The Philosophy of Nature

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317489497
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Nature by : Brian Ellis

Download or read book The Philosophy of Nature written by Brian Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Philosophy of Nature," Brian Ellis provides a clear and forthright general summation of, and introduction to, the new essentialist position. Although the theory that the laws of nature are immanent in things, rather than imposed on them from without, is an ancient one, much recent work has been done to revive interest in essentialism and "The Philosophy of Nature" is a distinctive contribution to this lively current debate. Brian Ellis exposes the philosophical and scientific credentials of the prevailing Humean metaphysic as less than compelling and makes the case for new essentialism as an alternative metaphysical perspective in lucid and unambiguous terms. This book develops this alternative metaphysic and considers the consequences for philosophy, and for some other areas of investigation, of working with such a metaphysic. Ellis argues that these consequences are profound and that a new essentialism provides a comprehensive new philosophy of nature for a modern scientific understanding of the world.

Essentialism

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Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 0804137390
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Essentialism by : Greg McKeown

Download or read book Essentialism written by Greg McKeown and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done. “A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked.”—Adam Grant Have you ever: • found yourself stretched too thin? • simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized? • felt busy but not productive? • felt like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist. Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter. By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy—instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us. Essentialism is not one more thing—it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.

New Essentialism

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Publisher : Applied Research + Design Publishing, and
ISBN 13 : 9781939621801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis New Essentialism by : Gail Peter Borden

Download or read book New Essentialism written by Gail Peter Borden and published by Applied Research + Design Publishing, and. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Essentialism: Material Architecture examines how architecture engages material to create effect through five critical historical thresholds represented by analytical precedents coupled with projective experimental design project families. Unpacking the fundamental methodologies of their geometric, material, spatial, and effectual sensibilities, each threshold builds an examination that reveals the essential methods and processes of design, illustrating the basis for the argument for a New Essentialism: its characteristics, methods and the sensibilities that mark its definition.

Effortless

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Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0593135644
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis Effortless by : Greg McKeown

Download or read book Effortless written by Greg McKeown and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard. “In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown’s work is essential.”—Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human “At a time when fear, uncertainty, and our ever-growing list of responsibilities have come to feel like much too much to handle, Effortless couldn’t be timelier, or more necessary.”—Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play Do you ever feel like: • You’re teetering right on the edge of burnout? • You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? • You’re running faster but not moving closer to your goals? • Everything is so much harder than it used to be? As high achievers, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren’t perpetually exhausted, we’re not doing enough. But lately, working hard is more exhausting than ever. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Stuck in an endless loop of “Zoom, eat, sleep, repeat,” we’re often working twice as hard to achieve half as much. Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. No matter what challenges or obstacles we face, there is a better way: instead of pushing ourselves harder, we can find an easier path. Effortless offers actionable advice for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out. Effortless teaches you how to: • Turn tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals • Prevent frustration by solving problems before they arise • Set a sustainable pace instead of powering through • Make one-time choices that eliminate many future decisions • Simplify your processes by removing unnecessary steps • Make relationships easier to maintain and manage • And much more The effortless way isn't the lazy way. It's the smart way. It may even be the only way. Not every hard thing in life can be made easy. But we can make it easier to do more of what matters most.

Feminism's New Age

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438436270
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Feminism's New Age by : Karlyn Crowley

Download or read book Feminism's New Age written by Karlyn Crowley and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women's Issues Category Crystals, Reiki, Tarot, Goddess worship—why do these New Age tokens and practices capture the imagination of so many women? How has New Age culture become even more appealing than feminism? And are the two mutually exclusive? By examining New Age practices from macrobiotics to goddess worship to Native rituals, Feminism's New Age: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism seeks to answer these questions by examining white women's participation in this hugely popular spiritual movement. While most feminist approaches to the New Age phenomenon have simply dismissed its adherents for their politically problematic racial appropriation practices, Karyln Crowley looks honestly at the political shortcomings of New Age beliefs and practices while simultaneously reckoning with the affective, political, and cultural motivations which have prompted New Age women's individual and collective spiritualities. New Age spirituality is in fact the dynamic outgrowth of a long-standing tradition of women's social and political power expressed through religious writings, art, and public discourse, and is key to understanding contemporary women's history and religion's role in modern American culture alike. Crowley offers a new and provocative assessment of the significance of the New Age movement, seen through a feminist and critical race studies lens.

Scientific Essentialism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521800945
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Scientific Essentialism by : Brian Ellis

Download or read book Scientific Essentialism written by Brian Ellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the laws of nature.

Essentialism

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781720347897
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (478 download)

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Book Synopsis Essentialism by : Gary Posner

Download or read book Essentialism written by Gary Posner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel overwhelmed every morning when you wake up, check your phone, and see your schedule or calendar for the day? If you feel like you have gotten stuck in a never-ending hamster wheel of life, unable to slow down and appreciate what is going on around you, Essentialism could open up a whole new world of possibilities. Mental health issues and employee burnout rates are on the rise, which causes us to ask, why is this happening? The definition of success in the West is synonymous with money and power, and we've learned that to achieve those things we must work hard, amass money, and spend that money on materialistic things. What if we could define success in our own terms? A new mindset called Essentialism could potentially change your life by increasing the value you put on your own health and wellbeing. When we choose to focus on the essentials, we able to increase our output, creativity, and happiness by removing those things from our lives that cause us pain and annoyance. Once you finish reading Essentialism you will understand the following concepts:* What Essentialism is* How to tell if an Essentialist mindset is for you* Learn how Essentialism came to be a blossoming new way to look at life* What has caused people to re-evaluate how they are living* Steps you can take to live an Essentialist life Simply by adopting a new mindset, we can re-wire our brain to prioritize tasks based on importance in our life, what our goals are, and the things we value the most. By the end of reading this book you will be inspired and ready to take on the world full force by doing less, even though it will feel like you are doing more. We are able to create depth in our lives and reach personal fulfillment by taking the bull by the horns: demanding that our lives unfold along the lines we want them to, not by sitting back and passively watching our life unfold in front of us.

Real Essentialism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134348851
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Real Essentialism by : David S. Oderberg

Download or read book Real Essentialism written by David S. Oderberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. Do objects have essences? Must they be the kinds of things they are in spite of the changes they undergo? Can we know what things are really like – can we define and classify reality? Many if not most philosophers doubt this, influenced by centuries of empiricism, and by the anti-essentialism of Wittgenstein, Quine, Popper, and other thinkers. Real Essentialism reinvigorates the tradition of realist, essentialist metaphysics, defending the reality and knowability of essence, the possibility of objective, immutable definition, and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysical issues such as whether essence transcends physics and chemistry, the essence of life, the nature of biological species, and the nature of the person.

The Essential Child

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195154061
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis The Essential Child by : Susan A. Gelman

Download or read book The Essential Child written by Susan A. Gelman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text synthesizes 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, examining children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. It shows that children do not come into the world as passive recipients of data.

Against Essentialism

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674037410
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Against Essentialism by : Stephan Fuchs

Download or read book Against Essentialism written by Stephan Fuchs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Essentialism presents a sociological theory of culture. This interdisciplinary and foundational work deals with basic issues common to current debates in social theory, including society, culture, meaning, truth, and communication. Stephan Fuchs argues that many mysteries about these concepts lose their mysteriousness when dynamic variations are introduced. Fuchs proposes a theory of culture and society that merges two core traditions--American network theory and European (Luhmannian) systems theory. His book distinguishes four major types of social observers--encounters, groups, organizations, and networks. Society takes place in these four modes of association. Each generates levels of observation linked with each other into a culture--the unity of these observations. Against Essentialism presents a groundbreaking new approach to the construction of society, culture, and personhood. The book invites both social scientists and philosophers to see what happens when essentialism is abandoned.

Plato's Essentialism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108988539
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato's Essentialism by : Vasilis Politis

Download or read book Plato's Essentialism written by Vasilis Politis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Vasilis Politis argues that Plato's Forms are essences, not merely things that have an essence. Politis shows that understanding Plato's theory of Forms as a theory of essence presents a serious challenge to contemporary philosophers who regard essentialism as little more than an optional item on the philosophical menu. This approach, he suggests, also constitutes a sharp critique of those who view Aristotelian essentialism as the only sensible position: Plato's essentialism, Politis demonstrates, is a well-argued, rigorous, and coherent theory, and a viable competitor to that of Aristotle. This book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in the intersection between philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Essence in the Age of Evolution

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351240838
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Book Synopsis Essence in the Age of Evolution by : Christopher J. Austin

Download or read book Essence in the Age of Evolution written by Christopher J. Austin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and explicitly rejected for its purported inability to be explicated in the context of contemporary biological science, and its supposed incompatibility with the process and progress of evolution by natural selection. Christopher J. Austin challenges these objections, and in conjunction with contemporary scientific advancements within the field of evolutionary-developmental biology, the book utilises a contemporary neo-Aristotelian metaphysics of "dispositional properties", or causal powers, to provide a theory of essentialism centred on the developmental architecture of organisms and its role in the evolutionary process. By defending a novel theory of Aristotelian biological natural kind essentialism, Essence in the Age of Evolution represents the fresh and exciting union of cutting-edge philosophical insight and scientific knowledge.

Behind the Brand

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Publisher : IdeaPress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781940858784
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Behind the Brand written by Elliott Bryan and published by IdeaPress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This should be a bulleted list of key points about the book and about your background. You can also include any data points about the sales or marketing strategy (ie - full page ad in WIRED planned) and anything else that would be a likely sales point for the book that would be valuable to share.

What's Left of Human Nature?

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549689
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis What's Left of Human Nature? by : Maria Kronfeldner

Download or read book What's Left of Human Nature? written by Maria Kronfeldner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges. Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human nature? Is the concept the relic of a bygone age? What is the use of such a concept? What are the epistemic and ontological commitments people make when they use the concept? In What's Left of Human Nature? Maria Kronfeldner offers a philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against contemporary criticism. In particular, she takes on challenges related to social misuse of the concept that dehumanizes those regarded as lacking human nature (the dehumanization challenge); the conflict between Darwinian thinking and essentialist concepts of human nature (the Darwinian challenge); and the consensus that evolution, heredity, and ontogenetic development result from nurture and nature. After answering each of these challenges, Kronfeldner presents a revisionist account of human nature that minimizes dehumanization and does not fall back on outdated biological ideas. Her account is post-essentialist because it eliminates the concept of an essence of being human; pluralist in that it argues that there are different things in the world that correspond to three different post-essentialist concepts of human nature; and interactive because it understands nature and nurture as interacting at the developmental, epigenetic, and evolutionary levels. On the basis of this, she introduces a dialectical concept of an ever-changing and “looping” human nature. Finally, noting the essentially contested character of the concept and the ambiguity and redundancy of the terminology, she wonders if we should simply eliminate the term “human nature” altogether.

Summary of Essentialism

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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Essentialism written by Alexander Cooper and published by BookSummaryGr. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentialism - A Comprehensive Summary Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a self-help book written by Greg McKeown. The core message of this book is the outline of a minimalist approach to every kind of task or obligation. Rather than focusing on multitasking and on doing “more things at once,” the author suggests that we should instead be focusing on doing what is important. Since we live in a world where speed is everything and where the most important thing is to know how to successfully combine speed and efficiency, people are often told that multitasking is what it is all about. If we read this book, we will see that there are easier ways to get things done. Essentialism is a book to educate readers about how all things – tasks, obligations, and assignments – have a certain priority; some may be more urgent or important, while others are less so. If we know how to differentiate between the more and less important tasks, and we also know how to focus on the more important ones, we will know what to finish first. This is where Essentialism comes to action. The book is interesting to read and full of eye-opening advice that will surely do a lot of good for many readers. After the introduction we will try to summarize the book by presenting the most important facts from the original book. So, let’s get started. Here is a Preview of What You Will Get: ⁃ A Detailed Introduction ⁃ A Comprehensive Chapter by Chapter Summary ⁃ Etc Get a copy of this summary and learn about the book.

A Companion to the Philosophy of Language

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118972082
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Philosophy of Language by : Bob Hale

Download or read book A Companion to the Philosophy of Language written by Bob Hale and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

Clear Concise Compelling

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ISBN 13 : 9780958278409
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Clear Concise Compelling written by Simon Hertnon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: