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Knowledge in an Uncertain World

Author	: Associate Professor of Philosophy Jeremy Fantl
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 05 November 2009
ISBN 10	: 019955062X
Pages	: 251 pages
Rating	: /5 ( users)

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This study explores the relation between knowledge, reasons and justification. It argues that you can rely on what you know, since what you know can be a reason you have and you can rely on your reasons. But the assumption that knowledge allows for a chance of error makes this a controversial position in epistemology.

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In an Uncertain World by Robert Rubin,Jacob Weisberg

Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues. As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in

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Public Policy in an Uncertain World by Charles F. Manski

Manski argues that public policy is based on untrustworthy analysis. Failing to account for uncertainty in an uncertain world, policy analysis routinely misleads policy makers with expressions of certitude. Manski critiques the status quo and offers an innovation to improve both how policy research is conducted and how it is

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The Fat Tail by Ian Bremmer,Preston Keat

As Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat reveal in this innovative book, volatile political events such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation--and their catastrophic effects on business--happen much more frequently than investors imagine. On the curve that charts both the frequency of these events and the power of their impact, the "tail" of

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Community Development in an Uncertain World by Jim Ife

Community Development in an Uncertain World is an essential resource for students and professionals in the human services.

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Acting in an Uncertain World by Michel Callon,Pierre Lascoumes,Yannick Barthe

A call for a new form of democracy in which “hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology. Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise

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Creating Adaptive Policies by Darren Swanson,Suruchi Bhadwal

This is the very first book to distill the principles of complex adaptive systems and adaptive management into practical guidance for policymakers. It describes the concept of adaptive policymaking and presents seven tools for developing such policies. Based on hundreds of interviews with people impacted by policy and research of

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Rationality In An Uncertain World by Nick Chater,Professor of Behavioural Science Nick Chater,Mike Oaksford,Professor of Psychology and Head of School Mike Oaksford

This book brings together an influential sequence of papers that argue for a radical re-conceptualisation of the psychology of inference, and of cognitive science more generally. The papers demonstrate that the thesis that logic provides the basis of human inference is central to much cognitive science, although the commitment to

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Boccaccio Chaucer and Stories for an Uncertain World by Robert W. Hanning

A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed by each text, with a focus on the strategies and limits of personal agency, and the significance and social dynamics of story-telling.

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Independent Thinking in an Uncertain World by Valerie A. Brown,John A. Harris,David Waltner-Toews

Any effective response to an uncertain future will require independently thinking individuals working together. Human ideas and actions have led to unprecedented changes in the relationships among humans, and between humans and the Earth. Changes in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the energy we use are

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Picturing the Uncertain World by Howard Wainer

In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now he's back with Picturing the Uncertain World, a book that explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or

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Rational Choice in an Uncertain World by Reid Hastie,Robyn M. Dawes

In the Second Edition of Rational Choice in an Uncertain World the authors compare the basic principles of rationality with actual behaviour in making decisions. They describe theories and research findings from the field of judgment and decision making in a non-technical manner, using anecdotes as a teaching device. Intended

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From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it. An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this

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Uncertain Worlds by Immanuel Wallerstein,Carlos Aguirre Rojas,Charles C. Lemert

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