Author: Garry Will
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: federalist, america, explaining
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140298398
ISBN-13: 9780140298390

In 1787 and 1788, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison published what remains perhaps the greatest example of political journalism in the English language-the Federalist Papers. Written to urge ratification of the Constitution, the eighty-five essays-trenchant in thought and graceful in expression-defended the Constitution not merely as a theoretical statement but as a practical instrument of rule. Now updated with a new introduction, Garry Wills’s classic study subjects these essays to rigorous analysis, illuminating, as only he can, their significance in the development of the philosop

Author: Shaohua Hu
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: democratization, chinese, explaining
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-01-30
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 0275965538
ISBN-13: 9780275965532

Hu’s study represents the first systematic examination of the democratization process in China. It covers traditional, Republican, Maoist, and Dengist China, and uses historical legacies, local forces, the world system, socialist values, and economic development to explain China’s difficulty in establishing a democratic system.

Author: Carl F. Craver
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: brain, explaining
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-08-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0199568227
ISBN-13: 9780199568222

What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craver constructs and defends standards for evaluating neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a systematic view of what neuroscientific explanations are: descriptions of multilevel mechanisms. In developing this approach, he draws on a wide range of examples in the history of neuroscience (e.g. Hodgkin and Huxleys model of the action potential and LTP as a putative explanation for different kinds of memory), as well as recent philosophical work on the nature of scientific explanation. Readers in neuroscience, psy

Author: Stephen P. Turner
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: normative, explaining
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-05-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 074564256X
ISBN-13: 9780745642567

Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,’ ‘ought,’ ‘must,’ and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the philosophers committed to this idea, admit that the idea of a non-causal normative realm and a body of normative objects is spooky. Explaining the Normative is the first systematic, historically grounded critique of normativism. It identifies the standard normativist pattern of argument, and shows how th

Author: John B. Allcock
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: yugoslavia, explaining
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0231120540
ISBN-13: 9780231120548

Yugoslavia and its history are often in the news yet poorly understood. Traversing the politics, economics, demography, and culture of the former Yugoslavia, John B. Allcock examines and makes sense of the region´s troubled past and troubling present. Though many think of the Balkans as a uniquely troubled region, the author asserts that the continuities in Balkan history constitute the same processes of development that have occurred in other societies and are part of the ongoing process of global modernization. One can read here about the rise of the Balkan states and the decline of the gr

Author: Peter Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: chaos, explaining
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1998-11-13
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521477476
ISBN-13: 9780521477475

Chaotic dynamics has been hailed as the third great scientific revolution in physics in this century, comparable to relativity and quantum mechanics. In this book, Peter Smith takes a cool, critical look at such claims. He cuts through the hype and rhetoric by explaining some of the basic mathematical ideas in a clear and accessible way, and by carefully discussing the methodological issues that arise. In particular, he explores the new kinds of explanation of empirical phenomena that modern dynamics can deliver. Explaining Chaos will be compulsory reading for philosophers of science and for a

Author: John B. Allcock
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: yugoslavia, explaining
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-12
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0231120559
ISBN-13: 9780231120555