Download or read book Notions Unlimited written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “Gray Flannel Armor,” a man named Hanley finds perfection in a rigidly regular structure of social interaction—including for romance—and devises a system that the whole of humanity adopts. The eleven other stories in this collection are “Gray Flannel Armor,” “The Leech,” “Watchbird,” “A Wind Is Rising,” “Morning After,” “The Native Problem,” “Feeding Time,” “Paradise II,” “Double Indemnity,” “Holdout,” “Dawn Invader,” and “The Language of Love.” From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”
Download or read book Notions written by Robert Sheckley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Options written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Mishkin is piloting another routine supply flight when he hears an unusual noise and gets the distressing news: He’s about to be stranded on a backward planet and forced to hike across unknown and probably hostile terrain to find a cache of spare parts and get going again. Mishkin’s journey introduces him to strange aliens like a five-headed man-eating snake with Mob connections as his trek slowly warps into a metaphysical search for his soul and the meaning of human existence . . . From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”
Download or read book Live Gold written by Robert Sheckley and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1962 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experience and Theory written by Stephan Korner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966. This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. Part One is concerned with the logic underlying empirical discourse before its subjection to the various constraints, imposed by the logico-mathematical framework of scientific theories upon their content. Part Two is devoted to an examination of this framework and, in particular, to showing that the deductive organization of a field of experience is by that very act a modification of empirical discourse and an idealization of its subject matter. Part Three analyzes the concordance between theories and experience and the relevance of science to moral and religious beliefs.
Download or read book The Mind written by Jean de Climont and published by Editions d Assailly. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay is a system of mind based upon Platon, saint Augustine and Kant philosophical systems. Independent criteria are necessary for mind to judge experiment. Criteria are either relative determinations of perceived objects of the experimental world kept in mind by the memory, or absolute concepts such as freedom and truth or space and time. These absolute concepts cannot be copies of objects of the experimental world, because we have no means to perceive them. We can only perceive relative objects because perception is itself a relation. Mind has a direct access to these absolute concepts. This essay is in line with the Hegelian separation between philosophy and theology, i.e. between the transcendental and the theological worlds.
Download or read book End of Art Philosophy in Hegel Nietzsche and Danto written by Stephen Snyder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. The end-of-art claim is often associated with the end of a certain standard of taste or skill. However, at a deeper level, it relates to a transformation in how we philosophically understand our relation to the ‘world’. Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto each strive philosophically to overcome Cartesian dualism, redrawing the traditional lines between mind and matter. Hegel sees the overcoming of the material in the ideal, Nietzsche levels the two worlds into one, and Danto divides the world into representing and non-representing material. These attempts to overcome dualism necessitate notions of the self that differ significantly from traditional accounts; the redrawn boundaries show that art and philosophy grasp essential but different aspects of human existence. Neither perspective, however, fully grasps the duality. The appearance of art’s end occurs when one aspect is given priority: for Hegel and Danto, it is the essentialist lens of philosophy, and, in Nietzsche’s case, the transformative power of artistic creativity. Thus, the book makes the case that the end-of-art claim is avoided if a theory of art links the internal practice of artistic creation to all of art’s historical forms.
Download or read book Discussions on Philosophy and Literature Education and University Reform written by Sir William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lectures on Logic written by William Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of Will written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Careful and Strict Enquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of the Will which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency Virtue and Vice Reward and Punishment Praise and Blame written by Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of will which is supposed to be essential to moral agency written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A careful and strict Inquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that Freedom of Will which is supposed to be essential to Moral Agency etc written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Absolute Generality written by Agustín Rayo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to quantify over absolutely all there is? Or must all of our quantifiers range over a less-than-all-inclusive domain? It has commonly been thought that the question of absolute generality is intimately connected with the set-theoretic antinomies. But the topic of absolute generality has enjoyed a surge of interest in recent years. It has become increasingly apparent that its ramifications extend well beyond the foundations of set theory. Connections include semanticindeterminacy, logical consequence, higher-order languages, and metaphysics.Rayo and Uzquiano present for the first time a collection of essays on absolute generality. These newly commissioned articles -- written by an impressive array of international scholars -- draw the reader into the forefront of contemporary research on the subject. The volume represents a variety of approaches to the problem, with some of the contributions arguing for the possibility of all-inclusive quantification and some of them arguing against it. An introduction by the editors draws ahelpful map of the philosophical terrain.
Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Play written by Malcolm MacLean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Perspectives on Play builds on the disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges constructed between the study of philosophy and play in The Philosophy of Play (Routledge, 2013) to develop a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and value. Made up of contributions from leading international thinkers and inviting readers to explore the presumptions often attached to play and playfulness, the book considers ways that play in ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds can inform understandings of each, critiquing established norms and encouraging scepticism about the practice and experience of play. Organised around four central themes -- play(ing) at the limits, aesthetics, metaphysics/ontology and ethics -- the book extends and challenges notions of play by drawing on issues emerging in sport, gaming, literature, space and art, with specific attention paid to disruption and danger. It is intended to provide scholars and practitioners working in the spheres of play, education, games, sport and related subjects with a deeper understanding of philosophical thought and to open dialogue across these disciplines.
