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Author: Donald A. Crosby Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438471351 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 214
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In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how "partial truths" are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binary—those between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil—and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life.
Author: Donald A. Crosby Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438471351 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how "partial truths" are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binary—those between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil—and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life.
Author: James C. Zimring Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231554079 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 370
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A fast-food chain once tried to compete with McDonald’s quarter-pounder by introducing a third-pound hamburger—only for it to flop when consumers thought a third pound was less than a quarter pound because three is less than four. Separately, a rash of suicides by teenagers who played Dungeons and Dragons caused a panic in parents and the media. They thought D&D was causing teenage suicides—when in fact teenage D&D players died by suicide at a much lower rate than the national average. Errors of this type can be found from antiquity to the present, from the Peloponnesian War to the COVID-19 pandemic. How and why do we keep falling into these traps? James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. We see slews of statistics that are essentially fractions, such as percentages, probabilities, frequencies, and rates, and we tend to misinterpret them. Sometimes bad actors manipulate us by cherry-picking data or distorting how information is presented; other times, sloppy communicators inadvertently mislead us. In many cases, we fool ourselves and have only our own minds to blame. Zimring also explores the counterintuitive reason that these flaws might benefit us, demonstrating that individual error can be highly advantageous to problem solving by groups. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible real-life examples, Partial Truths helps readers spot the fallacies lurking in everyday information, from politics to the criminal justice system, from religion to science, from business strategies to New Age culture.
Author: James Clifford Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520057296 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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"Humanists and social scientists alike will profit from reflection on the efforts of the contributors to reimagine anthropology in terms, not only of methodology, but also of politics, ethics, and historical relevance. Every discipline in the human and social sciences could use such a book."--Hayden White, author of Metahistory
Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1422154580 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 288
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The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management “wisdom” isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on “best practices” that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held—but ultimately flawed—management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance. The authors show managers how to find and apply the best practices for their companies, rather than blindly copy what seems to have worked elsewhere. This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life—and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.
Author: James Clifford Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520946286 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 332
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These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and post-modernity. Since its publication in 1986, Writing Culture has been a source of generative controversy and innovation in anthropology. It continues to inspire scholars and activists across the humanities, social sciences, and arts who are concerned with experimentation and ethics in cultural analysis. This anniversary edition is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, exploring the legacies of Writing Culture in the twenty-first century.
Author: Mary Ann Tetreault Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 9781570034862 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 440
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Partial Truths and the Politics of Community considers what happens after feminists succeed in achieving social change or in founding organizations dedicated to accomplishing their personal and social goals. This collection of eighteen essays by scholars from the fields of international relations and feminist studies explores the theoretical dilemmas and practical politics of living with raised consciousnesses in worlds of our own making. The contributors explore feminisms as dreams of human rights, as a cluster of ideologies, and as a bounty of social practices set within frameworks for tackling problems in nation-building and global governance. In essays that illustrate the impact of feminist concerns with the quality of education, the contributors offer studies of homeschooling, of the education of impoverished girls in rural Mexico, of sororities and their relation to female autonomy, and of the teaching of prisoners by volunteers in county jails. Other contributors call for a greater attention to the ecology of social life, viewing society as a complex of individuals bound to one another through webs of transactions and obligations. These contributors recount examples from N
Author: Jaakko Hintikka Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1402041098 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 358
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IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM? Perusing the secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wittgenstein, but who is the writer talking about? Certainly not Ludwig Wittgenstein the actual person who wrote his books and notebooks and whom I happened to meet. Why is there this strange gap between the ideas of the actual philosopher and the musings of his interpreters? Wittgenstein is talking to us through the posthumous publication of his writings. Why don't philosophers understand what he is saying? A partial reason is outlined in the first essay of this volume. Wittgenstein was far too impatient to explain in his books and book drafts what his problems were, what it was that he was trying to get clear about. He was even too impatient to explain in full his earlier solutions, often merely referring to them casually as it were in a shorthand notation. For one important instance, in The Brown Book, Wittgenstein had explained in some detail what name-object relationships amount to in his view. There he offers both an explanation of what his problem is and an account of his own view illustrated by means of specific examples of language-games. But when he raises the same question again in Philosophical Investigations I, sec.
Author: David Andrews Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135166692 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 168
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This novel book looks at the relationship between the economics of John Maynard Keynes and the tradition of British Humanism, which dominated public life in the early years of the twentieth century.
Author: Wimal Kalubowila Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479770205 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 72
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At present the world is full of non-Aryans and they all are living with following four negative visions. 1. Selfish or greedy thoughts. 2. Writhe or angry thoughts. 3. Living with Ignorance of universal Truths or facts. 4. Miserly or collecting thoughts always. All above negative visions are harmful to the self as well as the Nature. Due to this negative visions always tempt to think, talk, and act negative way. Those negative activities generate negative synergies automatically and store in the unconscious mind located out side of the body. Finally those negative synergies will create problems and Suffers in both lives of the individuals. In short it is the cause = effect reality or the law of nature in the universe forever. Since there is no mind for the four matters those will not suffer at all. But all 33 kinds of beings are suffering due to above natural changing eternally. The mind has eternal life unless it segregated in to six parts. It is totally a paranormal or psychical process. The non diminishing positive synergy will provide the necessary power to this process completely. Once segregated the mind there would not be re-birth or death again. So this is the one and only strategy found by all 28 Buddhas born in this present world. That is the only way/path for complete eradication of all suffers and problems of self. All non-Aryans due to their ignorance of facts applying scientific and technological knowledge for mentally created problems and suffers. So it is irrelevant completely. Those artificial solutions are against the nature and not sustainable at all. Since those are against the nature the nature always tries to destroy and impose punishments on those individuals in both lives. All Gods, Brhammas, Buddhas also subjected to this Law of nature totally. So no one can mitigate or pardon any of those punishments at all. So it is useless for praying, making Pujas, Transferring merits, etc. All religions and philosophies in the world are bluffing and misleading totally for their negative living. Only the non-Aryans believe these false stories. All Aryans are totally rejecting those myths. I have tried to explain the real Truth with natural proof in this Book. I hope if you have the will and effort you could realized the Truth very easily. If not you could read my other Books also for more information.
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