John carriero (156 resultados)

Condición: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct 26 (SALE item)* 272 pp., Paperback, ex library else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Copyright © 1991 by Oxford University Pr. 237 + pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Pen note on first free front end page. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal, minor or light wear around edges. Synopsis: From Library Journal: With evangelical fervor, Gelernter's book-length essay paints a future where software technology, now isolating people, brings them into impersonal proximity through "mirror worlds. " These computer models of reality let users descend to greater depths of detail at will, meet other explorers, and generally get the "big picture" of what's going on. However, Gelernter's own appraisal of the value of computers seems inconsistent and extreme: he claims they are valuable just sitting unused on the coffee table but then insists that the uninitiated will be forced to "sink or swim" (i.e., learn to use computers) in the information sea computers create. His casual style gives the book the feel of a lecture transcript, and his metaphors (e.g., "jettisoned floating landscapes in tuple space") demand considerable hardware and software knowledge to link them with reality. For collections emphasizing computer science. -Doug Kranch, Ambassador Coll. Lib., Big Sandy, Tex. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Within ten years, Gelernter (Computer Science/Yale) predicts here, scientists will deploy computer systems able to capture extensive data about a particular ``reality'' (hospital, city, etc. ), and to present a constantly updated model on a desktop computer. ``A Mirror World is some huge institution's moving, true-to-life mirror image trapped inside a computer--where you can see and grasp it whole, '' Gelernter writes. Citizens will be able to visit these computer models like public squares, gaining unprecedented access to data on what's going on (and the officials in charge, the author intimates, will presumably welcome a chance to have their performance monitored). Building such mirror worlds will be extraordinarily difficult. John Costa (Jacket Design); Nicholas Carriero (Author Photo); 'Medici Princess', 1952 by Joseph Cornell (Jacket Illustration) (ilustrador).…

hardcover. Condición: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1990 hardcover published without jacket/minor wear on the cover & an inscription of the front free endpaper/clean & unmarked text. 238 p.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. A nice, bright copy.; 6 X 1.25 X 9.25 inches; 528 pages.

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Condición: New. In English.

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Condición: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct 26 (SALE item)* 388 pp., Paperback, ex library else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

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Paperback. Condición: New. Between Two Worlds is an authoritative commentary on--and powerful reinterpretation of--the founding work of modern philosophy, Descartes's Meditations. Philosophers have tended to read Descartes's seminal work in an occasional way, examining its treatment of individual topics while ignoring other parts of the text. In contrast, John Carriero provides a sustained, systematic reading of the whole text, giving a detailed account of the positions against which Descartes was reacting, and revealing anew the unity, meaning, and originality of the Meditations. Carriero finds in the Meditations a nearly continuous argument against Thomistic Aristotelian ways of thinking about cognition, and shows more clearly than ever before how Descartes bridged the old world of scholasticism and the new one of mechanistic naturalism. Rather than casting Descartes's project primarily in terms of skepticism, knowledge, and certainty, Carriero focuses on fundamental disagreements between Descartes and the scholastics over the nature of understanding, the relation between the senses and the intellect, the nature of the human being, and how and to what extent God is cognized by human beings.Against this background, Carriero shows, Descartes developed his own conceptions of mind, body, and the relation between them, creating a coherent, philosophically rich project in the Meditations and setting the agenda for a century of rationalist metaphysics.…

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paperback. Condición: Very Good. Authoritative commentary and reinterpretation of Descartes' Meditations, providing a rigorous reading of the text, and elucidating the positions against which Descartes was reacting. . 519pp. 8vo. Very Good.

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Condición: New. Presents a commentary on - and reinterpretation of - the founding work of modern philosophy, "Descartes' Meditations". This title provides a reading of the text, giving an account of the positions against which Descartes was reacting, and revealing anew the unity, meaning, and originality of the Meditations. Num Pages: 528 pages, 2 line illus. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 756. . 2008. Paperback. . . . .…

paperback. Condición: Very Good. Study of aspects of Descartes' philosophy; being Volume 1 in the Routledge Library Editions: Rene Descartes; 2017 reprint of the 1990 Garland Publishing edition; very minor creases to corners of a few pages, o.w. Very Good. . 238pp. 8vo. Very Good.

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