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    Preference Change : Approaches from Philosophy, Economics and Psychology (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048125937
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 42
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Preference change
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Microeconomics ; Philosophy ; Logic ; Microeconomics ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Präferenz ; Philosophie ; Psychologie ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: The fact that preferences change is a pressing but unresolved problem for philosophy and the social sciences. Social scientists use preferences to explain agents’ behaviour, philosophers use preferences to explicate value judgements. A lot of empirical research is invested into identifying people’s preferences. However, the success of these endeavours is seriously threatened, because precise accounts of when and why preferences change are lacking. This volume answers to this need by collecting new essays from an interdisciplinary group of experts in the field. These essays, especially written for this volume, survey the newest approaches to preference change developed in the social sciences and in philosophy, and will serve as a platform for future research. They review some standard material, including the neoclassical preference model and doxastic preference change, time preferences and the debate over policy evaluation under preference change. However, the focus is on new research that is not widely known, such as conditional utilities, non-monotonic logics, complex systems models, inter-temporal choice approaches, etc. The book serves three purposes. It introduces undergraduate students to the current state of research on preference change, it gives graduate students and researchers in-depth insights into the state-of-the-art modelling techniques of different disciplines, and it points out to experts the lacunae in the literature and directions for future research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preference Change: An Introduction; Three Analyses of Sour Grapes; For Better or for Worse: Dynamic Logics of Preference; Preference, Priorities and Belief; Why the Received Models of Considering Preference Change Must Fail; Exploitable Preference Changes; Recursive Self-prediction in Self-control and Its Failure; From Belief Revision to Preference Change; Preference Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?; The Ethics of Nudge; Preference Kinematics; Population-Dependent Costs of Detecting Trustworthiness: An Indirect Evolutionary Analysis
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2593-7
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    Renaissance scepticisms (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402085185
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas 199
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Renaissance scepticisms
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy ; Skepticism History ; 16th century ; Philosophy, Renaissance ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Skeptizismus ; Renaissance ; Skeptizismus ; Geschichte 1420-1600 ; Skeptizismus ; Renaissance ; Skeptizismus ; Geschichte 1420-1600
    Abstract: Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance scepticism, an overall synthesis comprising the entire period has not been achieved yet. No predetermined idea of that complex historical subject that is Renaissance scepticism underlies this book, and we want to sacrifice the complexity of movements, personalities, tendencies and interpretations to any sort of a priori unity of theme even less. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that we had always thought of "scepticisms" in the plural, and believe that the different contexts (philosophical, religious, cultural) in which these forms grew up must also be taken into account. Furthermore, given the transversal nature and provocative character of the sceptical challenge, this book contains essays also on philosophers who, without being sceptics and sometimes engaged in fighting scepticism, nevertheless took up its challenge. The main authors considered in this book are: Vives, Castellio, Agrippa, Pedro de Valencia, Pico, Sanchez, Montaigne, Charron, Bruno, Bacon, and Campanella. The various essays in the book show the relevance of the philosophical thought of authors little known by the general public and put in new perspective important aspects of the thought of some of the great thinkers of the Renaissance.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8518-5
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    Harming Future Persons : Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402056970
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 35
    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Harming future persons
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Constitutional law ; Ethics ; Human genetics ; Law Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Public health laws ; Ethics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Verfassungsrecht ; Humangenetik ; Ethik ; Rechtsphilosophie
    Abstract: This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations. Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice brings a worse off person into existence in place of a better off but 'nonidentical' person make that choice wrong? We intuitively think we are obligated to treat future persons in accordance with certain stringent standardsroughly those we think apply to our treatment of existing persons. We think we ought to create better lives for at least some future persons when we can do so without making things worse for too many existing or other future persons. We think it would be wrong to engage in risky behaviors today that will have clearly adverse effects for the children we intend one day to conceive. And we think it would be wrong to act today in a way that would turn the Earth of the future into a miserable place. Each of these intuitive points is, however, challenged by the nonidentity problem. That problem arises from the observation that future persons often owe their very existence to choices that appear to make things worse for those same persons. New reproductive technologies, for example, can be both risky and essential to one persons coming into existence in place of a 'nonidentical' other or no one at all. But so can a myriad of other choices, whether made just prior to conception or centuries beforechoices that seem to have nothing to do with procreation but in fact help to determine the timing and manner of conception of any particular future person and thus the identity of that person. Where the persons life is worth living, it is difficult to see how he or she has been harmed, or made worse off, or wronged, by such an identity-determining choice. We then face the full power of the nonidentity problem: if the choice is not bad for the future person it seems most adversely to affect, then on what
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Harming Future Persons: Introduction; Part I Can Bringing a Person into Existence Harm That Person? Can an Act That Harms No One Be Wrong?; 1 The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem; Part II If Bringing a Badly Off Person into Existence is Wrong, is Not Bringing a Well Off Person into Existence Also Wrong?; 2 Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives; 3 Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist; Part III Must an Act Worse for People be Worse for a Particular Person?; 4 Who Cares About Identity?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternate Possible Identities?6 Rule Consequentialism and Non-identity; Part IV Is the Argument to ""No Harm Done"" Correct? Must an Act that Harms a Person Make that Person Worse Off?; 7 Harming as Causing Harm; 8 Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions; 9 Harming and Procreating; 10 The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When isOne Act Better for a Person than Another?; Part V Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong?
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-identity Problem12 Two Varieties of "Better-For" Judgements; 13 Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions; Part VI Is the Person Affecting Approach Objectionable Independent of the Nonidentity Problem?; 14 Can the Person Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics?; Part VII What are the Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for Law and Public Policy?; 15 Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty; 16 Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice Over Time; Name Index; Subject Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5697-0
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    Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402099311
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 343
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    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Genetic epistemology ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of mind ; Goodman, Nelson 1906-1998 ; Nominalismus
    Abstract: "Nelson Goodman's disparate writings are often written about only within their own particular discipline, such that the epistemology is discussed in contrast to others' epistemology, the aesthetics is contrasted with more traditional aesthetics, and the ontology and logic is viewed in contrast to both other contemporary philosophers and to Goodman's historical predecessors. This book argues that that is not an adequate way to view Goodman. The separate disciplines of ontology, epistemology, and aesthetics should be viewed as sequential steps within his thought, such that each provides the ground rules for the next section and, furthermore, providing the reasons for limitations on the terms available to the subsequent writing(s). This is true not merely because this is the general chronology of his writing, but more importantly because within his metaphysics lies Goodman's basic nominalist ontology and logic, and it is upon those principles that he builds his epistemology and, furthermore, it is the sum of both the metaphysics and the epistemology, with the nominalist principle as the guiding force, which constructs the aesthetics. At the end of each section of this book, the consequent limitations imposed on his terms and concepts available to him are explicated, such that, by the end of the book, the book delineates the constraints imposed upon the aesthetics by both the metaphysics and the epistemology."--P. [4] of cover
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9931-1
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    Real World Justice : Grounds, Principles, Human Rights, and Social Institutions (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402031427
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    Series Statement: Studies in Global Justice 1
    DDC: 303.372
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Political Science ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gerechtigkeit ; Institution ; Globalisierung ; Menschenrecht ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Armut ; Sozialeinrichtung
    Abstract: The concept of global justice makes visible how we citizens of affluent countries are potentially implicated in the horrors so many must endure in the so-called less developed countries. Distinct conceptions of global justice differ in their specific criteria of global justice. However, they agree that the touchstone is how well our global institutional order is doing, compared to its feasible alternatives, in regard to the fundamental human interests that matter from a moral point of view. We are responsible for global regimes such as the global trading system and the rules governing military interventions. These institutional arrangements affect human beings worldwide, for instance by shaping the options and incentives of governments and corporations. Alternative paths of globalization would have differed in how much violence, oppression, and extreme poverty they engender. And global institutional reforms could greatly enhance human rights fullfillment in the future. The importance of this global justice approach reaches well beyond philosophy. It helps ordinary citizens evaluate their options and their responsibility for global institutional factors, and it challenges social scientists to address the causes of poverty and hunger that act across borders. The present volume addresses four main topics regarding global justice: The normative grounds for claims regarding the global institutional order, the substantive normative principles for a legitimate global order, the roles of legal human rights standards, and some institutional arrangements that may make the present world order less unjust. All royalties from this book have been assigned to Oxfam.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Poverty and Global Justice: Some Challenges Ahead; Justice, Morality and Power in the Global Context; "Saving Amina": Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue; Poverty as a Human Rights Violation and the Limits of Nationalism; International or Global Justice? Evaluating the Cosmopolitan Approach; Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle; World Poverty and Moral Responsibility; The Principle of Subsidiarity; "It's the Power, Stupid!" On the Unmentioned Precondition of Social Justice
    Description / Table of Contents: Egalitarian Global Distributive Justice or Minimal Standard? Pogge's PositionResponsibility and International Distributive Justice; From Natural Law to Human Rights - Some Reflections on Thomas Pogge and Global Justice; Deliberation or Negotiation? Remarks on the Justice of Global and Regional Human Rights Agreements; Human Rights and Relativism; The Nature of Human Rights; Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation - Weak and Strong; The First UN Millennium Development Goal: A Cause for Celebration?
    Description / Table of Contents: Can Global Distributive Justice be Minimalist and Consensual? - Reflections on Thomas Pogge's Global Tax on Natural ResourcesRedistributing Responsibilities - The UN Global Compact with Corporations
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3142-4
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    Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402033339
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 244
    Parallel Title: Print version Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy if Science
    DDC: 001.01 s
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    Keywords: Philosophy of Mind ; Science History ; Genetic epistemology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Türkei ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: As an academic discipline, the philosophy and history of science in Turkey was marked by two historical events: Hans Reichenbach's immigrating to Turkey and taking a post between 1933 and 1938 at Istanbul University prior to his tenure at UCLA, and Aydin Sayili's establishing a chair in the history of science in 1952 after having become the first student to receive a Ph.D. under George Sarton at Harvard University. Since then, both disciplines have flourished in Turkey. The present book, which contains seventeen newly commissioned articles, aims to give a rich overview of the current state of research by Turkish philosophers and historians of science. Topics covered address issues in methodology, causation, and reduction, and include philosophy of logic and physics, philosophy of psychology and language, and Ottoman science studies. The book also contains an unpublished interview with Maria Reichenbach, Hans Reichenbach's wife, which sheds new light on Reichenbach's academic and personal life in Istanbul and at UCLA.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3333-8
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    Reasoning Robots : The Art and Science of Programming Robotic Agents (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402030697
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    Series Statement: Applied Logic Series 33
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Roboter ; Programmierung ; Prädikatenlogik ; Stufe 1
    Abstract: "The book provides an in-depth and uniform treatment of a mathematical model for reasoning robotic agents. The book also contains an introduction to a programming method and system based on this model. The mathematical model, known as the ""Fluent Calculus'', describes how to use classical first-order logic to set up symbolic models of dynamic worlds and to represent knowledge of actions and their effects. Robotic agents use this knowledge and their reasoning facilities to make decisions when following high-level, long-term strategies. The book covers the issues of reasoning about sensor input, acting under incomplete knowledge and uncertainty, planning, intelligent troubleshooting, and many other topics. The mathematical model is supplemented by a programming method which allows readers to design their own reasoning robotic agents. The usage of this method, called ""FLUX'', is illustrated by many example programs. The book includes the details of an implementation of FLUX using the standard programming language PROLOG, which allows readers to re-implement or to modify and extend the generic system. The design of autonomous agents, including robots, is one of the most exciting and challenging goals of Artificial Intelligence. Reasoning robotic agents constitute a link between knowledge representation and reasoning on the one hand, and agent programming and robot control on the other. The book provides a uniform mathematical model for the problem-driven, top-down design of rational agents, which use reasoning for decision making, planning, and troubleshooting. The implementation of the mathematical model by a general PROLOG program allows readers to practice the design of reasoning robotic agents. Since all implementation details are given, the generic system can be easily modified and extended."
    Description / Table of Contents: Special Fluent Calculus; Special FLUX; General Fluent Calculus; General FLUX; Knowledge Programming; Planning; Nondeterminism; Imprecision*; Indirect Effects: Ramification Problem*; Troubleshooting: Qualification Problem; Robotics
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3069-X
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    Explorations of the Life-World : Continuing Dialogues with Alfred Schutz (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402032202
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 53
    DDC: 300.1
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Schütz, Alfred 1899-1959 ; Lebenswelt
    Abstract: This book is intended as a celebration of the legacy of Alfred Schutz in honor of the 100th anniversary of the year of his birth in 1999. It represents the contributions of a number of Schutzian scholars from the United States, Europe and Asia who have reflected on the significance of Schutz's work for philosophy and the human sciences for many years. Their work was first presented at international conferences held at Waseda University, Japan, March, 1999, the University of Konstanz, Germany, May 1999, and at the meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences at the University of Oregon, USA, October, 1999. The editors were organizers of these conferences. These contributions trace connections and continuities with other major theorists and scholars ranging from Max Weber to Talcott Parsons and Pierre Bourdieu, to assessments of his contributions to methodology and social theory, to ethics and the political sphere, to his appeal in fields beyond philosophy, as well as to his wide-ranging explorations of the life-world. Schutz's legacy continues to be found in various places in the human sciences and philosophy and in the intersections of these disciplines. These papers contribute to the on-going dialogue and assessment of Schutz's corpus of work and to fresh appraisals of the continuing relevance of his work.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Alfred Schutz and Contemporary Social Theory and Social Research; The Problem of Subjectivity in Schutz and Parsons; Reflexivity, Reality, and Relationality. The Inadequacy of Bourdieu's Critique of the Phenomenological Tradition in Sociology; The Appeal of Alfred Schutz in Disciplines beyond Philosophy, e.g. Jurisprudence; The "Naturality" of Alfred Schutz's Natural Attitude of the Life-World; Between the Everyday Life-World and the World of Social Scientific Theory-Towards an "Adequate" Social Thory; The Ideal Type in Weber and Schutz
    Description / Table of Contents: If only to be heard: Value-Freedom and Ethics in Alfred Schutz's Economic and Political WritingsIn Search of a Political Sphere in Alfred Schutz; The Pragmatic Theory of the Life-World as a Basis for Intercultural Comparisons; Schutz on Transcendence and the Variety of Life-World Experience
    Note: Contains revised versions of papers presented at three conferences, held Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, March 1999 ; University of Konstanz, Germany, May 1999, and a session of the SPHS meeting at the University of Oregon, October 1999 , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3220-X
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    The Science of the Individual: Leibniz's Ontology of Individual Substance (2005)
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    Series Statement: Topoi Library 6
    DDC: 111.1092
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Metaphysik ; Individualität ; Substanz ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Substanz
    Abstract: In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so doing, he connects himself to a venerable tradition. His theory of individual concept, however, breaks with another idea of the same tradition, that no account of the individual as such can be given. Contrary to what has been commonly accepted, Leibniz's intuitions are not the mere result of the transcription of subject-predicate logic, nor of the uncritical persistence of some old metaphysical assumptions. They grow, instead, from an unprejudiced inquiry about our basic ontological framework, where logic of truth, linguistic analysis, and phenomenological experience of the mind's life are tightly interwoven. Leibniz's struggle for a concept capable of grasping concrete individuals as such is pursued in an age of great paradigm changes - from the Scholastic background to Hobbes's nominalism to the Cartesian 'way of ideas' or Spinoza's substance metaphysics - when the relationships among words, ideas and things are intensively discussed and wholly reshaped. This is the context where the genesis and significance of Leibniz's theory of 'complete being' and its concept are reconstrued. The result is a fresh look at some of the most perplexing issues in Leibniz scholarship, like his ideas about individual identity and the thesis that all its properties are essential to an individual. The questions Leibniz faces, and to which his theory of individual substance aims to answer, are yet, to a large extent, those of contemporary metaphysics: how to trace a categorial framework? How to distinguish concrete and abstract items? What is the metaphysical basis of linguistic predication? How is trans-temporal sameness assured? How to make sense of essential attributions? In this ontological framework Leibniz's further questions about the destiny of human individuals and their history are spelt out. Maybe his answers also have something to tell us. This book is aimed at all who are interested in Leibniz's philosophy, history of early modern philosophy and metaphysical issues in their historical development.
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    Levinas Concordance (2005)
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    DDC: 194
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Ontology ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy (General) ; Konkordanz ; Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995
    Abstract: This work is the first Levinas Concordance. The particularity of this index is that it covers on all the 28 books published by Levinas in French. The Levinas Concordance comprises the complete list of meaningful words of Levinas' oeuvre and their corresponding occurrences, indicated by book, page and line. The Levinas Concordance contains eight specific indexes: General Index of French Terms, General Index of Proper Names, Index of Hebrew, Biblical and Talmudic Proper Names, Index of Hebrew Terms, Index of Greek Terms, Index of Latin Terms, Index of German Terms, Index of Works.
    Abstract: Covering all the 28 books published by Levinas in French, this book comprises the complete list of meaningful words of Levinas' oeuvre and their corresponding occurrences, indicated by book, page and line. It contains eight specific indexes
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminary; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; General Index of French Terms; General Index of Proper Names; Index of Hebrew, Biblical and Talmudic Proper Names; Index of Hebrew Terms; Index of Greek Terms; Index of Latin Terms; Index of German Terms; Index of Works
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4125-X
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    Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402030017
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 57
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Law ; Religion (General) ; Ethik
    Abstract: This volume investigates the paradigm changes which occurred in ethics during the early modern era (1350-1600). While many general claims have been made regarding the nature of moral philosophy in the period of transition from medieval to modern thought, the rich variety of extant texts has seldom been studied and discussed in detail. The present collection attempts to do this. It provides new research on ethics in the context of Late Scholasticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation. It traces the fate of Aristotelianism and of Stoicism, explores specific topics such as probabilism and casuistry, and highlights the connections between Protestant theology and early modern ethics. The book also examines how the origins of human rights, as well as different views of moral agency, the will and the emotions, came into focus on the eve of modernity. Target audience: students of medieval, Renaissance and Reformation history, students of the history of philosophy, ethics and theology, those interested in humanism, human rights and the history of law.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Sources and Authorities for Moral Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Thomas Aquinas and Jean Buridan on Aristotle's Ethics; Action, Will and Law in Late Scholasticism; Michael Baius (1513-89) and the Debate on 'Pure Nature': Grace and Moral Agency in Sixteenth-Century Scholasticism; On the Anatomy of Probabilism; Casuistry and the Early Modern Paradigm Shift in the Notion of Charity; Poverty and Power: Franciscans in Later Medieval Political Thought; The Franciscan Background of Early Modern Rights Discussion: Rights of Property and Subsistence
    Description / Table of Contents: Justification through Being: Conrad Summenhart on Natural RightsEthics in Luther's Theology: The Three Orders; The Reason of Acting: Melanchthon's Concept of Practical Philosophy and the Question of the Unity and Consistency of His Philosophy; Natural Philosophy and Ethics in Melanchthon; Ethics in Early Calvinism; Aristotelianism and Anti-Stoicism in Juan Luis Vives's Conception of the Emotions; The Humanist as Moral Philosopher: Marc-Antoine Muret's 1585 Edition of Seneca
    Note: Contains papers from a conference "Late Medieval and Early Modern Ethics and Politics" held as part of the European Science Foundation, November 2001, Strasbourg, France , Includes bibliographic references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3001-0
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    Elisha Bartlett's Philosophy of Medicine (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402030420
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine, Classics of Medical Ethics 83
    DDC: 610.1
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Philosophy, Medical ; Quelle ; Bartlett, Elisha 1804-1855 An essay on the philosophy of medical medicine
    Abstract: This volume is a scholar's edition of the first systematic American work on the philosophy of medicine, An Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science (Philadelphia, 1844), by Elisha Bartlett (1804-1855). The book is divided into two parts: Part I consists of a critical introduction that gives a biographical sketch of Elisha Bartlett and situates his empiricist philosophy of medicine within the philosophical debates of the various theoretical schools of medical practice of early nineteenth-century America. Short summaries of Bartlett's other writings and important addresses are presented, and many of the reviews of Bartlett's work that appeared in the medical journals of his time are discussed. Also, the influence of the Paris clinical school on Bartlett's philosophy is shown. Part II contains the Essay, and includes a previously unpublished manuscript of Bartlett's philosophy of therapeutics, which develops some of the ideas of the Essay and adds another facet to Bartlett's philosophy of medicine. In conclusion, some critical notes on Bartlett's works are incorporated. A bibliography includes Bartlett's published work, published reviews of his work, unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, and secondary literature on Bartlett and the philosophy of nineteenth-century medicine, and the book's index provides scholars access to the major ideas in Bartlett's work. This book will be of interest to philosophers of medicine, physicians, historians of medicine, and medical ethicists.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; A Biographical Sketch of Elisha Bartlett; Philosophy of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century; Elisha Bartlett's Philosophy of Medicine; Bartlett's Other Writings; An Essay on the Philosophy of Medical Science; The Philosophy of Therapeutics
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3042-8
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    Phenomenology of Life. Meeting the Challenges of the Present-Day World (2005)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 84
    DDC: 142/.7
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Phänomenologie ; Leben ; Lebenswelt
    Abstract: Philosophy has been always received or bypassed for its resonance or aloofness with the spirit of the time. Should not philosophy/phenomenology of life be expected to do more to ascertain its validity? Should it not pass the pragmatic test, that is to respond directly to the life-concerns of its time? What is the role of the philosopher and philosophy today? Due to the ever-advancing scientific, technological, social and cultural changes that are shaping human life and the life-world-in-transformation, we are desperately seeking a measure to estimate life's unfolding, a compass to stir the course between Scylla and Charibda to maintain human-hood and creative insight for laying the cornerstones for the unforeseeable unfolding of life dynamisms. It is this challenge which philosophy/phenomenology of life meets with underlying ontopoietic unraveling of the hidden logoic concatenations of beingness-in-becoming. The present collection of essays offers contributions to answer this challenge by focusing upon measure, sharing-in-life, intersubjectivity and communication, societal equilibrium, education, and more. It will be of great interest to those working in the fields of Phenomenology, Philosophy, History of Philosophy, and Contemporary Philosophy.
    Note: "Published under the auspices of The World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning , Includes bibliographical references and index , Papers presented at the 53rd International Phenomenology Congress, held Aug. 10-17, 2003 in Istanbul, Turkey (on p. ix, the year of the Congress is incorrectly given as 2004) , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3065-7
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    Handbook of Philosophical Logic (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402030925
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    Edition: 2nd Edition
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    Series Statement: Handbook of Philosophical Logic 12
    DDC: 160
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Logik
    Abstract: A useful reference work to both students and researchers in formal philosophy, language and logic. This second edition is intended to comprise some 18 volumes and provides in-depth coverage of major topics in philosophical logic and its applications in many cutting-edge fields relating to computer science, language, argumentation, and others
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface to the Second Edition; Knowledge Representation with Logic Programs; The Resolution Principle; How to Go Nonmonotonic; The Development of Categorical Logic; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3092-4
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    Logic, Thought and Action (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402031670
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 2
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Computer science ; Mathematics ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Logik
    Abstract: This second volume in the series Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science brings a pragmatic perspective to the discussion of the unity of science. Contemporary philosophy and cognitive science increasingly acknowledge the systematic interrelation of language, thought and action. The principal function of language is to enable speakers to communicate their intentions to others, to respond flexibly in a social context and to act cooperatively in the world. This book will contribute to our understanding of this dynamic process by clearly presenting and discussing the most important hypotheses, issues and theories in philosophical and logical study of language, thought and action. Among the fundamental issues discussed are the rationality and freedom of agents, theoretical and practical reasoning, individual and collective attitudes and actions, the nature of cooperation and communication, the construction and conditions of adequacy of scientific theories, propositional contents and their truth conditions, illocutionary force, time, aspect and presupposition in meaning, speech acts within dialogue, the dialogical approach to logic and the structure of dialogues and other language games, as well as formal methods needed in logic or artificial intelligence to account for choice, paradoxes, uncertainty and imprecision. This volume contains major contributions by leading logicians, analytic philosophers, linguists and computer scientists. It will be of interest to graduate students and researchers from philosophy, logic, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. There is no comparable survey in the existing literature.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Balance of Reason; Desire, Deliberation and Action; Two Basic Kinds of Cooperation; Speech Acts and Illocutionary Logic; Communication, Linguistic Understanding and Minimal Rationality in the Tradition of Universal Grammar; Truth and Reference; Empirical Versus Theoretical Existence and Truth; Michel Ghins on the Empirical Versus the Theoretical; Propositional Identity, Truth According to Predication and Strong Implication; Reasoning and Aspectual-Temporal Calculus; Presupposition, Projection and Transparency in Attitude Contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: The Limits of a Logical Treatment of AssertionAgents and Agency in Branching Space-Times; Attempt, Success and Action Generation: A Logical Study of Intentional Action; Pragmatic and Semiotic Prerequisites for Predication; On How to Be a Dialogician; Some Games Logic Plays; Backward Induction Without Tears?; On the Usefulness of Paraconsistent Logic; Algorithms for Relevant Logic; Logic, Randomness and Cognition; From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words - from Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3167-X
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    Nature's Principles (2005)
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 4
    DDC: 000
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    Keywords: Philosophy of Nature ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturphilosophie ; Naturgesetz
    Abstract: One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by laws. This volume presents a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary debate and includes some of its foremost participants. It begins with an extensive introduction describing the historical, logical and philosophical background of the problems dealt with in the essays. Among the topics treated in the essays is the relationship between laws of nature and causal laws as well as the role of ceteris paribus clauses in scientific explanations. Traditionally, the problem of the unity of science was intimately connected to the problem of understanding the unity of nature. This fourth volume of Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science tackles these problems as part of our consideration of the most fundamental aspects of scientific understanding.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Why Are (Most) Laws of Nature Mathematical?; How Nature Makes Sense; Nancy Cartwright and Leszek Nowak on Scientific Laws and Scientific Explanation; The Explanatory Virtues of Probabilistic Causal Laws; The Nature of Natural Laws; How the Ceteris Paribus Laws of Physics Lie; Necessary Laws; Laws of Nature - A Skeptical View; The Laws' Properties; Laws of Nature Versus System Laws; Psychologism, Universality and the Use of Logic
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Most of the papers were presented at the 5th Baltic Workshop on Logic and the Philosophy of Science held at Copenhagen May 24-27, 2001 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3258-7
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    Classifying Madness : A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2005)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 86
    DDC: 616.89/075
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    Keywords: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Medicine ; Mental Disorders classification ; Mental Disorders diagnosis ; Philosophy ; Psychische Störung ; Diagnostik ; Klassifikation
    Abstract: " This book is about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the D.S.M. The D.S.M. is published by the American Psychiatric Association and aims to list and describe all mental disorders. The D.S.M. is embedded in mental health care at every turn. In the U.S., hospital records note a D.S.M. diagnosis and medical insurance companies demand D.S.M. codes before they will consider reimbursing for the cost of care. Worldwide, research papers are couched in D.S.M. terminology and pharmaceutical companies list the D.S.M. diagnoses that their drugs treat. Mental health professionals, and their patients, can not avoid being affected by the D.S.M. The D.S.M. is important, but it is also controversial. While its publishers claim that the D.S.M. is a scientific classification system based on sound data, many have doubts. Big business has interests in the D.S.M. Perhaps the D.S.M. has been distorted by pressures stemming from insurance companies, or from pharmaceutical companies? Others are concerned that whether a condition is classified as a mental disorder depends too greatly on social and political factors. More conceptual worries are also frequent. If classification requires a theory, and if mental disorders are poorly understood, then a sound classification system may be presently unobtainable. Possibly even attempting to construct a classification system that ""cuts nature at the joints"" is conceptually naïve. Maybe types of mental disorder are radically unlike, say, chemical elements, and simply fail to have a natural structure. Classifying Madness offers a sustained philosophical critique of the D.S.M. that addresses these concerns. The first half of the book asks whether the project of constructing a classification of mental disorders that reflects natural distinctions makes sense. I conclude that it does. The second half of the book addresses epistemic worries. Even supposing a natural classification system to be possible in principle, there may be reasons to be suspicious of the categories included in the D.S.M. I examine the extent to which the D.S.M. depends on psychiatric theory, and look at how it has been shaped by social and financial factors. I aim to be critical of the D.S.M. without being antagonistic towards it. Ultimately, however, I am forced to conclude that although the D.S.M. is of immense practical importance, it is not on track to become the best possible classification of mental disorders. Classifying Madness will be of interest to both mental health professionals and to philosophers interested in classification in science. The possibility that there may be philosophical difficulties with the D.S.M. has become a commonplace in the mental health literature, and Classifying Madness offers mental health professionals an opportunity to explore suspicions that there might be conceptual problems with the D.S.M. For philosophers, this book aims to contribute to debates in the philosophy of science concerning natural kinds, the theory-ladenness of classification, and the effect of sociological factors in science. These issues are normally approached via a consideration of the natural sciences and, as will be seen, approaching them via a consideration of psychiatry helps shed new light on old problems. "
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; What is Mental Disorder?; Are Mental Disorders Natural Kinds?; The Problem of Theory-Ladenness; The D.S.M. and Feedback in Applied Science
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-164) and index , Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - Cambridge University, 2002 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3345-1
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    From the Act of Judging to the Sentence : The Problem of Truth Bearers from Bolzano to Tarski (2005)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 328
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Glycoproteins Congresses physiology ; Tarski, Alfred 1901-1983 ; Wahrheitstheorie ; Österreich ; Polen ; Analytische Philosophie ; Wahrheitstheorie ; Geschichte 1800-1933 ; Wahrheit
    Abstract: This book offers a detailed study of the truth-bearers problem, that is, the question of which category of items the predicates 'true' and 'false' are predicated. The book has two dimensions: historical and systematic. Both focus around Tarski's semantic theory of truth. The author locates Tarski's ideas in a broad context of Austrian philosophy, in particular, Brentano's tradition. However, Bolzano and phenomenology (Husserl and Reinach) are also taken into account. The historical perspective is completed by showing how Tarski was rooted in Polish philosophical tradition originated with Twardowski and his version of Brentanism. The historical considerations are the basis for showing how the idea of truth-bearers as acts of judging was transformed into the theory of truth-bearers as sentences. In particular, the author analyses the way to nominalism in Polish philosophy, culminating in Lesniewski, Kotarbinski and Tarski. This book is indispensable for everybody interested in the evolution of Austrian philosophy from descriptive psychology to semantics. It is also a fundamental contribution toward a deeper understanding of the philosophical background of Tarski's theory of truth.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Alfred Tarski's Philosophical Background in the Context of His 1933 Definition of Truth; The Notion of the Truth Bearer; Descriptive Psychology: The Theory of Judgement as the Theory of Cognition and Knowledge; Judgement, Psychology, and Language; The Ontology of Judgement; Reism; The Objectivity of Truth; Ontologism, Abstract Objects and Nominalism; Brentanism and the Background of the Semantics of the Lvov-Warsaw School; Judgment, Belief, and Sentences: Remarks on the Truth Bearer in the Lvov-Warsaw School; Final Comments
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index , Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral), written in German under the title: Vom Urteil zum Satz. Das Wahrheitsträgerproblem von Bolzano zu Tarski , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3397-4
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    Leibniz and the Natural World : Activity, Passivity and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz's Philosophy (2005)
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 58
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    Keywords: Philosophy of Nature ; Philosophy (General) ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Substanz ; Prästabilierte Harmonie ; Philosophie
    Abstract: In the present book, Pauline Phemister argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate reality as a plurality of mind-like immaterial beings and for whom physical bodies are ultimately unreal and our perceptions of them illusory. Re-reading the texts without the prior assumption of idealism allows the more material aspects of Leibniz's metaphysics to emerge. Leibniz is found to advance a synthesis of idealism and materialism. His ontology posits indivisible, living, animal-like corporeal substances as the real metaphysical constituents of the universe, his epistemology combines sense-experience and reason, and his ethics fuses confused perceptions and insensible appetites with distinct perceptions and rational choice. In the light of his sustained commitment to the reality of bodies, Phemister re-examines his dynamics, the doctrine of pre-established harmony and his views on freedom. The image of Leibniz as a rationalist philosopher who values activity and reason over passivity and sense-experience is replaced by the one of a philosopher who recognises that, in the created world, there can only be activity if there is also passivity, minds, souls and forms if there is also matter, good if there is evil, perfection if there is imperfection.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Substances: Public and Private; Primary Matter; Extension; The Composition of Bodies; The Composition of the Continuum; Perceptions and Perceivers; Phenomenal Bodies; Derivative Forces; Pre-Established Harmony; Freedom
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3401-6
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    Human Creation between Reality and Illusion (2005)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 87
    DDC: 142.7
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    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Kreativität ; Wirklichkeit ; Illusion
    Abstract: Identifying quickly illusion with deception, we tend to oppose it to the reality of life. However, investigating in this collection of essays illusion's functions in the Arts, which thrives upon illusion and yet maintains its existential roots and meaningfullness in the real, we might wonder about the nature of reality itself.Does not illusion open the seeming confines of factual reality into horizons of imagination which transform it? Does it not, like art, belong essentially to the makeup of human reality?Papers by: Lanfranco Aceti, John Baldacchino, Maria Avelina Cecilia Lafuente, Jo Ann Circosta, Madalina Diaconu, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Brian Grassom, Marguerite Harris, Andrew E. Hershberger, James Carlton Hughes, Lawrence Kimmel, Jung In Kwon, Ruth Ronen, Scott A. Sherer, Joanne Snow-Smith, Max Statkiewicz, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Daniel Unger, James Werner.
    Description / Table of Contents: Reality and Illusion in the Work of Art; Dream's Shadows: Fiction and Reality in Miguel de Unamuno; On the Truth and Lie of Illusion in the Theatrical Sense; Simulating the Unpresentable and the Sublime; The Restored Sistine Chapel Ceiling: The Transcendent Made Immanent; Trompe L'Oeil and the Mimetic Tradition in Aesthetics; A Metaphysical Perspective on Alberti's De Pictura; Triumph of the Dissolution of Reality by Illusion: The Spiritual Experience of Trompe L'Oeil Architectural Wall Paintings - The Tomb of the Leopards and the Villa of the Mysteries
    Description / Table of Contents: Illusionary Touch, and Touching IllusionsReality, Illusion, and Alterity: The Advent of the Other; Silence as Disclosure: Virginia Woolf's Style of Being-in-the-World; Between Illusions: Art's Argument for 'Weak' Reality; Post-Digital Awareness; Thought, Object and Experience in Film/Video Installation Art; The "Spring-Tight Line" in Minor White's Theory of Sequential Photography; Imagination and Cultural Criticism in the Work of David Wojnarowicz; A Message for the Oueen: Guercino's Death of Dido, Cardinal Spada, and the Internal Conflicts at The French Court
    Description / Table of Contents: Who is Deceived by Trompe L'Oeil?The Aesthetic of True Digital Illusions: Crossing Several Roads at the Same Time
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Selected papers from the ninth annual Conference of the International Society of Phenomenology, Fine Arts and Aesthetics , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3578-0
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    The Enigma of Good and Evil; The Moral Sentiment in Literature (2005)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 85
    DDC: 809.93353
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    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Literatur ; Moral
    Abstract: Striking toward peace and harmony the human being is ceasely torn apart in personal, social, national life by wars feuds, inequities and intimate personal conflicts for which there seems to be no respite. Does the human condition in interaction with others imply a constant adversity? Or, is this conflict owing to an interior or external factor of evil governing our attitudes and conduct toward the other person? To what criteria should I refer for appreciation, judgment, direction concerning my attitudes and my actions as they bear on the well-being of others? At the roots of these questions lies human experience which ought to be appropriately clarified before entering into speculative abstractions of the ethical theories and precepts. Literature, which in its very gist, dwells upon disentangling in multiple perspective the peripeteia of our life-experience offers us a unique field of source-material for moral and ethical investigations. Literature brings preeminently to light the Moral Sentiment which pervades our life with others -- our existence tout court. Being modulated through the course of our experiences the Moral Sentiment sustains the very sense of literature and of personal human life (Tymieniecka). Papers by: Tony E. Afejuku, Alira Ashvo-Munoz, Gary Backhaus, Alain Beaulieu, M. Avelina Cecilia Lafuente, Predrag Cicovacki, Dorothy G. Clark, Jerre Collins, Michael D. Daniels, Michel Dion, Tsung-I Dow, William Edelglass, Richard Findler, Jorge Garcia-Gomez, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Andrew Jones-Cathcart, Lawrence Kimmel, Ken Kirby, Marlies Kronegger, Megan Laverty, Lew Livesay, Annika Ljung- Baruth, Bernard Micallef, Rebecca M. Painter, Bernadette Prochaska, Sitansu Ray, Valerie Reed, Victor Gerald Rivas, Kristine S. Santilli, Christopher Schreiner, Jadwiga Smith, Max Statkiewicz, George R. Tibbetts, Rosaria Trovato, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Peter Weigel, Raymond J. Wilson III, John Zbikowski.
    Note: "Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning , Includes bibliographical references and index , Papers from the 27th and 28th Annual Conferences of the International Society of Phenomenology and Literature, held at the Harvard Divinity School, May 14-15, 2003 and May 12-13, 2004 , Intuition of good/evil in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu: from the axis of time to the axis of desire , Literature and the play of attention: a new/ancient look at the roots of evil , Question of interest? Between good and evil in Instinto de Ines by Carlos Fuentes , Searching for the abandoned soul: Dostoyevsky on the suffering of humanity , Searching moral standards in a love diatribe , Changing landscapes of good and evil in the moral world of Huckleberry Finn , Nature and a calm mirror: Anna Maria Ortese's ethics , Interplay of virtue and romantic ethics in Chang-Rae Lee's A gesture life , Camus' Meursault and Sartrian irresponsibility , Death, truth, and sinfulness: of various characters and scenes in Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Comedias bárbaras , Accusation, betrayal and murder in literature , Autobiography and the impossibility of evil in Kurt H. Wolff's existential sociology , On the fourfold ontology of evil throughout western tradition and its final disappearance in the present time , Dostoyevsky on the problem of evil , Poetry in the cerebral cortex, the nervous system and the digestive tracts: a study of Romanus Egudu's moral poetry , Asymmetry and normativity: Levinas reading Dostoyevsky on desire, responsibility, and suffering , Redemptive gestures of the poetry of Wisława Szymborska , Life beyond go(o)d: a criticism of wisdom and the foundation of a poetic conception of life based on Goethe's Faust , Antigone's (re)turn: the Éthos of the "coming community" , "I know everything": the governess's failures of consciousness in The turn of the screw , Politics of intersubjectivity and the logic of discourse , Literature as the laboratory of the moral life: building moral communities through literary study , Being's wound: evil and explanation in The killer inside me , Paradox of love: the manifestation of life and the moral sentiment in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Her son's wife , Levinas's language , Sympathy for the Devil?: a historical tour of literature and cultural representation , Kierkegaard's Fear and trembling: an experiment in the self-recognition of evil , Beyond evil in Heart of darkness: Levinasian face-to-face as reliable narration , Bartleby's existential reduction and its impact on others , Reading Achille Mizzi: a phenomenological hermeneutics of the Christian narrative , Gilles Deleuze et la littérature: le langage, la vie et la doctrine du jugement , Culture and the philosophy of life: the true, the good, the beautiful, and the sacred , Phenomenology of ethical criticism: how literature affects ethical development , Moral sentiment and the ethics of representation in holocaust literature , Aesthetics of salvation in Sartre's Nausea , "With foolish shadows, with hollow signs": a reflection on subjective perception and personal identity in Hispano-American Golden Age Intrigue comedies , Medicine-dreams of Chief Plenty-coups: a study in phenomenological anthropology , Bizet's Carmen "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle ..." , In search of moral standardsWalker Percy's Lancelot , In search of a moral erotic standard: female subjectivity and eros in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Rough-hewn and The brimming cup , Morals in history: violence and the ideal of peace , Phantom relations and the writer's niche in Paul Auster's Leviathan , "Some freedom within a small range": Tagore on moral standard , Search for a universal standard of morality: filial piety and its Chinese experience , In first century Rome: a test case of literary influence on ethical development , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book One : Phenomenology as the Critique of Reason in Contemporary Criticism and Interpretation (2005)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 88
    DDC: 142.7
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Phänomenologie ; Logos ; Vernunftkritik ; Ontologie ; Erkenntnis ; Gewissheit ; Evidenz ; Reduktion ; Wahrnehmung ; Idee
    Abstract: During its century-long unfolding, spreading in numerous directions, Husserlian phenomenology while loosening inner articulations, has nevertheless maintained a somewhat consistent profile. As we see in this collection, the numerous conceptions and theories advanced in the various phases of reinterpretations have remained identifiable with phenomenology. What conveys this consistency in virtue of which innumerable types of inquiry-scientific, social, artistic, literary - may consider themselves phenomenological? Is it not the quintessence of the phenomenological quest, namely our seeking to reach the very foundations of reality at all its constitutive levels by pursuing its logos? Inquiring into the logos of the phenomenological quest we discover, indeed, all the main constitutive spheres of reality and of the human subject involved in it, and concurrently, the logos itself comes to light in the radiation of its force (Tymieniecka).
    Description / Table of Contents: Phenomenologie Transcendantale et Critique de la Raison Théorique, pratique et axiologique; The Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of Traditions; Some Comments on Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology; Lessons from Sartre for the Analytic Phiolosophy of Mind; A New Copernican Revolution: Moving Beyond the Husserlian Epoche to a New Critique of Reason: Tymieniecka and the Role of the Creative Imagination; Ontological Intentions of Twentieth-Century Transcendentalism; The Formal Theory of Everything: Exploration of Housserl's Theory of Manifolds; On the Mode of Existence of the Real Numbers
    Description / Table of Contents: Hermeneutische Versus Reflexive PhäNomenologieOn the Ontological Structure of Husserl's Perceptual Noema and the Object of Perception; The Phenomenological Approach to Ontology in the Argument of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: Differentiation and Unity as Dynamism of Logos and Life; Descartes and Ortega on the Fate of Indubitable Knowledge; Evidence and Structure; The Resistance of the Question to Phenomenological Reduction: Husserl, Fink and the Adequacy of the Sixth Cartesian Meditation as a Response to Heidegger; An Interpertation of Husserl's Concept of Constitution in Terms of Symmetry
    Description / Table of Contents: Hegelian and Heideggerian TautologiesThe Problem of the 'Idea' in Derrida's; Body or Flesh? The Problem of Phenomenological Reduction in Merleau-Ponty#X2019; s Philosophical Development; Conceptions of Time in Husserl's Social Worlds - Modern Perspective of Metaxy; Alfred Schutz's Critical Analysis of Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology; The Joys of Disclosure: Simone de Beauvoir and the Phenomenological Tradition; Merleau-Ponty and the Relation between the Logos Prophorikos and the Logos Endiathetos; A Miniscule Hiatus: Foucault's Critique of the Concept of Lived-Experience (vécu)
    Description / Table of Contents: The Invisible and the Unpresentable. The Role of Metaphor in Merleau-Ponty's Last Writings
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    Recent Work on Intrinsic Value (2005)
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 17
    DDC: 171.2
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wertethik ; Wertethik
    Abstract: Recent Work on Intrinsic Value brings together for the first time many of the most important and influential writings on the topic of intrinsic value to have appeared in the last half-century. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value has intensified to such an extent that at the moment it is one of the hottest topics in the field of theoretical ethics. The contributions to this volume have been selected in such a way that all of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of intrinsic value are treated in depth and from a variety of viewpoints. These questions include how to understand the concept of intrinsic value, what sorts of things can have intrinsic value, and how to compute intrinsic value. The editors have added an introduction that ties these questions together and places the contributions in context, and they have also provided an extensive bibliography. The result is a comprehensive, balanced, and detailed picture of current thinking about intrinsic value, one that provides an indispensable backdrop against which future writings on the topic may be assessed.
    Description / Table of Contents: Intrinsic Value; Isolating Intrinsic Value; Defining Intrinsic Value; The Concept of Intrinsic Value; Should We Pass the Buck?; Hyperventilating about Intrinsic Value; Intrinsic Value; Two Distinctions in Goodness; Rethinking Intrinsic Value; A Distinction in Value: Intrinsic and for Its Own Sake; The Right and the Good; Defending the Concept of Intrinsic Value; Objectives and Intrinsic Value; The Bearers of Intrinsic Value; Intrinsic Value and Individual Worth; A Concrete View of Intrinsic Value; Tropic of Value; The Intrinsic Value in Disjunctive States of Affairs
    Description / Table of Contents: Improved Foundations for a Logic of Intrinsic ValueCounterexamples to the Transitivity of 'Better Than'; Defending Transitivity Against Zeno's Paradox; Intransitivity Without Zeno's Paradox; The Structure of Higher Goods; Superiority in Value; Organic Unities; Chisholm's Definition of Organic Unity; The Particularist's Progress; Toward a Theory of Intrinsic Value; The Intrinsic Value of Non-Basic States of Affairs; Harman's Equation and Non-Basic Intrinsic Value; Basic Intrinsic Value; Virtual Intrinsic Value and the Principle of Organic Unities
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    Contextualisms in Epistemology (2005)
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    DDC: 121
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Apoptosis drug effects
    Abstract: Contextualism has become one of the leading paradigms in contemporary epistemology. According to this view, there is no context-independent standard of knowledge, and as a result, all knowledge ascriptions are context-sensitive. Contextualists contend that their account of this analysis allows us to resolve some major epistemological problems such as skeptical paradoxes and the lottery paradox, and that it helps us explain various other linguistic data about knowledge ascriptions. The apparent ease with which contextualism seems to solve numerous epistemological quandaries has inspired the burgeoning interest in it. This comprehensive anthology collects twenty original essays and critical commentaries on different aspects of contextualism, written by leading philosophers on the topic. The editors' introduction sketches the historical development of the contextualist movement and provides a survey and analysis of its arguments and major positions. The papers explore, inter alia, the central problems and prospects of semantic (or conversational) contextualism and its main alternative approaches such as inferential (or issue) contextualism, epistemic contextualism, and virtue contextualism. They also investigate the connections between contextualism and epistemic particularism, and between contextualism and stability accounts of knowledge. Contributors include: Antonia Barke, Peter Baumann, Elke Brendel, Stewart Cohen, Wayne Davis, Fred Dretske, Mylan Engel, Jr., Gerhard Ernst, Verena Gottschling, John Greco, Thomas Grundmann, Frank Hofmann, Christoph Jäger, Nikola Kompa, Dirk Koppelberg, Mark Lance, Margaret Little, Lydia Mechtenberg, Hans Rott, Bruce Russell, Gilbert Scharifi, and Michael Williams.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; Approaches to Epistemology: Problems and Prospects; Externalism and Modest Contextualism; Skepticism, Information, and Closure:; What's Wrong with Contextualism; Contextualism and the Skeptic; How to be an Anti-Skeptic and a Noncontextualist; Are Knowledge Claims Indexical?; Keeping the Conversational Score: Constraints for an Optimal Contextualist Answer?; Knowledge, Reflection and Sceptical Hypotheses; Inferential Contextualism, Epistemological Realism and Scepticism; Epistemic Contextualism
    Description / Table of Contents: Why Epistemic Contextualism Does not Provide an Adequate Account of KnowledgeA Different Sort of Contextualism; On the Prospects for Virtue Contextualism:; Lotteries and Contexts; Reply to Baumann; Defeasibility and the Normative Grasp of Context; Moral Particularism and Epistemic Contextualism; Stability, Strength and Sensitivity; The Stability Theory of Knowledge and Belief Revision; List of Contributors
    Note: "Reprinted from Erkenntnis 61 Nos. 2-3 (Novermber 2004) , Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3835-6
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    Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism (2005)
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    Series Statement: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought 10
    DDC: 193
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy, modern ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Cohen, Hermann 1842-1918
    Abstract: Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is an original systematic thinker and representative of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism. The Marburg School was a leading school in German academic philosophy and in German Jewish philosophy for a period of over thirty years preceding the first World War. Initially standing at the front of the 'Return to Kant' movement, Cohen subsequently went beyond Kant in developing a system of critical idealism in which he offered a critique of and alternative to absolute idealism, positivism, and materialism. A critical idealist in heart and soul, Cohen is also recognized as a man who embodied German Jewish culture. Publications on Cohen in the English language are small in number and this volume aims to fill the gap. It offers an analysis of Cohen's System of Philosophy - the three-volume classic on logic, ethics, and aesthetics - and his writings on Judaism and religion. The book highlights Cohen's contributions in these fields, including his discussions with Maimonides, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. It demonstrates the congeniality of Cohen's critical idealism as expounded in the System and his writings on Judaism, and offers an overview of contemporary Cohen research.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Helmet Holzhey: Cohen and the Marburg School in Context; LOGIK; Werner Flach: Cohen's Ursprungsdenken; Reiner Wiehl: Identity and Correlation in Hermann Cohen's System of Philosophy; Gianna Gigliotti: Beweis and Aufweis: Transcendental a Priori and metaphysical a prioiru in Cohen's neo-Kantianism; Pierfrancesco Fiorato:Notes on Future in Hermann Cohen's Anti-Eschatological, Messianism; Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky: Hanging over the Abyss: On the Relation between Knowledge and Experience in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin; ETHIK
    Description / Table of Contents: Robert Gibbs: Jurisprudence is the Organon of Ethics: Kant and Cohen on Ethics, Law, and ReligionPeter A. Schmid: Hermann Cohen's Theory of Virtue; David Novak: Hermann Cohen on State and Nation: A Contemporary Review; ASTHETIK; Andrea Poma: The Portrait in Hermann Cohen's Aesthetics; Marc de Launay: The Statue of Music in Hermann Cohen's Ästhetik; Ursula Renz: Critical Idealism and the Concept of Culture: Philosophy of Culture in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer; RELIGION; Arthur Hyman: Maimonidean Elements in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy of Religion
    Description / Table of Contents: Irene Kajon: Critical Idealism in Hermann Cohen's Writings on JudaismNorman Solomon: Cohen on Atonement, Purification and Repentance; Andrea Poma: Suffering and Non-Eschatological Messianism in Hermann Cohen; Contributors; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4047-4
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    The Coherence of Kant's Transcendental Idealism (2005)
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    Series Statement: Studies in German Idealism 4
    DDC: 193
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Philosophy (General) ; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 ; Transzendentaler Idealismus
    Abstract: "This book presents a new interpretation of Kant's theory of knowledge that emphasizes the coherence and plausibility of his doctrine of transcendental idealism. Many interpreters believe that Kant's transcendental idealism is an incoherent theory. Some have attempted to respond to this charge. Yet, as the author demonstrates, the interpretations that seek to vindicate Kant's theory continue to be committed to some claims that evoke the charge of incoherence. One type of claim which does so is connected to the contradictory notion of subjective necessity. The other type of claim is related to the supposition that knowledge of the reality of appearances entails knowledge of the reality of things in themselves. The interpretation presented in this book does not involve any of these claims. Part One of this book presents an analysis of Kant's concept of a priori knowledge and of his response to skepticism about synthetic a priori knowledge that specifies the content of such knowledge without invoking the notion of subjective necessity. Part Two presents an account of the non-spatiotemporality of things in themselves that does not entail knowledge of the reality of things in themselves. Part Three presents a new interpretation of transcendental synthesis, the transcendental ""I"" and of the role of transcendental self-consciousness in synthetic a priori knowledge which emphasizes the originality of Kant's account of self-knowledge and subjectivity. The arguments presented in this book relate Kant's ideas to current debates in epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind in a way that underscores their invaluable relevance to present-day philosophical discourse."
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Kant's Concept of the A Priori; Skepticism and A Priori Knowledge; The Skeptical Problem; The Transcendental Ideality of Space and Time: The Problem; The Singularity and Immediacy of Intuitions; The Immediacy of Space and Time; The Non-Spatiotemporality of Things in Themselves; Appearances, The Transcendental Object and the Noumenon; The Concept of Transcendental Synthesis; The Transcendental Deduction and Transcendental Synthesis; The Inherent Ambiguity of "I Think"; Self-Consciousness and Transcendental Synthesis; The Analogies of Experience; The Refutation of Idealism
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2581-5
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    Phantasy, Image Consciousness, and Memory (1898-1925) (2005)
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    Series Statement: Edmund Husserl Collected Works 11
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    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology
    Abstract: This is the first English translation of Husserliana XXIII, the volume in the critical edition of Edmund Husserl's works that gathers together a rich array of posthumous texts on representational consciousness. The lectures and sketches comprising this work make available the most profound and comprehensive Husserlian account of image consciousness. They explore phantasy in depth, and furnish nuanced accounts of perception and memory.
    Abstract: This is the first English translation of Husserliana XXIII, the volume in the critical edition of Edmund Husserl's works that gathers together a rich array of posthumous texts on representational consciousness. The lectures and sketches comprising Husserliana XXIII come from a period of enormous productivity and pivotal development in Husserl's philosophical life, extending from the years immediately preceding the Logical Investigations (1900-01) almost to the time of his retirement in 1928. They make available the most profound and comprehensive Husserlian account of image consciousness - the awareness we have when we look at a picture or see a play - and of its relation to art and the aesthetic. They explore phantasy in depth, and furnish nuanced accounts of perception and memory. They enrich the Husserlian analysis of time consciousness and offer a fascinating picture of the sometimes tortuous paths Husserl took in his efforts to comprehend how the forms of representation are constituted and how they are related to one another and to perception.
    Note: " ... a translation of Phantasie, Bildbewusstsein, Erinnerung (1898-1925), Volume XXIII in the Husserliana series, the critical edition of the works of Edmund Husserl. Husserliana XXIII brings together a broad range of posthumous texts on perception, phantasy, image consciousness, memory, time, and a variety of related topics"--P. xxix , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2642-0
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    Theoretical Knowledge (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402030468
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 326
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Erkenntnis ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Theoretische Physik ; Theoriebildung ; Wissenschaftliche Revolution ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Naturwissenschaften ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Vyacheslav Stepin (born 19.08.1934) is a distinguished Russian philosopher, PhD, Professor, active member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honoured Professor of Moscow State University and Honorary Doctor of the Karlsruhe University (Germany). He is the organizer and leader of large-scale joint research projects with foreign universities and research centers (USA, Germany, France, China) on problems of philosophy of sciences and technics, globalization and basic values of culture. In the book Theoretical Knowledge by V. Stepin, an original conception of a structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge is proposed. A detailed analysis of the foundations of science performed by the author allowed him to develop new ideas and approaches, to demonstrate how sociocultural factors are incorporated in the process of yielding of new theories. He shows direct and inverse links between foundations of science and new theories and empirical facts evolved from those, how among many potentially possible histories of science a culture selects just those directions which become a real history of science. The author analyses mechanisms of the generation of scientific theories and shows that those are changed in the process of historical development of science. He displays three historical types of scientific rationality (classical, non-classical and post-non-classical, which appears in modern science) and shows features of their coexistence and interplay. It is shown that along with the emerging of post-non-classical rationality science increases the sphere of its worldview applications. Science begins to correlate not only with the basic values of technogenic civilization but also with some values and patterns of traditional cultures. The investigation is based on the extensive literature on the history of natural and social sciences. The reader will find in the book authentic historical reconstructions of the processes of the development of classical and quantum electrodynamics, relativity, and conceptions of evolution in biology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Scientific Cognition in a Sociocultural Context; Structure of Theoretical Knowledge; The Foundations of Science; Genesis of Theoretical Knowledge in Classical Science; Formation and Development of Theory in Non-Classical Science; Scientific Revolutions; Strategies of Theoretical Investigation in the Epoch of Post-Non-Classical Science; Strategies of Theoretical Investigation in the Epoch of Post-Non-Classical Science
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3046-0
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    The Dynamics of Thought (2005)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 300
    DDC: 128.3
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Animal behavior ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Philosophie ; Wissenschaftliches Denken ; Philosophie
    Abstract: This volume is a collection of some of the most important philosophical papers by Peter Gärdenfors. Spanning a period of more than 20 years of his research, they cover a wide ground of topics, from early works on decision theory, belief revision and nonmonotonic logic to more recent work on conceptual spaces, inductive reasoning, semantics and the evolutions of thinking. Many of the papers have only been published in places that are difficult to access. The common theme of all the papers is the dynamics of thought. Several of the papers have become minor classics and the volume bears witness of the wide scope of Gärdenfors' research and of his crisp and often witty style of writing. The volume will be of interest to researchers in philosophy and other cognitive sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Probabilistic Reasoning and Evidentiary Value; Unreliable Probabilities, Risk Taking, and Decision Making; Rights, Games and Social Choice; The Dynamics of Belief Systems: Foundations vs. Coherence Theories; The Role of Expectations in Reasoning; How Logic Emerges from the Dynamics of Information; Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI; Three Levels of Inductive Inference; Frameworks for Properties: Possible Worlds vs. Conceptual Spaces; The Pragmatic Role of Modality in Natural Language; The Social Stance; The Emergence of Meaning; Does Semantices Need Reality?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Nature of Man - Games That Genes Play?The Detachment of Thought; Cognitive Science: From Computers to Anthills as Models of Human Thought
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3399-0
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    Teaching about Technology : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology for Non-philosophers (2005)
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    Series Statement: Science & Technology Education Library 27
    DDC: 601
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    CC 8700
    Keywords: Education ; Teachers Training of ; Lehrbuch ; Technikphilosophie
    Abstract: Teaching about technology, at all levels of education, can only be done properly when those who teach have a clear idea about what it is that they teach. In other words: they should be able to give a decent answer to the question: what is technology? In the philosophy of technology that question is explored. Therefore the philosophy of technology is a discipline with a high relevance for those who teach about technology. Literature in this field, though, is not always easy to access for non-philosophers. This book provides an introduction to the philosophy of technology for such people. It offers a survey of the current state-of-affairs in the philosophy of technology, and also discusses the relevance of that for teaching about technology. The book can be used in introductory courses on the philosophy of technology in teacher education programs, engineering education programs, and by individual educators that are interested in the intriguing phenomenon of technology that is so important in our contemporary society.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-160) and indexes , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3410-5
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    A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia : The Masonic Circle of N.I. Novikov (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402034879
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas 190
    DDC: 135.43094709033
    RVK:
    CF 1250
    RVK:
    NN 7800
    Keywords: Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Political science Philosophy ; Novikov, Nikolaj I. 1744-1818 ; Russland ; Freimaurer ; Geschichte 1750-1792
    Abstract: This is the first investigation of the history of Russian Freemasonry, based on the premise that the facts of the Russian Enlightenment preclude application of the interpretative framework commonly used for the history of western thought. Coverage includes the development of early Russian masonry, the formation of the Novikov circle in Moscow, the 'programme' of Rosicrucianism and its Russian variant and, finally, the clash between the Rosicrucians and the State.
    Abstract: The author undertakes an investigation into the history of Russian Freemasonry that has not been attempted previously. Her premise is that the Russian Enlightenment shows peculiar features, which prevent the application of the interpretative framework commonly used for the history of western thought. The author deals with the development of early Russian masonry, the formation of the Novikov circle in Moscow, the programme of Rosicrucianism and the character of its Russian variant and, finally, the clash between the Rosicrucians and the State. The author concludes that the defenders of the Ancien Régime were not wrong. In fact the democratic behaviour, the critical attitude, the practice of participation, the freedom of thought, the tolerance for the diversity, the search for a direct communication with the divinity, in short all the attitudes and behaviours first practiced inside the eighteenth century Rosicrucian lodges constituted a cultural experience which spread throughout the entire society. Novikov s imprisonment in 1792 and the war against the Rosicrucian literature were attempts to thwart a culture, based on the independence of thought that was taking root inside the very establishment, representing a menace to its stability.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminary; Introduction; Freemasonry and Power: The Paradoxes of Petersburg; Utopia and Reform in Moscow: N. I. Novikov's Circle; Russian Rosicrucianism, between East and West; The Rosicrucians and Authority: An Alliance of the Throne and the Altar; Back matter
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-287) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3487-3
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    The Selected Works of Arne Naess (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402045196
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    DDC: 198/.1
    RVK:
    CI 8000
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Political science Ecology ; Ecology ; Philosophy (General)
    Abstract: Arne Naess is considered one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He has been a prolific author, yet his works as a whole have remained largely unavailable. This work presents an overview of his thinking and provides a collection of this prolific philosopher's principal writings
    Description / Table of Contents: Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_01_Interpretation.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_02_Scepticism.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_03_Which_World.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_04_Pluralist.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_05_Gandhi.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_06_Freedom.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_07_Communication.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_08_Common Sense.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_09_Reason.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_10_Deep_Ecology.pdf;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4519-6
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