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Free Download The Apocalypse and Apocalyptic Topics: Collected Essays II
by Adela Yarbro Collins
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3161636694 | 378 Pages | PDF | 2.58 MB

Free Download Sami Pihlström, "Pragmatism and Objectivity: Essays Sparked by the Work of Nicholas Rescher"
English | 2017 | pages: 293 | ISBN: 0367595370, 1138655236 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Pragmatism and Objectivity illuminates the nature of contemporary pragmatism against the background of Rescher’s work, resulting in a stronger grasp of the prospects and promises of this philosophical movement. The central insight of pragmatism is that we must start from where we find ourselves and deflate metaphysical theories of truth in favor of an account that reflects our actual practices of the concept. Pragmatism links truth and rationality to experience, success, and action. While crude versions of pragmatism state that truth is whatever works for a person or a community, Nicholas Rescher has been at the forefront of arguing for a more sophisticated pragmatist position. According to his position, we can illuminate a robust concept of truth by considering its links with inquiry, assertion, belief, and action. His brand of pragmatism is objective and organized around truth and inquiry, rather than other forms of pragmatism that are more subjective and lenient. The contingency and fallibility of knowledge and belief formation does not mean that our beliefs are simply what our community decides, or that truth and objectivity are spurious notions. Rescher offers the best chance of understanding how it is that beliefs can be the products of human inquiry yet aim at the truth nonetheless. The essays in this volume, written by established and up-and-coming scholars of pragmatism, touch on themes related to epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics.

Free Download Practising Cultural Geographies: Essays in Honour of Rana P. B. Singh by Ravi S. Singh
English | EPUB | 2022 | 599 Pages | ISBN : 9811664137 | 145.5 MB
This festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.

Free Download Physics, Philosophy, and the Scientific Community: Essays in the philosophy and history of the natural sciences and mathematics In honor of Robert S. Cohen By Joan Lisa Bromberg (auth.), Kostas Gavroglu, John Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky (eds.)
1995 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 9048144361 | PDF | 9 MB
In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the essays, as well as their originality, and their critical and historical depth, pay tribute to the extraordinary scope of Professor Cohen’s intellectual interests, as a scientist-philosopher and a humanist, and also to his engagement in the world of social and political practice. The essays presented in Physics, Philosophy, and the ScientificCommunity (Volume I of Essays in Honor of Robert S. Cohen) focus on philosophical and historical issues in contemporary physics: on the origins and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, on the reception and understanding of Bohr’s and Einstein’s work, on the emergence of quantum electrodynamics, and on some of the sharp philosophical and scientific issues that arise in current scientific practice (e.g. in superconductivity research). In addition, several essays deal with critical issues within the philosophy of science, both historical and contemporary: e.g. with Cartesian notions of mechanism in the philosophy of biology; with the language and logic of science – e.g. with new insights concerning the issue of a `physicalistic’ language in the arguments of Neurath, Carnap and Wittgenstein; with the notion of `elementary logic’; and with rational and non-rational elements in the history of science. Two original contributions to the history of mathematics and some studies in the comparative sociology of science round off this outstanding collection.

Free Download No Truth Except in the Details: Essays in Honor of Martin J. Klein By Russell McCormmach (auth.), A. J. Kox, Daniel M. Siegel (eds.)
1995 | 382 Pages | ISBN: 9401040974 | PDF | 9 MB
Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline in the nineteenth century: electricity and magnetism, including especially the work of Michael Faraday, William Thomson, and James Clerk Maxwell; and thermodynamics and matter theory, including the theoretical work and legacy of Josiah Willard Gibbs, some experimental work relating to thermodynamics and kinetic theory of Heinrich Hertz, and the work of Felix Seyler-Hoppe on hemoglobin in the neighboring field of biophysics/biochemistry. Moving on to the beginning of the twentieth century, a set of three articles on Albert Einstein deal with his early career and various influences on his work. Finally, a set of historiographical issues important for the history of physics are discussed, and the chronological conclusion of the volume is an article on the Solvay Conference of 1933. For physicists interested in the history of their discipline, historians and philosophers of science, and graduate students in these and related disciplines.

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by Vera Blossom
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1635902274 | 168 Pages | True ePUB | 0.35 MB

Free Download Sir Anthony Kenny, "Essays on the Aristotelian Tradition"
English | 2001 | pages: 190 | ISBN: 0198250681 | PDF | 9,5 mb
Aristotle has arguably been the most influential of all philosophers. This selection of works by Aristotle, along with essays by Aristotle scholar Anthony Kenny, traces the philosopher’s profound influence throughout the ages. It covers in-depth his ethics and philosophy of mind and shows how they provided the framework for fruitful developments in the Middle Ages as well as in the present day. It also includes various contributions to the most recent form of Aristotelian scholarship: computer-assisted stylometry. Anyone who has ever been fascinated by Aristotle’s brilliant insight and intellectual legacy will be delighted with this engaging collection.

Free Download Paul F. Snowdon, "Essays on Perceptual Experience"
English | ISBN: 0199658293 | 2024 | 400 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A central figure in Anglo-American philosophy for over four decades, Paul F. Snowdon made seminal contributions to the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy. Snowdon’s work on perception and perceptual experience-much of which is collected in this volume for the first time-was particularly influential and firmly established ‘disjunctivism’ as a view with which any theorist working in the field must reckon.

Free Download Rajani K. Kanth, "Capitalism and Social Theory:: Essays and Inquiry"
English | 1992 | ISBN: 1563240696 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.5 mb
This work examines the complex, detailed relationship between the theory of wealth and the theory of power, both subsumed as they are under the overarching mantle of capitalist ideology, ever distorting real connections and evading critical issues. It examines various theories of class, state, and power either explicitly or implicitly avowed in the diverse social science disciplines of politics, economics, and sociology. In illuminating the subtle machinations of ideology, it boldly reveals the realist ontology of capitalism which produces illusory theory. The essays employ transcendental realism, emphasizing the primacy of ontology over epistemology as a mode of critique, necessarily going beyond traditional Marxian arguments in many cases. Although intended only as an analytical critique, the project is emancipatory of necessity, for it allows, ultimately, for an increased purchase on reality.

Free Download New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern English Literature
by Nick Moschovakis and Gail Kern Paster
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032437030 | 193 Pages | True PDF | 6.26 MB