History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:J.D. Bernal

IV THE DEVIL WHY DO THE FIRST LINES OF ATTACK AGAINST the inorganic forces of the world and the organic structure of our bodies seem so doubtful, fanciful and Utopian? ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helena Sheehan

Philosophy and the Communists: Minimalism versus Maximalism During this period, there was, on the whole, a great diversity of opinion on questions of what was to be done by the ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Jean Baudrillard

In the past the virtual was intended to become actual: actuality was its destination. Today the function of the virtual is to proscribe the actual. Virtual history is here in ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 29,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:Thomas Woodward [Woodward, Thomas]

This concludes my brief sketch of several high points of Mystery. The positive case for design of the first cell, which was only hinted at in the chapters on thermodynamics ...
( Category: Religious Studies January 28,2018 )
epub | | 2010-10-19 | Author:Robert Silverberg (Ed) [Silverberg, Robert]

Aboard theBeatitude Brian W. Aldiss “It is axiomatic that we who are genetically improved will seek out the Unknown. We will make it Known or we will destroy it. On ...
( Category: Science Fiction January 27,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Kate Distin [Distin, Kate]

10 Early Cultural Evolution Evolution cannot create something out of nothing, and it is time to ask where memes came from in the first place. What must the minds of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Nicholas Rescher [Rescher, Nicholas]

Rationality 205 The only sort of justification of anything—rationality included—that is worth having at all is a rational one. That presupposition of rationality is not vitiating, not viciously circular, but ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Tony Robbin [Robbin, Tony]

Patterns, Crystals, and Projections 71 Fig. 6.12. The threefold, fivefold, and twofold symmetries of the quasicrystal dome (shown at bottom) in elevation. will remain in the philosophical questions they pose ...
( Category: Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

. . . on Human Longevity It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

The United States continues to be the economic leader due to its primacy in popular culture and its entrepreneurial environment. Since information markets are largely world markets, the United States ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-09-13 | Author:Edward Tenner [Tenner, Edward]

THE RISE OF AN INDUSTRY, THE FALL OF AN IDEAL Recliners still faced challenges. Like the original La-Z-Boy the Barcalounger was expensive, even covered in Naugahyde. A skilled workforce assembled ...
( Category: Engineering January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Stephen Jay Gould [Gould, Stephen Jay]

CODA The Burgess work will continue, for many genera remain ripe for restudy (the bulk of the arthropods have been monographed, but only about half of the known weird wonders). ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Tim Lewens [Lewens, Tim]

book October 9, 2003 11:47 Function, Selection, and Explanation 91 caused past hearts to be selected. Finally, some of the heart’s beneficial effects, although they may contribute to fitness or ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett [Dennett, Daniel C.]

268 BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS The Spandrel's Thumb 269 to be a highly successful coinage in one sense: it has spread through evolutionary biology and beyond. In a recent retrospective essay, ...
( Category: Evolution January 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Daniel C. Dennett [Dennett, Daniel C.]

Belief in Belief 237 Or did he? When Philby first showed up in Moscow, he was (apparently) suspected by the KGB of being a British plant—a triple agent, if you ...
( Category: Religious Studies January 24,2018 )