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 Free Download Aaron Bruce Wilson, "Peirce's Empiricism: Its Roots and Its Originality " English | ISBN: 149851023X | 2016 | 358 pages | EPUB | 6 MB Widely praised as a founder of modern semiotics and of the pragmatist tradition in philosophy, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) spent over forty years developing a philosophical system that addresses the fundamental problems of Western metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. Although never formally completed, what emerges from Peirce's writings is a distinctive system that, through an innovative semiotic or theory of signs and cognition, combines a thoroughgoing form of empiricism with a robustly realist metaphysics that emphasizes the mind-independence of laws and other universals. Peirce's Empiricism: Its Roots and Its Originality explains this marriage of empiricism with realism by tracing the roots of Peirce's thought in the history of Western philosophy, with particular attention paid to his predecessors in the empiricist and the common sense traditions. By purging modern empiricism of its nominalistic metaphysics and its Cartesian assumptions about mind and knowledge, and by combining it with insights from sources as diverse as Duns Scotus and Charles Darwin, Peirce reinvents the idea that all our knowledge depends on sense perception while reaffirming the place of philosophy as a foundational field of inquiry.  Free Download Peeling Random Planar Maps: École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLIX - 2019 by Nicolas Curien English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 293 Pages | ISBN : 3031368533 | 46.8 MB These Lecture Notes provide an introduction to the study of those discrete surfaces which are obtained by randomly gluing polygons along their sides in a plane. 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Part II, covering related concepts and management options, discusses soft tissue contractures, amputations and working in austere and resource-challenged settings. Underlying conditions comprise part III - specific metabolic, neuromuscular and tumor-related conditions, along with arthrogryposis, Osteogenesis Imperfecta and various skeletal dysplasias. Part IV presents congenital and developmental disorders, such as congenital femoral deficiency, hemimelias, tibial pseudoarthrosis and Blount disease, while part V rounds out the book with chapters on sequelae related to different etiologies and their treatment. Covering all aspects of the management of pediatric lower limb deformities and written by renowned experts in the field, this textbook will be an invaluable resource for orthopedic surgeons and trainees worldwide.  Free Download Mark Tilzey, "Peasants, Capitalism, and the Work of Eric R. 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Through this comparison, he demonstrates consistency within 1 Corinthians and the other Pauline letters. Through comparison with other passages in the New Testament, Carr also demonstrates that these passages do not contradict the type of silence in 1 Corinthians 14.  Free Download Geoffrey Dierckxsens, "Paul Ricoeur's Moral Anthropology: Singularity, Responsibility, and Justice " English | ISBN: 1498545203 | 2017 | 266 pages | EPUB, PDF | 387 KB + 2 MB Paul Ricœur's Moral Anthropology is a guide for readers who are interested in Paul Ricœur's thoughts on morals in general, bringing together the different aspects of what Geoffrey Dierckxsens understands as Ricœur's moral anthropology. This anthropology addresses the question what it means to be human, capable of participating in moral life. Dierckxsens argues that Ricœur shows that this participation implies being a self, living a singular lived existence with others and being responsible in institutions of justice. 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The chapter on Bowles's autobiography Without Stopping, urges us to take this piece of self-writing (famously dubbed Without Telling by William Burroughs) more seriously, drawing our attention to baroque architectural features of mind and external landscape, worlds distorted by mirrors, dreams, and fluid transit where forms morph. The work also highlights difference between experience and representation of experience through language, transformed through the prism of memory. In the chapter on Without Stopping as well as in my discussions of Bowles's fiction, I provide useful elaborations of connections between Bowles's work and that of Edgar Allan Poe. My reading of one of Bowles's best-known stories, "A Distant Episode," brings to the surface a recognition that the tragic fate of the Professor, the story's protagonist, is an outcome of his inability to admit that cultures are not static. The academically trained linguist demonstrates an unwillingness or inability to adapt to change, or to read cultural signs accurately. The message is that Morocco is not stuck in time, and cannot be held in place by Orientalist fantasies or preconceived, externally derived intellectual constructs and assumptions. The book concludes that against the grain of Samuel Huntington's notion ofClash of Civilizations, Bowles's poetic and geographical journey forcefully projects cosmopolitanism and transnational attention confirming that civilizations and 'identities' open up rather than shut down, war or clash.  Free Download Patterns in Past Settlements: Geospatial Analysis of Imprints of Cultural Heritage on Landscapes by M.B. Rajani English | EPUB | 2021 | 184 Pages | ISBN : 9811574650 | 201.6 MB This book is an introduction to a new branch of archaeology that scrutinises landscapes to find evidence of past human activity. 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Richard's book is an account of Sellar's life and times: that he was ruthless, avaricious, devious and cruel is beyond question. But his letters suggest a streak of idealism: did he really believe that the displaced highlanders would be better off, better fed, educated and housed in their new homes? Have the Highlands in the end become more productive and prosperous? In the course of his fast-moving and gripping account, Eric Richards looks carefully at these vexed questions.  Free Download Enobong Hannah Branch, "Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline" English | ISBN: 149851636X | 2016 | 278 pages | EPUB | 3 MB Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. 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