The Unity Of Knowledge And Action

Author : Warren G. Frisina
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488667
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unity of Knowledge and Action written by Warren G. Frisina and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon insights from the sixteenth century Neo-Confucian Wang Yang-ming, the American pragmatist John Dewey, and the process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, this book argues that knowledge is best understood as a form of action. Many of the most puzzling philosophic problems in the modern era can be traced to our tendency to assume that knowledge is separate from action. Letting go of the sharp knowledge-action distinction, however, makes possible a more coherent theory of knowledge that is more adaptive to the way we experience one another, the world, and ourselves. By responding directly to problems raised by contemporary thinkers like Charles Taylor, Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Daniel Dennett, Mark Johnson, George Lakoff, and Robert Neville, this book maps out a strategy for making progress in the contemporary quest for a "nonrepresentational theory of knowledge."

Author : E. O. Wilson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804154066
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consilience written by E. O. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.

Author : Joseph Hocking
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1638356211
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unity in Action written by Joseph Hocking and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Manning's bestselling and highly recommended Unity book has been fully revised! Unity in Action, Second Edition teaches you to write and deploy games with the Unity game development platform. You'll master the Unity toolset from the ground up, adding the skills you need to go from application coder to game developer. Foreword by Jesse Schell, author of The Art of Game Design Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Build your next game without sweating the low-level details. The Unity game development platform handles the heavy lifting, so you can focus on game play, graphics, and user experience. With support for C# programming, a huge ecosystem of production-quality prebuilt assets, and a strong dev community, Unity can get your next great game idea off the drawing board and onto the screen! About the Book Unity in Action, Second Edition teaches you to write and deploy games with Unity. As you explore the many interesting examples, you'll get hands-on practice with Unity's intuitive workflow tools and state-of-the-art rendering engine. This practical guide exposes every aspect of the game dev process, from the initial groundwork to creating custom AI scripts and building easy-to-read UIs. And because you asked for it, this totally revised Second Edition includes a new chapter on building 2D platformers with Unity's expanded 2D toolkit. What's Inside Revised for new best practices, updates, and more! 2D and 3D games Characters that run, jump, and bump into things Connect your games to the internet About the Reader You need to know C# or a similar language. No game development knowledge is assumed. About the Author Joe Hocking is a software engineer and Unity expert specializing in interactive media development. Table of Contents PART 1 - First steps Getting to know Unity Building a demo that puts you in 3D space Adding enemies and projectiles to the 3D game Developing graphics for your game PART 2 - Getting comfortable Building a Memory game using Unity's 2D functionality Creating a basic 2D Platformer Putting a GUI onto a game Creating a third-person 3D game: player movement and animation Adding interactive devices and items within the game PART 3 - Strong finish Connecting your game to the internet Playing audio: sound effects and music Putting the parts together into a complete game Deploying your game to players' devices

Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429876432
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quest for the Unity of Knowledge written by David Lowenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of evidence. Contrary views pit science against the arts and humanities. Scientists generally laud and seek convergence. Artists and humanists deplore amalgamation as a threat to humane values. These opposing perspectives flamed into hostility in the 1950s "Two Cultures" clash. They culminate today in new efforts to conjoin insights into physical nature and human culture, and new fears lest such syntheses submerge what the arts and humanities most value. This book, stemming from David Lowenthal’s inaugural Stockholm Archipelago Lectures, explores the Two Cultures quarrel’s underlying ideologies. Lowenthal shows how ingrained bias toward unity or diversity shapes major issues in education, religion, genetics, race relations, heritage governance, and environmental policy. Aimed at a general academic audience, Quest for the Unity of Knowledge especially targets those in conservation, ecology, history of ideas, museology, and heritage studies.

Author : Chantal Jaquet
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474433200
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza written by Chantal Jaquet and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through affects, actions and passions.

Author : Antonio S. Cua
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unity of Knowledge and Action written by Antonio S. Cua and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jin Chen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000585638
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Knowledge Management written by Jin Chen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge when properly leveraged and harnessed contributes to effective organizational performance. How much an organization benefits from knowledge would depend on how well knowledge has been managed. There have been challenges to implementing knowledge management in today’s dramatically different world from before. This comprehensive reference work is a timely guide to understanding knowledge management. The book covers key themes of knowledge management which includes the basic framework of knowledge management and helps readers to understand the state of art of knowledge management both from the aspects of theory and practice, from the perspectives of strategy, organization, resources, as well as institution and organizational culture. This reference work reflects the increasingly important role of both philosophy and digital technologies in knowledge management research and practice. This handbook will be an essential resource for knowledge management scholars, researchers and graduate students.

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consilience written by Edward O. Wilson and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormous intellectual adventure, this groundbreaking new book showcases Wilson's argument for what he calls consilience--the proof that everything in our world is organized by a small number of fundamental natural laws that comprise the principles governing every branch of learning.

Author : Frederick Goodrich Henke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Wang Yang-Ming written by Frederick Goodrich Henke and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonio S. Cua
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135367485
Total Pages : 1043 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy written by Antonio S. Cua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from the world's most highly esteemed Asian philosophy scholars, this important new encyclopedia covers the complex and increasingly influential field of Chinese thought, from earliest recorded times to the present day. Including coverage on the subject previously unavailable to English speakers, the Encyclopedia sheds light on the extensive range of concepts, movements, philosophical works, and thinkers that populate the field. It includes a thorough survey of the history of Chinese philosophy; entries on all major thinkers from Confucius to Mou Zongsan; essential topics such as aesthetics, moral philosophy, philosophy of government, and philosophy of literature; surveys of Confucianism in all historical periods (Zhou, Han, Tang, and onward) and in key regions outside China; schools of thought such as Mohism, Legalism, and Chinese Buddhism; trends in contemporary Chinese philosophy, and more.