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A traditionally-minded minority held that the Board's act in publishing Knapp's book constituted a fundamental violation of several by-laws and its legal trust, automatically mandating the offending Board members ' resignations under Article I, Section 9.

The 1981 book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process by Charles J. Lumsden and E. O. Wilson proposed the theory that genes and culture co-evolve, and that the fundamental biological units of culture must correspond to neuronal networks that function as nodes of semantic memory.

Coauthor Wilson later acknowledged the term meme as the best label for the fundamental unit of cultural inheritance in his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, which elaborates upon the fundamental role of memes in unifying the natural and social sciences.

Michio Kushi's book The Cancer Prevention Diet outlines the fundamental philosophy for the diet and cancer prevention.

* John Rawls: Revitalized the study of normative political philosophy in Anglo-American universities with his 1971 book A Theory of Justice, which uses a version of social contract theory to answer fundamental questions about justice and to criticise utilitarianism.

For example, Steven Pinker argues in his book The Language Instinct that thought is independent of language, that language is itself meaningless in any fundamental way to human thought, and that human beings do not even think in " natural " language, i. e. any language that we actually communicate in ; rather, we think in a meta-language, preceding any natural language, called " mentalese.

Wittgenstein responded to Schlick, commenting, "... I cannot imagine that Carnap should have so completely misunderstood the last sentences of the book and hence the fundamental conception of the entire book.

In 1990 he wrote his beautiful and famous book about fundamental particles physics entitled Iz take so snovi kot sanje ( We are such stuff as dreams are made of ).

At a deeper level, the book is an exposition of concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence.

Addison Wesley, Reading 5 / 9 / 2003 ISBN 0-321-15495-9 ( This book, now in second edition, eloquently covers the fundamental concepts of the discipline.

On the other hand, Akiva himself declares that the command to love one's neighbor is the fundamental principle of the Torah ; while Ben Asa assigns this distinction to the Biblical verse, " This is the book of the generations of man ".

In 1624 he published a book titled An Examination of the Traditions of the Pharisees which questioned the fundamental idea of the immortality of the soul.

The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book.

Ritzer continues to explore this book ’ s central thesis: that our society has undergone fundamental change because of the way and the level at which we consume.

They were not only seen as a pattern book of heroic figure design, but also as a model of technical procedure ; Annibale ’ s hundreds of preparatory drawings for the ceiling became a fundamental step in composing any ambitious history painting.

In Germany, Knigge is best remembered for his book Über den Umgang mit Menschen ( On Human Relations ), a treatise on the fundamental principles of human relations that has the reputation of being the authoritative guide to behaviour, politeness, and etiquette.

As the fundamental principle of his system, Akiva enunciates his conviction that the mode of expression used by the Torah is quite different from that of every other book.

He decided that, since the book said so little about antibodies, he would investigate them further upon returning to the United States, which led him to study physical chemistry for his 1960 Ph. D. Research by Edelman and his colleagues and Rodney Robert Porter in the early 1960s produced fundamental breakthroughs in the understanding of the antibody's chemical structure, opening a door for further study.

A scientific theory can also be thought of as a book that captures the fundamental information about the world, a book that must be researched, written, and shared.

The fundamental criticism against this book from the astronomy community was that its celestial mechanics were physically impossible, requiring planetary orbits that do not conform with the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of angular momentum.

For instance, in his book " The Fair Society ", Peter Corning suggests that " Kant's objection to the Golden Rule is especially suspect because the categorical imperative ( CI ) sounds a lot like a paraphrase, or perhaps a close cousin, of the same fundamental idea.

The " ethical " fragments preserved in Stobaeus ' Florilegium may represent " some philosophical book.

In 1909 he published a scathing book of criticism entitled Materialism and Empiriocriticism ( 1909 ), assaulting Bogdanov's position and accusing him of philosophical idealism.

The philosophical message of the book fits well with the religious piety of the Middle Ages.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

The second book is largely devoted to the respective roles of faith and philosophical argument.

The second part of Cervantes ' Don Quixote, finished as a direct result of the Avellaneda book, has come to be regarded by some literary critics as superior to the first part, because of its greater depth of characterization, its discussions, mostly between Quixote and Sancho, on diverse subjects, and its philosophical insights.

Wojtyła had earlier defended the church's position from a philosophical standpoint in his 1960 book Love and Responsibility.

Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".

In 1999, his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations ( 1953 ) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy by the Baruch Poll, standing out as "... the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations ".

Presenting research on general philosophical principles Rescher's book begins with his view on metaphilosophy:

He then sets out throughout the rest of the book to demonstrate the limitations of this conception, including, he argues, many traditional philosophical puzzles and confusions that arise as a result of this limited picture.

Within the Anglo-American tradition, the book is considered by many as being one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century, and it continues to influence contemporary philosophers, especially those studying mind and language.

Steiner later spoke of this book as containing implicitly, in philosophical form, the entire content of what he later developed explicitly as anthroposophy.

New York publisher Evert Augustus Duyckinck wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that " it is a lively and pleasant book, not over philosophical perhaps.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

As he states in the preface, he saw the book as a preamble to his other philosophical and theological books ; in fact, he suggests that Natural Theology should be read first, so as to build a systematic understanding of his arguments.

Søren Kierkegaard publishes his famous philosophical book " Either / Or " in 1843.

** Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical book Fear and Trembling is first published.

His best known book, Being and Time is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century.

According to Marie Dowling " Anne tried to educate her waiting-women in scriptural piety ” and is believed to have reproved her cousin, Mary Shelton, for “ having ‘ idle poesies ’ written in her prayer book .” If Cavendish is to be believed, Anne's outrage at Wolsey may have personalized whatever philosophical defiance she brought with her from France.

his 1951 book ), following his mentor Hilbert, but his writings betray substantial philosophical curiosity and a very open mind about intuitionistic logic.

Another criticism of the book, made by the philosopher Mary Midgley in her book Evolution as a Religion, is that it discusses philosophical and moral questions that go beyond the biological arguments that Dawkins makes.