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A Letter Concerning Toleration
Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Limborch's edition and Popple's translation, as on whether it is true that Popple translated the Epistola into English 'a l'insu de Mr Locke', and consequently whether Locke was right or wrong in saying that the translation was made 'without my privity'. Long research into documents hitherto unpublished,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This volume explores Confucian views regarding the human body, health, virtue, suffering, suicide, euthanasia, `human drugs,' human experimentation, and justice in health care distribution. These views are rooted in Confucian metaphysical, cosmological, and moral convictions, which stand in contrast...
by R.P. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Buddhist philosophy in India in the early sixth century C. E. took an important tum away from the traditional methods of explaining and systematizing the teachings in Siitra literature that were attributed to the Buddha. The new direction in which several Indian Buddhist philosophers began to move...
Denying Existence
The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Bioethics: Asian Perspectives
A Quest for Moral Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This is the first volume on bioethics all contributors of which are exclusively non-western scholars. The book unfolds a rich and colorful picture and addresses thorny bioethical issues from comprehensive Asian perspectives and different from the western paradigm of bioethics. It is of interest to...
Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Essays in Honor of David Keyt
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
This distinctive collection of original articles features contributions from many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. They explore the concept of reason and the method of analysis and the central role they play in the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They engage...
by Michael Winter
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Rethinking Virtue Ethics offers a model of Aristotelian virtue ethics based on a deductive paradigm. This book argues that, contrary to what many contemporary thinkers are inclined to believe, Aristotelian virtue ethics is consistent with at least some action-guiding moral principles being true unconditionally,...
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In a footnote to the Preface of his A nthropology Kant gives, if not altogether accurately, the historical background for the publication of this work. The A nthropology is, in effect, his manual for a course of lectures which he gave "for some thirty years," in the winter semesters at the...
The Systems Model of Creativity
The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity. Starting with his seminal 1964 study on creativity up to his 2010 publication in Newsweek, the volume spans over four decades of research and writing and clearly shows Csikszentmihalyi’s...
Applications of Flow in Human Development and Education
The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied. Based on his personal experience with schooling and learning, as well as that of many others and contrary...
Philosophy of Religion for a New Century
Essays in Honor of Eugene Thomas Long
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Philosophy of Religion for a New Century represents the work of nineteen scholars presented at a conference in honor of Eugene T. Long at the University of South Carolina, April 5-6, 2002.
This volume is a good example of philosophy in dialogue; there is both respect and genuine disagreement. First,...
by V. Pisarenko, M. Rodkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Mathematically, natural disasters of all types are characterized by heavy tailed distributions. The analysis of such distributions with common methods, such as averages and dispersions, can therefore lead to erroneous conclusions. The statistical methods described in this book avoid such pitfalls....
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
A State-of-Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At a time when it is becoming usual for medicines to be developed for a global market and pharmaceutical companies are endeavouring to expedite the drug development process, Regulatory Authorities are concentrating on improving their efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, it is not surprising that...