Conquest Of Abundance
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Conquest Of Abundance
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Author : Paul Feyerabend
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-05
Conquest Of Abundance written by Paul Feyerabend and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05 with Philosophy categories.
From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. "This a blessing, not a drawback," he writes. "A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed." This human reduction of experience to a manageable level is the heart of Conquest of Abundance, the book on which Feyerabend was at work when he died in 1994. Prepared from drafts of the manuscript left at his death, working notes, and lectures and articles Feyerabend wrote while the larger work was in progress, Conquest of Abundance offers up rich exploration and startling insights with the charm, lucidity, and sense of mischief that are his hallmarks. Feyerabend is fascinated by how we attempt to explain and predict the mysteries of the natural world, and he looks at the ways in which we abstract experience, explain anomalies, and reduce wonder to formulas and equations. Through his exploration of the positive and negative consequences of these efforts, Feyerabend reveals the "conquest of abundance" as an integral part of the history and character of Western civilization. "Paul Feyerabend . . . was the Norman Mailer of philosophy. . . . brilliant, brave, adventurous, original and quirky."—Richard Rorty, New Republic "As much a smudged icon as a philosophical position holder, [Feyerabend] was alluring and erotic, a torch singer for philosophical anarchy."—Nancy Maull, New York Times Book Review "[A] kind of final testament of Feyerabend's thought . . . Conquest of Abundance is as much the product of a brilliant, scintillating style as of an immense erudition and culture. . . . This book is as abundant and rich as the world it envisions."—Arkady Plotnitsky, Chicago Tribune
La Conquista De La Abundancia
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Author : Paul Feyerabend
language : es
Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS)
Release Date : 2001-01-09
La Conquista De La Abundancia written by Paul Feyerabend and has been published by Grupo Planeta (GBS) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-09 with Philosophy categories.
Este libro es la obra postuma de Feyerabend. Se trata de una serie de ensayos acerca de temas que, sin duda, nos conciernen a todos. Que es la realidad? Por que el arte y la ciencia intentan una y otra vez reflejarla? Por que la adecuacion de nuestros pensamientos a lo real es, desde Grecia hasta el presente, un argumento definitivo en toda disputa filosofica o cientifica? Con su conocido espiritu polemico y su profunda erudicion, Feyerabend reflexiona aqui sobre los pensadores presocraticos, el arte del Renacimiento y la ciencia contemporanea. Se trata, segun el autor, de diferentes capitulos de un relato omniabarcador el de la verdad, lo real y lo verosimil, cuyos origenes se remontan a la antiguedad. Aquiles se presenta aqui como un personaje colerico que refleja con sus pasiones la evolucion de una mentalidad. Las tecnicas de representacion que hicieron posible la perspectiva arrojan luz sobre los enigmas de nuestro conocimiento del mundo. Y la ciencia de nuestro siglo se expone en una brillante comparacion con nuestro pasado mas remoto.
Interpreting Feyerabend
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Author : Karim Bschir
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-18
Interpreting Feyerabend written by Karim Bschir and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-18 with Philosophy categories.
Provides a series of essays interpreting and critically evaluating the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend.
The Conquest Of Bread
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Author : Peter Kropotkin
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-10
The Conquest Of Bread written by Peter Kropotkin and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-10 with Political Science categories.
Written by a Russian prince who renounced his title, this work promotes an anarchist market economy — a system of autonomous cooperative collectives. A century after its initial publication, it remains fresh and relevant.
The Conquest Of Fear
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Author : Basil King
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-05-07
The Conquest Of Fear written by Basil King and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-07 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Reconsideration Of Science And Technology Iii
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Author : Liu Dachun
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Reconsideration Of Science And Technology Iii written by Liu Dachun and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Science categories.
Drawing on debates from traditional and postmodern thoughts on science and technology, the title builds a new theoretical framework to reconsider science and technology, integrating the opposing viewpoints that either justify science or negate it. As the third volume of a three-volume set that proposes to reconsider science and technology and explores how the philosophy of science and technology responds to an ever-changing world, this final volume seeks to restore the cultural implications of science. Across the six chapters, the authors probe the prospect of a pluralistic scientific culture, including discussions of diversified value choices, the tension between reason and unreason, other binary characteristics of scientific knowledge, including objectivity and uniqueness, universality and locality, as well as the loss, awakening and reconstruction of scientific culture. The authors call for a transformation of scientific culture from a dominant culture to an affirmative one and envision a free and open world of science and technology. The volume will appeal to scholars and students interested in the philosophy of science and technology, the ideology of scientism and anti-scientism, modernism and postmodernism, Marxist philosophy and topics related to scientific culture.
Popper And His Popular Critics
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Author : Joseph Agassi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Popper And His Popular Critics written by Joseph Agassi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Philosophy categories.
This volume examines Popper’s philosophy by analyzing the criticism of his most popular critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. They all followed his rejection of the traditional view of science as inductive. Starting from the assumption that Hume’s criticism of induction is valid, the book explores the central criticism and objections that these three critics have raised. Their objections have met with great success, are significant and deserve paraphrase. One also may consider them reasonable protests against Popper’s high standards rather than fundamental criticisms of his philosophy. The book starts out with a preliminary discussion of some central background material and essentials of Popper’s philosophy. It ends with nutshell representations of the philosophies of Popper. Kuhn, Feyerabend and Lakatos. The middle section of the book presents the connection between these philosophers and explains what their central ideas consists of, what the critical arguments are, how they presented them, and how valid they are. In the process, the author claims that Popper's popular critics used against him arguments that he had invented (and answered) without saying so. They differ from him mainly in that they demanded of all criticism that it should be constructive: do not stop believing a refuted theory unless there is a better alternative to it. Popper hardly ever discussed belief, delegating its study to psychology proper; he usually discussed only objective knowledge, knowledge that is public and thus open to public scrutiny.
Two Dimensions Of Meaning
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Author : Andrew Goatly
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Two Dimensions Of Meaning written by Andrew Goatly and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning. It shows how they manifest in oral, literate, print, and internet cultures, in language acquisition, pragmatics, dialogism, classification, the semantics of grammar, literature, and, most centrally, metaphor and metonymy. The book situates these reflections on similarity and contiguity in the interplay of language, cognition, culture, and ideology, and within broader debates around such issues as capitalism, biodiversity, and human control over nature. Positing that while similarity-focused systems can be reductive, and have therefore been contested in social science, philosophy, and poetry, and contiguity-based ones might disregard useful statistical and scientific evidence, Andrew Goatly argues for the need for humans to entertain diverse metaphors, models, and languages as ways of understanding and acting on our world. The volume also considers the cognitive connections between the similarity-contiguity duality and the noun-verb distinction. This innovative volume will appeal to scholars involved in wider debates on meaning, within the fields of cognitive semantics, pragmatics, metaphor and metonymy theory, critical discourse analysis, and the philosophy of language. Equally, the motivated and intelligent general reader, interested in language, philosophy, culture, and ecology, should find the later chapters of the book fascinating, and the earlier technical chapters accessible.
The Tyranny Of Science
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Author : Paul K. Feyerabend
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2011-05-06
The Tyranny Of Science written by Paul K. Feyerabend and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-06 with Social Science categories.
Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In this new book he masterfully weaves together the main elements of his mature philosophy into a gripping tale: the story of the rise of rationalism in Ancient Greece that eventually led to the entrenchment of a mythical ‘scientific worldview’. In this wide-ranging and accessible book Feyerabend challenges some modern myths about science, including the myth that ‘science is successful’. He argues that some very basic assumptions about science are simply false and that substantial parts of scientific ideology were created on the basis of superficial generalizations that led to absurd misconceptions about the nature of human life. Far from solving the pressing problems of our age, such as war and poverty, scientific theorizing glorifies ephemeral generalities, at the cost of confronting the real particulars that make life meaningful. Objectivity and generality are based on abstraction, and as such, they come at a high price. For abstraction drives a wedge between our thoughts and our experience, resulting in the degeneration of both. Theoreticians, as opposed to practitioners, tend to impose a tyranny on the concepts they use, abstracting away from the subjective experience that makes life meaningful. Feyerabend concludes by arguing that practical experience is a better guide to reality than any theory, by itself, ever could be, and he stresses that there is no tyranny that cannot be resisted, even if it is exerted with the best possible intentions. Provocative and iconoclastic, The Tyranny of Science is one of Feyerabend’s last books and one of his best. It will be widely read by everyone interested in the role that science has played, and continues to play, in the shaping of the modern world.
The Oxford Handbook Of New Testament Gender And Sexuality
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Author : Benjamin H. Dunning
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-10
The Oxford Handbook Of New Testament Gender And Sexuality written by Benjamin H. Dunning and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with Bibles categories.
Over several decades, scholarship in New Testament and early Christianity has drawn attention both to the ways in which ancient Mediterranean conceptions of embodiment, sexual difference, and desire were fundamentally different from modern ones and also to important lines of genealogical connection between the past and the present. The result is that the study of "gender" and "sexuality" in early Christianity has become an increasingly complex undertaking. This is a complexity produced not only by the intricacies of conflicting historical data, but also by historicizing approaches that query the very terms of analysis whereby we inquire into these questions in the first place. Yet at the same time, recent work on these topics has produced a rich and nuanced body of scholarly literature that has contributed substantially to our understanding of early Christian history and also proved relevant to ongoing theological and social debates. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament provides a roadmap to this lively scholarly landscape, introducing both students and other scholars to the relevant problems, debates, and issues. Leading scholars in the field offer original contributions by way of synthesis, critical interrogation, and proposals for future questions, hypotheses, and research trajectories.