1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779062203321

Autore

Van Wienen Mark W

Titolo

American socialist triptych : the literary-political work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du Bois / / Mark W. Van Wienen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

1-283-37505-2

9786613375056

0-472-02808-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Class : culture

Classificazione

HU 1075

HU 1745

HU 3535

HU 5289

HU 8415

Disciplina

810.9/3581

Soggetti

Socialism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Socialism and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Socialism - United States - History - 20th century

Socialism - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Looking backward, working forward : fin de siècle socialism according to Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The multiplicity of American socialism : Upton Sinclair and the "party of agitation," 1901-1914 -- The feminism of American socialism : Gilman and company at work, in love, and on trial -- Within the veil : W.E.B. Du Bois and the Second Internationale, 1909-1919 -- Call and response : the politics of literary utopianism and realism -- Utopia and apocalypse : social democratic fiction and the Great War -- Heaven and earth : revelations and doubt in the Sacco-Vanzetti decade -- Once more unto the breach : social democratic advance and retreat in the Red decade -- Reading The jungle at breakfast : the new deal and other social democratic legacies.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784575403321

Autore

Achinstein Peter

Titolo

The book of evidence [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Achinstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-983302-8

9786610427918

1-280-42791-4

1-4237-5646-0

0-19-803291-9

1-60256-488-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in philosophy of science

Disciplina

121/.65

Soggetti

Evidence

Logic

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""1. The Dean's Challenge""; ""2. Concepts of Evidence, or How the Electron Got Its Charge""; ""3. Two Major Probabilistic Theories of Evidence""; ""4. What's Wrong with These Probabilistic Theories of Evidence?""; ""5. Objective Epistemic Probability""; ""6. Evidence, High Probability, and Belief""; ""7. The Explanatory Connection""; ""8. Final Definitions and Realism""; ""9. Two Paradoxes of Evidence: Ravens and Grue""; ""10. Explanation versus Prediction: Which Carries More Evidential Weight?""; ""11. Old-Age and New-Age Holism""

""12. Evidence for Molecules: Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality""""13. Who Really Discovered the Electron?""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Sommario/riassunto

What is required for something to be evidence for an hypothesis? In this text, Peter Achinstein, introduces here a basic concept of potential evidence which is characterised using a novel epistemic interpretation of probability.