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  • 101
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    ISBN: 9789401596169
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 216 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 28
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 28
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; Ontology ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: It is an obvious fact that human agency is constrained and structured by many kinds of rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality, persons, and society, and juridical rules. So the question is: what roles are played by social rules and the structural traits of human agency in rational decision making? What bearing does this have on the theory of practical rationality? These issues can only be discussed within an interdisciplinary setting, with researchers drawn from philosophy, decision theory and the economic and social sciences. The problem is of profound, fundamental concern to the social scientist and has attracted a great deal of intellectual effort. Contributors include distinguished researchers in their respective fields and the book thus presents state-of-the-art theory. It can also be used as a textbook in advanced philosophy, economics and social science classes
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  • 102
    ISBN: 9789401142236
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXIII, 414 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idees 167
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 167
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy. ; History ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: The Cambridge Platonist, Henry More (1614-1687), was a dominant figure on the seventeenth-century intellectual scene. His life spanned both the political revolutions of the English Civil War and its aftermath and the intellectual revolution in seventeenth-century science and philosophy. More was highly regarded in his own day as a metaphysician, although the combination of receptivity to the new (such as his admiration of Galileo, Descartes and Boyle) and defence of traditional thinking (notably his belief in witchcraft) makes him a difficult figure to assess today. The heterodoxy of his theological views notwithstanding, More was an important spokesman for moderation within the Anglican Church after the Restoration, and a key figure in the Latitudinarian movement. Richard Ward's Life of Henry More is the only biographical account of him by one of his contemporaries. Ward's almost hagiographical tone is ample testimony to the high regard in which More was held by his admirers. Ward's Life is an important document of intellectual and cultural history which testifies to the continuing impact of More's ideas in the Enlightenment. Among other topics, Ward's biography registers the impact of Quakerism in the late seventeenth century and includes important details about More's `heroine pupil', Anne Conway. The present edition prints both the only modern edition of the printed part of Ward's Account first published in 1710, together with the manuscript Account of More's writings which is published here for the first time
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  • 103
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    ISBN: 9789401143790
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (350p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 3
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Technology Philosophy ; Engineering ; Philosophy. ; History ; Automotive engineering. ; Science—History. ; Technology—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book brings together scholars from the history of technology, history of science, engineering, sociology, and philosophy in an effort to better understand aeronautical research and the full range of mechanisms by which flight technology has advanced in the twentieth century. The book will appeal to students of the humanities and social sciences as well as to researchers and practitioners of flight and aircraft design and engineering. Case studies range from detailed examinations of specific developments such as turbines and flight test equipment to investigations of patents policies and accident investigations. Most studies focus on United States experience, but there is some foreign coverage as well as international comparison. The book will appeal to scholars and college-level students in both the humanities and social sciences and in technical fields as well
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  • 104
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    ISBN: 9789401142632
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 281 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 61
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: The fine arts first emerged divided by the five senses yet, since their very origin, they have projected aesthetic networks among themselves. Music, song, painting, architecture, sculpture, theatre, dance - distinct in themselves - grew together, enhancing each other. In the present outburst of technical ingeniosity, individual arts cross all barriers, as well as proliferate in kind. Hence the traditional criteria of appreciation and enjoyment vanish. The enlarged and ever-growing field calls for new principles of appreciation and new values, essential to our culture. This collection initiates an inquiry into the aesthetic foundations of the fine arts. Their common aesthetic nature, as well as the differentiating specificities which sustain them, might reveal the universal role of aesthetics in human life. Studies by Paula Carabell, J. Fiori Blanchfield, R. Riese Hubert, R. Gray, D. Lipten, J. Parsons, S. Brown, C. Osowie Ruoff, T. Raczka, K. Karbenier and others
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  • 105
    ISBN: 9789401139311
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (176p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H. L. Van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives 156
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; Aesthetics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: Kant's Critique of Judgment accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. In order to appreciate Kant's project, Judging Appearances retrieves the connection between appearance and judgment in the Critique of Judgment. Kleist emphasizes the important but neglected idea of a sensus communis, which provides the indeterminate criterion for judgments regarding appearance. Judging Appearances examines the themes of appearance and judgment against the background of Kant's debt to Leibniz and Shaftesbury. Drawing upon treatments by Husserl, Sartre, Ricoeur and Arendt, Kleist delineates the proto-phenomenological method through which Kant uncovers the idea of a sensus communis. Kleist shows that taste is a discipline of opening oneself to appearance, requiring a subject who dwells in a common world of appearances among a diverse human plurality. This volume will prove valuable for anyone interested in a fresh approach to themes at the heart of Kant's aesthetics
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  • 106
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    ISBN: 9789401090360
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (316p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 214
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 214
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy of nature ; Philosophy. ; Technology—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Science is a multifaceted, natural and historical phenomenon. It consists of five elements, that is, it happens in five distinct media: biological, linguistic, technological, social, and historical. None of these alone provides an indubitable basis for the truth of scientific knowledge, but combined together they compose a solid ground for our trust in its reliability. The composition, however, is uniquely related to our modern mode of living. Science did not exist before modernity, and it will cease to exist in this form if our way of life should change. The book presents a thorough analysis of all these dimensions and their relations, and thus lays the path for an integral theory of science. Because of this it can be used as a textbook for general courses in the theory of science at both the undergraduate and graduate level
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  • 107
    ISBN: 9789401734158
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 386 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 66
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of nature ; Biology—Philosophy. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations. In our attempt to understand life through its origins, the ambition of the present collection is to unravel the network of the origin of the various spheres of sense that carry it onwards. The primogenital matrix of generation (Tymieniecka), elaborated as the fulcrum of this collection, elucidates the main riddles of the scientific / philosophical controversies concerning the status of various spheres that seek to make sense of life
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  • 108
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    ISBN: 9789401732345
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 326 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 65
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Fine arts. ; Aesthetics ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy. ; Arts.
    Abstract: Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment! In the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense. It lies at the imaginative heart of all arts there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'
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  • 109
    ISBN: 9789401725255
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 483 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 68
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of nature ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: The education of humanity is the key to the next century's culture, its social and practical life. The main concerns of education are perennial, but the continuous flood of inventions, the technological innovations that re-shape life, calls for a radically new appraisal of the situation, such as only philosophy can provide. Answering the call of humanity for the measure, sense of proportion and direction that could re-orient present and future education, the phenomenology of life - integral and scientific, in a dialogue with the arts, the sciences, and the humanities - proposes an ontopoietic model of life's unfolding as the universal paradigm for this re-orientation. Taking the Human Creative Condition as its Archimedean point, it offers a unique context for a fresh investigation of the concerns of education, both perennial and immediate
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  • 110
    ISBN: 9789401594646
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 232 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 171
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 171
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; Chemistry ; History ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Medicine—History.
    Abstract: In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the 17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines. Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy. When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical philosophy. He points out that different versions of the corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the 17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties, are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is a significant contribution to both history of science and history of philosophy
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  • 111
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    ISBN: 9789401595209
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 227 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 45
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Political science. ; Public international law. ; Logic ; Ontology ; Philosophy. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Law—Philosophy. ; International law. ; Comparative law.
    Abstract: This book examines in some detail how our concepts of an ideal or `universal' audience influence legal argument. It shows how asking what are the arguments and the forms of argumentation that we believe would be accepted by such an audience, is a useful analytical tool. The book explores what, if any, are the constraints that our vision of an ideal audience imposes on public discourse and particularly on legal discourse. Some visions of a universal audience are widely shared; others are only shared within particular political and legal cultures. Stylistic preferences can have as important an influence on legal decision making as do substantive preferences. In some cultures and legal systems there is a preference to resort to broad general principles; in others there is a preference for a more circumscribed and particular mode of legal argument. Different legal cultures have different idealized notions as to the role of the judge. Different conceptions of the role of the judge will influence many aspects of legal decision making, including how statutes and other authoritative official instruments should be interpreted. All these issues will also be influenced by how a particular legal culture envisions the common or public good and by how tolerant a particular legal culture is of diverse outcomes, that is by how much discretion superior legal decision makers are prepared to grant inferior decision makers. This volume will be of interest to academics and professionals in the fields of legal philosophy, argumentation and comparative law
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  • 112
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    ISBN: 9789401094535
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (204p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 47
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Science Study and teaching ; Political science Philosophy ; Science education. ; Political philosophy. ; Microeconomics ; Philosophy. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Political science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Martin van Hees presents a new approach to the study of law - legal reductionism - which combines elements of legal positivism, new institutionalism and decision theory. From legal positivism Van Hees derives some fundamental insights into the nature of legal systems, but he also revises some of its key tenets. He argues that law can be reduced to facts; moreover, he re-establishes the relation between law and morality by arguing that law and positive morality are inherently related. He subsequently uses decision-theoretic tools to develop and defend his reductionist methodology. The second part of the study applies the resulting approach to an analysis of legal freedom. By showing that legal reductionism allows us to analyse the value of liberal legal systems, Van Hees makes a forceful case for including the study of law in moral and political philosophy. The book is accessible to a wide readership, including legal and moral philosophers, political theorists and social scientists
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  • 113
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    ISBN: 9789401091442
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (192p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées 168
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 168
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy. ; Modern philosophy. ; Epistemology. ; Philosophy, modern ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy—History. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Almost all interpreters of Cartesian philosophy have hitherto focused on the epistemological aspect of Descartes' thought. In his Cartesian Theodicy, Janowski demonstrates that Descartes' epistemological problems are merely rearticulations of theological questions. For example, Descartes' attempt to define the role of God in man's cognitive fallibility is a reiteration of an old argument that points out the incongruity between the existence of God and evil, and his pivotal question `whence error?' is shown here to be a rephrasing of the question `whence evil?' The answer Descartes gives in the Meditations is actually a reformulation of the answer found in St. Augustine's De Libero Arbitrio and the Confessions. The influence of St. Augustine on Descartes can also be detected in the doctrine of eternal truths which, within the context of the 17th-century debates over the question of the nature of divine freedom, caused Descartes to ally himself with the Augustinian Oratorians against the Jesuits. Both in his Cartesian Theodicy as well as his Index Augustino-Cartesian, Textes et Commentaire Janowski shows that the entire Cartesian metaphysics can - and should - be read within the context of Augustinian thought
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  • 114
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    ISBN: 9789401141444
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 158 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 8
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Decision making. ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Microeconomics ; Operations research ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much-neglected problem in practical reasoning - the problem of imperceptible harms and benefits. This problem is better characterized as a series of both practical and technical paradoxes, since those who deny the existence of imperceptible decrements (or increments) face problems no less perplexing than those who affirm their existence. The puzzles and paradoxes combine very practical and pressing worries about our obligations to relieve starvation, mitigate suffering and conserve resources, with deep metaethical worries about the nature of practical rationality and dynamic choice. This collection gathers together the work of moral philosophers, decision theorists, and economic theorists in an attempt to display the dimensions of the problem and to advance alternative solutions
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  • 115
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    ISBN: 9789401139335
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (460p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 210
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 210
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy and science. ; Logic ; Philosophy. ; Linguistics. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: Quine is one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosophers. The essays in this collection are by some of the leading figures in their fields and they touch on the most recent turnings in Quine's work. The book also features an essay by Quine himself, and his replies to each of the papers. Questions are raised concerning Quine's views on knowledge: observation, holism, truth, naturalized epistemology; about language: meaning, the indeterminacy of translation, conjecture; and about the philosophy of logic: ontology, singular terms, vagueness, identity, and intensional contexts. Given Quine's preeminent position, this book must be of interest to students of philosophy in general, Quine aficionados, and most particularly to those working in the areas of epistemology, ontology, philosophies of language, of logic, and of science
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  • 116
    ISBN: 9789401593632
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 156 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 22
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy. ; Logic ; Religion. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: This book presents three of Blondel's most important articles, which have not yet appeared in English. These are Idealist Illusion (1898), The Elementary Principle of a Logic of the Moral Life (1903), and The Starting Point of Philosophy (1906). These essays became significant in Blondel's transition from the early Action (1893) to his later works on Thinking (1934), Being and Beings (1935), and Action (1936-7). They offer evidence for and explain the nature of the pragmatism in Blondel's thought, which developed as he began to articulate the logic of action in response to the criticism that he was an idealist. The Introduction argues that Blondel's measured response to this charge led to the development of a metaphysics of the concrete life and allied him closely to the commonsense school of Reid. These articles should interest students of philosophy and theology who want to explore the theme of concrete experience
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  • 117
    ISBN: 9789401708210
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 202 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Medicine—History. ; Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: This book is the result of a long-standing clinical and educational cooperation between a medical psychologist (Bergsma) and a medical ethicist/philosopher (Thomasma). It is thoroughly interdisciplinary in its examination of the difficulties of honoring the patient's and the physician's autonomy, especially in light of the changes in health care worldwide today. Although autonomy has become the primary standard of bioethics, little has been done to link it to the ways people actually behave, nor to its roots in the healing relationship. Combining as it does the disciplines of psychology and philosophy, this book is a step in that direction
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  • 118
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    ISBN: 9789401726061
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 213 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 38
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Political philosophy. ; Phenomenology ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Political science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This volume is a collection of phenomenological investigations of the political domain. The essays analyze basic concepts such as action, community, and the relation of the political to the ethical, investigate fundamental issues such as the nation-state, leadership, sovereignty, and responsibility, and they examine the convergence of these matters as exemplified in racial discrimination. The volume also includes discussions of the often-neglected work of such important contributors to this field as Alfred Schutz and Paul Ricoeur
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  • 119
    ISBN: 9789401593571
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 320 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 158
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H. L. Van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives 158
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Dass Edmund Husserl am Problem der Intersubjektivität gescheitert ist, gilt als ausgemacht - und ebenso, welche Konsequenzen daraus zu ziehen sind. Entgegen dem allenthalben pauschal erklärten `Abschied vom Subjekt' spricht aber vieles dafür, dass es in der gegenwärtigen Sozialtheorie eher um eine Reformulierung transzendentaler Subjektivität geht. Diese Interpretationsthese wirft ein neues Licht auf den sozialtheoretischen Diskurs, der im deutschen Sprachraum in den vergangenen dreissig Jahren vom Gegensatz von Jürgen Habermas' und Niklas Luhmanns Theorien bestimmt war: `Diskurs' und `System' erscheinen als gegensätzliche Versuche, `Subjektivität' und `Interität' in ein theoretisch befriedigendes Verhältnis zu setzen. Wenn aber - so die kritische These dieses Buches - weder die Reformulierung von Subjektivität als `Interität' noch die Reformulierung von Subjektivität ohne `Interität' das Problem der Intersubjektivität überzeugend löst, ist dies ein Grund, neuerlich in eine direkte Auseinandersetzung mit Husserls Theorie transzendentaler Subjektivität einzutreten. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass Husserls vielkritisierter und -skandalisierter Versuch, den Sinn `Anderer' im `Eigenen' zu fundieren, in der transzendentalphänomenologischen Subjekttheorie durch ein umgekehrtes Begründungsverhältnis konterkariert wird. Bei aller Problematik dieser Theorieanlage - welche nur in Gegenwendung zu den Gewohnheiten der Husserl-Interpretation, vor allem aber auch zu Husserls Selbstinterpretation in den Blick kommt - zeigt sich, dass der phänomenologische Begriff des transzendentalen Subjekts seinen Reformulierungen als Diskurs und als System in mancher Hinsicht überlegen ist
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  • 120
    ISBN: 9789401734110
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 475 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 63
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Comparative Literature ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: What is Art? This perennial question is forcefully thrown open by the present day electronic expansion of its field and proliferation of arts. Toward the treatment of this great question with deepest philosophical underpinnings, this collection of studies means to lay a ground. It is presumed that art, transcendentality, the designs of the cosmos might yield some of their mysteries while we investigate the Orchestration of the Arts stretching into all main lines of the human creativity: literature, history.. and encompassing the distinctive and yet symbiotically inclined music, song, painting, opera, drama, stage decor, architecture, and ornament
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    ISBN: 9789401595025
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 243 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 3
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Sociology. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. Receiving the diagnosis typically led to a dramatic biographical disruption. This highly original book turns this basic feature of life with HIV into the vantage point for a fascinating analysis of Western subjectivity. Combining a host of empirical observations with the debate on the modern self, the author argues that the self-construction of people with HIV highlights the precarious yet indispensable status of the self in contemporary Western society. Constructing one's biography in terms of self-actualization is in fact a manifestation of nihilism: it evokes a standard of certainty which, on closer examination, cannot be sustained. Written in a lucid style, this unique book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, social theory and philosophy, as well as anybody interested in the relationship between the self and society or the experience of living with HIV/AIDS
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    ISBN: 9789401593373
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (360 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Topoi Library 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Political philosophy. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled. Machiavelli changed the terms of freedom, requiring that its discourse address the demand for no-rule or non-domination. Political freedom would then develop only through a strategy of antagonism to every form of legitimate domination. This leads to the emergence of modern political life: any institution that wishes to rule legitimately must simultaneously be inscribed with its immanent critique and imminent subversion. For Machiavelli, the possibility of instituting the political form is conditioned by the possibility of changing it in an event of political revolution. This book shows Machiavelli as a philosopher of the modern condition. For him, politics exists in the absence of those absolute moral standards that are called upon to legitimate the domination of man over man. If this understanding lies open to relativism and historicism, it does so in order to render effective the project of reinventing the sense of human freedom. Machiavelli's legacy to modernity is the recognition of an irreconcilable tension between the demands of freedom and the imperatives of morality
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    ISBN: 9789401595223
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 454 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 170
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 170
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Economics Methodology ; Economic history. ; Philosophy. ; Economics—History.
    Abstract: Exciting the Industry of Mankind is the first comprehensive book about George Berkeley's revolutionary views on money and banking. Berkeley broke the conceptual link between money and metallic substance in The Querist, a work published between 1735 and 1737 in Dublin, consisting entirely of questions. Exciting the Industry of Mankind explains what economic and social forces caused Berkeley to write The Querist in response to a major economic crisis in Ireland. Exciting the Industry of Mankind falsifies the view that Berkeley has nothing to tell us about our present and future social and economic life. For the `idealism' Berkeley found in the money form is now becoming a fact of global economic life, when `xenomoney' and `virtual money' exchanges begin to dwarf commodity transactions, and the future becomes the dominant temporal dimension of economic activity. Philosophers, historians, cultural theorists, economists and lovers of Irish history will be interested in this volume
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  • 124
    ISBN: 9789401139359
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (280p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 15
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 15
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Epistemology. ; Philosophy and science. ; History ; Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very much alive. Some of the papers reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last decade. The book will be of interest to philosophers and scientists alike in the reassessment it provides of earlier debates about method and current directions of research
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  • 125
    ISBN: 9789401595704
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 292 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 29
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 29
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Systems theory ; Decision making. ; Operations research ; Sociology. ; Philosophy. ; System theory. ; Control theory.
    Abstract: The central topic of this book is the mathematical analysis of social systems, understood in the following rather classical way: social systems consist of social actors who interact according to specific rules of interactions; the dynamics of social systems is then the consequences of these interactions, viz., the self-organization of social systems. According to particular demands of their environment, social systems are able to behave in an adaptive manner, that is they can change their rules of interaction by certain meta rules and thus generate a meta dynamics. It is possible to model and analyse mathematically both dynamics and meta dynamics, using cellular automata and genetic algorithms. These tools allow social systems theory to be carried through as precisely as the theories of natural systems, a feat that has not previously been possible. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in the fields of theoretical sociology and social and general systems theory and other interested scientists. No specialised knowledge of mathematics and/or computer science is required
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    ISBN: 9789401595049
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 206 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 65
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy and science. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher and historian of science whose central concerns were the distinction between the rational and the irrational. He viewed scientific rationality as our major defence against the various conditions that encourage witch hunts and similar outbursts of irrationality, with all their attendant pain and terror. Butts saw himself as a pragmatic realist, combining what he took to be the best aspects of logical empiricism with a historically informed pragmatism, deeply appreciative of the methods of science, trying to describe a kind of rationality essential in the struggle to preserve human values. This volume gathers previously unpublished essays and lectures with some previously published, thematically related essays. It includes essays and lectures on philosophical aspects of the European witch hunt, on scientific rationality and methodology, and on the relationships between science and philosophy exhibited in the writings of such historically significant figures as Leibniz, D'Alembert, Hume, Kant, Carnap and Kuhn
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    ISBN: 9789401714785
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 175 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 5
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: The outstanding features of this book are that it directly confronts the challenge posed by G.E.M. Anscombe in Modern Moral Philosophy of how moral philosophy can be done, it makes a significant contribution to the debate on virtue theory and anti-theory in ethics, and it shows the relevance of such theoretical discussion by grounding it in, and applying it to, contemporary moral issues such as abortion, suicide, and the moral status of animals. No other book currently available covers this ground. The book is aimed primarily at upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in philosophy, but it should be accessible to anyone with an interest in practical ethics or the philosophy of Wittgenstein
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  • 128
    ISBN: 9789401139458
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (172p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 48
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Law. ; Constitutional law ; Political science. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Law—History.
    Abstract: This book explores the origins of Anglo-American Constitutionalism, from both a philosophical and a historical perspective. It attempts to show that the institutional mechanisms incorporated into the American Constitution were modeled under a strong bias against collective discussion. The book also examines the alternative institutional system then proposed by a different and more radical tradition of thought, and evaluates this alternative from the ideal of a deliberate democracy. The Scepter of Reason challenges much of the current academic literature on the philosophical foundations of modern constitutionalism, and advances suggestions for a different approach. It will be particularly attractive for legal scholars, political scientists, and graduate and undergraduate students interested in Constitutional Theory, Anglo-American History, and Democratic Theory
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    ISBN: 9789401142656
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 285 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 62
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Comparative Literature ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Are emotions, feelings, sentiments not the stuff of literature? That is where they project their `inner logic' of aesthetic transmutation; there, beyond the instrument of language that they command. This collection explores how the lyrical virtualities of life-experience and the elegiac style in literature share a common core, lifting the human significance of life from abysmal vitality to esoteric heights, from abysmal grief to a serene reconciliation with destiny. The `elegiac sequence' in the play of emotions, feelings, sentiments brings together life and literary creativity in its transformatory power. With papers by A. Giuculescu, John McGraw, R. Ellis, A. Carillo Canán, B. Watson, S. Bindeman, R.J. Wilson, L. Kimmel, B. Prochaska, T. Raczka, Chr. Eykman, J.S. Smith, G. Scheper, S. Feshbach, I. Vayl, H. Rudnick and others
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    ISBN: 9789401594448
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 181 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 7
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Fine arts. ; Political philosophy. ; Aesthetics ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy. ; Arts. ; Political science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive and novel argument in favor of subsidizing the arts. For readers already in favor of subsidy, the book offers a distinctly political rationale for government support: engaging the arts helps develop the intellectual faculties of judgment. By appealing to art's instrumental ability to educate democratic citizens, the book avoids the most common criticisms of subsidy, namely that it is elitist and paternalistic. For those who oppose subsidy or are undecided, the book injects new ideas into the debate and maps arts subsidy onto the larger landscape of political liberalism. Yet, while using political liberalism as its point of departure, the book's positive argument for subsidy draws on numerous philosophical traditions, including continental philosophy and the philosophy of art. This multi-disciplinary approach gives the book a comprehensiveness not found in purely analytical treatments of the topic. The book is accessible, and should serve a variety of readers, including political philosophers, philosophers of art, art historians, policy makers, and practising artists interested in the subsidy issue
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    ISBN: 9789401594943
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 230 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 172
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 172
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy. ; History ; Religion. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: This book provides a uniquely detailed case study of the origins of millenarianism within the vast opera of one of its earliest and most influential Calvinist exponents: the Herborn encyclopedist Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638). The young Alsted, it emerges, looked forward not to the millennium of Apocalypse 20 but to a brief, final period of enhanced illumination described in a poorly understood central European tradition of astrological, alchemical, spiritualist, and generally `occult' prophetic speculation. It was the disasters following the Bohemian Revolt of 1618 which forced Alsted to recast these expectations as the more exclusively scriptural expectation of a literal millennium; and the material for this revision was found in a protracted dispute over the millennium between senior theologians in Herborn and Heidelberg and a little-known work on the conversion of the Jews by one of the figures most probably behind the composition of the Rosicrucian manifestos. Based on study of the full range of Alsted's works, his diverse sources, and widely dispersed manuscript material, the result is the first English book on 17th-century continental millenarianism and the first monograph in any language exclusively devoted to the origins of the doctrine within mainstream Protestantism
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    ISBN: 9789401594110
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 251 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 41
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Temporality has been a central issue in phenomenology since its inception. Husserl's groundbreaking investigations of the consciousness of internal time early in the century inaugurated a phenomenological tradition enriched by such figures as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Eugen Fink. The authors of the essays collected in this volume continue that tradition, challenging, expanding, and deepening it. Many of the essays explore topics involving the deepest levels of temporal constitution, including the relationship of temporality to the self and to the world; the ways in which temporalizing consciousness and what it temporalizes present themselves; and the roles and nature of present, past, and future. Other essays develop original positions concerning history, tradition, narrative, the time of generations, the coherence of one's life, and the place of time in the visual arts. In every instance, the authors show how invaluable phenomenology is for the investigation of time's many faces
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    ISBN: 9789401734318
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 254 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 69
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; Aesthetics ; Phenomenology ; Comparative Literature ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are profoundly dissatisfied with the stark reality of life's swift progress onward, and the enigmatic and irretrievable meaning of the past. And so we dramatise our existence, probing deeply for a lyrical and heartfelt yet universally valid sense of our experience. It is in great works of literature that we seek those hidden springs that so move us. It is in honour of this search that this collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics
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    ISBN: 9789401723619
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 277 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 7
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: What are the conditions which must be met for a person to be justly held responsible for his or her moral faults and failures? This is the first book that pays systematic attention to ontological issues impinging on this question. It contains a selection of the papers discussed at the International Confererence on Moral Responsibility and Ontology held at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. In Part I the stage is set by the keynote speakers of the conference, Peter van Inwagen and R. Jay Wallace. Subsequent parts are devoted to responsibility and personal identity, incompatibilist arguments, compatibilist positions, and some related subjects. The book will be enjoyed by scholars in the field and students alike
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    ISBN: 9789401135245
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 473 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Cognitive Systems 9
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy of mind ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Overview -- Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind: An Overview -- II. Connectionism vs. Classical Cognitive Science -- Connectionism, Computation, and Cognition -- Connectionism and the Notion of Levels -- Representation and Rule-Instantiation in Connectionist Systems -- What Connectionists Cannot Do: The Threat to Classical AI -- III. Connectionism and Conditioning -- Connectionism in Pavlovian Harness -- Connectionism and Conditioning -- IV. Does Cognition Require Syntactically Structured Representations? -- Systematicity, Structured Representations and Cognitive Architecture: A Reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn -- An Explanatory Budget for Connectionism and Eliminativism -- Settling into a New Paradigm -- Putting a Price on Cognition -- V. Can Connectionism Provide Syntactically Structured Representations? -- The Constituent Structure of Connectionist Mental States: A Reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn -- Representation in Pictorialism and Connectionism -- Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity: Why Smolensky’s Solution Doesn’t Work -- Classical Questions, Radical Answers: Connectionism and the Structure of Mental Representations -- Connectionism versus Symbolism in High-Level Cognition -- VI. Connectionism and Philosophy -- Connectionism and the Specter of Representationalism -- Is Perception Cognitively Mediated -- Leaping to Conclusions: Connectionism, Consciousness, and the Computational Mind -- Name Index.
    Abstract: This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information and data­ processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capabilities of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelligence and to computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimental and methodological studies will also appear from time to time. One of the most, if not the most, exciting developments within cognitive science has been the emergence of connectionism as an alternative to the computational conception of the mind that tends to dominate the discipline. In this volume, John Tienson and Terence Horgan have brought together a fine collection of stimulating studies on connectionism and its significance. As the Introduction explains, the most pressing questions concern whether or not connectionism can provide a new conception of the nature of mentality. By focusing on the similarities and differences between connectionism and other approaches to cognitive science, the chapters of this book supply valuable resources that advance our understanding of these difficult issues. J.H.F.
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    ISBN: 9789400905535
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (446p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies in Cognitive Systems 5
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Logic ; Artificial intelligence ; Linguistics. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I / Defeasible Reasoning and the Frame Problem -- Defeasible Logic and The Frame Problem -- Monotonic Solution of The Frame Problem in The Situation Calculus: An Efficient Method for Worlds with Fully Specified Actions -- A Framework for Reasoning with Defaults -- The Frame Problem and Relevant Predication -- II / Representation Problems and Ordinary Language -- Thing and Thought -- Bare Plurals as Plural Indefinite Noun Phrases -- Seeing To it That: A Canonical Form for Agentives -- Speaker Plans, Linguistic Contexts, and Indirect Speech Acts -- III / Inference Rules and Belief Revision -- Belief Revision, Non-Monotonic Reasoning, and the Ramsey Test -- Jeffrey’s Rule, Passage of Experience, and Neo-Bayesianism -- Two Perspectives on Consensus for (Bayesian) Inference and Decisions -- Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities: Three Triviality Theorems -- IV / Logical Problems in Representing Knowledge -- Inheritance Theory and Path-Based Reasoning: An Introduction -- Defeasible Specification of Utilities -- to A Logic of Assertions -- A New Normative Theory of Probabilistic Logic -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data­ processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) ani­ mal, or machine. Its scope is intended to span the full range of interests from classical problems in the philosophy of mind and philosophical psy­ chology through issues in cognitive psychology and sociobiology (concerning the mental capabilities of other species) to ideas related to artificial intelli­ gence and computer science. While primary emphasis will be placed upon theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological aspects of these problems and domains, empirical, experimental, and methodological studies will also ap­ pear from time to time. The present volume provides a collection of studies that focus on some of the central problems within the domain of artificial intelligence. These difficulties fall into four principal areas: defeasible reasoning (including the frame problem as apart), ordinary language (and the representation prob­ lems that it generates), the revision of beliefs (and its rules of inference), and knowledge representation (and the logical problems that are encountered there). These papers make original contributions to each of these areas of inquiry and should be of special interest to those who understand the crucial role that is played by questions of logical form. They vividly illustrate the benefits that can emerge from collaborative efforts involving scholars from linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and AI. J. H. F.
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