the mit press true to life why truth matters oct 2004
the mit press true to life why truth matters oct 2004
... numerous variations, such True to Life Why Truth Matters Michael P. LynchA Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, MassachusettsLondon, England TRUE TO LIFE WHY TRUTH MATTERS MICHAEL P. LYNCHof ... “Minimalismand the Value of Truth, ” Philosophical Quarterly 55 © 2005, The Editors ofPhilosophical Quarterly.Thanks too to my copy editor Judy Feldmann, and to my editor Tom Stone,for knowing what matters. xii ... but why not sometimes takeuntruth if it gets you where you want to go?These are important questions. At the end of the day, is it always better to believe and speak the truth? Does the truth...
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the mit press paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment apr 2005
... narrow enough to do justice to the literature in these disci-plines while still broad enough to provide new insights into the sourcesof environmental change and the possible options—both theoretical ... thatunfettered globalization can add to the pressures on the global environ-ment. The task for those worried about the state of the global environ-ment, then, is to guide and channel globalization, ... emphasis on this factor.We stress that we do not want to leave the impression that any one ofthese is the “correct” view. Each, we believe, contains insights into the sources of today’s environmental...
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the mit press neither brain nor ghost a nondualist alternative to the mind-brain identity theory aug 2005
... Neither Brain nor Ghost - The MIT Press "A new view of mind is in the air. Teed Rockwell has sensed it and articulated it beautifully ... Neurophysiology & Neuroanatomy> Philosophy - General - Philosophy of MindTECHNOLOGY PARTNER: Azility, Inc. TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | COPYRIGHT © 2007 http://mitpress .mit. edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10688&ttype=2 ... systems theory, he proposes a bold alternative to Cartesian materialism that deserves careful scrutiny." J. A. Scott Kelso, Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science and Director, Center...
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the mit press mind 2nd edition introduction to cognitive science apr 2005
... ponens, since the rule If A then 4 combined with the premise A sug-gests checking to see if there is a 4. On the other hand, a great many peopleneglect to check the 7, failing to realize that ... informed that theywill be shown cards that have numbers on one side and letters on the other.They are then given a rule such as If a card has an A on one side, then it hasa 4 on the other. The subjects ... want to beable to assess the conditional probability of Frank being sick, given thathe did not arrive, as well as the conditional probabilities of all the otherhypotheses. A theorem of the...
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the mit press truth and justification oct 2003
... problematized. This makes the totality of practices that are woven together into a form of life epistemologically relevant. On the one hand, all aspects of the life- world can be sucked into the pull of problematization; ... direc-tions at once: toward the world and toward the addressee.Nonetheless, even after the linguistic turn, the analytic main-stream held fast to the primacy of assertoric propositions and theirrepresentational ... Following the publication of The Theoryof Communicative Action in the early 1980s, he went on to develop acognitivist moral theory in the form of discourse ethics. The core ofthis theory is the...
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the mit press an introduction to genetic algorithms feb 1996
... that the argument to a function can be the resultof another function—e.g., in the expression above one of the arguments to the top−level * is (* A A).Figure 2.1: Parse tree for the Lisp expression ... interest there are too many possible nodes in the tree to store them all. Rather, the search tree is elaborated step by step in a way that depends on the particular algorithm, and the goal is to find ... general automatic programming. Programs in Lisp can easily beexpressed in the form of a "parse tree," the object the GA will work on.27in the tree from the initial state to the goal...
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the mit press an introduction to ai robotics nov 2000
... Teleoperation To AutonomyFigure 1.2 A Model 8 Telemanipulator. The upper portion of the device is placedin the ceiling, and the portion on the right extends into the hot cell. (Photographcourtesy ... coordinates to go from the base of the arm to the gripper. The coordinate transformationsoften have singularities, causing the equations to perform divide by zeros. Itcan take a programmer weeks to ... samples with a lunar rake. The photo shows the awkward way the astronaut had to bend his body and arms to complete the task.Planetary rovers were a possible solution, either to replace an astronaut...
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THE TEAM AMERICA LOVES TO HATE Why Baseball Fans Despise the New York Yankees ppt
... as if they were truthful, whole cloth. Rather, I seek to interpret and analyze them in order to determine why this hatred is so important to these fans. In other words, my goal is not to present ... to their intense identification with their team simply trash the performance of the other team, the officials, the opposing fans, the guy selling snow cones, or just about anyone in order to ... So, today, I admire them for what they accomplish, but EXPECT them to go elsewhere. I am amused at the „traitor‰ cheers when [former AÊs first baseman Jason] Giambi comes to the plate, but other...
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the mit press coherence in thought and action nov 2000
... indubitable truths of reason of the sort that Platoand Descartes sought, and even if there were, they wouldbe too trivial to provide a basis for all the other things wethink we know. Similarly, there ... coherence theories of justification interpret“accepted” as “judged to be true, ” coherence theories of truth interpret “accepted” as true. ” A coherence theoryof truth may require that the second ... calledNP-complete are equivalent to each other in the sense thatif one of them has a polynomial-time solution, then so doall the others. A new problem can be shown to be NP-complete by showing...
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the mit press knowledge possibility and consciousness apr 2001
... just the strategy a defense at-torney might follow to show that the defendant was not the criminal. If the attorney can place the defendant in Toledo,say, at a time when the criminal had to be ... belief to be true, these objects have to meet certain conditions: the first two must bear the third to one another; that is, Hillary Clinton must be a resident ofNew York. It is quite natural, then, ... supervene on them. The antecedent physicalist has no reason to adopt this view ei-ther.With the knowledge argument and the modal arguments,it is helpful to put the debate in the context of...
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