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Kantian Conceptual Geography

By: Nathaniel Jason Goldberg

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This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography. It explores issues in analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics in particular by appealing to theses drawn from Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Those issues include the nature of the subjective, objective, and empirical; potential scopes of the subjective; what can (and cannot) be said about a subject-independent reality; analyticity, syntheticity, apriority, and aposteriority; constitutive principles, acquisitive principles, and empirical claims; meaning, indeterminacy, and incommensurability; logically possible versus subjectively empirical worlds; and the nature of empirical truth. Part One introduces two theses drawn from the Critique. The first, Empirical Dualism, concerns the subjective, objective, and empirical. The second, Subjective Principlism, concerns principles that might bear on the empirical. Part Two examines work of influential analytic philosophers to reveal how conceptually expansive the territory formed by Empirical Dualism and Subjective Principlism is. Part Three defends that territory by defending Empirical Dualism and Subjective Principlism themselves. Part Four discloses two new lands within the territory that have so far remained uncharted. The first is a Kantian account of meaning, which is shown to be superior to other accounts of meaning in the analytic literature. The second are Kantian thoughts on truth, which illuminate the nature of empirical truth itself. Finally Part Five shows how engaging in Kantian conceptual geography enriches epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics generally.

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0190215380

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Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, and Putnam Counties

By: Jason Duke

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Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, and Putnam Counties

By: Jason Duke

Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton & Putnam is a fascinating look back at life in the early 1900s in four counties of the northern Cumberland Plateau area of Tennessee. Featured inside is a wealth of old photographs--more than 200 in the book's 120 oversize glossy pages--maps, and descriptions. Emphasis is placed primarily on the coal camps such as Wilder in Fentress County, with great detail concerning the railroads that served the coal mining communities.

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132

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Turner Publishing Company

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1563119323

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9781563119323

Rebel Bulldog

The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War

By: Jason Lantzer

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Rebel Bulldog

The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War

By: Jason Lantzer

Rebel Bulldog tells the story of Preston Davidson, a Northerner who fought for the Confederacy, and his family who lived in Indiana and Virginia. It is a story that examines antebellum religion, education, reform, and politics, and how they affected the identity of not just one young man, but of a nation caught up in a civil war. Furthermore, it discusses how a native-born Hoosier reached the decision to fight for the South, while detailing a unique war experience and the postwar life of a proud Rebel who returned to the North after the guns fell silent and tried to remake his life in a very different state and nation than the ones he had left in 1860. Using the lives of Preston and his family as a lens to help us glimpse the past, Rebel Bulldog delves into the human experience on multiple levels, asks us to reconsider what we think we know of the Civil War, and complicates, while it complements the existing literature. It is a story that perhaps could only have happened in Indiana.

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Indiana Historical Society

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0871954214

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9780871954213

Translational Research and Discovery in Gastroenterology

Organogenesis to Disease

By: Deborah L. Gumucio,Linda C. Samuelson,Jason R. Spence

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Translational Research and Discovery in Gastroenterology

Organogenesis to Disease

By: Deborah L. Gumucio,Linda C. Samuelson,Jason R. Spence

Translational Gastroenterology: Organogenesis to Disease bridges the gap between basic and clinical research by providing information on GI (gastrointestinal) organ development discovered through scientific inquiry, alongside clinical observations of acquired and congenital abnormalities. Paired chapters, written from basic science and clinical viewpoints, review the major biological pathways and molecules at work in organ ontogeny and disease. In addition to a comprehensive survey of GI organ development and pathologies, the book also highlights model organisms and new areas of research, with chapters devoted to recent advances in the field of GI stem cell biology, and the potential for tissue engineering of GI organs. The topics covered provide a unique window onto current activity in the field of gastroenterology, fostering enhanced knowledge for developmental biologists as well as for clinical practitioners. Notable features include the following: • Basic science chapters review the molecular and cellular pathways of GI organ development alongside clinical chapters examining organ-based diseases, closing the gap between the bench and the clinic. • Derivative organs – esophagus, stomach, pylorus, small intestine, colon, liver, and pancreas –as well as tissues such as serosa and enteric nervous system that are common to multiple GI organs. • Chapters detailing the use of model organisms – Drosophila, sea urchin, zebrafish, C. elegans, Xenopus – for basic discovery studies are included. • Chapters on GI stem cells and the potential for tissue engineering of the GI organs provide a view to the future of research and therapy in these organs.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118492854

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Ethics Under Capital

MacIntyre, Communication, and the Culture Wars

By: Jason Hannan

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Ethics Under Capital

MacIntyre, Communication, and the Culture Wars

By: Jason Hannan

We in the West are living in the midst of a deadly culture war. Our rival worldviews clash with increasing violence in the public arena, culminating in deadly riots and mass shootings. A fragmented left now confronts a resurgent and reactionary right, which threatens to reverse decades of social progress. Commentators have declared that we live in a “post-truth world,” one dominated by online trolls and conspiracy theorists. How did we arrive at this cultural crisis? How do we respond? This book speaks to this critical moment through a new reading of the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre. Over thirty years ago, MacIntyre predicted the coming of a new Dark Ages. The premise of this book is that MacIntyre was right all along. It presents his diagnosis of our cultural crisis. It further presents his answer to the challenge of public reasoning without foundations. Pitting him against John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, and Chantal Mouffe, Ethics Under Capital argues that MacIntyre offers hope for a critical democratic politics in the face of the culture wars.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350080594

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9781350080591

The Switch

An Off and On History of Digital Humans

By: Jason Puskar

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The Switch

An Off and On History of Digital Humans

By: Jason Puskar

From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency The Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. By chronicling the rapid growth of binary switching since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar contends that there is no human activity as common today as pushing a button or flipping a switch—the deceptively simple act of turning something on or off. More than a technical history, The Switch offers a cultural and political analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives has profoundly reshaped modern society. Analyzing this history, Puskar charts the rapid shift from analog to digital across a range of devices—keyboards, cameras, guns, light switches, computers, game controls, even the “nuclear button”—to understand how nineteenth-century techniques continue to influence today’s pervasive digital technologies. In contexts that include musical performance, finger counting, machine writing, voting methods, and immersive play, Puskar shows how the switch to switching led to radically new forms of action and thought. The innovative analysis in The Switch makes clear that binary inputs have altered human agency by making choice instantaneous, effort minimal, and effects more far-reaching than ever. In the process, it concludes, switching also fosters forms of individualism that, though empowering for many, also preserve a legacy of inequality and even domination.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452970335

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9781452970332

The Facts in Logical Space

A Tractarian Ontology

By: Jason Turner

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The Facts in Logical Space

A Tractarian Ontology

By: Jason Turner

Philosophers have long been tempted by the idea that objects and properties are abstractions from the facts. But how is this abstraction supposed to go? If the objects and properties aren't 'already' there, how do the facts give rise to them? Jason Turner develops and defends a novel answer to this question: The facts are arranged in a quasi-geometric 'logical space', and objects and properties arise from different quasi-geometric structures in this space.

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375

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Oxford University Press

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019968281X

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9780199682812

Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes

A Return to a Sartrean View

By: Jason Kido Lopez

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Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes

A Return to a Sartrean View

By: Jason Kido Lopez

The contemporary literature on self-deception was born out of Jean-Paul Sartre’s work on bad faith—lying to oneself. As time has progressed, the conception of self-deception has moved further and further away from Sartre’s conception of bad faith. In Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes: A Return to a Sartrean View, Jason Kido Lopez argues that this departure is a mistake and that we should return to thinking about self-deception in a Sartrean fashion, in which we are self-deceived when we intentionally use the strategies and methods of interpersonal deception on ourselves. Since literally tricking ourselves cannot work—we will always see through our own self-deception, after all—self-deception merely consists of the attempt to trick ourselves in this way. Other scholars have rejected this notion of self-deception historically, dismissing it as paradoxical. Lopez argues first that it isn’t paradoxical, and he further suggests that moving away from this notion of self-deception has caused the contemporary literature on the topic to be littered with disparate and conflicting theories. Indeed, there are a great many ways to avoid the allegedly paradoxical Sartrean notion of self-deception, and the resulting plethora of accounts lead to a fragmented picture of self-deception. If, however, the Sartrean view isn’t paradoxical, then there was no need for the host of contradictory theories and most researchers on self-deception have missed what was originally so intriguing about self-deception: that it, like bad faith, is the process of literally trying to trick oneself into believing what is false or unwarranted. Self-Deception’s Puzzles and Processes will be of great interest to students and scholars of epistemology, philosophy of mind, psychology, and continental philosophy, and to anyone else interested in the problems of self-deception.

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Lexington Books

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0739179918

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9780739179918

Sport, Physical Activity, and Anti-Colonial Autoethnography

Stories and Ways of Being

By: Jason Laurendeau

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Sport, Physical Activity, and Anti-Colonial Autoethnography

Stories and Ways of Being

By: Jason Laurendeau

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explicit call for anti-colonial approaches – challenging scholars of physical culture to interrogate and write against the colonial assumptions at work in so many physical cultural and academic spaces. It presents examples of autoethnographic work that interrogate physical cultural practices as both produced by, and generative of, settler-colonial logics and structures, including research into outdoor recreation, youth sport experiences, and sport spectatorship. It situates this work in the context of key paradigmatic issues in social scientific research, including ontology, epistemology, axiology, ethics, and praxis, and looks ahead at the shape that social relations might take beyond settler colonialism. Drawing on cutting-edge research and presenting innovative theoretical perspectives, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in physical cultural studies, sport studies, outdoor studies, sociology, cultural studies, or qualitative research methods in the social sciences.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000855805

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9781000855807

Documenting United States History

Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP* Course

By: Jason Stacy,Stephen Heller

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Documenting United States History

Themes, Concepts, and Skills for the AP* Course

By: Jason Stacy,Stephen Heller

Authored by experienced AP® teachers, workshop leaders, and AP® exam readers, this document reader is the perfect resource for your redesigned AP® classroom. The 22 chapters follow the nine periods of U.S. History as defined in the new framework. Within each period and chapter, pedagogical tools scaffold students’ development of the historical thinking skills as are central to the course and the exam. Key concepts are illustrated by primary documents and secondary sources including written texts, drawings, photographs, maps, and charts.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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131902145X

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9781319021450

Searching for the Perfect Beat

Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene

By: Joel T. Jordan,Summer Forest Hoeckel,Jason A. Jordan

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Searching for the Perfect Beat

Flyer Designs of the American Rave Scene

By: Joel T. Jordan,Summer Forest Hoeckel,Jason A. Jordan

The distinctive visual style of the American techno scene is featured in this source-book showing the best examples of club flyers created to promote rave events.

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182

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0823047512

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9780823047512

Java Servlet Programming

By: Jason Hunter,William Crawford

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Java Servlet Programming

By: Jason Hunter,William Crawford

Java servlets offer a fast, powerful, portable replacement for CGI scripts. This book covers everything one needs to write effective servlets. Topics include serving dynamic Web content, maintaining state information, session tracking, database connectivity using JDBC, and applet-servlet communication.

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O'Reilly Media

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156592391X

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Kantian Conceptual Geography

Kantian Conceptual Geography

Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, and Putnam Counties

Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, and Putnam Counties

Rebel Bulldog

Rebel Bulldog

Translational Research and Discovery in Gastroenterology

Translational Research and Discovery in Gastroenterology

Ethics Under Capital

Ethics Under Capital

The Switch

The Switch

The Facts in Logical Space

The Facts in Logical Space

Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes

Self-Deception's Puzzles and Processes

Sport, Physical Activity, and Anti-Colonial Autoethnography

Sport, Physical Activity, and Anti-Colonial Autoethnography

Documenting United States History

Documenting United States History

Searching for the Perfect Beat

Searching for the Perfect Beat

Java Servlet Programming

Java Servlet Programming

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