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Plan B: Volume II
Crime knows no boundaries, and no one culture or time period has a monopoly on plans gone wrong. In this second collection of stories from Plan B Magazine, we find tales from around the world and across the span of time. These stories also travel the breadth of human experience, from the innocence of a child to the mind of a bigoted murderer. Some stories will make you smile while others will make you cringe, but all will take you on a journey into the darkness of the human spirit. And what a ride it will be. Table of Contents: "Shadows" by E. J. Togneri "Pongo's Lucky Day" by Craig Faustus Buck "Flames" by Robert Guffey "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet" by Sally Carpenter "Government Assistance" by M. A. B. Lee "Ninety Miles, A Million Miles" by Gary Cahill "Inured" by Stephen D. Rogers "Embers" by Michael Haynes "Grave Designs" by Mike O’Reilly "Man On The Run" by Laird Long "A Piece Of String" by Ahmed A. Khan "Mockingbird Rail Yard Blues" by Jim Downer "The Ring" by Aislinn Batstone
Nelson Goodman
Nelson Goodman's acceptance and critique of certain methods and tenets of positivism, his defence of nominalism and phenomenalism, his formulation of a new riddle of induction, his work on notational systems, and his analysis of the arts place him at the forefront of the history and development of American philosophy in the twentieth-century. However, outside of America, Goodman has been a rather neglected figure. In this first book-length introduction to his work Cohnitz and Rossberg assess Goodman's lasting contribution to philosophy and show that although some of his views may be now considered unfashionable or unorthodox, there is much in Goodman's work that is of significance today. The...
An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
This book is an introduction to non-classical propositional logics. It brings together for the first time in a textbook a range of topics in logic, many of them of relatively recent origin, including modal, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant and fuzzy logics. The material is unified by the underlying theme of world-semantics. All of the topics are explained clearly and accessibly, using devices such as tableaux proofs, and their relation to current philosophical issues and debates is discussed. Students with a basic understanding of classical logic will find this an invaluable introduction to an area that has become of central importance in both logic and philosophy, but which, until now, could be studied only through the research literature. It will interest those studying logic, those who need to know about non-classical logics because of their philosophical importance, and, more widely, readers working in mathematics and computer science.
Aspects of Knowing
AcknowledgementsContributors1. Introduction: The art of precise epistemology Stephen HetheringtonPart A. Epistemology as scientific?2. A problem about epistemic dependenceTim Oakley3. Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, ontology, and logical entailmentsMichaelis Michael4. Epistemic bootstrappingPeter Forrest5. More praise for Moore's proofRoger White6. Lotteries and the Close Shave principleJohn Collins7. Skepticism, self-knowledge, and responsibilityDavid Macarthur8. A reasonable contextualism (or, Austin reprised)A. B. Dickerson9. Questioning contextualismBrian WeathersonPart B. Understanding knowledge?10. Truthmaking and the Gettier problemAdrian Heathcote11. Is knowing having the right to be sure?André Gallois12. Knowledge by intention? On the possibility of agent's knowledgeAnne Newstead13. Gettier's theoremJohn Bigelow14. Knowledge that works: A tale of two conceptual modelsStephen Hetherington
Evolution by Natural Selection
A persistent argument among evolutionary biologists and philosophers revolves around the nature of natural selection. Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap explores this argument by using a theory of persistence as an intentional foil to examine ways in which similar theories can be misunderstood. It discusses Charles Dar
Shhhh... Murder!
Cozy crime capers set in and around libraries.
Caesar's Civil War
In Caesar's Civil War: Historical Reality and Fabrication, Westall combines literary analysis of Caesar’s Bellum Civile with a concern for the socio-economic history of the Roman empire. The Bellum Gallicum and the Shakespearean play are better known, but Caesar’s partisan account of the Roman civil war culminating in the battle of Pharsalus offers a historical text of perennial interest and relevance. Two introductory chapters contextualize this book and offer a traditional narrative of political and military history for 49-48 BCE. There follow seven chapters that are dedicated to each of the geographical theatres of civil war. These chapters show how Caesar’s testimony sheds important light upon the nature of Roman rule in the Mediterranean, but also explore the problems to be encountered in using potentially tendentious testimony.
Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity
How does a discourse of ‘valuing others’ help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring ‘ancient values’, this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people ‘belong together’, as a family, a group, a polis, a community, or just as fellow human beings. Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. In eighteen chapters, ranging from Greek tragedy to the Roman gladiators and from house architecture to the concept of friendship, this book demonstrates how such behavior is anchored and promoted by culturally specific expressions of evaluative discourse. Valuing others in classical antiquity should be of interest to linguists, literary scholars, historians, and philosophers alike.
An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic
This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. Part 1, on propositional logic, is the old Introduction, but contains much new material. Part 2 is entirely new, and covers quantification and identity for all the logics in Part 1. The material is unified by the underlying theme of world semantics. All of the topics are explained clearly using devices such as tableau proofs, and their relation to current philosophical issues and debates are discussed. Students with a basic understanding of classical logic will find this book an invaluable introduction to an area that has become of central importance in both logic and philosophy. It will also interest people working in mathematics and computer science who wish to know about the area.
Gilmanton, New Hampshire Vital Records, 1887-2001
A valuable, but time-consuming, source of information for events occurring after 1886 is the section of vital statistics which is provided in the Annual Town Reports of many New Hampshire towns. This work is divided into births, marriages and deaths, and each section is arranged alphabetically. To the extent the information is available, the birth entries contain child's name, date and place of birth, number of children in the family, father's name, place of birth, age and occupation, and the mother's maiden name, age and place of birth. Marriage entries generally contain groom's name and residence, bride's name and residence, date and place of marriage, husband's and wife's age and occupation, and parents' names, places of birth and occupations. Maiden names are emphasized with bold type and there is a separate alphabetical listing of marriages by bride's name. The list of deaths contains name of decedent, place and date of death, age at death, cause of death, marital status, birthplace, and parents' names and places of birth.
