Choice, Welfare and Measurement

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Choice, Welfare and Measurement contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on choice, preference, rationality, aggregation, and measurement. A substantial introductory essay interrelates his diverse concerns, and also analyzes discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the underlying issues.

Several methods to investigate relative attribute impact in stated preference experiments [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]

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Several methods to investigate relative attribute impact in stated preference experiments [An article from: Social Science & Medicine]
E. Lancsar , J. Louviere , and T. Flynn
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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There is growing use of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to investigate preferences for products and programs and for the attributes that make up such products and programs. However, a fundamental issue overlooked in the interpretation of many choice experiments is that attribute parameters estimated from DCE response data are confounded with the underlying subjective scale of the utilities, and strictly speaking cannot be interpreted as the relative ''weight'' or ''impact'' of the attributes, as is frequently done in the health economics literature. As such, relative attribute impact cannot be compared using attribute parameter size and significance. Instead, to investigate the relative impact of each attribute requires commensurable measurement units; that is, a common, comparable scale. We present and demonstrate empirically a menu of five methods that allow such comparisons: (1) partial log-likelihood analysis; (2) the marginal rate of substitution for non-linear models; (3) Hicksian welfare measures; (4) probability analysis; and (5) best-worst attribute scaling. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method and suggest circumstances in which each is appropriate.

Aggregate consumer behavior and the measurement of social welfare (Discussion paper / Harvard Institute of Economic Research)

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Aggregate consumer behavior and the measurement of social welfare (Discussion paper / Harvard Institute of Economic Research)
Dale Weldeau Jorgenson
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Choice, Welfare and Measurement.
Amartya: SEN
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Habit formation in a discrete choice model of recreation demand: Estimation and welfare measurement (Staff paper)

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Habit formation in a discrete choice model of recreation demand: Estimation and welfare measurement (Staff paper)
Wiktor L Adamowicz
Manufacturer: Dept. of Rural Economy, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Alberta
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A how to book; provides the process skill for change.

Change Management: A Model for Effective Organizational Performance
Patricia K. Felkins , B. J. Chakiris , and Kenneth N. Chakiris
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A how to book; provides the process skill for change........1998-08-22

An important book for helping executives, managers, staff and external consultants work through change. Provides competency-based skills; a structure for the process of change; practical hands on methods. The chapter on ART: Action Research Teaming is essential for bringing about change, gaining ownership with key sponsors and clients, improving participation, and strengthening the overall outcomes of the change initiative. Please note there are three authors: Patricia K. Felkins, B. J. Chakiris, and Kenneth N. Chakiris. Ideal for major corporations who have internal consultants and managers who need to learn about the "intangible assets" of working with and through others. A seminar and simulation is available for change management. Can be used at the graduate level of universities. Especially relevant to personnel who work in the area of organization development, organizational effectiveness, human resources, training and development, instructional design, information systems -- anyone who must work without authority. Gives a "whole systems" perspective of the organization.

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The Old Farmer s Almanac 1999
Robert B. Thomas
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PRACTICAL HELP

PRACTICAL HELP

PRACTICAL HELP

It is very up to date - very precise.

great info

The Old Farmer's Almanac 1999
Old Farmer's Almanac
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It's great bathroom reading, it's the gardener's best friend, it's the amateur meteorologist's favorite publication.... it's The Old Farmer's Almanac, dishing out timely advice every year since 1792. One early issue described the almanac's mission: "We must strive always to be useful, but with a pleasant degree of humor." The 1998 version of this handy little book fulfills that goal admirably, with everything you always expected to find in an almanac--from long-range weather forecasts to the best time to plant peas--and lots that you didn't, including how to hypnotize a frog. (Hint: make little circling motions with your hand.) There's even a "Millennium Countdown" section, with questions from the Old Farmer's Almanac of 100 years ago as well as instructions on opening champagne bottles safely.

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A new edition of the annual reference furnishes long-range weather forecasts, tide tables, agricultural tips, predictions on Consumer Tastes and Trends, astronomical data, recipes, history, and lore, how-to advice, and more. Softcover.

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PRACTICAL HELP.......2003-01-18

This is the first time I have ever purchased a Farmers almanac, and now I wonder how I ever gardened without one! It is set up in an easy to read format, and is small enought to carry around!

PRACTICAL HELP.......2003-01-18

This is the first time I have ever purchased a Farmers almanac, and now I wonder how I ever gardened without one! It is set up in an easy to read format, and is small enought to carry around!

PRACTICAL HELP.......2003-01-18

This is the first time I have ever purchased a Farmers almanac, and now I wonder how I ever gardened without one! It is set up in an easy to read format, and is small enought to carry around!

It is very up to date - very precise........1999-10-19

This book tells it all like it is. It leaves nothing out. If you have problems figuring out what the symbols mean, there is a directory that helps you. I recommend the books to friends & family every year - which I perchase every year myself.

great info.......1999-10-03

the 2000 book is a collectore edition and it is better than 1999

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The Old Farmers Almanac 1999
Thomas
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Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Biodiversity of Microbial Life in the Universe is the sixth unit of the book series Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (COLE) edited by Joseph Seckbach. In this book forty eminent scientists review their studies in the fields of Life from the beginning to the "Fact of Life". The history of Origin of Life and Astrobiology is well covered by these authors. Reviews cover the standard and alternative scenarios of the genesis of Life, while the chapters of "The First Cells" leading to the biodiversity and extremophiles of microbial Life. Among these extremophiles are the microbes living in the Life's limits, such as in high temperature, psychrophilic, UV radiation, and halophilic environments. The origin and history of Martian water is discussed followed by the possible biogeochemistry inside Titan. This new field of Astrobiology has been presented, from comets as a source of materials and Life on earth to the space for last Frontiers.

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Excellent guide for coaches and players

it gave me an edge on my playing

Field Hockey: Steps to Success
Elizabeth Anders
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Beth Anders, a two-time Olympic player and all-time winningest college field hockey coach, teaches you the skills and tactics to take command of the field! In 10 progressive steps, you will learn how to

• develop better footwork and body balance while handling the stick;

• establish solid passing and receiving skills;

• improve ball control and dribbling;

• win the ball cleanly while tackling opponents;

• employ successful attacking and defensive tactics;

• score more goals by developing better shooting techniques;

• become a solid goalkeeper through correct positioning and the use of key skills in and around the net; and

• support teammates using effective attack, defense, and field spacing strategies.

Accompanying Anders' instructive text and drills are more than 110 detailed illustrations to promote learning and performance. By following the clear and proven step-by-step teaching progression, your skills will improve rapidly, and you will enjoy greater success each time you step onto the field!

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Excellent guide for coaches and players.......2007-09-08

I played field hockey about 9 years ago and recently my arm has been slightly twisted to coach middle school hockey. I had forgotten all the basics of the game and this book is a quick to the point guide. I like the pictures it provides and the drills. My goalie coach who had never even seen a game before has been able to use the book and apply it to coaching my goalies. I definitly recommend this book whether you are a coach who is looking for a break down of skills or a player looking to improve your game.

it gave me an edge on my playing.......1999-05-17

it gave me the winning touch!!!!! I want to reccomend this book for every field hockey player in the world!

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Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular". At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world, a view that we can recognize as just one aspect of the whole. How do we reconcile these two standpoints--intellectually, morally, and practically? To what extent are they irreconcilable and to what extent can they be integrated? Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fields of philosophy as: the mind-body problem, personal identity, knowledge and skepticism, thought and reality, free will, ethics, the relation between moral and other values, the meaning of life, and death. Excessive objectification has been a malady of recent analytic philosophy, claims Nagel, it has led to implausible forms of reductionism in the philosophy of mind and elsewhere. The solution is not to inhibit the objectifying impulse, but to insist that it learn to live alongside the internal perspectives that cannot be either discarded or objectified. Reconciliation between the two standpoints, in the end, is not always possible.

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Not Bertrand Russell.......2005-11-01

This book is an expansion of the ideas in Nagel's essay "Subjective and Objective" (available in the collection Mortal Questions). I find the essay to be the most important short work on philosophy I've ever read. It changed my thinking on the class of problems addressed, which include the concept of mind (specifically consciousness), ethics, and meaning of life, all of which I've been reading a lot about for 35 years. The essay has a neat summary of the main point: "There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected."

If you agree with that statement you'll probably love the essay. The book is another matter. It is bafflingly difficult, which is troubling given the clarity of the essay. I've tried twice to get through the book, the first time reading casually as I typically do, the second studying it to the extent of writing out a summary of each paragraph as I read. I still had to give up in disgust. Yet, I still want to finish reading this book!

I'll admit to being a philosophical lightweight. My favorite authors are generally models of clarity and easy reading: Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, Bryan Magee's Confessions of a Philosopher, Walter Kaufmann's Faith of a Heretic, Thoreau's Walden, Nagel's Mortal Questions, Dennett's Consciousness Explained, later Wittgenstein, and so on. The View from Nowhere is more like Kant, Spinoza, Plotinus, the authors I tend to avoid where possible as being too abstract, too dry, too tough, or irrelevant to my life and thought.

So my advice would be to get Nagel's book of essays, read them, then proceed to this if you like what you've read. And above all, be prepared to work on it.

Alan Nicoll

Stimulating and Synoptic Account of Philosophy's Problems.......2004-05-17

Sorry for the double post here. (I'll try to get this one removed.)

Still, I can say a bit more about this book. This isn't a technical book, and I think it should be accessible to anyone interested in general philosophical issues. It's not an easy read--it's subtle and Nagel is sometimes a bit obscure--but it's not forbiddingly difficult and it doesn't presume that the reader is as knowledgeable about contemporary philosopohy as its author is. However, that's not to say that this is a book that fails to engage with the literature on these topics. It's clear that Nagel is familiar with the relevant contemporary work on these topics, and the book is accessible enough that it might server as a high-level introdution to the more technical literature in these areas. And it certainly provides you with a way to see the technical literature as concerned with fundamental human concerns.

Also, it's somewhat inspiring to see someone take on a grand project of this sort. Philosophy is becoming an increasingly specialized discipline, and it's nice to see someone trying to fit a lot of what is going on into a general picture of the origins and nature of genuine philosophical problems.

Stimulating and Synoptic Account of Philosophy's Concerns.......2004-05-17

This is a major work in metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. It's essentially a summary of a career of thought concerning the central issues in philosophy, and it is built around Nagel's big idea: that the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity can help us to understand the nature and source of the central problems of philosophy. It's an interesting and fruitful idea--though perhaps not as interesting and fruitful as he thinks--and it leads Nagel to lots of interesting ideas about how to understand, appreciate, and maybe even solve the central problems of philosophy.

The main subject of the book is the relation between subjective and objective views of our minds, our selves, our thought, our actions, our moral views, etc. The subjective view is our limited point of view: it's the point of view we have when immersed in our own perspective on the world. We reach more objective points of view by subtracting the parochial elements from our perspective. In attempting to arrive at a more objective point of view, we step back from ourselves and place ourselves, along with our subjective points of view, in a broader conception of the world. This involves trying to see the world as it would appear to a being with a "view from nowhere."

But problems arise when we realize that it's difficult to integrate subjective and objective perspectives. There is a tension between subjectivity and objectivity, and this tension appears in all areas of philosophy. As a matter of fact, it's the source of most of the fundamental problems that plague philosophers. When we take up a more objective viewpoint, the central elements of our subjective viewpoints are inexplicable. When we arrive a more objective conception of the world by, say, doing more science, we find it hard to understand how we can have minds, how our ways of forming beliefs allow us to know the objective world, how we can make sense of objective reasons for action, etc. But these apparently inexplicable things are among the crucial components of our subjective conception of the world and ourselves. And we encounter a similar problem in the other direction. When we are immersed in our subjective viewpoints, we find it hard to place ourselves and our viewpoint within an objective account of the world. That is, we find it hard to see how our ways of knowing could be backed up in a way that makes them more than simply our ways of knowing, and we find it hard to see how our ways of acting could be backed up in a way that makes them more than simply our ways of acting.

Nagel treats most of the traditional "solutions" to the problems of philosophy as based on two general tactics for dealing with the tension between objectivity and subjectivity. According to Nagel, neither tactic is fully satisfactory. The first tactic is to understand everything as objective, and the construe the subjective as mere appearance. In contemporary thought, this tactic is manifest in overreaching forms of naturalism and scientism. Nagel agrees that the sciences do provide us with an objective conception of the world, and with an objective conception of the world that is likely to be largely accurate. But he doesn't think this means the sciences do or can provide us with an account of all the facts about the world, for they leave out our own subjective point of view. This leaves us with a residual unease: overarching naturalism provides us with an account of how things are that seems to leave something important out. We do have conscious experiences, there is a way things seem to us, we do seem to act freely, we do seem to be under moral obligations, etc.

The second tactic is to search for an answer by going to the opposite extreme: that is, by collapsing everything into the subjective point of view. This is to claim that there is no way to draw back from our perspective in order to arrive at an objective perspective on the world and on our place within it. And this view can result in even more extreme views according to which there is no objective world out there to discover, and according to which we can't even make sense of the very idea that there could be such a world. In other words, to accept such a view is to acquiesce in some sort of skepticism, relativism, subjectivism, etc. Again, though, such a solution leaves us with a residual sense of unease: there is more to our ways of thinking and acting than that, isn't there? There is the further question of whether we're really right about what we think, and whether we're really right to do what we do.

Is there any way to avoid these problems? Yes, we need a view of the world that is complex enough to accommodate both perspectives on the world; we need a view of the world that doesn't deny the reality of either the subjective or the objective. But this isn't really an answer; it's just a statement of what any answer is going to need to look like. Nagel doesn't claim to be able to offer a detailed solution to these problems. The final conclusion is that the success of attempts to solve the problems of philosophy straight will require our having something we don't have yet--namely an understanding of these two perspectives and their relations to one another. Can we have it? Here Nagel is cagey. At some points he offers some speculative suggestions about how this might go, at others he seems to doubt that it can be done.

Notwithstanding the lack of answers here, Nagel thinks that understanding the problems of philosophy as he does provides us with some important insights. It allows us to explain the nature and source of philosophical problems, and it allows us to understand these problems as closely related to one another. It also helps to explain why the usual "solutions" to them don't convince. Moreover, it allows us to see these problems as real problems, and as problems lacking obvious solutions. This also supports our intuitions concerning the hopelessness of attempts to dissolve the problems of philosophy or to construe them as mere pseudo-problems.

A refusal to see things one way.......2004-04-17

This book is incredibly important as a corrective to much recent academic philosophy.

What some reviewers have dismissed as "shallow" or "New Age puffery" or "not rigorous" is Nagel's refusal to give up the importance of some basic stances we adopt towards our minds, our actions, and the world.

For example, Nagel believes that a philosopher concerned with establishing the fullest kind of objective understanding of reality possible needs to make sense of how (a) our scientific view of the world can be brought into harmony with (b)the way things look from inside our subjective consciousness or experience of the world. The strategy he is arguing against is the attempt to reduce (b)to the facts of (a) and then call it establishing objectivity. In other words, there is another level of explanation, other than scientific reduction, that philosophers need to be engaged in order to make a completely objective view of the world coherent--that is, a view that does not leave crucial things what it feels like to be human from the inside.

... this is bad.......2002-11-14

nagel is perhaps the least rigorous philosopher in the past 50 years. he has an obvious smugness that he is somehow above contemporary debates in philosophy and therefore chooses not to engage them directly. maybe posterity will discover nagel's genius, but for now if you read this book surrounded by its peers and rivals (particularly Quine, Dennett, Block, and all those wicked scientificalist/physicalist silly gooses) then you really should come away wondering what he's talking about.

admittedly, nagel angers me on a somewhat personal level. it seems as though since jack smart and david armstrong came along with overtly physical theories of mind, that philosophers of mind have been working to make sense of explanatory gaps, hard problems of consciousness, etc. And much of this work is very interesting and makes significant progress. But then Nagel comes along, calls everyone stupid and yells, "WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT?". Then he fills it in with some mucky muck and unknowing philosophy students take him seriously...

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The only bar-guide review you'll ever need

The View From Nowhere

Shamefully Out-Of-Print...Guide to Dives across the USA

The View from Nowhere: The Only Bar Guide You'll Ever Want -- Or Need
Jim Atkinson
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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The only bar-guide review you'll ever need.......2004-01-16

I liked Jim Atkinson's "The View From Nowhere" so much that I bought five copies to lend to friends. Of course, some of them liked it so much that I'm now down to just one copy. I think it's one of the funniest books I've ever read, and it's certainly one of the most original.

Let's be plain -- as a guide to bars, the book is out of date, and even when current, the bars it covered were NOT bars for the average person. But none of that really matters because "The View From Nowhere" is much MORE than a guidebook. It's really a way of looking at life. If you've never been in a "bar-bar," this book will either make you want to visit one or make you more determined than ever NEVER to go near a "bar-bar." But if, like me, you're a fan of "bar-bars," you'll identify with "The View From Nowhere" and appreciate Atkinson's insights. Either way, you'll laugh.

The View From Nowhere.......2000-02-18

I first ran across this book in the Phoenix bar in Cincinnatti...there was a sign reading "this bar mentioned in Atkinson's The View from Nowhere". Deservedly so in the case of the Phoenix, an ultimate bar-bar (dive to some). This book is the bible and I know of no other works by the author. An update was promised but apparently never produced...it is sorely needed

Shamefully Out-Of-Print...Guide to Dives across the USA.......1999-03-05

Old school newsman Jim Atkinson wrote this book in 1987, and the meticulous research shows in this fine guide to the most serious drinking establishments in the United States. The research consisted of going across the US and spending a morning, afternoon, or an evening in the best "bar bars" in the city. No fern bars or pick up joints allowed. Each reviewed bar is rated using the Atkinson System ( between one and five points in such areas as Yuppie sightings (bad) "A little something to wash down my drink with" (food) and lighting. (bright=bad dark=good). My only gripe is that there are not enough bars reviewed, but hey, it's not MY liver doing the research. Also, the New Orleans section was rather spotty due to the research getting a little too intense. Atkinson explains this away as being due to the fact that "New Orleans--the entire TOWN is a bar bar." Also included along with the bar bar reviews is the Atkinson Field Guide, which includes tips on bar bar etiquette, species notes on bar bar regulars (these include Mr. Knowsitall, The Scoremaster, and Captain 86, who is always just on the edge of getting banned from the establishment. Fascinating reading. This guide is the first thing I pack when I go on the road for business or pleasure. Where have you gone Jim Atkinson? We need an update.

The Unboundaried Self: Putting the Person Back Into the View from Nowhere

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Looking back at the axioms

The Unboundaried Self: Putting the Person Back Into the View from Nowhere
Louis S. Berger , and Amy Langston
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The book shows that reinstating the person in the apparently self-sufficient, lifeless frameworks of formal disciplines can benefit fields such as linguistics, psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, mathematics, and physics.

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Looking back at the axioms.......2005-10-07

If you don't like questioning beliefs in general, don't open this one. It's a great piece of putting the finger on annoying things for all those thinking their "science" (be it hard, soft, or anything in-between) is objective. Through various fields like psychology, language, maths and physics, the author is showing how their members try to escape turning back at what they're actually doing. The author discusses those unshakable certainties people in those fields don't want to have a look at simply because they would have to recognize they don't know what they're doing.

Science (nor any experimental field) never asked for being considered as anything close to Truth, it's human subjectivity which is trying to impose their beliefs on reality. Reality never asked for being considered as true or false, it is what it is, period.

The View from Nowhere: Essays in Literature, Mysticism and Philosophy

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Thought-provoking stuff for continental philosophers/theorists

The View from Nowhere: Essays in Literature, Mysticism and Philosophy
Philip Beitchman
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The View from Nowhere is a cross-disciplinary work that studies the impact of the mystical discourse, specifically Cabala, on literature, from the Renaissance to the present. The other major concern of "The View from Nowhere" is to evaluate the "reading" of postmodern simulation-theory, principally that of Jean Baudrillard of Kierkegaardian and Nietzschean existentialism.

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Thought-provoking stuff for continental philosophers/theorists.......2007-10-11

Philip Beitchman has made an important contribution to the study of the impact of Cabala on literature and esotericism, but not many readers will be able to get much out of this text if they don't share his theoretical concerns and training. This is not a good place to start if one is not already up to speed on Cabala and the specific theoretical concerns of the 20th century philosophers that Beitchman studies (his Alchemy of the Word--a brilliant but flawed contribution to the subject--will serve). That all said, these are extremely learned and thought-provoking essays that deal with important literary/mystical topics which also happend to be a worry for philosophical jokers like Baudrillard. Anybody interested in Kabbalistic scholars like Elliott Wolfson who use continental theory to understand Kabbalah and vice versa will probably find much of "hermeneutical" interest here.

Challenging the 'view from nowhere': citizen reflections on specialist expertise in a deliberative process [An article from: Health and Place]

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Challenging the 'view from nowhere': citizen reflections on specialist expertise in a deliberative process [An article from: Health and Place]
G. Davies , and J. Burgess
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This digital document is a journal article from Health and Place, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper presents analysis of citizen encounters with specialists in a deliberative process, called Deliberative Mapping, which explored options for addressing the shortage of organs for transplantation in the UK. There is a rich theoretical literature about the extent to which citizens are competent to question the knowledge claims of specialists in complex decision-making processes, suggesting the trustworthiness of scientific expertise will depend on the qualities of social interaction in face-to-face dialogue, but little empirical analysis of specific encounters. This paper presents evidence of how citizens located specialist expertise in making judgements about the legitimacy and credibility of specialist knowledge claims, in ways that reflect differences in epistemic procedures valued by the panels of men and women in this process.

A view from nowhere: quantum reference frames and uncertainty [An article from: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics]

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A view from nowhere: quantum reference frames and uncertainty [An article from: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics]
M. Dickson
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This digital document is a journal article from Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Attending carefully to the role that reference frames play in the definition of physical concepts in quantum theory can lead us to a clearer understanding of the uncertainty relations, and the connection that they have with the fact that physical quantities are defined in terms of, and measured relative to, reference frames.

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THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE
Jim Atikinson
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The View from Nowhere
Jim Atkinson
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The View From Nowhere.
THOMAS NAGEL
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Arthur Szyk was one of the most creative and determined political activists of his time. A gifted book illustrator and illuminator, a skillful caricaturist, and a crusader for causes, this multifaceted artist ceaselessly defended the rights of Jews and advocated on their behalf.

Skilled in medieval and Persian miniature painting, Szyk redirected his artistry during World War II into political cartoons that unmasked the face of the Nazi enemy and mobilized popular opinion. His caricatures became daily fare in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. In 1942 alone, Szyk's war-driven cartoons were published in Esquire, Collier's, Look, Liberty, Time, the Saturday Review of Literature, and the Saturday Evening Post. One magazine reported that Szyk cartoons were as popular as Betty Grable pin-ups for troops heading overseas.

The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk places the extraordinary artist and his work into the context of the turbulent times in which he lived (1894-1951). Hundreds of illustrations -- rendered in the artist's original brilliant colors and painstakingly intricate detail -- were drawn from private and public collections around the world. The illuminations, paintings, prints, line drawings, lithographs, posters, magazine covers, and stamps are still vibrant and compelling. The political caricatures still resonate.

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Terrific!.......2003-05-01

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and viewing Szyk's wonderous art. The biography is well written and interesting. The artwork is intriguing and thought-provoking. I highly recommend this book to afficionados of Jewish Art and Literature.

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