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On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics (The MIT Press)

MIT Press, 2019

An introduction to awe-inspiring ideas at the brink of paradox: infinities of different sizes, time travel, probability and measure theory, and computability theory.

This award-winning book introduces the reader to awe-inspiring issues at the intersection of philosophy and mathematics. It explores ideas at the...

Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy

Cambridge University Press, 2019

Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy is the first volume of essays dedicated to the whole question of self-knowledge and its role in Platonic philosophy. It brings together established and rising scholars from every interpretative school of Plato studies, and a variety of texts from across Plato's corpus - including the...

Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan (The Palgrave Lacan Series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan’s post-Freudian metapsychology. It argues that a conceptual bridging between the two is possible, and lays the foundations of that bridge, starting with Heidegger and proceeding through the work of...

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

Prentice Hall, 2006

In the time since the 1986 edition of this book, the world of compiler design has changed significantly. Programming languages have evolved to present new compilation problems. Computer architectures offer a variety of resources of which the compiler designer must take advantage. Perhaps most interestingly, the venerable technology of...

Jump Start Git

SitePoint Pty Ltd, 2015

Get a Jump Start on version control with Git today!

Most engineers we meet prefer Git over other distributed version control systems.

These systems let you store different versions of project files and directories, so you can roll back to an earlier one if something goes wrong. And since they're...

Aristotle's Method in Ethics: Philosophy in Practice

Cambridge University Press, 2019

This book examines Aristotle's method in ethics from the vantage point of his broader conception of philosophy. Joseph Karbowski challenges longstanding dialectical orthodoxy and argues instead that, in his ethical treatises, Aristotle is seeking the first principles of a demonstrative ethical science, a science of human goodness, using an...

A Companion of Feminisms for Digital Design and Spherology

Palgrave Pivot, 2019

This book questions if spherology is a philosophy for designers, giving guidance on ways to read Spheres, how to approach the trilogy’s indexicality, and apply the key tropes and ethics of atmospheres to digital design. Each chapter includes a design-in, that is a practical entry point into the...

Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

Taylor & Francis, 2008

Here is philosophy of science the way it should be. In these pages some of the very best philosophers working today grapple with the big issues of metaphysics, language, and epistemology as they relate to science. This volume is a true introduction to a

This new edition is an introduction to design and graphic techniques...

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins: And Everyone Who Wants To Be One

Apress, 2018

Reveals and illustrates the awesome power and flexibility of the command line, and the design and usage philosophies that support those traits. This understanding of how to extract the most from the Linux command line can help you become a better SysAdmin. Understand why many things in the Linux and Unix worlds are done as...

Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales (Literatures of the Americas)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its...

Mechanistic Images in Geometric Form: Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics

Oxford University Press, 2005

This book gives an analysis of Hertz's posthumously published Principles of Mechanics in its philosophical, physical and mathematical context. In a period of heated debates about the true foundation of physical sciences, Hertz's book was conceived and highly regarded as an original and rigorous foundation for a mechanistic research program....

Pauline Frommer's Ireland (Pauline Frommer Guides)

Frommers, 2009

Spend less, see more. This is the philosophy behind Pauline Frommer s guides. Written by travel expert Pauline Frommer (who is also the daughter of Arthur Frommer), and her team of hand-picked writers, these guides show how to truly experience a culture, meet locals, and save money along the way.

With Pauline Frommer's Ireland you'll:...

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