Understanding Earth : biomass burning

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910713924403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Greenbelt, Maryland : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (9 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
• Soggetti: Biomass - Combustion; Biomass energy; Earth (Planet)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "NP-2011-10-250-GSFC."

Empiricism and experience / / Anil Gupta

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953332303321
• Autore: Gupta Anil <1949->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-84599-6; 0-19-534592-4; 1-4294-3865-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 146/.44
• Soggetti: Experience; Knowledge, Theory of; Empiricism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- 1. Two Truisms -- 2. Some Virtues Of Classical ; Empiricism -- 3. Interdependent Definitions: An Introduction -- 4. A Model Of Experience And Knowledge -- 5. Direct Awareness, Semantics, And Solipsism -- 6. A Reformed Empiricism -- 7. Removing Idealization -- 8. Concluding Remarks -- Supplement On "Experience" -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The author asks one of the key questions in philosophy: what is the contribution of experience of knowledge? He uses tools from philosophical logic to show that a natural account of experience is available using the interdependence of views and perceptual judgements.