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Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives

By: Vincent G. Potter

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Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives

By: Vincent G. Potter

This collection focuses primarily on Peirce’s realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823283127

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9780823283125

Views from the Edge

Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet

By: Richard W. Bulliet,Neguin Yavari,Lawrence G. Potter,Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim

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Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet

By: Richard W. Bulliet,Neguin Yavari,Lawrence G. Potter,Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim

These essays were written by colleagues and former students of Richard Bulliet, the scholar and mentor whose most important contribution remains his extraordinary imagination in the service of history. The hallmark of Views from the Edge, then, is innovative scholarship in all periods of Islamic history. Its authors share a commitment to asking original historiographical questions, with an overall orientation toward issues in social history. articles in the medieval period, including the use of biblical metaphors and the portraiture of a courtesan to competing paradigms of legitimacy in the mid-eighth century. European encounters with Islam in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries and the contemporary practice of horsemanship pertain to the early modern period, while reactions to the Balfour Declaration, Islamism in the early twentieth century, the Middle East in crime fiction, and the use of the pre-Islamic past as nationalist propaganda are among the themes dealing with recent history.

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Columbia University Press

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023113472X

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9780231134729

Charles S. Peirce

On Norms and Ideals

By: Vincent G. Potter

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Charles S. Peirce

On Norms and Ideals

By: Vincent G. Potter

In recent years, Charles Sanders Peirce has emerged, in the eyes of philosophers both in America and abroad, as one of America’s major philosophical thinkers. His work has forced us back to philosophical reflection about those basic issues that inevitably confront us as human beings, especially in an age of science. Peirce’s concern for experience, for what is actually encountered, means that his philosophy, even in its most technical aspects, forms a reflective commentary on actual life and on the world in which it is lived. In Charles S. Peirce: On Norms and Ideals, Potter argues that Peirce’s doctrine of the normative sciences is essential to his pragmatism. No part of Peirce’s philosophy is bolder than his attempt to establish esthetics, ethics, and logic as the three normative sciences and to argue for the priority of esthetics among the trio. Logic, Potter cites, is normative because it governs thought and aims at truth; ethics is normative because it analyzes the ends to which thought should be directed; esthetics is normative and fundamental because it considers what it means to be an end of something good in itself. This study shows that pierce took seriously the trinity of normative sciences and demonstrates that these categories apply both to the conduct of man and to the workings of the cosmos. Professor Potter combines sympathetic and informed exposition with straightforward criticism and he deals in a sensible manner with the gaps and inconsistencies in Peirce’s thought. His study shows that Peirce was above all a cosmological and ontological thinker, one who combined science both as a method and as result with a conception of reasonable actions to form a comprehensive theory of reality. Peirce’s pragmatism, although it has to do with "action and the achievement of results, is not a glorification of action but rather a theory of the dynamic nature of things in which the "ideal" dimension of reality – laws, nature of things, tendencies, and ends – has genuine power for directing the cosmic order, including man, toward reasonable goals.

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Fordham Univ Press

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082328283X

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9780823282838

Leadership in Academic Libraries

Proceedings of the W. Porter Kellam Conference, The University of Georgia, May 7, 1991

By: William G Potter

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Leadership in Academic Libraries

Proceedings of the W. Porter Kellam Conference, The University of Georgia, May 7, 1991

By: William G Potter

Here is a fascinating first-hand perspective of the dramatic changes that have occurred in academic library administration over the past five decades. In Leadership in Academic Libraries, distinguished directors of academic and research libraries pay tribute to W. Porter Kellam, Director Emeritus of the University of Georgia, by presenting an overview of the course of academic and research libraries over the span of his 50 year career. Administrative leaders in academic librarianship including Stuart Forth, Richard Chapin, Frank Grisham, and Ken Toombs offer a frank, perceptive, and witty account of the state of library leadership based upon many decades of accumulated experience and hard-earned knowledge. Leadership in Academic Libraries provides valuable insights on library administration, and in particular, on the job of the library director. Readers interested in the history of academic libraries and library administration will gain new insight on the environment in which these leaders worked and how they dealt with university administration and changes in collection development. Chapters also provide advice on how library directors can keep their jobs, and the value of forming professional friendships. Other topics addressed include developments in academic and research libraries over the past five decades in library administration, library services, library architecture, and interlibrary cooperation. An enjoyable autobiographical essay by Mr. Kellam that recounts his long and distinguished career concludes this remarkable volume. Library science students and professionals who wish to become more knowledgeable about the history of academic libraries will cherish the first-hand experiences of library leaders during the richest and most invigorating time in the history of American libraries. Academic librarians and library students researching the job of library director or the recent history of academic libraries will benefit from the experience and wisdom of these leaders in the areas of administration, library architecture, automation, and library cooperation.

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Routledge

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1317939964

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9781317939962

Business in a Virtual World

Exploiting Information for Competitive Advantage

By: Fiona Czerniawska,Gavin Potter

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Exploiting Information for Competitive Advantage

By: Fiona Czerniawska,Gavin Potter

Information represents one of the key competitive weapons of the next decade, whether it takes the form of tracking the shopping habits of individual customers or changing the price of airline tickets minute by minute to take advantage of changes in demand. This book looks at the impact of this information revolution.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0333721217

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