Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Raymond Tallis

The eyes can be used in very subtle and complicated ways as instruments of deliberate communication. I can dilate my eyes – more strictly my orbital fissure, put into upper ...
( Category: Physical March 13,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrews, Kristin;

The first-order interpretation would make the monkey’s vocalization non-meaningful and hence non-communicative on this view. But even the second-order interpretation, as richly mentalistic as it is, wouldn’t suffice as a ...
( Category: Zoology March 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-04-07 | Author:Brian Skyrms [Skyrms, Brian]

There are various alternatives. It could be that one of these acts is also “right” for state 3. For example, act 1 might be right for state 3. Signaling system ...
( Category: Epistemology March 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-24 | Author:Hacking, Ian [Hacking, Ian]

12 POLITICAL ARITHMETIC Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. From 1603 the City of London kept a weekly tally of christenings and burials. Desultory ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

Under the Sign of Saturn In most of the portrait photographs he is looking down, his right hand to his face. The earliest one I know shows him in 1927—he ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Jonathan Cott [Cott, Jonathan]

In his poem “Élévation” from Les Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire wrote: “Agile you move, O my mind, and as a strong swimmer / swoons on the wavy sea, gaily you ...
( Category: Philosophers March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Freire, Paulo; Bergman Ramos, Myra;

* * * 1. Sacrifice of action = verbalism Sacrifice of reflection = activism 2. Some of these reflections emerged as a result of conversations with Professor Ernani Maria Fiori. ...
( Category: History & Theory March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Fiona Ellis

5.6 Conclusion We are returned to Rahner’s conception of God as the ultimate measure which cannot be measured and a conception of His otherness which promises to transcend the dualistic ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 6,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-28 | Author:Hicks, Stephen R.C. [Hicks, Stephen R.C.]

This leads us to a third major point of difference. 30. On anti-Semitism: valid or disgusting? The most repulsive sign of Germany’s decline, Nietzsche writes—and this may be initially surprising—is ...
( Category: Modern March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-02 | Author:Diogenes [Diogenes]

Cyrenaic Scepticism 621 So Socrates thought in this way, and after him, the school of Aristippos of Cyrene, and later that of Ariston of Chios,* sought to assert that in ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 5,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell

Postscript An interesting and painful example of the decay of quality through modern machine methods is afforded by the Scottish tweed industry. Hand-woven tweeds, universally acknowledged to be of superlative ...
( Category: Cultural March 4,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Sjöstedt-H, Peter [Sjöstedt-H, Peter]

Even if it were effectual, democracy is neither an objectively good institution. Plato argued against democracy as he considered it rule by a mob who are generally unwise and ignorant ...
( Category: Good & Evil March 3,2016 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Terry Eagleton

CHAPTER 4 Interpretation One of the things we mean by calling a piece of writing ‘literary’ is that it is not tied to a specific context. It is true that ...
( Category: General March 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:judith butler

3 Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time To say that one would like to consider sexual politics during this time raises an immediate problem, since it seems clear that one ...
( Category: History & Theory March 2,2016 )