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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031239229
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 423 p. 100 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Music ; Feminism. ; Feminist theory. ; Communication and traffic. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The 'Post-Feminist' Moment in Contemporary Classical Music; Lina Kouvaras -- Part 1: Activist Musical Projects and Intersectional C ollaborations -- 2. Borrowing from the Bard: Ruler of the Hive; Melody Eotvos -- 3. Letters to Clara: A Contemporary Composer's Homage to a Women Pioneer; Natalie Williams -- 4. Carnivals of Voice, Musical Playgrounds: Music from Text in Works of Andree Greenwell; Andree Greenwell -- 5. Holding, Handling, Moulding and Setting the Inner Thoughts of Another in Hidden Thoughts; Katy Abbott -- 6. Walking the Line: Emancipating the Complex Female Voice in Recent Operas; Missy Mazzoli -- 7. Democracy and Collective Composition; Cathy Milliken -- 8.Harmonia Mundi: Creating a New Work of Music Theatre to speak to the Current World Chaos; Judith Clingan -- 9. Blocking Out Noise: Metamorphosis and Identity in the Recent Chamber Music of Vivian Fung; Vivian Fung -- 10. An overview of My Compositional Practice and Collaborations into China; Rachel Walker -- 11. Luck, Grief, Hospitality: Re-Routing Power Relationships in Music; Liza Lim -- 12. In Search of the Artistic Moment: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and 'The Space Between' from an Australian Screen -- Composer's Perspective; Yantra De Vilder -- Part 2: Philosophical and Phenomenological Dimensions of Time -- 13. Finding Time, Finding Space: An Autoethnography of Compositional Praxis; Christine mcCombe -- 14. A Compositional Life in Time: The Recent Operas of Elena Kats-Chernin; Elena Kats-Chernin -- 15. Einstein's Dream: At the Threshold between Science and Art; Cindy McTee -- 16. The Pendulum Process: Point of Balance; Mary Finsterer -- 17. Gravity and Gravitas: Time, Passion, and Inevitability in the Music of Shulamit Ran; Shulamit Ran -- 18. Low Frequency as Concept in the Music of Cat Hope; Cat Hope -- 19. A Drone Opera Recast: Threat, Allure, Promise; Susan Frykberg -- Part 3: Music Awakenings: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward -- 20: Composing the Rolls-Royce: A Composer's Adventures in Orchestral Composition; Maria Grenfell -- 21.Finding a Reason: A Composer's Pathway Forged through Social Justice Advocacy; Kathleen McGuire -- 22.'I'm A Type Triple-A Composer!' Augusta Read Thomas -- 23. How My Music is Made: 'Tantot Libre, Tantot Recherche'; Nicola LeFanu -- 25. The Mirror: A Novel in Reflections; Lera Auerbach -- 26.Sometimes Dreams do Come True: Thea Musgrave's Exploration of Dramatic-Abstract Forms in her Instrumental Music; -- 27. My Awakening as a Composer: No Adjective; Judith Lang, Zaimont -- 28. Epilogue.
    Abstract: This edited volume presents 27 original essays by living composers from all around the globe, reflecting on the creation of their music. Coterminous to the recent worldwide resurgence in feminist focus, the distinctive feature of this collection is the “snapshots” of creative processes and conceptualizing on the part of women who write music, writing in the present day, from prominent early-career composers to major figures, from a range of ethnic backgrounds in the contemporary music field. The chapters step into the juncture point at which feminism finds itself: as binary conceptions of gender are being dissolved, with critiques of the attendant gender-based historical generalizations of composers, and with the growing awareness of the rightful place of First Nations' cultural voices, the contributors explore what, actually, is being composed by women, and what they think about their world. The needs that this book serves are acutely felt: despite recent social gains, and sector initiatives and programs encouraging and presenting the work of women who compose music, their works are yet to receive commensurate exposure with that of their male counterparts. In its multi-pronged, direct response to this dire situation, this vibrant volume highlights established as well as emerging women composers on the international stage; reveals myriad issues around feminism, as broadly conceived; and gives insights, from the composers' own voices, on the inner workings of their composition process. The volume thus presents a contemporary moment in time across the generations and within developments in musical composition. With its unique insights, this book is essential for academics and practitioners interested in the illuminations of the current working landscape for creative women. Linda Kouvaras is a professor at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Natalie Williams’ most recent academic posting was as Interim Dean at the School of Music, Art and Theatre, North Park University, Chicago, United States of America. Maria Grenfell is an associate professor at the School of Creative Arts and Media at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
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    ISBN: 9783031507991
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 189 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
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    Keywords: Science ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Part I: Interpretation -- Chapter 1. Interpreting Hume on Bodies -- Chapter 2. Arguments in Support of the Idealist Interpretation -- Chapter 3. Meeting Objections to the Idealist Interpretation -- Part II: Metaphysical Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation -- Chapter 4. Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for the Unity of Space -- Chapter 5: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Causation -- Part III: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Science of Man -- Chapter 6. Spatial and Causal Thoughts from an Idealist Point of View -- Part IV: Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Hume’s Methodology -- Chapter 7. The Idealist Interpretation Renders Hume More of an Empiricist.
    Abstract: This book defends the very contentious Idealist interpretation of Hume on external objects, and draws from it far-reaching metaphysical and epistemological consequences for Hume’s philosophy. Its interest is both interpretive and analytic. The content Hume ascribes to the belief in “bodies” is susceptible to more than one reading, and has not been systematically considered. Upholding the Idealistic interpretation is interesting in its own right, but also yields several important conclusions about the spatiality of objects, causation, Hume’s “science of man” and his epistemology. For instance, it argues that the Idealist reading means that there are no cross-temporal spatial relationships, and that the (more prevalent) Materialist reading takes Hume further away from methodological empiricism than does the Idealist counterpart, and may render his practice less in conformity with his official methodology.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031499678
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 280 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Law ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Breaking Free from Private Control Over Knowledge -- Chapter 2: First Prolegomena: A Brief History of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 3: Prolegomena: Rationalisation of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 4: Prolegomena: The Dangers of Intellectual Property -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Social Disintegration and the Privatisation of Knowledge.
    Abstract: The Paradox of Intellectual Property in Capitalism is an innovative book that comprehensively discusses and analyses intellectual property under capitalistic social conditions and relations. It not only addresses some historical developments of intellectual property but also brings to the fore the very notion of what knowledge is, knowledge creation, and knowledge production and appropriation within a Marxist framework. Nonetheless, the adopted approach pays heed to multiple fields of knowledge, providing rich discussions that facilitate the understanding of actual social totality in which capitalism, knowledge production and appropriation, and the struggles of appropriation mutually reinforce each other, although not devoid of antagonisms and contradictions. In light of contemporary capitalism, the transformations that social property relations are undergoing must be scrutinised – such as those brought about by the development of digitalisation and the convergence between big pharma and tech giants. What are the conditions of intellectual property creation today? What theoretical assumptions does it make? Under what social relations is intellectual property produced? Throughout, the emphasis is not on individual cases or symptoms but on the overarching logic: the logic of capitalism as revealed in intellectual property. João Romeiro Hermeto holds a PhD in philosophy from the Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031416958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 373 p. 6 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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    Keywords: Fiction. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Popular Culture. ; Human ecology ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. “Introduction: Reading the Speculative Animal” -- Chapter 2. From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint -- Chapter 3. “Safe in each other’s scaly arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts -- Chapter 4. Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in 2-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games -- Chapter 5. Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk -- Chapter 6. Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom -- Chapter 7. “Muzzle for the Queen”: Settler-Nonhuman Entanglements in Australian Speculative Ecofiction -- Chapter 8. Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête -- Chapter 9. Spacefaring Animals and Their Humans: A Study in Extraction, Exploitation, and Co-Evolution -- Chapter 10. To “Jump” into an Animal’s Body: Empathy, Care, and ResExtendas in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North -- Chapter 11. “alien guest, courting the goodwill of a demonic microbe”: Living Poetry, NHAs and “Aliens Among Us” in Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1 -- Chapter 12. Disemboweling the Hyperreal in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja -- Chapter 13. A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy -- Chapter 14. Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon -- Chapter 15. To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle -- Chapter 16. A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability -- Chapter 17. Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke’s Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin) -- Chapter 18. “The Face of Extinction”: On Haunted Futures with Machine Animals -- Chapter 19. Mesozoic Miscegenation: Erotic Fiction’s Resurrection of Dinosaurs -- Chapter 20. A “speculation built on fact”: On Dougal Dixon’s Zoology of the Future.
    Abstract: “This is a strong contribution to the field(s) of animal studies and science fiction. Indeed, I would recommend it in both fields separately as well as in the combined field where I work. I am especially impressed by the generous range of texts, from bacteria to games to film to novels, and with some recognition of work beyond the British/American hegemony.” —Joan Gordon, Professor Emerita, Nassau Community College; Co-editor, Science Fiction Studies Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies. It offers a broad range of theoretical approaches and primary source texts—including novels, short stories, poetry, film and TV, photography, erotica, video games, and urban planning documents—that explore the ways works of science fiction can transform how we see and interact with nonhuman others. With an eye toward more just multispecies futures, it argues that speculative imaginaries can be pivotal in changing attitudes toward and understandings of nonhuman animals in our world today. Chapters appeal to those interested in biopolitics, posthumanism, new materialism, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, ocean humanities, postcolonial studies, critical race studies, Indigenous studies, global sf studies, film studies, and food studies. Taken together, the collection works to showcase a diverse and growing field of scholarly inquiry into animals and science fiction. Nora Castle is an IAS Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. She recently completed her PhD, entitled, “Food Futures: Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Science Fiction,” which explored the future of food in/as science fiction through meat, plants, kitchens, and farms as thematic streams. Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) at the University of Southampton. Her project investigates different communities’ engagement with and representations of the seabed through culture, science communication and international policy. .
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    ISBN: 9783031153136
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 240 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Music. ; Queer theory. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism. ; Race.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Silencing -- 2. 'This is to Enrage You' -- 3. We Don't Need Another Hero -- 4. Street Cred and Locker Room Glances -- 5. Diverse People in Special Places -- 6. (No) Body/ (No) Homo -- 7. Affecting the Colonist -- 8. Non-fundamental Tones; or, The Pharmakon of Silence -- 9. Conclusion: 'Such People Do Not Exist'.
    Abstract: This open access book explores the disciplinary and recent interdisciplinary sites, relations, and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both are founded upon a destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony—and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex desire. Ethnomusicology’s fetishization of masculinizing fieldwork; queerness’s functioning as Anglocentric master category; and both spheres’ devaluation of sensuality and experience, concomitant with an adherence to provincial, Western conceptions of knowledge production, are seen as precluding the possibility of an equitable, dialogic pluriversality. Ultimately reimagining the fates of both in relation to negative emotions and intractable affect, and enlisting the sonic as theoretical-material intervention, the disciplines are envisioned as vanquished, replaced by explorations of sound, sex/uality, and experiential somaticity occurring in a protean, postdisciplinary space of material/epistemic equity. This uncompromising and long-overdue critique will be of interest to researchers and students from numerous disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds, including music, sound, gender, queer, and postcolonial/decolonial studies. Stephen Amico is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!: Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality (2014).
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    ISBN: 9783031558818
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 202 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism. ; Terrorism. ; Political violence. ; Political science
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Reimagining the colonial condition: understanding unhappiness in context to the colonial wound -- 3. Violent Technologies: A Historico-Philosophical Analysis -- 4. Internal Violence: A Critique of Absolute Socialisations -- 5. Corrective Sexual Violence in South Africa: a crime against the deviant Sexualised Other -- 6. Women, violence, and social activism: From Aba women’s protest to #EndSARS protests -- 7. An anger-based contextualist account of justifiable violence: An African case study -- 8. Reimagining Civil-Military Relations from a Quadrumvirate Interaction Perspective -- 9. Reading Contemporary Decolonial Iconoclasm in Belgium with Žižek, Yousfi and Fanon -- 10. A postcolonial theory of recognition: Honneth and Fanon on violence and mutual recognition.
    Abstract: This volume explores the role of violence generally but with specific reference to African concepts and themes, and the significance they have for social redress. The contributors interpret African concepts and themes to include accounts of violence, explicitly or implicitly construed from indigenous axiological resources like Ubuntu or personhood and from those works that are not African in origin but have become central in African moral, political and legal thought, such as Hannah Arendt’s On Violence and Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence. The volume contributes to moral philosophy, social philosophy, African philosophy, and political philosophy/theory. It situates itself within the Global South, specifically the African perspective, to explore, articulate, and defend (or even critique) African conceptions of violence. This volume also takes seriously the need to tap into the intellectual resource of the African and diasporic African episteme thru thinkers such as Steve Biko, Frantz Fanon and Reiland Rabaka. It appeals to students and researchers working in philosophy and related disciplines on violence in Africa and the postcolonial context.
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 9783031173196
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 283 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Practical Philosophy -- 3. Structural Rationality -- 4. Structural Agency -- 5. The Phenomenology of Structural Rationality -- 6. Morality and Rationality -- 7. The Efficacy of Reasons -- 8. Metaphysical Aspects.
    Abstract: In this book, German philosopher Julian Nida-Rümelin presents a theory of practical reason that is objectivist, or rather realist, as an alternative to the widespread subjectivism in the theory of rationality. This theory has pragmatic traits that can be read as a constructive counterpart to Nida-Rümelin's critique of consequentialism whilst embedding its conception of rationality in the conceptual framework of decision and game theory.
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    ISBN: 9783031277771
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 205 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Metaphysics. ; Philosophy. ; Methodology.
    Abstract: 1. Dialogue and Persuasion -- 2. The Burden of Proof -- 3. Evidence, Inference and Empiricism -- 4. Philosophical Methods between Content and the World -- 5. Metaphysical Hypotheses -- 6. Escaping Dialogical Empiricism.
    Abstract: Who carries the burden of proof in analytic philosophical debates, and how can this burden be satisfied? As it turns out, the answer to this joint question yields a fundamental challenge to the very conduct of metaphysics in analytic philosophy. Empirical research presented in this book indicates that the vastly predominant goal pursued in analytic philosophical dialogues lies not in discovering truths or generating knowledge, but merely in prevailing over one’s opponents. Given this goal, the book examines how most effectively to allocate and discharge the burden of proof. It focuses on premises that must prudently be avoided because a burden of proof on them could never be satisfied, and in particular discusses unsupportable bridge premises across inference barriers, like Hume’s barrier between ‘is’ and ‘ought’, or the barrier between the content of our talk or thought, and the world beyond such content. Employing this content/world barrier for a critical assessment of mainstream analytic philosophical methods, this book argues that we must prudently avoid invoking intuitions or other content of thought or talk in support of claims about the world beyond content, that is, metaphysically significant claims. Yet as content-located evidence is practically indispensable to metaphysical debates throughout analytic philosophy, from ethics to the philosophy of mathematics, this book reaches the startling conclusion that all such metaphysical debates must, prudently, be terminated. Conny Rhode’s research at the University of York focused on philosophical methodology and argumentation theory, beside forays into the philosophy of science, post-Kantian philosophy, and political and moral philosophy, often employing a feminist perspective. In light of the conclusion derived in this book, Rhode has left academic philosophy and now insists on appropriate evidence in accountancy instead.
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    ISBN: 9783031110085
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 338 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion
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    Keywords: Religion—Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Political science ; Religion
    Abstract: 1. Introduction; Sharada Sugirtharajah -- Part 1 Hick’s Religious Pluralism: A Western Reappraisal -- 2. The Translucency of the Real: Revisiting John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis; Kenneth Rose -- 3. Religious Pluralism and Critical Realism; Perry Schmidt-Leukel -- 4. Pointers to Pluralism Not Relativism; Alan Race -- 5. Ethics and Pluralism; Keith Ward -- 6. Jewish Pluralism and John Hick; Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Part II Re-envisioning Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Indic and Islamic Responses -- 7. Eating Sugar, Becoming Sugar, Both, or Neither? Eschatology and Religious Pluralism in the Thought of John Hick; Swami Medhananda -- 8. On the Shoulders of a Giant: The Re-envisioning and Reconstruction of John Hick’s Pluralistic Hypothesis; Jeffery D. Long -- 9. The Knowable and the Unknowable ‘Real’ in Radhakrishnan’s and Hick’s Thinking; Sharada Sugirtharajah -- 10. Hick’s Theory of Religion and the Inclusive Option; Amir Dastmalchian -- Part III Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Asian and African responses -- 11. Chinese Daoism and Ultimate Reality: An Interpretation Based on John Hick’s Religious Pluralism; Zhicheng Wang -- 12. Hick’s religious pluralism and Korean Theology of Indigenization; Iljoon Park -- 13. Japanese Responses to Hick’s Religious Pluralism: Hick’s liberalism inherited from British Idealism; Naoki Kitta -- 14. The Significance of John Hick’s Soteriological and Ethical Criteria for Religiously Pluralistic Nigeria; Olusegun Noah Olawoyin.
    Abstract: This volume contains fresh scholarly contributions to mark the birth centenary of John Hick, the internationally well-known philosopher of religion, whose works continue to have significant global relevance in today’s religiously diverse and conflict-ridden world. His writings have reset the parameters of religious pluralism. Up till now, Hick’s religious pluralism has been mainly seen in relation to the Western context where Christianity is the predominant religion. This volume includes both Western and non-Western engagement with his thinking in contexts such as Japan, China, Korea, Nigeria, and India, where Christianity is a minority religion with little political power. Its distinctiveness lies in widening the debate on religious pluralism by bringing Hick’s pluralistic hypothesis into a constructive cross-cultural and interreligious conversation with scholars of Hinduism, Jainism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and African traditional religions. In doing so, this collection examines how Hick’s philosophy of religious pluralism has been received, appropriated and appraised by these scholars. It has been appreciated and critiqued in equal measure, and continues to impact on current thinking on religious pluralism. This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate initiated by Hick. Sharada Sugirtharajah, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Theology, Philosophy and Religion, University of Birmingham.
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    ISBN: 9783031292613
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 284 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Nordic Wittgenstein Studies 9
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    Keywords: Philosophy—History. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Methodology. ; Philosophy. ; Language and languages
    Abstract: Chapter 1. The Myth of a Temporality: Time and Progress in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus -- Chapter 2. The Inheritance of Language: Knowing How to ‘Go On’ in the Investigations -- Chapter 3. The Riverbed of Thought May Shift: the Demystification of Historicism in on Certainty -- Chapter 4: Descriptive Approaches to History: Wittgenstein and Goethe on the Morphological Method -- Chapter 5: The Spectre of Conservatism -- Chapter 6. Ethics and Aesthetics are One: Wittgenstein and the Avante-Garde.
    Abstract: This book covers the topic of history and the role that it played in the Austrio-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thought. The topic is explored from multiple angles, both chronologically and thematically. Reviewing Wittgenstein’s two magnum opera - the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical Investigations (1952), this work is an investigation into an under-acknowledged element in Wittgenstein’s thought, one which in many cases acted as an impetus for that life-long process of novel philosophical reflection: History. This volume traces the evolution of Wittgenstein’s thoughts on time and temporality from the Tractatus, through the Investigations, into some key post-Investigations remarks and also examines the motivations behind Wittgenstein’s post-Tractarian return to philosophy and, in particular, the unique methodology he developed in order to serve his renewed purpose. The final chapter seeks to answer the question, What was Wittgenstein trying to achieve with Philosophical Investigations? This book is of interest to philosophers.
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    ISBN: 9783031144783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 348 p. 33 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Cognitive science. ; Metaphysics. ; Philosophy. ; Methodology.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Analysis and Holism -- Part I: METAPHYSICS -- Chapter 2: Reductionism and Emergence -- Chapter 3: Purely Physical Emergence -- Chapter 4: Protective Enclosures and the Emergence of Life -- Chapter 5 :Virtual Reality and the Emergence of Mind -- Chapter 6: Physics and Theology: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? -- PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY -- Chapter 7: Inter-Hemispheric Dialogue -- Chapter 8: One Method for All Inquiry -- PART III: MORAL and POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 9: Morality and the Rational Control of Desire -- Chapter 10: Freud and the Physics of Civilization -- Chapter 11: Hemispheric Politics -- PART IV: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION and NATURAL THEOLOGY -- Chapter 12: Archaic and Modern Religious Ontologies -- Chapter 13: An Empty Holy of Holies -- PART V: ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 14: Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book provides a framework that encompasses both physics and cognitive science – integrating them into a ‘theory of everything’ to establish a basis for both our scientific and humanistic endeavours. It explores the implications of brain laterality for understanding the emergence of mind and its relation to the physical world – arguing that the analytic vs. holistic cognitive differences of the left and right human cerebral hemispheres are key to understanding not only human self-consciousness and language, but also sociocultural phenomena ranging from the emergence of the scientific method and axes of political orientation to the direction of development of conceptions of God and the fundamental differences between polarizing philosophical traditions. In a further step, the book draws on the Darwinian principle that our cognitive apparatus is shaped by the environment in which it evolved to argue that human bilaterality mirrors the fundamental hylomorphic relation between formal organization and material components that constitutes physical nature itself. The logical division between holistic and analytic categories thereby offers a principled basis for a metaphilosophy. James Blachowicz is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.
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    ISBN: 9783031100437
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 271 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Italian and Italian American Studies
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    Keywords: Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Italy—History. ; European literature. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Italy
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1 Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Survey -- 2 Gender and its Intersections -- 3 Outside of the Chromatic Norm: Questions of Race, Blackness, Visibility, Italianness and Citizenship -- 4 Politics of (Re)Location: Geographies of Diaspora and New Urban Mappings.
    Abstract: “Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature is a tour-de-force from one of the leading scholars in the field. Romeo argues that rethinking the concepts of Italian identity and culture is necessary in order to highlight the transnational nature of cultural formations, and that adopting a postcolonial and decolonial approach to those concepts is an equally urgent task. Her deft, comprehensive overview of Italian postcolonial literature and accomplished thematic analysis of an astonishing number of texts make this book essential reading for students and scholars of Italian worldwide. It constitutes a significant contribution to the ongoing reconceptualization of Italian Studies and to the reshaping of cultural understandings of italianità.” -Emma Bond, author of Writing Migration through the Body Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature is a tribute to one of the most historically significant, culturally incisive, and artistically revitalizing literary and cultural phenomena that have developed in Italy in recent decades. With a new introduction, this expanded English translation of Riscrivere la nazione: La letteratura italiana postcoloniale (2018) exposes the colonial imaginaries that still permeate contemporary Italian culture and examines multiple counternarratives authored by postcolonial writers, artists, and intellectuals. Connecting diverse histories of migration that implicate Italy, including incoming migrations from many parts of the world, colonialism, and periodic waves of emigration, this volume also looks outward to a more diffuse postcolonial condition characterizing Europe at present. Adopting an intersectional perspective, this study analyzes literary and cinematic representations of gender, race, color, and space, thus arguing for a reconceptualization of Italian identity and contributing to a redefinition of national literature as well as to the decolonization of Italian society and culture. Caterina Romeo is Associate Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, where she teaches Literary Theory, Gender Studies, and Migration Studies. She is the author of Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale (2018) and Narrative tra due sponde: Memoir di italiane d'America (2005). She has coedited Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity (2012), Postcolonial Europe (special issue of the journal Postcolonial Studies, 2015), and Intersectional Italy (special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2022).
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    ISBN: 9783031334801
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 178 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 150
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    Keywords: Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy. ; Methodology. ; Analysis (Philosophy).
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Epistemic Thought Experiment and Intuition -- Chapter 2: The Nature of Epistemic Intuition -- Chapter 3: The Epistemic Status of Intuitions -- Chapter 4: Epistemic Intuition in Light of Intuition-Deniers -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This work investigates intuitions' nature, demonstrating how philosophers can best use them in epistemology. First, the author considers several paradigmatic thought experiments in epistemology that depict the appeal to intuition. He then argues that the nature of thought experiment-generated intuitions is not best explained by an a priori Platonism. Second, the book instead develops and argues for a thin conception of epistemic intuitions. The account maintains that intuition is neither a priori nor a posteriori but multi-dimensional. It is an intentional but non-propositional mental state that is also non-conceptual and non-phenomenal in nature. Moreover, this state is individuated by its progenitor, namely, the relevant thought experiment. Third, the author provides an argument for the evidential status of intuitions based on the correct account of the nature of epistemic intuition. The suggestion is the fitting-ness approach: intuition alone has no epistemic status. Rather, intuition has evidentiary value as long as it fits well with other pieces into a whole, namely, the pertinent thought experiment. Finally, the book addresses the key challenges raised by supporters of anti-centrality, according to which philosophers do not regard intuition as central evidence in philosophy. To that end, the author responds to them, showing that they fail to affect the account of intuition developed in this book.This text appeals to students and researchers working in epistemology. .
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    ISBN: 9783031377389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 462 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Anthropocene – Humanities and Social Sciences
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Earth sciences. ; Climatology. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part One: The tensions of politics in the Anthropocene -- Chapter 1. Introduction to the Anthropocene -- Chapter 2. The notion of planetary limits -- Chapter 3. The political ambivalences of the Anthropocene -- Chapter 4. Conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene: between Prometheism and post-Prometheism -- Chapter 5. The entry of the Anthropocene into the citizens’ debate -- Part Two: A political consolidation requiring an anthropological mutation -- Chapter 6. The idea of anthropological mutation -- Chapter 7. Overcoming the contemporary anthropological crisis -- Chapter 8. From the (augmented) individual to a post-Promethean togetherness -- Chapter 9. From the human condition to the human adventure -- Part Three: Conviviality as a paradigm of political education -- Chapter 10. Learning convivial citizenship in the Anthropocene -- Chapter 11. Resistant education: confronting the emerging hubris -- Chapter 12. Critical education: we are not separate from the Earth, we are the Earth -- Chapter 13. Utopian education: the Earth and the world speak -- Conclusion: Education to change the world in the Anthropocene.
    Abstract: This volume, which is rooted in biogeophysical studies, addresses conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene and the tension between a desire to accomplish the Promethean project of modernity and a post-Promethean approach. This work explores the idea of an anthropological mutation of political consolidation from a “post-Promethean togetherness”, to creating the capacity to act together. The political thinking of the human condition developed by Hannah Arendt is important here as a resource for thinking about humanity in terms of human adventure. This has three dimensions: hubris, the world and coexistence referring respectively to the logic of profit of the homo oeconomicus, the logic of responsibility of the homo collectivus and the logic of the hospitality of the homo religatus. The intellectual and political attitude outlined in this book is an extension of critical theory: the work also puts forward a critique of what poses a problem in our relationship to the world and suggests how to overcome it, the ultimate goal being social transformation. The author propose an uprising and an anthropological consolidation of politics based on the revitalization that is brought about by the sharing of a conviviality both between humans and with what is non-human. The identification of conviviality as an educational paradigm to survive the Anthropocene gives us the much needed reason for hope despite this heritage of the Anthropocene. In addition to Arendtian thinking, this critical theory for the Anthropocene draws on the political thinking of several contemporary authors including Maurice Bellet, Hartmut Rosa, Andreas Weber, Dominique Bourg, and Christian Arnsperger. This volume is of interest to researchers in the Anthropocene.
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    ISBN: 9783031366598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 295 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Philosophical anthropology. ; Culture ; Philosophy. ; Business ethics. ; Aesthetics. ; Tourism. ; Management.
    Abstract: Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Philosophical Issues in Tourism -- Part 2: Truth: Reality, Knowledge and Disciplines -- 2 Who is a Tourist? Conceptual and Theoretical Developments -- 3 What is Tourism? Definitions, Theoretical Phases and Principles -- 4 Epistemology, Ontology and Tourism -- 5 Post-disciplinary Tourism -- 6 The End of Tourism? Nomadology and the Mobilities Paradigm -- Part 3: Beauty: Well-being, Aesthetics and Art -- 7 Tourism and Restoration -- 8 Aesthetic Pleasures: Contemplating Spiritual Tourism -- 9 Nature, Beauty and Tourism -- 10 Tourism and the Aesthetics of the Built Environment -- 11 Tourism and the Arts -- Part 4: Virtue: Ethics, Values and The Good Life -- 12 Ethics and Tourism -- 13 Good Actions in Tourism -- 14 Against ‘Ethical Tourism -- 15 Development and its Discontents: Ego-tripping Without Ethics or Idea(l)s -- 16 Transmodernity: Remaking Our (Tourism) World?.
    Abstract: This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture of the contemporary global community. Travel to well-known destinations and pursuit of an ever-increasing range of leisure activities are an aspiration of most humans today. Those not themselves engaged in tourist activities are quite often involved in providing the goods and services which make tourism possible. Yet the ill effects of mass tourism and overtourism on sensitive ecosystems, resources, and community life have begun to outweigh economic gains, threatening to destroy destinations, cultural heritage, and livelihoods. The editors and contributors of this collection reflect on the nature and meaning of tourism, its history, elements, and forms, the roles of tourist and host, the limits of hospitality, tendencies to excess and the reasons why we engage in such forms of behaviour, and the place of tourism in human culture as a whole. By shedding light on these questions, more efficacious solutions to the urgent problems raised by the practice of tourism can be found. This work is a must-read for scholars, teachers, and students engaged in study and research on philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology, tourist and destination management, human factors engineering, and sustainability.
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    ISBN: 9783031448898
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 299 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Political science ; America ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Conservatism and Political Philosophy -- Chapter 2: Tradition or Progressivism? Edmund Burke and George Grant: Partners in Challenging Imperialism and Modernization? -- Chapter 3: Grant, Anglo-Canadian Toryism and the deep critique of liberal modernity -- Chapter 4: George Grant & Simone Weil: Armor Fati and Consenting to Otherness -- Chapter 5: George Grant, Russel Kirk, and the American Technological Republic -- Chapter 6: Title TBA -- Chapter 7: Roger Scruton and George Grant: Ecology and The New Left -- Chapter 8: The Competing Deus ex Machinas of George Grant and Heideggerian Political Thought -- Chapter 9: Still Lamenting? Grantian Conservatism and Nationalism in the 21st Century -- Part II: Democracy, Identity, and Global Politics -- Chapter 10: Grant, Fukuyama, and the Abyss at the End of History -- Chapter 11: George Grant and the Return of the Nation -- Chapter 12: The Democratic Recession as Reversal or Fate of Modernity? A Grantian Perspective -- Chapter 13: Between the Pincers: George Grant, Totalitarianism, and the Role of Political Science -- Chapter 14: George Grant’s Reflection on Revolution -- Chapter 15: Does progress need liberalism anymore? On George Grant’s Critique of technology -- Chapter 16: George Grant and the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Triumph of Technology.
    Abstract: “It is hard to believe that George Grant died over thirty years ago. He was the foremost combination of personality and intellect of his age. A commanding presence, he led many Canadians, and others, to a deeper understanding of their country and the world. This fine collection of original essays reminds us that we need his philosophical guidance as strongly now as we did when he published Lament for a Nation sixty years ago.” - William Christian, biographer and friend. Author, George Grant: A Biography, Editor Selected Letters, Time as History, Philosophy in the Mass Age, The George Grant Reader (with Sheila Grant). “George Grant was one of the most important and insightful Canadian thinkers of the 20th century. However, his ideas about nationalism, technology and the role of the university are more important now than ever. This volume of essays reinvigorates Grant as a contemporary thinker both of and ahead of his time.” - David Edward Tabachnick, Nipissing University. Author of The Great Reversal: How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet George Grant (1918-1988) was one of Canada’s foremost public philosophers. Though his thought arose out of reflection on the history of political philosophy, pressing political concerns were never far from view. He was particularly adept at locating the causes of political developments in philosophical movements that were centuries in the making. This book reassesses his ideas in light of philosophical and political developments of recent decades, including the resurgence of nationalism, criticisms of globalization and technocracy, and the ideological realignments having a particularly noticeable effect on right-wing politics. The contemporary reader of Grant is thus able to reflect on his broader criticisms of modernity from within a slightly different historical articulation of modernity. Though George Grant died in 1988, the philosophical themes in his work remain relevant into the 21st century. Tyler Chamberlain lectures in political science and philosophy at various institutions including Trinity Western University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. His primary research interests are early modern political theory and Canadian political thought. He earned his Ph.D in Political Science from Carleton University in 2018.
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    ISBN: 9783031409813
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 449 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Political science ; Philosophy. ; Idealism, German.
    Abstract: Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Reading Strategies For Hegel, Marx & Laozi -- 2. Marx and Laozi: Scientific and Aesthetic Comportments to Predicaments of Social Life -- Part 2 Hegel’s Idealism -- 3 Hegel’s Idealist Conception of Philosophy -- Part 3. Hegel’s Confrontation with Laozi: An Anti-Conceptualist Defence of Laozi Against Hegel -- 4 Hegel’s Interpretation of Laozi -- 5 An Anti-Conceptualist Defence of Laozi Against Hegel -- Part 4: Wuwei and Praxis: Aesthetic Mimetic and Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts -- 6. Wuzhi and Wuwei: The Aesthetic Mimetic Employment of concept -- 7. Praxis: Scientific Discursive Employment of Concepts -- Part 5: Dialectics of Materialism and Wu -- 8. Social Ontology of Materialism and Idealism -- 9. Materialist Dialectics in Capital and Wu -- Part 6. Marx and Laozi: Ethics -- 10. Marx and Laozi’s Ethical Naturalism -- 11. Marx and Laozi’s Moral Skepticism -- 12. The Means/Ends Dichotomy -- Part 7. Conclusion -- 13. Conclusion. .
    Abstract: In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined. The resulting synthesis is a positive materialist negation of Hegel’s idealist dialectics. Syntheses are presented for Marx and Laozi in ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, scientific method, ethics and politics: the full spectrum of their foundational principles. The book is an attempt to reconstruct a materialist interpretation of Laozi, which can be put to work for Marxist theory. James Chambers is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Hebei University, PRC.
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    ISBN: 9783031343407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 390 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 341
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    Keywords: 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.) ; c 1700 to c 1800 ; Philosophy. ; History. ; Science ; Philosophy ; Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie ; HISTORY / Historiography ; Historiography ; History of ideas ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 ; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General ; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics ; Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie ; Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen ; Philosophy ; Philosophy of science ; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology ; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects ; Wissenschaftsphilosophieund -theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Naturwissenschaften ; Metaphysik ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Disciplinary Transformations in the Age of Newton: The Case of Metaphysics (Alan Gabbey) -- 2. Leibniz’ Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics (Hartmut Hecht) -- 3. The Limits of Intelligibility: The Status of Physical Sciences in d’Alemberts Philosophy (François De Gandt) -- 4. “In Nature as in Geometry”: Du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects (Aaron Wells) -- 5. Order of Nature and Order of Science (Helmut Pulte) -- 6. Samuel Clarke’s Annotations in Jacques Rohault’s Traité de Physique, and How They Contributed to Popularising Newton’s Physics (Volkmar Schüller) -- 7. "Feigning Hypotheses”: non-Newtonian Approaches to Gravitation - Euler and Le Sage (Maria de Paz) -- 8. Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton (Eric Watkins) -- 9. Enlightenment Scotland’s Philosophico-Chemical Physics (David Wilson ) -- 10. Materialistic Theories of Mind and Brain (Ann Thomson ) -- 11. Kant’s Second Paralogism in Context: The Critique of Pure Reason on Whether Matter Can Think (Falk Wunderlich ) -- 12. Cosmological Constellations: Varieties of Cosmology Available to Kant in 1755 (Stephen Howard) -- 13. Natural or Artificial Systems? The Eighteenth-Century Controversy on Classification and its Philosophical Contexts (Wolfgang Lefèvre ) -- 14. Beyond Newton, Leibniz, and Kant: Constrained Motion and New Conceptual Foundations, 1740-1800 (Marius Stan) -- Appendix 1.Newton’s scholia from David Gregory’s Estate on the Propositions IV trough IX Book III of his Principia -- Appendix 2. The Concepts of Immanuel Kant’s Natural Philosophy (1747-1780): A Database Rendering their Explicit and Implicit Networks.
    Abstract: This extended new edition offers a multifaceted insight into a period of intellectual history in the West in which the balance between speculative theories and experiential science was reset. As is well known, the interrelationship between philosophy and science underwent a profound change in the early modern period, in the course of which the sciences freed themselves from the conceptual framework of traditional metaphysics. The contributions of the volume focus on the eighteenth century, the critical and quite contradictory final phase of this process. The volume distinguishes itself by tracing this transition process not only in the obvious case of the new mechanics - Newtonianism and analytic mechanics - but also by addressing new speculative philosophies of nature - early modern atomism or imponderable physics - and new metaphysical controversies such as the body-mind problem (Can matter think?) as well as developments in special scientific fields such as cosmology/astronomy and natural history. The volume is written by historians of philosophy and the sciences of the early modern period and is intended primarily for specialists and students in these fields of knowledge. However, it is certainly also interesting and useful for cultural historians working on this period.
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    ISBN: 9783031259104
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(LI, 1726 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Anthropology. ; Earth sciences. ; Archaeology. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Cultural property.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Acceleration -- Chapter 2. Activist -- Chapter 3. Aesthetics -- Chapter 4. Agenda -- Chapter 5. Agriculture -- Chapter 6. Air -- Chapter 7. Amazon -- Chapter 8. Animal -- Chapter 9. Animal citizenship -- Chapter 10. Anthrome -- Chapter 11. Anthropocene -- Chapter 12. Anthropocene Working Group -- Chapter 13. Anthropocentrism -- Chapter 14. Anthropological mutations -- Chapter 15. Anthropology -- Chapter 16. Anxiety -- Chapter 17. Apocalypse -- Chapter 18. Architecture -- Chapter 19. Art -- Chapter 20. Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 21. Asceticism -- Chapter 22. Asian Anthropocene -- Chapter 23. Atmosphere -- Chapter 24. Atomic destruction -- Chapter 25. Biocapacity and regeneration -- Chapter 26. Biodiversity -- Chapter 27. Bioeconomics -- Chapter 28. Bioeconomy -- Chapter 29. Biosphere -- Chapter 30. Birth -- Chapter 31. Body -- Chapter 32. Hope -- Chapter 33. Borders -- Chapter 34. Housing -- Chapter 35. Boundaries -- Chapter 36. Brundtland Commission -- Chapter 37. Buen Vivir -- Chapter 38. Capability, Capabilities -- Chapter 39. Capital -- Chapter 40. Capitalocene -- Chapter 41. Carbon -- Chapter 42. Care -- Chapter 43. Carrying Capacity -- Chapter 44. Catastrophe -- Chapter 45. Childhood -- Chapter 46. Cities in transition -- Chapter 47. Citizenship -- Chapter 48. Citizenship Education -- Chapter 49. Climate education -- Chapter 50. Climate Ethics -- Chapter 51. Co-existence -- Chapter 52. Climate justice -- Chapter 53. Closing Time -- Chapter 54. Club of Rome -- Chapter 55. Collapsonauts -- Chapter 56. Commons -- Chapter 57. Community (a case study) -- Chapter 58. Competence -- Chapter 59. Convivialism -- Chapter 60. COVID-19 -- Chapter 61. Complexity -- Chapter 62. Consumption -- Chapter 63. Cooperation -- Chapter 64. Coral -- Chapter 65. Cosmos -- Chapter 66. Courage -- Chapter 67. Critical Zone -- Chapter 68. Culture -- Chapter 69. Dating debate -- Chapter 70. Degrowth -- Chapter 71. Deep Ecology -- Chapter 72. Democracy -- Chapter 73. Denialism -- Chapter 74. Didactics -- Chapter 75. Digitalization/Digital Transformation -- Chapter 76. Doughnut -- Chapter 77. Dualism -- Chapter 78. Dystopia -- Chapter 79. Earth Jurisprudence -- Chapter 80. Disasters -- Chapter 81. Earth History -- Chapter 82. Earth Overshoot Day -- Chapter 83. Earth stewardship -- Chapter 84. Earth Systems -- Chapter 85. Earth System -- Chapter 86. Earth system law -- Chapter 87. Earthquakes -- Chapter 88. Ecocide -- Chapter 89. Ecological Citizenship -- Chapter 90. Ecological Economics -- Chapter 91. Ecological footprint -- Chapter 92. Bringing life -- Chapter 93. Emergency -- Chapter 94. Emotional Commodisation -- Chapter 95. Emotions -- Chapter 96. Empowerment -- Chapter 97. Energy -- Chapter 98. Enlivenment -- Chapter 99. Entropy -- Chapter 100. Environment -- Chapter 101. Environmental ethics -- Chapter 102. Environmental Justice -- Chapter 103. Environmental Protection -- Chapter 104. Equity and Equality -- Chapter 105. Ethics of care -- Chapter 106. Ethics of justice -- Chapter 107. Eurocentrism -- Chapter 108. Evolution and hominization -- Chapter 109. Existence -- Chapter 110. Fake News -- Chapter 111. Feminism and Gender -- Chapter 112. Feral -- Chapter 113. Fire -- Chapter 114. Food -- Chapter 115. Finitude -- Chapter 116. Forests -- Chapter 117. Freedom -- Chapter 118. Future -- Chapter 119. Gaia -- Chapter 120. Genetic Engineering Revolution -- Chapter 121. Geoengineering -- Chapter 122. Geosphere -- Chapter 123. Gesture -- Chapter 124. Global change -- Chapter 125. Globalization -- Chapter 126. Good Anthropocene -- Chapter 127. Great Acceleration -- Chapter 128. Growth -- Chapter 129. Habitat -- Chapter 130. Habits -- Chapter 131. Habitus -- Chapter 132. Health -- Chapter 133. Health education -- Chapter 134. Heat, Heat Wave -- Chapter 135. History -- Chapter 136. Holocene -- Chapter 137. Home, Homeland -- Chapter 138. Homo oeconomicus, Homo collectivus and Homo religatus -- Chapter 139. Hospitality -- Chapter 140. Human adventure -- Chapter 141. Human Condition -- Chapter 142. Human existence -- Chapter 143. Human genome -- Chapter 144. Human reconfiguration of the biosphere -- Chapter 145. Human Rights -- Chapter 146. Humanities -- Chapter 147. Humour -- Chapter 148. Hunger -- Chapter 149. Hydro-social cycle -- Chapter 150. Hydrosphere -- Chapter 151. Imagination -- Chapter 152. Industrial revolution -- Chapter 153. Industry -- Chapter 154. Inertia -- Chapter 155. Institution -- Chapter 156. Integral development -- Chapter 157. Intercultural Education -- Chapter 158. Interculturality -- Chapter 159. International Law -- Chapter 160. Intergenerational Justice -- Chapter 161. IPBES -- Chapter 162. IPCC -- Chapter 163. Just transition -- Chapter 164. Kairos -- Chapter 165. Knowledge -- Chapter 166. Lack -- Chapter 167. Landscape -- Chapter 168. Learning for Action -- Chapter 169. Limitations -- Chapter 170. Life -- Chapter 171. Living -- Chapter 172. Machine -- Chapter 173. Mass extinction -- Chapter 174. Media -- Chapter 175. Megafaunal Extinction -- Chapter 176. Microbes -- Chapter 177. Mimesis -- Chapter 178. Migration -- Chapter 179. Mobility -- Chapter 180. Museum -- Chapter 181. Mutualistic cities -- Chapter 182. Narratives -- Chapter 183. Natural and cultural heritage -- Chapter 184. Nature -- Chapter 185. NBIC -- Chapter 186. Neoliberalism -- Chapter 187. Networks -- Chapter 188. New Humanities -- Chapter 189. New Viruses -- Chapter 190. Nuclear War -- Chapter 191. Nuclear Waste -- Chapter 192. Ocean -- Chapter 193. Otherness -- Chapter 194. Overshoot -- Chapter 195. Pantheism -- Chapter 196. Participation -- Chapter 197. Pathways and Solutions -- Chapter 198. Peace -- Chapter 199. Permaculture -- Chapter 200. Permafrost -- Chapter 201. Politics -- Chapter 202. Pollution -- Chapter 203. Postcolonialism -- Chapter 204. Posthumanism -- Chapter 205. Poverty -- Chapter 206. Precautionary Approach -- Chapter 207. Progress -- Chapter 208. Quaternary -- Chapter 209. Racism -- Chapter 210. Relatedness -- Chapter 211. Religion -- Chapter 212. Renewable energy -- Chapter 213. Resilience -- Chapter 214. Resonance -- Chapter 215. Resources -- Chapter 216. Responsibility -- Chapter 217. Risk -- Chapter 218. Rituals -- Chapter 219. Robot -- Chapter 220. Scale -- Chapter 221. School -- Chapter 222. Science -- Chapter 223. Sea level change -- Chapter 224. Security -- Chapter 225. Sejahtera -- Chapter 226. Slavery -- Chapter 227. Sobriety -- Chapter 228. Societal boundaries -- Chapter 229. Social Contract Theory -- Chapter 230. Social Ecology -- Chapter 231. Social growth -- Chapter 232. Social performance -- Chapter 233. Society -- Chapter 234. Soil -- Chapter 235. Solastalgia -- Chapter 236. Sounds -- Chapter 237. Sovereignty -- Chapter 238. Space -- Chapter 239. Sport -- Chapter 240. Stratigraphy -- Chapter 241. Sufficiency -- Chapter 242. Sustainable development -- Chapter 243. Symbolic boundaries -- Chapter 244. System -- Chapter 245. Synthetic Biology -- Chapter 246. Philosophy -- Chapter 247. Planet -- Chapter 248. Planetary boundaries -- Chapter 249. Plant -- Chapter 250. Plantationocene -- Chapter 251. Plasticity -- Chapter 252. Technology -- Chapter 253. Technoscientific Materialism -- Chapter 254. Technosphere -- Chapter 255. Terraformation -- Chapter 266. Thought -- Chapter 267. Time -- Chapter 268. Tipping Points -- Chapter 269. Tragedy -- Chapter 270. Transactions (social and democratic) -- Chapter 271. Transdisciplinary -- Chapter 272. Transformation -- Chapter 273. Transhumanism -- Chapter 274. Trust -- Chapter 275. UN Institutions -- Chapter 276. UNESCO -- Chapter 277. Urban Ecology -- Chapter 278. Utopia -- Chapter 279. Values -- Chapter 280. Violence -- Chapter 281. Virtuality -- Chapter 282. Virtue Ethics -- Chapter 283. Viruses -- Chapter 284. Vulnerability -- Chapter 285. War -- Chapter 286. Waste -- Chapter 287. Water -- Chapter 289. Wisdoms.
    Abstract: This Handbook is a collection of contributions by more than 300 researchers who have attempted to grasp the essence of the Anthropocene, the new geological epoch that is characterised by an alteration in the conditions of habitability of the Earth, in its bio geophysical and socio-political reality, for all living things. These researchers have also sought to define a historical and prospective anthropology that integrates social, economic, cultural and political issues as well, of course, as environmental ones. What are the anthropological changes needed to ensure that our human adventure will be able to continue in the Anthropocene? And what are the educational and political issues involved? The Anthropocene is fast becoming a widely-used term, but thus far there has been no reference work explaining the thoughts of the greatest experts of the present day on this subject (at the intersection of bio-geophysical and socio-political knowledge). A scientific and political concept (but also the conceptual vehicle for conveying the scientific community's sense of concern), this complex term is explained by international experts as they reflect on scientific arguments taking place in earth system science, the social sciences and the humanities. What these researchers from different disciplines have in common is a healthy concern for the future and how to prepare for it in the Anthropocene and also the identification of possible anthropological changes. This Handbook encourages readers to immerse themselves in reflections on the human adventure through descriptions of our differing heritages and the future that is in the process of being written. Nathanaël Wallenhorst is Professor at the Catholic University of the West (UCO). He is Doctor of Educational Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy (first international co-supervision PhD), and Doctor of Environmental Sciences and Doctor in Political Science (second international co-supervisionPhD). He is the author of twenty books on politics, education, and anthropology in the Anthropocene. Together with Christoph Wulf, he is editor of the "Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences" series at Springer-Nature. His passion: trying to listen to the future. Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Education and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB, 1999-2012) “Cultures of Performance,” the Cluster of Excellence (2007-2012) “Languages of Emotion,” and the Graduate School “InterArts” (2006-2015) at the Freie Universität Berlin. His books have been translated into 20 languages. For his research in anthropology and anthropology of education, he received the title “professor honoris causa” from the University of Bucharest. He is Vice-President of the German Commission for UNESCO.
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    ISBN: 9783031433047
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 104 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Political science ; Economics.
    Abstract: Modern Monetary Theory and Distributive Justice shows how the macroeconomic framework called modern money theory (MMT) is relevant to the field of political philosophy called distributive justice. Many of the macroeconomic assumptions of distributive justice are unstated and unexamined. The framework of MMT illuminates these assumptions and provides an alternative vision of distributive justice analysis and prescriptions. In particular, MMT holds that modern money is a nominal state issued token (fiat), there is a distinction between nominal assets and real assets, that state money as a nominal token can cause changes in real terms, and that the macroeconomy has historically not operated at capacity. The upshot of these assumptions held by MMT is that state spending can bring about changes in persons’ well-being without traditional redistributive measures via taxation. This is in contradistinction to standard assumptions in the distributive justice literature, which holds that the macroeconomy is at capacity and, thus, redistribution is the necessary mechanism for enacting improvements in well-being. This is a fundamental shift in how distributive justice can be conceived.
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    ISBN: 9783031251498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(1 illus. in color. eReference.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Handbooks in Philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy, African. ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: African Philosophy from a Multidisciplinary Perspective -- African Ethics African Epistemology -- African Metaphysics and African Logic -- African Communitarian Philosophy -- African Philosophy of Education -- African Philosophy of Disability African Communitarian Philosophy.
    Abstract: This Handbook provides in one volume rich, comprehensive and rigorous coverage of specific subject areas and thematic concerns in the ever-evolving academic discipline of African philosophy. This Handbook is unique in its focus on central and emerging areas within African philosophy such as Afro-communitarian philosophy, ethics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, existentialism, philosophy of religion, gender philosophy, philosophy of education, phenomenology, transhumanism, African philosophy futures, and philosophy of the non-human. The thirty-two chapters in this Handbook explore the rich textual and non-textual forms of philosophical knowledge in Africa and adequately represent the broad and diverse scope of African philosophy, showing the richness and depth of the philosophical tradition. This reference work is indispensable to students and researchers in African philosophy, comparative philosophy and world philosophies. .
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    ISBN: 9783031318405
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 330 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 476
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Metaphysics. ; Logic. ; Science
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Décio Krause, quantum mechanics, non individuality, and this volume (Jonas R. Becker Arenhart and Raoni Wohnrath Arroyo) -- 2. The pragmatics of quantum individuality (Dennis Dieks) -- 3. Quasi-structural realism (Steven French) -- 4. The roads to non-individuals (and how not to read their maps) (Jonas R. Becker Arenhart and Raoni Wohnrath Arroyo) -- 5. Particles? What do we mean by a particle? (Graciela Domenech) -- 6. A phenomenology of identity: about quantum (non-)particles (Michel Bitbol) -- 7. The perils of cardinality primitivism (Otávio Bueno) -- 8. Open problems in the development of a quantum mereology and their ontological implications (Federico Holik and Juan Pablo Jorge) -- 9. Indistinguishability in homodyne photo-detections (J. Acacio de Barros) -- 10. On the consistency of quasi-set theory (Adonai S. Sant’Anna) -- 11. About the ontological nature of quantum systems (Olimpia Lombardi) -- 12. The several measurement problems and the reality problem of quantum mechanics (F. A. Muller) -- 13. Measuring quantum superpositions (Or: “It is only the theory which decides what can be observed”) (Christian de Ronde) -- 14. A quantum approach to pattern recognition (Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara, Roberto Giuntini, and Giuseppe Sergioli) -- 15. On axiomatic formulations of the efficient market hypothesis (Newton C. A. da Costa, Francisco A. Doria, and G. Gallipolo).
    Abstract: This book discusses the philosophical work of Décio Krause. Non-individuality, as a new metaphysical category, was thought to be strongly supported by quantum mechanics. No one did more to promote this idea than the Brazilian philosopher Décio Krause, whose works on the metaphysics and logic of non-individuality are now widely regarded as part of the consolidated literature on the subject. This volume brings together chapters elaborating on the ideas put forward and defended by Krause, developing them in many different directions, commenting on aspects not completely developed so far, and, more importantly, critically addressing their current formulations and defenses by Krause himself. Given that Krause’s ideas do connect directly and indirectly with a wide array of subjects, such as the philosophy of quantum mechanics, more broadly understood, the philosophy of logic and logical philosophy, non-classical logics, metaphysics, and ontology, this volume contains important material for the research on logic and foundations of science, broadly understood. All the invited contributors have already worked with the ideas developed by Décio (some of them still work with them), being also distinct authors and extremely relevant in their areas of expertise. The volume is aimed at philosophers, including those of physics and quantum mechanics.
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    ISBN: 9783031426124
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 160 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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    Keywords: America ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Ecocriticism. ; Fiction. ; Animal welfare ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: Nation, Identity, Species -- 2 Reconfiguring Animal Narratives in Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf (1963) -- 3 Trauma on Display: Women’s Wilderness Writing and Animal Ciphers in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing (1972) and Life Before Man (1979) -- 4 Writing Bear(s): Thematising the Canadian Animal Story in Marian Engel’s Bear (1976) -- 5 Queership, Kinship, Careship: Adopting An Ethics of Care in Timothy Findley’s The Wars (1977) and Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984) -- 6 Unsettling Coyote: Engaging with Indigenous Concepts of Care in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996) -- 7 Conclusion.
    Abstract: Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea that focusing on narratives of responsibility and care influences better relations with both non-human animals and across settler-Indigenous boundaries. Alice Higgs engages with on-going debates regarding reconciliation by demonstrating that it is imperative to critique settler colonial environmental frameworks and place autonomy back into Indigenous communities by bringing Indigenous practices of custodianship and relationality to bear more generally. This book also develops a number of conversations in animal studies in relation to the politics of representation. Higgs studies a range of canonical Canadian authors, demonstrating a progress across the period in which it is possible to identify the emergence of a literary pro-animal turn. Alice Higgs is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton. She has held Honorary Researcher status at the University of Kent, host to The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, and she has been a long-term member of the Animal Studies Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. Her research looks at the representation of human-animal relationships in contemporary North American literature.
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    ISBN: 9783031486630
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 208 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 60
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature. ; Philosophy. ; Methodology.
    Abstract: Glossary -- Introduction -- Part 1. A Theoretical Framework -- 1. Method -- 2. Nature -- Part 2. Practical Knowledge -- 3. Metals -- 4. Plants -- 5. Animals -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book explores René Descartes’s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program. Despite his early rationalistic epistemology, Descartes’s increasing attention to collections, histories, lists of qualities, and particular bodies results in a puzzling ‘short history of all natural phenomena’ contained in the Principles of philosophy (1644). The present book outlines the role of Descartes's observations and experimentation as he aimed to construct a universal science of nature, ultimately revealing the mechanization of nature in detail, and for curious bodies such as the Bologna Stone or the sensitive herb. What results is a theoretical natural history consistent with the mechanical principles of his philosophy, ultimately shedding new light on his attempt to produce a complete philosophy of nature.
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    ISBN: 9783031416330
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 214 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 147
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    Abstract: Chapter 1. A Certain Philosophical Context -- Chapter 2. Wittgenstein’s Toolbox -- Chapter 3. Medicine -- Chapter 4. Diseases, Injuries, and Disabilities -- Chapter 5. Mental Disorders -- Chapter 6. Unexplained Physical Symptoms and Functional Disorders -- Chapter 7. Health -- Chapter 8. Causality -- Chapter 9. Medical Explanation -- Chapter 10. The Origins and Foundation of Medicine -- Chapter 11. Functions, Malfunctions, and Teleology -- Chapter 12. Treatment, Placebos and Nocebos -- Chapter 13. Is Medical Grammar Counterfactual? -- Chapter 14. The Philosophy of Medicine Versus Medicine -- Chapter 15. To Conclude. .
    Abstract: This book about philosophy of medicine bestows a bottom-up and not a top-down approach. It starts from clinical medicine and epidemiology, analyzing their interrelations with philosophical instruments. The book criticizes the constant search for generalities and the essentialism that too often characterizes this discipline, which results in philosophers of medicine dialoguing with each other without direct contact with medical science. In the light of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book proposes an approach to the philosophy of medicine based on the quorum of language, what Wittgenstein calls family resemblances. In this way the author establishes a philosophy of medicine that is closely related to the medical clinic and to public health and as such avoids armchair philosophy. “Don’t think, but look", wrote Wittgenstein.
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    ISBN: 9783031355318
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 229 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Anthropology ; Linguistics ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: 1. New directions in multidisciplinary knowledge production in sub-Saharan Africa: An introduction -- 2. From ‘sitting on the fence’ to rhizomatic thinking: An Appraisal of the heuristic ‘lines of flight’ in multi/inter disciplinary contemporary stylistics -- 3. Rupturing the traditional thought in search of novel heuristic voyages in New Testament studies. New reflections on Narratological methodology -- 4. Postcolonial African feminist research agenda: African women theologians’ search for liberating paradigms in oral and written religious and cultural texts -- 5. Discipline, decolonisation and agency -- 6. (Re) thinking and (re)theorising ‘multi’ and its futures in academic discourse studies -- 7. 'Collective Intelligence' a precursor for multidisciplinary research in Africa: An Appreciative Inquiry Perspective -- 8. Multi-disciplinary Era and shifting methodological pathways in New Testament Studies: A Stylistic paradigm -- 9. Decentring research in African Universities -- 10. “…Get out, you seer! Go back to the Land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there” (Amos 7:12). Deflecting Traditional Disciplinary Boundaries in Biblical Studies -- 11. Methodological and epistemological misconceptions about Mixed Methods Approach amongst university students -- 12. Packaging new wine into old wineskins: Possibilities and challenges of using virtual Ethnography in knowledge production in Zimbabwe -- 13. An interdisciplinary research approach: opportunities and challenges from a Zimbabwean perspective -- 14. Researching Religious Indigenous Knowledge in Zimbabwe: Methodological Issues for African Scholars -- 15. Old Methods and New Methods in sub-Saharan Africa: The Recap.
    Abstract: This book, Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Language, Literature and Religion, contributes to the polemical conversations about existing architectures of knowledge and research practices in postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa. It creates an academic platform for multi-interdisciplinary research that brings to the fore inspiring efforts to break away from long-standing disciplinary bordering thinking and practices in modern-day sub-Saharan Africa. This distinctive edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, researchers and students of multi-interdisciplinary research across the globe. The volume also promotes wide-ranging research focused on how to address complexities which hamper the promise of multi-interdisciplinary research in contemporary sub-Saharan African contexts. It provides thought-provoking perspectives on academic conversations about the uniqueness of embracing multidisciplinary research. The traditional methods of interpretation are challenged by the radical emerging demand to shift from a mono-disciplinary thinking to a cross-disciplinary epistemic endeavour in order to successfully address unfolding problematic realities that demand the pursuit of novel heuristic terrains.
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    ISBN: 9783031136900
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 119 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Abstract: Chapter 1: The Socratic Method -- Chapter 2: Analyzing Courage: Laches -- Chapter 3: Analyzing Piety: Euthyphro -- Chapter 4: Blameworthy Ignorance: Apology -- Chapter 5: Virtue in Socratic Ignorance: Charmides -- Chapter 6: Latent Knowledge: Meno -- Chapter 7: Forms Left Unanalyzed: Phaedo -- Chapter 8: Downgrading the Elenchus: Republic I-II -- Chapter 9: Farewell to the Elenchus: Theaetetus -- Chapter 10: Philosophy Professionalized: Sophist -- Chapter 11: Conclusion.
    Abstract: The Socratic method of questioning and refutation (elenchus) predominates the early Platonic dialogues. But things change in the middle dialogues, as Socrates goes beyond merely asking questions and begins to provide answers to his questions. And the method virtually disappears in the late dialogues. The standard explanation of this phenomenon is that the early dialogues were intended to commemorate Socrates and the elenchus, while in the middle and late dialogues Plato went beyond Socrates to present his own mature philosophical thought. In this book, Matthews revises this explanation by uncovering the shortcomings that Plato came to find in the Socratic method and the reasons why Plato lost interest in it.
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    ISBN: 9783031166709
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 97 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Education. ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 - Empirical and Pedagogical Background -- Chapter 2 - The Historical Situation -- Chapter 3 - The Emotional and Social Situation -- Chapter 4 - The Bodily Situation -- Chapter 5 - The Moral Situation: Self and Other.
    Abstract: The book explores the gendered reality of learning philosophy at the university level, investigating the ways in which women and minority students become alienated from the social practices of a male-dominated field, and examining pedagogical solutions to this problem. It covers the roles and the interactions of the professor and student in the following ways: (1) the historical situation, (2) the affective, social and bodily situation, and (3) the moral situation. This text analyzes women’s passion for philosophy as a quest for truth, as well as their partial alienation from the social practices of philosophy. It demonstrates that recognition, generosity, and care are central ingredients of good learning and teaching experiences. Providing case studies of experimental courses in philosophy, the book discusses a variety of pedagogical approaches that might increase the inclusiveness of a philosophical education: novel and more gender-balanced ways of interpreting the history of philosophy, problem-based learning as a means of emancipating the student from the traditional master–disciple relationship, body awareness practices as a way of challenging the “disembodying” tendencies of philosophy, and a pluralism of methods to address the needs of different kinds of learners. Thanks to these features, the book is particularly useful for philosophy professors at the university level, but it also provides insights for all readers who feel puzzled about the persistent underrepresentation of women in philosophy.
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    ISBN: 9783031223044
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 133 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Recovering Political Philosophy
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    Keywords: Political science—Philosophy. ; Political science. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy. ; Political science
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Husserl and the Problem of Epistemological Relativism -- Chapter 2: Locke and the Problem of the Biblical God -- Chapter 3: Plato’s Solution to the Problem of Relativism.
    Abstract: “This ambitious study brings together three great thinkers of ancient and modern times—Husserl, Locke, and Plato—in a careful analysis of the problem of knowledge, of what the unassisted human mind can know and how it may know what it does. I know of no other work that even attempts to do what this study does so well: to bring into respectful but critical dialogue with one another these three philosophers on the question “what is knowledge?”” --Robert C. Bartlett, Behrakis Professor in Hellenic Political Studies, Boston College, USA Relativism, or the claim that it is possible that the appearances and opinions of each of us are correct for each of us, and hence that any view is as true as any other, has remained a continuing problem for philosophy and science for 2,500 years. Today, because of the widespread acceptance of relativism, the problem is greater than ever before. This book argues that Plato in fact solved this problem. In the first two chapters, by means of a study of Husserl and Locke, Davis shows that it is possible to return to and take seriously Plato’s treatment of this problem. The third chapter presents Plato’s solution to it. This book is distinctive in that it shows that a problem that has been thought to be present throughout the history of Western thought was in fact solved by Plato, and in that it shows that we can, beginning from our contemporary situation, return to Plato’s solution. Matthew K. Davis is former Dean and Director of Graduate Programs at St. John's College, Santa Fe, USA, where he has taught for twenty-five years.
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    ISBN: 9783031256868
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 104 p. 10 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Physics. ; Astronomy. ; Mathematics. ; Soft condensed matter. ; Mechanics, Applied.
    Abstract: Preface -- "How Mathematics Figures Differently in Exact Solutions, Simulations, and Physical Models” -- “Finding Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations in Fluid Dynamics, and Where the Search Leads Philosophers” -- “Fluid Motion for Philosophers of Mathematics, or Which Solutions Do You Want for Navier-Stokes?” -- “Odd Models of Black Hole Evaporation, or, What to Do When You Can't Solve Equations” -- “Black Hole Coalescence: Observation and Model Validation”.
    Abstract: This book focuses on continuing the long-standing productive dialogue between physical science and the philosophy of science. Researchers and readers who want to keep up to date on front-line scientific research in fluid mechanics and gravitational wave astrophysics will find timely and well-informed analyses of this scientific research and its philosophical significance. These exciting frontiers of research pose deep scientific problems, and raise key questions in the philosophy of science related to scientific explanation and understanding, theory change and assessment, measurement, interpretation, realism, and modeling. The audience of the book includes philosophers of science, philosophers of mathematics, scientists with philosophical interests, and students in philosophy, history, mathematics, and science. Anyone who is interested in the methods and philosophical questions behind the recent exciting work in physics discussed here will profit from reading this book.
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    ISBN: 9783031240829
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 339 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    Series Statement: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences 32
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    Keywords: Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Linguistics. ; Pragmatism. ; Language and languages
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse and Violence in Eric Weil’s Logic of Philosophy -- 3. Logic as the Organization of Forms of Coherence -- 4. Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Expressivism -- 5. Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Inferentialism in the Logic of Philosophy -- 6. The Language of Conflict and Violence -- 7. The Logic of Philosophy as a Theory of Argumentation -- 8. Justification and Pluralism in the Logic of Philosophy -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This volume investigates Eric Weil’s innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence’s relationship to language and to discourse. Weil presents violence as the central philosophical problem. According to this reading, the western philosophical tradition commonly conceptualizes violence as an expression of error or as a consequence of the weakness of will. However, by doing so, it misses something essential about the role that violence plays in our conceptual development as well as the place violence holds in our discursive practices. The author draws comparisons between Weil’s work and that of Robert Brandom. Brandom’s inferentialism creates a sophisticated program at the junction of pragmatics and semantics, philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of mind. The monograph builds on these insights in order to show how an inferentialist reading of Eric Weil is fruitful for both Weilian studies and for inferentialism. This volume will notably be of interest to scholars in philosophy, argumentation theory, and communication studies.
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Economics
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    Keywords: Economics—History. ; Schools of economics. ; Economics. ; Philosophy. ; Christianity. ; Economics. ; Economy of Francesco ; Pope Francis ; Commons ; Franciscan economic roots ; Ethics of care ; Moral sentiments ; Peace ; Purpose and profit ; Social choice ; Fides ; St. Francis of Assisi ; Inequality ; Sustainability ; Social businesses ; Private goods ; Workers-friendly economic system ; Alternative economics ; History of economics ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Economics and the Commons: History, Tragedies, and Some Exercises -- Chapter 2. Expanding the Notion of the Commons: Is Love the Greatest Commons in Which We Should Thrive? -- Chapter 3. Economics and the Ethics of Care -- Chapter 4. Economics and the Ethics of Care: A Response -- Chapter 5. Franciscan Wealth. The Roots of Franciscan Economic Thought -- Chapter 6. Franciscan Wealth. The Roots of Franciscan Economic Thought: a Comment -- Chapter 7. The Power of Purposeful Business -- Chapter 8. ‘Growing the Pie’ in a Catholic Social Thought Perspective -- Chapter 9. Generating Commons Makes Cities Alive -- Chapter 10. Preserving Our Commons: Call to Action -- Chapter 11. Winning Ideas: Lessons from Free-market Economics for the Economics of Francesco -- Chapter 12. Possible Paths to Follow in Francesco’s Economy. Based on the Analysis of Sabina Alkire and Agnus Richie and the Experiences Walked So Far -- Chapter 13. Moral Sentiments, Social choice and the Commons -- Chapter 14. Where Are “we” in the Economy? - Some Reflections on the Place of Moral Sentiments and the Commons in Redefining Economics -- Chapter 15. The Economy of Francesco and the Age of Sustainable Development -- Chapter 16. Gratuitousness -- Chapter 17. Peace, Faith, and Economy -- Chapter 18. Peace, Faith, and Economy. A Comment.
    Abstract: This book proposes a new approach to economics, starting from the commons and based on the Economy of Francesco (EoF), a worldwide movement of young people who aim to change the current economic models and working towards a fair, sustainable, and inclusive economic system. EoF was convened by Pope Francis and is inspired by the example of St. Francis of Assisi, featuring Franciscan economic roots and institutions, as well as theories of the social sciences. The authors raise and answer several important questions throughout the volume, such as: What if the economic courses taught in the universities across the globe focused their attention on the topics of the commons rather than on private goods? What if social businesses, rather than being considered as a hybrid form of businesses, became the normal approach, and ethical and green finance ruled over the standard financial sector? Is it possible to move away from the primacy of the consumers to the preeminence of ethical consumers who express their preferences for an inclusive, sustainable, and workers-friendly economic system with their daily choices? Using a unique approach, the book includes the contributions of prominent scholars which are integrated and discussed by young international scholars, providing a fresh analysis with a glance of hope for the future. The book is a must-read for students, scholars, and researchers of economics and related disciplines interested in alternatives to the current economic mainstream in general, and the Economy of Francesco in particular.
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    ISBN: 9783031211577
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 228 p. 13 illus., 6 illus. in color.)
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    Keywords: Economics—History. ; Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Economics. ; Archaeology of scientific knowledge ; Epistemological ruptures ; Episteme ; HIstory of economic thought ; Historicity ; Epistemology of economics
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I An Archeology Of Economic Science: From Physiocrats To Neoclassics -- 2. History Of Sciences And Epistemology -- 3. From Physiocratic School To Neoclassical Economy -- 4. The Different Epistemological Trajectories: From Archeology To Genealogy -- Part II Epistemological Ruptures: Three Contemporary Examples -- 5 The Refutation Of The Neoclassical Macroeconomics From The Neo-Ricardian Approach -- 6 Hayek And The Neoclassical Economy: Some Dangerous Liaisons? -- 7 Money, Finance And Real Economy -- 8 Beyond Episteme: The Concept Of Order -- 9 General Conclusion.
    Abstract: This book aims to study, from an approach linked to epistemology and the history of ideas, the evolution of economic science and its differing seminal systems. Today mainstream economics solves certain problems chosen within the scope of “normal science,” without questioning the epistemological foundations that support the paradigm within which they were conceived. Contrary to a Neoclassical interpretation, the historicist interpretation shows that, from the incommensurability of the different paradigms, it is impossible to conceive of a progress of economic science, in a long-term perspective. This book ultimately reveals, from the different economic schools of thought analyzed, that there is no pure form of episteme, or system of understanding. Each concrete episteme in the history of economic thought is by nature hybrid in the sense that it contains components from preceding systems of knowledge. Alain Herscovici is Full Professor of the Department of Economics and the Postgraduate Program in Economics, at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil, and leader of the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) Research Group on Macroeconomics. He is the author of Essays on the Historicity of Capital, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.
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    ISBN: 9783031170652
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 329 p. 15 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Economic sociology. ; Economics—History.
    Abstract: Chapter I: Introduction and the Consciousness as the Purpose of Life -- Chapter II: Scientific, Philosophical, and Psychological Views of the Purpose of Life -- Chapter III: Economics Purpose of Life -- Chapter IV: Economic Development and the Purpose of Life -- Chapter V: The Religious Purpose of Life.
    Abstract: This book is a compilation of economic views on the purpose of life. It follows a unique approach, starting with propositions from diverse fields that act as governing laws of the purpose of life in economics, then guiding the reader through the physical, philosophical, and psychological views of the purpose of life, as economics and economic theories can find their roots in all these areas. The book concludes with the purpose of life presented through economic doctrines (from the pre-classical, to classical, to neo-classical schools of economic thought), through the lens of economic development, and from the perspective of several religious doctrines. Lall Ramrattan is an Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has served as an associate editor of The American Economist, and holds a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research, USA. Michael Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Touro University, USA. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University, USA. He is recipient of many awards, including the 2013 John R. Commons Award, and he served as the editor, Emeritus, of The American Economist (1973-2011).
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    ISBN: 9783030845704
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 245 p. 12 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 38
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    Keywords: Philosophy and science. ; Philosophy. ; Technology—Sociological aspects. ; Continental Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Technology—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1 Introduction: Coming to terms with technoscience -- 2 Dialectics of Technoscience -- 3 Dialectical materialism -- 4 Psychoanalysing technoscience -- 5 Louis Althusser: science and ideology -- 6 Coming to terms with technoscience: the Heideggerian way -- 7 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s phenomenology of the noosphere -- 8 Philosophy of technoscience: from cis-continental to trans-continental.
    Abstract: The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis) in developing a coherent message around the technicity of science or rather, “technoscience”. Within technoscience, the focus will be on recent developments in life sciences research, such as genomics, post-genomics, synthetic biology and global ecology. This book uniquely presents continental perspectives that tend to be underrepresented in mainstream philosophy of science, yet entail crucial insights for coming to terms with technoscience as it is evolving on a global scale today. This is an open access book.
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    Keywords: Economics—History. ; Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy of economics ; History of economic thought ; Economic methodology ; Nature of the economy ; Ontology of Social Collectives
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction : Does Economics Deal with the Economic Stuff? Or Is the Economic Stuff Explained by Economics? -- Chapter 2. Metaphysics, Ontology, and Metaphysical Theories -- Chapter 3. Metaphysical Categories -- Chapter 4. The Metaphysics and Ontology of the Economy. Chapter 5. The Identity of the Economic Agent -- Chapter 6. The Human Person as Worker -- Chapter 7. The Metaphysics of Social Collectives -- Chapter 8. On the Relation between Micro- and Macroeconomic “Entities”—A Philosophical Approach -- Chapter 9. On the Nature of Money -- Chapter 10. Economic Sciences -- Chapter 11. Conclusions.
    Abstract: This book explores the deep meaning—the nature or essence—of the economy and its fundamental components. As a monograph on the philosophy of the economy and economics, it deduces the metaphysical nature of these two, going step by step from more general to more specific realities to finally arrive at the adequate features of the economic sciences and their methods. It builds on a largely Aristotelian approach, but also draws extensively from modern scholarship in the area. Usefully and pertinently, the book covers both general aspects of the economy and particular historically specific features. Among the important topics covered in the book are the meanings of the economy, the nature and role of economic agents, the nature of the macroeconomy, the nature and role of money, and so on. The book concludes with chapters on the nature of economics itself and its methodologies. Ricardo F. Crespo is Professor of Philosophy of Economics at IAE, Universidad Austral, and Researcher at the Argentine Council of Scientific Research. He is a graduate in economics and philosophy and earned a Ph. D. in Philosophy (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina) and another in Economics (University of Amsterdam). He has extensively published articles and chapter books on his research topics. Recent publications of him include articles in Synthese, the Journal of Institutional Economics, Foundations of Science, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Applied Economics. His last book is The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences. Evidence, Causality, and Ends (Routledge, London, 2020). His current research interests include explanation in the social sciences, economic rationality, and ethics in economics.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 143 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 147
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Movement (Philosophy). ; Metaphysics. ; Phenomenology .
    Abstract: Preface and Acknowledgement -- Chapter 1. Spatial Time: The Unity of Two Kantian Forms of Intuition -- Chapter 2. Teleological Time: A Variation on a Kantian Theme -- Chapter 3. The Relationship Between the Formal and Transcendental-Metaphysical Logic -- Chapter 4. Restless and Impelling Reason and The Impossibility of Philosophical Satisfaction -- Chapter 5. The Problem of Immediate Evidence According to Kant and Hegel -- Chapter 6. A Kantian Response to Sellars’s Criticism of the Myth of the Given -- Chapter 7. The Submission of our Sensuous Nature to the Moral Law in the Second Critique -- Chapter 8. Phenomenal Reality and Relationality as a Conditioned Part of the Thing-in-Itself -- Chapter 9. Kant’s Philosophy Under Panenmentalist Observations -- Index.
    Abstract: This book, combining integratively-revised previously-published papers with entirely new chapters, challenges and treats some major problems in Kant’s philosophy not by means of new interpretations but by suggesting some variations on Kantian themes. Such variations are, in fact, reconstructions made according to Kantian ideas and principles and yet cannot be extracted as such directly from his writings. The book also analyses Kant's philosophy from a new metaphysical angle, based on the original metaphysics of the author, called panenmentalism. It reconstructs some missing links in Kant's philosophy, such as the idea of teleological time, which is vital for Kant's moral theory. Although these variations cannot be found literally in Kant’s works, they can be legitimately explicated, developed, and implied from them. Such is the case because these variations are strictly compatible with the details of the texts and the texts as wholes, and because they are systematically integrated. Their coherence supports their validation. The target audiences are graduate and PhD students as well as specialist researchers of Kant's philosophy. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 295 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 148
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Data structures (Computer science). ; Sociophysics. ; Econophysics. ; Mathematical statistics. ; Analysis (Philosophy).
    Abstract: Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Inductivism -- Chapter 3. Phenomenological Science -- Chapter 4. Variational Induction -- Chapter 5. Causation As Difference Making -- Chapter 6. Evidence -- Chapter 7. Concept Formation -- Chapter 8. Analogy -- Chapter 9. Causal Probability -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Index.
    Abstract: This book addresses controversies concerning the epistemological foundations of data science: Is it a genuine science? Or is data science merely some inferior practice that can at best contribute to the scientific enterprise, but cannot stand on its own? The author proposes a coherent conceptual framework with which these questions can be rigorously addressed. Readers will discover a defense of inductivism and consideration of the arguments against it: an epistemology of data science more or less by definition has to be inductivist, given that data science starts with the data. As an alternative to enumerative approaches, the author endorses Federica Russo’s recent call for a variational rationale in inductive methodology. Chapters then address some of the key concepts of an inductivist methodology including causation, probability and analogy, before outlining an inductivist framework. The inductivist framework is shown to be adequate and useful for an analysis of the epistemological foundations of data science. The author points out that many aspects of the variational rationale are present in algorithms commonly used in data science. Introductions to algorithms and brief case studies of successful data science such as machine translation are included. Data science is located with reference to several crucial distinctions regarding different kinds of scientific practices, including between exploratory and theory-driven experimentation, and between phenomenological and theoretical science. Computer scientists, philosophers and data scientists of various disciplines will find this philosophical perspective and conceptual framework of great interest, especially as a starting point for further in-depth analysis of algorithms used in data science. .
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    ISBN: 9783030916848
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 192 p. 6 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Humanities—Digital libraries. ; Technology—Sociological aspects.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Contextualising Digital Afterlives -- 2. The Service Providers – Both Intentional and Accidental -- 3. A Philosophical Detour -- 4. From Digital Footprints to the Ultimate Selfie: The Experiences and Motivations of Digital Creators -- 5. Why Do Digital Afterlives Matter? The Experiences and Motivations of Digital Inheritors -- 6. Losing the Data of the Dead and Expanding Existing Models of Bereavement -- 7. The Future of Digital Death -- 8. Final Thoughts and Reflection.
    Abstract: This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp ‘accidentally’ enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this digital inheritance has on the bereaved. Debra J. Bassett offers a holistic exploration of this phenomenon and presents qualitative data from three groups of participants: service providers, digital creators, and digital inheritors. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to sociologists, cyber psychologists, philosophers, death scholars, and grief counsellors. But Bassett’s book can also be seen as a canary in the coal mine for the ‘intentional’ Digital Afterlife Industry (DAI) and their race to monetise the dead. This book provides an understanding of the profound effects uncontrollable timed posthumous messages and the creation of thanabots could have on the bereaved, and Bassett’s conception of a Digital Do Not Reanimate (DDNR) order and a voluntary code of conduct could provide a useful addition to the DAI.
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    ISBN: 9783030845667
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 226 p.)
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    Keywords: History. ; Europe, Central—History. ; Philosophy. ; Civilization—History.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Criticism and Mutual Support in Private Correspondence -- 3. The Eye of the Editor -- 4. A Review of Book Reviews -- 5. Praise and Criticism in Letters of Recommendation -- 6. Conclusion: A Moral Economy of Scholarship -- 7. Epilogue.
    Abstract: Reflecting a growing interest in the history of knowledge, this book explores the importance of scholarly virtues during the late nineteenth century. The practice of science is moulded on notions of scholarly values, such as diligence, impartiality, meticulousness and patience, but here, the author focuses on the virtues of collegial loyalty and critical independence. By analysing how virtues were reflected in day-to-day scholarly work, and examining the possibility that these virtues may have come into conflict with each other, this book sheds light on what is often described as ‘the moral economy of scholarship,’ a metaphor which draws attention to the changeability of the expectations raised by virtue. Highlighting the pre-eminence and exemplary nature of German scholarship during the nineteenth century, the author provides a detailed analysis of four evaluative practices used by scholars across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences in a number of German universities.This allows a nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between collegial loyalty and critical independence in the academic working environment, and draws comparisons across varying disciplines. A welcome contribution to a growing field of research, this book provides a comparative and transdisciplinary overview of scholarly virtues and will be of interest to those researching the history of science and the humanities.
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    ISBN: 9783030730611
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXV, 379 p. 5 illus.)
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    Keywords: Literature—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Methodology. ; Fiction.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Philosophical Thinking in a Fictional World; Garry L. Hagberg -- 2. 1. The Possibility of the Philosophical Novel as a Genre; Michael H. Mitias -- 3. 2. Narrative and the Value of Falsehood: An Approach to Fiction; David Gorman -- 4. 3. Learning to Read: A Problem for Adam Smith and a Solution from Jane Austen; Lauren Kopajtic -- 5. 4. Philosophy and Literature in Jorge Luis Borges: Aliados o Enemigos?; José Luis Fernández -- 6. 5. Metaphors We Live, Worlds We Read; James Nikopoulos -- 7. 6. Oneself as Character: Emplotment, Memory, and Metaphor in Ricoeur, Bakhtin and Nabokov’s The Gift; Leonid Bilmes -- 8. 7. Sherlockismus: Freud and the Romance of Detection; Stewart Justman -- 9. 8. Extrahuman Transcendence in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray; Katie Fry -- 10. 9. A Nietzschean Wuthering Heights?; Charles Nussbaum -- 11. 10. Wordsworth’s Literary Sublime; Katherine Elkins -- 12. 11. Searching for Chad, He Found Himself: Peirce, Wittgenstein, Pragmatism, and the Case of Lambert Strether in Henry James’s The Ambassadors; Garry L. Hagberg -- 13. 12. The Passing Away of the Past: The Transmutation of Modernism into Postmodernism; Rizwan Saeed Ahmed & Akhtar Aziz -- 14. 13. Spiritual Idealism and Tragic Wisdom: An Essay on King Lear; Robert Baker -- 15. 14. Sense and Conscience: Hunting for Certainty in Hamlet; Charlie Gustafson-Barrett -- .
    Abstract: This edited collection investigates the kinds of philosophical reflection we can undertake in the imaginative worlds of literature. Opening with a look into the relations between philosophical thought and literary interpretation, the volume proceeds through absorbing discussions of the ways we can see life through the lens of literature, the relations between philosophical saying and literary showing, and some ways we can see the literary past philosophically and assess its significance for the present. Taken as a whole, the volume shows how imagined contexts can be a source of knowledge, a source of conceptual clarification, and a source of insight and understanding. And because philosophical thinking is undertaken, after all, in words, a heightened sensitivity to the precise employments of our words – particularly philosophically central words such as truth, reality, perception, knowledge, selfhood, illusion, understanding, falsehood – can bring a clarity and a refreshed sense of the life that our words take on in fully-described contexts of usage. And in these imagined contexts we can also see more acutely and deeply into the meaning of words about words – metaphor and figurative tropes, verbal coherence, intelligibility, implication, sense, and indeed the word “meaning” itself. Moving from a philosophical issue into a literary world in which the central concepts of that issue are in play can thus enrich our comprehension of those concepts and, in the strongest cases, substantively change the way we see them. With a combination of conceptual acuity and literary sensitivity, this volume maps out some of the territory that philosophical reflection and literary engagement share.
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    ISBN: 9783030912109
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 288 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 450
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: Preface -- Chapter 1. The Motivation, the Approach, the Plan -- Part 1: Pyrrhonism Past -- Chapter 2. Pyrrhonian Inquiry -- Chapter 3. Argumentation and Persuasiveness -- Chapter 4. The Agrippan Modes and the Challenge of Disagreement -- Chapter 5. Pyrrhonian Rationality -- Part Two: Pyrrhonism Present -- Chapter 6. The Epistemology of Disagreement -- Chapter 7. Personal Information as Symmetry Breaker -- Chapter 8. The Limits of Self-Knowledge. Chapter 9. The Disagreeing about Disagreement Argument -- Chapter 10. The Nature of Rationality -- Chapter 11. Coda -- Index.
    Abstract: This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy. Not only did Pyrrhonism play an important part in the philosophical scene of the Hellenistic and Imperial age, but it also had a tremendous impact on Renaissance and modern philosophy and continues to be a topic of lively discussion among both scholars of ancient philosophy and epistemologists. The focus and inspiration of the book is the brand of Pyrrhonism expounded in the extant works of Sextus Empiricus. Its aim is twofold: to offer a critical interpretation of some of the central aspects of Sextus’s skeptical outlook and to examine certain debates in contemporary philosophy from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective. The first part explores the aim of skeptical inquiry, the defining features of Pyrrhonian argumentation, the epistemic challenge posed by the Modes of Agrippa, and the Pyrrhonist’s stance on the requirements of rationality. The second part focuses on present-day discussions of the epistemic significance of disagreement, the limits of self-knowledge, and the nature of rationality. The book will appeal to researchers and graduate students interested in skepticism.
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    ISBN: 9783030810108
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 310 p. 3 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 53
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    Keywords: Philosophy and science. ; Epistemology. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. A Life Between: Ernest Nagel (Matthias Neuber and Adam Tamas Tuboly) -- Chapter 2. Ernest Nagel and the Reception of Logical Empiricism in the United States (Sander Verhaegh) -- Chapter 3. Between Enthusiasm and Disenchantment: Ernest Nagel and Logical Empiricism (Thomas Mormann) -- Chapter 4. Putting the Cart before the Horse: Nagel’s Criticism of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (Jeanne Peijnenburg and David Atkinson). Chapter 5. Nagel on Idealization in Science (Raphael van Riel) -- Chapter 6. Determinism as a Guiding Principle (Marij van Strien) -- Chapter 7. On Nagel’s ‘Truth-frequency’ Interpretation of Probability (Maria Carla Galavotti) -- Chapter 8. Neurath and Nagel on Semantics (Lucas Baccarat) -- Chapter 9. On Nagel on Teleology in Biology (Bohang Chen) -- Chapter 10. Nagel Teaching Aristotle and Philosophy of Science (Fons Dewulf) -- Chapter 11. Nagel’s Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Matthias Neuber) -- Chapter 12. Ernest Nagel the Reviewer (Eric Schliesser) -- Appendix: The Nagel-Hempel Correspondence.
    Abstract: This volume is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) counted among the influential twentieth-century philosophers of science. Forgotten by the history of philosophy of science community in recent years, this volume introduces Nagel’s philosophy to a new generation of readers and highlights the merits and originality of his works. Best known in the history of philosophy as a major American representative of logical empiricism with some pragmatist and naturalist leanings, Nagel’s interests and activities went beyond these limits. His career was marked with a strong and determined intention of harmonizing the European scientific worldview of logical empiricism and American naturalism/pragmatism. His most famous and systematic treatise on, The Structure of Science, appeared just one year before Thomas Kuhn’s even more renowned, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. As a reflection of Nagel’s interdisciplinary work, the contributing authors’ articles are connected both historically and systematically. The volume will appeal to students mainly at the graduate level and academic scholars. Since the volume treats historical, philosophical, physical, social and general scientific questions, it will be of interest to historians and philosophers of science, epistemologists, social scientists, and anyone interested in the history of analytic philosophy and twentieth-century intellectual history.
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    ISBN: 9783030885274
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 135 p.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Humanism and Atheism
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    Keywords: Religion. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Humanism and Education -- 2. Humanist Education -- 3. Teaching Humanism -- 4. Edward Said as Humanist Educator (with a Note on John Dewey) -- 5. Going Back to College: The Survival of Unitarian Universalism Depends on It -- 6. Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities -- 7. Confronting the Rising Danger of White Rage.
    Abstract: This volume explores the challenges that humanists face from hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on its left flank. Given this dual challenge, how can "secular" humanism educate, sustain, and reproduce itself? William David Hart is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College, USA. He is the author of four monographs including The Blackness of Black: Key Concepts in Critical Discourse (2020) and Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (2000).
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    ISBN: 9783030846107
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 356 p. 3 illus.)
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Philosophy. ; Political philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction: Forgiveness and other Elements of Moral Repair -- Chapter 2: Overview of Contributions -- Part I: Western Traditions of Conceptualizing Forgiveness -- Chapter 3: Forgiving Sin -- Chapter 4: Interrupting the Cycle of Violence without Forgiveness? The Story of Joseph in the Bible and Early Jewish Literature -- Chapter 5: “You are better than your deeds”: The Modern Theory of Forgiveness and Its Christian Background -- Chapter 6: A Christian View: Joseph Butler on Resentment and Forgiveness -- Chapter 7: Verzeihen but not Vergeben: A Distinction Drawn from German Language Usage -- Chapter 8: Amnesty — Amnesia — Anamnesis: Temporal Relations and Structural Antagonisms in the Moral Economy of Forgiveness and Reconciliation -- Chapter 9: Just another “Legend of the Forgiving Jew”? The Art of Coping with Wrongdoing and How Literature Can Assist -- Chapter 10: On Revenge: The Other of Forgiveness -- Part II: Cases and Concepts of Moral Repair and Forgiveness from Diverse Cultural Viewpoints -- Chapter 11: Karma in Buddhism and the Problems of Cross-Cultural and Cross-Religious Comparison of ‘Guilt’ and ‘Forgiveness’ -- Chapter 12: Forgiveness in Neo-Confucianism -- Chapter 13: Practicing Forgiveness in Chosŏn Korea: With Some Observations on Confucian Normative Discourse -- Chapter 14: The Place of Forgiveness in Conflict Management: Scale-bound Institutional Arrangements in the Moroccan Nomosphere -- Chapter 15: Negotiating Truth-Seeking, Ritual Television, and Healing in Mozambique -- Chapter 16: Balancing Individual Dignity and Communal Indignation in African Religious Ethics of Forgiveness.
    Abstract: “This splendid volume sheds much light on forgiveness, moral repair, and related issues. The multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach of the volume is particularly helpful with regard to these famously complicated topics. Anyone interested in them will find this book well worth consulting.” Charles Griswold, Bowne Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, USA, and author of Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration “This publication follows a unique approach as it contrasts in a highly differentiated way Western notions of forgiveness with other cultural ideas and practices of reconciliation. This intelligent and sensible combination of complementary perspectives is a MUST for anyone working on the wide field of violence prevention, healing, peace and reconciliation.” Véronique Zanetti, Professor of Political Philosophy, Bielefeld University, Germany In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role. For a long time, the idea was widespread that a forgiving attitude — overcoming feelings of resentment and the desire for revenge — was always virtuous. Recently, however, this idea has been questioned. The contributors to this volume do not take sides for or against forgiveness but rather examine its meaning and function against the backdrop of a more complex understanding of moral repair in a variety of social, circumstantial, and cultural contexts. The book aims to gain a differentiated understanding of the European traditions regarding forgiveness, revenge, and moral repair that have shaped our moral intuitions today whilst also examining examples from other cultural contexts (Asia and Africa, in particular) to explore how different cultural traditions deal with the need for moral repair after wrongdoing. Maria-Sibylla Lotter, Professor of Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and author of Scham, Schuld, Verantwortung. Saskia Fischer, Research Associate in German Studies and Comparative Literature, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, and author of Ritual und Ritualität im Drama nach 1945.
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    ISBN: 9783030904050
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 312 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 149
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    Keywords: Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and translations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- PART I: Plato’s Philosophical Project -- Chapter 2. Plato’s idea of truth -- Chapter 3. Masters, slaves and philosophers -- Chapter 4. Chains and shadows -- Chapter 5. Philosophy and deliverance -- PART II: Hegel’s Phenomenological Project -- Chapter 6. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit -- Chapter 7. Knowledge, power and freedom -- Chapter 8. Towards freedom -- Chapter 9. Beyond the Phenomenology -- PART III: Nietzsche’s Metacognitive Project -- Chapter 10. Nietzsche’s idea of truth -- Chapter 11. Philosophy in chains -- Chapter 12. Philosophy unchained -- Chapter 13. Conclusions -- Index.
    Abstract: This book examines the relationship between freedom and true knowledge, which is a central part of the hotly debated issue of human freedom. Is truth necessary for the attainment of freedom? Does a free life require a clear understanding of reality? And if so, to what extent? These questions lead back to a classical philosophical debate, of which the first major chapter was written by Plato. In the dialogues, he describes human life as a peculiar form of imprisonment and calls for a global liberation of human cognition. This work analyses this ambitious project and its unique influence on the work of two modern authors, Hegel and Nietzsche, who explicitly linked the notions of ignorance and truth to those of bondage and freedom—or slavery and mastery—and whose philosophies are also centred on the liberation of human consciousness. Following a historical and systematic approach, this book is of interest to readers who are reasonably acquainted with the history of ancient and modern philosophy, including undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scholars working on Plato, German Idealism, Nietzsche and other related fields.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 128 p. 13 illus.)
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Style. ; Rhetoric. ; Critical Thinking. ; Philosophy—History. ; Logic.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Error, Mistake, and Fallacy in Philosophizing -- Chapter 2: Classifying Philosophical Fallacies -- Chapter 3: Illustrating Philosophical Fallacies -- Chapter 4: The Fallacy of Respect Neglect -- Chapter 5: Fallacies Regarding Free Will -- Chapter 6: Totalization Fallacies -- Chapter 7: The Significance of Philosophical Fallacies.
    Abstract: This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning. In doing so, it illustrates and evaluates various historical instances of this phenomenon. There is widespread interest in the practice and products of philosophizing, yet the important issue of fallacious reasoning in these matters has been effectively untouched. Nicholas Rescher fills this gap by presenting a systematic account of the principal ways in which philosophizing can go astray. Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. In a productive research career extending over six decades, he has well over one hundred books to his credit, including Ethics Matters (2021), Philosophical Clarifications (2019) and Value Reasoning (2017). .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 228 p.)
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    Series Statement: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
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    Keywords: Philosophy of mind. ; Philosophy. ; Phenomenology .
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: Philosophizing as a peculiar pursuit -- 2. Questioning the comparability of (philosophical) beliefs -- 3. Erotetic intuition: towards a logic of questions, and beyond -- 4. Philosophy as recognition: Thinking from inside the cave -- 5.The Embodied Philosopher.-6. Epilogue: Spandrels and philosophy. .
    Abstract: The book is the first formulation of a meta-philosophical scheme rooted in the embodied cognition paradigm. The emergence of experimental philosophy has given rise to a new context in which philosophers have begun to search for a more thorough definition of philosophical competence. On the other hand, a new paradigm known as embodied cognition has been proposed in the philosophy of mind. It views subjects capable of cognition and experience as living, embodied creatures coupled with their environments. The time is ripe for these two trends to join their efforts. Therefore, the book discusses what it means for a human being thought of as an living subject to pursue philosophy. In this context, in contrast to the existing literature, philosophical competence must not be conflated with competence in philosophy. The former is a skill or attitude. The book refers to this peculiar attitude as the recognition of one’s epistemic position. “In The Embodied Philosopher, Konrad Werner courageously blazes a new trail in metaphilosophy. His approach is bottom-up and seeks to clear up our confusion over the role that intuitions play in philosophical argumentation. In this groundbreaking work, the reader takes delivery of not only how to contend with deep philosophical problems but how to generate the right sort of questions to ask for one to be “doing” philosophy. Anyone from undergraduate to specialist with an interest in metaphilosophy will benefit from Werner’s discussion.” Joseph Ulatowski, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
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    Keywords: Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Personality. ; Social psychology. ; Social sciences.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Time-Consciousness, Personal Identity, and Loneliness -- Chapter 2: Consciousness Versus Language: Wittgenstein and Russell -- Chapter 3: Loneliness and the Possibility of a “Private Language” -- Chapter 4: Organic Communities, Atomistic Societies, and Loneliness -- Chapter 5: Ethical Responsibility, Spontaneity, and the Problem of Evil.-Chapter 6: Ethical Principles, Criteria, and the Meaning of Human Values.-Chapter 7: Loneliness and Political Narcissism.
    Abstract: Ben Lazare Mijuskovic has spent 40 years researching theories of consciousness in relation to human loneliness, using an interdisciplinary and "history of ideas" approach. In this book, Mijuskovic combines Kant's theory of reflexive self-consciousness with Husserl's transcendent principle of intentionality to describe the distinctive philosophical, psychological, and sociological roots of loneliness and intimacy. He argues that loneliness is innate, unavoidable, and constituted by the structure of self-consciousness itself. Ben Lazare Mijuskovic was associate professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, prior to retirement. He is also a licensed clinical therapist and has worked for many years with the San Diego and Los Angeles Departments of Mental Health.
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    ISBN: 9783030820688
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 374 p.)
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    Series Statement: Postcolonialism and Religions
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    Keywords: Theology. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: 1: Introduction: in search of signposts toward a new theological paradigm -- 2: Job, the joban tradition, and the status-quoist nature of mission -- 3: Discernments from the joban tradition: theoretical context and the mission imperative -- 4: Contemporary theological articulations in mission theology and missio dei -- 5: Beyond missio dei: theological resources for the journey -- 6: Witness of god and the risk of proclamation -- 7: Conclusion: behold the marturion dei, witness courageously, and have life abundantly.
    Abstract: In this book, Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and ethos since the sixteenth century. Rather than denounce the inheritance of the mission movement that transformed both the church and world in innumerable ways, it is a simultaneous expression of appreciation for this precious heritage, and an attempt to do justice by it through a yearning quest for relevant paradigms of Christian engagement. Indeed, there is an intense tension within this book, and in fact a twin tension at that. The tension is between those seeking to keep the current mission paradigm alive out of habit or as a self-serving device, thus corrupting and withering away a bequeathal that essentially set free the voluntary/independent spirit of Christian individuals and their intentional collectives from both the ecclesiastical and political authorities. On the other side are those who enlist mission both as a subsequent activity and as a basis to pursue innocuous, and at times apparently heroic options that would seemingly satisfy a supposed missional mandatory. This work enlists postcolonial and poststructuralist resources pedagogically, to teach of mission, missiology, World Christianity, and intercultural theology. .
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 263 p. 1 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 56
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    Keywords: History. ; Philosophy. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Part I Unpublished Writings -- Note to the Reader -- Annals – Autobiographical Sketch -- Science and Common Thought -- Part II Selected Correspondence -- Note to the Reader -- List of Letters -- I. Student: 1853–1857 -- II. Curate: 1858–1862 -- III. Moral Scientist: 1862–1899 -- IV. Looking Back: 1900–1923 -- Biographical List of Names -- Acknowledgments and Permissions -- Bibliography.
    Abstract: This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an important figure of nineteenth-century Cambridge, where he worked alongside leading thinkers, such as Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Marshall, on the development of the Moral Sciences Tripos. Venn published three influential textbooks on logic, contributed some dozen articles to the then newly-established journal Mind, of which he became co-editor in 1892, and counted F.W. Maitland, William Cunningham and Arthur Balfour among his pupils. After his active career as a logician, which ended around the turn of the 20th century, Venn reinvented himself as a biographer of his University, College and family. Together with his son, he worked on the massive Alumni Cantabrigienses, which is still used today as a standard reference source. The material presented here, including the 100-page Annals: Autobiographical Sketch, provides much new information on Venn's philosophical development and Cambridge in the 1850s-60s. It also brings to light Venn's relation with famous colleagues and friends, such as Leslie Stephen, Francis Galton, and William Stanley Jevons, thereby placing him at the heart of Victorian intellectual life. .
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    ISBN: 9783030947477
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXIII, 373 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Religion. ; Philosophy. ; Ethnology—Asia. ; Culture.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: “Emotions (Jeong/Qing 情) in Korean Philosophy and Religion” -- Chapter 2. Moral Psychology of Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism and Its Philosophical Debates on the Affective Nature of the Mind -- Chapter 3. The Idea of Gyeong/Jing 敬 in Yi Toegye’s Korean Neo-Confucianism and Its Availability in Contemporary Ethical Debate -- Chapter 4. “Yi Yulgok on the Role of Emotions in Self-Cultivation and Ethics: A Modern Korean Neo-Confucian Interpretation”.-Chapter 5. Dasan Jeong Yagyong on Emotions and the Pursuit of Sagehood -- Chapter 6. Thinking through the Emotions with Korean Confucianism: Philosophical Translation and The Four-Seven Debate -- Chapter 7. Jeong (情), Civility, and the Heart of a Pluralistic Democracy in Korea -- Chapter 8. Korean Social Emotions: Han (한 恨), Heung (흥 興), and Jeong (정 情) -- Chapter 9. Hanmaeum, One Heart-Mind A Korean Buddhist Philosophical Basis of Jeong (情) -- Chapter 10. Resentment and Gratitude in Won Buddhism -- Chapter 11. Jeong and the Interrelationality of Self and Other in Korean Buddhist Cinema -- Chapter 12. Emotions (Jeong 情) in Korean Confucianism and Family Experience An Ecofeminist Perspective -- Chapter 13. CONCLUSION: The Diversity, Dynamics, and Distinctiveness of Korean Jeong.
    Abstract: This pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong 情) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious background on this topic in terms of emotions West and East, emotions in the Chinese and Buddhist traditions, and Korean perspectives. Chapters 2 to 5 of part I discuss key Korean Confucian thinkers, debates, and ideas. Chapters 6 to 8 of part II offer comparative thoughts from Confucian moral, political, and social angles. Chapters 9 to 12 of part III deal with contemporary Buddhist and eco-feminist perspectives. The concluding chapter discusses ground-breaking insights into the diversity, dynamics, and distinctiveness of Korean emotions. This is an open access book. Edward Y. J. Chung is Professor of Religious Studies, Asian Studies Director, and Korean Studies Project Director at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada. Jea Sophia Oh is Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her research primarily focuses on Asian and comparative philosophies, religion and ecology, and postcolonial theory. .
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    ISBN: 9783031096259
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXVII, 341 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Semiotics. ; Pragmatism. ; Idealism, German.
    Abstract: PART I - ON PHILOSOPHY OF ART -- 1. Reflections on a Poetic of Otherness -- 2. Reflections On a Poetic Ground in Peirce’s Philosophy -- 3. Peircean Seeds for a Philosophy of Art -- 4. The Poetics of Nameless Things -- 5. The Meaning of Firstness in Schelling, Schopenhauer and Peirce -- PART II - ON HEURISTIC LOGIC -- 6. The Heuristic Exclusivity of Abduction in Peirce’s Philosophy -- 7. The Heuristic Power of Agapism in Peirce’s Philosophy -- 8. On Uncertainty -- 9. Vital Ends and Practical Otherness: On Applied Sciences in Peirce’s Philosophy -- PART III – ON THE THEORY OF BELIEFS -- 10.Additional Reflections on Choices, Dogmatisms, and Bets: Justifying Peirce’s Realism -- 11. The Twilight of Reality and the Melancholic Irony of Brilliant, Unlasting Success: Reflecting on Emotional and Logical Interpretants in Peirce’s Modes for Fixation of Beliefs -- PART IV - HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF PRAGMATISM IN BRAZIL -- 12. Topics On the Studies of Peirce’s Pragmatism and North American Philosophy in Brazil -- PART V - ON THE THEORY OF HABITS -- 13. The Formation of Habits and the Origin of Laws in Ch. S. Peirce's VII Cambridge Conference -- 14. The Double Face of Habits – Time and Timeless in Pragmatic Experience -- 15. Habits Formation and Self-Organization – A Peircean Approach -- PART VI - ON PRAGMATISM AND OBJECTIVE IDEALISM -- 16. The Schellingian Roots of Peirce’s Idealism -- 17. The Continuity of Life: On Peirce’s Objective Idealism -- 18. The Semiotic Resilient Mind: Conflictual and Agapic Relationship Between Logical and Emotional Interpretants -- PART VII - ON PRAGMATISM AND PRAGMATICISM -- 19. Neopragmatism Viewed by Pragmaticism: A Redescription -- 20. The Ontology of Action in Peirce’s Philosophy -- 21. Considerations on the Statute of Ethics in Charles S. Peirce’s Pragmatism -- 22. Ethical Aspects of Fake News and Alternative Facts – A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach -- 23. The Aesthetic Face of Peirce’s Pragmaticist Epistemology -- 24. Semiotics and Pragmatism: Theoretical Interfaces -- REFERENCES.
    Abstract: This collection of essays brings together a selection of some of the most important studies of Professor Ivo Assad Ibri about the work of Charles Sanders Peirce. In the last decades, Prof. Ibri made important contributions to Peirce studies by showing that the various individual aspects of Peirce’s work actually form a coherent philosophical system, a metaphysical architecture, as he describes it in his previous book Kósmos Noetós (Springer, 2017). Now this new book brings together a selection of 24 articles and book chapters originally published in both Portuguese and English on different topics and aspects of Peirce’s work, such as philosophy of art, heuristic logic, theories of beliefs and habits, objective idealism, pragmatism and pragmaticism. By bringing together this collection of essays in a single publication, Semiotics and Pragmatism: Theoretical Interfaces will be a valuable source for scholars interested in Prof. Ibri’s unique contributions to the study of the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. “In recognizing Ivo Assad Ibri as one the leading exponents of qualitative interpretations of Peirce in the world today, I refer especially to Ibri’s concentration on Peirce’s later-phase metaphysical writings. Ibri’s expertise will be seen to consist in his precise reformulations of Peirce’s full-fledged philosophy, not just pursuing specialized minor topics.” David A. Dilworth Professor of Philosophy, Stonybrook University “Ivo Ibri’s collected essays brims with clarifying insights from beginning to end. He manages to reveal plenty of aspects of Peirce’s thought from angles the traditional scholarship has not been equipped to notice. How not to miss such kairotic theoretical opportunities and how to exploit them to heuristic advantage is a lesson well taught in this outstanding book.” André De Tienne Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University.
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    ISBN: 9783031123467
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 257 p.)
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    Keywords: Metaphysics. ; Philosophy. ; Methodology. ; Social sciences—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. The Right-Wing Approach -- Chapter 2.The Properly Dogmatic “Subtle” Violence -- Chapter 3. The Pseudo-Non-Dogmatic “Subtle” Violence -- Part 2. The Left-Wing Approach -- Chapter 4. Nietzsche vs. Carnap -- Chapter 5. Friedrich Carnap: Rudolf Nietzsche -- Chapter 6. Beyond Nietzsche and Carnap,- Chapter 7. Conclusion.
    Abstract: Since immemorial times, persons have been engaged in disputes in metaphysics. This book reacts to this fact by supporting five theses. Thesis 1 is that disputes are micro-wars that have a significant social importance; they involve conflicting parties who may resort to some kind of violence and depend on normative factors. Thesis 2 is that disputes can be approached from right-wing or left-wing stances. Thesis 3 is that the grounds for endorsing an approach to a dispute are problematic starting points that may be rationally rejected. Thesis 4 is that disputes have an incommensurable greatness. Thesis 5 is that right-wing approaches to disputes may be less appealing than the left-wing one championed by the book for those who endorse that one is to avoid expressing “subtle” violence. This is the violence expressed by those who suggest that others who disagree with one’s criteria to deal with disputes fall short of logos or act as if such others did not exist. Dr Felipe G. A. Moreira worked as a Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Miami in Florida, USA. He also held the posts of Substitute Professor of Philosophy at Lavras Federal University in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and of Science, Technology and Society Lecturer at Code University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. .
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    ISBN: 9783030766061
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(17 illus., 11 illus. in color. eReference.)
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    Series Statement: Handbooks in Philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Business. ; Management science. ; International relations.
    Abstract: Aesthetics of Management -- Epistemology of Management -- Metaphysics -- Moral Philosophy and Normative Ethics -- Philosophical Reflections on Issues in Contemporary Management Science -- Philosophy and Research Methodology -- Social and Political Philosophy.
    Abstract: The Handbook of Philosophy of Management addresses the philosophical foundations of management in theory and practice. It covers established branches of philosophy, such as aesthetics, epistemology, moral philosophy, political and social philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of practice, and philosophy of science. The Handbook’s broad scope maps out the field and provides a forum where philosophy can be meaningfully applied to the study of management in all its forms. The original, peer-reviewed research published here sheds new light on the complexities of management theory and practice, beyond what hitherto has been possible with the sole application of the social sciences. As philosophy provides a meta-framework for moving beyond paradigm fragmentation within management research and education, this allows researchers and practitioners to find harmony (and discord) in the perspectives revealed by a philosophical lens.
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    ISBN: 9783031019647
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXX, 214 p. 19 illus. in color.)
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 62
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Arts. ; Design. ; Cartesianismus ; Rezeption ; Universität Frankfurt ; Geschichte 1650-1700
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Cartesianismus-Streit at Frankfurt an der Oder: Johannes Placentinus and His Opponents, 1653-1656 -- Chapter 2. Nature and Scripture: Confessional Networks and Cross-Confessional Exegetic Problems -- Chapter 3. A Cartesian-Scholastic Controversy over the Origin of Life Opposing Frankfurt and Wittenberg, 1659-1660 -- Chapter 4. The Mechanization of Astrology, 1661-1665 -- Chapter 5. Placentinus’s Cometary Correspondence with Hevelius and Lubieniecki -- Chapter 6. Medical and Demonological Approaches to Descartes’s Psychophysical Dualism: Andreae and Brecht -- Chapter 7. Cartesian Bodies: Experiments on Embalmment -- Chapter 8. The Cultural Politics of Cartesianism.
    Abstract: This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at once scientific, cultural, political and socio-institutional. Chapter by chapter, the book sheds light on the most relevant aspects of the environment of the time. It is aimed at historians of science and philosophy, as well as scholars investigating German-speaking Europe of the 17th century.
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    ISBN: 9783030793494
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 370 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Philosophy. ; Religion. ; Wissen ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Wissen ; Erkenntnistheorie
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Knowing better: more capacious knowledge -- Chapter 2: Knowing-to -- Chapter 3: The epistemology of Mengzian extension -- Chapter 4: Knowledge-How attribution in English and Japanese -- Chapter 5: The problem of forgetting -- Chapter 6: Illness Narratives and Epistemic Injustice: Toward Extended Empathic Knowledge -- Chapter 7; The Yin/Yang 陰陽of Pervasive Emotion -- Part II Embodied knowers in epistemic environments -- Chapter 8: Enacting environments: from Umwelts to institutions -- Chapter 9: Extended knowledge overextended?- Chapter 10: The possibility of the extended knower -- Chapter 11: Finding the joy of far-flung friends: extending oneself through terrestrial, metaphysical, and moral geographies -- Chapter 12: State epistemic environmentalism -- Chapter 13: Contextualising and decontextualising knowledge: extended knowledge in Confucius, Mozi and Zhuangzi -- Chapter 14: Models of knowledge in the Zhuangzi: Knowing with chisels and sticks -- Chapter 15: Dreyfus and Zeami on embodied expertise. .
    Abstract: This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge. The contributors extend contemporary Western epistemology in novel directions, through investigating and questioning entrenched conceptions of knowledge. The cross-tradition engagement with the neurosciences, psychology, and anthropological studies is an important feature of the volume’s methodological approach that helps broaden our epistemological horizons. It presents a collection of perspectives on epistemic agency by engaging philosophical traditions east and west, including Japanese, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, and Anglo-analytic. .
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    ISBN: 9783030879747
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 149 p.)
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    Series Statement: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
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    Keywords: Theology. ; Philosophy. ; Spirituality.
    Abstract: 1. Prologue -- 2. A Portrait of Thomas Merton: Being a Sojourner -- 3. Contemplation: Being Poised at the Virgin Point -- 4. Social Justice: Acting in Peace -- 5. Intimacy: Learning to Love -- 6. Spiritual Direction / Dancing with the Other -- 7.Creativity: Gazing at Beauty -- 8. The Journey to the East: Coming to Asia and Beyond -- 9. Epilogue.
    Abstract: Join Jung Eun Sophia Park on her personal quest for God and her true self through the writings of Thomas Merton. Approaching Merton as an Asian immigrant feminist in the postcolonial era, Park's perspective is a unique one, and in this dance sometimes it is her and sometimes Merton who leads. Throughout, Eastern and Western spirituality are organically woven together in reflection on Merton's narratives and in the examination of late capitalism, poverty, beauty, and violence. These reflections are insightful, provocative, and illuminating, particularly with regard to his androcentric spirituality, especially as it relates to his relationships with women. Jung Eun Sophia Park is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Holy Names University, USA. She is the author of Conversations at the Well: Emerging Religious Life in the 21st Century in the Global World (2018) and editor of Interreligous Pedagogy: Reflections and Application in Honor of Judith Berling (2018). Jung Eun Sophia Park is a member of of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 220 p. 3 illus.)
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Ontology. ; Aesthetics.
    Abstract: Part I: ONTOLOGY -- Chapter 1: What are Technical Artefacts in Patent Practice? A Practice-Based Ontology -- Chapter 2: The Cyberspace Strikes Back: An Ontological Account of Social Networks -- Chapter 3: Cognitive Artifacts Between Cognitive Sciences and the Philosophy of Technology -- Part II: ETHICS -- Chapter 4: Anticipating Sex Robots: A Critique of the Sociotechnical Vanguard Vision of Sex Robots as ‘Good Companions’ -- Chapter 5: The Right and Unfair Aspects of Artificial Womb Technology -- Chapter 6: Missed Opportunities: Feminist Grounds for Regulating Transnational Surrogacy, in the Anthropocene -- Part III: AESTHETICS -- Chapter 7: Computer Art, Technology, and the Medium -- Chapter 8: Breaking the Fourth Wall in Videogames -- Chapter 9: Games, Artworks, and Hybrids.
    Abstract: Despite numerous publications on the philosophy of technology, little attention has been paid to the relationship between being and value in technology, two aspects which are usually treated separately. This volume addresses this issue by drawing connections between the ontology of technology on the one hand and technology’s ethical and aesthetic significance on the other. The book first considers what technology is and what kind of entities it produces. Then it examines the moral implications of technology. Finally, it explores the connections between technology and the arts. Enrico Terrone is Associate Professor at the University of Genoa, Italy. He works on philosophical issues concerning aesthetics, ontology and technology. His main area of research is philosophy of film. His most recent previous book (co-authored with Luca Bandirali) is Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series (2021). Vera Tripodi is Assistant Professor at the University of Milan, Italy. She specializes in feminist philosophy and ethics, bioethics, ethics of technology, and social ontology. She is a Founding Member and Vice President of the SWIP ITALIA (The Society for Women in Philosophy – Italy).
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    ISBN: 9783030704360
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 353 p.)
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Africa—History.
    Abstract: Preface -- The Unfolding Palms of Contemporary African Philosophy -- Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy -- How African is Philosophy in Africa? -- Doing Philosophy in the African Place: A Perspective on the Language Challenge -- The Fallacy of Exclusion and the Promise of Conversational Philosophy in Africa -- How Conversational Philosophy Profits from the Particularist and the Universalist Agenda -- Examining the Method and Praxis of Conversationalism -- Why the Normative Conception of Personhood is Problematic: A Proposal for a Conversational Alternative -- African Ethics and Agent-Centred Duties -- On the One Concept and Many Accounts of African Ethics -- How to Report on War in the Light of an African Ethic -- Taking African Virtue Ethics and Character Training Principles to the Schools -- Ubuntu as a plausible Ground for a Normative Theory of Justice from the African Place -- Remedial Approach to Cultural Globalization and Intercultural Competence -- Decolonial Philosophical Praxis Exemplified Through Superiorist and Adseredative Understandings of Development -- Totality by Analogy; or: The Limits of Law and Black Subjectivity -- The African Philosopher and the Burden of Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) -- Changes, Adaptation and Complementary Noetic Transformation -- Ageing, Ageism, Cultural Representations of the Elderly and the Duty to Care -- The Struggle to Forgive: Some Philosophical - Theological Reflections -- The Themes of Nihilism, Pessimism, and Optimism in Ibuanyidanda and Consolation Ontologies -- African Philosophy and Intellectual History -- Index.
    Abstract: This volume is a collection of chapters on contemporary issues within African philosophy. They are issues African philosophy must grapple with in order to demonstrate its readiness to make a stand against some of the challenges society faces in the coming decade. Examples of such issues are xenophobia, Afro-phobia, extreme poverty, democratic failure and migration. This text covers new methodical directions and there is focus on the conversationalist, complementarist and consolationist movements within the field as well as the place of Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS). The collection speaks to African philosophy’s place in intellectual history with coverage of African Ethics and African socio-political philosophy. Contributors come from a variety of backgrounds, institutions and countries. Through their innovative ideas, they provide fresh insight and intellectual energy. The book appeals to students and researchers in philosophy and African studies.
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    ISBN: 9783030911096
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 117 p. 1 illus.)
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Metaphysics. ; Religion—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter one: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Existence and the Thing We Call God -- Chapter Three: Being, in Singular Complementarity -- Chapter Four: From Causality to Predeterministic Historicity (PDH) -- Chapter Five: Determinism and the Death of Free Will -- Chapter Six: Death in our Predeterministic world -- Chapter Seven: Conclusion.
    Abstract: “In this important work of African metaphysics, Aribiah David Attoe does not simply recount views typically held by indigenous sub-Saharan peoples. He instead draws on some of their salient beliefs to construct a new ontology that he argues is more attractive. Forgoing any appeal to imperceptible agency (‘the spiritual’), Attoe nonetheless invokes other resources from the African metaphysical tradition, such as singularity, relationality, and destiny, to offer fresh ways to understand being, God, causation, responsibility, and death. The result is a creative materialist-determinist ontology with an African pedigree that merits serious consideration.” —Thaddeus Metz, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa “Aribiah David Attoe makes an interesting, thought provoking, and revealing contribution to discourses in African metaphysics. His theory of predeteministic historicity is surely going to challenge longstanding conceptions of African metaphysics, and it promises novel ways to imagine some of our basic beliefs in relation to God, ancestors, causality, relationality, death and determinism." —Motsamai Molefe, Senior Researcher, University of Fort Hare, South Africa “A revolutionary and audacious book that is likely to cause a paradigmatic shift in our notion of God, determinism, freedom, being and relationality.” —Samuel T. Segun, Research Fellow, School for Data Science and Computational Thinking & The Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa It is not far-fetched to say that much of what is termed “African metaphysics” remains a traditional affair, without the sort of critical analysis that sheds away the burden of myths and ethnocentric rigidity. African ideas about the nature of being, God, causality, death, etc., have largely remained the same and unchallenged, mainly due to the hesitancy of some African scholars to question these suppositions or build beyond them. In this book, Aribiah David Attoe presents a unified African metaphysics that first interrogates important notions held by many traditional African thinkers, and then builds upon them to propose a largely materialistic account of African metaphysics. The book re-imagines and reconstructs the idea of God, being, causality and death in African metaphysics, tackling some of the problems associated with these concepts in African thought. It also opens up new vistas of thought, while engaging and encouraging African metaphysicians to explore a previously ignored perspective. Aribiah David Attoe is currently a Lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and a member of the Conversational Society of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria.
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    ISBN: 9783030769208
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 375 p. 22 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Outstanding Contributions to Logic 23
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Mathematical logic. ; Algebra. ; Ordered algebraic structures.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. A scientific autobiography (Hiroakira Ono) -- Part I: Expository and survey chapters -- Chapter 2. Universal algebraic methods for non-classical logics (James G. Raftery) -- Chapter 3. Abstract algebraic logic - An introductory chapter (Josep Maria Font) -- Chapter 4. Topological duality and algebraic completions (Mai Gehrke) -- Chapter 5. An algebraic glimpse at bunched implications and separation logic (Peter Jipsen and Tadeusz Litak) -- Part II: Special topics -- Chapter 6. Recognizability in Residuated Lattices (José Gil-Férez and Constantine Tsinakis) -- Chapter 7. Finite embeddability property for residuated lattices via regular languages (Rostislav Horčík). Chapter 8. Cover systems for the modalities of linear logic (Robert Goldblatt) -- Chapter 9. A negative solution to Ono’s Problem P52: Existence and disjunction properties in intermediate predicate logic (Nobu-Yuki Suzuki) -- Chapter 10. Conservative expansions of substructural logics (Jacopo Amidei, Rodolfo C. Ertola-Biraben and Franco Montagna). .
    Abstract: This volume is dedicated to Hiroakira Ono life’s work on substructural logics. Chapters, written by well-established academics, cover topics related to universal algebra, algebraic logic and the Full Lambek calculus; the book includes a short biography about Hiroakira Ono. The book starts with detailed surveys on universal algebra, abstract algebraic logic, topological dualities, and connections to computer science. It further contains specialised contributions on connections to formal languages (recognizability in residuated lattices and connections to the finite embedding property), covering systems for modal substructural logics, results on the existence and disjunction properties and finally a study of conservativity of expansions. This book will be primarily of interest to researchers working in algebraic and non-classical logic.
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    ISBN: 9783030803636
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 261 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna Vienna Circle Society, Society for the Advancement of Scientific World Conceptions 26
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy and science. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Postmodernism.
    Abstract: Part 1 : The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge - The Mission of Logical Empiricism -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Tuboly) -- Chapter 2. Ethics and Morality in the Vienna Circle (Siegetsleitner) -- Chapter 3. The Social Virtue of Science. Motivating Structural Objectivity in Logical Empiricism (Richardson) -- Chapter 4. Philosophy (and Wissenschaft) Without Politics? Schlick on Nietzsche, German Idealism, and Militarism (Vrahimis) -- Chapter 5. Schlick on the Meaning of “Good” (Ambrus) -- Chapter 6. Making Logical Positivism Less Logical: The Case of Schlick and von Mises (Tuboly) -- Chapter 7. Leo Apostel and Rudolf Carnap: The Development of Logical Empiricist Ethics in Post-War Europe (Dewulf) -- Chapter 8. The Cult of Genius and its Critics: Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath (Sandner) -- Chapter 9. Philipp Frank’s Relativism: Presentation, Appreciation, and Critique (Stamenkovic) -- Chapter 10. Alternative Facts, Fake News, Pseudo-Science: New Challenges for a Scientific World-view. An Essay (Dahms) -- Part II: General Part -- Chapter 11. Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Carnap and Schlick (Soames) -- Part III: Review Essays -- Chapter 12. George Reisch, The Politics of Paradigms. Thomas S. Kuhn, James Conant and the Cold War “Struggle for Men´s Minds“. Albany: State University of New York Press 2019 (Dahms) -- Chapter 13. Amrei C. Joerchel, Gerhard Benetka (Eds.), Memories of Gustav Ichheiser. Life and Work of a Social Scientist (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences Bd.1). Cham: Springer 2018 (Maria Czwik and Bastian Stoppelkamp).
    Abstract: This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism. This leads to investigation of the still understudied views of the Vienna Circle on moral philosophy, meta-ethics, and the relationship between philosophy of science and politics. Including papers from an international group of scholars, The Socio-ethical Dimension of Knowledge: The Mission of Logical Empiricism addresses these topics and makes them available to scholars in the field of history of philosophy of science.
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    ISBN: 9783030788971
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 328 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Philosophy, African. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Part I: Some Metaphilosophical Issues Revisited -- Chapter 1. Ethnophilosophy and the Wellspring of Philosophy in Africa (Bruce Janz) -- Chapter 2. A Wellspring of African Philosophical Concepts? The What and Why Questions in the Context of Interculturality (Ada Agada) -- Chapter 3. What is ‘Ethno’ and ‘Philosophy’ in Ethnophilosophy? (Diana-Abasi Ibanga) -- Chapter 4. Beyond the Universalist Critique and the Particularist Defence of Ethnophilosophy (L. Uchenna Ogbonnaya) -- Chapter 5. African Philosophy: With and Beyond Ethnophilosophy (Aribiah David Attoe) -- Chapter 6. Beyond Placide Tempels’ Bantu Philosophy and in Defense of the Philosophical Viability of Ethnophilosophy (Edwin Etieyibo) -- Chapter 7. The Case Against Ethnophilosophy (Anthony C. Ojimba) -- Part II: Continuities and Discontinuities, the Past and the Present -- Chapter 8. Ethno-philosophical Currents in Kwame Gyekye’s Philosophy (Hasskei M. Majeed) -- Chapter 9. H. Odera Oruka’s Philosophical Sagacity as a Variety of Ethno-philosophy (Pius Mosima) -- Chapter 10. ‘Ethnophilosophy’ and Wiredu’s Programme of Synthesis (Martin Odei Ajei) -- Part III: Ethnophilosophy, System-Building, and Contemporary Expansion of Thought -- Chapter 11. African Ethno-ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient (Elvis Imafidon) -- Chapter 12. The Cultural Background of Ezumezu Logical System (Umezurike J. Ezugwu and Jonathan O. Chimakonam) -- Chapter 13. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Ramose’s Ubuntu Ontology of Be-ing Becoming (Ada Agada) -- Chapter 14. Ethnophilosophical Tendencies in African Feminist Thought and Philosophy (Anke Graness) -- Chapter 15. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Pantaleon Iroegbu’s Uwa Ontology: A Hermeneutical Investigation (Jude Onebunne) -- Chapter 16. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Asouzu’s Concept of Missing Links (Maduka Enyimba and Ada Agada) -- Chapter 17. The Ethnophilosophical Foundation of Conversational Thinking (Amaobi Nelson Osuala and Maduka Enyimba) -- Chapter 18. The Challenge of the ‘End of Metaphysics’ for Ethnophilosophy: A Discourse on the Process Implication of the Metaphysics of Terror (Emmanuel Ofuasia) -- Chapter 19. Ethical and Political Issues in Afro-Communitarianism (Isaiah A. Negedu) -- Chapter 20. Are We Finished with the Ethnophilosophy Debate? A Multi-Perspective Conversation (Elvis Imafidon, Bernard Matolino, Ada Agada, Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya, Aribiah David Attoe, Fainos Mangena, and Edwin Etieyibo) -- Index.
    Abstract: This book provides a case for the de-stigmatisation of ethnophilosophy by demonstrating its continuing relevance in contemporary African philosophy. The book brings together established and brilliant young scholars who defend ethnophilosophy as a unique source of African philosophy with the capacity to colour African philosophical scholarship, thereby distinguishing African philosophy from other philosophical traditions of the world and setting the stage for philosophical dialogue in the 21st century characterised by multiculturalism and globalisation. The volume addresses the future of African philosophy by closely linking the past of this tradition with the exciting projects of the contemporary system builders whose works emerge from the ethnophilosophical while transcending it. The book is aimed at African philosophy experts, scholars of intercultural philosophy, African studies scholars and graduate students of African and intercultural philosophy.
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    ISBN: 9783030906887
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 596 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 453
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction -- Philosophy and Sciences. Part I. Philosophy and Foundations of Sciences. 1. Syntactically recharacterizing analogies, assessing theories of assessing analogies by Jody Azzouni -- 2. The Metaphoric Sources of Scientific Innovation by Sergio F. Martínez and Natalia Carrillo -- 3. Science, Metaphors, and Memes by Peter Ludlow -- 4. Demystifying mysteries. How metaphors and analogies extend the reach of the human mind by Maarten Boudry, Michael Vlerick and Taner Edis -- Part II. Mathematics. 5. A two-level model of embodied mathematical thinking: Body schema, body image and language by Valentina Cuccio, Mario Graziano -- 6. Synthesis and similarity in science: analogy in the application of mathematics and application of mathematics to analogy by Jordi Cat -- 7. Metaphor and its catenary curves by Alice Major -- 8. Mathematical Models and Analogical Reasoning by Mark Colyvan -- Part III. Theoretical Physics. 9. Analogies and Scientific Imaging by Otávio Bueno -- 10. Analogies and Metaphors in Physics by Dennis Dieks -- 11. Is the Brain Analogous to a Quantum Measuring Apparatus? by Paavo Pylkkänen -- Part IV. Biology/Cognitive Science. 12. “Decoding information”: The abuse of personification and machine metaphors by David Ritchie -- 13. The Metaphorical Role of the Histone Code by Gry Oftedal -- 14. Analogical and non-analogical resemblance in figurative language: a cognitive-linguistic perspective by Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez -- 15. Inner and Outer: FrpAom Skepticism to Understanding by Edward Witherspoon -- Humanities. Part V. Social Sciences -- 16. From words to worlds. How metaphors and language shape mental health by Francesca Brencio -- 17. Mapping friendship and friendship research: the role of analogies and metaphors by Claus Emmeche -- 18. Words and worlds of desire: the power of metaphor in framing sexuality by Veronika Koller -- 19. The Human Condition is an Ocean: Philosophy and the Mediterranean Sea by Annika Döring and Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther -- 20. Universality and/or cultural specificity of metaphors and analogies? NATIONS as BODIES/PERSONS by Andreas Musolff -- 21. Metaphors in times of a global pandemic by Brigitte Nerlich -- 22. Fluffy metaphors of an overheated debate: Why climate change is neither communicated nor understood as an existential threat? by Bálint Forgács and Csaba Pléh -- Part VI. Arts and Aesthetics. 23. Mediterranean Sea-Creature: Maritime Metaphor in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Annika Döring and Peregrine Horden -- 24. How to See: The Gaze in Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy by Hibi Pendleton -- 25. From statics to dynamics: Intersemiotic conversion of metaphor and its consequences by Miloš Tasić & Dušan Stamenković -- 26. Form, Meaning and Intentionality: The Case of Metaphor in Music by Mihailo Antović -- 27. From Philosophy to Architecture to Philosophy: Boundary and Metaphor in Wittgenstein by Nana Last.
    Abstract: In this highly-interdisciplinary volume, we systematically study the role of metaphors and analogies in (mis)shaping our understanding of the world. Metaphors and Analogies occupy a prominent place in scientific discourses, as they do in literature, humanities and at the very level of our thinking itself. But when misused they can lead us astray, blinding our understanding inexorably. How can metaphors aid us in our understanding of the world? What role do they play in our scientific discourses and in humanities? How do they help us understand and skillfully deal with our complex socio-political scenarios? Where is the dividing line between their use and abuse? Join us as we explore some of these questions in this volume.
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    ISBN: 9783031078491
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 203 p. 5 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Plato’s Dialogues of Definition: A Socratic Philosophy -- Chapter 2. Socratic Inquiry and the “What is F-ness?” Question.-Chapter 3: Socratic Ethics and Unity of the Virtues -- Chapter 4. Socratic Epistemology and the Priority of Definition -- Chapter 5. Socratic Inquiry and Aporetic Endings -- Chapter 6: The Search for Temperance in Charmides -- Chapter 7: The Search for Friendship in Lysis -- Chapter 8: The Search for Beauty in Hippias Major.
    Abstract: In each of Plato’s “dialogues of definition” (Euthyphro, Laches, Meno, Charmides, Lysis, Republic I, Hippias Major), Socrates motivates philosophical discussion by posing a question of the form “What is F-ness?” Yet these dialogues are notorious for coming up empty. Socrates’ interlocutors repeatedly fail to deliver satisfactory answers. Thus, the dialogues of definition are often considered negative— empty of any positive philosophical content. Justin C. Clark resists the negative reading, arguing that the dialogues of definition contain positive “Socratic” answers. In order to see the positive theory, however, one must recognize what Clark calls the "dual function" of the “What is F-ness?” question. Socrates is not looking for a single type of answer. Rather, Socrates is looking for two distinct types of answers. The “What is F-ness?” question serves as a springboard for two types of investigation— conceptual and causal. The key to understanding any of the dialogues of definition, therefore, is to decipher between them. Clark offers a way to do just that, at once resolving interpretive issues in Socratic philosophy, providing systematic interpretations of the negative endings, and generating important new readings of the Charmides and Lysis, whilst casting further doubt on the authenticity of the Hippias Major. Justin C. Clark is Assistant professor of philosophy at Hamilton College.
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    ISBN: 9783031118517
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 91 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Bioethics. ; Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What is African Communitarianism? -- Chapter 3: Benatar’s Misanthropic Argument for Anti-Natalism -- Chapter 4: African Communitarianism and Benatar’s Misanthropic Argument for Anti-Natalism -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.
    Abstract: "Dr Lougheed's book is a brave attempt at finding some justification for anti-natalism within the context of African communitarianism. His attempt will surely elicit a lot of debate from African philosophers." —Dr Aribiah David Attoe, University of the Witwatersrand Anti-natalism is the provocative view that it is either always or almost always all-things-considered wrong to procreate. Philanthropic anti-natalist arguments say that procreation is always impermissible because of the harm done to individuals who are brought into existence. Misanthropic arguments, on the other hand, hold that procreation is usually impermissible given the harm that individuals will do once brought into existence. The main purpose of this short monograph is to demonstrate that David Benatar’s misanthropic argument for anti-natalism ought to be endorsed by any version of African Communitarianism. Not only that, but there are also resources in the African philosophical tradition that offer unique support for the argument. Given the emphasis that indigenous African worldviews place on the importance of procreation and the immediate family unit this result is highly surprising. This book marks the first attempt to bring anti-natalism into conversation with contemporary African ethics. Kirk Lougheed is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Faith and Human Flourishing at LCC International University. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria.
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    ISBN: 9783030933296
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 156 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences 26
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    Keywords: Science—Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Discoverability Explained: Optimizing the Eco-Cognitive Situatedness -- 2. Curing Eco-Cognitive Situatedness: Diagnosticability, Affordances, Abduction -- 3. Eco-Cognitive Openness and Eco-Cognitive Closure: Locking or Unlocking Strategies? “Knowledge in Motion” Defended -- 4. Jeopardizing Discoverability Epistemic Irresponsibility: Human Creative Abduction Attacked -- 5. The Future of Eco-Cognitive Settings Computationally or Humanly Tailored? -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science. It shows that discoverability is closely related to the sustainability of human creativity in an "eco-cognitive" perspective. Advocating the need of an integral ecology and leveraging the important concept of abduction, it demonstrates that an ecology of human creativity should have priority over other needs, i.e that the first ecological duty is to protect and sustain discoverability. Enhancing discoverability will protect human creativity, and it is exactly human creativity, a form of innovative abductive cognition, that can promote the implementation of the other kinds of ecology. The author guides readers through a comprehensive discussion on the concept of discoverability, eco-cognitive situatedness, and eco-cognitive openness and closure alike. By describing some key real-world examples, he highlights the main challenges that are currently posed to human creativity and epistemic integrity. He also describes future eco-cognitive settings, discussing the problem of overcomputationalism and suggesting a reinterpretation of the role of human knowledge. Overall, this book fills an important gap in the literature on the nexus abduction – creativity – discovery, offering a source of inspiration to philosophers, epistemologists, and cognitive scientists. Yet, it also addresses researchers in other disciplines interested in the problems of scientific discovery and epistemic integrity of research.
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    ISBN: 9783030998226
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 246 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 239
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    Keywords: Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy. ; Ontology. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Part I: Metaphysics -- Chapter 1. Digby and the Aristotelians (Dan Garber) -- Chapter 2. Digby on the Categories (Han Thomas Adriaenssen) -- Chapter 3. Quantity, Body and Measures in Digby’s Philosophy (Laura Georgescu) -- Chapter 4. Sir Kenelm Digby and the Middle State of Souls (John Henry) -- Part II: Method and Epistemology -- Chapter 5. Ecumenism and Common Notions in Digby, Charleton and the Early Leibniz (Andreas Blank) -- Chapter 6. Digby and the Philosophical Lexicon (Seth Lobis) -- Chapter 7. Digby on Logic (Martine Pécharman) -- Chapter 8. Two Treatises in One Volume. Kenelm Digby between Body and Soul (Lodi Nauta) -- Part III: Natural Philosophy -- Chpater 9. From Metaphysics to Geometry. The scientific Worlds of Kenelm Digby and Thomas White (Philip Beeley) -- Chapter 10. Digby’s Chemical Investigations and his Discourse on the Vegetation of Plants (Antonio Clericuzio) -- Chpater 11. On Bodies and their Orbs. Explaining Interactions (Dana Jalobeanu) -- Chapter 12. Kenelm Digby and Galileo’s theories of Motion (Stephen Clucas).
    Abstract: This book examines the philosophical and scientific achievements of Sir Kenelm Digby, a successful English diplomat, privateer and natural philosopher of the mid-1600s. Not widely remembered today, Digby is one of the most intriguing figures in the history of early modern philosophers. Among scholars, he is known for his attempt to reconcile what perhaps seem to be irreconcilable philosophical frameworks: Aristotelianism and early modern mechanism. This contributed volume offers the first full-length treatment of Digby’s work and of the unique position he occupied in early modern intellectual history. It explores key aspects of Digby’s metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical method, and offers a new appraisal of his contributions to early modern natural philosophy and mathematics. A dozen contributors offer their expert insight into such topics as Body, quantity, and measures in Digby's natural philosophy Ecumenism and common notions in Digby Aristotelianism and accidents in Digby's philosophy Digby on body and soul Digby on method and experiments This book volume will be of benefit to a broad audience of scholars, educators, and students of the history of early modern science and philosophy.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 295 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Keywords: Popular music. ; Ethnology—Africa. ; Culture. ; Africa—Politics and government. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction; Ezra Chitando, Pauline Mateveke,Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Bridget Chinouriri -- Part 1: Personal Reconstruction -- 2. Oliver Mtukudzi and the Complexities of Transformative Masculinities; Ezra Chitando and Munyaradzi Nyakudya -- 3. Rebuilding the Self: Oliver Mtukudzi's Music as Pedagogy; Gibson Ncube and Yemurai Gwatirisa -- 4. Song as Matric of Parresia: Tuku and the Quest for Truth and Democratic Ethos in Society; Tasiyana D. Javangwe -- 5. Looking for the Join: Tuku Music as a Marker of Postcolonial White Zimbabwean Identity; Shannon Morreira -- 6. Mtukudzi: The (Re)constructor? One Who Makes Others Rich?; Reggemore Marongedze and Bridget Chinouriri -- Part 2: Cultural Reconstruction -- 7. Re-embracing One's Culture: Lessons from Oliver Mtukudzi's Songs; John Chitakure -- 8. Oliver Mtukudzi as a Cultural Activist: Exploring Africanness in Tuku Music; Allan T. Maganga, Chalres Tembo and Owen T. Chikara -- 9. Oliver Mtukudzi: Singing for Harmony to Heal out Land; Tariro Kamuti -- 10. Reappraising Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Review of Oliver Mtukudzi's 'Sandi bonde'; Tenson Muyambo -- 11. Oliver Mtukudzi and the Rebuilding of the Lives of Orphans and Children on the Streets; Samson Mhizha -- Part 3: Political Reconstruction -- 12. Reinterpreting Oliver Mtukudzi's Tactical Praxis; Dube Edmore -- 13. Reading the Political Metaphor in Oliver Mtukudzi's 'Wasakara' and 'Ngomera': Calling for Cultures of Peace in Africa; Hugh Mangeya and Ernest Jakaza -- 14. Tuku, the Political Philosopher King; Charity Manyeruke -- Part 4: Religious Reconstruction -- 15. Resisting Foreign Intrusions: Celebrating the Spirituality of Indigenous Africans; Macloud Sipeyiye and Willian Chigidi -- 16. Music the Religion, Musicians the Priests, and the People the Congregants: The Music of Oliver Mtukudzi; Bridget Chinouriri -- 17. Spiritual Reconstruction: Oliver Mtukudzi's Spiritual Life and his Contribution to the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe; Martin Mujinga -- Part 5: Global Reconstruction -- 18. "Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception": Interrogating the Global Appeal of Oliver Mtukudzi; Margret Chipara -- 19. Breaking Boundaries, Transcending Differences: An Intercultural reading of Oliver Mtukudzi's Collaborative Musical Productions; Yemurai Gwatirisa and Gibson Ncube -- 20. Reconstructing the Global Order Through Ubuntu: The ethical insights in Sekuru (Grandpa) Tuku Music; Tinashe Muchuri.
    Abstract: This book is a critical reflection on the life and career of the late legendary Zimbabwean music icon, Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi, and his contribution towards the reconstruction of Zimbabwe, Africa and the globe at large. Mtukudzi was a musician, philosopher, and human rights activist who espoused the agenda of reconstruction in order to bring about a better world, proposing personal, cultural, political, religious and global reconstruction. With twenty original chapters, this vibrant volume examines various themes and dimensions of Mtukudzi’s distinguished life and career, notably, how his music has been a powerful vehicle for societal reconstruction and cultural rejuvenation, specifically speaking to issues of culture, human rights, governance, peacebuilding, religion and identity, humanism, gender and politics, among others. The contributors explore the art of performance in Mtukudzi’s music and acting career, and how this facilitated his reconstruction agenda, offering fresh and compelling perspectives into the role of performing artists and cultural workers such as Mtukudzi in presenting models for reconstructing the world. Ezra Chitando (PhD) is Professor of Religion in the Department of Philosophy, Religion and Ethics at the University of Zimbabwe, and Theology Consultant on HIV and AIDS for the World Council of Churches. He researches and publishes on music, religion and culture. He is the author of Sounds of Life: Music, Identity and Politics in Zimbabwe, (2016, co-edited with Mangena and Muwati), along with numerous other publications. Pauline Mateveke (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Zimbabwe. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in English specialising in Gender, Literature and Music. Her research interests include popular culture and literature, gender studies and literary criticism. Munyaradzi Nyakudya (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe. He researches on the socio-political and economic history of African societies, with a special passion for ethnomusicology, peace and security studies; education, democratization and sustainable livelihoods. Bridget Chinouriri (PhD) is a Zimbabwean ethnomusicologist, creative writer, culture consultant and scientist and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Creative Media and Communications, University of Zimbabwe.
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    ISBN: 9783030739027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 380 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology
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    Keywords: Cross-cultural psychology. ; Philosophy. ; Clinical psychology. ; Ethnology—Asia. ; Anthropology. ; Religion.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Chinese Art of Not Knowing -- 2. The Daoist Sage Fool and the Confucian Learned Man -- 3. The Art of Not Knowing: A Scholar’s Paradox -- 4. The Modern Wisdom of Playing Dumb -- 5. The Wisdom of Playing Dumb in Practice -- 6. The Psycho-Social Appeal of the Wisdom of Playing Dumb -- 7. The Moral Code of Playing Dumb -- 8. Conclusion: The Culture of Vagueness in Transition -- 9. Postscript: Hutu at the Crossroads of Knowledge and Information (Louise Sundararajan).
    Abstract: This book examines the popular, yet puzzling, Chinese saying Nande hutu 难得糊涂 to uncover how the ancient Chinese wisdom of not knowing is constructed, interpreted, practiced and valued in contemporary society. Originating in the calligraphy of Qing-dynasty scholar Zheng Banqiao, Nande hutu translates literally as: “hard to attain muddle-headedness”. Mieke Matthyssen traces the historical development of this saying and related philosophies to reveal a culturally conditioned, multi-layered inclination to different forms of not knowing. In contemporary society, she argues, this inclination forms part of a living art: in some respects, a passive, evasive strategy for self-preservation; in other respects, a strategy for coping with intrapersonal, interpersonal and social complexities. Drawing on an extensive range of primary sources and original research, the analysis skillfully combines philosophical and socio-historical analysis with theory from Chinese philosophy, philosophical psychology and the relatively new field of indigenous psychology, to provide an in-depth understanding of how Nande hutu has shaped, and continues to shape, the Chinese psyche and behaviour. This book will appeal to all readers looking for fresh insights into Chinese culture, and in particular to students and scholars of Chinese and Asian studies, cultural and social anthropology, and philosophical and indigenous psychology. Mieke Matthyssen is a lecturer in the Department of Chinese Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests focus on the intellectual history and contemporary interpretation of traditional Chinese philosophies of life, health strategies and indigenous psychology. She has published in journals such as Contemporary Chinese Thought and Journal of Asian History.
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    ISBN: 9783030503826
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 276 p. 1 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
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    Keywords: Social sciences. ; Physical anthropology. ; Culture. ; Communication. ; Philosophy. ; Sociolinguistics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1 -- Chapter 2: Terman -- Chapter 3: Humans -- Chapter 4: More than Animals? -- Chapter 5: Human-Made Monsters -- Chapter 6: Conclusion to Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Chapter 7: Fetishes.-.Chapter 8: Examples of Fetishes -- Chapter 9: Doubling Fetishes -- Chapter 10: The Imaginarium -- Chapter 11: The Conscious Brain -- Chapter 12: The Gang of Six -- Chapter 13: Language.-Chapter 14: Stress and the State -- Chapter 15. Another Attempt to Answer Our Question -- Chapter 16: Conclusion to Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Chapter 17: Inter-Human Artefacts -- Chapter 18: Embodied Meaning -- Chapter 19: Specific Universals -- Chapter 20: Morality -- Chapter 21: The Examined Life -- Chapter 22: Conclusion to Part 3 -- Part 4 -- Chapter 23: Plug-And-Play -- Chapter 24: Morality Again -- Chapter 25: Affinity -- Chapter 26: Conclusions to Part 4 -- Chapter 27: Conclusion to Book.
    Abstract: In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are. As he explores the interconnections between cutting-edge work in bioanthropology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, human language and learning, and beyond, James Paul Gee advances, also, a personal philosophy of language, learning, and culture, informed by his decades of work across linguistics and the social sciences. Gee argues that our schools, institutions, legal systems, and societies are designed for creatures that do not exist, thus resulting in multiple, interacting crises, such as climate change, failing institutions, and the rise of nationalist nationalism. As Gee constructs an understanding of the human that takes into account our social, collective, and historical nature, as established by recent research, he inspires readers to reflect for themselves on the very question of who we are—a key consideration for anyone interested in society, government, schools, health, activism, culture and diversity, or even just survival.
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    ISBN: 9783319507279
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXII, 305 p. 22 illus)
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    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Logic ; Philosophy and social sciences ; Medical research ; Quality of life
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    ISBN: 9789402410631
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 488 p. 66 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 29
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rocci, Andrea Modality in argumentation
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    Keywords: Logic ; Language and languages Philosophy ; Semantics ; Sociolinguistics ; Linguistics ; Language and languages Philosophy ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Semantics ; Sociolinguistics ; Modalität ; Argumentationstheorie ; Argumentstruktur ; Italienisch ; Modalität
    Abstract: This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or role, of modality in the fundamental structure of arguments. These two questions concern how modality, as a semantic category, relates to the fundamental structure of arguments. The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different linguistic modal expressions may be taken as argumentative indicators. It explores the role of modal expressions as argumentative indicators by using the Italian modal system as a case study. At the same time, it uses predictions/forecasts in the business-financial daily press to investigate the relation between modality and the context of argumentation
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Meaning and argumentation -- Chapter 2: Three views of modality in Toulmin -- Chapter 3: Relative modality and argumentation -- Chapter 4: Types of conversational backgrounds and arguments -- Chapter 5: Case studies of Italian modal constructions in context -- Conclusion -- Index
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    ISBN: 9783319287492
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 211 p. 49 illus. in color, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2016
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 96
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Szymanik, Jakub Quantifiers and cognition
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    Keywords: Computational linguistics ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Neural networks (Computer science) ; Semantics ; Natural language processing (Computer science). ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Computational linguistics ; Neural networks (Computer science) ; Semantics ; Computerlinguistik ; Neuronales Netz ; Formale Semantik
    Abstract: Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Procedural Semantics -- 1. Algorithmic Theory of Meaning -- 2. Complexity in Linguistics -- Part II: Simple Quantifiers -- 3. Basic Generalized Quantifier Theory -- 4. Computing Simple Quantifiers -- 5. Cognitive Processing of Quantifiers -- Part III: Complex Quantifiers -- 6. Standard Polyadic Lifts -- 7. Complexity of Polyadic Quantifiers -- 8. Complexity of Quantified Reciprocals -- 9. Branching Quantifiers -- Part IV: Collective Quantifiers -- 10. Complexity of Collective Quantification -- Part V: Perspectives and Conclusions -- Conclusions -- A. Mathematical Machinery -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.
    Abstract: This volume on the semantic complexity of natural language explores the question why some sentences are more difficult than others. While doing so, it lays the groundwork for extending semantic theory with computational and cognitive aspects by combining linguistics and logic with computations and cognition. Quantifier expressions occur whenever we describe the world and communicate about it. Generalized quantifier theory is therefore one of the basic tools of linguistics today, studying the possible meanings and the inferential power of quantifier expressions by logical means. The classic version was developed in the 1980s, at the interface of linguistics, mathematics and philosophy. Before this volume, advances in "classic" generalized quantifier theory mainly focused on logical questions and their applications to linguistics, this volume adds a computational component, the third pillar of language use and logical activity. This book is essential reading for researchers in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, logic, AI, and computer science.
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    ISBN: 9783319211039
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 293 p. 18 illus, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 28
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Applied linguistics ; Literacy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Applied linguistics ; Literacy
    Abstract: This volume presents a selection of papers reflecting key theoretical issues in argumentation theory. Its six sections are devoted to specific themes, including the analysis and evaluation of argumentation, argument schemes, and the contextual embedding of argumentation. The section on general perspectives on argumentation discusses the trends of empiricalization, contextualization and formalization, offers descriptions of the analytical and evaluative tools of informal logic, and highlights selected principles that argumentation theorists do and do not agree upon. In turn, the section on linguistic approaches to argumentation focuses on the problem of distinguishing between explanation and argument, while also elaborating on the role of verbal indicators of argument schemes. All essays included in this volume point out notable recent developments in the study of argumentation
    Description / Table of Contents: Bingo! Promising developments in argumentation theoryWhat is informal logic? -- Towards a foundation for argumentation theory -- The agentive approach to argumentation: A proposal -- Conductive argumentation, degrees of confidence, and the communication of uncertainty -- The linked-convergent distinction -- Identifying the warrant of an argument -- Where is visual argument? -- Missed opportunities in argument evaluation -- Ubiquity, ambiguity and meta-rationality: Searching for the fallacy of composition -- Don’t feed the trolls: Straw men and iron men -- Story credibility in narrative arguments.
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    ISBN: 9783319209555
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 898 p. 29 illus, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 27
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Eemeren, Frans H. van, 1946 - Reasonableness and effectiveness in argumentative discourse
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philology ; Literacy ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philology ; Literacy ; Humanities
    Abstract: This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory. It discusses van Eemeren’s views on the study of argumentation; the approach to argumentation adopted in pragma-dialectics; pragma-dialectical perspectives on the dialectical and pragmatic dimensions of argumentative discourse; the notion of strategic maneuvering; the pragma-dialectical method of analyzing argumentative discourse; the treatment of fallacies as violations of rules for critical discussion; pragma-dialectical views on context, the role of logic, verbal indicators of argumentative moves and argument schemes; and the process of writing and rewriting argumentative texts. The pragma-dialectical quantitative approach to empirical research on argumentative discourse is illustrated by reporting on selected, illustrative experimental studies, as well as qualitative studies of historical cases
    Description / Table of Contents:  ArgumentationThe language of argumentation in Dutch -- In what sense do modern argumentation theories relate to Aristotle? The case of pragma-dialectics -- Bingo! Promising developments in argumentation theory -- Argumentation studies’ five estates -- The study of argumentation as normative pragmatics -- From ideal model to situated argumentative discourse: The step-by-step development of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation -- The case of pragma-dialectics -- The pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation in discussion.
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    ISBN: 9783319171098
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 37
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Benis-Sinaceur, Hourya Functions and generality of logic
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Dedekind, Richard 1831-1916 ; Logik ; Mathematik ; Lagrange, Joseph Louis de 1736-1813 ; Frege, Gottlob 1848-1925 ; Funktion ; Logik ; Frege, Gottlob 1848-1925 ; Russell, Bertrand 1872-1970 ; Ramsey, Frank Plumpton 1903-1930 ; Funktion ; Logik
    Abstract: This book examines three connected aspects of Frege’s logicism: the differences between Dedekind’s and Frege’s interpretation of the term ‘logic’ and related terms and reflects on Frege’s notion of function, comparing its understanding and the role it played in Frege’s and Lagrange’s foundational programs. It concludes with an examination of the notion of arbitrary function, taking into account Frege’s, Ramsey’s and Russell’s view on the subject. Composed of three chapters, this book sheds light on important aspects of Dedekind’s and Frege’s logicisms. The first chapter explains how, although he shares Frege’s aim at substituting logical standards of rigor to intuitive imports from spatio-temporal experience into the deductive presentation of arithmetic, Dedekind had a different goal and used or invented different tools. The chapter highlights basic dissimilarities between Dedekind’s and Frege’s actual ways of doing and thinking. The second chapter reflects on Frege’s notion of a function, in comparison with the notions endorsed by Lagrange and the followers of the program of arithmetization of analysis. It remarks that the foundational programs pursued by Lagrange and Frege are crucially different and based on a different idea of what the foundations of mathematics should be like. However, despite this contrast, the notion of function plays similar roles in the two programs, and this chapter emphasizes the similarities. The third chapter traces the development of thinking about Frege’s program in the foundations of mathematics, and includes comparisons of Frege’s, Russell’s and Ramsey’s views. The chapter discusses earlier papers written by Hintikka, Sandu, Demopoulos and Trueman. Although the chapter’s main focus is on the notion of arbitrary correlation, it starts out by discussing some aspects of the connection between this notion and Dedekind Theorem
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Is Dedekind a logicist?; Hourya Benis SinaceurChapter 2: Functions and Expressions; Marco Panza -- Chapter 3: Frege, Russell, Ramsey on arbitrary functions; Gabriel Sandu.
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    ISBN: 9783319166551
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 301 p. 17 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 313
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Romanian studies in philosophy of science
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Naturwissenschaften ; Philosophie
    Abstract: This book presents a collection of studies by Romanian philosophers, addressing foundational issues currently debated in contemporary philosophy of science. It offers a historical survey of the tradition of scientific philosophy in Romania. It examines some problems in the foundations of logic, mathematics, linguistics, the natural and social sciences. Among the more specific topics, it discusses scientific explanation, models, and mechanisms, as well as memory, artifacts, and rules of research. The book is useful to those interested in the philosophy of real science, but also to those interested in Romanian philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: PART A: SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES AND PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONSChapter 1: The Tradition of Scientific Philosophy in Romania; Ilie Pârvu -- Chapter 2: What Ought to be Done and What is Forbidden: Rules of Scientific Research as Categorical or Hypothetical Imperatives; Mircea Flonta -- PART B: MIND, LANGUAGE, AND TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter 3: Memory as Window on the Mind; Radu Bogdan -- Chapter 4: A Momentous Triangle: Ontology, Methodology and Phenomenology in the Philosophy of Language; Manuela Ungureanu -- Chapter 5: On Rule Embedding Artifacts; Gheorghe Ştefanov -- Chapter 6: Issues in Modeling Open-Ended Evolution; Andreea Eșanu -- PART C: LOGIC, SEMANTICS, AND SOCIAL CHOICE -- Chapter 7: On a Combination of Truth and Probability: Probabilistic Independence-Friendly Logic; Gabriel Sandu -- Chapter 8: A Remark on a Relational Version of Robinson’s Arithmetic Q; Mihai Ganea -- Chapter 9: The Simple Majority Rule in a Three-Valued Logic Framework; Adrian Miroiu -- Chapter 10: A Free Logic for Fictionalism; Mircea Dumitru -- PART D: QUANTUM PHENOMENA, SCIENTIFIC REALISM, AND EMERGENCE -- Chapter 11:Quantum Mechanics: Knocking at the Gates of Mathematical Foundations; Radu Ionicioiu -- Chapter 12: The Quantum Vacuum; Sorin Paraoanu -- Chapter 13: Structural Pluralism and S-dualities: A Project in String Realism; Ioan Muntean -- Chapter 14: The Prospects for Fusion Emergence; Alexandru Manafu -- PART E: EXPLANATION, MODELS, AND MECHANISMS -- Chapter 15: Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Unification; Sorin Bangu -- Chapter 16: When is a Mechanistic Explanation Satisfactory? Reductionism and Antireductionism in the Context of Mechanistic Explanations; Tudor Baetu -- Chapter 17: Causal and Mechanistic Explanations, and a Lesson from Ecology; Viorel Pâslaru -- Chapter 18: Against Harmony: Infinite Idealization and Causal Explanation; Iulian D. Toader.
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    ISBN: 9783319093758
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 455 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 111
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Problems of normativity, rules and rule-following
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    Keywords: Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy of law ; Law ; Law ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy of law ; Law ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Logic ; Philosophy of law ; Konferenzschrift 2013 ; Gesetz ; Auslegung ; Normativität ; Rechtsnorm ; Philosophie ; Regel
    Abstract: This book focuses on the problems of rules, rule-following and normativity as discussed within the areas of analytic philosophy, linguistics, logic and legal theory. Divided into four parts, the volume covers topics in general analytic philosophy, analytic legal theory, legal interpretation and argumentation, logic as well as AI&Law area of research. It discusses, inter alia, “Kripkenstein’s” sceptical argument against rule-following and normativity of meaning, the role of neuroscience in explaining the phenomenon of normativity, conventionalism in philosophy of law, normativity of rules of interpretation, some formal approaches towards rules and normativity as well as the problem of defeasibility of rules. The aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary approach to an inquiry into the questions concerning rules, rule-following and normativity
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Philosophical Problems of Normativity and Rule Following1. Rules, Norms and Principles: A Conceptual Framework; Paul Boghossian -- 2. Separating Rules from Normativity; Jaap Hage -- 3. Communalism, Correction and Nihilist Solitary Rule-Following Arguments; William Knorpp -- 4. Knowing Way Too Much: a Case against Semantic Phenomenology; Krzysztof Posłajko -- 5. The Meaning of Normativity of Meaning; Leopold Hess -- 6. On the Kantian Background of “Kripkenstein” Rule-following Paradox; Przemysław Tacik -- 7. Rules as Patterns Between Normativism and Naturalism; Piotr Kozak -- 8. Normativity and Rationality: Framing the Problem; Joanna Klimczyk -- 9. Rules and Rights; Tomasz Pietrzykowski -- Part II: Normativity of Law and Legal Norms -- 10. Rules and Normativity in Law; Brian Bix -- 11. Obligation: A Legal-Theoretical Perspective; Stefano Bertea -- 12. On Obligations, Norms and Rules; Dietmar von der Pfordten -- 13. Philosophy, Neuroscience and Law: The Conceptual and Empirical, Rule-following, Interpretation and Knowledge; Dennis Patterson, Michael S. Pardo -- 14. Gunman Situation, Vicious Circle and Pure Theory of Law; Monika Zalewska -- 15. Rules as Reason-Giving Facts: A Difference-Making-Based Account of the Normativity of Rules; Peng-Hsiang Wang and Linton Wang -- 16. Rules, Conventionalism and Normativity: Some Remarks Starting from Hart; Aldo Schiavello -- 17. Are Fundamental Legal Reasons Internal?  A Few Remarks on the Internal Point of View; Adam Dyrda -- Part III: Rules in Legal Interpretation and Argumentation -- 18. The Normativity of Rules of Interpretation; Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki -- 19. Legal Interpretation as a Rule-guided Phenomenon; Paweł Banaś -- 20. To Whom does the Law Speak? Canvassing a Neglected Picture of Law’s Interpretive Field; Paolo Sandro -- 21. Interpretation and Understanding in Law. The Complexity of Easy Cases; Ralf Poscher -- 22. The Ordinary Meaning of Rules; Brian G. Slocum -- 23. Blindly Following the Rules: Revisiting the claritas Doctrine; Hanna Filipczyk -- 24. Why Legal Rules are not Speech Acts and what Follows from that; Marcin Matczak -- 25. The Validity of Moral Rules and Principles as a Legal Problem; Andrzej Grabowski -- 26. Implicatures within the Legal Context - a rule-based analysis of the possible content of conversational maxims in law; Izabela Skoczeń -- 27. Why are Words not Enough? or a Few Remarks on Traffic Signs; Michał Dudek -- IV. Rules in Legal Logic and AI&Law -- 28. In Defense of the Expressive Conception of Norms; Andrej Kristan -- 29. Rule-following and Logic; Jan Woleński -- 30. Negating Rules; Giovanni Battista Ratti -- 31. Legal Rules: Defeasible or Indefeasible?; Michał Araszkiewicz -- 32. The Role of Argumentation Theory in the Logic of Judgments; Marcelo Ceci -- 33. Towards Multidimensional Rule Visualization; Vytautas Čyras, Friedrich Lachmayer.
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    ISBN: 9783319021713
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 77 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
    Abstract: This book explains the first published consistency proof of PA. It contains the original Gentzen's proof, but it uses modern terminology and examples to illustrate the essential notions. The author comments on Gentzen's steps which are supplemented with exact calculations and parts of formal derivations. A notable aspect of the proof is the representation of ordinal numbers that was developed by Gentzen. This representation is analysed and connection to set-theoretical representation is found, namely an algorithm for translating Gentzen's notation into Cantor normal form. The topic should interest researchers and students who work on proof theory, history of proof theory or Hilbert's program and who do not mind reading mathematical texts
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 Ordinal numbers -- 4 Consistency proof -- Index -- References.
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Wieland, Jan Willem, 1984 - Infinite regress arguments
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Kausalität ; Unendlichkeit ; Logik ; Argumentation
    Abstract: This book on infinite regress arguments provides (i) an up-to-date overview of the literature on the topic, (ii) ready-to-use insights for all domains of philosophy, and (iii) two case studies to illustrate these insights in some detail. Infinite regress arguments play an important role in all domains of philosophy. There are infinite regresses of reasons, obligations, rules, and disputes, and all are supposed to have their own moral. Yet most of them are involved in controversy. Hence the question is: what exactly is an infinite regress argument, and when is such an argument a good one?
    Abstract: This book on infinite regress arguments provides (i) an up-to-date overview of the literature on the topic, (ii) ready-to-use insights for all domains of philosophy, and (iii) two case studies to illustrate these insights in some detail. Infinite regress arguments play an important role in all domains of philosophy. There are infinite regresses of reasons, obligations, rules, and disputes, and all are supposed to have their own moral. Yet most of them are involved in controversy. Hence the question is: what exactly is an infinite regress argument, and when is such an argument a good one?
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1…Overview; 1.2…Two Examples; 1.3…Overview of Classic Cases; 1.4…Two Desiderata; References; 2 The Paradox Theory; 2.1…Use; 2.2…Evaluation; 2.3…Classic Instances; 2.4…Logical Analysis; References; 3 The Failure Theory; 3.1…Use; 3.2…Evaluation; 3.3…Classic Instances; 3.4…Concluding Remarks; 3.5…Logical Analysis; References; 4 Case Study: Carroll's Tortoise; 4.1…The Renewed Tortoise; 4.2…Stage Setting; 4.3…Four Solutions; 4.4…Three Hypotheses; 4.4.1 Rule/Premise; 4.4.2 Internal/External; 4.4.3 Obligations; 4.4.4 General Diagnosis; 4.5…Concluding Remark; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Case Study: Access and the Shirker Problem5.1…Access; 5.2…The Loophole; 5.3…Paradox Analysis; 5.4…Failure Analysis; 5.5…Concluding Remarks; References
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    ISBN: 9783319017990
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 193 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 23
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Tahin, Gábor Heuristic strategies in the speeches of Cicero
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Logic ; Linguistics ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Logic ; Linguistics ; Humanities ; Humanities ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Cicero, Marcus Tullius v106-v43 ; Heuristik ; Argumentation ; Rhetorik
    Abstract: This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A new theory is required because Greek and Roman rhetoric cannot provide detailed answers to problems of strategic argumentation in the analysis of speeches. Building on scholarship in Ciceronian oratory, this book moves beyond the extant terminology and employs a concept of heuristic reasoning derived from the psychology of decision making and mathematical problem solving. The author analyses selected passages from Cicero’s forensic speeches where arguments of probability are deployed, and shows that the Sophistic concept of probability can link ancient rhetoric and modern theories of argumentation. Six groups of heuremes are identified, each of which represents a form of probabilistic reasoning by which the orator plays upon the perception of the jurors
    Description / Table of Contents: ForewordAcknowledgement -- Table of Contents -- Preface.- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Problem of Analysis -- Chapter 3 The Origins of Heuristic Argumentation: Probable Arguments in Ancient Rhetoric -- Chapter 4 Cicero’s Models: Heuristic Arguments in the Greek Orators -- Chapter 5 Pro Flacco -- Chapter 6  Pro Sulla.- Chapter 7 Pro Murena.- Chapter 8 Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino -- Chapter 9 Pro Milone -- Chapter 10 Pro Cluentio -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 73
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Bäck, Allan Aristotle's theory of abstraction
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Logic ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Logic ; Metaphysics ; Aristoteles v384-v322 ; Abstraktion ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Logik
    Abstract: This book investigates Aristotle’s views on abstraction and explores how he uses it. In this work, the author follows Aristotle in focusing on the scientific detail first and then approaches the metaphysical claims, and so creates a reconstructed theory that explains many puzzles of Aristotle’s thought. Understanding the details of his theory of relations and abstraction further illuminates his theory of universals.   Some of the features of Aristotle’s theory of abstraction developed in this book include: abstraction is a relation; perception and knowledge are types of abstraction; the objects generated by abstractions are relata which can serve as subjects in their own right, whereupon they can appear as items in other categories. The author goes on to look at how Aristotle distinguishes the concrete from the abstract paronym, how induction is a type of abstraction which typically moves from the perceived individuals to universals, and how Aristotle’s metaphysical vocabulary is "relational.’ Beyond those features, this work also looks at how of universals, accidents, forms, causes, and potentialities have being only as abstract aspects of individual substances. An individual substance is identical to its essence; the essence has universal features but is the singularity making the individual substance what it is. These theories are expounded within this book. One main attraction in working out the details of Aristotle’s views on abstraction lies in understanding his metaphysics of universals as abstract objects.  This work reclaims past ground as the main philosophical tradition of abstraction has been ignored in recent times. It gives a modern version of the medieval doctrine of the threefold distinction of essence, made famous by the Islamic philosopher, Avicenna
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceIntroduction -- Logic: The Formal Structure of Abstraction -- Chapter 1. The Conception of Abstraction -- Chapter 2. Abstract Relata -- Chapter 3. The Relation of Abstraction -- Science: The Psychological Process of Abstraction -- Chapter 4. Perceiving -- Chapter 5. Thinking -- Chapter 6. The Process of Abstraction -- Metaphysics: Aristotle’s Abstract Ontology -- Chapter 7. The Subject of Metaphysics -- Chapter 8. Aristotle’s Buddhism -- Chapter 9. Parts of Animals -- Chapter 10. Aristotle’s Nominalism -- Appendix -- The Formal Structure of Abstraction.
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    ISBN: 9783319054858
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 265 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 24
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Zarefsky, David, 1946 - Rhetorical perspectives on argumentation
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Argumentation ; Rhetorik ; Argumentation ; Philosophie
    Abstract: This book contains 20 essays tracing the work of David Zarefsky, a leading North American scholar of argumentation from a rhetorical perspective. The essays cohere around 4 general themes: objectives for studying argumentation rhetorically, approaches to rhetorical study of argumentation, patterns and schemes of rhetorical argumentation, and case studies illustrating the potential of studying argumentation rhetorically. These articles are drawn from across Zarefsky’s 45-year career. Many of these articles originally appeared in publications that are difficult to access today, and this collection brings the reader up to date on the topic. Zarefsky’s scholarship focuses on the role of language in political argumentation, the ways in which argumentation creates public knowledge and belief, the influence of framing and context on what is said and understood, the deployment of particular patterns and schemes of argumentation in public reasoning, and the influence of debate on politics and governance. All these topics are addressed in this book. Each of the conceptual essays includes brief application to specific cases, and five extended case studies are also presented in this volume. The case studies cover different themes: two explore famous political debates, the third focuses on presidential rhetoric across the course of United States history, the fourth on the arguments for liberalism at a time of political polarization, and the fifth on the contemporary effort to engage the United States with the Muslim world. This book is of interest to scholars in the fields of philosophy, logic, law, philosophy of law, and legal history. The range of topics and concepts addressed, the interplay of concepts and cases and the unifying perspective of rhetorical argumentation make this book a valuable read for students of argumentative practice, whether rhetorically or otherwise.
    Description / Table of Contents: DedicationContents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Objectives of Studying Argumentation Rhetorically -- 1. Reflections on Making the Case -- 2. Argument as Hypothesis Testing -- 3. Knowledge Claims in Rhetorical Criticism -- 4. What Does an Argument Culture Look Like?.- 5. Reclaiming Rhetoric’s Responsibilities.- Part Two: Approaches to Studying Argumentation Rhetorically -- 6. Product, Process, or Point of View? -- 7. Persistent Questions in the Theory of Argument Fields -- 8. Strategic Maneuvering in Political Argumentation -- 9. Taking the Jurisprudential Analogy Seriously -- Part Three: Patterns of Rhetorical Argumentation -- 10. Definitions -- 11. Strategic Maneuvering Through Persuasive Definitions: Implications for Dialectic and Rhetoric -- 12. Felicity Conditions for the Circumstantial Ad Hominem: The Case of Bush v. Gore -- 13. Terrorism and the Argument from Ignorance -- 14. Arguing about Values: The Problem of Public Moral Argument -- 15. The Appeal for Transcendence: A Possible Response to Cases of Deep Disagreement -- Part Four: Analyses of Rhetorical Argumentation -- 16. Conspiracy Arguments in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.-  17. Turning Points in the Galesburg Debate -- 18. Presidential Rhetoric and the Power of Definition -- 19. The Impasse of the Liberal Argument: Speculation on American Politics in the Late 1960s.- 20. Pragma-Dialectical Analysis of Rhetorical Texts: The Case of Barack Obama in Cairo with Dima Mohammed.
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    ISBN: 9789400769588
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 843 p. 2 illus. eReference, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: The History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand is a comprehensive account of the historical development of philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, from the establishment of the first Philosophy Chair in Australasia in 1886 at the University of Melbourne to the current burgeoning of Australasian philosophy. The work is divided into two broad sections, the first providing an account of significant developments and events during various periods in the history of Australasian philosophy, and the second focusing on ideas and theories that have been influential in various disciplines within Australasian philosophy. The work consists of chapters contributed by various philosophers, on specific fields of inquiry or historical periods within Australasian philosophy
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 988 p. 79 illus., 18 illus. in color. eReference, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Eemeren, Frans H. van, 1946 - Handbook of argumentation theory
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Logic ; Law ; Social sciences ; Linguistics. ; Argumentationstheorie
    Abstract: The Handbook Argumentation Theory provides an up to date survey of the various theoretical contributions to the development of argumentation theory for all scholars interested in argumentation, informal logic and rhetoric. It describes the historical roots of modern argumentation theory that are still an important theoretical background to contemporary approaches. Because of the complexity, diversity and rate of developments in argumentation theory, there is a real need for an overview of the state of the art, the main approaches that can be distinguished and the distinctive features of these approaches. The Handbook covers classical and modern backgrounds to the study of argumentation, the New Rhetoric developed by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, the Toulmin model, formal approaches, informal logic, communication and rhetoric, pragmatic approaches, linguistic approaches and pragma-dialectics. The Handbook is co-authored by Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Erik C.W. Krabbe, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Bart Verheij and Jean Wagemans, who are a coherent and prominent writing team whose expertise covers the whole field. The authors are assisted by an international Editorial Board consisting of outstanding argumentation scholars whose fields of interest are represented in the volume
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    ISBN: 9783319034522
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 220 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 370
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Montano, Ulianov Explaining beauty in mathematics: an aesthetic theory of mathematics
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Logic ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Logic ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Schönheit ; Mathematik ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: This book develops a naturalistic aesthetic theory that accounts for aesthetic phenomena in mathematics in the same terms as it accounts for more traditional aesthetic phenomena. Building upon a view advanced by James McAllister, the assertion is that beauty in science does not confine itself to anecdotes or personal idiosyncrasies, but rather that it had played a role in shaping the development of science. Mathematicians often evaluate certain pieces of mathematics using words like beautiful, elegant, or even ugly. Such evaluations are prevalent, however, rigorous investigation of them, of mathematical beauty, is much less common. The volume integrates the basic elements of aesthetics, as it has been developed over the last 200 years, with recent findings in neuropsychology as well as a good knowledge of mathematics. The volume begins with a discussion of the reasons to interpret mathematical beauty in a literal or non-literal fashion, which also serves to survey historical and contemporary approaches to mathematical beauty. The author concludes that literal approaches are much more coherent and fruitful, however, much is yet to be done. In this respect two chapters are devoted to the revision and improvement of McAllister’s theory of the role of beauty in science. These antecedents are used as a foundation to formulate a naturalistic aesthetic theory. The central idea of the theory is that aesthetic phenomena should be seen as constituting a complex dynamical system which the author calls the aesthetic as process theory. The theory comprises explications of three central topics: aesthetic experience (in mathematics), aesthetic value and aesthetic judgment. The theory is applied in the final part of the volume and is used to account for the three most salient and often used aesthetic terms often used in mathematics: beautiful, elegant and ugly. This application of the theory serves to illustrate the theory in action, but also to further discuss and develop some details and to showcase the theory’s explanatory capabilities
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionPart 1. Antecedents -- Chapter 1. On Non-literal Approaches -- Chapter 2. Beautiful, Literally -- Chapter 3. Ugly, Literally -- Chapter 4. Problems of the Aesthetic Induction -- Chapter 5. Naturalizing the Aesthetic Induction -- Part 2. An Aesthetics of Mathematics -- Chapter 6. Introduction to a Naturalistic Aesthetic Theory -- Chapter 7. Aesthetic Experience -- Chapter 8. Aesthetic Value -- Chapter 9. Aesthetic Judgement I: Concept -- Chapter 10. Aesthetic Judgement II: Functions -- Chapter 11. Mathematical Aesthetic Judgements -- Part 3. Applications -- Chapter 12. Case Analysis I: Beauty -- Chapter 13. Case Analysis II: Elegance -- Chapter 14. Case Analysis III: Ugliness, Revisited -- Chapter 15. Issues of Mathematical Beauty, Revisited.
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    ISBN: 9783319060255
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    Series Statement: Outstanding Contributions to Logic 5
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Johan van Benthem on logic and information dynamics
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Logic design ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Logic design ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Benthem, Johan van 1949- ; Logik ; Computerlinguistik
    Abstract: This book illustrates the program of Logical-Informational Dynamics. Rational agents exploit the information available in the world in delicate ways, adopt a wide range of epistemic attitudes, and in that process, constantly change the world itself. Logical-Informational Dynamics is about logical systems putting such activities at center stage, focusing on the events by which we acquire information and change attitudes. Its contributions show many current logics of information and change at work, often in multi-agent settings where social behavior is essential, and often stressing Johan van Benthem's pioneering work in establishing this program. However, this is not a Festschrift, but a rich tapestry for a field with a wealth of strands of its own. The reader will see the state of the art in such topics as information update, belief change, preference, learning over time, and strategic interaction in games. Moreover, no tight boundary has been enforced, and some chapters add more general mathematical or philosophical foundations or links to current trends in computer science. The theme of this book lies at the interface of many disciplines. Logic is the main methodology, but the various chapters cross easily between mathematics, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, cognitive and social sciences, while also ranging from pure theory to empirical work. Accordingly, the authors of this book represent a wide variety of original thinkers from different research communities. And their interconnected themes challenge at the same time how we think of logic, philosophy and computation. Thus, very much in line with van Benthem's work over many decades, the volume shows how all these disciplines form a natural unity in the perspective of dynamic logicians (broadly conceived) exploring their new themes today. And at the same time, in doing so, it offers a broader conception of logic with a certain grandeur, moving its horizons beyond the traditional study of consequence relations
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface by Johan van Benthem; Acknowledgements; On the Trails of Logical Dynamics:a bird's-eye view of this volume,by Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets; Part I Mathematical and Computational Perspectives; 1 The Freedoms of (Guarded) Bisimulation; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Bisimulation: Behavioural and Structural Equivalence; 1.2.1 Ehrenfeucht--Fraïssé, Back-and-forth, Zig-zag, Pebble Games: Games Model-Theorists Play; 1.2.2 Bisimulation in Modal Model Theory; 1.2.3 Tree Models and Robust Decidability of Modal Logics; 1.2.4 Expressive Completeness
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3 Guarded Bisimulation: A Systematic Lifting to Higher Dimension1.3.1 Guardedness and the Guarded Fragment; 1.3.2 Guarded Bisimulation and Model Theory; 1.3.3 Guarded Bisimulation Invariance; 1.3.4 Decidability and Complexity for GF and Its Extensions; 1.3.5 Guarded Model Constructions; 1.3.6 Expressive Completeness; 1.4 Guarded Negation Bisimulation; 1.4.1 Homomorphisms and Bisimulation; 1.4.2 Towards a (Finite) Model Theory of Guarded Negation; 1.5 Summary; References; 2 Expressiveness Modulo Bisimilarity: A Coalgebraic Perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Coalgebra and Modal Logic
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.1 Coalgebra2.2.2 Coalgebraic Logics; 2.2.3 Predicate Liftings; 2.3 Coalgebra Automata and MSO; 2.3.1 One-Step Syntax and Semantics; 2.3.2 Coalgebra Automata; 2.3.3 MSO As a Coalgebraic Fixpoint Logic; 2.4 One-Step Adequacy; 2.4.1 The General Case; 2.4.2 The Case of Kripke Models; 2.5 Main Result; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3 Schema Mappings: A Case of Logical Dynamics in Database Theory; 3.1 Background: Relational Database Theory; 3.1.1 Database Schemas and Instances; 3.1.2 Database Queries; 3.1.3 First-Order Queries and Domain Independence; 3.1.4 Query Evaluation and Query Containment
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1.5 Conjunctive Queries and Homomorphisms3.1.6 Database Constraints; 3.2 Schema Mappings; 3.3 Data Exchange: Moving Data from Source to Target; 3.3.1 Universal Solutions; 3.3.2 Constructing Universal Solutions Using the Chase; 3.3.3 Closure Under Target Homomorphisms; 3.4 Data Integration: Answering Target Queries Using Source Data; 3.4.1 Certain Answers; 3.4.2 Computing Certain Answers Via Query Rewriting; 3.5 Structural Characterizations of Schema Mapping Languages; 3.5.1 LAV Schema Mappings; 3.5.2 GAV Schema Mappings; 3.5.3 GLAV Schema Mappings; 3.6 Composing Schema Mappings
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.7 Concluding RemarksReferences; 4 On Dependence Logic; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Functional Dependence; 4.3 Independence Logic; 4.4 Conditional Independence; 4.5 Further Expressivity Results; 4.6 Belief Representation and Belief Dynamics; 4.7 Concluding Remarks; References; 5 Intensionality, Definability and Computation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Computability Versus Computer Science; 5.1.2 Why Processes Matter in Computer Science; 5.1.3 Prospectus; 5.2 Intensionality Versus Extensionality; 5.2.1 Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Properties of Functions; 5.2.2 Examples
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2.3 A Non-example: Computability
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Johan van BenthemIntroduction; Alexandru Baltag and Sonja Smets -- Part I. Mathematical and Computational Perspectives -- The Freedoms of (Guarded) Bisimulation; Erich Grädel and Martin Otto -- Expressiveness Modulo Bisimilarity: A Coalgebraic Perspective; Yde Venema -- Schema Mappings: A Case of Logical Dynamics in Database Theory; Balder ten Cate and Phokion G. Kolaitis -- On Dependence Logic; Pietro Galliani, Jouko Väänänen -- Intensionality, Definability and Computation; Samson Abramsky -- Comparing Theories: The Dynamics of Changing Vocabulary; Hajnal Andréka and István Németi -- Part II. Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief Over Time -- Dynamic Epistemic Logics; Jan van Eijck -- Belief Revision and Dynamic Logic; Patrick Girard and Hans Rott -- Temporal Aspects of the Dynamics of Knowledge; Valentin Goranko and Eric Pacuit -- Logic and Learning; Nina Gierasimczuk, Vincent F. Hendricks, and Dick de Jongh -- A Computational Learning Semantics for Inductive Empirical Knowledge; Kevin T. Kelly -- Structures for Epistemic Logic; Nick Bezhanishvili and Wiebe van der Hoek -- Logic and Probabilistic Update; Lorenz Demey and Barteld Kooi -- Belief as a Simplification of Probability, and What This Entails; Hannes Leitgeb -- Part III. Games -- Logic and Game Theory; Giacomo Bonanno and Cédric Dégremont -- Knowledge Games and Coalitional Abilities; Thomas ågotnes and Hans van Ditmarsch -- On Definitive Solutions of Strategic Games; Sergei Artemov -- Logical Player Types for a Theory of Play; Ram Ramanujam -- An Alternative Analysis of Signaling Games; Gabriel Sandu -- Part IV. Agency -- Them and Us: Autonomous Agents in Vivo and in Silico; Peter Millican and Michael Wooldridge -- Incorporating Action Models into the Situation Calculus; Yongmei Liu and Hector J. Levesque -- Roles, Rigidity, and Quantification in Epistemic Logic; Wesley H. Holliday and John Perry -- Stit Logics, Games, Knowledge, and Freedom; Roberto Ciuni and John Horty -- The Logic of Best Actions from a Deontic Perspective; Olivier Roy, Albert J.J. Anglberger and Norbert Gratzl -- When Are Two Arguments the Same? Equivalence in Abstract Argumentation; Dov Gabbay and Davide Grossi -- Part V. Language and Cognition -- Three Etudes on Logical Dynamics and the Program of Natural Logic; Lawrence S. Moss -- From Good to Better: Using Contextual Shifts to Define Preference in Terms of Monadic Value; Sven Ove Hansson and Fenrong Liu -- Arguing about Dynamic Meaning; Martin Stokhof -- Logic of and for Language, and Logic of and for Mind; Hans Kamp -- Logic and Complexity in Cognitive Science; Alistair M.C. Isaac and Jakub Szymanik and Rineke Verbrugge -- Computational Complexity and Cognitive Science: How the Body and the World Help the Mind be Efficient; Peter Gärdenfors -- Part VI. Styles of Reasoning -- Dynamic vs. Classical consequence; Denis Bonnay and Dag Westerståhl -- Dynamic Epistemic Logic as a Substructural Logic; Guillaume Aucher -- Arrows Pointing at Arrows: Arrow Logic, Relevance Logic, and Relation Algebras; J. Michael Dunn -- Situation Theory Reconsidered; Jeremy Seligman -- Unified Correspondence; Willem Conradie, Silvio Ghilardi, Alessandra Palmigiano -- Conclusions -- Reflections; Johan van Benthem -- Scientific Autobiography; Johan van Benthem -- Bibliography -- Publications. .
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    ISBN: 9789400745995 , 128363385X , 9781283633857
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 255 p. 102 illus., 12 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 357
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Betz, Gregor Debate dynamics: how controversy improves our beliefs
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Argumentationstheorie ; Debatte
    Abstract: Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it investigates the truth and consensus-conduciveness of controversial debates. The book brings together research in formal epistemology and argumentation theory. Aside from its consequences for discursive practice, the work may have important implications for philosophy of science and the way we construe scientific rationality as well.
    Description / Table of Contents: Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: General Introduction; 1.1 The Aims of Argumentation; 1.2 An Example of a Controversial Argumentation; 1.3 Modeling Controversial Debate; 1.4 Results Pertaining to Consensus-Conduciveness; 1.5 Results Pertaining to Truth-Conduciveness; 1.6 Objections and Caveats; 1.7 Putting the Approach in Perspective; Chapter 2: An Introduction to the Theory of Dialectical Structures; 2.1 Fundamental Concepts; 2.2 Degrees of Justification; 2.3 The Space of Coherent Positions; 2.4 Normalized Closeness Centrality
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5 Inferential Density2.6 The General Design of the Simulations; Part I: Why Do We Agree? On the Consensus-Conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation; Chapter 3: Introduction to Part I; 3.1 Outline of Part I; 3.2 Main Results and Their Justification; Chapter 4: The Consensual Dynamics of Simple Random Debates; 4.1 Setup; 4.2 Results; 4.3 Discussion; 4.4 Results, Continued; 4.5 Discussion, Continued; Chapter 5: The Consensual Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge; 5.1 Setup; 5.2 Results; 5.3 Discussion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Comparing the Consensual Dynamics of Four Proponent-Specific Argumentation Strategies in Dualistic Debates6.1 Setup; 6.2 Results; 6.3 Discussion; Chapter 7: The Consensual Dynamics of Argumentation Strategies in Many-Proponent Debates; 7.1 Setup; 7.2 Results; 7.3 Discussion; Chapter 8: The Consensual Dynamics of Debates with Core Updating; 8.1 Setup; 8.2 Results; 8.3 Discussion; Chapter 9: The Consensual Dynamics of Debates with Core Argumentation; 9.1 Setup; 9.2 Results; 9.3 Discussion; Part II: How Do We Know? On the Truth-Conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 10: Introduction to Part II10.1 Outline of Part II; 10.2 Main Results and Their Justification; Chapter 11: The Veritistic Dynamics of Simple Random Debates; 11.1 Setup; 11.2 Results; 11.2.1 Truth's Attraction: How Rapidly Does the Proponents' Verisimilitude Increase?; 11.2.2 The Verisimilitude of Consensus Positions: Is Mutual Agreement a Good Indicator of Having Reached the Truth?; 11.2.3 The Verisimilitude of Stable Positions: Are Proponent Positions Which Remain Relatively Stable Closer to the Truth?; 11.3 Discussion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12: The Veritistic Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge12.1 Setup; 12.2 Results; 12.3 Discussion; Chapter 13: Comparing the Veritistic Dynamics of Four Proponent-Specific Argumentation Strategies in Dualistic Debates; 13.1 Setup; 13.2 Results; 13.3 Discussion; Chapter 14: The Veritistic Dynamics of Argumentation Strategies in Many-Proponent Debates; 14.1 Setup; 14.2 Results; 14.2.1 Truth's Attraction: How Rapidly Does the Proponents' Verisimilitude Increase?
    Description / Table of Contents: 14.2.2 The Verisimilitude of Consensus Positions: Is Mutual Agreement a Good Indicator of Having Reached the Truth?
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    ISBN: 9789400765344
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 30
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
    Abstract: Written by experts in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive investigation into the relationship between argumentation theory and the philosophy of mathematical practice. Argumentation theory studies reasoning and argument, and especially those aspects not addressed, or not addressed well, by formal deduction. The philosophy of mathematical practice diverges from mainstream philosophy of mathematics in the emphasis it places on what the majority of working mathematicians actually do, rather than on mathematical foundations. The book begins by first challenging the assumption that there is no role for informal logic in mathematics. Next, it details the usefulness of argumentation theory in the understanding of mathematical practice, offering an impressively diverse set of examples, covering the history of mathematics, mathematics education and, perhaps surprisingly, formal proof verification. From there, the book demonstrates that mathematics also offers a valuable testbed for argumentation theory. Coverage concludes by defending attention to mathematical argumentation as the basis for new perspectives on the philosophy of mathematics.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionPart I. What are Mathematical Arguments? -- Chapter 1. Non-Deductive Logic in Mathematics: The Probability of Conjectures; James Franklin -- Chapter 2. Arguments, Proofs, and Dialogues; Erik C. W. Krabbe -- Chapter 3. Argumentation in Mathematics; Jesús Alcolea Banegas -- Chapter 4. Arguing Around Mathematical Proofs; Michel Dufour -- Part II. Argumentation as a Methodology for Studying Mathematical Practice -- Chapter 5. An Argumentative Approach to Ideal Elements in Mathematics; Paola Cantù -- Chapter 6. How Persuaded Are You? A Typology of Responses; Matthew Inglis and Juan Pablo Mejía-Ramos -- Chapter 7. Revealing Structures of Argumentations in Classroom Proving Processes; Christine Knipping and David Reid -- Chapter 8. Checking Proofs; Jesse Alama and Reinhard Kahle -- Part III. Mathematics as a Testbed for Argumentation Theory -- Chapter 9. Dividing by Zero-and Other Mathematical Fallacies; Lawrence H. Powers -- Chapter 10. Strategic Maneuvering in Mathematical Proofs; Erik C. W. Krabbe -- Chapter. 11 Analogical Arguments in Mathematics; Paul Bartha -- Chapter 12. What Philosophy of Mathematical Practice Can Teach Argumentation Theory about Diagrams and Pictures; Brendan Larvor -- Part IV. An Argumentational Turn in the Philosophy of Mathematics -- Chapter 13. Mathematics as the Art of Abstraction; Richard L. Epstein -- Chapter 14. Towards a Theory of Mathematical Argument; Ian J. Dove -- Chapter 15. Bridging the Gap Between Argumentation Theory and the Philosophy of Mathematics; Alison Pease, Alan Smaill, Simon Colton and John Lee -- Chapter 16. Mathematical Arguments and Distributed Knowledge; Patrick Allo, Jean Paul Van Bendegem and Bart Van Kerkhove -- Chapter 17. The Parallel Structure of Mathematical Reasoning; Andrew Aberdein -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789400753570 , 1283936097 , 9781283936095
    Language: English
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Bayesian argumentation
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Computer simulation ; Applied linguistics ; Social sciences Methodology ; Applied psychology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Computer simulation ; Applied linguistics ; Social sciences Methodology ; Applied psychology ; Reasoning (Psychology) ; Congresses ; Logic ; Congresses ; Thought and thinking ; Congresses ; Probabilities ; Congresses ; Bayesian statistical decision theory ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift ; Argumentationstheorie ; Bayes-Entscheidungstheorie
    Abstract: Relevant to, and drawing from, a range of disciplines, the chapters in this collection show the diversity, and applicability, of research in Bayesian argumentation. Together, they form a challenge to philosophers versed in both the use and criticism of Bayesian models who have largely overlooked their potential in argumentation. Selected from contributions to a multidisciplinary workshop on the topic held in Lund, Sweden, in autumn 2010, the authors count legal scholars and cognitive scientists among their number, in addition to philosophers. They analyze material that includes real-life court cases, experimental research results, and the insights gained from computer models.The volume provides a formal measure of subjective argument strength and argument force, robust enough to allow advocates of opposing sides of an argument to agree on the relative strengths of their supporting reasoning. With papers from leading figures such as Mike Oaksford and Ulrike Hahn, the book comprises recent research conducted at the frontiers of Bayesian argumentation and provides a multitude of examples in which these formal tools can be applied to informal argument. It signals new and impending developments in philosophy, which has seen Bayesian models deployed in formal epistemology and philosophy of science, but has yet to explore the full potential of Bayesian models as a framework in argumentation. In doing so, this revealing anthology looks destined to become a standard teaching text in years to come.
    Description / Table of Contents: Bayesian Argumentation; Foreword; Contents; Bayesian Argumentation: The Practical Side of Probability; 1 Introduction; 2 The Bayesian Approach to Argumentation; 3 Chapter Overview; 3.1 The Bayesian Approach to Argumentation; 3.2 The Legal Domain; 3.3 Modeling Rational Agents; 3.4 Theoretical Issues; References; Part I: The Bayesian Approach to Argumentation; Testimony and Argument: A Bayesian Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Testimony, Argumentation and the `Third Way´; 3 Some Problems for MAXMIN; 4 A Bayesian Perspective; 5 Message Content and Message Source: Exploring Norms and Intuitions
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Rehousing Argumentation Schemes Within a Bayesian Framework7 Concluding Remarks; References; Why Are We Convinced by the Ad Hominem Argument?: Bayesian Source Reliability and Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules; 1 Types of the Argumentum Ad Hominem; 2 The Pragma-Dialectical Approach; 3 The Bayesian Approach; 4 An Experiment on the Argument Ad Hominem; 5 Method; 6 Results and Discussion; 7 Conclusion; Appendix: Experimental Materials; Abusive; Circumstantial; Tu Quoque; Control; References; 1 Introduction; 2 Survey of Relevant Uncertainties; Part II: The Legal Domain
    Description / Table of Contents: A Survey of Uncertainties and Their Consequences in Probabilistic Legal Argumentation2.1 The Example Case; 2.2 Factual Uncertainty; 2.3 Normative Uncertainty; 2.4 Moral Uncertainty; 2.5 Empirical Uncertainty; 2.6 Interdependencies; 3 Desirable Attributes for a Probabilistic Argument Model to Assist Litigation Planning; 3.1 Assessment of Utilities; 3.2 Easy Knowledge Engineering; 3.3 Conflict Resolution and Argument Weights; 4 Sample Assessment of Graphical Models; 4.1 A Graphical Structure of the Analysis; 4.2 Casting the Example into a Graphical Model; 4.3 Generic Bayesian Networks
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Carneades5.1 A Brief Introduction to the Carneades Model; 5.2 Carneades Bayesian Networks; 5.3 Carneades Bayesian Networks with Probabilistic Assumptions; 5.4 Introduction to Argument Weights; 6 Extension of Carneades to Support Probabilistic Argument Weights; 7 Desiderata for Future Developments; 7.1 Weights Subject to Argumentation; 7.2 Inform Weights from Values; 8 Conclusions and Future Work; References; Was It Wrong to Use Statistics in R v Clark? A Case Study of the Use of Statistical Evidence in Criminal Courts; 1 Introduction; 2 Factual Background; 3 Existing Explanations
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1 The Flaws in Meadow´s Calculation3.2 The Psychological Effect of the Statistical Evidence; 3.3 The Prosecutor´s Fallacy; 3.4 Bayes´ Theorem; 3.5 The Insignificance of the SIDS Statistics; 4 The Contrastive Explanation; 5 Conclusion; References; Part III: Modeling Rational Agents; A Bayesian Simulation Model of Group Deliberation and Polarization; 1 Introduction; 2 The Laputa Simulation Framework; 3 The Underlying Bayesian Model; 4 Interpreting Laputa; 5 Do Bayesian Inquirers Polarize?; 6 Conclusion and Discussion; Appendix; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Degrees of Justification, Bayes´ Rule, and Rationality
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Frank Zenker.​- Part 1 -- The Bayesian Approach to Argumentation -- Chapter 1. Testimony and Argument: A Bayesian Perspective: Ulrike Hahn, Mike Oaksford and Adam J.L. Harris -- Chapter 2. Why are we convinced by the Ad Hominem Argument?: Source Reliability or Pragma-Dialectics: Mike Oaksford and Ulrike Hahn.- Part 2. The Legal Domain.-Chapter 3. A survey of uncertainties and their consequences in Probabilistic Legal Argumentation: Matthias Grabmair and Kevin D. Ashley -- Chapter 4. What went wrong in the case of Sally Clark? A case-study of the use of Statistical Evidence in Court: Amid Pundik -- Part 3. Modeling Rational Agents -- Chapter 5. A Bayesian Simulation Model of Group Deliberation: Erik J. Olsson -- Chapter 6. Degrees of Justification, Bayes' Rule, and Rationality: Gregor Betz -- Chapter 7. Argumentation with (Bounded) Rational Agents: Robert van Rooij and Kris de Jaeghery -- Part 4. Theoretical Issues -- Chapter 8. Reductio, Coherence, and the Myth of Epistemic Circularity: Tomoji Shogenji -- Chapter 9. On Argument Strength: Niki Pfeiffer -- Chapter 10 -- Upping the Stakes and the Preface Paradox: Jonny Blamey -- References.​.
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  • 93
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400760912
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 389 p. 35 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences 1
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Cellucci, Carlo, 1940 - Rethinking logic
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Computer science ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logik ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung
    Abstract: This volume examines the limitations of mathematical logic and proposes a new approach to logic intended to overcome them. To this end, the book compares mathematical logic with earlier views of logic, both in the ancient and in the modern age, including those of Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant. From the comparison it is apparent that a basic limitation of mathematical logic is that it narrows down the scope of logic confining it to the study of deduction, without providing tools for discovering anything new. As a result, mathematical logic has had little impact on scientific practice. Therefore, this volume proposes a view of logic according to which logic is intended, first of all, to provide rules of discovery, that is, non-deductive rules for finding hypotheses to solve problems. This is essential if logic is to play any relevant role in mathematics, science and even philosophy. To comply with this view of logic, this volume formulates several rules of discovery, such as induction, analogy, generalization, specialization, metaphor, metonymy, definition, and diagrams. A logic based on such rules is basically a logic of discovery, and involves a new view of the relation of logic to evolution, language, reason, method and knowledge, particularly mathematical knowledge. It also involves a new view of the relation of philosophy to knowledge. This book puts forward such new views, trying to open again many doors that the founding fathers of mathematical logic had closed historically
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceChapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Ancient Perspectives -- Chapter 2. The Origin of Logic -- Chapter 3. Ancient Logic and Science -- Chapter 4. The Analytic Method -- Chapter 5. The Analytic-Synthetic Method -- Chapter 6. Aristotle's Logic: The Deductivist View -- Chapter 7. Aristotle's Logic: The Heuristic View -- Part II. Modern Perspectives -- Chapter 8. The Method of Modern Science -- Chapter 9. The Quest for a Logic of Discovery -- Chapter 10. Frege's Approach to Logic -- Chapter 11. Gentzen's Approach to Logic -- Chapter 12. The Limitations of Mathematical Logic -- Chapter 13. Logic, Method, and the Psychology of Discovery -- Part III: An Alternative Perspective -- Chapter 14. Reason and Knowledge -- Chapter 15. Reason, Knowledge and Emotion -- Chapter 16. Logic, Evolution, Language and Reason -- Chapter 17. Logic, Method and Knowledge -- Chapter 18. Classifying and Justifying Inference Rules -- Chapter 19. Philosophy and Knowledge -- Part IV: Rules of Discovery -- Chapter 20. Induction and Analogy -- Chapter 21. Other Rules of Discovery -- Chapter 22. Conclusion -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400751378
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 161 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 31
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Chemistry ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Chemistry ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic
    Abstract: This compelling reevaluation of the relationship between logic and knowledge affirms the key role that the notion of judgement must play in such a review. The commentary repatriates the concept of judgement in the discussion, banished in recent times by the logical positivism of Wittgenstein, Hilbert and Schlick, and the Platonism of Bolzano. The volume commences with the insights of Swedish philosopher Per Martin-Löf, the father of constructive type theory, for whom logic is a demonstrative science in which judgement is a settled feature of the landscape. His paper opens the first of four sections that examine, in turn, historical philosophical assessments of judgement and reason; their place in early modern philosophy; the notion of judgement and logical theory in Wolff, Kant and Neo-Kantians like Windelband; their development in the Husserlian phenomenological paradigm; and the work of Bolzano, Russell and Frege. The papers, whose authors include Per Martin-Löf, Göran Sundholm, Michael Della Rocca and Robin Rollinger, represent a finely judged editorial selection highlighting work on philosophers exercised by the question of whether or not an epistemic notion of judgement has a role to play in logic. The volume will be of profound interest to students and academicians for its application of historical developments in philosophy to the solution of vexatious contemporary issues in the foundation of logic. ​
    Description / Table of Contents: Judgement and the Epistemic Foundation of Logic; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Bibliography; Part I: Constructivism, Judgement and Reason; Chapter 1: Verificationism Then and Now; Chapter 2: Demonstrations Versus Proofs, Being an Afterword to Constructions, Proofs, and the Meaning of the Logical Constants; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Containment and Variation; Two Strands in the Development of Analyticity from Aristotle to Martin-Löf; Bibliography; Part II: Judgement and Reason in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 4: Descartes' Theory of Judgement: Warranted Assertions, the Key to Science*
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Descartes' Debate with Scholastic Logic over the Foundations of Science2 The Rules for the Forming of True Judgements; 3 The Many Uses of the Concept of Judgement in Descartes' Mathesis; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Striving, Oomph, and Intelligibility in Spinoza; 1 Descartes and the Great Intelligibility Trade-Off; 2 Strengthening Intelligibility; 3 Weakening Intelligibility; Bibliography; I. Works by Descartes; II. Works by Spinoza; III. Works by Leibniz; IV. Works by Hume; V. Other Works; Part III: Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Bolzano
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: The Role of Wolff's Analysis of Judgements in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation1 Wolff's Analysis of Judgements; 2 Meier's Notion of Condition; 3 The Strategy of Kant's Dissertation; 4 Three Classes of Subreption; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Windelband on Beurteilung; 1 Windelband's Definition of Judgement; 2 Windelband's Three-Step Argument; 3 Judgeable Content; 4 Assessing Under Assumption of Epistemic Values; 5 The Nature of Epistemic Assessment; Bibliography; I. Primary; II. Secondary; Chapter 8: A Priori Knowledge in Bolzano, Conceptual Truths, and Judgements
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 The Apriori in Bolzano1.1 Concepts and Conceptual Truths; 1.2 Conceptual Truths and Judgements A Priori; 1.2.1 Conceptual Truths and Analytic Truths; 1.2.2 Empirical Analytic Truths; 1.2.3 Synthetic Conceptual Truths; 1.3 How Are Synthetic Judgements A Priori Possible?; 2 Understanding (C1): Bolzano's Epistemology; 2.1 Judgements and Subjective Representations; 2.2 Bolzano's Analysis of the Concept of Knowledge; 2.2.1 Confidence; 2.2.2 How Much Confidence?; 3 Understanding (C2): Knowing a Concept; 3.1 The Correspondence Assumption; 3.2 Having a Representation, Clarity, and Distinctness
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Definitions, Proofs, and Synthetic Truths4.1 Knowledge and Proof; 4.2 Two Remaining Problems; 4.3 The Case of Fundamental Truths; 5 Conclusion; Bibliography; Part IV: Husserl, Frege and Russell; Chapter 9: Immanent and Real States of Affairs in Husserl's Early Theory of Judgement: Reflections on Manuscripts from 1893/1894 and Their Background in the Logic of Brentano and Stumpf; 1 Introduction; 2 Brentano and Stumpf on Contents of Judgement; 2.1 Brentano; 2.2 Stumpf; 2.3 Excursus: Other Students of Brentano; 3 Husserl's Theory of Judgement (1893/1894)
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1 Psychological Studies in Elementary Logic
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part 1. Constructivism, Judgement, and Reason -- Chapter 1. Verificationism then and now: Per Martin-Löf -- Chapter 2. Demonstrations versus Proofs, being an afterword to 'Constructions, Proofs and the meaning of Logical Constants': Göran Sundholm -- Chapter 3. Containment and Variation: Two Strands in the Development of Analyticity from Aristotle to Martin-Löf: Göran Sundholm -- Part 2. Judgement and Reason in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 4. Decartes' Theory of Judgement: Warranted Assertions, the Key to Science: Elodie Cassan -- Chapter 5. Striving, Oomph, and Intelligibility in Spinoza: Michael Della Rocca -- Part 3. Kant, Neo-Kantianism, and Bolzano -- Chapter 6. The Role of Wolff's Analysis of Judgments in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation: Johan Blok -- Chapter 7. Windelband on 'Beurteilung’: Arnaud Dewalque -- Chapter 8. A Priori Knowledge in Bolzano; Conceptual Truths and Judgements: Stefan Roski -- Part 4. Husserl, Frege and Russell -- Chapter 9. Immanent and Real States of Affairs in Husserl's Early Theory of Judgement: Robin Rollinger -- Chapter 10. Frege and Russell on Assertion: Jeremy Kelly.​.
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9789400744646
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 156 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 29
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Frápolli, María José, 1960 - The nature of truth
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Truth ; Wahrheit ; Wahrheit
    Abstract: The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses. The general thesis of the book is that defining truth is perfectly possible and that the average educated philosopher of language has the tools to do it. The book offers an updated treatment of the meaning of truth ascriptions from taking into account the latest views in philosophy of language and linguistics.
    Abstract: The wealth of proposals about truth and its meaning in natural languages everywhere should open it to analysis and definition, but this book makes the startlingly rare assertion that we can define truth using the latest methods in linguistics and philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: The Nature of Truth; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Some Preliminary Issues; 1.1 The General Purpose; 1.2 Some Features of the Proposal; 1.3 Required Philosophical Assumptions; 1.4 The Content of a Theory of Truth; 1.5 The Pragmatist Ingredient; 1.6 The Structure of the Book; Chapter 2: Syntax: Playing with Building Blocks; 2.1 Does Syntax Matter?; 2.2 The Truth Predicate; 2.3 The Truth Operator; 2.4 Truth and Identity; 2.5 Adverbs, Adjectives and Nouns; Chapter 3: The Meaning and Content of Truth Ascriptions; 3.1 The Distinction; 3.2 Kinds of Proforms; 3.3 Truth-Ascriptions
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 A Classification of Truth-Ascriptions3.5 Special Semantic Tasks; Chapter 4: What Do We Do with Truth Ascriptions?; 4.1 Pragmatics and Semantics; 4.2 Assertions; 4.3 Expressivism; 4.4 Particular Pragmatic Functions; Chapter 5: The Liar Paradox (And Other Logico-Semantic Issues); 5.1 Is There a Liar Paradox?; 5.2 Truth Bearers; 5.3 Logical Form; 5.4 The Paradox; Chapter 6: What Do You Mean by "Redundancy"?; 6.1 R amsey's View; 6.2 Redundancy, of What?; 6.3 Syntactic Redundancy; 6.4 Semantic Redundancy; 6.5 Pragmatic Redundancy; Chapter 7: Obvious Answers for Ready-Made Objections
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.1 Standard Objections7.2 The Epistemic Objections; 7.2.1 Definitions vs. Criteria; 7.2.2 The Causal Effect of Truth; 7.3 The Logical Objection; 7.4 The Semantic Objection; 7.5 Mathematical Truth and Other Metaphors; References; Index;
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9789400749511
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 259 p. 1 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: This book is a radical reappraisal of the importance of Aristotelianism in Britain. Using a full range of manuscripts as well as printed sources, it provides an entirely new interpretation of the impact of the early-modern Aristotelian tradition upon the rise of British Empiricism, and reexamines the fundamental shift from a humanist logic to epistemology and facultative logic. The task is to reconstruct the philosophical background and framework in which the thought of philosophers such Locke, Berkeley and Hume originated: some aspects of their empiricism can be explained only in reference to the academic Aristotelian tradition, even if these authors established themselves as anti-scholastic, anti-Aristotelian philosophers outside the official institutions.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Logic in the British Isles during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 3 Logic in the Universities of the British Isles -- 4 Zabarella’s Empiricism 5 Early Aristotelianism between Humanism and Ramism -- the British School 7 Continental Aristotelians in the British Isles -- 8 The Empiricism of the Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 9. The Reformers of Aristotelian Logic -- 10 Late Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography.-Index ​.
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9789400744387
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 375 p. 31 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 26
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Tanaka, Kōji, 1965 - Paraconsistency
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Parakonsistente Logik
    Abstract: A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises. While logicians have proposed many technically developed paraconsistent logical systems and contemporary philosophers like Graham Priest have advanced the view that some contradictions can be true, and advocated a paraconsistent logic to deal with them, until recent times these systems have been little understood by philosophers. This book presents a comprehensive overview on paraconsistent logical systems to change this situation. The book includes almost every major author currently working in the field. The papers are on the cutting edge of the literature some of which discuss current debates and others present important new ideas. The editors have avoided papers about technical details of paraconsistent logic, but instead concentrated upon works that discuss more "big picture" ideas. Different treatments of paradoxes takes centre stage in many of the papers, but also there are several papers on how to interpret paraconistent logic and some on how it can be applied to philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and metaphysics
    Abstract: A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises. While logicians have proposed many technically developed paraconsistent logical systems and contemporary philosophers like Graham Priest have advanced the view that some contradictions can be true, and advocated a paraconsistent logic to deal with them, until recent times these systems have been little understood by philosophers. This book presents a comprehensive overview on paraconsistent logical systems to change this situation. The book includes almost every major author currently working in the field. The papers are on the cutting edge of the literature some of which discuss current debates and others present important new ideas. The editors have avoided papers about technical details of paraconsistent logic, but instead concentrated upon works that discuss more 'big picture' ideas. Different treatments of paradoxes takes centre stage in many of the papers, but also there are several papers on how to interpret paraconistent logic and some on how it can be applied to philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Part 2. Applications ; An Approach to Human-Level Commonsense Reasoning , Paraconsistency: Introduction , Distribution in the Logic of Meaning Containment and in Quantum Mechanics , Wittgenstein on Incompleteness Makes Paraconsistent Sense , Pluralism and "Bad" Mathematical Theories: Challenging our Prejudices , Arithmetic Starred , Notes on Inconsistent Set Theory , Sorting out the Sorites , Are the Sorites and Liar Paradox of a Kind? , Vague Inclosures , Part 1. Logic ; Making Sense of Paraconsistent Logic: The Nature of Logic, Classical Logic and Paraconsistent Logic , On Discourses Addressed by Infidel Logicians , Information, Negation, and Paraconsistency , Noisy vs. Merely Equivocal Logics , Assertion, Denial and Non-classical Theories , New Arguments for Adaptive Logics as Unifying Frame for the Defeasible Handling of Inconsistency , Consequence as Preservation: Some Refinements , On Modal Logics Defining Jaśkowski's D2-Consequence , FDE: A Logic of Clutters , A Paraconsistent and Substructural Conditional Logic
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9789401704311
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 240 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 9
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Logic ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics
    Abstract: This book represents the first coherent published work in bringing together various branches of artificial intelligence with argumentation and rhetoric, and, as such, aims to play a key role in the establishment of a new field of scholarly research. The volume not only offers in-depth assessments of existing research, but also represents a substantial advance in the state of the art, and lays out a roadmap for future work in this newly emerging cross-disciplinary field. Audience: This book is of interest to academics, researchers, PhD and graduate students in philosophy of argument, logic, informal logic, critical thinking, rhetoric, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computational linguistics, natural language processing, law, cognitive science and the interdisciplinary areas between these fields
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    ISBN: 9781402028717
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 405 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 82
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    Keywords: medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Life sciences ; Social sciences ; Philosophy. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Law. ; Medicine—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book deals with the essential philosophical/ethical dimension that concerns the ends and goods entrusted to medicine. It shows that medicine cannot be reduced to its scientific and technical aspects and that the constitutive philosophical aspects of medicine presently are in a state of crisis. Medicine, besides being a scientifically based art of diagnosing and curing infirmities of many kinds, also possesses an essential philosophical and ethical dimension. It turns into anti-medicine if it no longer stands in the service of those goods and ends that are entrusted to it. Their nature is in no way known by natural science but can be clarified by philosophy. Consequently, medicine suffers from philosophical diseases of different degrees of gravity if its theory and practice are based on errors about its proper ends. The cure from the life-threatening philosophical diseases of medicine lies in a critique of philosophical mistakes that influence the theory and practice of medicine and in an understanding and practical implementation of those ethically relevant goods that constitute its true ends. At a time when these goods are by no means universally recognized or embodied in laws of medicine, some basic philosophical understanding of them and of the foundations of medical ethics is urgently required. The purpose of this volume is to provide this largely neglected part of general and medical education
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    ISBN: 9781402019869
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 1052 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Epistemology. ; Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook, all by leading experts in the field, provide the most extensive treatment of various epistemological problems, supplemented by a historical account of this field. The entries are self-contained and substantial contributions to topics such as the sources of knowledge and belief, knowledge acquisition, and truth and justification. There are extensive essays on knowledge in specific fields: the sciences, mathematics, the humanities and the social sciences, religion, and language. Special attention is paid to current discussions on evolutionary epistemology, relativism, the relation between epistemology and cognitive science, sociology of knowledge, epistemic logic, knowledge and art, and feminist epistemology. This collection is a must-have for anybody interested in human knowledge, and its fortunes and misfortunes
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