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Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Bok av Jonathan (Seton Hall University Farina - Häftad

Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Bok av Jonathan (Seton Hall University Farina - Häftad

Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain is an innovative study of the stylistic tics of canonical novelists including Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray and Eliot. Jonathan Farina shows how ordinary locutions such as 'a decided turn', 'as if' and 'that sort of thing' condense nineteenth-century manners, aesthetics and assumptions about what counts as knowledge.

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The Euclidean Programme - Bok av A C Paseau - Inbunden

The Euclidean Programme - Bok av A C Paseau - Inbunden

The Euclidean Programme embodies a traditional sort of epistemological foundationalism, according to which knowledge - especially mathematical knowledge - is obtained by deduction from self-evident axioms or first principles. Epistemologists have examined foundationalism extensively, but neglected its historically dominant Euclidean form. By contrast, this book offers a detailed examination of Euclidean foundationalism, which, following Lakatos, the authors call the Euclidean Programme. The book..

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Scientific Models and Decision Making - Bok av Eric (University of Cambridge and University of South Florida) Winsberg - Inbunden

Scientific Models and Decision Making - Bok av Eric (University of Cambridge and University of South Florida) Winsberg - Inbunden

This Element introduces the philosophical literature on models, with an emphasis on normative considerations relevant to models for decision-making. Chapter 1 gives an overview of core questions in the philosophy of modeling. Chapter 2 examines the concept of model adequacy for purpose, using three examples of models from the atmospheric sciences to describe how this sort of adequacy is determined in practice. Chapter 3 explores the significance of using models that are not adequate for purpose,..

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The Cambridge Companion to Serialism - Bok av Martin Iddon - Häftad

The Cambridge Companion to Serialism - Bok av Martin Iddon - Häftad

What is serialism? Defended by enthusiastic champions and decried by horrified detractors, serialism was central to twentieth-century art music, but riven, too, by inherent contradictions. The term can be a synonym for dodecaphony, Arnold Schoenberg's 'method of composing with twelve tones which are related only to one another'. It can be more expansive, describing ways of composing systematically with parameters beyond pitch - duration, dynamic, and more - and can even stand as a sort of antonym..

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Wittgenstein on Music - Bok av Eran Guter - Inbunden

Wittgenstein on Music - Bok av Eran Guter - Inbunden

In this Element, the author set out to answer a twofold question concerning the importance of music to Wittgenstein's philosophical progression and the otherness of this sort of philosophical importance vis-à-vis philosophy of music as practiced today in the analytic tradition. The author starts with the idea of making music together and with Wittgenstein's master simile of language-as-music. The author traces these themes as they play out in Wittgenstein early, middle, and later periods. The author..

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