1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001402320203316

Autore

GIANNINI, Gennaro

Titolo

L' assicurazione obbligatoria dei veicoli e dei natanti / Gennaro Giannini, Filippo Martini, Marco Rodolfi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : A. Giuffrè, 2003

ISBN

88-14-10200-7

Descrizione fisica

672 p. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

MARTINI, Filippo

RODOLFI, Marco

Disciplina

346.4508657

Soggetti

Assicurazione di responsabilità civile - Autoveicoli

Imbarcazioni - Assicurazione obbligatoria

Collocazione

XXV.1.H. 684 (IG I 981 A)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458742803321

Autore

Tallis Raymond

Titolo

In defence of wonder and other philosophical reflections

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Routledge, 2016

ISBN

1-138-13507-0

1-315-72993-8

1-84465-526-1

1-317-54741-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

257

Soggetti

Philosophy in literature

Criticism (Philosophy)

Reflection (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Overture: In Defence of Wonder""; ""1. George Moore�s Hands: Scepticism about Philosophy""; ""2. Zhuangzi and that Bloody Butterfly""; ""3. Rescuing Truth""; ""4. Just a Little Tune I Found in my Mouth""; ""5. A Smile at Waterloo Station: On the True Mystery of Memory""; ""6. The Myth of Time Travel""; ""7. Time, Tense and Physics: The Theory of Everything but �""; ""8. Seeing Time""; ""9. Call No Event Future Until it is Past""

""10. On (Almost) Nothing: Concerning Spatial Points""""11. An Introduction to Incontinental Philosophy""; ""12. Biological Reasons for Being Cheerful?""; ""13. The Soup and the Scaffolding""; ""14. Don�t Tell Him, Pike!""; ""15. Okey Doke""; ""16. The Professor of Data-Lean Generalizations""; ""17. “I Kid You Not�: Knowingness and Other Shallows""; ""18. My Bald Head: The Ethics of Hair-Splitting""; ""19. Getting Consciousness to Speak Itself: The Great Unmet Challenge of Realistic Fiction""; ""20. Reader, I Sh***ed Him: Reflections on the Decline of the Asterisk""

""21. Ian McEwan�s Saturday: Does Implausibility Matter?""""22.



Literature, Philosophy and Medicine: On Anton Chekhov�s “Ward No. 6�""; ""23. The Mystery and the Paradox of Scientific Medicine""; ""24. Enhancing Humanity""; ""25. On Not Choosing the Alternative: Reflections on Living Longer""; ""26. Making Use of Death""; ""27. Why I am an Atheist""; ""Coda: Parmenides: The Great Awakening""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

In these lively and provocative essays, philosopher, polymath and all-round intellectual heavyweight, Raymond Tallis debunks commonplace truths, exposes woolly thinking and pulls the rug from beneath a wide range of commentator whether scientist, theologian, philosopher or pundit. Tallis takes to task much of contemporary science and philosophy, arguing that they are guilty of taking us down ever narrowing conduits of problem solving that only invite ever more complex responses and in doing so have lost sight of ""wonder""  -  the metaphysical intoxication that first gave birth to philosophy 2