Download or read book Structured Worlds written by Aubrey Cannon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. 'Structured Worlds' examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherers. The essays examine a range of cultures - Mesolithic Europe, Siberia, Jomon Japan, the Northwest Coast, the northern Plains, and High Arctic of North America - to show the role of conceptual frameworks in subsistence and settlement, technology, mobility, migration, demography, and social organization. Spanning from the early Holocene period to the present day, 'Structured Worlds' draws on archaeology and ethnography to explore the role of beliefs, ritual, and social values in the interaction between foragers and their physical and social landscape. Material culture, animal bones and settlement patterns show that the behaviours of hunter-gatherers were shaped as much by cultural concepts as by material need.

Download or read book Structured Worlds written by Jeanne Legarski and published by SolveForce. This book was released on 2024-09-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured Worlds: The Comprehensive Guide to Libraries, Directories, Categories, and the Art of Organization serves as an essential resource for anyone navigating the complexities of information management in both physical and digital environments. This guide delves deeply into the foundational principles of organization and categorization, offering practical applications across various sectors like libraries, archives, businesses, and personal data management. Covering historical approaches to organization, modern techniques, and emerging technologies, this book provides a thorough exploration of systems designed to improve data accessibility, communication, and efficiency. It addresses the challenges posed by evolving digital landscapes, offering insight into tools, software, and strategies that enhance organization, categorization, and data management. Structured in a methodical way, the book progresses from traditional organizing methods to the latest innovations, with a focus on metadata, taxonomies, artificial intelligence, and user accessibility. It is an invaluable resource for professionals, students, and enthusiasts in fields such as library science, information management, and beyond, equipping them with the knowledge to master the art of organization and data structuring for maximum efficiency. tags: organization, categorization, libraries, directories, metadata, taxonomy, digital organization, archives, information management, AI in organization, user accessibility, organizational tools, digital transformation, categorization systems, structured information

Download or read book Ethically Structured Processes written by Virgil Cristian Lenoir and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst research and innovation may allow for increasing efficiency in the pursuit of human ends, they also pose dangers, linked to the unpredictability of their development, which call for unprecedented responsibility. This book contends that the structure of a "process", in the sense of an efficient propensity in the possible that can be actualized by research and innovation, can be intrinsically ethical, that is, it can take into account and preserve the freedom of the actors concerned. This point is explored through a consideration of four processual ethical structures, each of which can constitute a point of reference for the exercise of a responsibility. Ethically Structured Processes questions dualities that are very firmly established in the West, such as "theoretical/practical" and "descriptive/prescriptive", through a detour into historical Chinese traditions of thought. The generality of the thesis concerning ethical processes is tested, in a privileged way, on the case of the "Invisible Hand". Is this notion based on a philosophically and ethically consistent concept of "freedom"?

Download or read book Wondering about the Impossible On the Semantics of Counterpossibles written by Maciej Sendłak and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Objects of Credence written by Anna Mahtani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The credence framework is widely used for working with probabilities in science, social science, and policy. Anna Mahtani argues that credences are not about objects in themselves, but rather about objects under a designator, and that this insight has far-reaching implications for our understanding of rationality, decision theory, and economics.

Download or read book Sociology After the Crisis written by Charles C. Lemert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely assigned and taught in senior capstone and social theory courses, Sociology After the Crisis offers the first systematic theory of social differences built on the sociological traditions by embracing to Durkheim, Weber and other familiar figures. The first edition was acclaimed for its nuanced and original rereading of Durkheim in relation to the theoretical reasons he and his contemporaries neglected race and gender. This new edition features two chapters of new material written in the summer of 2003, as the new social structures of the 21st century became increasingly clear. The new Chapter Ten draws upon 9-11, the "new world order" of two Bush presidencies, and globalization to show how individuals' lives and sociologies must be thought about in new ways. These events also highlight how American society and sociology have responded and sometimes failed in the struggle over the crisis of modernism. Reviews for the First Edition: "[This] expansive reimagining of the historical roots of sociological imagination - especially as it embraces voices and visions long lost to our most important national debates - is balm to the fractured soul of American society. Lemert's elegant and passionate volume will aid immeasurably in our nation's search for sane solutions to the crises of purpose and perspective he so skillfully explores." Michael Eric Dyson, author of Making Malcolm and Between God and Gangsta' Rap "Elegantly crafted." Steven Seidman, State University of New York at Albany

Download or read book Character and Person written by John Frow and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character and Person explores the category of fictional character, one of the most widely used and least adequately theorized concepts in literary studies, cultural studies, and everyday usage. It sets fictional character in relation to the concept of person and tries to examine how each of these terms is constructed across different cultures.

Download or read book Alfred Schutz s Sociological Aspect of Literature written by Lester Embree and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-12-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maintext in the present volume has beenconstructed out of passages found scattered aboutin thirty-five years of Alfred Schutz's writings, and it has been constructed by following a pageof notes for a lecture that he gave in 1955 under the title "Sociological Aspect of Literature. " The result can be considered the substance of Schutz's contribution to the theory of literature. More detail about how this construction has beenperformed is offered in the Editor's Introduction. The complementary essays areby scholars from Germany, Japan, andthe United States , from several generations, and from the disciplines of anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. These researchers were invited to reflect in their own perspectives on the main text and in relation to matters referred to within and beyond it. Draftversions of most of these complementary essays were presented for critical discussion in a research symposium held at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of theNewSchool for Social Research on April28-29, 1995 underthe sponsorship of The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomen ology, Inc. , Florida Atlantic University; The Department of Philosophy of The Graduate Faculty of the New School, Richard 1. Bernstein, Chair; and Evelyn and George Schutz, the philosopher's children. Revised versions of these presentations and also several essays subsequently recruited are offered to begin yet another stagein thehistory of scholarship on Schutz and the phenomenological research inspired by him. Northwestern University Press is thanked for permission to quote extensively from Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World, trans.

Download or read book Meditations Through the Rig Veda written by Antonio T. De Nicolás and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the original and origins of the Rig Veda, (between 5.000 to 2.500 B.C, ) the first Indo-European written document ever to show the origin of cultures and the power of music in the recitation and construction of the original hymns. Here we find the original geometries, original forms, original sacrifice of any form to claim supremacy over the others and the continued movement of human life. This book brings together early humans with modern neurobiological discoveries and shows the origins of multiple centers of knowing (the gods), the movement of the singer and the song in a world that avoids idolatry of substances by insisting in the constant movement of singer, song, and music. If you thought you knew all there is to know about the language you use, read this book and find out the idolatry of its imagery and the possible sacrifice needed for a happy, communal and divine life.

Download or read book American Philosophy An Encyclopedia written by John Lachs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 2650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy provides coverage of the major figures, concepts, historical periods and traditions in American philosophical thought. Containing over 600 entries written by scholars who are experts in the field, this Encyclopedia is the first of its kind. It is a scholarly reference work that is accessible to the ordinary reader by explaining complex ideas in simple terms and providing ample cross-references to facilitate further study. The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy contains a thorough analytical index and will serve as a standard, comprehensive reference work for universities and colleges. Topics covered include: Great philosophers: Emerson, Dewey, James, Royce, Peirce, Santayana Subjects: Pragmatism, Progress, the Future, Knowledge, Democracy, Growth, Truth Influences on American Philosophy: Hegel, Aristotle, Plato, British Enlightenment, Reformation Self-Assessments: Joe Margolis, Donald Davidson, Susan Haack, Peter Hare, John McDermott, Stanley Cavell Ethics: Value, Pleasure, Happiness, Duty, Judgment, Growth Political Philosophy: Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Freedom, Liberalism, Community, Identity

Download or read book Human Like Machine Intelligence written by Stephen Muggleton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, authored by an array of internationally recognised researchers, is of direct relevance to all those involved in Academia and Industry wanting to obtain insights into the topics at the forefront of the revolution in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.

Download or read book Cosmology of Light written by Pravir Malik and published by Deep Order Technologies. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Light. It is a story of Light from an apparent beginning to the present, and then also a story of that condition that transcends Time and is hence beginning-less. But it is more too. It is a book about the central place of Light in all things. Being so, it is a cosmology – it suggests a nature of the universe – in which all that is, is of Light. Hence this book describes a Cosmology of Light. But the medium chosen to express this nature is mathematics. Specifically, as will be discovered there is a particular symmetrical “function-based” mathematics that is formulated to express the nature of cosmos. The starting point is Light itself, and all that is seen to exist is as a play of Light. Hence, Light is presumed to exist in some native state characterized by an infinite speed. It chooses or experiments to project its fundamental nature at some reduced speed that is experienced as ‘c’, 186,000 miles per second in vacuum that has a profound effect on the experienced nature of reality. This projection precipitates a Big Bang. A mathematical state in which quanta becomes a door-way to multiple-layers of Light comes into existence at that moment and is captured by a seed-equation that is positioned as being always fully present in any and everything. Hence all of Light conspires to create anything and everything no matter how different from Light it may seem. Hence there is a fundamental symmetry to everything no matter how different it may appear in form. The seed-equation is structured by a four-foldness anchored on implicit properties in Light. This four-foldness is the cornerstone of the constructed function-based mathematics. This equation, referred to as the “Light-Space-Time Emergence” equation contains all possibility, and will indicate how all layers of known existence have emerged. The same equation essentially being used for anything in existence points to the fundamental mathematical symmetry of all things. Hence, from an initial fourfold space-time-energy-gravity expression, through the electromagnetic field, quantum particles, atoms, cells, and then human attributes and dynamics, to complex organizations and countries, culminating in a possible sustainable global civilization, the relationship of all things to this underlying seed-equation and all things as the seed-equation will be emphasized. But it will also be seen that Love is the compelling dynamic of projected four-foldness and appears to be the magician that causes the separated fourfold powers in Light to reintegrate to make materially real the compelling nature of oneness that Light and all its creatures in reality are. In the scheme of things, the human, placed at the middle of sixty orders of cosmic magnitude, ranging from the minute Planck-length to astronomical gigaparsecs appears to have a critical role in the continuing unfolding of the Cosmos. It is only by transcending smallness and becoming one with the magician to so enter into the very dynamic of Love, that the universe can continue on its ever-complexifying, ever more-beautiful journey of increasing functional-richness. It is only if humans so unite with the secret of Light that truer individuality, truer-knowledge, truer-power can emerge, and the very material process of space-time-energy-gravity quantization can be activated to create foundations of super-matter, that in the scheme of things is the compelling crystallization of the infinity in Light, reformulating micro and macro orders of magnitude to change the nature of Cosmos.

Download or read book The New Wallace Stevens Studies written by Bart Eeckhout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Wallace Stevens Studies introduces a range of fresh voices and promising topics to the study of this great American poet. It is organized into three sections. The first explores concepts that have begun to emerge in Stevens criticism: imperialism and colonialism, his politics of utopia, his ideas about community-building and audience, his secularism, and his transnationalism. The second section applies recent methodological and theoretical advances that have left a prominent mark on literary studies - from world literature and ecocriticism to urban studies, queer studies, intersectional thinking, and cognitive literary studies. Essays in the third section reassess issues that have long inspired critics. Here investigations include Stevens's reception by later poets, his attitude toward modern fiction, different modes of his poetic thinking, aspects of his rhetoric and style, and his lyrical ethics. This volume captures a cross-section of the most striking recent developments in Stevens criticism.

Download or read book Private Capital Markets Website written by Robert T. Slee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Private Capital Markets Valuation, Capitalization, and Transfer of Private Business Interests SECOND EDITION "In the years since publication of the first edition of Private Capital Markets, the concepts and ideas that it presents have been widely accepted by progressive members of the business valuation community. Now with the Second Edition, author Rob Slee has included empirical data on capital markets for midsized businesses. This book remains a must for everyone involved in appraising, buying, selling, or financing privately owned businesses." Raymond C. Miles, founder, The Institute of Business Appraisers "The Graziadio School of Business has used the Private Capital Markets book for several years with great success. This course, along with the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Survey project, has helped our students better prepare for careers in middle market companies." Linda Livingstone, Dean of the Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University "Our international association of independent M&A professionals recommends this text as the most comprehensive foundation for understanding the private capital marketplace. This book is essential reading for middle market M&A advisors, investors, and other decision-makers in the private capital markets." Mike Nall, founder, Alliance of M&A Advisors A practical road map for making sound investment and financing decisions based on real experiences and market needs Now fully revised and in a second edition, Private Capital Markets provides lawyers, accountants, bankers, estate planners, intermediaries, and other professionals with a workable framework for making sound investment and financing decisions based on their own needs and experiences. This landmark resource covers: Private business valuation Middle market capital sources The business ownership transfer spectrum And much more Private Capital Markets, Second Edition surveys the private capital markets and presents the proven guidance you need to navigate through these uncharted waters.

Download or read book Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth Century Novels written by Pam Morris and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels, Pam Morris traces a dramatic transformation of British public consciousness that occurred between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867. This brief period saw a shift from a naturalized acceptance of social hierarchy to a general imagining of a modern mass culture. Central to this collective revisioning of social relations was the pressure to restyle political leadership in terms of popular legitimacy, to develop a more inclusive mode of discourse within an increasingly heterogeneous public sphere and to find new ways of inscribing social distinctions and exclusions. Morris argues that in the transformed public sphere of mid-nineteenth-century Britain, the urbane code of civility collapsed under the strain of the conflicting interests that constitute mass society. It was replaced by a "code of sincerity," often manipulative and always ideological in that its inclusiveness was based upon a formally egalitarian assumption of mutual interiorities. The irresistible movement toward mass politics shifted the location of power into the public domain. Increasingly, national leaders sought to gain legitimacy by projecting a performance of charismatic "sincerity" as a flattering and insinuating mode of address to mass audiences. Yet, by the latter decades of the century, while the code of sincerity continued to dominate popular and political culture, traditional political and intellectual elites were reinscribing social distinctions and exclusions. They did so both culturally—by articulating sensibility as skepticism, irony, and aestheticism—and scientifically—by introducing evolutionist notions of sensibility and attaching these to a rigorous disciplinary code of bodily visuality. Through an intensive, intertextual reading of six key novels (Bronte's Shirley, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Dickens's Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend, Gaskell's North and South, and Eliot's Romola) and an array of Victorian periodicals and political essays, Morris analyzes just how actively novelists engaged in these social transformations. Drawing on a wide range of literary, cultural, and historical thinkers—Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Benedict Anderson, Mary Poovey, and Charles Tilly—Morris makes an original and highly sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the complex and always contested processes of imagining social inclusiveness.

Download or read book New Essays on the Nature of Propositions written by David Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so where does their structure come from? How does this structure form a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and structural properties of propositions really independent of those of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches. While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics written by Keith Allan and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation, clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification, simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses, methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically oriented studies such as 'grammatical semantics', where semantics has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal categories like tense or aspect, nominal categories like case or possession, clausal categories like causatives, comparatives, or conditionals, and discourse phenomena like reference and anaphora. COSE also examines lexical semantics and its relation to syntax, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics; and the study of how 'logical semantics' develops and thrives, often in interaction with computational linguistics. As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, it comprises contributions from 150 of the foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within languages. As semantics is a centrally important and inherently cross-cutting area within linguistics it will therefore be relevant not just for semantics specialists, but for most linguistic audiences. - The first encyclopedia ever published in this fascinating and diverse field - Combines the talents of the world's leading semantics specialists - The latest trends in the field authoritatively reviewed and interpreted in context of related disciplines - Drawn from the richest, most authoritative, comprehensive and internationally acclaimed reference resource in the linguistics area - Compact and affordable single volume reference format