This volume, Grice's first hook, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing.
Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations.
How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This book shows the way.
In The Myths of Innovation, bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at innovation history, including the software and Internet Age, to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations-truths that people can apply to today's challenges. Using dozens of examples from the history of technology, business, and the arts, you'll learn how to convert the knowledge you have into ideas that can change the world.
Teacher's guide supports the instructor by offering teaching suggestions, a discussion of marking and grading writing, ideas for supplemental activities for each unit, and answers to exercises in the student book.
College Writing, for learners of American English, is a semi-academic writing course that takes college students from paragraph structuring to essay writing through a process approach. The areas covered include generating ideas, organizing, drafting, reviewing and revising.
Mathematics educators agree that problem solving is one of the
essential skills their students should possess, yet few mathematics
courses or textbooks are devoted entirely to developing this skill.
Supported by narrative, examples, and exercises, Ants, Bikes, and
Clocks: Problem Solving for Undergraduates is a readable and enjoyable
text designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of undergraduate
students. The book, which provides hundreds of mathematical problems,
gives special emphasis to problems in context, often called story
problems or modeling problems, that require mathematical formulation as
a preliminary step. Both analytical and computational approaches, as
well as the interplay between them, are included. This engaging book
will strengthen students' mathematical skills, introduce them to new
mathematical ideas, demonstrate the connectedness of mathematics, and
improve both their analytical and computational problem solving.
Students are encouraged to use the computer, or any tool at hand, for
experimentation or to test their ideas.
This is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, a recipient of the Fields Medal, it presents nearly two hundred entries, written especially for this book by some of the world's leading mathematicians, that introduce basic mathematical tools and vocabulary; trace the development of modern mathematics; explain essential terms and concepts; examine core ideas in major areas of mathematics; describe the achievements of scores of famous mathematicians--and much, much more.
