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    Music as an Art , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min
    Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton’s second major work on music for Bloomsbury - the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009). In this new book he turns again to the meaning of tonality and sound. His abstract, somewhat mystical argument on these topics includes slashing attacks on Marxist reductionism, on the authenticity of Early Music, on rival aestheticians such as Adorno and on sentimentality and cliché in any form. As with Understanding Music, he also expounds his views on pop music in a most satisfying and provocative new work. Cover copyright: © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saul Reichlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033990/bk_adbl_033990_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Epistemological Borderlands: Essays on Evolutionary Transcendence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min
    This audiobook contains distinct essays on Darwinian epistemology, the future of shabd yoga, Ken Wilber's Atman Project, Clarence Darrow's agnostic philosophy, and the debate between Richard Feynman and John Lilly over the reality/non-reality of out-of-body experiences. Excerpt from one of the chapters: I think it is important to distinguish methodological naturalism from a philosophically absolutist position, since trying to ground all things down to the empirical realm and testable realm is a practical process and doesn't necessarily mean that nothing else exists beyond what we can scientifically discern. Too often the practicality of the scientific method gets conflated with ontology, and because of this religionists and others resist the very real benefit of what hardcore reductionism has to offer. Simply put, wielding Occam's Razor or Hume's Maxim or Laplace's Dictum doesn't then mean that only simple things exist, but rather that before building any future scaffolding we make certain not to leave the ground floor wanting because of our hurried inspection. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Benjamin Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102743/bk_acx0_102743_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge II
    Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge II ab 31.99 € als epub eBook: Reductionism. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Philosophie,
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    The Storytelling Workbook
    The Storytelling Workbook is a nine-week programme (based on Anthony Tasgals rule of three) to help you learn to better tell your own narrative and present your story whether it be for your CV, your dating apps or your own personal writing. It is an entertaining, instructive and interactive guide to becoming a better storyteller across all facets of your personal and professional life. Including a mix of case studies, advice and exercises, this workbook is structured into three sections: before, during and after. In the before section, you will learn to free yourself from reductionism, obsession with numbers, facts, data and messaging; in the during section, you will concentrate on finding simplicity, meaning and depth; while finally, in after, you will come to understand how to write less and think more and ultimately to keep writing again and again.
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    The Feynman Imperative: Why Science Works , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
    This book consists of six distinct essays describing how science works, with special attention to how Richard Feynman viewed the scientific method. Chapter one explores the difference between evolution and mysticism's version of intelligent design. Chapter two is entitled The Feynman Imperative and explores a contentious debate over reductionism and its role in the hard sciences, particularly in explaining consciousness. Chapter three details how practical the scientific endeavor is and why science tends to avoid making dogmatic and absolute statements. Other chapters include: The Gravity of Science, Feynman's Flower (and the beauty of physics and biology), and concludes with Shiva Science which illustrates that science is composed of many avenues and not just one. Dr. Lane has taught science and religion courses at California State University, Long Beach for over a decade and is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Mt. San Antonio College where he lectures on quantum theory, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. He has also produced a number of original mini films dealing with Richard Feynman's philosophy of science. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Toner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/054236/bk_acx0_054236_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Showing: What Pregnancy Tells Us About Being Human , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
    Might pregnancy form women just as much as children?When we talk about pregnancy, we too often end up talking clinically and sentimentally. Pregnancy is medical details and a whirl of emotions. It is vitamins and baby showers and feelings. But it is so much more.In Showing, Agnes Howard takes us beyond clinical reductionism and fluffy sentimentality to show us how to take pregnancy seriously as hard but important work. It is not just a bodily process, she argues, but an active work of care - one that underscores the generosity and mutual dependence we all require in order to live. It is an act of “radical hospitality” that shows us all what it means to be human.Howard delves into prenatal care literature from the Christian tradition to find images and vocabulary that elevate and honor pregnancy - not only for the benefit of expectant parents, but also their communities and the church. Taking pregnancy seriously does not entail viewing it as a woman’s only role or romanticizing it. Instead, Showing maintains that thinking well about pregnancy can help not only childbearing women but all who surround them understand how to live together more faithfully. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Rudd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202847/bk_acx0_202847_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Philosophy of Chemistry
    This book, Philosophy of Chemistry, is dedicated to some of the general principles of philosophy of chemistry, the special branch of philosophy of science. Since the work is a collection of lectures that the Author gave at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) during the period of twenty years, the book could serve also as a university textbook in philosophy of chemistry.Philosophy of chemistry is represented through the discussion about some of the general philosophical problems such as, theory of complexity, autonomy of sciences, epistemology, falsificationism, emergence and unity of science, holism and reductionism, the problem of identity, and hierarchical structures, as well as the teleological aspects of science.The work consists from thirteen chapters where the main science-philosophical problems are represented and discussed within the historical context of the development of chemistry as a science. The book is aimed at wider academic audience interesting in the philosophy of science, and especially at university students of life sciences.
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    A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2321min
    A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology offers concise overviews of philosophical issues raised by all areas of biology. Addressing both traditional and emerging areas of philosophical interest, the volume focuses on the philosophical implications of evolutionary theory as well as key topics such as molecular biology, immunology, and ecology. Comprising essays by top scholars in the field, this volume is an authoritative guide for professional philosophers, historians, sociologists and biologists, as well as an accessible reference work for students seeking to learn about this rapidly–changing field. Sahotra Sarkar is Professor of Integrative Biology, Geography and the Environment, and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Genetics and Reductionism: A Primer (1998), Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy (2005), Molecular Models of Life (2005), Doubting Darwin? Creationist Designs on Evolution (2007); co–author of Systematic Conservation Planning (2007); editor of several books, including The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology (1996), the six–volume Science and the Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism (1996), and the two–volume The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopaedia (2006). Anya Plutynski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. She specializes in the history and philosophy of science. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Telles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008915/bk_adbl_008915_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 756min
    A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must-hear for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science. It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the development of science. In a sweeping historical survey that begins with ancient Greek science and proceeds through the Renaissance and Enlightenment to contemporary advances in physics and cosmology, Stenger makes a convincing case that not only is this conclusion false, but Christianity actually held back the progress of science for 1,000 years. It is significant, he notes, that the scientific revolution of the 17th century occurred only after the revolts against established ecclesiastic authorities in the Renaissance and Reformation opened up new avenues of thought. The author goes on to detail how religion and science are fundamentally incompatible in several areas: the origin of the universe and its physical parameters, the origin of complexity, holism versus reductionism, the nature of mind and consciousness, and the source of morality. In the end, Stenger is most troubled by the negative influence that organized religion often exerts on politics and society. He points out antiscientific attitudes embedded in popular religion that are being used to suppress scientific results on issues of global importance, such as overpopulation and environmental degradation. When religion fosters disrespect for science, it threatens the generations of humanity that will follow ours. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Smalley, Dan Barker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056542/bk_acx0_056542_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Metaphysical theories
    Metaphysical theories ab 32.99 € als Taschenbuch: Existentialism Idealism Materialism Platonic realism Platonic idealism Nihilism Objectivism Determinism Anti-realism Physicalism Nominalism Reductionism Solipsism Bundle theory Essentialism Action theory Substance theory. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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