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Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe FBA ( / ˈænskəm /; 18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001), usually cited as G. E. M. Anscombe or Elizabeth Anscombe, was a British [1] analytic philosopher. She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics. She was a prominent figure of ...
Intelligence outsourcing. Outsourcing intelligence is a method by which a country contracts out intelligence activities such as collection, analysis, and dissemination to non-governmental employees. In the United States of America, approximately 70% of the intelligence budget was spent on contracts in 2006.
978-0-399-13894-2. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neuroscientist António Damásio describing the physiology of rational thought and decision, and how the faculties could have evolved through Darwinian natural selection. [1] Damásio refers to René Descartes ' separation of the mind from the body (the ...
Harmonic analysis. Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis concerned with the representation of functions and signals as the superposition of basic waves. This includes the study of the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms ( Fourier analysis ), and of their generalizations.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. Holmes is one of the most widely cited Supreme Court justices and among the most influential American judges in history, noted for his long service, pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American constitutional ...
Don't Pay! [2]) is a play originally written in Italian by Dario Fo in 1974. [4] Regarded as Fo's best-known play internationally after Morte accidentale di un anarchico, [5] it had been performed in 35 countries by 1990. [6] Considered a Marxist [7] political farce, [8] it is a comedy about consumer backlash against high prices.
David Hume ( / hjuːm /; born David Home; 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711 – 25 August 1776) [7] was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, [8] and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. [1] Beginning with A Treatise of Human ...
A Letter Concerning Toleration (Epistola de tolerantia) by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, and it was immediately translated into other languages. Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England, and responds to the problem of religion and government by ...