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Merleau-Ponty : Key Concepts.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Translations and abbreviations; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: life and works; 2 A guide to Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts; PART II: INTERVENTIONS; 3 Phenomenology and hyper-reflection -- 4 Existentialism: the new philosophy -- 5 Between empiricism and intellectualism; 6 Psychoanalysis; 7 Philosophy of history; 8 Politics and the political; 9 Art and aesthetics; PART III: INVENTIONS; 10 Body; 11 Perception; 12 Ambiguity; 13 Intersubjectivity and alterity; 14 Expression; 15 Affect and sensibility.…”
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Ernst Bloch's speculative materialism : ontology, epistemology, politics
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…The Role of Irony; 4. Rationalism, Empiricism, and Practice; Chapter 4. Politics; 1. The German Philosopher of the October Revolution?…”
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Feminists and science. Volume 2 : critiques and changing perspectives in India
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Cover page; Half title page ; Marketing page ; Full title page ; Copyright page ; Dedication page ; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Tracking a Consciousness; 14 Contextual Empiricism and Local Community; 15 Traditional Knowledge and Feminist Dilemmas; 16 Journeying through an 'Alien Terrain' ; 17 'Blue Flower Mentoring'; 18 The Healing Touch; 19 Body, Reproduction and Technology; 20 Feminism and Science; 21 Science and the Making of a New Nationalist Masculinity in Colonial Bengal; 22 Fingerprints and Erasures; 23 Science in Architecture and Architecture in Science; 24 Gender and Science.…”
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Reading McDowell : on Mind and world
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Pippin -- Sense-experience and the grounding of thought / Barry Stroud -- Non-inferential knowledge, perceptual experience, and secondary qualities : placing McDowell's empiricism / Robert Brandom -- Foundationalism and the inner-outer distinction / Charles Taylor -- Phenomenological externalism / Gregory McCulloch -- Human nature? …”
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Performing process : sharing dance and choreographic practice
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements vii; ; ; ; Introduction 1; ; Hetty Blades and Emma Meehan; ; ; ; Part 1: Philosophy of Process 19; ; ; ; Chapter 1: Atomos EChOs and the Process-ing of Dances 21; ; Stephanie Jordan and Anna Pakes; ; ; ; Chapter 2: Choreographic Knowledge and Aesthetic Empiricism 49; ; Hetty Blades; ; ; ; Part 2: Methods and Formats 65; ; ; ; Chapter 3: Enhancing Choreographic Objects: Traces, Texts and Tales of a 67; ; Journey through Dance; ; Sarah Whatley; ; ; ; Chapter 4: Research as Co-Habitation: Experimental Composition across 81; ; Theory and Practice; ; Erin Brannigan, Matthew Day and Lizzie Thomson; ; ; ; Chapter 5: Process as Performance or Variations of Swinging 99; ; Annette Arlander; ; ; ; Chapter 6: Crystallisations, Constellations and Sharings: Exploring Somatic 119; ; Process with Sandra Reeve; ; Emma Meehan…”
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The social science jargon buster : the key terms you need to know
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Action research -- Aesthetics -- Agency -- Alienation -- Anomie -- A posteriori/a priori -- Authority -- Behaviourism -- (The) body -- Bureaucracy -- Capital -- Capitalism -- Causation -- Chaos theory -- Class -- Cognitive dissonance -- Collective -- Colonization -- Commidification -- Communism -- Community -- Conflict theory -- Conservatism -- Critical/radical -- Cultural studies -- Culture -- Deconstruction -- Deductive/inductive reasoning -- Democracy -- Determinism -- Develop/developing countries -- Deviant behaviour -- Dialectic -- Dichotomy -- Discourse -- Egalitarianism -- Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Essentialism -- Ethics -- Ethnocentrism -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology -- Existentialism -- Fascism -- Feminism -- Functionalism -- Fundamentalism -- Game theory -- Genealogy -- Globalization -- Governance -- Grounded theory -- Hegemony -- Hermeneutics -- Historical materialism -- Historicism -- Human/social ecology -- Humanism -- Hybridity -- Hypothesis/hypotetico-deductive method -- 505 00 Id/ego/superego -- Idealism -- Identity -- Ideology -- Imperialism -- Individualism -- Industrialization -- Instrumentalism -- Justice -- Knowledge -- Labelling theory -- Labour -- Leadership -- Liberalism -- Marginalization -- Marxism -- Materialism -- McDonaldization -- Metanarratives -- Methodology -- Methods -- Micro/macroeconomics -- Modernism/postmoderism -- Modernity -- Multiculturalism -- Nationalism -- Nominalism -- Norms -- Ontology -- Other -- Paradigm -- Patriarchy -- Pedagogy/critical pedagogy -- Personality -- Phenomenology -- Pluralism -- Positivism -- Postmodernity -- Post-industrial -- Post-positivism -- Power -- Pragmatism -- Praxis -- Prejudice/discrimination -- Protestant ethic -- Qualitative/quantitative -- Rationalism -- Realism -- Reductionism -- Reflexivity -- Reification -- Relativism -- Research credibility (positivist) -- Research credibility (post-positivist).…”
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Mind over matter : memory fiction from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen
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Mathematics and the Image of Reason.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…; 3 RUSSELL: MATHEMATICS AS LOGIC; Geometry and Relational Structures; Paradoxes and Logical Types; Empiricism, Logical Positivism and the Sterility of Reason…”
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Between Saying and Doing : Towards an Analytic Pragmatism.
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Critical Economic Methodology : a Personal Odyssey.
Published 1996Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue; METHODOLOGY'S DEMAND AND SUPPLY; OUTLINE OF THE BOOK; 1 Economic methodology prior to 1979; 2 Criticizing the critiques of Friedman's 1953 essay; 3 Criticizing satisficing, empiricism and formalism in methodology; 4 On the methodology of the history of contemporary economic thought; 5 Tautology vs testability in economic methodology; 6 Criticizing the neoclassical maximization hypothesis is futile; 7 Appraisal vs criticism in economics; 8 The theory and practice of economic methodology; 9 Criticizing economic positivism.…”
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Theories of population variation in genes and genomes
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Magic and the supernatural
First edition.Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Inside Cover -- Advisory Board -- ISBN -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Hendrix -- PART 1: Philosophy, Religion and Magic -- Magic and Practical Agency: Feltham -- Art, Love and Magic in Marsilio Ficino's De amore: Maggiotti -- The Jinn: Ismal and Ramadan -- PART 2: Magic and History -- Rational Astrology and Empiricism, From Pico to Galileo: Hendrix -- Between Religion and Magic: Vanderheyden -- PART 3: Magic and Literature -- 'I am a witch and I like it!…”
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Evidence and Meaning : a Theory of Historical Studies.
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Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics.
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The doctor in the Victorian novel : family practices
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Revival : Pre-Reflective Intentionality in the Psychoanalytic View of the Mind.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Pre-reflective intentionality: some consequences4 Hegel and 'Being-in-the-World'; Hegel's doctrine of 'soul'; Hegel and madness; The pre-reflective basis of skill and habit; 5 Wilfred Bion and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Thinking; Klein and symbol-formation; Psychosis and infancy; Doing things with words; Bion's 'empiricism'; 6 Psychoanalysis, Psychosis and Being: 'Falling-out-of-the-World'; Psychoanalysis and the pre-reflective level; Sartre's loss of meaning; Further applications; 7 Internal Objects and Ontology; Hegel's holistic metaphysics; Internal objects assessed.…”
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Dialogues with Davidson : acting, interpreting, understanding
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Manning -- Davidson, Heidegger, and truth / Mark Okrent -- Davidson and the demise of representationalism / Giancarlo Marchetti -- Method and metaphysics: pragmatist doubts / Bjørn Ramberg -- Davidson's reading of Gadamer: triangulation, conversation, and the analytic: continental divide / Lee Braver -- In Gadamer's neighborhood / Robert Dostal -- The relevance of radical interpretation to the understanding of mind / Jonathan Ellis -- Incommensurability in Davidson and Gadamer / Barbara Fultner -- Davidson, Gadamer, Incommensurability, and the third dogma of empiricism / David Vessey -- What is common to all: Davidson on agreement and understanding / Jeff Malpas -- Davidson and the autonomy of the human sciences / Giuseppina D'Oro -- Interpreting Davidson on intentional action / Frederick Stoutland -- Evaluative attitudes / Gerhard Preyer -- Davidson's normativity / Stephen Turner -- Davidson and the source of self-knowledge / Louise Röska-Hardy -- Radical interpretation, feminism, and science / Sharyn Clough.…”
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Impressions of Hume : cinematic thinking and the politics of discontinuity
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Roll Credits; Editors' Introduction; Notes; Introduction; Approaching Hume; On Beholding; Notes; 1 Film Matters; The Action-Image; Discontinuity and the Fact of the Series; Actors, Artificial Persons, and Human Somethings; Political Resistance and an Aesthetics of Politics; Notes; 2 A Treatment of Human Parts; or the Shot; On the Close-Up; Empiricism and Typographic Culture; Hume's Train of Thinking; Of Human Parts; Discomposing One's Character; Conclusion: A Micropolitics of Impressions; Notes; 3 Hume's Iconomy; An Excess of Images; Fluid Supports.…”
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The Textual Genesis of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…6 Logic and Ideality: Wittgenstein's Way beyond Apriorism, Empiricism and Conventionalism in the Philosophy of Logic7 Kant and Wittgenstein: The Matter of Transcendental Arguments; 8 Wittgenstein in the Mid-1930s: Calculi and Language-Games; 9 Wittgenstein on Rules in Language and Mathematics; 10 The Form of Proofs: Wittgenstein vs. …”
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A companion to atheism and philosophy
First edition.Published 2019Table of Contents: “…; Notes; References; Part II Philosophical Movements; Chapter 7 Empiricism; What is Empiricism?; Religious Implications; Faith as a Source of Knowledge; References; Chapter 8 Pragmatism; Pragmatism and Knowledge; Pragmatic Differences; Standard Objections to Pragmatism; Pragmatism and Atheism; Notes; References…”
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Philosophical Skepticism.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Quine, from "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and "Epistemology Naturalized"; 33 Richard Rorty, "Solidarity or Objectivity?"…”
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Reason, truth, and reality
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Assault on the Philosophy of Empiricism -- pt. 2. On the Canons of Induction -- 6. …”
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Reason, truth, and reality
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Assault on the Philosophy of Empiricism -- pt. 2. On the Canons of Induction -- 6. …”
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Tropical truth(s) : the epistemology of metaphor and other tropes
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Metaphor, Simile and Truth; Metaphor, empiricism and truth: A fresh look at seventeenth-century theories of figurative language; Metaphor and truth in Rationalism and Romanticism; Persuasion: between trope and truth; Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth; Truth, metaphor and counterfactual meaning; 'Metaphorical' truth conditions, context, and discourse; Metaphorical modes of perception and scanning. …”
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Reflections on the Marxist theory of history
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Key Ideas in Educational Research.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…30 Diaries31 Discourse; 32 Dissemination; 33 Distribution; 34 Documentary Research; 35 Emotionalism; 36 Empiricism; 37 Empowerment; 38 Epistemology/Ontology; 39 Ethics; 40 Ethnography; 41 Ethnomethodology; 42 Evaluation; 43 Evidence-based Practice; 44 Experiment; 45 Fallacies; 46 Fallibility; 47 Feminist Research; 48 Focus Groups; 49 Gender; 50 Generalization; 51 Grounded Theory; 52 Hermeneutics; 53 Historical Research; 54 Ideal Speech Situation; 55 Induction; 5.…”
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Reflections on the Marxist theory of history
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Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Math and Logic.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Apriority and Application: Philosophy of Mathematics in the Modern Period""; ""3. Later Empiricism and Logical Positivism""; ""4. Wittgenstein on Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics""; ""5. …”
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Towards a Romantic Conception of Nature : a Study in the History of Ideas.
Published 1984Table of Contents: “…Chapter vii. a brief survey of continental ideas on man andnaturechapter viii. a movement away from empiricism, towards the 'one life' idea: 1799-1803; chapter ix. the 'one life' and alienation: 'dejection: an ode'; chapter x. …”
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New essays on the a priori
Published 2000Table of Contents: “…. -- Frege on apriority / Tyler Burge. -- Rationalism, empiricism, and the A Priori / Quassim Cassam. -- A priori knowledge revisited / Philip Kitcher. -- Naturalism and the A Priori / Penelope Maddy. -- Apriority as an evaluative notion / Hartry Field. -- Stipulation, meaning, and apriority / Paul Horwich. -- A priori rules: Wittgenstein on the normativity of logic / Peter Railton. -- Apriority and existence / Stephen Yablo. -- Knowledge of logic / Paul Boghossian. -- Explaining the A Priori: the programme of moderate rationalism / Christopher Peacocke. -- Implicit definition and the A priori / Bob Hale and Crispin Wright. …”
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Evolved morality : the biology and philosophy of human conscience
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Evolved morality: The biology and philosophy of human conscience; Section 1: Evolution; Introduction; A history of the altruism-morality debate in biology; The moral consequences of social selection; Natural normativity: The `is' and `ought' of animal behavior; Section 2: Meta-ethics; Introduction; Empiricism and normative ethics: What do the biology and the psychology of morality have to do with ethics?…”
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Merleau-Ponty.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Phenomenology; Introducing Merleau-Ponty; The turn to phenomenology; The phenomenological reduction; What Merleau-Ponty means by 'phenomenolgy'; 2 Perception; Empiricism; 'Intellectualism'; Phenomenology and the unity of the experienced world; 3 Embodiment; The roots of objectivism; The limits of objectivism; The body as subject; 4 Behaviour; Reductionism; Against 'causal thinking'; 5 Being Human; Science and humanity; Heidegger and Sartre; Back to Merleau-Ponty; 6 Time; Space and time in nature; Human time; Becoming me; Merleau-Ponty and Freud.…”
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Worldly Provincialism : German Anthropology In The Age Of Empire.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Glenn Penny; Coming of Age in the Pacific: German Ethnography from Chamisso to Krämer / Harry Liebersohn; Völkerpsychologie and German-Jewish Emancipation / Matti Bunzl; Bastian's Museum: On the Limits of Empiricism and the Transformation of German Ethnology / H. …”
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The invention of northern aesthetics in 18th-century English literature
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter One; 1.1 Innatism vs. Empiricism; 1.2 The Dismantling of the Genius Theory; Chapter Two; 2.1 Addison and The Pleasures of the Imagination; 2.2 The Fairy Way of Writing; 2.3 Shakespeare's Fairy Way of Writing; Chapter Three; 3.1 The 'Invention' of Northern Aesthetics; 3.2 The Climate Hypothesis; 3.3 Northern vs. …”
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The architecture of cognition : rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn's systematicity challenge
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…-- 5 Systematicity in the Lexicon: On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too -- 6 Getting Real about Systematicity -- 7 Systematicity and the Need for Encapsulated Representations -- 8 How Limited Systematicity Emerges: A Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Approach -- 9 A Category Theory Explanation for Systematicity: Universal Constructions -- III -- 10 Systematicity and Architectural Pluralism -- 11 Systematicity Laws and Explanatory Structures in the Extended Mind -- 12 Systematicity and Conceptual Pluralism -- 13 Neo-Empiricism and the Structure of Thoughts -- IV -- 14 Systematicity and Interaction Dominance -- 15 From Systematicity to Interactive Regularities: Grounding Cognition at the Sensorimotor Level -- 16 The Emergence of Systematicity in Minimally Cognitive Agents -- 17 Order and Disorders in the Form of Thought: The Dynamics of Systematicity -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Perspectives on multimodality
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…In between modes : language and image in printed media / Hartmut Stöckl -- Modelling multiple semiotic systems : the case of gesture and speech / Peter Muntigl -- Problematising 'semiotic resource' / Victor Lim Fei -- Multimodality and empiricism : preparing for a corpus-based approach to the study of multimodal meaning-making / John Bateman, Judy Delin and Renate Henschel -- On the effectiveness of mathematics / Kay L. …”
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