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| The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon |
Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.
- The only book like it in print, in any language, offering concise and accessibly-written entries on Foucault's key concepts
- Provides the most comprehensive collection of dictionary-style entries written about Foucault
- Includes entries written by the world's most prominent Foucault scholars
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Resisting Scientific Realism
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| Resisting Scientific Realism |
His arguments are supported and illustrated by cases from the history of science, including a sustained study of the Copernican Revolution, and a study of the revolution in early twentieth century chemistry, when chemists came to classify elements by their atomic number rather than by their atomic weight.
- Includes a thorough examination of the historical evidence and logical considerations that threaten scientific realism
- Presents a compelling defense of anti-realism
- Provides a sustained study of the Copernican Revolution in astronomy to illustrate some of the key issues in the realism/anti-realism debate, and a study of a hitherto unnoticed revolution in early twentieth-century chemistry
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The Attending Mind
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| The Attending Mind |
It thus provides a new way of thinking about the mind - as something that can either shape itself through attention or engage with the world as it is given, relying on its habits and skills.
- Helps the reader to navigate both historical and contemporary research on attention in philosophy, cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience
- Explores key topics such as mental causation, top-down attention and working memory
- Suggests new theoretical approaches towards the self, perception, consciousness and action
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An Introduction to Functional Analysis
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| An Introduction to Functional Analysis |
Familiarity with the basic theory of vector spaces and point-set topology is assumed, but knowledge of measure theory is not required, making this book ideal for upper undergraduate-level and beginning graduate-level courses.
- Includes an extensive source of homework problems for instructors and independent study
- Presents functional analytical methods without a reliance on measure-theoretic results, making the topics more widely accessible
- Provides readers with a sense of accomplishment and closure by showing how both Hilbert space theory and Banach space theory aim towards major results with important applications
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