Selected Topics In Philosophy

Author : John L. Bowman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781469782386

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Selected Topics in Philosophy by John L. Bowman Pdf

Selected Topics in Philosophy is an eclectic mix of various topics in philosophy including the nature of language, epistemology, ethics, the nature of religion and literature, metaphysics, existentialism and transcendentalism. Some particularly interesting issues discussed in the book include George Berkeley and John Locke's theories on the difference between language and reality (most confusion and much conflict in the world seems to be because we use words for things that do not exist) Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism and in particular his discussion of antinomies (we are not passive tabula rasas on which the external world writes but rather active minds organizing and making sense of a random and incomprehensible world) Jean Paul Sartre's existential admonition that we must accept the world with no telos (which naturally leads us to the truism that if we wish life to have meaning we must look to ourselves to create it) the question of whether there are certain timeless, objective standards by which we can judge human actions (if we cannot, and ethics is subjective, how do we distinguish between good and evil?) what are the limits to our knowledge (are there certain immutable truths which we can discover which are built like a pyramid with a broad foundation and each layer resting on the one below, or is all knowledge simply how well things cohere like a raft on the open sea floating around with no permanent tether)

Author : John L. Bowman
Publisher : J.L. Bowman
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0965079716

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Selected Topics in Philosophy by John L. Bowman Pdf

Informative and general book on topics of philosophy including religion, literature, language, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, transcendentalism and existentialism from philosophers like Berkeley, Kant and Sartre.

Author : Peter Gibson
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789504316

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A Degree in a Book: Philosophy by Peter Gibson Pdf

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Philosophy provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. Filled with helpful diagrams, suggestions for further reading, and easily digestible features on the history of philosophy, this book makes learning the subject easier than ever. Including ideas from Aristotle and Zeno to Descartes and Wittgenstein, it covers the whole range of western thought. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions like: • What is truth? • What can I really know? • How can I live a moral life? • Do I have free will?

Author : Henry J. Msango,Elizabeth C. Mumba,Anne L. Sikwibele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9982030272

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Selected Topics in Philosophy and Education by Henry J. Msango,Elizabeth C. Mumba,Anne L. Sikwibele Pdf

Author : Mohammad Reza Pahlavani
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789535121268

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Selected Topics in Applications of Quantum Mechanics by Mohammad Reza Pahlavani Pdf

This book has two sections. The section Selected Topics in Applications of Quantum Mechanics provides seven chapters about different applications of quantum mechanics in science and technology. The section Selected Topics in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics provides seven chapters about the foundations of quantum mechanics. This book is written by a community of expert scientists from different research institutes and universities from all over the world. Without a doubt, quantum mechanics is the greatest discovery of the 20th century. Therefore, its history and foundations are of great interest to scientists and students. This book covers some of the applications of quantum mechanics in nuclear physics, medical science, information technology, atomic physics and material science, as well as selected topics of quantum mechanics through different bases and ideas about quantum mechanics. The basic idea of the publication of this book is to make scientists and researchers, as well as graduate students, familiar with the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Author : MAO Min
Publisher : Mao Min
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DENG Xiao-ping's Practice, Topic 8 of the selected topics from The Revival of China by MAO Min Pdf

This is Selected topic 8 of the book entitled "The Revival of China". The full book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. This topic is about the practice of DENG Xiao-ping in pushing for Reform and Opening Up while at the same time insisting the Four Cardinal Principles. It also records how JIANG Ze-min and HU Jing-tao followed DENG’s route in the development of China, and made China became, in the year of 2010, the second largest economy in the world and preliminary revival of China.

Author : Stewart Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Logic
ISBN : 9780199696529

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Varieties of Logic by Stewart Shapiro Pdf

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to which validity and logical consequence are relative to something. In Varieties of Logic, Stewart Shapiro develops several ways in which one can be a pluralist or relativist about logic. One of these is an extended argument that words and phrases like "valid" and "logical consequence" are polysemous or, perhaps better, are cluster concepts. The notions can be sharpened in various ways. This explains away the "debates" in the literature between inferentialists and advocates of a truth-conditional, model-theoretic approach, and between those who advocate higher-order logic and those who insist that logic is first-order. A significant kind of pluralism flows from an orientation toward mathematics that emerged toward the end of the nineteenth century, and continues to dominate the field today. The theme is that consistency is the only legitimate criterion for a theory. Logical pluralism arises when one considers a number of interesting and important mathematical theories that invoke a non-classical logic, and are rendered inconsistent, and trivial, if classical logic is imposed. So validity is relative to a theory or structure. The perspective raises a host of important questions about meaning. The most significant of these concern the semantic content of logical terminology, words like 'or', 'not', and 'for all', as they occur in rigorous mathematical deduction. Does the intuitionistic 'not', for example, have the same meaning as its classical counterpart? Shapiro examines the major arguments on the issue, on both sides, and finds them all wanting. He then articulates and defends a thesis that the question of meaning-shift is itself context-sensitive and, indeed, interest-relative. He relates the issue to some prominent considerations concerning open texture, vagueness, and verbal disputes. Logic is ubiquitous. Whenever there is deductive reasoning, there is logic. So there are questions about logical pluralism that are analogous to standard questions about global relativism. The most pressing of these concerns foundational studies, wherein one compares theories, sometimes with different logics, and where one figures out what follows from what in a given logic. Shapiro shows that the issues are not problematic, and that is usually easy to keep track of the logic being used and the one mentioned.

Author : Ernst Tugendhat
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989-09-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262700382

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Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination by Ernst Tugendhat Pdf

A unique synthesis of the contemporary, Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical problems. This book seeks to clarify the precise structure of self-consciousness and self-determination and elucidates their significance for our philosophical understanding of self-knowledge and human agency.The analysis challenges traditional models of theoretical self-knowledge and practical self-relation and elaborates an account of rationally grounded responsibility that jointly fulfills the demands of autonomy and authenticity.Tugendhat's study is a unique synthesis of the contemporary Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical problems. It brings the methods of linguistic analysis to bear on such epistemological, moral, and metaphysical issues as the meaning and interconnections of self-knowledge, ego identity, rational self-understanding, and freedom of the will. In this context, the views of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Mead, and Hegel are searchingly examined. The philosophical testimony of Kierkegaard, Freud, Habermas, and others is also presented and weighed. Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination is based on a series of lectures given at Heidelberg. The book is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

Author : R. M. Parkin,A. El-Habaibeh,M. R. Jackson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1860584209

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ICOM 2003 - International Conference on Mechatronics by R. M. Parkin,A. El-Habaibeh,M. R. Jackson Pdf

This volume represents the proceedings of a prestigious international conference organized by Loughborough University which will be of interest to all those involved in this rapidly advancing field, proving to be a vital read for all who wish to be well informed of developments and advances. Also included is a CD-ROM containing all the papers that were presented at the conference. The CD-ROM has been created using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 with Search. Acrobat Reader is a unique software application that allows the user the opportunity to view, search, download, and print information electronically generated and produced in PDF format. It has extensive search facilities by author, subject, key-words, etc. Topics covered include: Fundamental Enabling Technologies Automatic Control of Mechatronic Systems Mechatronic Components Robotics and Automation Mobile robots Integrated Mechatronic Systems Biomedical Applications Mechatronics Education

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : UOM:39015078933200

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University of Michigan Official Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192854230

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The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Pdf

This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.

Author : Yale University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015010798257

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Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College by Yale University Pdf

Author : Yale University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:31158008648452

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Catalogue by Yale University Pdf

Author : G. Semenza,A.J. Turner
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 008048994X

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Selected Topics in the History of Biochemistry by G. Semenza,A.J. Turner Pdf

This book is the latest volume in a highly successful series within Comprehensive Biochemistry and provides a historical and autobiographical perspective of the development of the field through the contributions of leading individuals who reflect on their careers and their impact on biochemistry. The book is essential reading for everybody, from graduate student to professor, placing in context major advances not only in biochemical terms but in relation to historical and social developments. Readers will be delighted by the lively style and the insight into the lives and careers of leading scientists of their time.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780744048513

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The Little Book of History by DK Pdf

Journey through time and explore more than 60 of the most important events in world history! See the past come to life in the most spectacular way! From the beginning of civilization to the modern world, discover the perfect pocket-sized introduction to human history. Inside the pages of this visual reference book, you’ll find: • Bold illustrations and infographics that bring complex historical events to life • Clear, authoritative text that explains the underlying causes behind historical events, and how the events unfolded • A lightweight, compact format that makes it ideal for vacation reading • Entries that are truly international in scope Human history in your pocket From the birth of Athenian democracy to the launch of Sputnik and the Global Financial Crisis, this informative little book provides you with an overview of the most fascinating events in history that shaped our world as we know it! Get to know some of the most important thinkers and leaders throughout history such as Napoleon, Julius Caesar, and Nelson Mandela. Packed with infographics and flowcharts that explain complex concepts in a simple but exciting way, The Little Book of History is a modern twist on the good old-fashioned encyclopedia. It’s perfect for holidaymakers looking to go beyond the standard beach read. Even more Little Books to discover The Little Book of History series uses a combination of creative typography, bold infographics, and clear text to explore every area of a subject. For the perfect introduction to politics and political thought throughout history, look out for The Little Book of Politics. More titles in this series include The Little Book of Economics and The Little Book of Philosophy.