Info
- Utilizzare la checkbox di selezione a fianco di ciascun documento per attivare le funzionalità di stampa, invio email, download nei formati disponibili del (i) record.
How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity / / James R. Flynn
| How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity / / James R. Flynn |
| Autore | Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Neb. : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Disciplina | 171/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Humanistic ethics
Social sciences and ethics |
| ISBN |
0-8032-0261-X
0-585-31135-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778853203321 |
Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.>
|
||
| Lincoln, Neb. : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity / / James R. Flynn
| How to defend humane ideals : substitutes for objectivity / / James R. Flynn |
| Autore | Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, Neb. : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Disciplina | 171/.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Humanistic ethics
Social sciences and ethics |
| ISBN |
0-8032-0261-X
0-585-31135-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- How to Defend Humane Ideals -- introduction THE PROBLEM -- Truth-Tests and What We Have Lost -- part one THE LIMITATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY -- Plato and Thrasymachus -- Truth-Tests and Proofs -- Kant and Sister Simplice -- transition AN AGENDA -- Morality and Moral Debate -- part two THE POTENCY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Race and Class -- Superpeople and Supermen -- Justice and Meritocracy -- Humanism and Postmodernism -- conclusion UNSOLVED PROBLEMS -- The Personal and the Conventional -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808748403321 |
|
Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.>
|
||
| Lincoln, Neb. : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
How to improve your mind [[electronic resource] ] : twenty keys to unlock the modern world / / James R. Flynn
| How to improve your mind [[electronic resource] ] : twenty keys to unlock the modern world / / James R. Flynn |
| Autore | Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina |
153
153.4/3 153.43 |
| Soggetto topico |
Critical thinking
Intellect Knowledge, Sociology of |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-59909-0
9786613911544 1-118-31500-6 1-118-31499-9 1-118-31501-4 |
| Classificazione | PSY023000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
How to Improve Your Mind: Twenty Keys to Unlock the Modern World; Contents; List of Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap; Wherein I Seek Rapport with the Reader; Key Concepts and Anti-Keys; Universities and the Knowledge Trap; Substitute for a Diary; Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong; 2 Logic and Moral Debate - Attacks on Blacks; Blacks and Blackness; Taking the Hypothetical Seriously; Abortion and Its Slogans; Women and Femininity; The Unborn Mosquito; 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies - No Private Clubs; Tautologies
Tautologies Pretending to be Something ElseFalsification; Tautologies Used to Include or Exclude; Is Evolution a Tautology?; 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences - be Judgmental; Facts and Values; The Relevance of Facts; The Nihilist Fallacy; The Tolerance School Fallacy; The One-Way Street; Indignation and Ignorance; 5 But that is Unnatural - Words Best Never Said; The Criterion of Being in Accord with Nature; The Criterion of Non-Interference with Nature; The Criterion of Imitating Nature; The Criterion of Preserving Nature; Using "Nature" Sensibly; The Limitations of Philosophy Part 2 The Truth about People6 Random Sample - Quality Not Size; Quality Not Size; Statistical Significance; Why Some Prefer Bad Polls; Taking Bad Polls Without Realizing It; 7 Intelligence Quotient - Hanging the Intellectually Disabled; Understanding IQ Scores; Adjusting IQ Scores; Death Row; The Significance of IQ Scores; 8 Intelligence Quotient - and the Black/White IQ Gap; Correlations and Regression to the Mean; Uses and Abuses of Regression; Regression and Race; Regression not a Cause; 9 Control Group - How Studying People Changes Them; Hidden Factors Sugar Pills and the "Hypnotic State"Doctors and Pharmacists; Control Group; Good Luck; Making You Own Luck; Unavoidable Bad Luck; 10 The Sociologist's Fallacy - Ignoring the Real World; Matching for SES; Matching Professions; The Easiest Kind of Matching; Under-Identified Models; Marx and Popper; Marx and History; Meritocracy and History; Concepts Plus Arithmetic; Part 3 The Market and Its Church; 11 Creating a Market - Not a Frankenstein; The Market and Racial Profiles; What is Money?; When Does a Market Exist?; Selecting Who Can Participate: Free Trade? Selecting Tradable Goods, Services, and InformationPrices, Costs, Income, and Profits; 12 Market Forces - How they Take their Revenge; Rent Controls; Schools Vouchers; Regulating Prices in General; A Free Good; The Strange Case of the Conventional Tip; Regulating Wages and Supplementing Incomes; Regulating inheritance; Making a Public Park; 13 Market Worship - No Ritual Sacrifices; The Tennessee Valley; Universities and Cargo Cults; The Market and Environmental Disaster; The Market and Benevolence; Personifying or Objectifying the Market; Future of the Market; The Market and its Church 14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141255603321 |
|
Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.>
|
||
| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
How to improve your mind [[electronic resource] ] : twenty keys to unlock the modern world / / James R. Flynn
| How to improve your mind [[electronic resource] ] : twenty keys to unlock the modern world / / James R. Flynn |
| Autore | Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina |
153
153.4/3 153.43 |
| Soggetto topico |
Critical thinking
Intellect Knowledge, Sociology of |
| ISBN |
1-283-59909-0
9786613911544 1-118-31500-6 1-118-31499-9 1-118-31501-4 |
| Classificazione | PSY023000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
How to Improve Your Mind: Twenty Keys to Unlock the Modern World; Contents; List of Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap; Wherein I Seek Rapport with the Reader; Key Concepts and Anti-Keys; Universities and the Knowledge Trap; Substitute for a Diary; Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong; 2 Logic and Moral Debate - Attacks on Blacks; Blacks and Blackness; Taking the Hypothetical Seriously; Abortion and Its Slogans; Women and Femininity; The Unborn Mosquito; 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies - No Private Clubs; Tautologies
Tautologies Pretending to be Something ElseFalsification; Tautologies Used to Include or Exclude; Is Evolution a Tautology?; 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences - be Judgmental; Facts and Values; The Relevance of Facts; The Nihilist Fallacy; The Tolerance School Fallacy; The One-Way Street; Indignation and Ignorance; 5 But that is Unnatural - Words Best Never Said; The Criterion of Being in Accord with Nature; The Criterion of Non-Interference with Nature; The Criterion of Imitating Nature; The Criterion of Preserving Nature; Using "Nature" Sensibly; The Limitations of Philosophy Part 2 The Truth about People6 Random Sample - Quality Not Size; Quality Not Size; Statistical Significance; Why Some Prefer Bad Polls; Taking Bad Polls Without Realizing It; 7 Intelligence Quotient - Hanging the Intellectually Disabled; Understanding IQ Scores; Adjusting IQ Scores; Death Row; The Significance of IQ Scores; 8 Intelligence Quotient - and the Black/White IQ Gap; Correlations and Regression to the Mean; Uses and Abuses of Regression; Regression and Race; Regression not a Cause; 9 Control Group - How Studying People Changes Them; Hidden Factors Sugar Pills and the "Hypnotic State"Doctors and Pharmacists; Control Group; Good Luck; Making You Own Luck; Unavoidable Bad Luck; 10 The Sociologist's Fallacy - Ignoring the Real World; Matching for SES; Matching Professions; The Easiest Kind of Matching; Under-Identified Models; Marx and Popper; Marx and History; Meritocracy and History; Concepts Plus Arithmetic; Part 3 The Market and Its Church; 11 Creating a Market - Not a Frankenstein; The Market and Racial Profiles; What is Money?; When Does a Market Exist?; Selecting Who Can Participate: Free Trade? Selecting Tradable Goods, Services, and InformationPrices, Costs, Income, and Profits; 12 Market Forces - How they Take their Revenge; Rent Controls; Schools Vouchers; Regulating Prices in General; A Free Good; The Strange Case of the Conventional Tip; Regulating Wages and Supplementing Incomes; Regulating inheritance; Making a Public Park; 13 Market Worship - No Ritual Sacrifices; The Tennessee Valley; Universities and Cargo Cults; The Market and Environmental Disaster; The Market and Benevolence; Personifying or Objectifying the Market; Future of the Market; The Market and its Church 14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830951603321 |
|
Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.>
|
||
| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
How to improve your mind [[electronic resource] ] : twenty keys to unlock the modern world / / James R. Flynn
| How to improve your mind [[electronic resource] ] : twenty keys to unlock the modern world / / James R. Flynn |
| Autore | Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina |
153
153.4/3 153.43 |
| Soggetto topico |
Critical thinking
Intellect Knowledge, Sociology of |
| ISBN |
1-283-59909-0
9786613911544 1-118-31500-6 1-118-31499-9 1-118-31501-4 |
| Classificazione | PSY023000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
How to Improve Your Mind: Twenty Keys to Unlock the Modern World; Contents; List of Figures and Boxes; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Knowledge Trap; Wherein I Seek Rapport with the Reader; Key Concepts and Anti-Keys; Universities and the Knowledge Trap; Substitute for a Diary; Part 1 Arguing about Right and Wrong; 2 Logic and Moral Debate - Attacks on Blacks; Blacks and Blackness; Taking the Hypothetical Seriously; Abortion and Its Slogans; Women and Femininity; The Unborn Mosquito; 3 Getting Rid of Tautologies - No Private Clubs; Tautologies
Tautologies Pretending to be Something ElseFalsification; Tautologies Used to Include or Exclude; Is Evolution a Tautology?; 4 The Naturalistic Fallacy and Its Consequences - be Judgmental; Facts and Values; The Relevance of Facts; The Nihilist Fallacy; The Tolerance School Fallacy; The One-Way Street; Indignation and Ignorance; 5 But that is Unnatural - Words Best Never Said; The Criterion of Being in Accord with Nature; The Criterion of Non-Interference with Nature; The Criterion of Imitating Nature; The Criterion of Preserving Nature; Using "Nature" Sensibly; The Limitations of Philosophy Part 2 The Truth about People6 Random Sample - Quality Not Size; Quality Not Size; Statistical Significance; Why Some Prefer Bad Polls; Taking Bad Polls Without Realizing It; 7 Intelligence Quotient - Hanging the Intellectually Disabled; Understanding IQ Scores; Adjusting IQ Scores; Death Row; The Significance of IQ Scores; 8 Intelligence Quotient - and the Black/White IQ Gap; Correlations and Regression to the Mean; Uses and Abuses of Regression; Regression and Race; Regression not a Cause; 9 Control Group - How Studying People Changes Them; Hidden Factors Sugar Pills and the "Hypnotic State"Doctors and Pharmacists; Control Group; Good Luck; Making You Own Luck; Unavoidable Bad Luck; 10 The Sociologist's Fallacy - Ignoring the Real World; Matching for SES; Matching Professions; The Easiest Kind of Matching; Under-Identified Models; Marx and Popper; Marx and History; Meritocracy and History; Concepts Plus Arithmetic; Part 3 The Market and Its Church; 11 Creating a Market - Not a Frankenstein; The Market and Racial Profiles; What is Money?; When Does a Market Exist?; Selecting Who Can Participate: Free Trade? Selecting Tradable Goods, Services, and InformationPrices, Costs, Income, and Profits; 12 Market Forces - How they Take their Revenge; Rent Controls; Schools Vouchers; Regulating Prices in General; A Free Good; The Strange Case of the Conventional Tip; Regulating Wages and Supplementing Incomes; Regulating inheritance; Making a Public Park; 13 Market Worship - No Ritual Sacrifices; The Tennessee Valley; Universities and Cargo Cults; The Market and Environmental Disaster; The Market and Benevolence; Personifying or Objectifying the Market; Future of the Market; The Market and its Church 14 The Economic Collapse of 2008 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910841127403321 |
|
Flynn James R (James Robert), <1934-2020.>
|
||
| Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||