Lincoln's Address to the Young Men's Lyceum: A Speculative Essay
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THE PROJECT: Your aim in this essay is to pose a speculative "what if?" question, then use research and critical thinking to propose an answer, ultimately showing readers why your speculation matters. THE PROCESS: You'll start with a topic from a field of your choice (history, sociology, or science, for example) and speculate about it.
PDF Alfred North Whitehead
Speculative Philosophy. th WhiteheadSECTION IThis course of lectures is designed as an essay in. peculative Philosophy. Its first task must be to define 'speculative philosophy,' and to defend it as a method productive. f important knowledge.Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ...
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A famous example would be Réné Descartes' use of the ontological argument in the Meditations on First Philosophy to solidify the connection between thought and extension and ultimately to overcome universal scepticism. A common theme in speculative philosophy is its persistent efforts to defeat both scepticism and
Speculative Essay: Definition & Example
A speculative essay hypothesizes the anticipated results of scientific research or events using ideas formed without hard evidence to back it up. Learn more about the definition of a speculative ...
Manifesto
A "Speculative Essay" concerns itself with the figurative over the literal, ambiguity over knowing, meditation over reportage. For some writers, in all manner of nonfiction subgenres, from nature writers to literary journalists to personal essayists, facts as such matter for the ways they open paths to speculation. As Vladimir Nabokov most ...
PDF The Concept of Monophyly: A Speculative Essay
The Concept of Monophyly: A Speculative Essay. MALCOLM S. GORDON. Department of Biology University of California Box 951606 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606. U.S.A. Abstract. The concept of monophyly is central to much of modern biology. Despite many efforts over many years, important questions remain unanswered that relate both to the concept itself ...
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Collects the essays of James Bradley (1947-2012) for the first time, showcasing his speculative cosmology of the Trinity Reinvigorates the debate about the role and significance of speculative philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition Reveals the depth and breadth of Bradley's philosophical thought Presented in chronological order, following the movement of Bradley's thought Includes a ...
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nature of God, for example. As such well-known features of the speculative tradition can give rise to misunderstandings about the nature of the speculative search for the self-explanatory, the minimal requirements involved in undertaking the speculative project have to be carefully defined and delimited.
2 What is Speculative Philosophy?
Abstract. This chapter questions the contemporary stakes of speculative philosophy. Taking Whitehead's claim of inscribing all problems of knowledge, of reality, and of experience within a "speculative scheme" seriously, this chapter is organized around a number of questions: How to inherit from speculative philosophy in the aftermath of the critiques that haven been formulated with ...
Speculative philosophy of history: what is it and why study it?
ABSTRACT. When the famously 'enlightened' Frenchman, Voltaire, coined the term 'philosophy of history', he meant something akin to what we might now call 'critical cultural history'. In his 1769 Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of Nations he surveyed ancient and classical cultures (primarily in terms of their customs and ...
Speculation, history, speculative history
Dodd's connection of money and waste. Persson's essay kindly presents the reader with a rich set of references with which to embark on these research possibilities. Finally, this issue acknowledges the broad network of ad hoc referees on whose expertise we rely to maintain the high quality of our referee process.
PDF The Critical Reception of Speculative Fiction
M. Keith Booker. contemporary speculative fiction has roots that reach back to the epics and myths of antiquity, when ancient peoples sought supernatural ex-planations (or at least metaphors) for phenomena in the natural world that seemed beyond understanding from direct knowledge of reality. Speculation beyond the directly observable natural ...
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There are at least two principal ways to write speculative fiction--write about people, or write about gadgets. There are other ways; consider Stapledon's Last and First Men, recall S. Fowler Wright's The World Below. But the gadget story and the human-interest story comprise most of the field. Most science fiction stories are a mixture of the ...
Full article: Speculation, history, speculative history
When choosing between potential explanations, Lipton outlines two stages. First, we filter out explanations that are less plausible from all others that we have imagined or developed. Next, we examine the remaining potential explanations and rank them according to our evaluation of explanatory goodness.
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After finitude: An essay on the necessity of contingency. New York: Continuum. ———. 2012. Iteration, reiteration, repetition: A speculative analysis of the sign devoid of meaning. Trans. R. Mackay and M. Gansen. Genealogies of specula-tion: Materialism and subjectivity since structuralism, ed. Suhail Mailk and Armen Avanessian, 117-197.
(PDF) "Our Sense of Purpose": Speculative Fiction and Systems Reading
This formal structuring of speculative thinking offers a way of seeing—and possibly even changing—the system itself. Chaos in the System The remainder of this essay will consider a few literary examples to illustrate the lasting impact of system dynamics within speculative fiction since the late 1960s.
(PDF) A Review of Functions of Speculative Thinking
Speculative thinking refers to thinking about past or future possibilities; it includes counterfactual thinking, prefactual thinking, and other types. In this narrative review, we discuss the ...
Speculative Essay Example
Speculative Essay Example - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document provides an overview of some of the challenges involved in writing a speculative essay. It notes that speculative essays require balancing creativity with logical reasoning, as they explore hypothetical scenarios without concrete evidence.
Essays on several curious and useful subjects, in speculative and mix'd
Essays on several curious and useful subjects, in speculative and mix'd mathematicks : illustrated by a variety of examples by Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL
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Document Speculative Essay Example.pdf, Subject English, from Arkansas Tech University, Length: 37 pages, Preview: Speculative Bergery And The Origin Of Freemasonry The subject of this paper relates to operative and. Please share free course specific Documents, Notes, Summaries and more!
African Literary Future/isms: Collective and Speculative Approaches
1 Unlike 'decolonial' scholars such as Walter Mignolo and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, for instance, who abandon the 'postcolonial' in favour of the 'decolonial', wa Thiong'o's retention and nuancing of the 'postcolonial' is what we find useful for this article as it draws attention to the more generative possibilities of postcolonialism for the process of decolonisation.
PDF Speculative Design: Creative Possibilities and Critical Reflection
A Speculative Listening Experience The first example is a music player that questions what a listening experience can be by translating informa-tion from mp3 music blogs. It is a formal response to new music infrastructures—a model that uses hand manipulation (object-based browsing) to symbolize associative links between songs from music ...
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THE PROJECT: Your aim in this essay is to pose a speculative "what if?" question, then use research and critical thinking to propose an answer, ultimately showing readers why your speculation matters. THE PROCESS: You'll start with a topic from a field of your choice (history, sociology, or science, for example) and speculate about it.
Speculative Philosophy. th WhiteheadSECTION IThis course of lectures is designed as an essay in. peculative Philosophy. Its first task must be to define 'speculative philosophy,' and to defend it as a method productive. f important knowledge.Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ...
A famous example would be Réné Descartes' use of the ontological argument in the Meditations on First Philosophy to solidify the connection between thought and extension and ultimately to overcome universal scepticism. A common theme in speculative philosophy is its persistent efforts to defeat both scepticism and
A speculative essay hypothesizes the anticipated results of scientific research or events using ideas formed without hard evidence to back it up. Learn more about the definition of a speculative ...
A "Speculative Essay" concerns itself with the figurative over the literal, ambiguity over knowing, meditation over reportage. For some writers, in all manner of nonfiction subgenres, from nature writers to literary journalists to personal essayists, facts as such matter for the ways they open paths to speculation. As Vladimir Nabokov most ...
The Concept of Monophyly: A Speculative Essay. MALCOLM S. GORDON. Department of Biology University of California Box 951606 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606. U.S.A. Abstract. The concept of monophyly is central to much of modern biology. Despite many efforts over many years, important questions remain unanswered that relate both to the concept itself ...
Collects the essays of James Bradley (1947-2012) for the first time, showcasing his speculative cosmology of the Trinity Reinvigorates the debate about the role and significance of speculative philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition Reveals the depth and breadth of Bradley's philosophical thought Presented in chronological order, following the movement of Bradley's thought Includes a ...
nature of God, for example. As such well-known features of the speculative tradition can give rise to misunderstandings about the nature of the speculative search for the self-explanatory, the minimal requirements involved in undertaking the speculative project have to be carefully defined and delimited.
Abstract. This chapter questions the contemporary stakes of speculative philosophy. Taking Whitehead's claim of inscribing all problems of knowledge, of reality, and of experience within a "speculative scheme" seriously, this chapter is organized around a number of questions: How to inherit from speculative philosophy in the aftermath of the critiques that haven been formulated with ...
ABSTRACT. When the famously 'enlightened' Frenchman, Voltaire, coined the term 'philosophy of history', he meant something akin to what we might now call 'critical cultural history'. In his 1769 Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of Nations he surveyed ancient and classical cultures (primarily in terms of their customs and ...
Dodd's connection of money and waste. Persson's essay kindly presents the reader with a rich set of references with which to embark on these research possibilities. Finally, this issue acknowledges the broad network of ad hoc referees on whose expertise we rely to maintain the high quality of our referee process.
M. Keith Booker. contemporary speculative fiction has roots that reach back to the epics and myths of antiquity, when ancient peoples sought supernatural ex-planations (or at least metaphors) for phenomena in the natural world that seemed beyond understanding from direct knowledge of reality. Speculation beyond the directly observable natural ...
There are at least two principal ways to write speculative fiction--write about people, or write about gadgets. There are other ways; consider Stapledon's Last and First Men, recall S. Fowler Wright's The World Below. But the gadget story and the human-interest story comprise most of the field. Most science fiction stories are a mixture of the ...
When choosing between potential explanations, Lipton outlines two stages. First, we filter out explanations that are less plausible from all others that we have imagined or developed. Next, we examine the remaining potential explanations and rank them according to our evaluation of explanatory goodness.
After finitude: An essay on the necessity of contingency. New York: Continuum. ———. 2012. Iteration, reiteration, repetition: A speculative analysis of the sign devoid of meaning. Trans. R. Mackay and M. Gansen. Genealogies of specula-tion: Materialism and subjectivity since structuralism, ed. Suhail Mailk and Armen Avanessian, 117-197.
This formal structuring of speculative thinking offers a way of seeing—and possibly even changing—the system itself. Chaos in the System The remainder of this essay will consider a few literary examples to illustrate the lasting impact of system dynamics within speculative fiction since the late 1960s.
Speculative thinking refers to thinking about past or future possibilities; it includes counterfactual thinking, prefactual thinking, and other types. In this narrative review, we discuss the ...
Speculative Essay Example - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document provides an overview of some of the challenges involved in writing a speculative essay. It notes that speculative essays require balancing creativity with logical reasoning, as they explore hypothetical scenarios without concrete evidence.
Essays on several curious and useful subjects, in speculative and mix'd mathematicks : illustrated by a variety of examples by Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL
Document Speculative Essay Example.pdf, Subject English, from Arkansas Tech University, Length: 37 pages, Preview: Speculative Bergery And The Origin Of Freemasonry The subject of this paper relates to operative and. Please share free course specific Documents, Notes, Summaries and more!
1 Unlike 'decolonial' scholars such as Walter Mignolo and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, for instance, who abandon the 'postcolonial' in favour of the 'decolonial', wa Thiong'o's retention and nuancing of the 'postcolonial' is what we find useful for this article as it draws attention to the more generative possibilities of postcolonialism for the process of decolonisation.
A Speculative Listening Experience The first example is a music player that questions what a listening experience can be by translating informa-tion from mp3 music blogs. It is a formal response to new music infrastructures—a model that uses hand manipulation (object-based browsing) to symbolize associative links between songs from music ...