books about: epistemology     books:     Epistemology      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 ...             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.             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 ...             Ideas Have Consequences Richard M. Weaver University Of Chicago Press, 1984 Prophetic in the age of "Eminent Domain" Thesis The philosophical loss of absolutes/universals ultimately results in the loss of truth, the undermining of knowledge itself, and the increase of societal chaos. Summary The modern world stands upon the precipice of chaos and anarchy, according to Richard ...             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 ...             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.             Knowledge And Decisions Thomas Sowell Basic Books, 1996 Fantastic analysis of the deicision-making of the Left. Thomas Sowell blew my mind with this book. Excellent analysis brought in a very academic setting. The language is also easy to understand, so all of your friends could read a chapter and understand Sowell's point. As the author points out, this book discusses political ...             The Virtue of Selfishness Ayn Rand Signet, 1964 The Liberal Journal? I am a great fan of the writing of Ayn Rand. I was very surprised when I looked this book up on Amazon and found, by way of description, only a review of the book by The Liberal Journal. Anyone with the least sense of logic and awareness of what Ayn Rand writes about ...             The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House, 2007 Beautiful! One of those books that can change the way you see the world and (as usual for such books) it does so with humor, clear unpretentious language and examples. As another reviewer already said, the point of the book could have been stated in a couple of lines, but then ...             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 ...             Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth Giorgio De Santillana; Hertha Von Dechend David R Godine, 1992 "A Ring of Noble Metal" Like so many of the readers of this fascinating book, Hamlet's Mill, it is a work that I have read several times, learning much with each reading. When first published in 1969, it was reviewed by the late MIT Professor Emeritus, Philip Morrison, who was reknown as a ...             What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty John Brockman Harper Perennial, 2006 Proof! Belief! What we believe but cannot prove once again hits the nail on the head for the many issues that we think we know the answer to, but can't quite put it all together. Along with its companion piece, Dangerous Ideas, this makes for very stimulating reading. Nice to know ...             Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences) Gregory Bateson Hampton Press, 2002 You're Smarter Than You Think You Are Sit in on a lecture by an engaging and knowledgable prof and you can expect to pick up a few tidbits. You certainly don't expect to come away knowing everything the prof knows. The subtitle of this book is about what Bateson knows, but you don't need to know any of ...             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 ...             Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology: Expanded Second Edition Ayn Rand Plume, 1990 Excellent and Incredible At last the the seemingly un-tractable problem of the Universals was solved by Ayn Rand.Here in this book it was brilliantly elucidated how the concepts can be based on the observed facts or how the observed facts can be explained through concepts without any ...          products you might be interested in search for books consequences, epistemology, introduction, investigating, objectivist, transmission      toavi.com    web we recommend Beautiful! randomly chosen book: Chinese Primer: The Pinyin (3 Volume Set)