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One Hundred Years of Phenomenology
Husserl’s Logical Investigations Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This volume commemorates the centenary of Logical Investigations by subjecting the work to a comprehensive critical analysis. It contains new contributions by leading scholars addressing some of the most central analyses to be found in the book.
Trading Ontology for Ideology
The Interplay of Logic, Set Theory and Semantics in Quine’s Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Willard VanOrman Quine has probably been the most influential th American philosopher of the 20 century. His work spans over seven decades, and covers many domains in philosophy. He has made major contributions to the fields of logic and set theory, philosophy of logic and mathematics, philosophy...
Language, Truth and Knowledge
Contributions to the Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This collection will prove a valuable resource for our understanding of the historic Carnap and the living philosophical issues with which he grappled. It arose out of a symposium on Carnap's work (Vienna, 2001). With essays by Graham H. Bird, Jaakko Hintikka, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Jan Wolenski, this...
Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic
Critical Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The essays of leading scholars collected in this volume focus on Salomon Maimon’s (1753-1800) synthesis of 'Rational Dogmatism' and 'Empirical Skepticism'. This collection is of interest to scholars working in the fields of history of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, rationalism and empiricism as well as Jewish Studies.
Vague Objects and Vague Identity
New Essays on Ontic Vagueness
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This unique anthology of new, contributed essays offers a range of perspectives on various aspects of ontic vagueness. It seeks to answer core questions pertaining to onticism, the view that vagueness exists in the world itself. The questions to be addressed include whether vague objects must have...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
The volume analyses and develops David Makinson’s efforts to make classical logic useful outside its most obvious application areas. The book contains chapters that analyse, appraise, or reshape Makinson’s work and chapters that develop themes emerging from his contributions. These are grouped...
Chaos in Hydrology
Bridging Determinism and Stochasticity
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This authoritative book presents a comprehensive account of the essential roles of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories in understanding, modeling, and forecasting hydrologic systems. This is done through a systematic presentation of: (1) information on the salient characteristics of hydrologic systems...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, as well as their interface with Engineering Seismology, Geophysics and Seismology, have all made remarkable progress over the past 15 years, mainly due to the development of instrumented large scale experimental facilities, to the increase in...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Bled workshops have traditionally produced reference documents providing visions for the future development of earthquake engineering as foreseen by leading researchers in the field. The participants of the 2011 workshop built on the tradition of these events initiated by Professors Fajfar and...
Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe
Lessons for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
here ofexchange, and borrowing in debates between these disciplines, all the more so, as we shall see a little further on, as the analysis of the Central and East European transformations has also contributed to introduce into political science and sociology theoretical systematizations first formulated...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2006
This comprehensive reference work presents inside information on the Juvenile Justice-systems in 19 different countries, both in old and new EU-member states and in the United States and Canada. The book is the result of research conducted by a group of outstanding researchers, who are concerned about...
The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations
Social and Big Data Computing for Knowledge Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The proceedings from the eighth KMO conference represent the findings of this international meeting which brought together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on knowledge management in organizations. This conference...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As Europe moves toward 1992 and full economic unity, and as Eastern Europe tries to find its way in the new economic order, the United States hesitates. Will the new European economic order be good for the U.S. or not? Such a question is exacerbated by world-wide changes in the technological order,...
Margaret Mead
Contributions to Contemporary Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
This book makes a case for Margaret Mead's contributions to education discourses, which in retrospect appear visionary and profoundly democratic, non judgemental and transdisciplinary, and for their relevance for education today at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Mead combined her substantial...