History & Surveys
epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Michael Shenefelt & Heidi White [Shenefelt, Michael]

THE APPARENT IRREDUCIBILITY OF INDUCTION Here’s why: The trouble is that our new, revised argument isn’t deductively valid in the first place unless we also make a similar adjustment to ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Tallon

The Many Lives (and Deaths) of Sherlock Holmes The Kantian argument seems a promising defense of Conan Doyle's rights to do with Sherlock Holmes whatever he wishes. The problem with ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-07-06 | Author:Jennifer Hecht [Hecht, Jennifer]

THE HISTORICAL PROBLEM CALLED RABELAIS A center of fresh doubt in these years was at the court of Margaret of Navarre. She lived from 1492 to 1549, right through the ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Frankie Avalon Wolfe, M.H., Ph.D.

Steer Clear Anyone can be a sickly, overweight, toxic vegetarian if they choose junk foods as their staples. Vegetarianism should be used as a term to describe health consciousness, not ...
( Category: Non-Vegan Vegetarian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Simone de Beauvoir [Beauvoir, Simone de]

Irène Reweliotty comments: To be accepted by men, you have to think and act like them; if you don’t, they treat you like a black sheep, and solitude becomes your ...
( Category: Existentialism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:Curtis Cate [CATE, CURTIS]

CHAPTER 27 Incipit tragoedia – ‘Love is the danger of the loneliest, love of everything, if only it is alive! Laughable, verily, are my folly and my modesty in love!’ ...
( Category: Philosophers March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Richard Dawkins

True pattern Reason difficult to detect Sexual intercourse is statistically followed by birth about 266 days later The exact interval varies around the average of 266 days. Intercourse more often ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Do we see or do we not see, admit or refuse to admit, that as an effect of complexification and arrangement life is coming to rise more and more rapidly ...
( Category: Humanism March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Soren Kierkegaard & Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong

VI [XII 213] Lord Jesus Christ, you did not come to the world to be served109 and thus not to be admired either, or in that sense worshiped. You yourself ...
( Category: Religious March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-29 | Author:Bertrand Russsell

* * * 12 THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY In the thirteenth century the Middle Ages reached a culmination. The synthesis which had been gradually built up since the fall of Rome ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-09 | Author:Jim Baggott

But does this necessarily mean that, once my neural pathways have been formed, my thoughts are anything other than entirely my own, independent of the features of the world around ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1985-08-29 | Author:Soren Kierkegaard & Alastair Hannay

PROBLEMA II Is there an absolute duty to God? The ethical is the universal and as such, in turn, the divine. It is therefore correct to say that all duty ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1966-04-01 | Author:Alasdair MacIntyre

CHAPTER 11 NEW VALUES BOTH HOBBES and Spinoza struck their contemporaries as outrageous innovators; to both the label of “atheist”–which was used in seventeenth-century Europe with almost as much accuracy ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Susan Jacoby

Lately I’ve been wondering why, as a more than casual Beatles fan, I’m not interested in note-perfect covers by Beatles tribute bands, even though, as a classical music critic, I ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Jerome D. Belanger

The Miracle of the Seed Planting a seed and watching it germinate and grow is one of the most profound and awesome experiences imaginable. How does that little dried-up speck ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 25,2014 )