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The Constitution of Social Practices /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…part Introduction -- chapter 1 A “cultural” approach to social science -- chapter 2 Practice theory today -- chapter 3 Core ontological commitments -- chapter 4 Sketch of the argument -- chapter 5 Of philosophy and social science -- chapter 1 What are practices? …”
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Getting your way every day mastering the lost art of pure persuasion /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Get ready to win -- Profit from ancient wisdom -- Look for an argument -- Lay it all out -- Be reasonable -- Be ethical, be emotional -- Stay out of the palace of fallacy -- Welcome to the house of style -- Go beyond words -- Make your case and get your way -- Talk yourself into the job you want -- Move your boss -- Inspire your staff -- Motivate your colleagues -- Win your customers -- Satisfy your customers -- Convince your customers -- Deal with your vendors -- Close with your investors and lenders -- Commemorate and celebrate -- Epilogue - when rhetoric hits the speed of light.…”
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The plain truth Descartes, Huet, and skepticism /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…-- The transparency of mind -- The cogito as pragmatic tautology -- Doubts -- The reality of doubt -- The generation of doubt -- The response to doubt -- Rules -- The criterion of truth -- The trump argument -- Circles -- The simple circularity of the Meditations -- The inner circle(s) -- Gods -- Gassendist influences -- The objections of objections -- The rejection of intentionality -- Virtues -- Descartes's voice -- Betting the family farm -- The propagation of light -- The heart-beat -- The moving earth -- Faith and reason -- Descartes as methodological academic skeptic.…”
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Studies on universal grammar and typological variation
Published 1997Table of Contents: “…Rita Manzini -- On extraction, argument binding and voice morphology in Malagasy / Paul Law -- Universals and minimalist features : checking in AgrO / Elly van Gelderen -- Genitive subjects and the VSO order / Jamal Ouhalla -- Some properties of clitics : with special reference to modern Greek / Gaberell Drachman.…”
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Learned girls and male persuasion gender and reading in Roman love elegy /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Pt. 1 -- Concepts, structures, and characters in Roman love elegy -- Introduction: approaching elegy -- Men, women, poetry, and money: the material bases and social backgrounds of elegy -- Pt. 2 -- The material girls and the arguments of elegy; or, The docta puella reads elegy -- Against the greedy girl; or, The docta puella does not live by elegy alone -- Characters, complaints, and the stations of the lover; or, Adventures and laments in elegy -- Pt. 3 -- Problems of gender and genre, text and audience, in Roman love elegy -- Necessary female beauty and generic male resentment: reading elegy through Ovid -- Poetry, politics, sex, status: how the docta puella serves elegy.…”
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Diotima's children German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The poets' war -- Leipzig versus Zurich -- Misreadings of the dispute -- The point in dispute -- Baumgarten's science of aesthetics -- The father of aesthetics -- A philosophical poetics -- A science of beauty -- Theory of sensation -- Analysis of beauty -- Status of aesthetics -- An ambiguous legacy -- Winckelmann and neo-classicism -- Winckelmann as philosopher -- Historical influence -- Imitating the ancients -- A neo-classical aesthetic -- Ancients versus moderns -- Aesthetic theory -- Painting and allegory -- Eros and Dionysus -- Mendelssohn's defense of reason -- The guardian of Enlightenment -- The analysis of sensation -- The grin of Silenus -- Second thoughts -- Taming the sublime -- Reckoning with Burke -- Encounter with Jean-Jacques -- The claims of genius -- First clash with Hamann -- Abelard and Fulbert's brief spat -- The three-faculty theory -- Lessing and the Reformation of aesthetic rationalism -- Lessing and the rationalist tradition -- Genius and rules -- The irrationality of genius -- Rationalism and sentimentalism in Lessing's ethics -- Laokoon : thesis and inductive argument -- Laokoon : the deductive argument -- Laokoon : its hidden agenda.…”
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Antiphon the Athenian oratory, law, and justice in the age of the Sophists /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Public Competition -- 5. Logos, Argument, Rhetoric -- 6. Relativism and Humanism -- 7. …”
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- And all that : why Britain outlawed her slave trade / Boyd Hilton -- Empire without America : British plans for Africa in the era of the American Revolution / Christopher L. …”
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What's so great about Christianity
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Christianity and reason : the theological roots of science -- From logos to cosmos : Christianity and the invention of invention -- An atheist fable : reopening the Galileo case -- Pt. 4: The argument from design. A universe with a beginning : God and the astronomers -- A designer planet : man's special place in creation -- Paley was right : evolution and the argument from design -- The Genesis problem : the methodological atheism of science -- Pt. 5: Christianity and philosophy. …”
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Wittgenstein and value the quest for meaning /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…An outline of tractarian ontology ; Value, the self, and the mystical ; The lecture on ethics ; Conclusion --Language-games, the private language argument and aspect psychology. Language-games ; The private language argument ; Aspect psychology ; Conclusion -- The soul and attitudes towards the living. …”
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Industrial policy for national champions
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Arguments for and against policies to promote national champions / Oliver Falck, Christian Gollier, and Ludger Woessmann -- Some thoughts on industrial policy and growth / Philippe Aghion -- National champions and economic growth / Kathy Fogel, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung -- Subsidizing national champions : an evolutionary perspective / Cecile Aubert, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich -- Mergers and national champions / Massimo Motta and Michele Ruta -- The hidden costs of political sponsorship of industrial firms / Paul Seabright -- National champions under credit rationing / Christian Gollier and Bruno Jullien -- Market integration with regulated national champions : winners, losers, and cooperation / Sara Biancini -- Economic patriotism, foreign takeovers, and national champions : the Bertrand case / Jens Suedekum.…”
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What determines content? the internalism/externalism dispute /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Grayling -- Intersubjective externalism / Peter Pagin -- Having a concept / Petr Kot'átko -- Arguments for externalism / Steven Davis -- Reference and deference / Andrew Woodfield -- External and internal aspects in the semantics of names / Wolfram Hinzen -- Externalism, apriority and transmission of warrant / Sarah Sawyer -- Brown against the reductio / Kathrin Glüer -- Content externalism and Fregean sense / Åsa Wikforss -- Are object-dependant beliefs explanatorily redundant? …”
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Applying scientific reasoning to the field of marketing make better decisions /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Logic: deduction, induction, and inference to the best explanation -- 11. Arguments and logical fallacies -- Section 3. Developing theories -- 12. …”
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Metaphysics and the good themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Jorgensen -- A philosophical autobiography / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Yet another anti-molinist argument / Dean Zimmerman -- The contingency of existence / Michael Nelson -- Consciousness and introspective inaccuracy / Derk Pereboom -- Kant on apriority and the spontaneity of cognition / Houston Smit -- Moral necessity in Leibniz's account of human freedom / R. …”
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The framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…-- Justice delayed -- Oral arguments -- Justice at last.…”
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Philosophical essays what it means and how we use it /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Language and linguistic competence -- Linguistics and psychology -- Semantics and psychology -- Semantics and semantic competence -- The necessity argument -- Truth, meaning, and understanding -- Truth and meaning in perspective -- Pt. 3. …”
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Minimal ideas syntactic studies in the minimalist framework /
Published 1996Table of Contents: “…Scott Ferguson -- Spell-out at the LF interface / Erich Groat & John O'Neil -- The typology of syntactic positions : L-relatedness and the A/Ā-distinction / Liliane Haegeman -- Clause structure, expletives and verb movement / Dianne Jonas -- Raising quantifiers without quantifier raising / Hisatsugu Kitahara -- Optional movement in the minimalist program / Geoffrey Poole -- Morphology and word order in Germanic languages / Jaume Solà -- On the (non-)universality of functional categories / Höskuldur Thráinsson -- Participles and bare argument structure / Guido vanden Wyngaerd -- "Shortest move" versus "fewest steps" / C. …”
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Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Moral argument in the human rights debate of the Russian orthodox church -- Post-communist orthodox countries and secularization : the Lautsi case and the fracture of Europe -- Power to the people : orthodoxy, consociational democracy, and the move beyond phyletism -- Power, protest, and perichoresis : on being church in a troubled world -- Strange fruit : Augustine, liberalism, and the good Samaritan -- An orthodox encounter with liberal democracy -- Democracy and the dynamics of death : orthodox reflections on the origin, purpose, and limits of politics -- "I have overcome the world" : the church, the liberal state, and Christ's two natures in the Russian politics of theosis -- Emperors and bishops of Constantinople -- Stepping out of Constantine's shadow -- "You cannot have a church without an Empire" : political orthodoxy in Byzantium -- Roman catholicism and democracy : the postconciliar era -- How (not) to be a political theologian.…”
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Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies : Volume 1, First-Year Composition Courses /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Collaboration as conversations -- Knowledge processes and program practices -- Writing with the library -- Supplanting the research paper and one-shot library visit -- Prioritizing academic inquiry in the first-year experience -- Pressing the reset button on (information) literacy in FYW -- Research as inquiry -- Joining the conversation -- Promoting self-regulated learning in the first-year writing classroom --Using information literacy tutorials effectively -- Using object-based learning to analyze primary sources -- Communities of information -- A cooperative, rhetorical approach to research instruction -- Food for thought -- Creating a multimodal argument -- Project-based learning -- Adapting for inclusivity -- Are they really using what I'm teaching? …”
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The reflexive nature of consciousness
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…-- Summary -- Consciousness and self-awareness -- Preamble -- A gloss on intentionality -- The transitivity principle -- Two positive arguments for the transitivity principle -- Higher-orderism -- Preamble -- The higher-order theory of consciousness -- A "one-state" alternative -- Preamble -- The Brentanian model -- Objections and replies -- Representationalism -- Preamble -- The representational theory of phenomenal character -- The nature of phenomenal character -- Preamble -- Phenomenal character as implicit self-awareness -- Some brief remarks on privacy -- Conclusion.…”
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