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Contemporary Philosophical Alternatives and the Crisis of Truth
A Critical Study of Positivism, Existentialism and Marxism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The function of philosophy may be circumscribed as consisting in ma king a keen analysis of the peculiar nature of the crisis-situation, as it has existed among men throughout the centuries of human history, and as it manifested itself in definite ways at the various stages of this his tory. That...
Thomas Reid’s Lectures on the Fine Arts
Transcribed from the Original Manuscript, with an Introduction and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The past few years have seen a revival of interest in Thomas Reid's philosophy. His moral theory has been studied by D. D. Raphael (The Moral Sense) and his entire philosophical position by S. A. Grave (The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense). Prior to both, A. D. Woozley gave us the first modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Merleau-Ponty's categories of the visible and the invisible are investigated afresh and with originality in this penetrating collection of literary and philosophical inquiries. Going beyond the traditional and current references to the mental and the sensory, mind and body, perceptual content and...
Thoughts Concerning Education in the Works of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
An Introductory Study in Comparative Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is an investigation of the thoughts concerning education in the writings of one of the most original educators of the eighteenth century. Unappreciated and largely overlooked - as was Schopenhauer - by the contemporary educators, Lichtenberg nevertheless presented his generation, and generations...
Mind, Meaning and Mathematics
Essays on the Philosophical Views of Husserl and Frege
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
At the turn of the century, Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl both participated in the discussion concerning the foundations of logic and mathematics. Since the 1960s, comparisons have been made between Frege's semantic views and Husserl's theory of intentional acts. In quite recent years, new approaches...
Origins of Biogeography
The role of biological classification in early plant and animal geography
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control...
by Ton J. Cleophas, Aeilko H. Zwinderman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Machine learning is a novel discipline concerned with the analysis of large and multiple variables data. It involves computationally intensive methods, like factor analysis, cluster analysis, and discriminant analysis. It is currently mainly the domain of computer scientists, and is already commonly...
The Mediterranean Sea
Its history and present challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This volume is an indispensable addition to the multidisciplinary coverage of the science of the Mediterranean Sea. The editors have gathered leading authorities from the fields of Marine Biology, Ecology, paleoclimatology, Chemical and Physical Oceanography, Zoology, Botany, Aquatic Photosynthesis,...
by Gerhard Roth
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The main topic of the book is a reconstruction of the evolution of nervous systems and brains as well as of mental-cognitive abilities, in short “intelligence” from simplest organisms to humans. It investigates to which extent the two are correlated. One central topic is the alleged uniqueness...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume had its origin in a symposium on the Reproduction and Development of Cartilaginous Fishes that was held at the annual meetings of the American Elasmobranch Society and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Charleston, South Carolina in 1990. The cartilaginous fishes,...
How Science Works: Evolution
A Student Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science...
Interactions and Adaptation Strategies of Marine Organisms
Proceedings of the 31st European Marine Biology Symposium, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 9–13 September 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This volume provides a refereed selection of the proceedings of the 31st European Marine Biology Symposium, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 1996. State-of-the-art reviews and studies on adaptational processes in marine organisms such as adaptations to fluctuations in salinity, temperature,...
by K. Scott, R. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Membrane science and technology is an expanding field and has become a prominent part of many activities within the process industries. It is relatively easy to identify the success stories of membranes such as desali nation and microfiltration and to refer to others as developing areas. This, however,...