Author: Rae Langton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: themselves, things, ignorance, humility, kantian
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199243174
ISBN-13: 9780199243174

In this refreshing and exceptional work, Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defense of Kant’s doctrine of "things in themselves." Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, thus making a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Langton argues that his claim that we have no knowledge of things in themselves is not idealism, but epistemic humility; we have no knowledge of the intrinsic properties of substances. This interpretation vindicates Kant’s scientific realism and shows his primary/secondary quality distinction t

Author: Rae Langton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: pornography, objectification, essays, philosophical, solipsism, sexual
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0199551456
ISBN-13: 9780199551453

Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking work on pornography and objectification. On pornography she argues from uncontroversial liberal premises to the controversial feminist conclusions that pornography subordinates and silences women, and that women have rights against pornography. On objectification she begins with the traditional idea that objectification involves treating a person as a thing, but then shows that it is through a kind of self-fulfilling projection of beliefs and perceptions of women as subordinate that women are made subordinate and treated as things. These cont

Author: Jane Langton
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: chronicles, family, hall, bike, time
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0064407926
ISBN-13: 9780064407922

The new bike isn’t pretty...Not like the slick, red, twenty-one-speed bike that was stolen the very night Eddy had received it as a birthday present. The bike that Prince Krishna sent is old-fashioned and has a wicker basket -- the kind of bike no self-respecting boy like Eddy would be caught dead riding. Soon, though, Eddy doesn’t care how the bike looks, because it has the ability to travel in ways he never thought possible -- in the fourth dimension. Eddy can’t wait to take the ride of his life, visit important dates in history, and find a way to bypass exam week. But trip

Author: John Langton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: geographical, lancashire, cambridge, studies, west, coalmining, change, industrial, revolution, south
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1980-02-29
List price: $67.50
ISBN-10: 052122490X
ISBN-13: 9780521224901

The economic changes of the industrial revolution came to different parts of England at different times. By examining the geography of these changes, this book shows how the pattern of production in an important coalfield changed as it became part of the regional economic system developing around the port of Liverpool. In the first part of the book the author develops a model for studying the geography of economic change by combining the economic location theory of August Losch with concepts from systems theory. He concludes that normative theories possess great value in allowing an ordered de

Authors:Christopher G. Langton, Taksunori Shimohara,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: systems, living, simulation, complex, adaptive, synthesis, workshop, life, proceedings, fifth, international, artificial
Number of Pages: 525
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0262621118
ISBN-13: 9780262621113

May 16-18, 1996 · Nara, Japan Despite all the successes in computer engineering, adaptive computation, bottom-up AI, and robotics, Artificial Life must not become simply a one-way bridge, borrowing biological principles to enhance our engineering efforts in the construction of life-as-it-could-be. We must ensure that we give back to biology in kind, by developing tools and methods that will be of real value in the effort to understand life-as-it-is. Artificial Life V marks a decade since Christopher Langton organized the first workshop on artificial life -- a decade characterized by t