Robert Sinclair - Böcker

In this book, authors investigate the concept of resilience, and evaluate existing programs for developing and maintaining resilience that have been implemented in various branches of our armed forces.Military personnel and their families face innumerable challenges. Deployed soldiers are exposed to a wide range of stressors, from the continuous, low-level experience of living in a strange and austere environment for a lengthy period of time, to acute, traumatic events that occur during combat, all of which can lead to long-term psychological problems like PTSD, depression, and substance abuse, and even suicide. Back home, husbands and wives of deployed soldiers face an increased likelihood of depression, anxiety and sleep disorders, while their children are more likely to exhibit behavioral issues and negative outcomes in school.In the face of these persistent problems, researchers have consistently identified resilience, a term derived from the psychological and psychiatric literature, as perhaps the single most important factor predicting successful outcomes for military personnel and their families. In this book, editors Robert Sinclair and Thomas Britt and a distinguished group of researchers investigate the concept of resilience, its essential role in normal psychological development, and its relevance within various occupational contexts unique to the military. In the second part of the book, the authors evaluate existing programs for developing and maintaining resilience that have been implemented in various branches of our armed forces.

Preliminary Edition Available Fall 2014!Discovering the Entrepreneur Within: Understanding the Entrepreneurial Process is designed with two specific goals in mind. To educate you in the entrepreneurial process. To help you realize that you can absolutely become an entrepreneur, if you so choose. These goals are accomplished by creating a book that focuses specifically on the entrepreneurial process and not small business. In addition, the book is written in a clear and concise manner using examples the author feels makes it easy to comprehend the concepts that are being learned. The exercises that are included in the book are designed not only to assess what has been learned, but also to make the reader think about how each topic might apply to them. The reader will learn:Why entrepreneurship is so important? What is the difference between a businessperson and an entrepreneur? What is an entrepreneur and how do they become one?The different types of entrepreneurship.Different ways to become an entrepreneur.How entrepreneurs think differently from others.How to think like an entrepreneur.How to protect yourself from making unethical decisions in your entrepreneurial endeavors. How to be emotionally prepared for the inevitable ups and downs of entrepreneurship.How to locate, create and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities.The process that should be followed to take advantage of entrepreneurial opportunity. This book is designed to provide the reader with a solid foundation for truly understanding the entrepreneurial process and what it takes to become an entrepreneur. It is not meant to be all-inclusive. Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive field and no single book can cover everything a person needs to know. This book is indented to be but the first in a series of books designed specifically to guide people, who choose to become entrepreneurs, down the path to entrepreneurship.

W. V. Quine’s occasional references to his ‘pragmatism’ have often been interpreted as suggesting a possible link to the American Pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey. Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction argues that the influence of pragmatism on Quine’s philosophy is more accurately traced to his teacher C.I. Lewis and his conceptual pragmatism from Mind and the World Order, and his later An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation. Quine’s epistemological views share many affinities with Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism, where knowledge is conceived as a conceptual framework pragmatically revised in light of what future experience reveals. Robert Sinclair further defends and elaborates on this claim by showing how Lewis’s influence can be seen in several key episodes in Quine’s philosophical development. This not only highlights a forgotten element of the epistemological backdrop to Quine’s mid-century criticism of the analytic-synthetic distinction, but Sinclair further argues that it provides the central epistemological framework for the form and content of Quine’s later naturalized conception of epistemology.

These lectures represent an important stage in the development of Quine’s later thought, where he is more explicit about the importance of physicalist constraints in his account of the steps from sensory stimulation to scientific theory, and in further using them to assess the extent to which mental vocabulary is defensible.