Download or read book The Conscience of Science and Other Essays written by Walter J. Albersheim and published by Amorc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The River of Consciousness written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. "Curious, avid and thrillingly fluent." —The New York Times Book Review In the pieces that comprise The River of Consciousness, Dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, Darwin, Freud, and William James. For Sacks, these thinkers were constant companions from an early age. The questions they explored--the meaning of evolution, the roots of creativity, and the nature of consciousness--lie at the heart of science and of this book. The River of Consciousness demonstrates Sacks's unparalleled ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless endeavor to understand what makes us human.
Download or read book Science and Morals and Other Essays written by Bertram C. A. Windle and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conscience of the University and Other Essays written by Harry Huntt Ransom and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, a century after the laying of the cornerstone of its first building, the University of Texas was ranked by the New York Times among the best in the nation. No one had more to do with that extraordinary achievement than Harry Huntt Ransom. From 1935 to his death in 1976, he served the University in positions ranging from instructor in English to chancellor of The University of Texas System. In the fifties, sixties, and seventies, he held a succession of administrative posts requiring him to face a myriad of perplexing problems. Among the critical issues calling for analysis and decision in those years were the post-Sputnik pressure for greater emphasis on science and technology, the student revolts during the 1960s, and the defection of growing numbers of university faculty to industry and government. Harry Huntt Ransom did not merely respond to the problems of the times. He had his own large ambitions for the University of Texas, in particular the improvement of student programs, the development of a vigorous faculty, and—the achievement for which he is best remembered—the building of a world-renowned library. He was concerned with the role of the university in society, what the university should do and do well, and what it should not do. Always he viewed these matters in broad perspective, and his approach to them was far-sighted and deeply philosophical. As dean, vice-president, president, and chancellor, Ransom wrote and spoke often on these and other important subjects. Aside from the books that he wrote and edited, he left a prodigious amount of material, some of which had been published in various journals and some of which had been delivered as lectures and addresses and never made available in printed form. For the last twenty-five years of Ransom's life his wife, Hazel, was his closest companion and confidant. At the urging of Harry's friends, colleagues, and admirers, she undertook the task of sifting through her late husband's papers in an effort to organize and preserve some of the important contributions he had made to the thought and planning that were so instrumental in shaping the University of Texas and higher education in general. In these essays we see the force of reasoning and grace of style for which Ransom was so widely admired. It was he who reminded us that books last longer than buildings. This is a book of lasting importance that Harry Ransom himself might have given us had he lived longer.
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Download or read book Science and Morals and Other Essays written by Sir Bertram C. A. Windle and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Morals and Other Essays written by Bertram Coghill Alan Sir Windle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a series of essays by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle (1858 – 1929), a British anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist and writer. Contents include: Science and Morals Theophobia and Nemesis Within and Without the System Science in "Bondage" Science and the War Heredity and "Arrangement" "Special Creation" Catholic Writers and Spontaneous Generation A Theory of Life
Download or read book Science and Morals and Other Essays written by Coghill Alan Bertram Windle and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Morals and Other Essays written by Bertram Coghill Alan Windle and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Disobedience written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau advocates for nonviolent protest in his classic manifesto Motivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal philosophical essay enjoins individuals to stand against the ruling forces that seek to erase their free will. It is the duty of a good citizen, he argues, not only to disobey a bad law, but also to protest an unjust government. His message of nonviolence and appeal to value one’s own conscience over political legislation have resonated throughout American and world history. Peppered with the author’s poetry and social commentary, Civil Disobedience has become a manifesto for civil dissidents, revolutionaries, and protestors everywhere. Indeed, originally so unpopular with readers that Thoreau was forced to buy back over half of the books from his publisher, this work has gone on to inspire the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Download or read book Science Faith and Society written by Michael Polanyi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy. Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood as a community of inquirers held together by a common faith; science, he argues, is not the use of "scientific method" but rather consists in a discipline imposed by scientists on themselves in the interests of discovering an objective, impersonal truth. That such truth exists and can be found is part of the scientists' faith. Polanyi maintains that both authoritarianism and scepticism, attacking this faith, are attacking science itself.
Download or read book Science and Morals written by Bertram Coghill Alan Windle and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Morals and Other Essays written by Bertram Coghill Alan Windle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
Download or read book Science and Culture and Other Essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful work presents the collected essays of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was a renowned English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He was popularly known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for supporting Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. In addition, Huxley is famous for coining the term "agnosticism" and elaborated on it to state the nature of claims regarding what is knowable and what is not. This collection of his addresses, lectures, and essays is a must-read for anyone curious about evolution theory and biology. Contents include: Science and Culture Universities: Actual and Ideal Technical Education Elementary Instruction in Physiology Joseph Priestley On the Method of Zadig On the Border Territory Between the Animal and the Vegetable Kingdoms On Certain Errors Respecting the Structure of the Heart Attributed to Aristotle On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History On Sensation and the Unity of Structure of the Sensiferous Organs Evolution in Biology The Coming of Age of "the Origin of Species" The Connection of the Biological Sciences With Medicine
Download or read book Conscience written by Petr Demʹi͡anovich Uspenskiĭ and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five essays were originally printed for private distribution between 1952 and 1955. The first four essays were constructed from transcripts of Ouspensky's meetings; the fifth is culled from Ouspensky's "Notes on Decision to Work", "Notes on Work n Oneself", and "What is School".
Download or read book Nature of Science and Other Essays Classic Reprint written by David Greenwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature of Science, and Other Essays This book is intended as a collection of five essays in the general area of logic and mathematics as applied to science, composed, at various times, during the course of the past decade. The develop ment of the methods and results of natural science is possibly the most significant intellectual contribution of modern western civili zation to the galaxy of man's supreme achievements. I use the term natural science in its widest sense, including all theoretical knowl edge which cannot by definition be included under the category of the divine sciences, and which comprehends knowledge both dis covered by the application of special scientific procedures and based on common sense in everyday life. In the same way the expression language of science is meant here to refer to the language which contains all statements, i.e., theoretical sentences, in contradistinction to emotional expressions, commands, etc., used for scientific purposes in everyday life. What is usually called science I take to be a more systematic continuation of those activities which we carry out in everyday life in order to learn more about the world around us. As in my earlier book Truth and Meaning, I have not distin guished between any special logic of the empirical sciences and logic in general, since I doubt if any such differentiation really exists. I have taken logic as the name of the discipline which ana lyzes the meaning of the concepts common to all the sciences, and establishes the general laws governing the concepts. But I do recog nize two chief parts of the analysis of linguistic expressions in science. Scientific investigation may be restricted to the forms of_ the linguistic expressions involved and their relation to objects out side of language. An investigation of this type comes within the field of logical syntax, is restricted to formal analysis and abstracts from designation. In the second case, an investigation may not be restricted to formal analysis, but may take designation into con sideration. An investigation of this type comes within the field of semantics, and includes the semantical analysis of the designationof expressions. It will be obvious that this second part of scientific analysis is considerably broader than the first. A further distinction should be made between formal science and empirical science. Formal science consists of analytic statements established by logic and mathematics; empirical science consists of synthetic statements established in the different fields of factual knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
