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UNINA9910452825903321 |
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Autore |
Weber Michel |
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Titolo |
Whitehead's pancreativism [[electronic resource] ] : the basics / / Michel Weber ; foreword by Nicholas Rescher |
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Frankfurt ; ; New Brunswick, : Ontos Verlag, 2006 |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Process Thought ; ; 7 |
Process thought ; ; v. 7 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Creative ability |
Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword / Rescher, Nicholas -- Introduction -- Notes -- I. Historico-Conceptual Context -- II. The Intertwining of Science, Philosophy and Religion -- III. Process and Reality's Goal and Method -- IV. Creative Advance and Categoreal Scheme -- V. Pancreativism -- VI. Epochal Actuality and Types of Potentiality -- VII. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Analytic Table of Contents -- Process Thought Series |
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There is one question that any potential reader who suspects that Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) might be important for past, contemporary, and future philosophy inevitably raises: how should I read Whitehead? How can I make sense of this incredibly dense tissue of imaginative systematizing, spread over decades of work in disciplines so different and specialized as algebra, geometry, logic, relativistic physics and philosophy of science? Accordingly, this monograph has two main complementary objectives. The first one is to propose a set of efficient hermeneutical tools to get the reader started. These straightforward tools provide answers that are highly coherent and probably the most applicable to Whitehead's entire corpus. The second objective is to illustrate how the several parts of Process and Reality are interconnected, something that all commentators have |
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either failed to recognise or only incompletely acknowledged. |
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UNINA9910787547203321 |
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Autore |
Chrismas Robert |
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Titolo |
Canadian policing in the 21st century [[electronic resource] ] : a frontline officer on challenges and changes / / Robert Chrismas |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013 |
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0-7735-8936-8 |
0-7735-8935-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) |
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Police - Canada |
Law enforcement - Canada |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Some Policing History -- Police Roles and the Costs of Justice -- Changing Demands in Policing -- Demographics: How the Police Have Changed -- Technology: How the Tools Have Changed -- Training and Education in Policing -- Aboriginal Peoples and Justice -- Race, Gender, and Changing Attitudes -- Governance and Policing -- Transparency and Accountability -- Changing Police Strategies. |
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