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Should Race Matter?

Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions

By: David Boonin

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Should Race Matter?

Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions

By: David Boonin

In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech restrictions, hate crime laws and racial profiling. Arguing from premises that virtually everyone on both sides of the debates over these issues already accepts, Boonin arrives at an unusual and unorthodox set of conclusions, one that is neither liberal nor conservative, color conscious nor color blind. Defended with the rigor that has characterized his previous work but written in a more widely accessible style, this provocative and important new book is sure to spark controversy and should be of interest to philosophers, legal theorists and anyone interested in trying to resolve the debate over these important and divisive issues.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139500309

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The Political Theory of The Federalist

By: David F. Epstein

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The Political Theory of The Federalist

By: David F. Epstein

In The Political Theory of “The Federalist,” David F. Epstein offers a guide to the fundamental principles of American government as they were understood by the framers of the Constitution. Epstein here demonstrates the remarkable depth and clarity of The Federalist’s argument, reveals its specifically political (not merely economic) view of human nature, and describes how and why the American regime combines liberal and republican values. “While it is a model of scholarly care and clarity, this study deserves an audience outside the academy. . . . David F. Epstein’s book is a fine demonstration of just how much a close reading can accomplish, free of any flights of theory or fancy references.”—New Republic “Epstein’s strength lies in two aspects of his own approach. One is that he reads the text with uncommon closeness and sensitivity; the other is an extensive knowledge of the European political thought which itself forms an indispensable background to the minds of the authors.”—Times Literary Supplement

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University of Chicago Press

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0226213013

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Introduction to Critical Theory

Horkheimer to Habermas

By: David Held

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Introduction to Critical Theory

Horkheimer to Habermas

By: David Held

Mandy is bewildered by the unhappy reaction of some of her Cherokee friends to her discovery of gold inside a cave and her Christian values are tested by a troublesome Cherokee cousin.

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0520041755

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Fundamentals of Information Systems Security

Print Bundle

By: David Kim,Michael G. Solomon

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Fundamentals of Information Systems Security

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By: David Kim,Michael G. Solomon

Revised and updated with the latest data in the field, Fundamentals of Information Systems Security, Third Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the essential concepts readers must know as they pursue careers in information systems security. The text opens with a discussion of the new risks, threats, and vulnerabilities associated with the transition to a digital world. Part 2 presents a high level overview of the Security+ Exam and provides students with information as they move toward this certification.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284128237

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Unnatural Law

Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy

By: David R. Boyd

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Unnatural Law

Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy

By: David R. Boyd

While governments assert that Canada is a world leader in sustainability, Unnatural Law provides extensive evidence to refute this claim. A comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law, the book provides a balanced, critical examination of Canada's record, focusing on laws and policies intended to protect water, air, land, and biodiversity. Three decades of environmental laws have produced progress in a number of important areas, such as ozone depletion, protected areas, and some kinds of air and water pollution. However, Canada's overall record remains poor. In this vital and timely study, David Boyd explores the reasons why some laws and policies foster progress while others fail. He ultimately concludes that the root cause of environmental degradation in industrialized nations is excessive consumption of resources. Unnatural Law outlines the innovative changes in laws and policies that Canada must implement in order to respond to the ecological imperative of living within the Earth's limits. The struggle for a sustainable future is one of the most daunting challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Everyone - academics, lawyers, students, policy-makers, and concerned citizens - interested in the health of the Canadian and global environments will find Unnatural Law an invaluable source of information and insight. For more information on Unnatural Law visit David Boyd's site, www.unnaturallaw.com.

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UBC Press

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Constructing the World

By: David J. Chalmers

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Constructing the World

By: David J. Chalmers

David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He returns to Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same, and adopts the idea of scrutability—according to which reasoning from a limited class of basic truths yields all truths about the world—to address central themes in philosophy.

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Oxford University Press

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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

By: David Bohm

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Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

By: David Bohm

In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of extending the theory into new directions.

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The Moon

Resources, Future Development and Settlement

By: David Schrunk,Burton Sharpe,Bonnie L. Cooper,Madhu Thangavelu

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The Moon

Resources, Future Development and Settlement

By: David Schrunk,Burton Sharpe,Bonnie L. Cooper,Madhu Thangavelu

This extraordinary book details how the Moon could be used as a springboard for Solar System exploration. It presents a realistic plan for placing and servicing telescopes on the Moon, and highlights the use of the Moon as a base for an early warning system from which to combat threats of near-Earth objects. A realistic vision of human development and settlement of the Moon over the next one hundred years is presented, and the author explains how global living standards for the Earth can be enhanced through the use of lunar-based generated solar power. From that beginning, the people of the Earth would evolve into a spacefaring civilisation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387739823

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Theory and Application of Morphological Analysis

Fine Particles and Surfaces

By: David W. Luerkens

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Theory and Application of Morphological Analysis

Fine Particles and Surfaces

By: David W. Luerkens

This book is one in a series dedicated to fine particle science and technology. Topics covered in the book include the role of definitions, concepts, hypothesis, and laws; morphological analysis of fine particles and surfaces; analytical three-dimensional representations of particle and surface morphologies; the problem of invariance with respect to rotational transformations, as well as transformations characterized by reflection and inversion; matrix mechanics of particle characterization; and general applications of morphological analysis in other areas of science.

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0849367778

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Counterfactuals

By: David Lewis

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Counterfactuals

By: David Lewis

Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118696417

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The Cage

Must, Should, and Ought from Is

By: David Weissman

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The Cage

Must, Should, and Ought from Is

By: David Weissman

Hume argued that is does not entail ought; that we cannot infer necessity or obligation from any description of actual states of affairs. His philosophical heirs continue to argue that nothing outside ourselves constrains us. The Cage maintains, contrary to Humean tradition, that reality is a set of nested contexts, each distinguished by intrinsic norms. Author David Weissman offers an innovative exploration of these norms intrinsic to human life, including practical affairs, morals, aesthetics, and culture. In this critical examination of character formation and the conditions for freedom, Weissman suggests that eliminating context (because of regarding it as an impediment to freedom) impoverishes character and reduces freedom. He concludes that positive freedom—the freedom to choose and to act—has no leverage apart from the contexts where character forms and circumstances provide opportunities to express one's thoughts, tastes, or talents.

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The Conscious Mind

In Search of a Fundamental Theory

By: David J. Chalmers

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The Conscious Mind

In Search of a Fundamental Theory

By: David J. Chalmers

Writing in a rigorous, thought-provoking style, the author takes us on a far-reaching tour through the philosophical ramifications of consciousness, offering provocative insights into the relationship between mind and brain.

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0195117891

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Public Space and Political Experience

An Arendtian Interpretation

By: David Antonini

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Public Space and Political Experience

An Arendtian Interpretation

By: David Antonini

Contemporary politics is dominated by discussions of rights and liberties as the proper subjects about which citizens should be concerned in the political sphere. In Public Space and Political Experience: An Arendtian Interpretation, David Antonini argues that Hannah Arendt conceived of politics differently and that her thought can help us retrieve a more authentic sense of politics as the site where citizens can speak and act together about matters of shared concern. Antonini shows that citizens can experience politics together if they approach it not as a realm where privately interested individuals compete for their rights or liberties but instead as a space where plural human beings come together as distinct yet equal creatures. Antonini argues that if we read Arendt as primarily concerned with political experience, we can reimagine common political concepts such as freedom, power, revolution, and civil disobedience. The book posits that politics should be considered a fundamental form of human experience, one rooted in what Arendt refers to as the existential condition of politics—human plurality. If plurality is the existential condition out of which our political life emerges, we can enliven and reimagine the possibilities that political life can provide for contemporary citizens.

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1793626014

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Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law

An Essay on Human Rights and Overcriminalization

By: David Richards

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Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law

An Essay on Human Rights and Overcriminalization

By: David Richards

Among the most commonly argued legal questions are those involving "victimless" crimes--consensual adult sexual relations (including homosexuality and prostitution), the use of drugs, and the right to die. How can they be distinguished from proper crimes, and how can we, as citizens, judge the complex moral and legal issues that such questions entail? David Richards, a teacher of law in the areas of constitutional and criminal law, and a moral and legal philosopher concerned with the investigation of legal concepts, applies an interdisciplinary approach to the question of overcriminalization, he draws on legal and philosophical arguments and links the subject to history, psychology, social science, and literature. To demonstrate how gross and unjust overcriminalization has developed, Professor Richards explores basic assumptions that often underlie the common American sense of proper criminalization.

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The Encyclopedia of American Law

By: David A. Schultz

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The Encyclopedia of American Law

By: David A. Schultz

There's an old saying: Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. Yet for most people

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1438109911

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Platonic Legislations

An Essay on Legal Critique in Ancient Greece

By: David Lloyd Dusenbury

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Platonic Legislations

An Essay on Legal Critique in Ancient Greece

By: David Lloyd Dusenbury

This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became – in the longue durée – its most influential legislator. Making use of a vast scholarly literature, and offering original readings of a number of dialogues, it argues that the need for legal critique and the desire for legal permanence set the long arc of Plato’s corpus—from the Apology to the Laws. Modern philosophers and legal historians have tended to overlook the fact that Plato was the most prolific legislator in ancient Greece. In the pages of his Republic and Laws, he drafted more than 700 statutes. This is more legal material than can be credited to the archetypal Greek legislators—Lycurgus, Draco, and Solon. The status of Plato’s laws is unique, since he composed them for purely hypothetical cities. And remarkably, he introduced this new genre by writing hard-hitting critiques of the Greek ideal of the sovereignty of law. Writing in the milieu in which immutable divine law vied for the first time with volatile democratic law, Plato rejected both sources of law, and sought to derive his laws from what he called ‘political technique’ (politikê technê). At the core of this technique is the question of how the idea of justice relates to legal and institutional change. Filled with sharp observations and bold claims, Platonic Legislations shows that it is possible to see Plato—and our own legal culture—in a new light “In this provocative, intelligent, and elegant work D. L. Dusenbury has posed crucial questions not only as regards Plato’s thought in the making, but also as regards our contemporaneity.”—Giorgio Camassa, University of Udine “There is a tension in Greek law, and in Greek legal thinking, between an understanding of law as unchangeable and authoritative, and a recognition that formal rules are often insufficient for the interpretation of reality, and need to be constantly revised to match it. Dusenbury’s book illuminates the sophistication of Plato’s legal thought in its engagement with this tension, and explores the potential of Plato’s reflection for modern legal theory.”—Mirko Canevaro, The University of Edinburgh

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3319598430

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Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

By: David Gillis

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Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah

By: David Gillis

David Gillis’s highly original study of Maimonides’ Mishneh torah demonstrates that its form reflects a belief that observance of the divine commandments of the Torah brings the individual and society into line with the cosmic order. He shows that the Mishneh torah is intended to be an object of contemplation as well as a prescription for action, with the study of it in itself bringing the reader closer to knowledge of God.

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Liverpool University Press

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1789627796

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Models of Democracy, 3rd Edition

By: David Held

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Models of Democracy, 3rd Edition

By: David Held

Models of Democracy provides a critical reassessment of major theories of democracy from ancient Greece to the present, along with the author's own prescription for revitalizing contemporary democratic politics.

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0804754721

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Feynman's Lost Lecture

The Motion of Planets Around the Sun

By: David L. Goodstein,Judith R. Goodstein

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Feynman's Lost Lecture

The Motion of Planets Around the Sun

By: David L. Goodstein,Judith R. Goodstein

The text and a sound recording of one of Feynman's lectures, is accompanied by a discussion of the lecture and a brief remembrance of the influential physicist.

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0393319954

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Explaining Explanation

By: David-Hillel Ruben

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Explaining Explanation

By: David-Hillel Ruben

This second edition of David-Hillel Ruben's influential and highly acclaimed book on the philosophy of explanation has been revised and expanded, and the author has made substantial changes in light of the extensive reviews the first edition received. Ruben's views on the place of laws in explanation has been refined and clarified. What is perhaps the central thesis of the book, his realist view of explanation, describing the way in which explanation depends on metaphysics, has been updated and extended and engages with some of the work in this area published since the book's first edition.

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1317259912

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The Logic of Leviathan

The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes

By: David P. Gauthier

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The Logic of Leviathan

The Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes

By: David P. Gauthier

Oxford Scholarly Classics brings together a number of great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in a uniform series design, they will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

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Hobbes and Political Contractarianism

Selected Writings

By: David Gauthier

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Hobbes and Political Contractarianism

Selected Writings

By: David Gauthier

This edited text presents a selection of David Gauthier's writings on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and the theory of political contractarianism. The essays cover topics including Hobbes on law, social contract theory, and public reason.

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0192843001

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A Social Ontology

By: David Weissman

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A Social Ontology

By: David Weissman

Moral and social philosophers often assume that humans beings are and ought to be autonomous. This tradition of individualism, or atomism, underlies many of our assumptions about ethics and law; it provides a legitimating framework for liberal democracy and free market capitalism. In this powerful book, David Weissman argues against atomistic ontologies, affirming instead that all of reality is social. Every particular is a system created by the reciprocal causal relations of its parts, he explains. Weissman formulates an original metaphysics of nature that remains true to what is known through the empirical sciences, and he applies his hypothesis to a range of topics in psychology, morals, sociology, and politics. The author contends that systems are sometimes mutually independent, but many systems, and human ones especially, are joined in higher order systems, such as families, friendships, businesses, and states, that are overlapping or nested. Weissman tests this schematic claim with empirical examples in chapters on persons, sociality, and value. He also considers how the scheme applies to particular issues related to deliberation, free speech, conflict, and ecology.

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Yale University Press

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0300079036

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Principles of Real Estate Practice in Nevada

2nd Edition

By: Stephen Mettling,David Cusic,Ryan Mettling,Jane Somers

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Principles of Real Estate Practice in Nevada

2nd Edition

By: Stephen Mettling,David Cusic,Ryan Mettling,Jane Somers

Principles of Real Estate Practice in Nevada contains the essentials of the national and Nevada real estate law, principles, and practices necessary for basic competence as a real estate professional and as mandated by Nevada license law. It is based on our highly successful and popular national publication, Principles of Real Estate Practice, which is in use in real estate schools nationwide. The text is tailored to the needs of the pre-license student. It is designed to make it easy for students to learn the material and pass their real estate exam prepare students for numerous career applications stress practical, rather than theoretical, skills and knowledge. Principles of Real Estate Practice in Nevada is streamlined, direct and to-the-point. It includes multiple learning reinforcements. It has a student-oriented organization, both within each chapter and from chapter to chapter. Its examples and exercises are grounded in the authors' many years in real estate education. Table of Contents The Real Estate Business Rights in Real Estate Interests and Estates Ownership Encumbrances and Liens Transferring and Recording Title to Real Estate Leasing Essentials Land Use Planning and Control Legal Descriptions Fundamentals of Contract Law/li> National Agency Listing Agreements: An Overview General Brokerage Practices Overview of Conveyance Contracts Real Estate Market Economics Appraising and Estimating Market Value Real Estate Finance Real Estate Investment Real Estate Taxation Professional Practices Closings Risk Management Property Management Real Estate Math Nevada License Law Administration Nevada License Requirements Agency in Nevada Brokerage Practices in Nevada Nevada Disclosure Requirements Nevada Real Estate Contracts Other Nevada Practices and Law Glossary of General Real Estate Terms Index For students looking for a Nevada-specific exam prep book; we publish Nevada Real Estate License Exam Prep.

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1955919569

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Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers

By: David S. Sytsma

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Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers

By: David S. Sytsma

Richard Baxter, one of the most famous Puritans of the seventeenth century, is generally known as a writer of practical and devotional literature. But he also excelled in knowledge of medieval and early modern scholastic theology, and was conversant with a wide variety of seventeenth-century philosophies. Baxter was among the early English polemicists who wrote against the mechanical philosophy of René Descartes and Pierre Gassendi in the years immediately following the establishment of the Royal Society. At the same time, he was friends with Robert Boyle and Matthew Hale, corresponded with Joseph Glanvill, and engaged in philosophical controversy with Henry More. In this book, David Sytsma presents a chronological and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-seventeenth-century England. Drawing on largely unexamined works, including Baxter's Methodus Theologiae Christianae (1681) and manuscript treatises and correspondence, Sytsma discusses Baxter's response to mechanical philosophers on the nature of substance, laws of motion, the soul, and ethics. Analysis of these topics is framed by a consideration of the growth of Christian Epicureanism in England, Baxter's overall approach to reason and philosophy, and his attempt to understand creation as an analogical reflection of God's power, wisdom, and goodness, or vestigia Trinitatis. Baxter's views on reason, analogical knowledge of God, and vestigia Trinitatis draw on medieval precedents and directly inform a largely hostile, though partially accommodating, response to mechanical philosophy.

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New York Field Codes 1850-1865

By: New York (State). Commissioners of the Code,David Dudley Field

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New York Field Codes 1850-1865

By: New York (State). Commissioners of the Code,David Dudley Field

Originally published: Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., printers, 1865.

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1886363404

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Philosophical Letters of David K. Lewis

Volume 2: Mind, Language, Epistemology

By: David K. Lewis

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Philosophical Letters of David K. Lewis

Volume 2: Mind, Language, Epistemology

By: David K. Lewis

David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to almost every area of analytic philosophy including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science, and set the agenda for various debates in these areas which carry on to this day. In several respects he remains a contemporary figure, yet enough time has now passed for historians of philosophy to begin to study his place in twentieth century thought. His philosophy was constructed and refined not just through his published writing, but also crucially through his life-long correspondence with fellow philosophers, including leading figures such as D.M. Armstrong, Saul Kripke, W.V. Quine, J.J.C. Smart, and Peter van Inwagen. His letters formed the undercurrent of his published work and became the medium through which he proposed many of his well-known theories and discussed a range of philosophical topics in depth. A selection of his vast correspondence over a 40-year period is presented here across two volumes. Structured in three parts, Volume 2 explores Lewis' contributions to philosophical questions of mind, language, and epistemology respectively. The letters address Lewis's answer to the mind-body problem, propositional attitudes and the purely subjective character of conscious experience, meaning and reference as well as grammar in language, vagueness, truth in fiction, the problem of scepticism, and Lewis's work on decision theory and rationality, among many other topics. This volume is a testament to Lewis' achievement in these areas and will be an invaluable resource for those exploring contemporary debates concerning mind, language, and epistemology.

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0192597876

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Traffic Safety and Human Behavior

By: David Shinar

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Traffic Safety and Human Behavior

By: David Shinar

Describes the basic research procedures used in the area of driving behavior and highway safety.

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Kinship, Law and Politics

An Anatomy of Belonging

By: Joseph E. David

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Kinship, Law and Politics

An Anatomy of Belonging

By: Joseph E. David

Why are we so concerned with belonging? In what ways does our belonging constitute our identity? Is belonging a universal concept or a culturally dependent value? How does belonging situate and motivate us? Joseph E. David grapples with these questions through a genealogical analysis of ideas and concepts of belonging. His book transports readers to crucial historical moments in which perceptions of belonging have been formed, transformed, or dismantled. The cases presented here focus on the pivotal role played by belonging in kinship, law, and political order, stretching across cultural and religious contexts from eleventh-century Mediterranean religious legal debates to twentieth-century statist liberalism in Western societies. With his thorough inquiry into diverse discourses of belonging, David pushes past the politics of belonging and forces us to acknowledge just how wide-ranging and fluid notions of belonging can be.

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1108603572

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New Foundations for Classical Mechanics

By: David Hestenes

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New Foundations for Classical Mechanics

By: David Hestenes

(revised) This is a textbook on classical mechanics at the intermediate level, but its main purpose is to serve as an introduction to a new mathematical language for physics called geometric algebra. Mechanics is most commonly formulated today in terms of the vector algebra developed by the American physicist J. Willard Gibbs, but for some applications of mechanics the algebra of complex numbers is more efficient than vector algebra, while in other applications matrix algebra works better. Geometric algebra integrates all these algebraic systems into a coherent mathematical language which not only retains the advantages of each special algebra but possesses powerful new capabilities. This book covers the fairly standard material for a course on the mechanics of particles and rigid bodies. However, it will be seen that geometric algebra brings new insights into the treatment of nearly every topic and produces simplifications that move the subject quickly to advanced levels. That has made it possible in this book to carry the treatment of two major topics in mechanics well beyond the level of other textbooks. A few words are in order about the unique treatment of these two topics, namely, rotational dynamics and celestial mechanics.

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Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632-1715

By: David William Jordan

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Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632-1715

By: David William Jordan

This book traces the earliest forms of representative government which were found in Maryland.

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052152122X

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Minimum Wages

By: David Neumark,William L. Wascher

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Minimum Wages

By: David Neumark,William L. Wascher

A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.

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MIT Press

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0262141027

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