Philosophy
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Ziauddin Sardar [Sardar, Ziauddin]

Rediscovering Indian Science A similar discourse on Indian science emerged during the 1980s and 90s. It is most strongly associated with the numerous academic and radical groups involved in the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Richard Appignanesi & Chris Garratt [Appignanesi, Richard]

The collapse of so-called “really existing” Socialism in Eastern Europe gave final proof that postmodern scepticism was preferable to modernist hyper-rationalism. It justified Kristeva’s claim in 1981… ANY RATIONALIST ATTEMPT ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Boris Wiseman & Judy Groves [Wiseman, Boris]

THE AIM OF THE GAME IS TO BRING THE TWO SIDES TOGETHER AND UNITE THEM IN A SINGLE COMMUNITY. The situation at the beginning of many rituals is one of ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Dave Robinson & Chris Garratt [Robinson, Dave]

This means that any kind of argument between people about a moral issue is utterly futile, unsolveable and irrational. Euthanasia, Boo! How on earth could we decide who was right ...
( Category: Graphic Novels March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Chris Horrocks [Horrocks, Chris]

Foucaults non-discursive formations (economic processes, institutions) produce discourses and become organized (or “said”) by them; in a superficially similar way, Althusser’s relates to its ideological superstructure. Against Structuralism Although Foucault ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:John Heaton [Heaton, John]

It is discovered in the subtle articulations of appearance within language itself. It allows us to make the difference between sense and nonsense. So Wittgenstein describes. He may describe the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Lloyd Spencer [Spencer, Lloyd]

What is Knowing? Knowing, for Hegel, is something you do. It is an act. But it is also presence of mind. Hegel seems to hold out the vision, even the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Dave Robinson [Robinson, Dave]

Descartes the Mathematician Descartes is famous as a mathematician as well as a philosopher. He gave his name to “Cartesian coordinates” and began certain conventions now common to mathematicians, like ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Henry Brighton [Brighton, Henry]

By citing Deep Blue as one of AI’s few examples of success, some within Al itself view this as a reflection of AI’s lack of progress. Deep Blue patently reties ...
( Category: Engineering March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Dave Robinson & Judy Groves [Robinson, Dave]

A WORKER WILL SOON PRODUCE ENOUGH GOODS TO PAY FOR HIS WAGES, THE MACHINERY HE USES AND THE BUILDING HE WORKS IN. BUT HE WORKS MORE HOURS THAN HIS NECESSITIES ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Dave Robinson [Robinson, Dave]

Voluntary Association “Those who wish to separate politics and morality will never understand anything of either.” CIVIL ASSOCIATION IS THE MOST VOLUNTARY ACT IN THE WORLD; SINCE EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Dave Robinson & Judy Groves [Robinson, Dave]

AS A CONVINCED EMPIRICIST, I STRESS THAT A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE – KNOWLEDGE INDEPENDENT OF EXPERIENCE – CAN TELL US NOTHING ABOUT THE WORLD, ONLY ABOUT ENTITIES WHICH DO NOT EXIST, ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Michael J. Kelly & Piero [Kelly, Michael J.]

THE COMING INTO BEING OF A TRUTH WORKS TO DESTROY THE ACCEPTED WORLD, AND HENCE AN ETHICS BASED ON THIS ACTION CAN ONLY BE A LIBERATING ONE BASED ON THINKING ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Dave Robinson [Robinson, Dave]

WHAT DOES THAT FORM OF THE CHAIR LOOK LIKE? IS THE FORM OF “BEAUTY” ITSELF BEAUTIFUL? Plato also claims that only the Forms are “real” and that somehow particulars are ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:David Papineau [Papineau, David]

Searle himself certainly takes it that linguistic understanding requires consciousness experience. So the Chinese Room Argument can operate as a challenge to the functionalist account of consciousness, as well as ...
( Category: Graphic Novels March 26,2018 )