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What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

By: Alessandra Melas,Pietro Salis

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What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

By: Alessandra Melas,Pietro Salis

It is a common opinion that chance events cannot be understood in causal terms. Conversely, according to a causal view of chance, intersections between independent causal chains originate accidental events, called “coincidences”. Firstly, this book explores this causal conception of chance and tries to shed new light on it. Such a view has been defended by authors like Antoine Augustine Cournot and Jacques Monod. Second, a relevant alternative is provided by those accounts that, instead of acknowledging an intersection among causal lines, claim to track coincidences back to some common cause. Third, starting from Herbert Hart and Anthony Honoré’s view of coincidences (Causation in the Law. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959). This book provides a more detailed account of coincidences, according to which coincidental events are hybrids constituted by ontic (physical) components, which is the intersection between independent causal chains, plus epistemic aspects, including but not limited to, access to information, expectations, relevance, significance, desires, which in turn are psychological aspects. The main target of the present work is to show that the epistemic aspects of coincidences are, together with the independence between the intersecting causal chains, a constitutive part of coincidental phenomena. This book aims to introduce and discuss recent work in psychology concerning one’s judgment about coincidences; this data offers further materials and reasons to reflect upon our understanding of coincidences and to refine our hybrid conception.

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Vernon Press

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1648897940

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History of the Kingdom of Naples 1734-1825

Vol. I

By: Pietro Colletta

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History of the Kingdom of Naples 1734-1825

Vol. I

By: Pietro Colletta

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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486

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382336235

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9783382336233

Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy, 8-10 February 2006

By: Pietro Siciliano

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Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy, 8-10 February 2006

By: Pietro Siciliano

This volume presents the new objectives of physics on self-organizing systems composed of multi-components, in order to create a new field and establish universal comprehension in physics. The book covers broad topics such as the thermodynamic time asymmetry in both transient and stationary nonequilibrium states, the seriousness of auxiliary conditions in physicochemical processes and biological systems, the quantum-classical and micro-macro interfaces which are familiar in mesoscopic physics, the purification scheme of quantum entanglement, topics on gamma-ray bursts, and the walking mechanism of single molecular motors.

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407

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World Scientific

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9812793399

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9789812793393

The Dark Places of Business Enterprise

Reinstating Social Costs in Institutional Economics

By: Pietro Frigato,Francisco J. Santos-Arteaga

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The Dark Places of Business Enterprise

Reinstating Social Costs in Institutional Economics

By: Pietro Frigato,Francisco J. Santos-Arteaga

This book considers Thorstein Veblen’s central preoccupation with the dark places of business enterprise, an integral part of the old institutional economics. Combining the contributions made by Karl William Kapp and Philip Mirowski, it proposes the systematization of an adjourned institutional theory of social costs of business enterprise useful for the analysis of contemporary crises. The Dark Places of Business Enterprise explores the research potential of the theory of social costs for the analysis of actual business behavior in the current globalized privatization regime. It begins with a detailed outline of Veblen’s critique of business enterprise and market competition before illustrating the methodical enrichment of this approach through Kapp’s work. Finally, it concludes by proposing the integration of the Veblenian-Kappian approach with Mirowski’s theory of markets and business doubt manufacture. The resulting theory of social costs will shed light on the ubiquitous business control of society under the now dominant computer-based technological infrastructure. This interdisciplinary foundation of the theory of social costs, encompassing knowledge from computer science and engineering to natural sciences, provides the tools required to analyze this great transformation.

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247

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Routledge

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1000006867

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9781000006865

Greek Prepositions

From Antiquity to the Present

By: Pietro Bortone

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Greek Prepositions

From Antiquity to the Present

By: Pietro Bortone

This is the most comprehensive history of the Greek prepositional system ever published. It is set within a broad typological context and examines interrelated syntactic, morphological, and semantic change over three millennia. By including, for the first time, Medieval and Modern Greek, Dr Bortone is able to show how the changes in meaning of Greek prepositions follow a clear and recurring pattern of immense theoretical interest. The author opens the book by discussing the relevant background issues concerning the function, meaning, and genesis of adpositions and cases. He then traces the development of prepositions and case markers in ancient Greek (Homeric and classical, with insights from Linear B and reconstructed Indo-European); Hellenistic Greek, which he examines mainly on the basis of Biblical Greek; Medieval Greek, the least studied but most revealing phase; and Modern Greek, in which he also considers the influence of the learned tradition and neighbouring languages. Written in an accessible and non-specialist style, this book will interest classical philologists, as well as historical linguists and theoretical linguists.

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362

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OUP Oxford

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019157175X

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9780191571756

History of Venice: Books I-IV

By: Pietro Bembo

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History of Venice: Books I-IV

By: Pietro Bembo

Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a Roman Catholic cardinal, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian. The History of Venice was published posthumously, in Latin and in his own Italian version. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.

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Harvard University Press

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0674022831

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9780674022836

History of Venice

By: Pietro Bembo

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History of Venice

By: Pietro Bembo

Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was a celebrated Latin stylist and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love influenced the development of the literary vernacular, as did his Prose della volgar lingua (1525). From 1513 to 1521 he served Pope Leo X as Latin secretary and became known as the leading advocate of Ciceronian Latin in Europe and of the Tuscan dialect within Italy. He was named official historian of Venice in 1529 and began to compose in Latin his continuation of the city's history in twelve books, covering the years from 1487 to 1513. Although the work chronicles internal politics and events, much of it is devoted to the external affairs of Venice, principally conflicts with other European states (France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Milan, and the papacy) and with the Turks in the East.

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Harvard University Press

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067402284X

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9780674022843

What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

By: Alessandra Melas,Pietro Salis

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Book's by Pietro Salis

What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

History of the Kingdom of Naples 1734-1825

History of the Kingdom of Naples 1734-1825

Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy, 8-10 February 2006

Proceedings of the 11th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems, Lecce, Italy, 8-10 February 2006

The Dark Places of Business Enterprise

The Dark Places of Business Enterprise

Greek Prepositions

Greek Prepositions

History of Venice: Books I-IV

History of Venice: Books I-IV

History of Venice

History of Venice

What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

What are Coincidences? A Philosophical Guide Between Science and Common Sense

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