Author: Bob Fischer File Type: pdf This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, essence-based approaches to modal knowledge, and the prospects for naturalizing modal epistemology. The middle chapters present positive accounts that reject rationalism, but which stop short of advocating exclusive appeal to empirical sources of modal knowledge. The final chapters mark a transition toward exclusive reliance on empirical sources of modal knowledge. They explore ways of making similarity-based, analogical, inductive, and abductive arguments for modal claims based on empirical information. Modal epistemology is coming into its own as a field, and this book has the potential to anchor a new research agenda. **

Author: Ludovica Lumer File Type: pdf For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience can shed light on the transformational capacity of contemporary art. Through neuroscienfitic and psychoanalytic exploration of the work of Diamante Faraldo, Ai Weiwei, Ida Barbarigo, Xavier Le Roy, Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman, Francis Bacon, Agnes Martin, and others, For Want of Ambiguity offers a new perspective on how insight is achieved and on how art opens us up to new ways of being. **Review If the purpose of learning is to better predict how to meet your needs in the world, then what is the purpose of art? This fascinating book explores how the brain deals with things that can never be mastered through prediction. Such things are among the most heartfelt. (Mark Solms, PhD., psychoanalyst, neuropsychologist,and research chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association, South Africa) About the Author Ludovica Lumer is a neuroscientist who earned her PhD from University College London where she worked in the department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology conducting seminal research in the field of neuroaesthetics on the relationship between visual perception and artistic representation. She coauthored (with Marta DellAngelo) Ce da perderci la testa scoprire il cervello giocando con larte, the first introductory book on neuroscience for children, using art as a pedagogical guide to understanding brain function, and (with Semir Zeki) La bella e la Bestia, a book on neuroscience and contemporary art. Dr. Lumer has long collaborated with renown international art institutions on curatorial and educational projects. Additionally, she has lectured for many years in the Psychology Department of Milano-Bicocca University. Dr. Lumer currently lives in New York where she is in private practice as a psychoanalyst. Lois Oppenheim is university distinguished scholar, professor of French, and chair of the department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in literature and interdisciplinary psychoanalysis. She earned her PhD from New York University and trained at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is both Scholar Associate Member of that institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society. Dr. Oppenheim has authored over ninety papers and authored or edited fourteen books, the most recent being Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor Conversations with Literary and Visual Artists, Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion awarded the 2013 Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association and A Curious Intimacy Art and Neuro-psychoanalysis.

Author: Volker Meja File Type: pdf The Hungarian-born Karl Mannheim became recognized as a pathbreaking sociologist in Germany when he published Ideologie und Utopie (1929) and in the English-speaking world upon publication of Ideology and Utopia (1936), a book in which he explored the possibilities of an approach to political thought by way of sociology of knowledge. Eighty years later, and viewed from varied substance-rich perspectives worldwide, the many facets of Mannheims original work are examined in their bearing on numerous other questions in political theory, cultural studies and social analysis. The Anthem Companion to Karl Mannheim is an international collection of original articles on the classical sociologist and documents the current revitalization of the reception of this social thinker. Using learning from Mannheim as their motif, the chapters in this volume favor fresh negotiations with his works, including the writings published posthumously in recent decades.**About the AuthorVolker Meja is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. David Kettler is Research Professor in the Division of Social Studies at Bard College and Professor Emeritus, Trent University.

Author: E. E. Cummings File Type: pdf Now presented in a beautiful new edition, Complete Poems 19041962 showcases E. E. Cummingss transcendent body of work, collected in its entirety.This edition of E. E. Cummingss Complete Poems contains all the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including 36 poems that were first collected in the 1991 edition and 164 unpublished poems issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera. Combining Thoreaus controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. Today, Cummings is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems in the English language as well as one of the most inventive American poets of his timein the words of Richard Kostelanetz, the major American poet of the middle-twentieth century. Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, at once cubistic and figurative, Cummingss work expanded the boundaries of what language is and can do.About the AuthorE. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. His many awards included an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Bollingen Prize. Among his many volumes are The Enormous Room and Tulips & Chimneys.