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On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine

Table of Contents: “…: constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen -- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds -- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.…”
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Adventures in unfashionable philosophy by Felt, James W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Preface (2008) -- On being yourself (1968) -- Invitation to a philosophic revolution (1971) -- the temporality of divine freedom (1974) -- Philosophic understanding and the continuity of becoming (1978) -- Transmutation and Whitehead's elephant (1981) -- Coming around again in philosophy (1982) -- Impossible worlds (1983) -- God's choice : reflections on evil in a created world (1984) -- Whitehead's misconception of "substance" in Aristotle (1985) -- Intuition, event-atomism, and the self (1987) -- Faces of time (1987) -- Fatalism and truth about the future (1992) -- Relational realism and the great deception of sense (1994) -- Why possible worlds aren't (1996) -- Proposal for a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming (2000) -- Epochal time and the continuity of experience (2003) -- "Know yourself!" …”
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Essay on transcendental philosophy by Maimon, Salomon, 1754-1800

Table of Contents: “…. -- Identity, difference, opposition, reality, logical and transcendental negation -- Magnitude -- Alteration, change, etc. -- Truth, subjective, objective, logical, metaphysical -- On the I, materialism, idealism, dualism, etc. -- Short overview of the whole work -- My ontology -- On symbolic cognition and philosophical language.…”
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Parting ways new rituals and celebrations of life's passing / by Carson, Denise

Table of Contents: “…Her choice: two paths leading to the same destination -- Living funeral: celebrating the end of life -- Her life review: reliving the past in the present -- Legacy of memories: telling life stories and last wishes -- Her season of lasts: traditional, seasonal, communal rituals -- Oral ethical will: video recording last words -- Her living wake: reminiscing and farewell party -- Vigil: holding hands at the 11th hour -- Her 21st century memorial service, his 20th century funeral -- Home funeral: eco-friendly way out -- Holistic approach: design-it-yourself funeral and cremation witnessing -- The living unveiling: technology innovates memorializing -- Her truth: finding life after death.…”
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Philosophy of statistics

Table of Contents: “…Different approaches to simplicity related to inference and truth -- pt. 12. Special problems in statistics/computer science -- pt. 13. …”
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Trends and issues in African philosophy by Ochieng'-Odhiambo, F.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The historical phase -- Western discourse on Africa -- Egyptology : an African response -- Afrocentricity -- Conclusion -- African philosophy as ethnophilosophy -- Tempels on Bantu philosophy -- African religions and philosophy -- Horton on African and western thought systems -- Other ethnophilsophers and general critiques -- The professional approach -- Ethnophilosophy and professional philosophy -- Myth and reality of African philosophy -- Traditional thought and modern philosophy in Africa -- Wiredu's truth as opinion -- A case against the professional school -- Philosophic sagacity --Sage philosophy and philosophic sagacity -- Relevance of sagacious reasoning -- Keita's objections -- Three ways of approaching philosophic sagacity -- Masolo on philosophic sagacity -- Odera Oruka's mission in African philosophy -- Nationalist-ideological philosophy -- Nationalist-ideological philosophy and ethnophilosophy -- Consciencism -- Ujamaa : the basis of African socialism -- African socialism and federalism in post-colonial Africa -- African philosophical hermeneutics -- Universalism and particularism -- Hermeneutical orientation in African philosophy.…”
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The concept of logical consequence an introduction to philosophical logic / by McKeon, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…Set-theoretic preliminaries ; Linguistic preliminaries ; Syntax of M ; Semantics for M -- Model-theoretic consequence. Truth in a structure ; Model-theoretic consequence defined ; The metaphysics of domains ; Interpretations ; The adequacy of the model-theoretic characterization of logical consequence ; What is a logical constant? …”
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Press, platform, pulpit Black feminist publics in the era of reform / by Zackodnik, Teresa C.

Table of Contents: “…Going public : African American feminism in the era of reform -- Soul winners and sanctified sisters : Nineteenth-Century African American preaching women -- Internationalizing Black feminisms : Ellen Craft, Sarah Parker Remond, and American slavery in the British Isles and Ireland -- "I don't know how you will feel when I get through" : racial difference, symbolic value, and sojourner truth -- The platform, the pamphlet, and the press : Ida B. …”
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Transitional justice

Table of Contents: “…Theorizing transitional justice / Pablo de Greiff -- Justice, truth, peace / Jon Elster -- Forms of transitional justice / Jeremy Webber -- Countering the wrongs of the past : the role of compensation / Debra Satz -- Reparations as rough justice / Adrian Vermeule --Reparations as a noble lie / Gary J. …”
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Critical reflection a textbook for critical thinking / by Murray, R. Malcolm (Robert Malcolm), 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Definitions -- pt. 3. Truth. 6. Acceptability conditions -- pt. 4. Logic. 7. …”
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Freedom and the human person

Table of Contents: “…Freedom : grace and necessity / Seth Benardete -- The follies of freedom and reason : an old story / Leon Kass -- Freedom, responsibility, and truth / Robert Sokolowski -- Freedom and would-be persons / John M. …”
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Evidence of Arthur : fixing the legendary king in factual place and time / by Johnson, Flint F.

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Choosing the right college 2012-13 /

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Philosophical Witnessing The Holocaust as Presence / by Lang, Berel

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical witnessing: "-- and only I have survived to tell you" -- Truth at risk and the Holocaust's response -- Evil and understanding: a Holocaust dilemma -- Jaspers' Die Schuldfrage: a presence early and late -- Holocaust-representation in the genre of silence -- Representation and misrepresentation: on or about the Holocaust -- Applied ethics, post-Holocaust -- The Jewish declaration of war against the Nazis -- From the Holocaust to group rights: minorities in a majority world -- Metaphysical racism (or: biological warfare by other means) -- Hyphenated-Jews and the anxiety of identity -- Reconciliation: not revenge, not forgiveness, perhaps not even justice -- Afterword: wound and scar.…”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /

Table of Contents: “…the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! …”
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Relativism / by Baghramian, Maria

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Admitting the Holocaust collected essays / by Langer, Lawrence L.

Table of Contents: “…Aharon Appelfeld and the Language of Sinister Silence -- 11. Myth and Truth in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" and "Rosa" -- 12. …”
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Metaethics after Moore

Table of Contents: “…/ Jamie Dreier -- Ethics as philosophy : a defense of ethical nonnaturalism / Russ Shafer-Landau -- The legacy of Principia / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Cognitivist expressivism / Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons -- Truth and the expressing in expressivism / Stephen Barker -- Normative properties / Allan Gibbard -- Moral intuitionism meets empirical psychology / Walter Sinnott-Armstrong -- Ethics dehumanized / Panayot Butchvarov.…”
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Heidegger and the Greeks interpretive essays /

Table of Contents: “…Brogan -- Translating Innigkeit : the belonging together of the strange / Peter Warnek-- Heidegger's philosophy of language in an Aristotelian context : dynamis meta logou / Günter Figal-- Toward the future of truth / William J. Richardson -- What we owe the dead / Dennis J. …”
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