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Aristotle on Inquiry

Erotetic Frameworks and Domain Specific Norms

By: James G. Lennox

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Aristotle on Inquiry

Erotetic Frameworks and Domain Specific Norms

By: James G. Lennox

Argues that, for Aristotle, scientific inquiry is governed both by a domain-neutral erotetic framework and by domain-specific norms.

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0521193974

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Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology

Studies in the Origins of Life Science

By: James G. Lennox

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Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology

Studies in the Origins of Life Science

By: James G. Lennox

In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own special concepts and principles. This book focuses on a seminal event in the history of biology - Aristotle's delineation of a special branch of theoretical knowledge devoted to the systematic investigation of animals. Aristotle approached the creation of zoology with the tools of subtle and systematic philosophies of nature and of science that were then carefully tailored to the investigation of animals. The papers collected in this 2001 volume, written by a pre-eminent figure in the field of Aristotle's philosophy and biology, examine Aristotle's approach to biological inquiry and explanation, his concepts of matter, form and kind, and his teleology.

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350

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0521659760

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9780521659765

Acceptable Premises

An Epistemic Approach to an Informal Logic Problem

By: James B. Freeman

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Acceptable Premises

An Epistemic Approach to an Informal Logic Problem

By: James B. Freeman

When, if ever, is one justified in accepting the premises of an argument? What is the proper criterion of premise acceptability? Can the criterion be theoretically or philosophically justified? This is the first book to provide a comprehensive theory of premise acceptability and it answers the questions above from an epistemological approach that the author calls common sense foundationalism. It will be eagerly sought out not just by specialists in informal logic, critical thinking, and argumentation theory but also by a broader range of philosophers and those teaching rhetoric.

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1139442430

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Points in the Law of Discovery

By: James Wigram

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Points in the Law of Discovery

By: James Wigram

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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434

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3368748785

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The Man in the Brown Suit

MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin

By: James Parris

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The Man in the Brown Suit

MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin

By: James Parris

On 16 July 1936 a man in a brown suit stepped from the crowd on London's Constitution Hill and pointed a loaded revolver at King Edward VIII as he rode past. The monarch was moments from death. But MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch had known for three months an attack was planned: the man in the brown suit himself had warned them. This mysterious man, lost to history, was George McMahon, a petty criminal with a record of involvement with the police. He was also an MI5 informant, providing intelligence on Italian and possibly German espionage in Britain. Dismissed by the rest of the world as a drunken loser and fantasist, he saw his life as an epic drama. Why did MI5 and the police fail to act? Was it a simple blunder on the part of the security services, or was something far more sinister involved? In this first full-length study of the threat to the life of Edward VIII, James Parris uses material from MI5 and police files at the National Archives to reach explosive conclusions about the British Establishment's determination to remove Edward from the throne.

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305

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The History Press

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0750993553

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9780750993555

The Astrologer

How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

By: James Parris

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The Astrologer

How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

By: James Parris

In the darkest days of the Second World War, with Europe falling under German occupation and Britain facing invasion, a 36-year-old refugee from the Nazis, Louis de Wohl, made a curious offer to British Intelligence. Based on the widely-held belief that Hitler's every action was guided by his horoscope, de Wohl claimed he could reveal precisely what advice the Fuhrer's astrologers were giving him. Rather than being dismissed out of hand as a crank, Churchill could see de Wohl's worth for himself. He was subsequently made an army captain and quartered in the Grosvenor House Hotel, from where he passed detailed astrological readings to the War Office and Naval Intelligence, before being transferred to work for the SOE in the United States. Was it possible that senior military and naval intelligence officers could take the ancient and arcane practice of astrology seriously? And was de Wohl genuine or merely a charlatan? In The Astrologer, author James Parris examines the evidence, including recently released files, and reaches remarkable conclusions about this bizarre aspect of the war.

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0750997796

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Aristotle on Inquiry

Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms

By: James G. Lennox

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Aristotle on Inquiry

Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms

By: James G. Lennox

Aristotle is a rarity in the history of philosophy and science - he is a towering figure in the history of both disciplines. Moreover, he devoted a great deal of philosophical attention to the nature of scientific knowledge. How then do his philosophical reflections on scientific knowledge impact his actual scientific inquiries? In this book James Lennox sets out to answer this question. He argues that Aristotle has a richly normative view of scientific inquiry, and that those norms are of two kinds: a general, question-guided framework applicable to all scientific inquiries, and domain-specific norms reflecting differences in the target of inquiry and in the means of observation available to researchers. To see these norms of inquiry in action, the second half of this book examines Aristotle's investigations of animals, the soul, material compounds, the motions of heavenly bodies, and respiration.

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1009038184

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Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology

Studies in the Origins of Life Science

By: James G. Lennox

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Studies in the Origins of Life Science

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