John C Baird: 3 books

Book cover of Sensation and Judgment

Sensation and Judgment

Complementarity Theory of Psychophysics

by John C. Baird
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

Psychophysical theory exists in two distinct forms -- one ascribes the explanation of phenomena and empirical laws to sensory processes. Context effects arising through the use of particular methods are an unwanted nuisance whose influence must be eliminated so that one isolates the "true"...
Book cover of Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Book cover of Philosophical Dialogues

Philosophical Dialogues

Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy

by Peder Anker, Per Ariansen, Alfred J. Ayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999

The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy_the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly...
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