Conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics are branches of philosophy concerned with questions about how to assess and ameliorate our representational devices (such as concepts and words). It is a part of philosophy that examines which concepts we should use (and why), how concepts can be improved, when concepts should be abandoned, and how proposals for amelioration can be i...(展开全部)

Conceptual Physics, Tenth Edition helps readers connect physics to their everyday experiences and the world around them with additional help on solving more mathematical problems. Hewitt's text is famous for engaging readers with analogies and imagery from real-world situations that build a strong conceptual understanding of physical principles ranging from classical mechanic...(展开全部)

Conceptual Physics, Tenth Edition helps readers connect physics to their everyday experiences and the world around them with additional help on solving more mathematical problems. Hewitt's text is famous for engaging readers with analogies and imagery from real-world situations that build a strong conceptual understanding of physical principles ranging from classical mechanic...(展开全部)

Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as a basic method of philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has been undervalued and, Jackson suggests, widely misunderstood; he argues that there is nothing especially mysterious about it and a whole range of important questions cannot be productively addressed without it. He anchors his argument in d...(展开全部)

Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium Appeals to people interested in artist's use of photography and in contemporary art Tracks the efflorescence of photography as one of the most important mediums for contempor...(展开全部)

This is an imaginative introduction to statistics, reorienting the course towards an understanding of statistical thinking and its meaning and use in daily life and work. Gudmund Iversen and Mary Gergen bring their years of experience and insight into teaching the subject, incorporating such innovations and insights as a sustained emphasis on the process of statistical analysis...(展开全部)

This is an imaginative introduction to statistics, reorienting the course towards an understanding of statistical thinking and its meaning and use in daily life and work. Gudmund Iversen and Mary Gergen bring their years of experience and insight into teaching the subject, incorporating such innovations and insights as a sustained emphasis on the process of statistical analysis...(展开全部)

Why did such highly abstract ideas as truth, knowledge, or justice become so important to us? What was the point of coming to think in these terms? The Practical Origins of Ideas presents a philosophical method designed to answer such questions: the method of pragmatic genealogy. Pragmatic genealogies are partly fictional, partly historical narratives exploring what might have ...(展开全部)

Complexity theory is a central field of the theoretical foundations of computer science. It is concerned with the general study of the intrinsic complexity of computational tasks; that is, it addresses the question of what can be achieved within limited time (and/or with other limited natural computational resources). This book offers a conceptual perspective on complexity theo...(展开全部)

瓦托夫斯基是当代著名的哲学家,1928年生于美国.自60年代以来,他开始担任美国波士顿大学教授兼哲学系主任.他和著名哲学家R.S.科恩合编的数十卷《波士顿科学哲学研究》文集收集了当代著名科学哲学家的大量重要论著，探讨了科学哲学中一系列重大问题，在国际哲学界有重大的影响。 作为一位自然科学与社会科学的哲学家，瓦托夫斯基所涉及的研究领域有：知觉、美学与创造性艺术的哲学，18世纪的法国哲学，19世纪的德国哲学以及当代的科学哲学，他不仅精通费尔巴哈、黑格尔与马克思的著作，也熟悉亨普尔、波普尔、拉卡托斯等人的工作。他还研究政治与道德哲学、医学方法与伦理的哲学等。他学识渊博，说理透彻。所以，他的长期合作者R.S.科恩称他为“一位哲学家的哲学家，但又是一位大众的哲学家。”他的主要著作，除了本书以外，还有论文集《模型——表象与科学的理解》（波士顿，1979年）等著作...(展开全部)