantly and, I think, the most comprehensively and astutely." After reviewing the basics of philosophical epistemology and cognitive psychology, Epistemic Cognition and Development provides a compelling account of developmental change across childhood and beyond in knowledge about knowledge, especially with regard to fundamental conceptions of objectivity, subjectivity, rationality, justification, and truth. This is followed by detailed consideration of domain-specific epistemologies of science, logic, morality, social convention, history, and identity, including associated forms of reasoning. The final section provides theoretical conclusions, educational and social applications, and suggestions for further research.

Author : Alan Boss
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786743674

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The Crowded Universe by Alan Boss Pdf

We are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe—we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets around other stars. But will we find any? In The Crowded Universe, renowned astronomer Alan Boss argues that based on what we already know about planetary systems, in the coming years we will find abundant Earths, including many that are indisputably alive. Life is not only possible elsewhere in the universe, Boss argues—it is common. Boss describes how our ideas about planetary formation have changed radically in the past decade and brings readers up to date on discoveries of bizarre inhabitants of various solar systems, including our own. America must stay in this new space race, Boss contends, or risk being left out of one of the most profoundly important discoveries of all time: the first confirmed finding of extraterrestrial life.

Author : Tom Hofmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786474936

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Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg Prosecutor and Peace Advocate by Tom Hofmann Pdf

At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for major war criminals, and Benjamin Ferencz was chief prosecutor for what the Associated Press said was the largest murder trial in history. This biography of the last living Nuremberg prosecutor traces his life from early childhood growing up as an immigrant in Hell's Kitchen in New York City, to Harvard Law School, to the U.S. Army and Patton's Judge Advocate War Crimes Investigation Section, to the Nuremberg Tribunals and beyond. His life has been spent working toward the goal of world peace through law, not war, including the successful formation of the International Criminal Court, in which Ferencz played a key role.

Author : Gabriel Abend
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691247076

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Words and Distinctions for the Common Good by Gabriel Abend Pdf

How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do research on a variety of topics—gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. They advise policymakers on diversity, digitalization, work, and religion. And yet, as Gabriel Abend points out in this provocative book, they can’t agree on what these things are and how to identify them. How to tell if something is a religion or a cult or a sect? What is empathy? What makes this society a capitalist one? Disputes of this sort arise again and again in the social sciences. Abend argues that these disagreements have been doubly misconceived. First, they conflate two questions: how a social science community should use its most important words, and what distinctions it should accept and work with. Second, there’s no fact of the matter about either. Instead, they’re practical reason questions for a community, which aim at epistemically and morally good outcomes. Abend calls on social science communities to work together on their words, distinctions, and classifications. They must make collective decisions about the uses of words, the acceptability of distinctions, and the criteria for assessing both. These decisions aren’t up to individual scholars; the community gets the last word. According to Abend, the common good, justice, and equality should play a significant role in the logic of scientific research. Gabriel Abend is professor of sociology at University of Lucerne and the author of The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics (Princeton).

Author : William Koopman
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781462907854

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Talking Lightly by William Koopman Pdf

Talking Lightly was originally published in print form in 1994. Talking Lightly features interviews with twelve prominent personalities of new thought - figures who have helped define the New Age Movement. Author William Koopman, former editor and publisher of The Light provides a description of each person's history and accomplishments and describes how the interviews came about. These fascinating and intimate discussions explore many different concepts: from firewalking to music, from self-awareness to the tapping of inner strength. Talking Lightly will challenge readers to rediscover and reassess their perception of the world around them.

Author : Michael F. Shaughnessy,Marcel Veenman,Cynthia Kleyn Kennedy
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1604560118

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Meta-cognition by Michael F. Shaughnessy,Marcel Veenman,Cynthia Kleyn Kennedy Pdf

Over the past two decades, the word 'metacognition' has become a regularly used part of our language and vocabulary in both psychology and education. Many research articles have been written about it, the conceptualisation of this construct has expanded, and conferences abound with investigations and empirical research into various facets of this domain. This book provides some of the most recent research by scholars from various parts of the world. It includes differing perspectives -- some empirical, some theory driven, and some application papers. The book focuses on metacognition and it's relevance to gifted and highly able students. Many of the papers focus directly and specifically on this; others are more tangential in nature.

Author : Khaled Mellouli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540752561

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Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty by Khaled Mellouli Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU 2007. Coverage in the 78 revised full papers, presented together with three invited papers, includes Bayesian networks, graphical models, learning causal networks, planning, causality and independence, preference modeling and decision, argumentation systems, inconsistency handling, and uncertainty measures.

Author : Billy Dunaway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191899089

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Reality and Morality by Billy Dunaway Pdf

Reality and Morality develops and defends a framework for moral realism. It defends the idea that moral properties are metaphysically elite, or privileged parts of reality, and argues that realists can hold that this makes them highly eligible as the referents for our moral terms (an application of a thesis sometimes called reference magnetism). Billy Dunaway elaborates on these theses by introducing some natural claims about how we can know about morality, by having beliefs that are free from a kind of risk of error. This package of theses in metaphysics, meta-semantics, and epistemology is motivated with a view to explaining possible moral disagreements. Many writers have emphasized the scope of moral disagreement, and have given compelling examples of possible users of moral language who appear to be genuinely disagreeing, rather than talking past one another, with their use of moral language. What has gone unnoticed is that there are limits to these possible disagreements, and not all possible users of moral language are naturally interpreted as capable of genuine disagreement. The realist view developed in Reality and Morality can explain both the extent of, and the limits to, moral disagreement, and thereby has explanatory power that counts significantly in its favour.

Author : Chris Tillman,Adam Russell Murray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351982269

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The Routledge Handbook of Propositions by Chris Tillman,Adam Russell Murray Pdf

Propositions are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, logicians, and other theorists engaged in the study of meaning, communication, and the mind. To investigate the nature of propositions is to investigate the very nature of our connection to each other, and to the world around us. As one of the only volumes of its kind, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions provides a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of propositions, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Comprising 33 original chapters by an international team of scholars, the volume addresses both traditional and emerging questions concerning the nature of propositions, and our capacity to engage with them in thought and in communication. The chapters are clearly organized into the following three sections: I. Foundational Issues in the Theory of Propositions II. Historical Theories of Propositions III. Contemporary Theories of Propositions Essential reading for philosophers of language and mind, and for those working in neighboring areas, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions is suitable for upper-level undergraduate study, as well as graduate and professional research.

Author : Satish S. Joglekar
Publisher : StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789390267910

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Window to Ancient India : A Tryst with Ancient Science & Philosophy | Part II : Languages, Linguistic Systems and Indian Logic System vis-a-vis the Greeks by Satish S. Joglekar Pdf

About the Book: The canvas of India’s history, literature, science, and culture spans not just centuries, but several millennia. This book provides a bird’s eye view of everything Indian or simply the proverbial ‘omnibus capsule’. For modern readers who have little time to read eclectic sources, the ‘omnibus capsule‘ hopes to provide a comprehensive compendium about India. Part I narrates the fascinating history of Board Games and Martial Arts in India. Race Games like Pachisi, Moksha Patam, and Ashtapada became channels for many popular games like Ludo, Snake & Ladders, and Backgammon. Pachisi was however appropriated by Alfred Collier, who took the game to England and called it ‘Royal Ludo’ and even earned a patent for it. One of the earliest war games was Chaturanga, the precursor of modern Chess. It traces the transmission of Chaturanga to the West via the Persians (Chatrang) and the Arabs (Shatranj), and its evolution into the contemporary form. It describes various kinds of derived chess games, like circular chess, four-handed chess, decimal chess, and chess with dice etc. The relationship between Chitra Kavya, a genre of Sanskrit poetry and the Knights Tour, is fascinating. The earliest mention of hand combat is to be found in the Buddhist text Lotus Sutra. Chua-Fa practised today can be traced to the original 18 Luohan Hands of Boddhidharma. The book covers 14 different forms of martial arts practised in India. Martial Arts to Performance describes how Kalaripayattu continues to influence contemporary dance forms. About the Author: Satish Joglekar is an engineer from IIT Bombay, with a Master’s in computer science. He has worked with several software companies for more than 30 years which included a long stint at Bell Laboratories, USA. Satish is trained in Hindustani classical music and has intense interest in history, non-fiction literature, and travel.

Author : Sara Seager
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816529452

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Exoplanets by Sara Seager Pdf

For the first time in human history, we know for certain the existence of planets around other stars. Now the fastest-growing field in space science, the time is right for this fundamental source book on the topic which will lay the foundation for its continued growth. Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the non-specialist and a foundation for the techniques and equations used in exoplanet observation by those dedicated to the field.

Author : Benjamin B. Ferencz,Ken Keyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Antinuclear movement
ISBN : 091597214X

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PlanetHood by Benjamin B. Ferencz,Ken Keyes Pdf

Author : Benjamin Ferencz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : International organization
ISBN : LCCN:90013519

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Planethood - The Key To Your Future by Benjamin Ferencz Pdf

Author : Benjamin B. Ferencz,Ken Keyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0915972212

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PlanetHood by Benjamin B. Ferencz,Ken Keyes Pdf

Stresses the importance of developing and applying international law, and suggests an eight-step plan to help insure a peaceful, prosperous future