Search Results - "Causality"

The world as active power studies in the history of European reason /

Table of Contents: “…Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen -- The active principle in stoic philosophy / Havard Lokke -- Plotinus on act and power / Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Power and activity in early medieval philosophy / Tomas Ekenberg -- Power and possibility in Thomas Aquinas / Andreas Schmidt -- Causal power in Descartes' mind-body union / Juhani Pietarinen -- De novo creat : Descartes on action, interaction, and continuous creation / Timo Kajamies -- Motion and reason : Hobbes's difficulties with the idea of active power / Juhani Pietarinen -- Spinoza's actualist model of power/ valtteri viljanen -- Leibniz on force, activity, and passivity / Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen -- Kant on force and activity / Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho -- Differences that are none : Hegel's theory of force in the phenomenology of spirit / Andreas Schmidt -- Schopenhauer's twofold dynamism / Valtteri Viljanen.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The world as active power studies in the history of European reason /

Table of Contents: “…Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen -- The active principle in stoic philosophy / Havard Lokke -- Plotinus on act and power / Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Power and activity in early medieval philosophy / Tomas Ekenberg -- Power and possibility in Thomas Aquinas / Andreas Schmidt -- Causal power in Descartes' mind-body union / Juhani Pietarinen -- De novo creat : Descartes on action, interaction, and continuous creation / Timo Kajamies -- Motion and reason : Hobbes's difficulties with the idea of active power / Juhani Pietarinen -- Spinoza's actualist model of power/ valtteri viljanen -- Leibniz on force, activity, and passivity / Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen -- Kant on force and activity / Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho -- Differences that are none : Hegel's theory of force in the phenomenology of spirit / Andreas Schmidt -- Schopenhauer's twofold dynamism / Valtteri Viljanen.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Stephens' detection and evaluation of adverse drug reactions principles and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Adverse drug reactions : history, terminology, classification, causality, frequency, preventability / Jeffrey K. Aronson -- Pharmacogenetics of adverse drug reactions / Sudeep P. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Stephens' detection and evaluation of adverse drug reactions principles and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Adverse drug reactions : history, terminology, classification, causality, frequency, preventability / Jeffrey K. Aronson -- Pharmacogenetics of adverse drug reactions / Sudeep P. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Epidemiology / by Gordis, Leon, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…-- More on risk : estimating the potential for prevention -- A pause for review : comparing cohort and case-control studies -- From association to causation : deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies -- More on causal inferences : bias, confounding, and interaction -- Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation -- Using epidemiology to evaluate health services -- The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs -- Epidemiology and public policy -- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology.…”

Teacher's guide for discovering the world through debate a practical guide to educational debate for debaters, coaches and judges / by Claxton, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Preparation -- Content of the textbook -- The course -- Course requirements -- Terminal course objectives (tcos) -- Weekly topic outline -- Week 1 lesson -- Week 2 lesson -- Week 3 lesson -- Week 4 lesson -- Week 5 lesson -- Week 6 lesson -- Week 7 lesson -- Week 8 lesson -- Week 9 lesson -- Week 10 lesson -- Week 11 lesson -- Week 12 lesson -- Appendix -- Course syllabus -- Worksheets -- Distinguishing between claims, propositions, and evidence -- Karl Popper quotes -- Group discussion questions for Karl Popper debate transcript and commentary reading -- Using the three methods to argue and refute causal relationships -- Building a case for and against a simple value proposition -- Building a case for a comparative value proposition-fact sheet -- Argument flow sheet -- Karl Popper debate ballot.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Epidemiology / by Gordis, Leon, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…-- More on risk : estimating the potential for prevention -- A pause for review : comparing cohort and case-control studies -- From association to causation : deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies -- More on causal inferences : bias, confounding, and interaction -- Identifying the roles of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation -- Using epidemiology to evaluate health services -- The epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs -- Epidemiology and public policy -- Ethical and professional issues in epidemiology.…”

Teacher's guide for discovering the world through debate a practical guide to educational debate for debaters, coaches and judges / by Claxton, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Preparation -- Content of the textbook -- The course -- Course requirements -- Terminal course objectives (tcos) -- Weekly topic outline -- Week 1 lesson -- Week 2 lesson -- Week 3 lesson -- Week 4 lesson -- Week 5 lesson -- Week 6 lesson -- Week 7 lesson -- Week 8 lesson -- Week 9 lesson -- Week 10 lesson -- Week 11 lesson -- Week 12 lesson -- Appendix -- Course syllabus -- Worksheets -- Distinguishing between claims, propositions, and evidence -- Karl Popper quotes -- Group discussion questions for Karl Popper debate transcript and commentary reading -- Using the three methods to argue and refute causal relationships -- Building a case for and against a simple value proposition -- Building a case for a comparative value proposition-fact sheet -- Argument flow sheet -- Karl Popper debate ballot.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

From socialism to capitalism eight essays / by Kornai, János

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The coherence of the classical system -- Introduction -- The main line of causality -- The affinity among elements of the system -- The prototype and the national variations -- The Soviet effect -- Verification -- The viability of the classical system -- The inner contradictions of reform socialism -- Introduction -- Transformation without a strategy -- The evolution of a private sector -- The persistence of bureaucracy -- Alternative forms of social organization -- The weakness of "third forms" -- Normative implications -- Market socialism? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Indian philosophy in English from renaissance to independence /

Table of Contents: “…Suryanarayana Sastri, "Advaita, causality and human freedom" (1940) -- A.C. Mukerji, "Śaṅkara's theory of consciousness" (1937) -- V.S. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Indian philosophy in English from renaissance to independence /

Table of Contents: “…Suryanarayana Sastri, "Advaita, causality and human freedom" (1940) -- A.C. Mukerji, "Śaṅkara's theory of consciousness" (1937) -- V.S. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

From socialism to capitalism eight essays / by Kornai, János

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The coherence of the classical system -- Introduction -- The main line of causality -- The affinity among elements of the system -- The prototype and the national variations -- The Soviet effect -- Verification -- The viability of the classical system -- The inner contradictions of reform socialism -- Introduction -- Transformation without a strategy -- The evolution of a private sector -- The persistence of bureaucracy -- Alternative forms of social organization -- The weakness of "third forms" -- Normative implications -- Market socialism? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Sport and democracy in the ancient and modern worlds by Christesen, Paul, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Previous work positing a causal relationship between sport and democratization; 4. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Sport and democracy in the ancient and modern worlds by Christesen, Paul, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Previous work positing a causal relationship between sport and democratization; 4. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Viral oncology basic science and clinical applications /

Table of Contents: “…Pipas -- Simian virus 40, human infections, and cancer : emerging concepts and causality considerations / Janet S. Butel -- Simian virus 40 and mesothelioma / Natalya Baranova and Michele Carbone -- Molecular immunology of hepatitus B-associated viral cancer / Timothy M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Viral oncology basic science and clinical applications /

Table of Contents: “…Pipas -- Simian virus 40, human infections, and cancer : emerging concepts and causality considerations / Janet S. Butel -- Simian virus 40 and mesothelioma / Natalya Baranova and Michele Carbone -- Molecular immunology of hepatitus B-associated viral cancer / Timothy M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age / by Tauber, Alfred I.

Full text available:

The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age / by Tauber, Alfred I.

Full text available: