Deny All Knowledge
Deny All Knowledge

Author: David Lavery

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1996-12-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780815604075

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The X-Files was one of the most subversive and longest-running science fiction series in US television history. Yet very little serious work has been done to examine the hit series. Deny All Knowledge examines topics such as: - Why is the series such a hit worldwide? - Why is The X-Files so popular online, generating dozens of websites and chat groups daily? - How does The X-Files' Conspiracy Theory compares to shows from the 1950s? - Can The X-Files be considered a modern-day myth? - What does The X-Files tell us about gender roles today?

Skeptical Invariantism Reconsidered
Skeptical Invariantism Reconsidered

Author: Christos Kyriacou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-27

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1000405184

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This collection of original essays explores the topic of skeptical invariantism in theory of knowledge. It eschews historical perspectives and focuses on this traditionally underexplored, semantic characterization of skepticism. The book provides a carefully structured, state-of-the-art overview of skeptical invariantism and offers up new questions and avenues for future research. It treats this semantic form of skepticism as a serious position rather than assuming that skepticism is false and attempting to diagnose where arguments for skepticism go wrong. The essays take up a wide range of different philosophical perspectives on three key questions in the debate about skeptical invariantism: (1) whether the standards for knowledge vary, (2) how demanding the standards for knowledge are, and (3) whether the kind of evidence, reasons, methods, processes, etc. that we can bring to bear are sufficient to meet those standards. Skeptical Invariantism Reconsidered will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in epistemology and the philosophy of language.

PopLit, PopCult and The X-Files
PopLit, PopCult and The X-Files

Author: Jan Delasara

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0786483326

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For six acclaimed seasons, FBI paranormal detectives Mulder and Scully have been chasing monsters and little green men and exposing government conspiracies, while espousing the mantras "trust no one" and "the truth is out there." This work takes a close look at the popular television series and shows how its style, character and narrative structure have continued to tease and please a wide viewing audience every week for six years. The first section examines the text of the series and the progression of its mythic story arc. This part also looks at the show's use of expressionistic techniques in both its visual and sound effects; the related tropes of self-reflexive humor, irony and the grotesque; and its ability to give the audience an occasional strong sensory jolt. The second section explores the context that has given rise to The X-Files phenomenon in the 1990s. The show's gothic horror tradition is established, and its contribution to the Zeitgeist of the 90s is also acknowledged.

Extensions
Extensions

Author: Sue Hosking

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781862544987

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Extensions is a refreshing and stimulating collection of essays that illustrates the diversity of subject matter and the variety of critical approaches now used in English Studies. Covering traditional and contemporary works, this book encourages readers to rethink and rediscover aspects of familiar texts.

The Philosophy of Physical Science
The Philosophy of Physical Science

Author: Sir Arthur Eddington

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 3734792207

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It is often said that there is no "philosophy of science", but only the philosophies of certain scientists. But in so far as we recognize an authoritative body of opinion which decides what is and what is not accepted as present-day physics, there is an ascertainable present-day philosophy of physical science. It is the philosophy to which those who follow the accepted practice of science stand committed by their practice. This book contains the substance of the course of lectures which the author Eddington delivered as Tarner Lecturer of Trinity College Cambridge in the Easter Term 1938. The lectures have afforded him an opportunity of developing more fully than in his earlier books the principles of philosophic thought associated with the modern advances of physical science.

The Origin of Christian Science
The Origin of Christian Science

Author: Thomas Polhill Stafford

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13:

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This work presents an interesting overview of Christian Science as a philosophy. The writer gave proofs in this essay that he stated would be definitive in balance to one's accuracy of knowledge of Christian Science or Neoplatonism. Contents include: Introduction The Problem and the Proof Theology Cosmology Anthropology Psychology Ethics Bibliography