wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays - stan bdb 9780226311364
ISBN: A780226311364 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. |
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98,70 zł |
Defending Science-Within Reason: Between Scientism And Cynicism
ISBN: 9781591024583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Illustrated with examples from the history of science, this book offers a different approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in society. It argues that, fallible and flawed as they are, the natural sciences have been among the most successful of human enterprises.
Illustrated with examples from the history of science, this book offers a different approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and metho...
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87,32 zł |
Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life
ISBN: 9781616144937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world issues. Susan Haack's keen analytical skills and well-chosen illustrations illuminate a diverse range of cultural questions; and her direct style and wry sense of humor make complex ideas and subtle distinctions accessible to serious readers whatever their discipline or particular interests. "Putting Philosophy to Work" will appeal not only to philosophers but also to thoughtful scientists, economists, legal thinkers, historians, literary...
This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world ...
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100,46 zł |
Philosophy of Logics
ISBN: 9780521293297 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its accessibility, clarity, conciseness, orderliness, and range as well as for its thorough scholarship and careful analyses. Haack discusses the scope and purpose of logic, validity, truth-functions, quantification and ontology, names, descriptions, truth, truth-bearers, the set-theoretical and semantic paradoxes, and modality. She also explores the motivations for a whole range of nonclassical systems of...
The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's book has established an international reputation (...
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134,75 zł |
Evidence Matters: Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law
ISBN: 9781107698345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which cases sometimes turn? How are they to distinguish reliable scientific testimony from unreliable hokum? These interdisciplinary essays explore such questions about science, proof, and truth in the...
Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of ev...
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174,29 zł |
Defending Science-Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism
ISBN: 9781591021179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Haack (arts and sciences, philosophy, and law, U. of Miami) defends science to explain the nature of the world, but in only quite a modest, qualified way, and from the perspective of a more general understanding of human cognitive capacities and limitations. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland,
Haack (arts and sciences, philosophy, and law, U. of Miami) defends science to explain the nature of the world, but in only quite a modest, qualified ...
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126,63 zł |
Evidence and Inquiry: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Epistemology
ISBN: 9781591026891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Described by Hilary Putnam as -both a fine introduction and a significant contribution-
to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as -at once comprehensive ... and judicious, - Evidence and Inquiry is unique both in its scope and in its originality. C. I. Lewis's foundationalism, BonJour's and Davidson's coherentism, Popper's critical rationalism, Quine's naturalism, and Rorty's, Stich's, and Churchland's anti-epistemological neopragmatism all come under Haack's uniquely thorough critical scrutiny. Core epistemological questions about the nature of belief, the character and structure of... Described by Hilary Putnam as -both a fine introduction and a significant contribution-
to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as -at once compre... |
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95,88 zł |
Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays
ISBN: 9780226311371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Forthright and wryly humorous, philosopher Susan Haack deploys her penetrating analytic skills on some of the most highly charged cultural and social debates of recent years. Relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, affirmative action, pragmatisms old and new, science, literature, the future of the academy and of philosophy itself all come under her keen scrutiny in "Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate."
"The virtue of Haack's book, and I mean "virtue" in the ethical sense, is that it embodies the attitude that it exalts. . . Haack's voice is urbane, sensible, passionate the voice of... Forthright and wryly humorous, philosopher Susan Haack deploys her penetrating analytic skills on some of the most highly charged cultural and social ...
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115,32 zł |
Evidence Matters: Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law
ISBN: 9781107039964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which cases sometimes turn? How are they to distinguish reliable scientific testimony from unreliable hokum? These interdisciplinary essays explore such questions about science, proof, and truth in the...
Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of ev...
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376,98 zł |
Evidence Inquiry
ISBN: 9780631196792 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this important new work, Haack develops an original theory of empirical evidence or justification, and argues its appropriateness to the goals of inquiry. In so doing, Haack provides detailed critical case studies of Lewis's foundationalism; Davidson's and Bonjour's coherentism; Popper's 'epistemology without a knowing subject'; Quine's naturalism; Goldman's reliabilism; and Rorty's, Stich's, and the Churchlands' recent obituaries of epistemology.
In this important new work, Haack develops an original theory of empirical evidence or justification, and argues its appropriateness to the goals of i...
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180,95 zł |
Fred, der Apfel
ISBN: 9798468441664 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,75 zł |