Philosophy
epub |eng | 2000-05-02 | Author:Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal]

Chapter 47 Nell's life at Dovetail; developments in the Primer; a trip to the New Atlantis Clave; she is presented to Miss Matheson; new lodgings with an "old" acquaintance. Nell ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Don Ross [Ross, Don]

Figure 3.18 Incomplete information game with payoff vector θ ∈ ℜ8 Morris and Shin (1998) develop a global game in which a bank run – all depositors wanting to withdraw ...
( Category: Epistemology June 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:Burgess, John P. & Burgess, Alexis G. [Burgess, Alexis G.]

5.5 UTILITY If physicalism survives today, it is less as an active program than as an inchoate feeling that a physicalist account is needed, even if no one will for ...
( Category: Epistemology June 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1972-03-15 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche & R. J. Hollingdale

I am a wanderer and a mountain-climber (he said to his heart), I do not like the plains and it seems I cannot sit still for long. And whatever may ...
( Category: Modern June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:George Saunders [Saunders, George]

Because kindness, it turns out, is hard—it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs and expands to include … well, everything. One thing in our favor: Some of this “becoming ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche wants the eternity of this life with all its agonies —and seeing that it flees, its eternal recurrence. As it is expressed in sections 9, 10, and 11, the ...
( Category: Modern June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-06-22 | Author:Robert L. Heilbroner

We need not spell out the whole emotionally charged argument; the crux of it lies in this passage. Henry George is outraged at the spectacle of men whose incomes—sometimes fabulous ...
( Category: Theory June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Briers, Francis [Briers, Francis]

“How can you be quick as a snake or quiet as a shadow when you are somewhere else?”[xxxvii] There is no question that serving many masters can rob us of ...
( Category: Martial Arts June 21,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Warburton, Nigel

Criticisms of Rights of Man Overoptimistic about human nature Burke’s position in Reflections on the Revolution in France was more subtle than Paine allowed. He did not share Paine’s optimism ...
( Category: History & Surveys June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Deborah Levy

Ah. Where am I? We will have to spin time forwards to where I am now. How reassuring it is to sit on the edge of my own bed again. ...
( Category: Short Stories June 20,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bertrand Russell [Russell, Bertrand]

Well, why does one type of object look yellow and another blue? I can more or less give an answer to that thanks to the physicists, and as to why ...
( Category: Philosophy June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Reginald Hill [Hill, Reginald]

( Category: Murder June 20,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:Steven Pinker

342 | HOW THE MIND WORKS practice, the routes to automaticity, are called “mechanistic” and seen as detrimental to understanding. As one pedagogue lucidly explained, “A zone of potential construction ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 20,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Chris Frith

Our Perception of the World Is a Fantasy 115 message would arrive at the other end of the line and there would be no way of knowing that an error ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 20,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Rosenberg, Alex

There are several answers to this question we have to rule out. The Paris neurons aren’t about Paris in the same way, for example, that a picture postcard or a ...
( Category: Religious June 20,2014 )