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This book offers novel interpretations of several of Berkeley's most distinctive philosophical doctrines, including his theory of vision, heterogeneity thesis, anti-abstractionism, immaterialism, likeness principle, and the divine language thesis. Key to those interpretations is a focus on Berkeley's critical use of the Cartesian doctrine of objective presence, which demands causal explanations for the content of sensory ideas.

At the centre of our ethical thought stands the human being. Roger Teichmann examines the ways in which facts about human nature determine the shape of ethical concepts such as rationality, virtue, and happiness. He argues that only by attending to the social and empirical character of language use can we address a number of problems in ethics.

"This book describes the petroleum industry in easy-to-understand language for both the layperson and engineer alike. From the economics of searching for oil and gas, getting it out of the ground, into pipelines, into refineries, and, finally, into your gas tank, this book covers the petroleum industry like no other treatment before"--Provided by publisher.

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 : Shirt -- 2 : Drink -- 3 : Anger -- 4 : Food -- 5 : Television -- 6 : Identity -- 7 : Collectibles -- 8 : Language -- 9 : Travel -- 10 : Relationships -- 11 : Future -- Index -- A, B, C -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X -- Advertisement -- Copyright.

The oil boom, 1901-1905 -- The drillers, 1901-1910 -- The other hands, 1901-1910 -- Moving on up north, 1910-1922 -- The Panhandle-populating cow country, 1919-1930 -- East Texas--changes in the patch, 1930-1935 -- Way out west, 1923-1940 -- Change comes to the oil patch, 1941-1960 -- The making of an oilfield culture, 1901-1960 -- A language of their own

Critical theory, security and technology -- Technology and common sense in America -- Defence in the missile age? -- Post-war missile defence and the language of technological fears -- The Strategic Defense Initiative and America's technological heritage -- 'Star Wars' and technological determinism -- Ballistic missile defence : 'technology, working for you now' -- The iron cage of proliferation -- Conclusion : common sense and the strategic use of 'technology'.

In this book, Steve Duck, a founder of and prolific crossdisciplinary contributor to the field of relationships research, challenges students to re-examine their assumptions about relationships. Duck shows that in order to understand relationships properly, students must understand the roles that society, language, our taken-for-granted assumptions, and other people who share those assumptions play in the conduct of relationships

Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is designed as a traditional philosophical commentary that follows the Investigations step by step. It will help undergraduates read and understand Wittgenstein's text by elaborating and explaining key themes and relevant passages in simple everyday language and by providing the biographical and philosophical background necessary for understanding the issues with which Wittgenstein is dealing

Introduction -- Fundamental ontology : external realism and scientific naturalism -- Consciousness and materialist theories of mind -- Intentional mental states -- Reason and action -- From acts to speech acts : the intention to communicate -- From sounds to words : the intention to represent -- On the meaning of meaning : critical remarks -- The construction of social reality -- Topics concerning institutional reality : reasons, language, politics, and the background

Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new 'analytic of youth', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding the politics that increasing frame their lives

"This book documents high-quality research addressing ontological issues relevant to the modeling of enterprises and information systems in general, and business processes in particular covering both static and dynamic aspects of structural concepts. It provides reference content to researchers, practitioners, and scholars in the fields of language design, information systems, enterprise modeling, artificial intelligence, and the Semantic Web"--Provided by publisher

The question of being and Being and time -- Heidegger and phenomenology -- Being-in-the-world : equipment, practice and self-understanding -- The care-structure -- Philosophical implications : knowledge, reality and truth -- Death as the end of Da-sein -- Guilt and resoluteness -- New pathways for thinking -- Beyond being and time : the origin of the work of art -- Science and technology -- Language, dwelling and the fourfold.

The yearbook Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions on Jewish Studies. It covers Jewish Culture in its broadest sense, encompassing various academic disciplines such as literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics, and history. It also reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.

Arrival of the mission -- The Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, 1650-1680 -- The Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, 1680-1750 -- The Highlands : culture, religion, language, and national identity -- The mission in Glengarry and Knoydart, 1650-1750 -- Compromise and consensus : the nature of Gaelic Catholicism -- Catholic education, recruitment to the priesthood, and patterns of priestly distribution -- Divisions amongst the clergy

Science basics -- People are primates -- Human variations : race and gender -- Language -- How we think about kinship -- Ecological systems -- An anthropological approach to economics -- Political systems -- Stratification without a state : medieval Iceland -- How states work -- The anthropology of religion -- Political economy -- Class -- Back to the land -- Global processes, local systems -- Connecting the people to the system -- The end is near