Author: J. Adam Carter File Type: pdf We know facts, but we also know how to do things. To know a fact is to know that a proposition is true. But does knowing how to ride a bike amount to knowledge of propositions? This is a challenging question and one that deeply divides the contemporary landscape. A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-How introduces, outlines, and critically evaluates various contemporary debates surrounding the nature of knowledge-how. Carter and Poston show that situating the debate over the nature of knowledge-how in other epistemological debates provides new ways to make progress. In particular, Carter and Poston explore the question of what knowledge-how involves, and how it might come apart from propositional knowledge, by engaging with key epistemological topics including epistemic luck, knowledge of language, epistemic value, virtue epistemology and social epistemology. New frontiers for research on knowledge-how are also explored relating to the internalism - externalism debate as well as embodied and extended knowledge. A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-How provides an accessible introduction to the main arguments in this important and thriving debate suited for undergraduates and postgraduates in philosophy and related areas. A strength of the book is its methodology which places a premium on placing the debates over knowledge-how in a broader conversation over the nature of knowledge. This book also offers an opinionated discussion of various lines of argument which will be of interest to professional philosophers as well.

Author: Abdulrazzak Patel File Type: pdf Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the nahdah, from the 1700s onwards. To understand todays Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces.Patel explores the key factors that contributed to the rise and development of the nahdah, he introduces the humanist movement of the period that was the driving force behind much of the linguistic, literary and educational activity. Drawing on intellectual history, literary history and postcolonial studies, he argues that the nahdah was the product of native development and foreign assistance and that nahdah reformist thought was hybrid in nature. Overall, this study highlights the complexity of the movement and offers a more pluralist history of the period. **

Author: Alice Walker File Type: epub This gorgeous collection gathers Alice Walkers wide-ranging meditationsmany of them previously unpublishedon our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies. For the millions of her devoted fans, and for readers of Walkers bestselling 2006 book, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, here is a brand new gift of words that invites readers on a journey of political awakening and spiritual insight. The Cushion in the Road finds the Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist, poet, essayist, and activist at the height of her literary powers, sharing fresh vantages and a deepening engagement with our world. Walker writes that we are beyond a rigid category of color, sex, or spirituality if we are truly alive, and the pieces in The Cushion in the Road illustrate this idea beautifully. Visiting themes she has addressed throughout her careerincluding racism, Africa, Palestinian solidarity, and Cubaas well as addressing emergent issues, such as the presidency of Barack Obama on health care, Walker explores her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world. Rich with humor and wisdom, and informed by Walkers unique eye for the details of human and natural experience, The Cushion in the Road will please longtime Walker fans as well as those who are new to her work. **From BooklistWalkers declaration, I have been a political, social, and spiritual activist for most of my life, and feel connected to peoples and struggles all over the world, sets the tone and focus of her latest, poem-laced essay collection, as does her characterization of herself as a person of three colors (African, Native American, European). Walker traces the roots of these trinities of vocation and identity to her mid-twentieth-century childhood in overtly racist Georgia as she writes of her devotion to gardening and meditation and her remarkable global journeys as an intrepid advocate for peace and justice. Although the book begins with dated, oddly awkward essays about President Obamas first term, Walkers compassion, courage, and humor gain strength and eloquence essay by essay. She shares her openhearted views on love condemns torture and war offers distinctive perspectives on Cuba, South Africa, and Gaza pays homage to her heroes, from Howard Zinn to Aung San Suu Kyi, John Lennon, and Julian Assange critiques books, which she calls lifeboats and assures us that we can all help bring about change for the communal good. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY Media attention will surge for this provocative collection by Walker, a revered writer of conscience. --Donna Seaman ReviewPraise for *The Cushion in the Road Walkers compassion, courage, and humor gain strength and eloquence essay by essay. . . . Media attention will surge for this provocative collection by Walker, a revered writer of conscience. Booklist* The Cushion in the Road is quintessential Alice Walkeredgy, demanding, prayerful, loving, and aware. An essential companion for those who wish to be a force for positive change in our perpetually challenging world. Foreword Praise for Alice Walker Alice Walker is a muse for our times . . . she touches the soul, and propels us to action. Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! A lavishly gifted writer. The New York Times

Author: Alain Badiou File Type: epub Since the inception of the War on Terror, Israel has becomeincreasingly important to Western imperial strategy and evermore aggressive in its policies towards the Palestinians.A key ideological weapon in this development is the cynicaland unjustified accusation of anti-Semitism to silenceprotest and dissent.For historical reasons, this tactic has been deployed mostforcefully in France, and in the first of the two essays inthis book French writers Alain Badiou and Eric Hazandemolish the anti-Semitism is everywhere claim usedto bludgeon critics of the Israeli state and those who stand in solidarity with the banlieue youth.In The Philo-Semitic Reaction, Ivan Segre undertakes a meticulous deconstruction of a rampant reactionary trendthat identifies Jewish interests with the democratic West.Segres aim is to uphold a universalist position and todefend Jewish tradition from Zionist ideological distortion.From the Trade Paperback edition.