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by Karl Menger
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Karl Menger was born in Vienna on January 13, 1902, the only child of two gifted parents. His mother Hermione, nee Andermann (1870-1922), in addition to her musical abilities, wrote and published short stories and novelettes, while his father Carl (1840-1921) was the noted Austrian economist, one...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
This volume critically reexamines Otto Neurath’s conception of the unity of science. Some of the leading scholars of Neurath’s work, along with many prominent philosophers of science critically examine his place in the history of philosophy of science and evaluate the relevance of his work for contemporary debates concerning the unity of science.
Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images
Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book is based around the author’s beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects. The book describes how similar "Hubble class" images can be created by amateur astronomers in their back garden using commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras....
Concerning Natural Experimental Philosophie
Meric Casaubon and the Royal Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Henry More, 1614-1687
A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This is the first modern biography to place Henry More’s (1614-1687) religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and to provide a coherent interpretation of his work from a consideration of his own writings, their contexts and aims. It is also the first study of More to exploit the...
by Ralf Kadler
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
by Piotr Łukowski
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
This book, provides a critical approach to all major logical paradoxes: from ancient to contemporary ones. There are four key aims of the book: 1. Providing systematic and historical survey of different approaches – solutions of the most prominent paradoxes discussed in the logical and philosophical...
by R.H. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The writings of Kierkegaard continue to be a fertile source for con temporary philosophical thought. Perhaps the most interesting of his works to a philosopher is the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments. The Fragments is a brief, algebraic piece in which the author...
Inside the Great Mirror
A Critical Examination of the Philosophy of Russell, Wittgenstein, and their Followers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
physical realist heavily bverlaid with the interpretation afforded by linguistic analysis, so he changed, too. But at the time, which was approximately during the second decade of the twentieth century, they were no doubt very close in their views. Russell acknowledged the influence of Wittgenstein...
Judges Against Justice
On Judges When the Rule of Law is Under Attack
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves around three basic questions: What happen when states become oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression?...
Bridging Complexity and Post-Structuralism
Insights and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This work addresses the topic of philosophical complexity, which shares certain assumptions with scientific complexity, cybernetics, and General Systems Theory, but which is also developing as a subject field in its own right.
Specifically, the post-structural reading of philosophical complexity...
Legal Knowledge and Analogy
Fragments of Legal Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
3 of law as an object that has always already been there, systematic and com plete. Quite the contrary. Some, indeed practically all of us, reject this sort of epistemology of law, and where the hypothesis of the coherence of the legal universe is put forward, this is in order to define it in very...
Theories and Applications in the Detection of Deception
A Psychophysiological and International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Polygraphy;' "lie detection;' and the "detection of deception" are all terms that refer to an application of the science of psychophysiology, which itself employs physiological measures to study and differentiate between psychological processes. The issues raised by polygraphy...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The number of books and articles dealing with various aspects of World War II has increased at a phenomenal rate since the end of the hostilities. Perhaps no other chapter in this bloodiest of all wars has received as much attention as the Holo caust. The Nazis' program for the "Final Solution...