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This book investigates Aristotle’s views on abstraction and explores how he uses it. In this work, the author follows Aristotle in focusing on the scientific detail first and then approaches the metaphysical claims, and so creates a reconstructed theory that explains many puzzles of Aristotle’s...

I have been both good and bad to people. Because, I have had ups and downs in my life. --- I have been extremely happy whenever something good happened. And like everyone else, I have had my fair share of failures as well. I have been sad and depressed as well. There was a time when...

Generalized Measure Theory examines the relatively new mathematical area of generalized measure theory. The exposition unfolds systematically, beginning with preliminaries and new concepts, followed by a detailed treatment of important new results regarding various types of nonadditive measures and...

Belief revision theory and philosophy of science both aspire to shed light on the dynamics of knowledge – on how our view of the world changes (typically) in the light of new evidence. Yet these two areas of research have long seemed strangely detached from each other, as witnessed by the small...

G. E. Moore's fame as a philosopher rests on his ethics of love and beauty, which inspired Bloomsbury, and on his 'common sense' certainties which challenge abstract philosophical theory. Behind this lies his critical engagement with Kant's idealist philosophy, which is published here for the first...

This book is the first English version of Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik, published by Julius Springer, Vienna, 1935, as Volume 10 of the Vienna Circle's series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung. The prefatory remarks of both editor and author acknowledge the influence ofWittgenstein...

Human beings are both supremely rational and deeply superstitious, capable of believing just about anything and of questioning just about everything. Indeed, just as our reason demands that we know the truth, our skepticism leads to doubts we can ever really do so. In Walking the Tightrope of Reason,...

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless...

Arguing that our attachment to Aristotelian modes of discourse makes a revision of their conceptual foundations long overdue, the author proposes the consideration of unacknowledged factors that play a central role in argument itself. These are in particular the subjective imprint and the dynamics...

Les textes réunis ici présentent l’art sous l’angle de la connaissance. Il est de coutume de n’associer l’art qu’à des manifestations expressives ou émotives. Mais l’art a des fonctions multiples et aucun art n’indique sa propre limite. La complexité du réel qu’il permet de simuler...

Tout gouvernement qui n’est pas la République est exactement représenté par l’image du pasteur et du troupeau. Le pasteur protège ses moutons, il a des chiens pour cela. Mais il tond les moutons. Les moutons vivent non pour eux, mais pour lui. 

Avant-propos Livre premier. De l’imagination créatrice Livre deuxième. De la danse et de la parure  

Toute recherche doit aller du clair à l’obscur, c’est-à-dire de ce qui est le plus aisé à comprendre à ce qui est le moins aisé à comprendre ; et ce qui est le plus aisé à comprendre, c’est nécessairement ce qui est le plus réfléchi et le plus raisonnable.  En d’autres...

From the earliest times, people have used lotteries to make decisions--by drawing straws, tossing coins, picking names out of hats, and so on. We use lotteries to place citizens on juries, draft men into armies, assign students to schools, and even on very rare occasions, select lifeboat survivors...