Sense And Reality

Author : Tia DeNora
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473905511

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Making Sense of Reality by Tia DeNora Pdf

What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as ‘real’ are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always ‘virtually real’, that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences. Making Sense of Reality offers students and educators a guide to analysing social life. It develops a performance-based perspective (‘doing things with’) that highlights the ever-revised dimension of realities and links this perspective to a focus on object-relations and an ecological model of culture-in-action.

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781446485590

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The Sense Of Reality by Isaiah Berlin Pdf

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide: realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece.

Author : Matthew Ratcliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191548529

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Feelings of Being by Matthew Ratcliffe Pdf

Feelings of Being is the first ever account of the nature, role and variety of 'existential feelings' in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. There is a great deal of current philosophical and scientific interest in emotional feelings. However, many of the feelings that people struggle to express in their everyday lives do not appear on standard lists of emotions. For example, there are feelings of unreality, surreality, unfamiliarity, estrangement, heightened existence, isolation, emptiness, belonging, significance, insignificance, and the list goes on. Ratcliffe refers to such feelings as 'existential' because they comprise a changeable sense of being part of a world In this book, Ratcliffe argues that existential feelings form a distinctive group by virtue of three characteristics: they are bodily feelings, they constitute ways of relating to the world as a whole, and they are responsible for our sense of reality. He explains how something can be a bodily feeling and, at the same time, a sense of reality and belonging. He then explores the role of altered feeling in psychiatric illness, showing how an account of existential feeling can help us to understand experiential changes that occur in a range of conditions, including depression, circumscribed delusions, depersonalisation and schizophrenia. The book also addresses the contribution made by existential feelings to religious experience and to philosophical thought.

Author : John Edelman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110328813

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Sense and Reality by John Edelman Pdf

This book is a collection of essays each of which discusses the work of one of eight individuals - Rush Rhees, Peter Winch, R. F. Holland, J. R. Jones, H. O. Mounce, D. Z. Phillips, Ilham Dilman and R.W. Beardsmore - who taught philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea, for some time from the 1950s through to the 1990s and so contributed to what in some circles came to be known as 'the Swansea School'. These eight essays are in turn followed by a ninth that, drawing on the previous eight, offers something of a critical overview of philosophy at Swansea during that same period. The essays are not primarily historical in character. Instead they aim at both the critical assessment and the continuation of the sort of philosophical work that during those years came to be especially associated with philosophy at Swansea, work that is deeply indebted to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein but also distinctively sensitive to the relevance of literary works to philosophical reflection.

Author : Tia DeNora
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473905504

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Making Sense of Reality by Tia DeNora Pdf

What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as ‘real’ are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always ‘virtually real’, that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences. Making Sense of Reality offers students and educators a guide to analysing social life. It develops a performance-based perspective (‘doing things with’) that highlights the ever-revised dimension of realities and links this perspective to a focus on object-relations and an ecological model of culture-in-action.

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691182872

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The Sense of Reality by Isaiah Berlin Pdf

"First published by Chatto & Windus, 1996."

Author : Mark O'Doherty
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781387947027

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Healing Britain - Restoring a Sense of Reality, Stability and Direction in the United Kingdom by Mark O'Doherty Pdf

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg slammed the 'recklessness' of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Friday, after Ukrainian authorities said that Russian forces had 'occupied' a nuclear plant following an attack. The International Atomic Energy Agency said no radiation rise was detected after a fire at the facility. Russian forces stepped up bombardments of multiple cities, including Chernihiv, in Ukraine's north, where officials said 47 people were killed. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that reports of an attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Friday "demonstrates the recklessness of this war ... and the importance of Russia withdrawing all its troops" Ukaine's nuclear inspectorate said Russian forces occupied the plant in the eastern city of Enerhodar Friday after an early morning attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of nuclear terror after Russian troops attacked the site, Europe's largest nuclear plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency cited local authorities' report that no radiation rise was detected and essential equipment was unaffected by a fire that followed the attack. Presidential Chief-of-Staff Andriy Yermak has said that Ukrainians will stand firm in the face of the constant barrage of Russian shelling and fire unleashed last week. He said that people will fight 'to the last breath to protect our country', and added that the West had ignored Vladimir Putin and his actions, which are now an existential threat. More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion, the United Nations said, amounting to the swiftest refugee exodus this century. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine and Russia could find a way out of the war if the Kremlin treated Ukraine on an equal footing and came to talks with a will to negotiate in good faith. Zelensky said he was willing to have an open conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Hence it is imperative that a diplomatic solution is found - to avoid further loss of civilian life and to stop the killing of innocent children. Above all, it is imperative that Peace is restored in Ukraine - as well as diplomacy and dialogue between Russia and Ukraine.

Author : Fiona Macpherson,Dimitris Platchias
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262551434

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Hallucination by Fiona Macpherson,Dimitris Platchias Pdf

Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory. Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, perception, and our knowledge of the world. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques and scientific findings on the nature of hallucination, combined with interest in new philosophical theories of perception such as disjunctivism, have brought the topic of hallucination once more to the forefront of philosophical thinking. Scientific evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry sheds light on the functional role and physiology of actual hallucinations; some disjunctivist theories offer a radically new and different philosophical conception of hallucination. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of hallucination, offering essays by both scientists and philosophers. Contributors first consider topics from psychology and neuroscience, including neurobiological mechanisms of hallucination and the nature and phenomenology of auditory-verbal hallucinations. Philosophical discussions follow, with contributors first considering disjunctivism and then, more generally, the relation between hallucination and the nature of experience. Contributors István Aranyosi, Richard P. Bentall, Paul Coates, Fabian Dorsch, Katalin Farkas, Charles Fernyhough, Dominic H. ffytche, Benj Hellie, Matthew Kennedy, Fiona Macpherson, Ksenija Maravic da Silva, Peter Naish, Simon McCarthy-Jones, Matthew Nudds, Costas Pagondiotis, Ian Phillips, Dimitris Platchias, Howard Robinson, Susanna Schellenberg, Filippo Varese

Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798729007028

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Knowledge, Reality, and Value by Michael Huemer Pdf

The world's best introduction to philosophy, Knowledge, Reality, and Value explains basic philosophical problems in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, such as: How can we know about the world outside our minds? Is there a God? Do we have free will? Are there objective values? What distinguishes morally right from morally wrong actions? The text succinctly explains the most important theories and arguments about these things, and it does so a lot less boringly than most books written by professors."My work is all a series of footnotes to Mike Huemer." -Plato"This book is way better than my lecture notes." -Aristotle"When I have a little money, I buy Mike Huemer's books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." -ErasmusContentsPreface Part I: Preliminaries 1. What Is Philosophy? 2. Logic 3. Critical Thinking, 1: Intellectual Virtue 4. Critical Thinking, 2: Fallacies 5. Absolute Truth Part II: Epistemology 6. Skepticism About the External World 7. Global Skepticism vs. Foundationalism 8. Defining "Knowledge" Part III: Metaphysics 9. Arguments for Theism 10. Arguments for Atheism 11. Free Will 12. Personal Identity Part IV: Ethics 13. Metaethics 14. Ethical Theory, 1: Utilitarianism 15. Ethical Theory, 2: Deontology 16. Applied Ethics, 1: The Duty of Charity 17. Applied Ethics, 2: Animal Ethics 18. Concluding Thoughts Appendix: A Guide to Writing GlossaryMichael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, where he has taught since the dawn of time. He is the author of a nearly infinite number of articles in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, in addition to seven other amazing and brilliant books that you should immediately buy.

Author : Rochelle Forrester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Perception (Philosophy)
ISBN : 047327311X

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Sense Perception and Reality by Rochelle Forrester Pdf

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987257122

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A sense of reality by Graham Greene Pdf

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Random House
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446444825

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A Sense Of Reality by Graham Greene Pdf

A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy, myth, legend and dream. The results are, quite simply, superb.

Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226771137

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Theory and Reality by Peter Godfrey-Smith Pdf

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow. The second edition is thoroughly updated and expanded by the author with a new chapter on truth, simplicity, and models in science.

Author : A.S. King
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316222693

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Reality Boy by A.S. King Pdf

In this fearless portrayal of a boy on the edge, highly acclaimed Printz Honor author A.S. King explores the desperate reality of a former child "star" struggling to break free of his anger. Gerald Faust started feeling angry even before his mother invited a reality TV crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he's still haunted by his rage-filled youth--which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle--and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school. No one cares that Gerald has tried to learn to control himself; they're all just waiting for him to snap. And he's starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that...until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.

Author : Donald Hoffman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393254709

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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald Hoffman Pdf

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more “attractive” body shape to studying how companies use color to elicit specific emotions in consumers, and even dismantling the very notion that spacetime is objective reality, The Case Against Reality dares us to question everything we thought we knew about the world we see.