A Slim Book about Narrow Content

A Slim Book about Narrow Content
Author: Gabriel M. A. Segal
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000-06-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780262264563

A good understanding of the nature of a property requires knowing whether that property is relational or intrinsic. Gabriel Segal's concern is whether certain psychological properties—specifically, those that make up what might be called the "cognitive content" of psychological states—are relational or intrinsic. He claims that content supervenes on microstructure, that is, if two beings are identical with respect to their microstructural properties, then they must be identical with respect to their cognitive contents. Segal's thesis, a version of internalism, is that being in a state with a specific cognitive content does not essentially involve standing in any real relation to anything external. He uses the fact that content locally supervenes on microstructure to argue for the intrinsicness of content. Cognitive content is fully determined by intrinsic, microstructural properties: duplicate a subject in respect to those properties and you duplicate their cognitive contents. The book, written in a clear, engaging style, contains four chapters. The first two argue against the two leading externalist theories. Chapter 3 rejects popular theories that endorse two kinds of content: "narrow" content, which is locally supervenient, and "broad" content, which is not. Chapter 4 defends a radical alternative version of internalism, arguing that narrow content is a variety of ordinary representation, that is, that narrow content is all there is to content. In defending internalism, Segal does not claim to defend a general philosophical theory of content. At this stage, he suggests, it should suffice to cast reasonable doubt on externalism, to motivate internalism, and to provide reasons to believe that good psychology is, or could be, internalist.

Slim

Slim
Author: Ronald Lewin
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1999
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9781840222142

Field Marshal the Viscount Slim was blessed with none of the advantages of wealth and social position that eased the progress of many army officers. With only his integrity, personality and intellect he rose to the pinnacle of his career.

Slim

Slim
Author: Slim Keith
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Mama Black Widow

Mama Black Widow
Author: Iceberg Slim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936399199

"Mama Black Widow" is the nickname of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic black queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the dark ghetto world of pimpdom and violent crime. His story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld--an unforgettable testament of life lived on the margins of a racist and predatory urban hell.

Slim

Slim
Author: William Wister Haines
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1934
Genre: Construction workers
ISBN:

Pimp

Pimp
Author: Iceberg Slim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451617143

“[In Pimp], Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” —Dave Chappelle, from his Nextflix special The Bird Revelation Pimp sent shockwaves throughout the literary world when it published in 1969. Iceberg Slim’s autobiographical novel offered readers a never-before-seen account of the sex trade, and an unforgettable look at the mores of Chicago’s street life during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. In the preface, Slim says it best, “In this book, I will take you, the reader, with me into the secret inner world of the pimp.” An immersive experience unlike anything before it, Pimp would go on to sell millions of copies, with translations throughout the world. And it would have a profound impact upon generations of writers, entertainers, and filmmakers, making it the classic hustler’s tale that never seems to go out of style.

State of Slim

State of Slim
Author: James Hill
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1623367646

SLIM--it's the state everyone wishes their body was in. And it turns out there's actually a state of slim: Colorado, the place that boasts the lowest obesity rate in America. Now leading weight-loss researchers James O. Hill, PhD, and Holly R. Wyatt, MD, reveal how slender Coloradans get and stay that way and show how you can achieve the same results--even if you live in Connecticut, California, or Canada! If you doubt you will ever reach your ideal weight, help and hope are here. State of Slim is broken down into three phases to help you reignite, rebuild, and reinforce your body's fat-burning engines so you develop a Mile-High Metabolism--one that is keenly responsive to shifts in activity and diet. In the reignite and rebuild phases, you'll learn the diet and exercise strategies that will help you drop up to 20 pounds in just 8 weeks. In the reinforce phase, you'll continue to lose weight and solidify your new lifestyle. Along the way, you'll discover how to make changes in your environment and your mind-set so they support, rather than thwart, your success. With State of Slim as your guide, you won't just lose weight, you'll actually change your body so it is primed to stay in a state of slim for good.

Ace De Luca

Ace De Luca
Author: Jaclin Marie
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2022-02-23
Genre:
ISBN:

Aria White is known as the most skilled assassin in the underground world. Her father is known for being one of the top five most powerful illegal bosses. Ace De Luca on the other hand is a whole different game. He is ruthless, controlling, and almost as lethal as fire. He likes to play games with people before he breaks them into the palm of his hand. Both Ace and Aria cross paths unexpectedly but when a flame lits between them, will they both get burned?

California Slim

California Slim
Author: Andrew J. Bernstein
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 152553940X

There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors’ proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein’s California Slim aspires to far more than that—and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the post-’50s revolution that, as a beat poet once put it, roared as it ripped the threadbare fabric of an age. Andy was no distant, casual observer during the tumultuous ’60s and ’70s; he was at the heart of the maelstrom, and writes about it with candor, humor, and originality. The story begins, for God’s sake, with Andy and his then unknown banjo teacher, a young Jerry Garcia, fingerpicking in a back room at Dana Morgan’s Music Studio in Palo Alto in 1962. A skinny six-foot-seven-inch Jewish kid (later known as “California Slim”), Andy divided his time between the usual adolescent interests and music, for which he would go on to provide a capital M by promoting and staging concerts throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His Palo Alto nightclub, Homer’s Warehouse, across the street from the Stanford University campus, brought revolutionary musicians (among them, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) to young sensibilities hungry for new driving rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics. The early chapters of this book set the stage for Andy’s eventual hooking-up with Willie Nelson and his Family—which felt, Andy said, “like reading a really good book that I couldn’t put down.” That feeling led directly, if gradually, to California Slim. And you, dear reader, won’t be able to put it down, either. —Tony Compagno

Slim Secrets

Slim Secrets
Author: Anita Bean
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0753519097

Most diets make you eat less, yet this can leave you washed out and miserable. Understanding and controlling your appetite is the key to successful weight loss. Slim Secrets shows you how. - Learn how to think slim and act slim - Make food choices that control your hunger and enhance satiety - Manage 'portion distortion' and avoid overeating - Deals with eating psychology such as emotional eating and cravings With menu plans for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks, Slim Secrets will help you gain control of your appetite and set you on the road to successful weight loss.