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Author: Gregory Ashe Publisher: Hodgkin and Blount ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 431
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Three months have passed since Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset faced a madman and lived to tell about it. Three months have passed since Emery Hazard resigned from his job as a detective. Three months can be too long and too short, all at the same time. On Halloween, a professor at the local college is murdered in his apartment, in front of dozens of witnesses. Then the killer disappears. Somers is assigned the case—and a new partner. While Somers investigates the murder, Hazard struggles to find purpose in his new freedom. Despite his decision to stay away, he finds himself drawn to the case. But he’s no longer police, and in the small town of Wahredua, not all of his former colleagues are happy to see him investigating another crime. When the sheriff’s son and husband go missing, though, the case becomes more complicated than either Hazard or Somers had expected. And soon they learn that someone else is manipulating events in Wahredua. Someone who is very interested in Emery Hazard.
Author: Gregory Ashe Publisher: Hodgkin and Blount ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 431
Book Description
Three months have passed since Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset faced a madman and lived to tell about it. Three months have passed since Emery Hazard resigned from his job as a detective. Three months can be too long and too short, all at the same time. On Halloween, a professor at the local college is murdered in his apartment, in front of dozens of witnesses. Then the killer disappears. Somers is assigned the case—and a new partner. While Somers investigates the murder, Hazard struggles to find purpose in his new freedom. Despite his decision to stay away, he finds himself drawn to the case. But he’s no longer police, and in the small town of Wahredua, not all of his former colleagues are happy to see him investigating another crime. When the sheriff’s son and husband go missing, though, the case becomes more complicated than either Hazard or Somers had expected. And soon they learn that someone else is manipulating events in Wahredua. Someone who is very interested in Emery Hazard.
Author: Gregory Ashe Publisher: Hodgkin and Blount ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 171
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Hazard and Somerset: Off Duty Volume 2 is a collection of short stories. It includes the following: “John-Henry Somerset: Sold!” Somers enters a charity bachelor’s auction without telling his boyfriend. This story takes place before The Rational Faculty. “Pretty and Pink and Perfect” Hazard plans a toddler’s birthday party. This story takes place before The Rational Faculty. “Pride Slays Thanksgiving” Hazard and Somers prepare for their first Thanksgiving as a couple. This story takes place before Police Brutality. “Santa: A Cultural Hegemony” Hazard is volun-told to dress up as Santa. This story takes place before Transactional Dynamics. “Valentine’s in Six Beats” Hazard executes his do-over for Valentine’s. This story takes place before Wayward. “Emery’s Birthday Scavenger Hunt” Somers plans the perfect birthday for Hazard . . . or so he thinks. This story takes place before The Keeper of Bees. “Hazard and Somerset: Off Duty” A series of six vignettes featuring Hazard and Somers on a Caribbean vacation. This story takes place after The Keeper of Bees. Please note that the first six stories have distributed previously to mailing list subscribers and at GRL 2019. “Hazard and Somerset: Off Duty” is exclusively available in this collection.
Author: Shaun Nichols Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192640194 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 208
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Moral systems, like normative systems more broadly, involve complex mental representations. Rational Rules proposes that moral learning can be understood in terms of general-purpose rational learning procedures. Nichols argues that statistical learning can help answer a wide range of questions about moral thought: Why do people think that rules apply to actions rather than consequences? Why do people expect new rules to be focused on actions rather than consequences? How do people come to believe a principle of liberty, according to which whatever is not expressly prohibited is permitted? How do people decide that some normative claims hold universally while others hold only relative to some group? The resulting account has both empiricist and rationalist features: since the learning procedures are domain-general, the result is an empiricist theory of a key part of moral development, and since the learning procedures are forms of rational inference, the account entails that crucial parts of our moral system enjoy rational credentials. Moral rules can also be rational in the sense that they can be effective for achieving our ends, given our ecological settings. Rational Rules argues that at least some central components of our moral systems are indeed ecologically rational: they are good at helping us attain common goals. Nichols argues that the account might be extended to capture moral motivation as a special case of a much more general phenomenon of normative motivation. On this view, a basic form of rule representation brings motivation along automatically, and so part of the explanation for why we follow moral rules is that we are built to follow rules quite generally.
Author: Gregory Ashe Publisher: ISBN: 9780463205303 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Three months have passed since Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset faced a madman and lived to tell about it.Three months have passed since Emery Hazard resigned from his job as a detective.Three months can be too long and too short, all at the same time.On Halloween, a professor at the local college is murdered in his apartment, in front of dozens of witnesses. Then the killer disappears. Somers is assigned the case--and a new partner.While Somers investigates the murder, Hazard struggles to find purpose in his new freedom. Despite his decision to stay away, he finds himself drawn to the case. But he's no longer police, and in the small town of Wahredua, not all of his former colleagues are happy to see him investigating another crime.When the sheriff's son and husband go missing, though, the case becomes more complicated than either Hazard or Somers had expected. And soon they learn that someone else is manipulating events in Wahredua.Someone who is very interested in Emery Hazard.
Author: Julia Staffel Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198833717 Category : Rationalism Languages : en Pages : 228
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How should thinkers cope with uncertainty? What makes their degrees of belief rational, and how should they reason about uncertain matters? In epistemology, recent research has attempted to answer these questions by developing formal models of ideally rational credences. However, we know from psychological research that perfect rationality is unattainable for human thinkers--and so this raises the question of how rational ideals can apply to human thinkers. A popular reply is that the more a thinker's imperfectly rational credences approximate compliance with norms of ideal rationality, the better. But what exactly does this mean? Why is it better to be less irrational, if we can't ever be completely rational? And what does being closer to ideally rational amount to? If ideal models of rationality are supposed to help us understand the rationality of human, imperfect thinkers, we need answers to these questions. Unsettled Thoughts breaks new ground in the study of rationality in providing these answers: we can explain why it's better to be less irrational, because less irrational degrees of belief are generally more accurate and better at guiding our actions. Moreover, the way in which approximating ideal rationality is beneficial can be made formally precise by using a variety of distance measures that track the benefits of being more rational.
Author: Timothy Hinton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107044480 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 295
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This volume explores and analyses the continued relevance and ramifications of the original position, the central idea of John Rawls's political philosophy.
Author: Immanuel Kant Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316101673 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 546
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This volume collects for the first time in a single volume all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology. These works were written during a period of conflict between Kant and the Prussian authorities over his religious teachings. His final statement of religion was made after the death of King Frederick William II in 1797. The historical context and progression of this conflict are charted in the general introduction to the volume and in the translators' introductions to particular texts. All the translations are new with the exception of The Conflict of the Faculties, where the translation has been revised and re-edited to conform to the guidelines of the Cambridge Edition. As is standard with all the volumes in this edition, there are copious linguistic and explanatory notes, and a glossary of key terms.
Author: Immanuel Kant Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781017879544 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author: Steven Pinker Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241380308 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 272
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read Rationality instead. It's cheaper, more entertaining, and more effective' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing? In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty. These tools are not a standard part of our educational curricula, and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book - until now. Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. Brimming with insight and humour, Rationality will enlighten, inspire and empower. 'A terrific book, much-needed for our time' Peter Singer
Author: Gregory Ashe
Author: Gregory Ashe
Author: Gregory Ashe
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Author: Shaun Nichols
Author: Gregory Ashe
Author: Julia Staffel
Author: Timothy Hinton
Author: Immanuel Kant
Author: Immanuel Kant
Author: Steven Pinker