Books written by Barry Allen

Biomedical Physics in Radiotherapy for Cancer

King TA, Bolton JS, Kuske RR, Fuhrman GM, Scroggins TG and Jiang XZ (2000) Long-term results of wide-field brachytherapy as the sole method of radiation therapy after segmental mastectomy for T(is,1,2) ...
Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience

Rachel Laudan (Dordrecht: D. Rei- del, 1984), 28–29; Rachel Laudan, “Cognitive Change in Technology and Science,” ibid., 98; Vincenti, What Engineers Know, 225; and Ferguson, Engineering and the Mind's Eye, 60, 63–64.
Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene

Ben Brewster (London: Verso, 1971), 223; Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (1967; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 152; and Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1967; Baltimore: Johns ...
Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene

John M. Cooper (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1997). 21. Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine, quoted in John M. Cooper, “Method and Science in On Ancient Medicine,” in Knowledge, Nature, and the Good (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press ...
Biomedical Physics in Radiotherapy for Cancer

Barry Allen, Loredana Marcu, Eva Bezak. Figure 12.16. The impact of tissue inhomogeneities on dose distribution: dose distribution in water (full line) and dose distribution corrected for inhomogeneities (broken line) – the dose is ...
Truth in Philosophy

First , power prefers to hide ; hidden , it is stronger . To show itself is a risk to be avoided wherever possible . Second , power does not only dissemble ( when it can ) ; it distorts reality , making error pass for truth and ...
Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene

ix Preface Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 I. HISTORY'S EMPIRICISMS 11 1. Empiricisms of Antiquity 2. Experimental Empiricisms 3. Epistemological Empiricisms 103 199 Conclusion to Part I 281 II. RADICAL EMPIRICISMS 289 306 4.
Sports Illustrated Skin Diving and Snorkeling

Provides instructions in skin diving skills, surface abilities, and the techniques of skin diving in open water.
Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience

An intriguing book about the aesthetics of technological objects and the relationship between technical and artistic accomplishment. --David Hills, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University "Choice"
Vanishing Into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition

Barry Allen explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia and compares the different philosophical imperatives that have driven Chinese and Western thought.
Skin Diving and Snorkeling

Skin Diving and Snorkeling
Knowledge And Civilization

Barry Allen. Το oppose institutional authority and knowledge , or the power of knowledge and the power of corporate solidarity , as I did at the close of the last chapter , may seem not to take due account of what Foucault calls power / ...
Knowledge And Civilization

Knowledge and Civilization advances detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge and describes a redirection, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ecological philosophy of technology and civilization.
Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts

... comparative philosophy to comparative aesthetics, comparing the martial arts with sport and dance. Martial arts ... art, of sports, and of the body. Readers unfamiliar with Chinese philosophy will find a curious angle into the subject ...