Science And Sensibility

Author : Michael Vincent McGinnis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520960756

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Science and Sensibility by Michael Vincent McGinnis Pdf

If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While science is one key part of an adaptive and resilient society, the cultivation of a renewed sense of place and community is essential as well. Science and Sensibility argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation, with the goal of shaping humans' treatment of the natural world. Michael Vincent McGinnis aims to reframe ecology so it might have greater “trans-scientific” awareness of the roles and interactions among multiple stakeholders in socioecological systems, and he also maintains that deep ecological knowledge of specific places will be crucial to supporting a sustainable society. He uses numerous specific case studies from watershed, coastal, and marine habitats to illustrate how place-based ecological negotiation can occur, and how reframing our negotiation process can influence conservation, restoration, and environmental policy in effective ways.

Author : Jessica Riskin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226720791

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Science in the Age of Sensibility by Jessica Riskin Pdf

Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Franklin's electrical physics, ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over Antoine Lavoisier's new chemical names to the founding of France's modern system of civic education. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conjunction with the Age of Sensibility, Riskin offers an entirely new perspective on the development of modern science and the history of the Enlightenment.

Author : Keith J. Laidler
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781615927036

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Science and Sensibility by Keith J. Laidler Pdf

This volume reviews the major contributions of the different branches of science and shows how they all lead to a unified conception of humans' place in the universe.

Author : Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199594931

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The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility by Stephen Gaukroger Pdf

How did we come to have a scientific culture -- one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6GWD

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : K. V. Subbaram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8185235074

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Science And Sensibility by K. V. Subbaram Pdf

Author : Koen Vermeir,Michael Funk Deckard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401785287

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The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry by Koen Vermeir,Michael Funk Deckard Pdf

Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke’s prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke’s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collection is the first book length work devoted primarily to Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in both its historical context and for its contemporary relevance. It will establish the fact that the Enquiry is an important philosophical and literary work in its own right.

Author : Carl Sagan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101201831

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The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan Pdf

“Ann Druyan has unearthed a treasure. It is a treasure of reason, compassion, and scientific awe. It should be the next book you read.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith “A stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so.” —Kurt Vonnegut Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at the centennial celebration of the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1985 but never published, this book offers a unique encounter with one of the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century.

Author : Jane Austen,Ben H. Winters
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594744426

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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen,Ben H. Winters Pdf

New York Times bestseller An uproarious tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem inspired by the classic Jane Austen novel—from the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532404757

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Author : Michael Garstang
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780128024874

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Elephant Sense and Sensibility by Michael Garstang Pdf

Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant’s brain, this book is an integrated presentation of the elephant’s capacity for memory, morality, emotion, empathy, altruism, language, intelligence, learning and teaching. Grounded primarily in scientific research, the book also draws upon anecdotal and visual evidence showing elephants thinking, acting, feeling and behaving in ways that we, as humans, recognize. This complete treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, along with anecdotal and photographic material, provides an overview not available in any other text. Covers a variety of aspects that relate to behavior, ranging from brain function and sensory input to communication, learning, and intelligence Features a comprehensive treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, anecdotal information, and striking photographic material, providing an overview not available in any other text Features an interdisciplinary approach to behavior, with vital information included and integrated from several key disciplines

Author : Gary Saul Morson,Morton Schapiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691183220

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Cents and Sensibility by Gary Saul Morson,Morton Schapiro Pdf

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith’s heirs include Austen, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as much as Keynes and Friedman, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro trace the connection between Adam Smith’s great classic, The Wealth of Nations, and his less celebrated book on ethics, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The authors contend that a few decades later, Jane Austen invented her groundbreaking method of novelistic narration in order to give life to the empathy that Smith believed essential to humanity. More than anyone, the great writers can offer economists something they need—a richer appreciation of behavior, ethics, culture, and narrative. Original, provocative, and inspiring, Cents and Sensibility demonstrates the benefits of a dialogue between economics and the humanities and also shows how looking at real-world problems can revitalize the study of literature itself. Featuring a new preface, this book brings economics back to its place in the human conversation.

Author : Jay Schulkin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262194473

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Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function by Jay Schulkin Pdf

Throughout the book, he incorporates neurobiological evidence for a domain-specific system for social cognition.".

Author : Marina Benjamin
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 0631192077

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Science and Sensibility by Marina Benjamin Pdf

Author : Maggie Alderson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141910291

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Cents And Sensibility by Maggie Alderson Pdf

Stella Fain has a rule for men she likes: make them wait ... But the gorgeous Jay proves an exception to the rule when he bowls Stella off her Prada wedges at a press junket on the Cote d'Azur. He might seem to have everything going for him, but Stella is about to realize that there's only thing worse than having a boyfriend with no money ... and that's having one with too much. Jetset lifestyles can be fabulous, but Stella's career as a journalist isn't something she wants to jeopardize for any man, no matter how filthy rich or gorgeous. And then there's her father - a six-times-married prime slice of Alpha Male with a grudge against inherited wealth ... and Jay. There's no denying money makes the world go round and diamonds are a girl's best friend, but they don't make the path to love any easier to tread. With or without the Prada wedges.