Not Intuitively Obvious
Not Intuitively Obvious

Author: J.A. Rodriguez Jr.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-03-16

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1453550496

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Visit: NotIntuitivelyObvious.com or click here for more information. Not Intuitively Obvious: Transition to the Professional Work Environment is a book directed at one goal: to provide you with the knowledge to excel in the professional work environment without the requisite of devoting many years learning from mistakes. This priceless knowledge and eventual wisdom is not intuitively obvious and is offered to you from the memoirs of seasoned professionals, who have learned these lessons through years of experience, trials, tribulations, and hardships. This book will teach you how to attain expectation fulfillment and manage the organizational perceptions that guide your professional destiny and is written from two perspectives: (1) a senior management perspective that details management thought processes and expectations of employees and (2) an employees perspective that sheds light on the reasons why some professionals rarely advance up the corporate ladder while others ascend successfully. Your challenges, situational circumstances, and your conditions will be different; nonetheless, the concepts of integrity, ethics, perception management, performance and expectation fulfillment, respect for others, and respect for your company are everlasting. Apply the approaches described in this book, and you will increase your chances of succeeding in your professional endeavors. Rodrguez dispenses well-timed advice during difficult economic times, while also including a thought inspiring workbook. Informative and engaging, this book will help guide the new professionals destiny towards success by offering the keys previously only available to the seasoned professional. To order autograph copies of Not Intuitively Obvious, click here. Click here to view J. A. Rodrguez Jr.s YouTube Channel videos.

In the Light of Experience
In the Light of Experience

Author: Johan Gersel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-06-13

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0192537482

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How does the idea that perception must provide reasons for our empirical judgements constrain our conception of our perceptual experiences? This volume presents ten new essays on perception which in different ways address this fundamental question. Charles Travis and John McDowell debate whether we need to ascribe content to experience in order to understand how it can provide the subject with reasons. Other essays address issues such as the following: What exactly is the Myth of the Given and why should it be worthwhile to try to avoid it? What constitutes our experiential reasons? Is it experiences themselves, the objects of experiences, or facts about our experiences? Should we conceive of experiential reasons as conclusive reasons? How should we conceive of the fallibility of our perceptual capacities if we think of experiences as capable of providing conclusive reasons? How should we conceive of the objects of experience? The contributors offer a variety of views on the reason-giving potential of experience, engaging explicitly and critically with each other's work.

Two Minds
Two Minds

Author: Roger Frantz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-07-02

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0387239340

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As everyone knows, intuition is warm and fuzzy, qualitative, not measurable. Economics, on the other hand, is quantitative, and if it is not a hard science, at least it is the "queen of the social sciences." It is, therefore, intuitively obvious, that intuition and economics are as if oil and water. The problem is, what is intuitively obvious is not always correct. And, there are two major reasons why intuition and economics are not like oil and water. First, economics concerns itself with decision making, and decisions are made in the brain. The human brain is the size of a grapefruit, weighing three pounds with approximately 180 billion neurons, each physically independent but interacting with the other neurons. What we call intuition is, like decision making, a natural information processing function of the brain. Second, despite the current emphasis on quantitative analysis and deductive logic there is a rich history of economists speaking about intuition. First, the human brain, specifically the neocortex, has a left and right hemisphere. The specialized analytical style of the left hemisphere and the specialized intuitive style of the right hemispheres complement each other.

Topology for Physicists
Topology for Physicists

Author: Albert S. Schwarz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 3662029987

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In recent years topology has firmly established itself as an important part of the physicist's mathematical arsenal. Topology has profound relevance to quantum field theory-for example, topological nontrivial solutions of the classical equa tions of motion (solitons and instantons) allow the physicist to leave the frame work of perturbation theory. The significance of topology has increased even further with the development of string theory, which uses very sharp topologi cal methods-both in the study of strings, and in the pursuit of the transition to four-dimensional field theories by means of spontaneous compactification. Im portant applications of topology also occur in other areas of physics: the study of defects in condensed media, of singularities in the excitation spectrum of crystals, of the quantum Hall effect, and so on. Nowadays, a working knowledge of the basic concepts of topology is essential to quantum field theorists; there is no doubt that tomorrow this will also be true for specialists in many other areas of theoretical physics. The amount of topological information used in the physics literature is very large. Most common is homotopy theory. But other subjects also play an important role: homology theory, fibration theory (and characteristic classes in particular), and also branches of mathematics that are not directly a part of topology, but which use topological methods in an essential way: for example, the theory of indices of elliptic operators and the theory of complex manifolds.

Rethinking the Good
Rethinking the Good

Author: Larry S. Temkin

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-01-20

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 0199759448

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This book discusses a broad range of issues concerning normative ethics, ethical theory, and practical rationality.

Knowledge and the Gettier Problem
Knowledge and the Gettier Problem

Author: Stephen Cade Hetherington

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1107149568

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This book enriches our understanding of knowledge and Gettier's challenge, stimulating debate on a central epistemological issue.

Shakespeare and Judgment
Shakespeare and Judgment

Author: Kevin Curran

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1474413161

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Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaShakespeare and Judgment gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career and from each of the genres in which he wrote. Anchoring the volume are two critical contentions: first, that attending to Shakespeare's treatment of judgment leads to fresh insights about the imaginative relationship between law, theater, and aesthetics in early modern England; and second, that it offers new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation. Taken together, the essays in Shakespeare and Judgment offer a genuinely new account of the historical and intellectual coordinates of Shakespeare's plays. Building on current work in legal studies, religious studies, theater history, and critical theory, the volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working on Shakespeare and early modern drama. Key FeaturesProvides the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaOffers a fresh perspective on the imaginative relationship between law, religion, and aesthetics in Shakespeare's playsModels new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation.

Assessment of Trauma in Youths
Assessment of Trauma in Youths

Author: Kathleen Nader

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1134905963

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Assessment of Trauma in Youths: Understanding issues of age, complexity, and associated variables is a collection of articles by well-known specialists in the field of childhood trauma. The articles describe developmental issues in addition to others that are important to the assessment of trauma-exposed youth, to the ongoing refinement of trauma-related diagnoses for children, and to understanding PTSD and more complicated reactions to trauma for young people. The book explores trauma in very young to middle childhood aged children, trauma in adolescents, childhood complicated trauma, and childhood complicated grief. It considers PTSD and Reactive Attachment Disorder as well as discussing disorders that are under continued study such as Developmental Trauma Disorder, Prolonged Grief Disorder, and Traumatic Grief. In the second half of the book, chapters look at the associated features of childhood traumatic response such as genetics and personality, cortisol, poly-victimization, and guilt and shame. Variables such as cortisol reactivity and guilt/shame may influence or follow traumas in children. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.

Three in One
Three in One

Author: Michael Novak

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780742511712

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Throughout his many writings, Michael Novak, one of the leading Catholic social theorists of our times, has urged us to adopt a tripartite system of democratic capitalism including a market economy, a democratic polity, and a moral-cultural system that would nourish the values and virtues on which free societies depend. Three in One introduces the reader to Novak's portrait of democratic capitalism.