Bøger af Brian Davies

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion provides a critical examination of the fundamental questions posed by religious belief: What does it mean to believe in God? Can God's existence be proven? Is there life after death? Brian Davies considers these questions and many others, sometimes offering provocative answers of his own, but more often giving students room to form their own conclusions. In addition to exploring the views of several classic philosophers of religion--including Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant--Davies surveys a variety of contemporary thinkers. Revised and updated to cover the latest developments in the field, the new edition of this influential textbook provides an ideal introduction for all students of the philosophy of religion.

This book presents elements of the theory of chaos in dynamical systems in a framework of theoretical understanding coupled with numerical and graphical experimentation. It describes the theory of fractals, focusing on the importance of scaling and ordinary differential equations.

CONTRIBUTORS:FERGUS KERR OPCharity as Friendship SIMON TUGWELL OPPrayer, Humpty Dumpty and Thomas Aquinas BRIAN DAVIES OPClassical Theism and the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity DAVID B. BURRELL CSCDistinguishing God from the World DENYS TURNERFeuerbach, Marx and Reductivism ANTHONY KENNYAquinas on Knowledge of Self P. J. FITZPATRICKSome Seventeenth-Century Disagreements and TransubstantiationHUGO A. MEYNELLFaith, Objectivity, and Historical FalsifiabilityMARGARET DAVIESThe Genre of the First GospelTIMOTHY RADCLIFFE OP'The Coming of the Son of Man': Mark's Gospel and the Subversion of 'The Apocalyptic Imagination' BRIAN WICKERTaking Away the Sin of the WorldJ. M. CAMERONThe Theory and Practice of Autobiography ENDA MCDONAGHPrayer, Poetry and PoliticsEditor Biography:Brian Davies is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York.

An exciting new way of teaching chaos in dynamical systems to undergraduates, using a combination of text and computer experiments.

This is a substantially updated, extended and reorganized third edition of an introductory text on the use of integral transforms. Emphasis is on the development of techniques and the connection between properties of transforms and the kind of problems for which they provide tools.