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• Recent titles in Philosophy

  - 2006-06-01

  ABLONDI, FRED. Gerauld de Cordemy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 128 pp. Paper, $17.00. ADLER, JONATHON E. Beliefs Own Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xv + 375 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ALLEN, BARRY. Knowledge and Civilization. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. x + 342 pp. Cloth, $95.00;...

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• Do cry over spilt milk: possibly you can change the past

  - 2005-07-01

  There is widespread agreement, even among those who accept the possibility of backward causation, that it is impossible to change the past. I argue that this agreement corresponds to a relatively uninteresting understanding of what changing the past amounts to. In one sense it is indeed impossible to change the...

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• 17th century AD

  - 2005-01-01

  ABSTRACT: Urban sprawl's negative impacts have been amply demonstrated, starting as long as 30 years ago, and most North American urban plans have, somewhere, reference to sprawl as bad policy (or, perhaps, absence of policy). Yet North Americans continue to tolerate the construction of more and more suburban subdivisions. This...

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• Recent Titles In Philosophy

  - 2000-06-01

  ADAMS, DAVID M. Philosophical Problems in the Law. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2000. xiii + 650 pp. n.p. ADAMS, WILLIAM Y. The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiii + 466 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95. ALESSI, ADRIANO. Sui sentieri del sacro: Introduzione alla...

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• Theory-Change And The Logic Of Enquiry: New Bearings In Philosophy Of Science

  - 1999-09-01

  ANGLO-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE has tended to define itself squarely against the kinds of so-called metaphysical approaches that have characterized so-called continental philosophy in the line of descent from Husserl. Indeed, Husserl's project of phenomenological enquiry was the target of criticism by Frege--and later by Gilbert Ryle--which pretty much set...

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