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Tom Taylor's Civil War
Thomas Thomson Taylor , Margaret Antoinette White Taylor , and Lot 19 Section 1 Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0700610499 |
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Our hurly-burly sagas of war often overlook the deep connections between warriors and the families they left behind. In Tom Taylor's Civil War, eminent Civil War historian Albert Castel brings that familial connection back into sharp focus, reminding us again that soldiers in the field are much more than mere cogs in the machinery of war.A young Ohio lawyer, Thomas Taylor was a junior officer who fought under Sherman at Vicksburg and Chattanooga and on the march through Georgia, and his diary and letters contain vivid descriptions of numerous skirmishes and battles over four years. By interweaving Taylor's words with his own narrative, Albert Castel has fashioned a work on the Civil War as engrossing as a novel; by also including letters from Taylor's wife, he has created a whole new dimension for viewing that conflict.
Often written under adverse conditions, Taylor's descriptions of military encounters are filled with vivid details and perceptive observations. His passages especially provide new insight into the Georgia campaign--including accounts of the Battles of Atlanta and Ezra Church--and into the role of middle-echelon officers in both camp and combat. Castel's bridging narrative is equally dramatic, providing an overview of the fighting that gives readers invaluable context for Taylor's eyewitness reports.
The book chronicles not only Taylor's military career but also the strains it placed on his marriage. Taylor had gone off to war both to fight for his Unionist beliefs and to enhance his reputation in his community, while his wife, Netta, was a peace Democrat whose letters constantly urged Tom to return home. Their epistolary conversation--rare among Civil War sources--reflects a relationship that was as politically charged as it was passionate. Taylor's passages also reveal his changing attitudes: from favoring strong measures against the rebels at the beginning of the war to eventually deploring the destruction he witnessed in Georgia.
Tom Taylor's Civil War is a moving account of one man whose life was ripped apart by war and of the woman back home who remained his anchor through it all. Combining the best features of biography and autobiography, it paints a compelling picture of that conflict that will stir the heart as much as the imagination.
This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.
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Tom Taylor's Civil War
Albert Castel Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NUIPYU |
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Tom Taylors Civil War
Albert Castel Manufacturer: UNIV PRESS OF KS+ ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000VVUP6M |
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Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery (Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers)
J. Hintikka Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 079235477X |
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Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also outlines such a logic. It is the logic of questions and answers. Thus inquiry in the sense of knowledge-seeking becomes inquiry in the sense of interrogation. Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will undoubtedly be considered the fundamental theorem of all epistemology, viz., the virtual identity of optimal strategies of pure discovery with optimal deductive strategies. Questions to Nature, of course, must include observations and experiments. Hintikka shows, in fact, how the logic of experimental inquiry can be understood from the interrogative vantage point. Other important topics examined include induction (in a forgotten sense that has nevertheless played a role in science), explanation, the incommensurability of theories, theory-ladenness of observations, and identifiability.
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The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka (The Library of Living Philosophers)
Manufacturer: Open Court ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0812694627 |
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Knowledge and Belief - An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions
Jaakko Hintikka , Vincent F. Hendricks , and John Symons Manufacturer: College Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1904987087 |
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Knowledge and Belief An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions by Jaakko Hintikka Prepared by Vincent F. Hendricks & John Symons In 1962 Jaakko Hintikka published Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions with Cornell University Press. Almost every paper or a book on epistemic and doxastic logic that has appeared since then has referred to this seminal work. Although many philosophers working in logic, epistemology, game-theory, economics, computer science and linguistics mention the book, it is very likely that most have never literally had their hands on it, much less owned a copy. After a fourth printing in 1969, Knowledge and Belief went out of print and as many of us have found to our dismay, it has become increasingly difficult to find used copies at our local shops or online. It is our pleasure to provide the interdisciplinary community with this reprint edition of Knowledge and Belief. Knowledge and Belief is a classic on which a generation - my generation - of epistemologists cut their teeth. This reissue is welcome. It will provide something for the next generation to chew on. - Fred Dretske, Duke University It is wonderful to see this classic being reissued after so many years out of print. It was extremely influential in its day; its influence continues to this day, through the impact of epistemic logic in fields as diverse distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and game theory. This reissue should make it possible for a new generation of researchers to appreciate Hintikka's groundbreaking work. - Joseph Halpern, Cornell University
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On Godel (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)
Jaakko Hintikka Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0534575951 |
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This brief text assists students in understanding Godel's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON GÖDEL is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this concise book offers sufficient insight into the thinking of a notable philosopher better enabling students to engage in the reading and to discuss the material in class and on paper.Customer Reviews:
Too many typos.......2005-08-25
Very interesting.......2002-10-06
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The Principles of Mathematics Revisited
Jaakko Hintikka Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521624983 |
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This book, written by one of philosophy's preeminent logicians, argues that many of the basic assumptions common to logic, philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics are in need of change. Jaakko Hintikka proposes a new basic first-order logic and uses it to explore the foundations of mathematics. This new logic enables logicians to express on the first-order level such concepts as equicardinality, infinity, and truth in the same language. Hintikka's new logic is highly original and will prove appealing to logicians, philosophers of mathematics, and mathematicians concerned with the foundations of the discipline.Customer Reviews:
The importance is evident even for an amateur.......2003-03-16
A pleasure to read.......2002-11-06
Requirements for reading this book are roughly: a general knowledge of syllogistic and first-order predicate logic, an idea of what Godel's theorem is about and the concept of godel-numbering, some philosophy (e.g., ontology vs. epistemology), but mostly a keen interest at learning about logic and it's foibles and potentials.
Chapter 1 begins with the Hilbert program, and the attempt at axiomatization in general. Chapter 5 clears up alot of confusion about the Godel Incompleteness theorem and what it really means. He delineates between descriptive, semantic, deductive and Hilbertian completeness notions, and describes their inter-relatedness and Godel's theorem's role. These chapters alone are useful for gaining deeper understanding of the problems that arise in syntactic axiomatic deductive systems.
Chapter 7 is on the Liar Paradox, and he offers a unique solution to that based not upon Austinian notions, but rather based upon Hintikka's IF ("independence-friendly") first-order logic which avoids resorting to infinities or relying on any semantic re-interpretation (Hintikka uses a simple formal statement "~T[d]" where d is the godel-number of that statement, as the basis of the discussion).
He then goes on to discuss the presumed role of axiomatic set theory and chips away at it's pretense as a secure foundational approach.
But this merely scratches the surface. The book is primarily about the human decisions that were made, the reasoning behind them and why/where they failed. This is part of what makes it so readable and engaging. For Hintikka, logic and math seem to be very human activities, and there is no attempt to sanitize logic as being something pure or absolute.
As an explication of human decision-making in logic, I think this book has important insights buried within and consequences for the inferential world of logic and mathematics, as well as reasoning in general. It will take several readings to grasp it's profound implications.
'IF logic' itself (chapter 3) is a ridiculously simple and brilliant enhancement to first-order predicate logic, produced merely by lifting the mandatory left-to-right scoping restrictions Frege had placed on quantifiers in the syntax. And he extends (no pun intended) that notion by similarly lifting restrictions on mandatory scoping across operators as well. What arises looks very much like ordinary predicate logic, but the scoping independence opens up new vitality to the logic that makes it's applicability broader, as well as philosophically more interesting.
IF logic, in particular, is more amenable to being about imperfect information, and information independence (hence "independence-friendly logic"). Hintikka's version of truth-definition is about a verification game (as in game theory), not a Tarskian retreat to a metalevel of formalism. Throughout, there are these kinds of comments and concepts on relating logic back to the world.
IF logic is an intriguing example of how a subtle change in rules of syntax can have large consequences, and Hintikka is definitely pushing for it as -the- preferable first-order logic (actually, family of logics) over standard predicate logic. (And for game theoretical semantics and model theory as his preferred meta framework.) However, Hintikka's salesmanship aside, the insights in the book are not dependant on IF as being -the- alternative, but as a demonstration of those insights.
As a non-mathematician/non-logician, I had braced myself for a slog through a dry, tough read (particularly since there are nearly two decades of rust accumulated on my predicate logic skills) despite the positive reviews I had read on Amazon, but was pleasantly surprised at the lively writing style and also the modicum of formulae, with no tedious proofs to sweat over. Even the final chapter on "Epistemology of Mathematical Objects" is quite readable. And with some chapter headings like "Who's Afraid of Alfred Tarski?" and "Axiomatic Set Theory: Fraenkelstein's Monster?" you know the author enjoys his subject matter. :)
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Throwing down the gauntlet!.......2001-08-25
Throwing down the gauntlet!.......2001-08-25
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What If--: Toward Excellence in Reasoning
Jaakko Hintikka , and James Bachman Manufacturer: Mayfield Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0874849640 |
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On Wittgenstein (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)
Jaakko Hintikka Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0534575943 |
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This brief text assists students in understanding Wittgenstein's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON WITTGENSTEIN is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this concise book offers sufficient insight into the thinking of a notable philosopher better enabling students to engage in the reading and to discuss the material in class and on paper.Customer Reviews:
unusual angel, jargony and a bit mean.......2003-07-06
An utterly useless and ill-informed book.......2001-02-23
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On Hintikka (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)
Daniel Kolak Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 053458389X |
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This brief text assists students in understanding Hintikka's philosophy and thinking so they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Notes Series, (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON HINTIKKA is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this concise book offers sufficient insight into the thinking of a notable philosopher, better enabling students to engage in reading and to discuss the material in class and on paper.
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Time and Necessity: Studies in Aristotle's Theory of Modality
Jaakko Hintikka Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0198243650 |
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Analyses of Aristotle (Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers)
J. Hintikka Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1402020406 |
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Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. In particular, logic was originally a study of answers necessitated by earlier answers. For Aristotle, thought-experiments were real experiments in the sense that by realizing forms in one's mind, one can read off their properties and interrelations. Treating forms as independent entities, knowable one by one, committed Aristotle to his mode of syllogistic explanation. He did not think of existence, predication and identity as separate senses of estin. Aristotle thus serves as an example of a thinker who did not rely on the distinction between the allegedly different Fregean senses, thereby shedding new light on our own conceptual presuppositions. This collection comprises several striking interpretations that Jaakko Hintikka has put forward over the years, constituting a challenge not only to Aristotelian scholars and historians of ideas, but to everyone interested in logic, epistemology or metaphysics and in their history.Customer Reviews:
Hintikka on Aristolelian Induction.......2007-01-28
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