Deprivation and freedom : a philosophical enquiry / by Hull, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…Relative social deprivation -- Disability as social deprivation -- Deprivation as a restriction of freedom -- The doing/allowing distinction -- Knowledge and intention -- Consequences, duties and rights -- Applications -- Nozick's retort : natural assets and arbitrariness -- An argument from democracy -- Nietzsche's thought experiment : the idea of eternal recurrence -- The role of genealogy -- Other ways of seeing.…”
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Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / by Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures -- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology -- Proust, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.…”
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Extreme fabulations : science fictions of life / by Shaviro, Steven

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Archive that, comrade! : left legacies and the counter culture of remembrance / by Cohen, Philip, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…A Tale of Two ArchivesBetween Realpolitik and Dingpolitik: The Living Archive in a 'Post-information' Age; The Adoptive Archive: A Thought Experiment; Left Field and the Quest for Uncommon Ground; Lest We Remember, Lest We Forget: On Iconoclasm and the Problematics of Silence; Archival In/Disciplines; Curating the Anarchive; Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future; The Arc of Memory; Postscript: The Politics of False Memory in the Age of 'Post-Truth'; Notes; Further Reading; About the Author; Index.…”
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Technological unemployment, basic income, and wellbeing / by D'Orlando, Fabio, 1962-

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Consciousness revisited : materialism without phenomenal concepts / by Tye, Michael

Table of Contents: “…-- The explanatory gap -- The hard problem -- The possibility of zombies -- Change blindness and the refrigerator light illusion -- A closer look at the change blindness hypotheses -- The no-seeum view -- Sperling and the refrigerator light -- Phenomenology and cognitive accessibility -- A further change blindness experiment -- Another brick in the wall -- Privileged access, phenomenal character, and externalism -- The threat to privileged access -- A Burgean thought experiment -- Social externalism for phenomenal character? …”

Philosophy and film : bridging divides /

Table of Contents: “…The Bold Thesis Retired: On Cinema as Philosophy / Paisley Livingston -- Film as Philosophical Thought Experiment: Some Challenges and Opportunities / Tom McClelland -- Are there Definite Objections to Film as Philosophy? …”

The money problem : rethinking financial regulation / by Ricks, Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Instability -- Taking the money market seriously -- Money creation and market failure -- Banking in theory and reality -- Panics and the macroeconomy -- Design alternatives -- A monetary thought experiment -- The limits of risk constraints -- Public support and subsidized finance -- The public-private partnership -- Money and sovereignty -- A more detailed blueprint -- Rethinking financial reform.…”
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Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / by Morris-Reich, Amos

Table of Contents: “…Günther in context -- Racial photographs as "thought experiments": the photographic method of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss -- Racial photography in Palestine.…”
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Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876 - 1980 / by Morris-Reich, Amos

Table of Contents: “…Günther in context -- Racial photographs as "thought experiments": the photographic method of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss -- Racial photography in Palestine.…”

Byzantium unbound / by Kaldellis, Anthony

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Essential Trinitarianism : Schleiermacher as Trinitarian theologian / by Poe, Shelli M.

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Mirrors to one another : emotion and value in Jane Austen and David Hume / by Dadlez, E. M. 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Mirrors to One Another; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 How Literature Can Be a Thought Experiment: Alternatives to and Elaborations of Original Accounts; 2 Literary Form and Philosophical Content; 3 Kantian and Aristotelian Accounts of Austen; 4 Hume and Austen on Pleasure, Sentiment, and Virtue; 5 Hume and Austen on Sympathy; 6 Hume's General Point of View and the Novels of Jane Austen; 7 The Useful and the Good in Hume and Austen; 8 Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane Austen; 9 Hume and Austen on Good People and Good Reasoning.…”
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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Cert Prep: 1 Cloud Concepts by Microsoft Press.

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The European Union and e-voting : addressing the European Parliament's internet voting challenge /

Table of Contents: “….] -- E-voting, e-democracy and EU-democracy: a thought experiment / Philippe C. Schmitter -- E-voting: a new political institution for the network society? …”
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Beyond the centaur : imagining the intelligent body / by Miles, Margaret R. 1937-

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Rise and decline of civilizations : lessons for the Jewish people / by Wald, Salomon

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Cinematic philosophy / by Shamir, Tal S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction I : Central innovations and clarifications -- Introduction II : Summary -- Foundation I : The evolution of film and philosophy -- Foundation II : The critique of film and philosophy -- Foundation III : Thought experiments -- Why philosophy has always needed cinema -- Cinesophia -- The intimate relationship between art and truth -- Cinematic philosophy : a new platform for philosophy -- Cinematic examples -- Conclusion : The vision of cinematic philosophy.…”

Uncertain suffering : racial health care disparities and sickle cell disease / by Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The questions -- Race and uncertainty -- Sickle cell disease in the clinic -- Healthcare access and medical uncertainty -- The affective dimensions of pain -- Uncertain efficacy -- Uncertain suffering -- Reforming the system -- Finding a way out of doxa : anthropology of the imagination -- Adolescent transitioning : acculturating patients to the culture of medicine -- Thought experiment : what does it mean to save a life? -- Rethinking suffering : community-based health care, alternative medicine, and faith.…”
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Themes from Wittgenstein and Quine /

Table of Contents: “…/ Rogério Passos Severo -- Some critical remarks on Quine's thought experiment of radical translation / Oswaldo Chateaubriand -- A tension of Quine's naturalistic ontology of semantics / Dirk Greimann -- In defense of Quine's naturalistic ontology of semantics / Guido Imaguire -- Quinean worlds: possibilist ontology in an extensionalist framework / Pedro Santos.…”