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Book Synopsis Partial Truths and Our Common Future by : Donald A. Crosby
Download or read book Partial Truths and Our Common Future written by Donald A. Crosby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Writing Culture written by James Clifford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Book Synopsis Partial Truths by : James C. Zimring
Download or read book Partial Truths written by James C. Zimring and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Half Truths and the Truth by : Jacob Merrill Manning
Download or read book Half Truths and the Truth written by Jacob Merrill Manning and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Partial Truths and the Politics of Community by : Mary Ann Tetreault
Download or read book Partial Truths and the Politics of Community written by Mary Ann Tetreault and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths by : Jaakko Hintikka
Download or read book Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half-Truths written by Jaakko Hintikka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Keynes and the British Humanist Tradition by : David Andrews
Download or read book Keynes and the British Humanist Tradition written by David Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Truth Is Higher Than Any and Every Thing in the Universe by : Wimal Kalubowila
Download or read book Truth Is Higher Than Any and Every Thing in the Universe written by Wimal Kalubowila and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense by : Jeffrey Pfeffer
Download or read book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense written by Jeffrey Pfeffer and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hard Truths written by Elijah Millgram and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Truths is a groundbreaking new work in whichnoted philosopher Elijah Millgram advances a new approach to truthand its role in our day-to-day reasoning. Takes up the hard truths of real reasoning and draws out theirimplications for logic and metaphysics Introduces and takes issue with prevailing views of thepurpose of truth and the way we reason, including deflationismabout truth, possible worlds treatments of modality, andantipsychologism in philosophy of logic Develops philosophically ambitious ideas in a style accessibleto non-specialists Will make us rethink the place of metaphysics in our dailylives
Download or read book Writing Culture written by James Clifford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Hegel's Concept of God by : Quentin Lauer
Download or read book Hegel's Concept of God written by Quentin Lauer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the first comprehensive view of Hegel's contribution to the God-question.
Download or read book Truth written by Hector Macdonald and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a time when truth is under assault, Hector Macdonald is here to defend it. He offers clear-eyed, compelling guidelines for becoming a more accurate consumer and producer of information."-Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg For fans of Nudge, Sway, and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which "competing truths" shape our opinions, behaviors, and beliefs. True or false? It's rarely that simple. There is more than one truth about most things. The Internet disseminates knowledge but it also spreads hatred. Eating meat is nutritious but it's also damaging to the environment. When we communicate we naturally select the truths that are most helpful to our agenda. We can select truths constructively to inspire organizations, encourage children, and drive progressive change. Or we can select truths that give a false impression of reality, misleading people without actually lying. Others can do the same, motivating or deceiving us with the truth. Truths are neutral but highly versatile tools that we can use for good or ill. In Truth: How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality, Hector Macdonald explores how truth is used and abused in politics, business, the media and everyday life. He shows how a clearer understanding of truth's many faces renders us better able to navigate our world and more influential within it. Combining great storytelling with practical takeaways and a litany of fascinating, funny, and insightful case studies, Truth is a sobering and engaging read about how profoundly our mindsets and actions are influenced by the truths that those around us choose to tell.
Book Synopsis Studies on Mario Bunge's Treatise by : Paul Weingartner
Download or read book Studies on Mario Bunge's Treatise written by Paul Weingartner and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bare Facts and Naked Truths by : George Englebretsen
Download or read book Bare Facts and Naked Truths written by George Englebretsen and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This accessibly written book surveys all of the major competing theories of truth (coherence, pragmatic, redundancy, semantic, deflationary, disquotational, minimalist) before formulating the new defence of the correspondence theory and then exploring the consequences of the theory for issues in epistemology and ontology. The book concludes by showing how the idea of 'propositional depth' can be used to dissolve the Liar paradoxes."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Synopsis Science and Partial Truth by : Newton C. A. da Costa
Download or read book Science and Partial Truth written by Newton C. A. da Costa and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the consequences of adopting a 'pragmatic' notion of truth in the philosophy of science. This framework describes issues to do with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.
Book Synopsis The Problem of Truth by : Edward G. Ballard
Download or read book The Problem of Truth written by Edward G. Ballard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
