Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Gaut, Berys; Lopes, Dominic;
Truth in a fiction It is generally agreed that it is true in the Sherlock Holmes stories that the famous detective resides at 221B Baker Street. But in virtue of ...
( Category:
Aesthetics
May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hewson, Mark; Coelen, Marcus;
Notes 1 Unless specified otherwise, translations of Bataille’s quotations from his Complete Works in French are mine. Where possible, I have used the English translation available. 2 On this topic, ...
( Category:
Modern
May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Dancy, Jonathan; Sandis, Constantine; & Constantine Sandis
References Bond, E. J. (1983) Reason and Value (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Collins, A. W. (1997) ‘The Psychological Reality of Reasons’, Ratio 10, pp. 108–23. Dancy, J. (1995) ‘Why There ...
( Category:
Humanism
May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Dreyfus, Hubert L.; Wrathall, Mark A.; & Mark A. Wrathall
Notes 1 For instance, Paul Churchland and Richard Rorty in an earlier incarnation. 2 I have defended this in Solomon 2005. 3 I find it particularly revealing that James juxtaposes ...
( Category:
Phenomenology
May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-02 | Author:Christopher Phillips
NOT-SO-ORDINARY VIRTUES AND HUMAN GOOD Scholar Robert Gordon writes that Primo Levi enumerated over his writing life a “category of virtues” that were unique in their “rather stubborn ordinariness”—virtues that ...
( Category:
Ethics & Morality
May 3,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Mantak Chia
Fig. 4.16. Positive feelings should be beamed to others. The Union of Sexuality and Love The sexual organs, including the ovaries or testicles, are vital to the Kan and Li ...
( Category:
Taoism
May 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Biswas-Diener, Robert [Biswas-Diener, Robert]
To Sum Up 1. People have a natural capacity for magical thinking. These flights of fancy are not childish; they are healthy cognitive tricks that buffer us against anxiety and ...
( Category:
Ethics & Morality
May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:Steven Shaviro
FIVE Thinking Like a Killer Michael Swanwick’s short story “Wild Minds” (1998) reads like a riposte to Scott Bakker’s Neuropath – even though it was written a decade earlier. The ...
( Category:
Science Fiction & Fantasy
May 2,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Michel Onfray
A Dialectic of Politeness Hedonism thus entails a perpetual calculus that considers the pleasures one can expect from a given situation, as well as the possible pains. We make a ...
( Category:
Modern
May 2,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence [Margolis, Eric]
13.3 Reasoning about Biological Kinds We begin with a small detour. The evidence so far suggests that children have difficulty conceptualizing humans as animals, and, at best, see humans as ...
( Category:
Cognitive
May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Whitley Strieber
11 The Magical Object JEFF It’s the old controversy—the action of mind upon matter. But, in the philosophy of the hyphen, an uncrossable gap is disposed of, and the problem ...
( Category:
Metaphysics
May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Mumford [Mumford, George; Jackson,Phil]
ROMANCING THE DISCOMFORT ZONE We all know what error correction is. Let’s say you’re a golfer who’s always slicing. If you apply deliberate practice to that move, work on error ...
( Category:
Sports Psychology
May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 1995-05-01 | Author:Barbara Miller [Miller, Barbara Stoler]
THE MORAL PRINCIPLES When one perseveres in nonviolence, hostility vanishes in its presence. (35) When one abides in truthfulness, activity and its fruition are grounded in the truth. (36) When ...
( Category:
Indian
May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-01 | Author:David Andrews
The Patriotic Queue Our feelings about line standing change along with the political mood. For instance, in times of high patriotism—such as during wars with wide support—the queue might be ...
( Category:
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
May 2,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Heather Lende
Put on a Costume Now and Then You’d think as a mother of five I would have gotten the hang of creating costumes for Halloween. I never did, but I ...
( Category:
Pacific
May 1,2016 )
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