Tag: Explanation

The Architecture of Nothingness An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts


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English | 2019 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1138214159, 1138214124 | PDF | 10,8 mb
It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones can make us feel insecure, depressed or even threatened. We may instantly decide that we ‘like’ one building more than another, in the same way that without thinking we choose one work of art or music over another. But what is going on when we make these instant decisions? The process is so complex that it remains an area rarely examined, often considered unfathomable, or for some mysterious, bordering even on the spiritual. Frank Lyons seeks to unpick the complex relationships that go to make up great works of architecture, to reveal a set of principles that are found to apply not only to architecture but also to art, music and culture in general. One of the major complications at the heart of culture is that because the arts are generated subjectively, it is assumed that the finished cultural artefact is also subjective. This is a myth that this book seeks to dispel. The arts are indeed created from the personal subjective space of an individual but what that individual has to say will only be shareable if expressed in coherent (objective) form.

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Historical Explanation


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English | ISBN: 1032586540 | 2023 | 358 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1182 KB + 3 MB
This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences. It combines action theory and philosophy of historiography and develops a theory of teleological explanations of human actions based on late-Wittgensteinian and Ordinary Language Philosophy insights.

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Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy


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English | ISBN: 1032307447 | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 599 KB + 22 MB
This volume offers an updated analysis of the use, meaning, and scope of the classical notion of aitia. It clarifies philosophical and philological questions about aitia and offers bold and innovative interpretations of this key concept of ancient philosophy.

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Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology


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English | 2015 | pages: 424 | ISBN: 0801889839, 1421418363 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry―explanation, phenomenology, and nosology―and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis.

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New Mechanism Explanation, Emergence and Reduction


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 303146916X | 277 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB
This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of other modelling strategies as well as the possibility of mechanistic explanation to accommodate a non-trivial notion of emergence. Arguably, new mechanism has been particularly successful in making sense of scientific practice in the molecular life sciences. But what about other sciences? This book enlarges the context of analysis, addressing the issue of the putative compatibility between the current ways of conceiving new mechanism and actual scientific practices in quantum physics, chemistry, biochemistry, developmental biology and the cognitive sciences.

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Understanding Proof Explanation, Examples and Solutions of Mathematical Proof


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English | 2021 | ISBN: 1913565327 | 347 Pages | EPUB (True) | 33 MB
Proof is central to any mathematics curriculum and indeed, all mathematical thinking. Now we are delighted to provide an International Edition of our guide to proof for students…and for their teachers too. Contents: 1. Introduction to proof 2. Exploring Methods of Proof 3. Mathematical Language 4. Direct Proof 5. Indirect Proof 6. Proof by Induction 7. Proof and Applications of Pythagoras’ Theorem 8. Proof in Calculus 9. Proving Trigonometric Identities 10. Proof in Statistics and Probability 11. Worked Solutions

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Theory and Explanation in Geography


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by Yeung, Henry Wai-chung;

English | 2023 | ISBN: 1119845505 | 338 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.32 MB
THEORY AND EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY "With this book Henry Yeung puts Geography back into the driver’s seat of new theory development. Foregrounding mid-range theories and mechanism-based explanations, he offers a pragmatic approach that has the capacity to shape the wider social sciences for years to come. The timing of this intervention is pitch-perfect, as scholars search for ways to understand and intervene in an increasingly distrustful and polarized world."

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