Author: Dan Baras Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197633641 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 201
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"This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the idea that some facts call for explanation, an idea that underlies influential debates in metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. Special attention is given to reliability arguments in philosophy of mathematics and metaethics, and fine-tuning arguments in philosophy of religion and cosmology. The book clarifies what it might mean to say that a fact calls for explanation, singling out an epistemic sense that is the focus of most of the book, and maps out possible views about which facts call for explanation and what kind of explanation they call for. It then develops a novel way of thinking about calling for explanation. It is argued that calling for explanation is a figurative form of speech without a fixed meaning. This in turn sheds new light on arguments premised on there being a fact that calls for explanation"--
Author: Dan Baras Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197633668 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 201
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the idea that some facts call for explanation. This idea serves as a premise in influential arguments for the inexistence of moral facts, for the inexistence of mathematical facts, for the existence of a god, for the existence of multiple universes, and other topics. Despite its prevalence and importance in debates across fields of study, however, this premise is rarely questioned, and the distinction between facts that call for explanation and those that do not has thus far received little careful attention. According to what Baras calls the naïve picture, facts possess a certain property, which he calls strikingness, to different degrees. To the extent that a fact has this property, it calls for explanation. We feel compelled to figure out what this property is, and what special explanation amounts to, but this approach, Baras argues, leads to a dead end. Attending to this essential and yet strangely neglected issue, Baras argues that if calling for explanation is thought of as a fixed property of facts that justifies explanatory inferences, as many believe it to be, this leads to a futile philosophical project and confusions in reasoning. He develops the view that calling for explanation is merely a figurative form of speech without a fixed meaning. There is no unified property shared by all facts that call for explanation, and there is no unified kind of explanation that all such facts call for.
Author: Kaustuv Roy Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030535487 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 211
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This book presents authentic educational experience as the actualization of a potential within a phenomenological field whose axes consist of the somatic, the psychic, and the symbolic, thereby rejecting the one-dimensionality of contemporary education that is primarily mind-oriented. The author insists on the nature of experiencing as coming to be in a living tension between the intuition and the intellect, or the inner and the outer, and calls this a pedagogy of the twice-born. Within this pedagogy, the truly educated must be born twice: in the first instance, involuntarily thrust into a commonsensical world, and in the second, taking a deliberate step toward a qualitative principle. The latter gives us ontological hope or a sense of autonomy and self-sufficiency.
Author: Gene Wise Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452909342 Category : Languages : en Pages : 431
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American Historical Explanations was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In this new edition of American Historical Explanations,Gene Wise expands his examination of historical thinking to include the latest work in American Studies, the new social history, ethnography, and psychohistory. Wise asserts that historians address their subjects through an intervening set of assumptions, or what he calls "explanation forms," similar to the philosophical paradigms that Thomas Kuhn has found in scientific inquiry. Through analysis of historical-cultural texts (including the work of V. L. Parrington, Lionel Trilling, and Perry Miller) he defines the forms used by several groups of American historians and traces the process by which an old form breaks down and is replaced by a new set of assumptions. Throughout, he aims to study the process of change in the history of ideas. His conclusions extend beyond historiography and will be useful for those interested in literature, social sciences, and the arts.
Author: Francis-Noël Thomas Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400863309 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 212
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In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noël Thomas argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent is an individual. Addressing both general readers and scholars, Thomas offers two cases, Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan and Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, read against the background of the authors' large, eccentric, and surprisingly similar claims about their texts as acts. He examines what happens when we take these claims seriously enough to find out why the authors made them in the first place and what bearing they have on the texts themselves. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Femi Reis Publisher: Femi Reis ISBN: 1100219846 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 619
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BETTER THAN FLASH CARDS! THE FIRST EVER COMPLETE REFERENCE DICTIONARY FOR THE SECURITY+ SY0-601 EXAMS! A key to passing cybersecurity exams as broad in scope as the Security+ is to get a good grasp of cardinal concepts, and to generally ensure that you know something central about everything on the exam objectives. With this learning method, candidates are not blindsided by any aspect of the exams, and the trickiness of the questions are easily straightened out. With this book you will: Easily locate any concept on the exam objectives and quickly refresh your mind on it. Learn complicated concepts in very simple terminologies. Understand how concepts apply in practical scenarios. Randomly test your knowledge on any item on the exam objectives to reinforce what you know and correct what you don't. Easily remember concepts with the aid of over 1000 illustrative icons used. Beyond the exam, have a cybersecurity reference manual that you can always refer to using the Index of Concepts in alphabetical order. Flash cards used to be the go-to method for a final revision of key concepts in the Security+ objectives, but this dictionary now provides more detailed information on EVERY SINGLE ITEM on the exam objectives. With this tool, you can easily lookup any concept to reinforce your knowledge and gain some basic understanding of it. Indeed, in Security+, and of course in cybersecurity in general, the most prepared people are not those who know everything about something, but those who know something about everything.
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