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Download or read book As If written by Kwame Anthony Appiah and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range... [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection... A rich and illuminating book.” —Thomas Nagel, New York Review of Books Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models to make sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we encounter. Our beliefs, desires, and sense of justice are bound up with these ideals, and we proceed “as if” our representations were true, while knowing they are not. In this elegant and original meditation, Kwame Anthony Appiah suggests that this instinct to idealize is not dangerous or distracting so much as it is necessary. As If explores how strategic untruth plays a critical role in far-flung areas of inquiry: decision theory, psychology, natural science, and political philosophy. A polymath who writes with mainstream clarity, Appiah defends the centrality of the imagination not just in the arts but in science, morality, and everyday life. “Appiah is the rare public intellectual who is also a first-rate analytic philosopher, and the characteristic virtues associated with each of these identities are very much in evidence throughout the book.” —Thomas Kelly, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Book Synopsis How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals Into Reality by : Brown Landone
Download or read book How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals Into Reality written by Brown Landone and published by David De Angelis. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown Landone was one of the first teachers of the scientific understanding of material and immaterial achievements in life. For his first 13 years he lived the usual routine of an invalid. Then his life changed dramatically. Although virtually helpless by many medical accounts, he was able to carry a heavy metal crate down five flights of stairs when he was left alone and a house fire broke out. Afterwards, young Landone knew that his subconscious had made it happen somehow. He figured that if he could do it on a subconscious level, he could certainly do it on a conscious level. This book is an important guide for those who have decided to use the immense power of their Subconscious and make a positive and decisive change in their lives.
Book Synopsis How To Let Go Of Things by : A.M Wynter
Download or read book How To Let Go Of Things written by A.M Wynter and published by Alhassan Maliba . This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you sick and weary of being held back by negative experiences, ingrained behaviors, and emotional baggage? Do you have trouble letting go of the past so that you may move forward with calm and clarity? How To Let Go Of Things: The Technique Of Giving Up is here to offer you a way out. Imagine releasing the emotional burdens that have been weighing you down for years, the anxiety, the regrets, the guilt. This book provides a roadmap to help you break free from the mental and emotional chains that hold you back. You'll learn the following from this effective guide: •>. 21 proven methods to help you let go of emotional baggage and live more freely. •>. Why clinging to the past or trying to control the future can prevent you from experiencing peace in the present. •>. How to identify the top 20 things you need to give up to find lasting happiness. •>. The most popular reasons people fail to let go and how to overcome each one. •>. The downside of success and why it's okay to walk away from things that no longer serve you. Learning How To Let Go Of Things is about achieving emotional liberation, not just about giving up. You'll discover how your self-worth isn't dependent on accomplishments outside of yourself, how to stop putting too much effort into expecting outcomes, and how emotional diversity may improve your life. This book provides you with everything you need to finally let go of things that no longer serve you, through a blend of professional psychological insight and useful methods. This revolutionary book will teach you: •>. The psychological reasons we cling to things and how to let them go with grace. •>.How to take back control of your emotional life by managing your attachments. •>. The emotional freedom that comes when you let go of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and fear of failure. •>. Why it’s okay to give up and why doing so can be the key to finally living the life you truly want. •>. PLUS, BONUS MATERIAL: In addition to 21 core strategies, you’ll receive 3 extra techniques to help you confront negative emotions and let them go strategies rarely discussed but immensely effective. You will have the useful tools you need to embrace life without the emotional burden you've been carrying after reading How To Let Go Of Things. You'll see how letting go of some objectives and principles can make room for something even more meaningful. So, are you prepared to let go and to quit clinging? Click the "BUY NOW" button at the top of the page after scrolling!
Book Synopsis Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus by : Christine A. Lindberg
Download or read book Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus written by Christine A. Lindberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 25,000 word meanings and connotations are explained by more than 300,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonymns, 250 notes by well-known authors, and many sample sentences.
Book Synopsis Solipsism, Physical Things and Personal Perceptual Space by : Safak Ural
Download or read book Solipsism, Physical Things and Personal Perceptual Space written by Safak Ural and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solipsism indicates an epistemological position that denies the existence of ‘others’ by asserting that the ‘self’ is the only thing that can be known to exist. For sophist philosophers, the belief that “we can not know anything, and even if we do so, we cannot communicate it” is central to this theory. However, until now there has been little academic scholarship that has tried to provide answers to the pressing issues raised by solipsism. In Solipsist Ontology: Physical Things and Personal Perceptual Space, Ural aims to redefine solipsism by analyzing and elaborating on traditional philosophical problems, such as empiricism and rationalism, as well as discussing problems of language, communication, and meaning. Ural reveals where solipsism has been previously ignored, pseudo-problems have arisen that disguise the sources of the problems with prejudices that concern the philosophical problems in question. Notably, many current, as well as traditional problems of ontology, epistemology, and language are bound up in discourses of solipsism. Ural argues that discarding solipsism as a philosophical discourse hinders new interpretations of traditional philosophical thought. This book offers a fresh perspective to solipsism by defining it in relation to concepts such as ‘physical things,’ ‘personal perceptual space’ and ‘identity.’ Importantly, Ural proposes that an understanding of ‘identity’ is not necessary in order to redefine solipsism. By building a logical system that fashions communication and solipsism as interrelated, it is possible to reject ‘identity’ as a useless concept and thus overcome the classic solipsist dilemma of “we are not able to communicate.” This original piece of research is an important and timely contribution to the field of philosophy that will be of great interest to teachers, researchers, and students.
Book Synopsis Thought and Things: Interest and art, being real logic. I. Genetic epistomology by : James Mark Baldwin
Download or read book Thought and Things: Interest and art, being real logic. I. Genetic epistomology written by James Mark Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Turn Your Ability Into Cash by : Earl Prevette
Download or read book How to Turn Your Ability Into Cash written by Earl Prevette and published by Mark Parshall. This book was released on 1948 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Thing and Art by : Arvydas Šliogeris
Download or read book The Thing and Art written by Arvydas Šliogeris and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the grounds of the interpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke¿s poetry and Paul Cézanne¿s paintings the book attempts to approach the work of art as a thing. This lets to overcome a one-sided aesthetical interpretation of the origin of the work of art and to indicate its place in the cosmos of uncreated, i.e. not hominized things. So, the second fundamental issue raised is a try to point out a metaphysical difference between a hominized and not hominized (natural) thing. Such a non-aesthetical point of view is called ontotopy by the author and is opposed to traditional ontology and the philosophy of art.
Book Synopsis The Multiple Realization Book by : Thomas W. Polger
Download or read book The Multiple Realization Book written by Thomas W. Polger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s, philosophical consensus has turned against the idea that mental processes could be identified with brain processes, and multiple realization has become the keystone of the 'antireductive consensus' across philosophy of science broadly. Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro offer the first book-length investigation of multiple realization. Their analysis of multiple realization serves as a starting point to a series of philosophically sophisticated and empirically informed arguments that cast doubt on the generality of multiple realization in the cognitive sciences. In the course of making their case, they respond to classic defenses of multiple realization that Jerry Fodor, Ned Block, and other prominent philosophers of psychology have offered. Polger and Shapiro conclude that the identity theory, once left for dead, remains a viable theory of mind—one that, when suitably framed, enjoys the benefits typically thought to accrue only to theories of mind that presuppose the truth of multiple realization. As Polger and Shapiro see matters, mind-brain identities have played an important role in the growth and achievements of the cognitive sciences, and they see little prospect—or need—for multiple realization in an empirically-based theory of mind. This leads Polger and Shapiro to offer an alternative framework for understanding explanations in the cognitive sciences, as well as in chemistry, biology, and other non-basic sciences.
Download or read book Donahoe's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sensitive Self by : Michael Eigen
Download or read book The Sensitive Self written by Michael Eigen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling insights into the role of emotional sensitivity.
Book Synopsis Idealization XI: Historical Studies on Abstraction and Idealization by :
Download or read book Idealization XI: Historical Studies on Abstraction and Idealization written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions about abstraction are so important and so profound that this topic can hardly be neglected. It has inevitably cropped up again in various periods of philosophical enquiry. Despite these ancient roots and after the great debate that characterised the empirical and rationalistic tradition, interest in the problem has unfortunately been absent in large measure from the mainstream of mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. It seems that there is a gap between the epistemological theorization, in which it is difficult to find new insights on the problem of abstraction, and the historical studies concerning the development of philosophical thought. Such studies, however, present a more fertile ground for such insights. Here the reader will find presented for the first time a collection of papers about the topic, considered from an historical point of view together with an awareness of the need for building a bridge between historical research and theoretical speculation. Accordingly the volume consists of both general overviews which sketch the signifcance and the fortunes of abstraction in science, philosophy and logic (the first part) and historical case studies which focus on abstraction in particular thinkers (the second part). This volume is of interest for both general philosophers and historians of philosophy.
Book Synopsis Terror and Transformation by : James W. Jones
Download or read book Terror and Transformation written by James W. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has been responsible for both horrific acts against humanity and some of humanity's most sublime teachings and experiences. How is this possible? From a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, this book seeks to answer that question in terms of the psychological dynamic of idealisation. At the heart of living religion is the idealisation of everyday objects. Such idealisations provide much of the transforming power of religious experience, which is one of the positive contributions of religion to the psychological life. However, idealisation can also lead to religious fanaticism which can be very destructive. Drawing on the work of various contemporary relational theorists within psychoanalysis, this book develops a psychoanalytically informed theory of the transforming and terror-producing effects of religious experience. It discusses the question of whether or not, if idealisation is the cause of many of the destructive acts done in the name of religion, there can be vital religion without idealisation. This is the first book to address the nature of religion and its capacity to sponsor both terrorism and transformation in terms of contemporary relational psychoanalytic theory. It will be invaluable to students and practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology and religious studies, and to others interested in the role of religion in the lives of individuals and societies.
Download or read book First Children's Dictionary written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 3,000 definitions, this updated edition First Children's Dictionary is an ideal reference book for children five and older who are eager to expand their vocabulary. A go-to reference book featuring nouns, adjectives, and verbs, First Children's Dictionary helps children learn how to describe the world around them. Designed with highly visual pages showcasing stunning photography and easy-to-understand text, this dictionary is not intimidating and teaches young readers essential research skills while teaching them useful word definitions. With over 700 illustrations, children will learn about opposites, similar words, and word origins, alongside phonetic spellings and word games. From using a dictionary to word histories that show where words come from, First Children's Dictionary is the perfect beginning reference book for kids.
Book Synopsis Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant by : John McCumber
Download or read book Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant written by John McCumber and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "naturalistic" style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant. The controversy has hardly died away: it virtually haunts contemporary philosophy from epistemology to ethical theory. Yet if this book is right, the full import of Hegel's critique of Kant has not been understood. Working from Hegel's mature texts (after 1807) and reading them in light of an overall interpretation of Hegel's project as a linguistic, "definitional" system, the book offers major reinterpretations of Hegel's views: The Kantian thing-in-itself is not denied but relocated as a temporal aspect of our experience. Hegel's linguistic idealism is understood in terms of his realistic view of sensation. Instead of claiming that Kant's categorical imperative is too empty to provide concrete moral guidance, Hegel praises its emptiness as the foundation for a diverse society.
Book Synopsis Idealization and the Aims of Science by : Angela Potochnik
Download or read book Idealization and the Aims of Science written by Angela Potochnik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function—if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. Idealization and the Aims of Science shows just how crucial idealization is to science and why it matters. Beginning with the acknowledgment of our status as limited human agents trying to make sense of an exceedingly complex world, Angela Potochnik moves on to explain how science aims to depict and make use of causal patterns—a project that makes essential use of idealization. She offers case studies from a number of branches of science to demonstrate the ubiquity of idealization, shows how causal patterns are used to develop scientific explanations, and describes how the necessarily imperfect connection between science and truth leads to researchers’ values influencing their findings. The resulting book is a tour de force, a synthesis of the study of idealization that also offers countless new insights and avenues for future exploration.
