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Seeing Sense

Author : Jake Hope
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783304417

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Foreword by Sir Philip Pullman, CBE, FRSL Illustrated foreword by Chris Riddell, OBE The burgeoning field of visual literacy can be universally understood across a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, regardless of traditional literacy levels. A key tool for navigating digital devices, there is often an antipathy surrounding visual literacy borne out of stigma and at times, intimidation. Seeing Sense brings together research and best practice from different organisations and institutions all over the world to showcase the role of visual literacy as a tool for promoting reading. It will be key in raising awareness among librarians and education practitioners, promoting aspiration and achievement among the children and young people they work with. Coverage includes: — an overview of visual literacy as a tool for reading development — the role of visual literacy in design and display within libraries and resource centres — advice for library and information professionals on how to gain greater confidence in using and understanding visual literacy as part of strategies to engage readers — a number of practical case studies to illustrate the power and potency of visual literacy as a key tool for making reading accessible, engaging, and appealing for all.

Aura: How to See Sense & Know Human Aura Colors (A Comprehensive Guide on the Basics of How to Understand)

Author : Scott Larson
Publisher : Scott Larson
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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This is applicable especially when it comes to the constantly evolving energies that are present everywhere, yet most people are not even aware of. These energies, also called bioelectric fields, are more commonly known as Auras. Simply put, they’re the colored halos emitted and carried by all living things in the world. Those who can see auras are presumed to have very sharp senses, and most likely they have further honed them specifically for the task. Taking time to learn how to see and read Auras properly will powerfully impact your sense of personal awareness, and it will also improve your relationships with people. In this book, you will: · Master various meditation techniques for deep relaxation and healing · Discover the human body’s energy anatomy · Learn how to scan and cleanse your aura · Discover techniques to help you sense energy · Master Reiki attunements · Learn how to heal yourself and others with Reiki Authored by experts in their respective fields, these beginner’s guides feature smartly designed visual material that clearly illustrates key topics within each subject. As a bonus, each book includes reference cards or a poster, held in an envelope inside the back cover, that give you a quick, go-to guide containing the most important information on the subject.

Contemporary British Philosophy

Author : Lewis, H D
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317853251

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This is Volume XIII of twenty-two in a collection on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1976, this is part four of four on contemporary British philosophy and looks at the personal statements and thoughts of G.E.M. Anscombe, Michael Dummett, Peter Geach, R.M. Hare, R.W. Hepburn, P.F> Strawson, Godfrey Vesey and others.

Contemporary British Philosophy

Author : Lewis, H D
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317853244

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This is Volume XIII of twenty-two in a collection on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1976, this is part four of four on contemporary British philosophy and looks at the personal statements and thoughts of G.E.M. Anscombe, Michael Dummett, Peter Geach, R.M. Hare, R.W. Hepburn, P.F> Strawson, Godfrey Vesey and others.

Language and Philosophy

Author : Justus Hartnack
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110870633

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Epistemology

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134791811

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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Event Structure of Perception Verbs

Author : Nikolas Gisborne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199577798

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Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400825806

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This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances toward solving the tradition's core problems. Though no broad philosophical position ever achieved lasting dominance, Soames argues that two methodological developments have, over time, remade the philosophical landscape. These are (1) analytic philosophers' hard-won success in understanding, and distinguishing the notions of logical truth, a priori truth, and necessary truth, and (2) gradual acceptance of the idea that philosophical speculation must be grounded in sound prephilosophical thought. Though Soames views this history in a positive light, he also illustrates the difficulties, false starts, and disappointments endured along the way. As he engages with the work of his predecessors and contemporaries--from Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Donald Davidson and Saul Kripke--he seeks to highlight their accomplishments while also pinpointing their shortcomings, especially where their perspectives were limited by an incomplete grasp of matters that have now become clear. Soames himself has been at the center of some of the tradition's most important debates, and throughout writes with exceptional ease about its often complex ideas. His gift for clear exposition makes the history as accessible to advanced undergraduates as it will be important to scholars. Despite its centrality to philosophy in the English-speaking world, the analytic tradition in philosophy has had very few synthetic histories. This will be the benchmark against which all future accounts will be measured.

Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691115745

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This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances toward solving the tradition's core problems. Though no broad philosophical position ever achieved lasting dominance, Soames argues that two methodological developments have, over time, remade the philosophical landscape. These are (1) analytic philosophers' hard-won success in understanding, and distinguishing the notions of logical truth, a priori truth, and necessary truth, and (2) gradual acceptance of the idea that philosophical speculation must be grounded in sound prephilosophical thought. Though Soames views this history in a positive light, he also illustrates the difficulties, false starts, and disappointments endured along the way. As he engages with the work of his predecessors and contemporaries--from Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein to Donald Davidson and Saul Kripke--he seeks to highlight their accomplishments while also pinpointing their shortcomings, especially where their perspectives were limited by an incomplete grasp of matters that have now become clear. Soames himself has been at the center of some of the tradition's most important debates, and throughout writes with exceptional ease about its often complex ideas. His gift for clear exposition makes the history as accessible to advanced undergraduates as it will be important to scholars. Despite its centrality to philosophy in the English-speaking world, the analytic tradition in philosophy has had very few synthetic histories. This will be the benchmark against which all future accounts will be measured.

Seeing as Practice

Author : Eva Schuermann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030145071

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This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision. It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different theoretical framework. Seeing is both a proven means of acquiring information and a personality-specific way of disclosing the apparent, perceptible world, conditioned by individual and cultural variations. In a peculiar way, the eye holds a middle position between inside and outside of the self and its relations towards itself and others. This book provides a way out of false alternatives by offering a third way with reference to concrete cases of aesthetical and ethical experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of the phenomenology and philosophy of perception and it will be valuable to students of philosophy, cultural studies and art.

Seeing, Doing, and Knowing

Author : Mohan Matthen
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191533280

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Seeing, Doing, and Knowing is an original and comprehensive philosophical treatment of sense perception as it is currently investigated by cognitive neuroscientists. Its central theme is the task-oriented specialization of sensory systems across the biological domain. Sensory systems are automatic sorting machines; they engage in a process of classification. Human vision sorts and orders external objects in terms of a specialized, proprietary scheme of categories - colours, shapes, speeds and directions of movement, etc. This 'Sensory Classification Thesis' implies that sensation is not a naturally caused image from which an organism must infer the state of the world beyond; it is more like an internal communication, a signal concerning the state of the world issued by a sensory system, in accordance with internal conventions, for the use of an organism's other systems. This is why sensory states are both easily understood and persuasive. Sensory classification schemes are purpose-built to serve the knowledge-gathering and pragmatic needs of particular types of organisms. They are specialized: a bee or a bird does not see exactly what a human does. The Sensory Classification Thesis helps clarify this specialization in perceptual content and supports a new form of realism about the deliverances of sensation: 'Pluralistic Realism' is based on the idea that sensory systems coevolve with an organism's other systems; they are not simply moulded to the external world. The last part of the book deals with reference in vision. Cognitive scientists now believe that vision guides the limbs by means of a subsystem that links up with the objects of physical manipulation in ways that bypass sensory categories. In a novel extension of this theory, Matthen argues that 'motion-guiding vision' is integrated with sensory classification in conscious vision. This accounts for the quasi-demonstrative form of visual states: 'This particular object is red', and so on. He uses this idea to cast new light on the nature of perceptual objects, pictorial representation, and the visual representation of space.

The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691160023

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This is the first of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century. Scott Soames, a leading philosopher of language and historian of analytic philosophy, provides the fullest and most detailed account of the analytic tradition yet published, one that is unmatched in its chronological range, topics covered, and depth of treatment. Focusing on the major milestones and distinguishing them from the dead ends, Soames gives a seminal account of where the analytic tradition has been and where it appears to be heading. Volume 1 examines the initial phase of the analytic tradition through the major contributions of three of its four founding giants—Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore. Soames describes and analyzes their work in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of language. He explains how by about 1920 their efforts had made logic, language, and mathematics central to philosophy in an unprecedented way. But although logic, language, and mathematics were now seen as powerful tools to attain traditional ends, they did not yet define philosophy. As volume 1 comes to a close, that was all about to change with the advent of the fourth founding giant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the 1922 English publication of his Tractatus, which ushered in a "linguistic turn" in philosophy that was to last for decades.

Reason in Nature

Author : Matthew Boyle,Evgenia Mylonaki
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674241046

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Against the dominant view of reductive naturalism, John McDowell argues that human life should be seen as transformed by reason so that human minds, while not supernatural, are sui generis. This collection assembles eleven critical essays that highlight the enduring significance and wide ramifications of McDowell’s unorthodox position.

Thoughts and Utterances

Author : Robyn Carston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470754559

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Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated. Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech.

On Psychological Language

Author : Graham Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000377200

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First published in 1989, On Psychological Language and the Physiomorphic Basis of Human Nature was written to provide a new and controversial analysis of the nature of psychological language. The book argues that psychological concepts of all kinds are ultimately derived from concepts about the external world, so that ‘human nature’ is nothing more than ‘internalized Nature’. It draws attention to problems regarding the nature of linguistic reference, and puts forward a route for considering human psychological evolution, raising questions about the nature of psychology as a discipline and its relationship with the physical sciences. This ‘physiomorphic theory’ challenged ways of thinking about psychological language at the time of original publication. Interdisciplinary in its approach, On Psychological Language and the Physiomorphic Basis of Human Nature has enduring relevance for those with an interest in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics.