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Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom

Ebook30.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:45:01 +0100

Thinking about Addiction: Hyperbolic Discounting and Responsible Agency

Ebook30.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:45:02 +0100

Publisher: Rodopi 2009-07-24 | 156 Pages | ISBN: 9042026626 | PDF | 1.8 MB What is addiction? Why do some people become addicted while others do not? Is the addict rational? In this book, Craig Hanson attempts to answer these questions and more. Using insights from the beginnings of philosophy to contemporary behavioral economics, Hanson attempts to assess the variety of ways in which we can and cannot, understand addiction.

Lee Braver, Heidegger's Later Writings: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides)

Ebook30.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:21:02 +0100

Routledge | 2009 | ISBN 0826439675 | 157 Pages | PDF OCR | 4.4 MB This is a Reader's Guide to the most important and influential essays of Heidegger's later work, crucial to an understanding of his philosophy as a whole.Martin Heidegger is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His later writings are profoundly original and innovative, giving rise to much of postmodernist thinking, yet they are infamously difficult to approach.

Michel Foucault, Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984

Ebook30.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:48:02 +0100

Routledge | 1990 | ISBN 0415901499 / 041601951X | 360 Pages | PDF OCR | 5.3 MB Politics, Philosophy, Culturecontains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and the Iranian Revolution.

Thinking Art

Ebook30.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:00:02 +0100

Springer | 2009-10 | ISBN: 1402056370 | 326 pages | PDF | 3,5 MB In the twentieth century, avant-garde movements have pushed the concept of art far beyond its traditional boundaries. In this dynamical process of constant renewal the prestige of thinking about art as a legitimizing practice has come to the fore. So it is hardly surprising that the past decades have been characterized by a revival or even breakthrough of philosophy of art as a discipline.

Knowledge, Reason, and Taste: Kant's Response to Hume

Ebook30.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:18:02 +0100

Princeton University Press | 2008-01-03 | ISBN: 0691134391 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume's doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume's influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant's metaphysics was really motivated by Hume.

Spinoza: A Guide for the Perplexed

Ebook30.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:18:02 +0100

Continuum | 2007-07-23 | ISBN: 0826485952 | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material.

Friends of Interpretable Objects

Ebook30.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:18:02 +0100

Harvard University Press | 2001-11-30 | ISBN: 0674006461 | 208 pages | PDF | 1 MB A strikingly original work, Friends of Interpretable Objects re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the practice, processes, meaning, and uses of interpretation. Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums.

The World of Thought in Ancient China

Ebook30.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:18:02 +0100

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | 1985-03-09 | ISBN: 0674961919 | 490 pages | PDF | 26,4 MB The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them.

Karma Yoga

Ebook30.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:18:03 +0100

Publisher: Kindle | ISBN: N/A | edition 2008 | PDF | 68 pages | 11,2 mb 'Karma Yoga' shows that we can attain the so called self-realization through just sheer hard work. You need not go to the mountains and meditate to attain self-realization, just by proper attitude and hard work one can achieve this. Reading this book alone is not enough, unless one follows what is said in the book, it will be difficult the appreciate the contents.

Nafsika Athanassoulis, Samantha Vice - The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham

Ebook30.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:18:02 +0100

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2008-08-05 | ISBN: 0230527566 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.04 MB Few contemporary philosophers have made as wide-ranging and insightful a contribution to philosophical debate as John Cottingham. This collection brings together friends, colleagues and former students of Cottingham, to discuss major themes of his work on moral philosophy. Presented in three parts the collection focuses on the debate on partiality, impartiality and character; the role of emotions and reason in the good life; the meaning of a worthwhile life and the place of theistic considerations in it.

Leo Bersani, Adam Phillips - Intimacies

Ebook30.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:12:02 +0100

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press | 2008-05-15 | ISBN: 0226043517 | PDF | 144 pages | 1.07 MB Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination—though equally important is their shared sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge and the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis has failed to realize its most exciting and innovative relational potential.

Critical Voices in Criminology

Ebook30.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:54:02 +0100

Lexington Books (August 28, 2009) | English | 0739120328 | 247 pages | PDF | 1.00 MB As more scholars in Criminology become aware that the author behind the scholarship is becoming just as important as the work itself, they are casting an ever increasing eye at the personal context in which the authors are writing. Critical Voices in Criminology provides an opportunity for figures in and around critical criminology to discuss their own intellectual journeys into and within the discipline.

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

Ebook30.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:24:02 +0100

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (March 31, 2009) | English | 0674032608 | 336 pages | PDF | 1.63 MB In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is? Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on the cultural history of science, Jean-Pierre Changeux makes a powerful case for the reality of scientific progress and argues that it forms the basis for a coherent and universal theory of human rights.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn

Ebook30.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:06:01 +0100

University of Chicago Press | ISBN: 0226458032 | 1982 | PDF (OCR) | 210 pages | 10.0 Mb "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), by Thomas Kuhn, is an analysis of the history of science. Its publication was a landmark event in the sociology of knowledge, and popularized the terms paradigm and paradigm shift. Kuhn's approach to the history and philosophy of science has been described as focusing on conceptual issues: what sorts of ideas were thinkable at a particular time? What sorts of intellectual options and strategies were available to people during a given period? What types of lexicons and terminology were known and employed during certain epochs? Stressing the importance of not attributing modern modes of thought to historical actors, Kuhn's book argues that the evolution of scientific theory does not emerge from the straightforward accumulation of facts, but rather from a set of changing intellectual circumstances and possibilities.

The Epistemology of Belief

Ebook30.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:00:02 +0100

Palgrave Macmillan | 2008-11-15 | ISBN: 0230201466 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB A challenging new critique on the epistemic status of belief. HAMID VAHID is Professor of Philosophy and the Head of the Analytic Philosophy Faculty at the Institute for Fundamental Sciences in Tehran, Iran. He is the author of Epistemic Justification and the Skeptical Challenge and has published work in several journals including Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Synthese, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Philosophy, Kant-Studien, Metaphilosophy and Ratio.

The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change: Thomas S. Kuhn

Ebook30.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:00:02 +0100

University Of Chicago Press | ISBN: 0226458067 | 1979-03-15 | PDF (OCR) | 390 pages | 17.3 Mb Review: This is a nice collection of Kuhn's essays on various topics in the history and philosophy of science, which should be of value to anyone interested in Kuhn's thought and specifically in the important theory he put forth in his famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In some ways, his approach is similar to Michael Polanyi's, so I thought I'd discuss both of them a bit here.

Sartre's Being and Nothingness: A Reader's Guide

Ebook30.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:42:02 +0100

Continuum | 2010 | ISBN 0826474691 | 275 Pages | PDF OCR | 2.8 MB Sebastian Gardner competently tackles one of Sartre's more complex and challenging works in this new addition to the "Reader's Guides" series - Sartre's "Being and Nothingness". "A Reader's Guide" follows the successful format of "Continuum's Reader's Guides" series, designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students.

Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion

Ebook30.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:45:02 +0100

Harvard University Press | 2008-03-15 | ISBN: 0674027647 | 288 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB Beginning with a Cuban Catholic ritual in Miami, this book takes readers on a momentous theoretical journey toward a new understanding of religion. At this historical moment, when movement across boundaries is of critical importance for all areas of human life—from media and entertainment to economy and politics—Thomas Tweed offers a powerful vision of religion in motion, dynamic, alive with crossings and flows.

Confusion: A Study in the Theory of Knowledge

Ebook30.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:45:02 +0100

Harvard University Press | 2004-09-15 | ISBN: 0674015916 | 256 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB Everyone has mistaken one thing for another, such as a stranger for an acquaintance. A person who has mistaken two things, Joseph Camp argues, even on a massive scale, is still capable of logical thought. In order to make that idea precise, one needs a logic of confused thought that is blind to the distinction between the objects that have been confused.