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Laws in Nature

Laws in Nature

Professor of Metaphysics and Head of the School of Humanities Stephen Mumford

The discussion addresses questions currently being debated by metaphysicians such as whether the laws of nature are necessary or contingent and whether a property can be identified independently of its causal role.
Dispositions

Dispositions

Stephen Mumford

Stephen Mumford puts forward a new theory of dispositions, showing how central their role in metaphysics and philosophy of science is.
Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction

Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction

Stephen Mumford

An introduction to metaphysics offers questions and answers covering such issues as properties, changes, time, personal identity, nothingness, and consciousness.
David Armstrong

David Armstrong

Stephen Mumford

In this book Stephen Mumford offers an introduction to the full range of Armstrong's thought. Mumford begins with a discussion of Armstong's naturalism, his most general commitment, and his realism about universals.
More Essential than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty ...

More Essential than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty ...

Stephen J. Schulhofer

... THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT Jack N. Rakove WILLIAM ROBERTSON COE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND AMERICAN ... PROFESSOR OF LAW DUKE LAW SCHOOL Stephen J. Schulhofer ROBERT B. MCKAY PROFESSOR OF LAW NEW ...
Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion

Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion

Stephen Mumford

Finally, Mumford considers why we care about sport at all. Addressing universal themes, this book will appeal to a broad audience across philosophical disciplines and sports studies.
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of ...

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of ...

John Franklin East Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy Thomas C Brickhouse

John Franklin East Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy Thomas C Brickhouse, Thomas C. Brickhouse, James F Miller Professor of Humanities Nicholas D Smith, Nicholas D. Smith. First published 2004 by Routledge 29 ...
Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their ...

Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their ...

J. Harvie Wilkinson III

... THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT Jack N. Rakove WILLIAM ROBERTSON COE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND AMERICAN ... S. MURPHY PROFESSOR OF LAW DUKE LAW SCHOOL Stephen J. Schulhofer ROBERT B. MCKAY PROFESSOR OF ...
The Twilight of Human Rights Law

The Twilight of Human Rights Law

Eric Posner

... THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT Jack N. Rakove WILLIAM ROBERTSON COE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND AMERICAN ... PROFESSOR OF LAW DUKE LAW SCHOOL Stephen J. Schulhofer ROBERT B. MCKAY PROFESSOR OF LAW NEW ...
School of Dentistry ...

School of Dentistry ...

University of Michigan. School of Dentistry

... Clinical Assistant Professor of Dentistry (Endodontics) Nicholas James Gersch, D.D.S., Clinical Assistant Professor of Dentistry (Periodontics) Charles Mark Gilson, D.D.S., M.S., Clinical Assistant Professor of Dentistry (Periodontics) Stephen ...
Report of the Board of Control of the State Educational ...

Report of the Board of Control of the State Educational ...

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During the biennium, two members of our teaching staff were retired from active duty: Dr. Thomas Marshall Simpson, Dean of the Graduate School and Head Professor of Mathematics on 30 June 1951, and Dr. Arthur Aaron Bless, Professor of ...
J. S. Bach: Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites Arranged for Guitar

J. S. Bach: Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites Arranged for Guitar

Johann Sebastian Bach

... Peay State University, to Professor Robert Margo of the School of Economics at Vanderbilt University, to Professor Stephen Aron of the University of Akron and Oberlin Conservatory, and to Professor Frank Koonce of Arizona State University  ...
Getting Causes from Powers

Getting Causes from Powers

Stephen Mumford

Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology.
Rethinking School Leadership - Creating Great Schools for ...

Rethinking School Leadership - Creating Great Schools for ...

J-C Couture

The course title was EDSE 501: Teacher Leadership in School Improvement. It was co-taught by Jim Parsons, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta (and one of the authors of this chapter); Kelly Harding, doctoral student in the Department of Secondary Education and school leader at Edmonton Public School Board''s Centre High School; J-C Couture, Adjunct Professor and Executive Staff Officer, Alberta Teachers'' Association; and Phil McRae, Adjunct Professor and ...
Glimpse of Light: New Meditations on First Philosophy

Glimpse of Light: New Meditations on First Philosophy

Stephen Mumford

I firmly believed there was a world outside of our own minds .
The Algebra of Metaphysics: Applied Process Metaphysics ...

The Algebra of Metaphysics: Applied Process Metaphysics ...

Ronny Desmet

These essays give the opportunity to travel through most aspects of Whitehead's legacy: anthropology, ecology, education, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, political theory and relativity physics.
Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Essential Reference Guide

Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Essential Reference Guide

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List. of. Contributors. About the Editor Priscilla Roberts read history as an undergraduate. Associate Professor of History, School of Humanities Note: Page numbers in bold indicate main entries; those in ...
Luise Gottsched, Der Lockenraub / Alexander Pope, The Rape ...

Luise Gottsched, Der Lockenraub / Alexander Pope, The Rape ...

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Professor Malcolm Cook (French) Professor Alison Finch (French) Professor Ritchie Robertson (Germanic) Dr Mark Davie (Italian) Dr Stephen Parkinson ( Portuguese) Professor David Gillespie (Slavonic) Professor Derek Flitter ( Spanish) Dr ...
The Real Guide to Grad School: The humanities

The Real Guide to Grad School: The humanities

Edward Batchelder

CHAPTER 1 5 MUSICOLOGY Although he has played viola since elementary school, Derek Katz chose not to attend a conservatory when he went to college. Instead he went to an Ivy League school, where he pursued a math degree, all the ...
Humanities through the Arts

Humanities through the Arts

F. David Martin

Humanities Through the Arts, ninth edition, continues to explore the humanities with an emphasis upon the arts as an expression of cultural and personal values, examining the relationship of the humanities to important values, objects and ...
Divine Metaphysics of Human Anatomy

Divine Metaphysics of Human Anatomy

Joseph Adam Pearson

The author of this book shows the compatibility of divine metaphysics with Biblical Christianity and the complementarity of divine metaphysics with other established healing arts practices.
The Economics and Politics of Climate Change

The Economics and Politics of Climate Change

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Stephen Howes Professor Stephen Howes is at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. In 2008, he worked on the Garnaut Climate Change Review. Prior to that, he was Chief Economist with ...
Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties

Nature's Metaphysics: Laws and Properties

Alexander Bird

Nature's Metaphysics argues that a satisfactory philosophy of science requires a metaphysics that is based on the understanding that natural properties are essentially dispositional.
Rejuvenating the Humanities

Rejuvenating the Humanities

Ray Broadus Browne

The twenty essays in this effort to bring new vitality to the humanities range through fields familiar in life but unfamiliar in the humanities canon.
Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and ...

Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and ...

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10 Logics of Interdisciplinarity The case of medical humanities Monica Greco In the winter/spring of 2005, the School of Humanities at King's College London organised a series of public lectures on literature-and-medicine. The series was ...
Written Communications for Engineers, Scientists, and ...

Written Communications for Engineers, Scientists, and ...

University of Michigan. Engineering Summer Conferences

JAMES PHILIP ZAPPEN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN EDUCATION: A.B. 1966 University of Detroit M.A. 1968 University of ...
Annual Report of the Consultant on Legal Education to the ...

Annual Report of the Consultant on Legal Education to the ...

American Bar Association. Office of the Consultant on Legal Education

Chair: Professor John Murphy Villanova University School of Law Professor Herbert Lazerow University of San Diego School of Law Professor Lloyd Bonfield Tulane University School of Law Dean David T. Link University of Notre Dame Law ...
Howard Mumford Jones: an autobiography

Howard Mumford Jones: an autobiography

Howard Mumford Jones

Manuscript, with editorial emendations and typesetter instructions.
The Division of Competences between the EU and the Member ...

The Division of Competences between the EU and the Member ...

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Pablo IBANEZ COLOMO is Associate Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Sir Francis JACOBS is Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Professor at King's ...

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