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'Since at least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 159.00'Since at Least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts... more...
Abbreviatur ? einfach
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 293.00The Nietzsche Dictionary elucidates in detail some 300 terms from Nietzsche's vocabulary. The first volume presents 67 of them. The account of each term includes the number of occurrences, main uses, synonyms, the various meanings, components of meanings and semantically relevant contexts (with examples), and the historical linguistic and philosophical... more...
Academia and the Luster of Capital
University of Minnesota Press 1993; US$ 60.00Ideas, says Sande Cohen, have attained ?commodity? status in the academy, and knowledge is now seen as another capitalistic ?industry.? In Academia and the Luster of Capital, Cohen both reveals and interrogates the specific and material workings of this economy of the marketplace of ideas.Cohen uses paradigms from Baudrillard, Lytoard, Deleuze, and... more...
Active Learning
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00The key idea behind active learning is that a machine learning algorithm can perform better with less training if it is allowed to choose the data from which it learns. An active learner may pose "queries," usually in the form of unlabeled data instances to be labeled by an "oracle" (e.g., a human annotator) that already understands... more...
Adam Ferguson
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00Included essays range across all of Ferguson?s works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action. more...
Adam Ferguson
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2008; US$ 99.00In these essays, scholars analyze Ferguson?s philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures such as David Hume and Adam Smith. more...
Adam Smith Review Volume III
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 160.00Adam Smith?s contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Adam Smith?s contribution to economics is well-recognized but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith Review... more...
Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 23.00This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of morality in a market age. more...
Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 39.00A comprehensive philosophical discussion of Smith's moral and political philosophy. more...
Adam Smith's Discourse
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 74.95Adam Smith's name has become synonymous with free market economics; The Wealth of Nations is taken as the definitive account of the benefits of free competitive markets. Yet recent scholarship has challenged this view and given us a richer, more nuanced figure, steeped in the intricacies of enlightenment social and political philosophy. Adam Smith's... more...









