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Including contributions from Charles Kennedy, Lord Steel, Sir
Graham Watson and two former Scottish Ministers, "Unlocking
Liberalism" is a new collection of essays on how the Liberal
Democrats should re-establish themselves as the voice of radicalism
in the UK after the 2015 General Election. It aims to re-establish
the anti-establishment, challenging radicalism which characterised
the Party prior to the 2010 coalition, and to reinvigorate the
concept of the general interest. It centres on a brilliant essay on
the nature of Liberalism by Nigel Dower, an academic philosopher
who was President of the International Development Ethics
Association from 2002 to 2006. Other sections focus on the
financial crash and its aftermath; the place of the UK in Europe
and the world; and how geographical justice can be attained within
the UK.
The poems are ordered chronologically according to their first
appearance in book form. Thirteen new poems are included in this
edition, with Pauline now printed in its entirety. Annotations have
been revised throughout to clarify Browning s references and
vocabulary.
Criticism retains the important contextual perspective of the
First Edition. The twenty-three essays, nine of which are new, are
divided into three sections: Victorian Views, Modern Essays in
Criticism, and Interpretations of Poems.
A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index of Titles and
First Lines are also included."
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties
which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions
of terms like ‘prejudice’ an ‘discrimination’. The author
argues that such notions are essentially dependent on the social
policy adopted, and that their common misuse by sociologists
reflects a deeper confusion – that between the sociologist’s
search for social rules and regularities, and their search for
social laws. The book clarifies the complex and important
relationships between a scientific interest in the rule-oriented
behaviour of people and a scientific interest in social laws about
that behaviour. It explains how and why so many sociological
inquiries lead to the discovery of mere social practices rather
than social laws.
Handbook of Optoelectronics offers a self-contained reference from
the basic science and light sources to devices and modern
applications across the entire spectrum of disciplines utilizing
optoelectronic technologies. This second edition gives a complete
update of the original work with a focus on systems and
applications. Volume I covers the details of optoelectronic devices
and techniques including semiconductor lasers, optical detectors
and receivers, optical fiber devices, modulators, amplifiers,
integrated optics, LEDs, and engineered optical materials with
brand new chapters on silicon photonics, nanophotonics, and
graphene optoelectronics. Volume II addresses the underlying system
technologies enabling state-of-the-art communications, imaging,
displays, sensing, data processing, energy conversion, and
actuation. Volume III is brand new to this edition, focusing on
applications in infrastructure, transport, security, surveillance,
environmental monitoring, military, industrial, oil and gas, energy
generation and distribution, medicine, and free space. No other
resource in the field comes close to its breadth and depth, with
contributions from leading industrial and academic institutions
around the world. Whether used as a reference, research tool, or
broad-based introduction to the field, the Handbook offers
everything you need to get started. (The previous edition of this
title was published as Handbook of Optoelectronics, 9780750306461.)
John P. Dakin, PhD, is professor (emeritus) at the Optoelectronics
Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK. Robert G. W. Brown,
PhD, is chief executive officer of the American Institute of
Physics and an adjunct full professor in the Beckman Laser
Institute and Medical Clinic at the University of California,
Irvine.
This book, first published in 1994, takes a broad look at the
reasons behind the failure of foreign banks to penetrate Japanese
financial markets. It accepts the common argument that the Japanese
bureaucracy has skilfully limited the scope of foreign banks and
discusses at length the methods used to do so. However, in
examining the history of foreign banking activity in Japan, it
becomes clear that ineptitude on the part of the foreign banks and
governments has also been a major factor.
From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe
to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments
stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the
empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in
our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools
or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume
surveys the current state of the debate and explores new avenues of
research into the epistemology of thought experiments.
This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy:
Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to
mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff,
Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both
approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing that only a
Platonistic approach can account for concept acquisition in a
number of special cases in the sciences. He also argues for a
particular view of applied mathematics, a view that supports
Platonism against Naturalist alternatives. Not only does this
engaging book present the Platonist-Naturalist debate over
mathematics in a comprehensive fashion, but it also sheds
considerable light on non-mathematical aspects of a dispute that is
central to contemporary philosophy.
From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the
universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought
experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of
data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted
uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or
communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific
practice? This volume surveys the current state of the debate and
explores new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought
experiments.
This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy:
Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to
mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff,
Colyvan, and many others. Beginning with accounts of both
approaches, Brown defends Platonism by arguing that only a
Platonistic approach can account for concept acquisition in a
number of special cases in the sciences. He also argues for a
particular view of applied mathematics, a view that supports
Platonism against Naturalist alternatives. Not only does this
engaging book present the Platonist-Naturalist debate over
mathematics in a comprehensive fashion, but it also sheds
considerable light on non-mathematical aspects of a dispute that is
central to contemporary philosophy.
Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, SchrAdinger's cat a "
these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in
the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments
perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain
a greater understanding of the natural world? How is it possible
that we can learn new things just by thinking?
In this revised and updated new edition of his classic text The
Laboratory of the Mind, James Robert Brown continues to defend
apriorism in the physical world. This edition features two new
chapters, one on a oecounter thought experimentsa and another on
the development of inertial motion. With plenty of illustrations
and updated coverage of the debate between Platonic rationalism and
classic empiricism, this is a lively and engaging contribution to
the field of philosophy of science.
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