History & Philosophy
epub |eng | | Author:Aaro Toomela

Present is indivisible. Therefore there is also no possibility to distinguish between different kinds of causality, or, in fact even to describe any one kind of causality. The description of ...
( Category: Experimental Psychology June 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-21 | Author:Yuval Levin [LEVIN, YUVAL]

THE SIMPLEST IRONY OF THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA IS THAT THE platforms intended to help people come together have often pulled us apart. If any single term can describe ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 31,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anstey, Peter R.;

Part II Matter in motion 5 Natural and violent states and motions Having set out Boyle’s theory of the qualities of bodies, we are now in a position to embark ...
( Category: History & Surveys May 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Todd Dufresne

Copernicus, courtesy of Pixabay Or as he already says in his address of 1955, the ever-changing forces of technology “claim, enchain, drag along, press and impose upon man” a stupefying ...
( Category: Analytic Philosophy May 30,2020 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bregman, Rutger [Bregman, Rutger]

3 As I read Dacher Keltner’s work and about the psychology of power, I began to see how the development of private property and farming could have led Homo puppy ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions May 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Seamus Flaherty

And Toynbee wrote:Mr George does not propose to touch the large farm system. He says the large farm system is due to a law of economic development, with which he ...
( Category: Europe May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Renn, Jürgen; Gutfreund, Hanoch;

1 THE PHYSICISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE VOLUME In his introductory remarks to Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, its editor, Paul Arthur Schilpp, asserts that Einstein’s Autobiographical Notes in itself ...
( Category: Relativity May 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leng, Gareth; Leng, Rhodri Ivor; & Rhodri Ivor Leng [Leng, Gareth & Leng, Rhodri Ivor]

* * * Scientists who seek to extend the work of others will often begin by reproducing previous findings, and may mention these efforts in their papers. But if they ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 24,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2019-05-30 | Author:Patrick Barry [Barry, Patrick]

(1) the seven ingredients that originally made up the drink, (2) the seven-ounce bottles originally used to sell the drink, or (3) Grigg’s (largely facetious) boast that it would cure ...
( Category: Legal Education Writing May 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Marder, Michael [Marder, Michael]

PLANT-TIME (II): THE “BAD INFINITY” OF GROWTH Vegetal time passes in qualitatively distinct modes and rhythms. In addition to hetero-temporality, the potentially infinite movements of growth and efflorescence further specify ...
( Category: Botany May 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Ronald S. Calinger

Botany and Maps Among Euler’s many tasks at the academy in 1751 were overseeing the progress of the observatory, which was nearing completion; seeking the publication for subscribers in Berlin ...
( Category: History May 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Elting E. Morison [Morison, Elting E.]

* * * * This essay was delivered as one of three lectures at the California Institute of Technology in 1963. 7 “Almost the Greatest Invention” Part I A Long ...
( Category: History of Technology May 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-25 | Author:Tom Phillips

Thérèse Humbert The Château de Marcotte didn’t actually exist, but that had never stopped Thérèse talking about it like it was the most real thing in the world. “She lied ...
( Category: Satire May 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-23 | Author:Chris Lintott

These minutia have now been edited—by volunteers—and are available online. The weather data has been fed into climate models and the fog of ignorance Phil and his Met Office colleagues ...
( Category: Astronomy May 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-15 | Author:David Kaiser [Kaiser, David]

Figure 13.1. Top, Carl Brans during his graduate studies at Princeton, 1959. (Source: Courtesy of Carl Brans.) Bottom, Brans’s dissertation adviser at Princeton, Robert Dicke. (Source: Photograph by Mitchell Valentine, ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 5,2020 )