Download or read book Alien Reasoning written by Arthur Rae and published by Arthur Rae. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above all, Alien Reasoning is an entertaining story about an Alien invasion of Earth, or is it simply an Alien Visit that will benefit humankind. Only time will tell. At face value, it is a story about Aliens, who are intellectually superior to humans, coming to earth. Their stated aim, to share knowledge. At a deeper level, it is a commentary on our systems of commerce, an exploration of the human psyche and a story that challenges our interpretations of the laws of physics, and suggests other possibilities for the reader to ponder. It is also a travel guide of sorts, as it expounds on the interesting tourist attractions in the general area of each of the places visited throughout the book. There are two main human characters in the story. The first is Bart, a wide-eyed physics enthusiast, who is totally enchanted by the newcomers and who has many meaningful discussions with them. The second is Augur, an intrepid news reporter, who questions everything. He is determined to understand the Aliens’ true agenda, and to get to the bottom of their real reason for coming to Earth. Each character in the book and some fictitious place names, have been given a name, which is an English word that is not used in common speech. An included Glossary of Terms, at the very back of this book, in Appendix 4, provides the dictionary definition for each name; which is in each case indicative of the character of that person or place. For example, Australia’s Prime Minister, those gender is never identified throughout the story, is named: Aegis, which means: Protector; Shield of Zeus.
Download or read book Reasoning written by Magdalena Balcerak Jackson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have always recognized the value of reason, but the process of reasoning itself has only recently begun to emerge as a philosophical topic in its own right. Is reasoning a distinctive kind of mental process? If so, what is its nature? How does reasoning differ from merely freely associating thoughts? What is the relationship between reasoning about what to believe and reasoning about how to act? Is reasoning itself something you do, or something that happens to you? And what is the value of reasoning? Are there rules for good or correct reasoning and, if so, what are they like? Does good reasoning always lead to justified belief or rational action? Is there more than one way to reason correctly from your evidence? This volume comprises twelve new essays by leading researchers in the philosophy of reasoning that together address these questions and many more, and explore the connections between them.
Download or read book The Logical Alien written by Sofia Miguens and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable book capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.” —Cora Diamond, Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita, University of Virginia Could there be a logical alien—a being whose ways of talking, inferring, and contradicting exhibit an entirely different logical shape than ours, yet who nonetheless is thinking? Could someone, contrary to the most basic rules of logic, think that two contradictory statements are both true at the same time? Such questions may seem outlandish, but they serve to highlight a fundamental philosophical question: is our logical form of thought merely one among many, or must it be the form of thought as such? From Descartes and Kant to Frege and Wittgenstein, philosophers have wrestled with variants of this question, and with a range of competing answers. A seminal 1991 paper, James Conant’s “The Search for Logically Alien Thought,” placed that question at the forefront of contemporary philosophical inquiry. The Logical Alien, edited by Sofia Miguens, gathers Conant’s original article with reflections on it by eight distinguished philosophers—Jocelyn Benoist, Matthew Boyle, Martin Gustafsson, Arata Hamawaki, Adrian Moore, Barry Stroud, Peter Sullivan, and Charles Travis. Conant follows with a wide-ranging response that places the philosophical discussion in historical context, critiques his original paper, addresses the exegetical and systematic issues raised by others, and presents an alternative account. The Logical Alien challenges contemporary conceptions of how logical and philosophical form must each relate to their content. This monumental volume offers the possibility of a new direction in philosophy.
Download or read book The Humaniverse Guide To Better Reasoning Decision Making written by Keith A. Seland and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know how thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life can help make better decisions in your everyday life? The answer to this question will be the first, of many, that enlighten you and is found in the Introduction to The Humaniverse Guide to Better Reasoning and Decision-Making. Every person has to reconcile how to solve the many problems that arise daily in their lives. These questions are structured like the hypotheses scientists use to enter into their investigations. The Humaniverse Guide will immerse the reader by first demystifying the platform of science and show them the tools and methods scientists use to solve their problems (answer their hypotheses). Then The Humaniverse Guide engages the reader as the research scientist, forensic investigator, jury and judge in an actual investigation; that of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Along its course, The Humaniverse Guide will raise their level of knowledge, inquiry, and critical thinking to help them make sense of their environment in beneficial ways they never were aware of before. The reader will own these new tools and larger skill set. This can later help in applications to their own life situations and to make successful decisions. With these themes, The Humaniverse is situated for a global audience. What sets The Humaniverse apart from other recent titles--such as Ancient Alien Ancestors by Will Hart, Timothy Good's Earth: An Alien Enterprise; Forbidden Science: From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy as edited by J. Douglas Kenyon, and John B. Alexander's UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities--is that the reader will acquire an acute awareness of the history of science, learn its methods, then use their new tool sets the same way scientists do. That user will also analyze a more extensive and pragmatic set of raw data and evidence facts observed and collected from millions of witnesses from all walks of life throughout recorded human history. This is offered to help bridge the gaps in understanding and comfort level that currently exist among the general public and both the science communities and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. The abundant utilities the reader/user can obtain from The Humaniverse Guide help make those everyday decisions easier to obtain and better.
Download or read book The Reasoning Skills Workbook written by Scott Sprouse and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workbook introduces the reader to more than 100 patterns of reasoning, some valid, some not. Through patient reading and by completing the exercises, the reader will attain a mastery of these concepts.
Download or read book The Art of Logical Reasoning written by Thomas Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Trends in Philosophy of Science written by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession. Thus, after an initial chapter to situate the current trends in philosophy of science and the prospective of the near future, it offers contributions in five thematic blocks: I) Philosophy of Medicine and Climate Change; II) Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet; III) New Analyses of Probability and the Use of Mathematics in Practice; IV) Scientific Progress Revisited; and V) Scientific Realism and the Instrumentalist Alternative. Within this framework, the volume addresses such relevant issues as the methodological validity of medical evidence or decision making in situations of uncertainty; recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and the future of the Internet; current forms of empirically based methodological pluralism and new ways of understanding mathematics with scientific practice; and the revision of the approaches to scientific progress based on the experiences accumulated in recent decades.
Download or read book New Commentaries on the Criminal Law Upon a New System of Legal Exposition written by Joel Prentiss Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reasoning Otherwise written by Ian McKay and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reasoning Otherwise, author Ian McKay returns to the concepts and methods of “reconnaissance” first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals to examine the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920. Reasoning Otherwise highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. As McKay demonstrated in Rebels, Reds, Radicals, the Canadian left is alive and flourishing, and has shaped the Canadian experience in subtle and powerful ways. Reasoning Otherwise continues this tradition of offering important new insight into the deep roots of leftism in Canada.
Download or read book Modality and Explanatory Reasoning written by Boris Christian Kment and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.
Download or read book The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 written by Jonathan Elliot and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alien and Philosophy written by Jeffrey A. Ewing and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am presents a philosophical exploration of the world of Alien, the simultaneously horrifying and thought-provoking sci-fi horror masterpiece, and the film franchise it spawned. The first book dedicated to exploring the philosophy raised by one of the most successful and influential sci-fi franchises of modern times Features contributions from an acclaimed team of scholars of philosophy and pop culture, led by highly experienced volume editors Explores a huge range of topics that include the philosophy of fear, Just Wars, bio-weaponry, feminism and matriarchs, perfect killers, contagion, violation, employee rights and Artificial Intelligence Includes coverage of H.R. Giger’s aesthetics, the literary influences of H.P. Lovecraft, sci-fi and the legacy of Vietnam, and much more!
Download or read book Law and the Citizen written by Austin Sarat and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars to explore issues around citizenship and law. With chapters on different elements of the relationship between law and citizenship, the volume makes a key contribution to the field and is essential reading for legal scholars.
Download or read book History of Rationalities written by Luca Sciortino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'. This book presents, compares, and contrasts these different notions. It focuses primarily on Ian Hacking’s idea of 'style of reasoning' in order to assess and develop it into a more systematic theory of scientific thought, arguing that Hacking’s theory implies epistemic relativism. Luca Sciortino also discusses the implications of Hacking’s ideas for the study of the problem of contingency and inevitability in the development of scientific knowledge
Download or read book Contract Law in Lithuania written by Laurynas Didžiulis and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of the law of contracts in Lithuania covers every aspect of the subject – definition and classification of contracts, contractual liability, relation to the law of property, good faith, burden of proof, defects, penalty clauses, arbitration clauses, remedies in case of non-performance, damages, power of attorney, and much more. Lawyers who handle transnational contracts will appreciate the explanation of fundamental differences in terminology, application, and procedure from one legal system to another, as well as the international aspects of contract law. Throughout the book, the treatment emphasizes drafting considerations. An introduction in which contracts are defined and contrasted to torts, quasi-contracts, and property is followed by a discussion of the concepts of ‘consideration’ or ‘cause’ and other underlying principles of the formation of contract. Subsequent chapters cover the doctrines of ‘relative effect’, termination of contract, and remedies for non-performance. The second part of the book, recognizing the need to categorize an agreement as a specific contract in order to determine the rules which apply to it, describes the nature of agency, sale, lease, building contracts, and other types of contract. Facts are presented in such a way that readers who are unfamiliar with specific terms and concepts in varying contexts will fully grasp their meaning and significance. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable time-saving tool for business and legal professionals alike. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Lithuania will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative contract law.
Download or read book General and elementary written by Joel Prentiss Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Place of Emotion in Argument written by Douglas Walton and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
