Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized

Every Thing Must Go aruges that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science. In addition to showing how recent metaphysics has drifted away from connection with all other serious scholarly inquiry as a result of not heeding this restriction, they demonstrate how to build a metaphysics compatible with current fundamental phsyics ("ontic structural realism"), which, when combined with their metaphysics of the special sciences ("rainforet realism"), can be used to unify physics with the other sciences without reducing these sciences to physics intself. Taking science metaphysically seriously, Ladyman and Ross argue, means that metaphysicians must abandon the picture of the world as composed of self-subsistent individual objects, and the paradigm of causation as the collision of such objects.  Every Thing Must Go also assesses the role of information theory and complex systems theory in attempts to explain the relationship between the special sciences and physics, treading a middle road between the grand synthesis of thermodynamics and information, and eliminativism about information. The consequences of the author's metaphysical theory for central issues in the philosophy of science are explored, including the implications for the realism vs. empiricism debate, the role of causation in scientific explanations, the nature of causation and laws, the status of abstract and virtual objects, and the objective reality of natural kinds

Politics & Social Sciences

John Collier

James Ladyman

Don Ross

David Spurrett

Philosophy

Clarendon Press

The John Collier Reader

Alfred.A. Knopf

Even when Alfred Hitchcock was just a tiny tot, his parents sensed there was something, well, odd about him. The only kind of fairy tales that brought a smile to his childish lips had the ogres and dragons winning, and instead of wanting to know about the birds and the bees, he kept asking about the vipers and the vultures. Since then, Hitchcock's taste for terror and appetite for evil has more than made his parents' nightmares come true. And now he's out to share his satanic knowledge and pleasure with you in these thirteen super-shivery spellbinders by: 
John Collier - Gerald Kersh - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Andrew Benedict - Grace Amundson - Robert Arthur - Shirley Jackson - George Hitchcock - George Mandel - Jane Rice - Don Stanford - Richard Matheson - Richard Edward Wormser

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me

Literature & Fiction

Shirley Jackson

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Richard Wormser

Robert. Arthur

Don Stanford

Richard, Matheson

Gerald Kersh

Grace Amundson

Andrew Benedict

George Hitchcock

George Mandel

Jane Dixon Rice

Genre Fiction

Dell Publishing

Indians of the Americas (Mentor Books)

Social Sciences

New American Library

"A work of genius"—The Boston Globe"From the first sentence of the novel the reader is aware that he is in the presence of a magician…[Collier] casts a spell and he does so always with a smile."—Paul Theroux"A wayward masterpiece…Whatever this volume has cost you, it is, believe me, a great bargain."—Anthony Burgess"It is impossible to convey the subtle wit which makes you laugh out loud, the beauty and penetrating satire which blend so perfectly into its brilliance."—Booklist"The whole is written with sly humor throughout and is illuminated by splendid similes and metaphors which mark the author as a true humorist."—New York TimesIn the author's own words: "This is a strange book…an emotional melodrama, complete with a Medusa villainess, an honest simpleton of a hero, and an angelic if only anthropoid heroine, all functioning in the two dimensional world of the old Lyceum poster or the primitive fresco…where an angel may outsize a church, and where a man may marry a monkey on a foggy day."—from John Collier's "A Looking Glass"When Alfred Fatigay returns to his native London, he brings along his trustworthy pet chimpanzee Emily who, unbeknownst to Fatigay, has become civilized: literate, literaryand in love with Fatigay himself. After Emily meets Alfred's fiancée Amy Flint, a 1920's "modern woman," she sets out to save her beloved from Amy's cold grip. "Emily is the perfect outside observer," writes Eva Brann in her introduction, "because she is an African in Europe, a female in a man's world, a servant to liberated sophisticates, and above all an old-fashioned creature in a modern world."John Collier (1901–1980) was born in Britain, but spent much of his life in the U.S., where he wrote screenplays for Hollywood (The African Queen, Sylvia Scarlet, and I Am a Camera among them) and short stories for the New Yorker and other magazines. He was also a poet, editor, and reviewer.

His Monkey Wife

Humor & Satire

Pocket_Books

Flights of Fantasy (Literature & Thought)

STEVIE SMITH

Nancy Springer

ORSON SCOTT CARD

Isaac. Asimov

Betsy Hearne

Tamra Pierce

Ruth Trowbridge

Perfection Learning

In this volume, 19th Century classics by Wilkie Collins and Edith Warton combine with more modern fare from the pens of John Collier and John Gardner, as well as Aldous Huxley's brilliant The Gioconda Smile and a delicious comic crime gem by James Thurber. The literary variety is matched by the wide range of brilliant readings by Orson Welles, Christopher Cazenove, Arte Johnson, Carol Lawrence, Mackenzie Phillips, roger Rees, and David Warner.

Greatest Mysteries of All Time: Volume VI

James Thurber

JOHN GARDNER

Aldous, Huxley

Edith, Wharton

Wilkie, Collins

C. P.Donnell, Jr.

Melville D. Post

New Star Media Inc

"A work of genius"—The Boston Globe
"From the first sentence of the novel the reader is aware that he is in the presence of a magician…[Collier] casts a spell and he does so always with a smile."—Paul Theroux
"A wayward masterpiece…Whatever this volume has cost you, it is, believe me, a great bargain."—Anthony Burgess
"It is impossible to convey the subtle wit which makes you laugh out loud, the beauty and penetrating satire which blend so perfectly into its brilliance."—Booklist
"The whole is written with sly humor throughout and is illuminated by splendid similes and metaphors which mark the author as a true humorist."—New York Times
In the author's own words: "This is a strange book…an emotional melodrama, complete with a Medusa villainess, an honest simpleton of a hero, and an angelic if only anthropoid heroine, all functioning in the two dimensional world of the old Lyceum poster or the primitive fresco…where an angel may outsize a church, and where a man may marry a monkey on a foggy day."—from John Collier's "A Looking Glass"
When Alfred Fatigay returns to his native London, he brings along his trustworthy pet chimpanzee Emily who, unbeknownst to Fatigay, has become civilized: literate, literaryand in love with Fatigay himself. After Emily meets Alfred's fiancée Amy Flint, a 1920's "modern woman," she sets out to save her beloved from Amy's cold grip. "Emily is the perfect outside observer," writes Eva Brann in her introduction, "because she is an African in Europe, a female in a man's world, a servant to liberated sophisticates, and above all an old-fashioned creature in a modern world."
John Collier (1901–1980) was born in Britain, but spent much of his life in the U.S., where he wrote screenplays for Hollywood (The African Queen, Sylvia Scarlet, and I Am a Camera among them) and short stories for the New Yorker and other magazines. He was also a poet, editor, and reviewer.

His Monkey Wife (Or, Married to a Chimp)

Paul Dry Books

This sparkling sequel to WIZARDS OF ODD once again turns logic on its head with a galaxy of star writers and stories. Terry Pratchett, the arch-priest of the genre, leads off with the eccentric figure of DEATH on new and curious mission, Roald Dahl plays havoc with country superstition, and Arthur C. Clarke shows the funny side of cosmic doom. Add to these dazzling contributions from masters such as Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Angela Carter, C.S. Lewis, P.G. Wodehouse and Michael Moorcock, and you have a blend of comic fantasy, supernatural extravaganza and sf that is almost literally in orbit. The title of the book stems from the fact that many of the stories feature characters who can fly - either under their own power or by machines - or they simply run into trouble with aerial objects of one sort or another. Bringing together some of the best fantasy available, THE FLYING SORCERERS is a gloriously bizarre, wonderfully varied collection of stories.

The Flying Sorcerers

L. Sprague De Camp

Eric Knight

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

C.S.LEWIS

Fletcher Pratt

ANGELA CARTER

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Piers, Anthony

P.G.Wodehouse

Terry-Pratchett

Roald, Dahl

mervyn-peake

michael-moorcock

Short Stories & Anthologies

Orbit

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