The Philosophy Of Fire

by R Swinburne (Reuben Swinburn Clymer
The Philosophy Of Fire
Author: R Swinburne (Reuben Swinburn Clymer
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781015618275
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Singing in the Fire

by Linda Martín Alcoff
Singing in the Fire
Author: Linda Martín Alcoff
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2003-10-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1461666252
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This is a unique, groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays by leading women in philosophy. It provides a glimpse at the experiences of the generation that witnessed, and helped create, the remarkable advances now evident for women in the field.

The Philosophy of Fire

by Reuben Swinburne Clymer
The Philosophy of Fire
Author: Reuben Swinburne Clymer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1920
Genre: Occultism
ISBN:
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Elemental Philosophy

by David Macauley
Elemental Philosophy
Author: David Macauley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2010-09-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438432461
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Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the four elements through the history of ideas, Macauley generates a new vocabulary for and a fresh vision of the environment while engaging the elemental world directly with reflections on their various manifestations.

Singing in the Fire

by Faith Cook
Singing in the Fire
Author: Faith Cook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780851516844
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In fourteen short biographies Faith Cook brings home the reality of the faith which carries Christians victoriously through trials.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy

by Eric Bronson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy
Author: Eric Bronson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118132939
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The essential companion to Stieg Larsson's bestselling trilogy and director David Fincher's 2011 film adaptation Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest—is an international phenomenon. These books express Larsson's lifelong war against injustice, his ethical beliefs, and his deep concern for women's rights. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy probes the compelling philosophical issues behind the entire trilogy. What philosophies do Lisbeth Salander and Kant have in common? To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Can revenge be ethical? Drawing on some of history's greatest philosophical minds, this book gives fresh insights into Larsson's ingeniously plotted tale of crime and corruption. Looks at compelling philosophical issues such as a feminist reading of Lisbeth Salander, Aristotelian arguments for why we love revenge, how Kant can explain why so many women sleep with Mikael Blomkvist, and many more Includes a chapter from a colleague of Larsson's—who worked with him in anti-Nazi activities—that explores Larsson's philosophical views on skepticism and quotes from never-before-seen correspondence with Larsson Offers new insights into the novels' key characters, including Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, and investigates the author, Stieg Larsson As engrossing as the quest to free Lisbeth Salander from her past, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy is ideal reading for anyone interested in unraveling the subtext and exploring the greater issues at work in the story.

Boyle on Fire

by William Eaton
Boyle on Fire
Author: William Eaton
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1847144373
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The philosophy of Robert Boyle (1627-1691) is a hot topic in early modern philosophy. Boyle was at the centre of the scientific community of 17th-century England, and an accurate view of the Enlightenment scientific revolution is impossible without recognition of the contributions that he made. Work on Boyle's philosophy is also shedding light on contemporary issues in the philosophy of science - it can help us understand the nature of scientific explanation and the role that the mechanical model of explanation plays in present-day science. Boyle's mechanical philosophy ushered in a new explanatory model for science and even though his corpuscular hypothesis failed, its failure does not entail the failure of the explanatory model of which it was an instance. Boyle on Fire demonstrates these points by examining Boyle's work concerning a method of experiment common in the seventeenth century called Fire Analysis. In the Sceptical Chymist (1661), Boyle attacks elemental theories of chemical explanation primarily by raising objections against Aristotelian and Paracelsian interpretations of fire analysis. The book reconstructs Boyle's corpuscular account of fire analysis and then compares it to these objections. This process reveals those characteristics of mechanical explanations that make them epistemologically superior to elemental theories of chemical explanation, and it is these characteristics that survive the death of the corpuscular hypothesis and have become an enduring feature of the scientific enterprise.

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

by George Lakoff
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Author: George Lakoff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2008-08-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0226471012
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"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."—David E. Leary, American Scientist

Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science

by Michael Martin
Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science
Author: Michael Martin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 818
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780262631518
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the first comprehensive anthology in the philosophy of social science to appear since the late 1960s