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Persistence realism is the view that ordinary sentences that we think and utter about persisting objects are often true. Persistence realism involves both a semantic claim, about what it would take for those sentences to be true, and an ontological claim about the way things are. According to persistence realism, given what it would take for persistence sentences to be true, and given the ontology of our world, often such sentences are true. A...

The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House and is thought to have had little impact on history. Edith, flamboyant and confident left a legacy of controversy. Yet each played a significant role in the White House. This presents a rich and complex portrait of Wilson's wives, one that compels us to reconsider our understanding of both w...

Title: Weekly, Color-Coded, Medication Planner. Subtitle: Helping you to Take Your Medications in an Organized and Simplified Way! Author: Kristie Miller, Business Name: Nerdy Grandma. ISBN 978-1-387-49816-1 Copyright © 2022 Kristie Miller. All rights reserved. Published by Kristie Miller / Nerdy Grandma

Kristie Miller and James Norton present a new account of metaphysical explanation, not as a philosophical technicality but as a feature of everyday life. This is the notion that we all use in ordinary contexts when we give explanations of a certain sort: Miller and Norton build their account on investigation of these explanatory practices.

An energetic entrepreneur as well as a politician who was a key player during the New Deal, Isabella Greenway blazed a trail for the remarkable women in Arizona politics today. Kristie Miller's meticulous biography captures a life of adventure and romance, from Edith Wharton's New York and a life-long friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt to ventures into ranching, the airline industry, furniture manufacturing, and hotel management. The book also ...

Our world is full of composite objects that persist through time: dogs, persons, chairs and rocks. But in virtue of what do a bunch of little objects get to compose some bigger object, and how does that bigger object persist through time? This book aims to answer these questions, but it does so by looking at accounts of composition and persistence through a new methodological lens. It asks the question: what does it take for two theories to be...

The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House. Edith Bolling Wilson was flamboyant and confident but left a legacy of controversy. Yet, as Kristie Miller shows, each played a significant role in the White House. She presents a rich and complex portrait of Wilson's wives that compels us to reconsider our understanding of both women.

Progressing from the first flirtatious moment of eye contact to the selection of a "mate, " this enlightening book offers playful philosophical explorations of the dating game for anyone who has dated, is dating, or intends to date again. * Offers amusing and enlightening philosophical insights into the dating game * Helps demystify coupling in the 21st century for those young daters just entering the fray, and those veterans returning to the ...

Our world is full of composite objects that persist through time: dogs, persons, chairs and rocks. But in virtue of what do a bunch of little objects get to compose some bigger object, and how does that bigger object persist through time? This book aims to answer these questions, but it does so by looking at accounts of composition and persistence through a new methodological lens. It asks the question: what does it take for two theories to be...