books about: epistemologies     books:     Epistemologies      In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life Robert Kegan Harvard University Press, 1998 Amazing! Definitely on my recommended book list. A must read for women in business. Susan Bock The Success Coach for Women in Business www.SusanBockSolutions.com             The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth Solomon Schimmel Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Review of The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs In recent years a number of popular books have been written on the anti-scientific foundations of fundamentalist religious belief. What distinguishes this book from many of the others is that its author, a professor at Hebrew College in Boston, is a recognized Judaic ...             On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not Robert Burton St. Martin's Press, 2008 Engaging and Challenging Exploration of Belief As an avid reader of books in this category, I was pleased to find something new in Robert Burton's book: a head-on engagement with the infrastructure of belief. The question Burton asks is on the face of it a simple one, but in its implications extremely complex: how ...             The Virtue of Selfishness Ayn Rand Signet, 1964 An Excellent Collection of Essays on Objectivism This book contains an excellent collection of essays on Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and is appropriate for anyone seeking to obtain a deeper understanding of her philosophy beyond reading her novels. A few of the best essays contained within include: * The ...             The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House, 2007 Open your mind This book is a path to open your mind to new ways of thinking. Anyone who deals with thinking should read it. Excellent book!             The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills Amber-Allen Publishing, 2004 A VITAL RESOURCE FOR THOSE WHO ADVISE OTHERS! I have read and enjoyed previous work of Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, The Four Agreements Companion Book, and The Mastery of Love. This last book I've probably liked better than the other ones. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because it's a lesser known book or ...             Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology Gregory Bateson University Of Chicago Press, 2000 Back In Print, Finally. After my paperback copy of SEM decayed from several readings, I was more than a little disappointed to see that it had gone out of print. I'm glad that its finally back. Absolutely, Bateson is a "sloppy thinker," just as Picasso was a "sloppy painter" by the standards ...             Objectivity Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison Zone Books, 2007 Fast service and great condition! Received it quickly and in great condition. Cheapest price for a brand new product I could find online.             Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Edward Osborne Wilson Vintage, 1999 Very Enlightening Allows those who are layman in the hard sciences to connect new methodologies to their chosen fields.             The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why Richard Nisbett Free Press, 2004 The box I always used to wonder why "Out-of-the-box" was such a powerful phrase in the west, while as an idiomatic expression it had little sway over me. This books goes on the explain the western inclination to codify, compartmentalize, devise rules & laws & a general love of ...             Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, ... Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001 Excellent for doctoral students I am a doctoral student in public health and recommend this book to my fellow doctoral students out there. It is a thorough and comprehensive text on research methods. I have gone through quite a few texts with similar titles and this stands out as the best.             On Truth Harry G. Frankfurt Knopf, 2006 Pithy and Insightful This book simply gets right to the point. Our society, which values the useful so much, needs to look as well at the underlying affirmation of the true which follows from these values. This succinct little treatise makes the reasons for this lucid. The author maintains ...             Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous (Contours of Christian Philosophy) W. Jay Wood InterVarsity Press, 1998 Obtain truth by being truthful A seminary professor recommended this book to me as a good introduction to the field of epistemology. I have a background in apologetics, but limited exposure to philosophy. This book by Wood delivers the philosophical subject of epistemology in a way I think serious ...             Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology Gregory Bateson University Of Chicago Press, 2000 Back In Print, Finally. After my paperback copy of SEM decayed from several readings, I was more than a little disappointed to see that it had gone out of print. I'm glad that its finally back. Absolutely, Bateson is a "sloppy thinker," just as Picasso was a "sloppy painter" by the standards ...             Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas ... Jennifer Michael Hecht HarperOne, 2004 I Enjoyed This Book! This is my first review for [...], but I feel like I need to share my thoughts on Jennifer Michael Hecht's survey of doubt because of my response to how she has done us a great favor in putting this before us. This is not intended to be a complete, in-depth treatise ...          products you might be interested in search for books epistemology, experimental, fundamentalism, intellectually, quasi-experimental, unreasonable      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: MARY POPPINS: SELECTIONS FROM THE BROADWAY MUSICAL (Piano Vocal Selections)