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    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
    ISBN: 9783642201356 , 9781283369091
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 325p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. McKenzie, Richard B., 1942 - Heavy!
    Keywords: Science (General) ; Medicine ; Literacy ; Law ; Economics ; Philosophy (General) ; Science, general ; Science (General) ; Medicine ; Literacy ; Law ; Economics ; Philosophy (General) ; Weight Gain ; USA ; Fettsucht ; Gesundheitsgefährdung ; Gesundheitspolitik ; USA ; Übergewicht ; Fettsucht ; Deutungsmuster ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; USA ; Fettsucht ; Gesundheitsgefährdung ; Gesundheitspolitik ; USA ; Übergewicht ; Fettsucht ; Deutungsmuster ; Soziale Wahrnehmung
    Abstract: America's emerging "fat war" threatens to pit a shrinking population of trim Americans against an expanding population of heavy Americans in raging policy debates over "fat taxes" and "fat bans." These "fat policies" would be designed to constrain what people eat and drink - and theoretically crimp the growth in Americans' waistlines and in the country's healthcare costs. Richard McKenzie's HEAVY! The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free-And the Home of the Fat offers new insight into the economic causes and consequences of America's dramat
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    ISBN: 9783642204968 , 128344948X , 9781283449489
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 261p. 17 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Evolution 2.0
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; Applied psychology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; Applied psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Darwinismus ; Philosophie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Naturwissenschaften ; Darwinismus ; Philosophie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Naturwissenschaften
    Abstract: These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it addresses the key notions of evolutionary theory in approaches to the mind, in the philosophy of biology, in the social sciences and humanities; furthermore it considers recent challenges to, and extensions of, Neo-Darwinism. The essays demonstrate that Darwinism is an evolving paradigm, with a sphere of influence far greater than even Darwin is likely to ha
    Description / Table of Contents: Evolution 2.0; Contents; A Brief Sketch of the Argument for Free Will; References; Monothetic Versus Polythetic; Conclusion; References; Evolutionary Epistemology: Limitations; Angraecum sesquipedale: Darwin´s Great `Gamble´; Introduction Karl Popper´s `Recantation´; Darwinian Inferences; Some Applications of the Methodological Principles; Intelligent Design Versus Evolution; Conclusion; References; Introduction; Mechanism; Search; Causes of Change; Conclusion; Speciesism; A Common Argument: An Appeal to Common Ancestry; Ancestorism and Speciesism; Ancestorism, Speciesism and Racism
    Description / Table of Contents: The Second Challenge for the Relational Interpretation of SpeciesismThe Metaphysics of Selection; References; Neo-Darwinism and Darwin´s Church; References;
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781402067570
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 96
    DDC: 362.10951
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    Keywords: medicine Medicine ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Medicine ; Ethics, Medical ; Quality of Health Care economics ; Economics, Medical ; Bioethics ; Physician-Patient Relations ; Delivery of Health Care economics ; Public Health Administration economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Gesundheitswesen ; China ; Medizinische Ethik ; China ; Medizinische Versorgung ; Finanzierung
    Abstract: This volume provides a unique perspective on the market reforms currently taking place in Chinese health care. The authors come to grips with the changes taking place in Chinese health care and its effect on the traditional doctor-patient relationship, but also its positive effects on the availability and quality of health care particularly in urban areas. In doing so the various authors wrestle with moral, political and social issues deeply ingrained in Chinese culture as well as the perceived practical and moral difficulties associated with the change to a market oriented economy especially
    Description / Table of Contents: The Bioethics of Trust; Chinese Health Care Policy: An Introduction to the Moral Challenges; Towards a Confucian Approach to Health Care Allocation in China: A Dynamic Geography; Trust is the Core of the Doctor-Patient Relationship: From the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medical Ethics; Medical Resources, the Market, and the Development of Private-Run Hospitals in China; China, Beware: What American Health Care Has to Learn from Singapore; Confucian Trust, Market and Health Care Reform; The Pursuit of an Efficient, Sustainable Health Care System in China
    Description / Table of Contents: A Reconstructionist Confucian Approach to Chinese Health CareHealth Care Services, Markets, and the Confucian Moral Tradition: Establishing a Humanistic Health Care Market; Markets, Trust, and the Nurturing of a Culture of Responsibility: Implications for Health Care Policy in China; Fostering Professional Virtue in the Market: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Chinese Health Care Reform; On the Reform of Health Care Reform; Is Singapore's Healthcare System Morally Problematic?;
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    ISBN: 9781402068997
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 261
    DDC: 501
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Unterbestimmtheit
    Abstract: This timely book offers a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically 'underdetermined' by the data they account for. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological aspects of the topic in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected scientific cases, the author carefully examines the merits of arguments for and against the thesis. Along the way, he investigates methodological proposals and recent theories of confirmation.
    Abstract: Underdetermination. An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledgeis a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically 'underdetermined' by the data they account for. This much-debated thesis is a thorn in the side of scientific realists and methodologists of science alike and of late has been vigorously attacked. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological aspects of the controversy in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected scientific cases, Bonk carefully examines the merits of arguments for and against the thesis. Along the way, he investigates methodological proposals and recent theories of confirmation, which promise to discriminate among observationally equivalent theories on evidential grounds. He explores sympathetically but critically W.V.Quine and H. Putnam’s arguments for the thesis, the relationship between indeterminacy and underdetermination, and possibilities for a conventionalist solution.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; 1 A Humean Predicament?; 1.1 Aspects of Underdetermination; 1.2 Significance of the Thesis; 1.3 Quine, Realism, and Underdetermination; 1.4 No Quick Solutions; 1.5 Three Responses and Strategies; 2 Underdetermination Issues in the Exact Sciences; 2.1 Logical Equivalence, Interdefinability, and Isomorphism; 2.2 Theorems of Ramsey and Craig; 2.3 From Denotational Vagueness to Ontological Relativity; 2.4 Semantic Arguments; 2.5 Physical Equivalence; 2.6 Underdetermination of Geometry; 3 Rationality, Method, and Evidence; 3.1 Deductivism Revisited; 3.2 Quine on Method and Evidence
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Instance Confirmation and Bootstrapping3.4 Demonstrative Induction; 3.5 Underdetermination and Inter-theory Relations; 4 Competing Truths; 4.1 Constructivism; 4.2 Things versus Numbers; 4.3 Squares, Balls, Lines and Points; 4.4 Algorithms; 5 Problems of Representation; 5.1 Ambiguity; 5.2 Conventionalism:Local; 5.3 Conventionalism:Global; 5.4 Verification and Fictionalism; 6 Underdetermination and Indeterminacy; 6.1 Underdetermination of Translation; 6.2 Indeterminacy versus Underdetermination; 6.3 Empirical Investigations of Cognitive Meaning; 6.4 Indeterminacy and the Absence of Fact
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.5 Quine's Pragmatic Interpretation of UnderdeterminationBibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402061257
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 6
    DDC: 121.34
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy of mind ; Psychology History ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Wahrnehmung ; Philosophie ; Geschichte 360 v. Chr.-1700
    Abstract: This is the first extensive account of philosophical psychology of perception from ancient to early modern times. The book aims to shed light on the developments in the theories of sense-perception in medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, their ancient background and traditional and new themes in early modern thought. Particular attention is paid to the philosophically significant parts of the theories. The articles concentrate on the so-called external senses and related themes.
    Abstract: While the philosophy of mind and philosophical psychology are the main areas in which perception is dealt with in contemporary philosophy, it is also discussed in the theory of knowledge, cognitive science, philosophical aesthetics and metaphysics. In recent years, the rich tradition of various philosophical theories of perception has been increasingly studied by scholars of the history of philosophy of mind. The aim of this collection is to shed light on the developments in the theories of sense-perception in medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, their ancient background and traditional and new themes in early modern thought. Particular attention is paid to the philosophically significant parts of the theories. The articles concentrate on the so-called external senses and related themes. Many of the central ideas are discussed, although the collection is also meant to shed light on less studied subjects.
    Description / Table of Contents: knuutPrel.pdf; knuut01.pdf; knuut02.pdf; knuut03.pdf; knuut04.pdf; knuut05.pdf; knuut06.pdf; knuut07.pdf; knuut08.pdf; knuut09.pdf; knuut10.pdf; knuut11.pdf; knuut12.pdf; knuut13.pdf; knuut14.pdf; knuut15.pdf; knuut16.pdf; 0knuutAuindex.pdf; 0knuutSuindex.pdf
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    ISBN: 9781402069123
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New 41
    DDC: 174.2
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics, Medical ; War ethics ; Military Medicine ethics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arzt ; Krieg ; Bioethik
    Abstract: Recently, there has been a tremendous interest in the ethical issues that confront physicians in times of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians during wars. This book presents a theoretical apparatus which underpins those debates, namely by casting physicians as being faced with dual-loyalties during times of war. While this theoretical apparatus has been developed in other contexts, it has not been specifically brought to bear on the ethical conflicts that wars bring.
    Abstract: There are a range of ethical issues that confront physicians in times of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians during wars. This book presents a theoretical apparatus which undergirds those debates, namely by casting physicians as being confronted with dual-loyalties during times of war. While this theoretical apparatus has already been developed in other contexts, it has not been specifically brought to bear on the ethical conflicts that attain in wars. Arguably, wars thrust physicians into ethical conflicts insofar as these wars create a tension between a physician's obligation to heal and an obligation to serve some other good (e.g., military chain of command, national security, the greater good, etc.). Alternatively, we can debate whether this conception is appropriate. For example, one could argue that that non-medical duties cannot attach to physicians (e.g., due to nonoverlapping spheres of justice), thus abrogating the dual-loyalty challenge. Or else one could argue that these medically-trained personnel do not act qua physicians at all (but rather partisan advocates) and therefore duties that would otherwise attach to physicians do not attach here. In the first part of this book, these issues are debated. In the second part of the book, the dual-loyalities frame is used to explore various substantive debates that obtain when the military makes use of physicians. Physician involvement in torture is a heated topic, and certainly the most visible element of the debate. Also, however, we could use the dual-loyalties framework to explore issues in other arenas, such as: development of chemical and biological weapons, medical neutrality/battlefield triage, and so on. In each of these cases, the same tensions arguably exist: physicians have duties both to their patients and 'elsewhere' (which, depending on the details of the view, could be any of the above-mentioned ends).
    Description / Table of Contents: Allhoff_FM.pdf; Allhoff_Introduction.pdf; Allhoff_Ch01.pdf; Allhoff_Ch02.pdf; Allhoff_Ch03.pdf; Allhoff_Ch04.pdf; Allhoff_Ch05.pdf; Allhoff_Ch06.pdf; Allhoff_Ch07.pdf; Allhoff_Ch08.pdf; Allhoff_Ch09.pdf; Allhoff_Ch10.pdf; Allhoff_Ch11.pdf; Allhoff_Ch12.pdf; Allhoff_Ch13.pdf; Allhoff_App1.pdf; Allhoff_App2.pdf; Allhoff_App3.pdf; Allhoff_BM.pdf
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    ISBN: 9781402068676
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    Series Statement: Trends in Logic 26
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    Keywords: Logic ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy (General) ; Negation ; Parakonsistente Logik
    Abstract: Here is an account of recent investigations into the two main concepts of negation developed in the constructive logic: the negation as reduction to absurdity, and the strong negation. These concepts are studied in the setting of paraconsistent logic.
    Abstract: This book presents the author’s recent investigations of the two main concepts of negation developed in the constructive logic: the negation as reduction to absurdity (L.E.J. Brouwer) and the strong negation (D. Nelson) are studied in the setting of paraconsistent logic. The paraconsistent logics are those, which admit inconsistent but non-trivial theories, i.e., the logics which allow making inferences in non-trivial fashion from an inconsistent set of hypotheses. Logics in which all inconsistent theories are trivial are called explosive. In the intuitionistic logic Li, the negation is defined as reduction to absurdity. The concept of strong negation is realized in the Nelson logic N3. Both logics are explosive and have paraconsistent analogs: Johansson’s logic Lj and paraconsistent Nelson’s logic N4. It will be shown that refusing the explosion axiom "contradiction implies everything" does not lead to decrease of the expressive power of a logic. To understand, which new expressive possibilities have the logics Lj and N4 as compared to the explosive logics Li and N3, we study the lattices of extensions of the logics Lj and N4. This is the first case when lattices of paraconsistent logics are systematically investigated. The study is based on algebraic methods, demonstrates the remarkable regularity and the similarity of structures of both lattices of logics, and gives essential information on the paraconsistent nature of logics Lj and N4. The methods developed in this book can be applied to the investigation of other classes of paraconsistent logics.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; 1 Introduction; I Reductio ad Absurdum; 2 Minimal Logic. Preliminary Remarks; 3 Logic of Classical Refutability; 4 The Class of Extensions of Minimal Logic; 5 Adequate Algebraic Semantics for Extensionsof Minimal Logic; 6 Negatively Equivalent Logics; 7 Absurdity as Unary Operator; II Strong Negation; 8 Semantical Study of Paraconsistent Nelson's Logic; 9 N4 ? -Lattices; 10 The Class of N4 ? -Extensions; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 128095549X , 9781402056628 , 9781280955495
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    Series Statement: Studies In Global Justice 3
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Political science ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Globalisierung ; Demokratie ; Staat ; Weltstaat ; Bürger ; Föderalismus
    Abstract: In this book, the author develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity.The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation. The question central to the book can be formulated as follows: 'How can the social, moral and legal achievements of the nation-state be retained while its structure is reshaped to satisfy the requirements of a globalised world?'
    Abstract: "In ""Democracy in an Age of Globalisation"", Otfried Höffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity. The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation and frees its concept from its economistic narrowing: Globalisation is a comprehensive process which puts new strains on the economies and political systems of the world, the cultural and social structures of peoples. The scope of its challenges demands solutions, which transcend the powers of the classical nation-state. The question central to the book can be formulated as follows: ""How can the social, moral and legal achievements of the nation-state be retained while its structure is reshaped to satisfy the requirements of a globalised world?"""
    Description / Table of Contents: FM.pdf; Ch01.pdf; Ch02.pdf; Ch03.pdf; Ch04.pdf; Ch05.pdf; Ch06.pdf; Ch07.pdf; Ch08.pdf; Ch09.pdf; Ch10.pdf; Ch11.pdf; Ch12.pdf; Ch13.pdf; Ch14.pdf; Ch15.pdf; Ch16.pdf; Biblio.pdf; Author index.pdf; Subject index.pdf; BM.pdf
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    ISBN: 9781402055812
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    Series Statement: BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 252
    DDC: 121
    Keywords: Science Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Erklärung ; Philosophie
    Abstract: The nature of scientific explanation has been an important topic in philosophy of science for many years. This book highlights some of the conceptual problems that still need to be solved and points out a number of fresh philosophical ideas to explore. Anyone interested in causal and probabilistic explanation, explanation-seeking questions and contrastive explanations, inference to the best explanation, or explanations within the special sciences should find something of interest in this book.
    Abstract: The nature of scientific explanation has been an important topic in philosophy of science for many years. This book highlights some of the conceptual problems that still need to be solved and points out a number of fresh philosophical ideas to explore
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; EXPLANATIONS ARE ABOUT CONCEPTS AND CONCEPT FORMATION; WHAT TO ASK OF AN EXPLANATION-THEORY; THE IDEA OF CONTRASTIVE EXPLANANDUM; THE PRAGMATIC-RHETORICAL THEORY OF EXPLANATION; CAUSAL EXPLANATION PROVIDES KNOWLEDGE WHY; CAUSAL EXPLANATION AND MANIPULATION; ASSESSING THE EXPLANATORY POWER OF CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS; SOME NOTES ON UNIFICATIONISM AND PROBABILISTIC EXPLANATION; SELECTION AND EXPLANATION; IBE AND EBI; EXPLAINING WITH EQUILIBRIA68; EXPLANATION AND ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL NOTIONS OF INNATENESS AND EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; ASPECT KINDS; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402058578
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 109
    DDC: 121.68
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Linguistics Semantics ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Philosophy (General) ; Semantik ; Philosophie
    Abstract: According to truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth. This book develops a more radical mentalist semantics by shifting the object of semantic inquiry. Classical semantics analyzes an abstract sentence or utterance such as 'Grass is green'; in attitudinal semantics the object of inquiry is a propositional attitude such as 'Speaker so-and-so thinks grass is green'.
    Abstract: According to the dominant theory of meaning, truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth. Classical truth-conditional semantics is coming under increasing attack, however, from contextualists and inferentialists, who agree that meaning is located in the mind. How to Think about Meaning develops an even more radical mentalist semantics, which it does by shifting the object of semantic inquiry. Whereas for classical semantics the object of analysis is an abstract sentence or utterance such as 'Grass is green', for attitudinal semantics the object of inquiry is a propositional attitude such as 'Speaker so-and-so thinks grass is green'. Explicit relativization to some speaker S allows for semantic theory then to make contact with psychology, sociology, historical linguistics, and other empirical disciplines. The attitudinal approach is motivated both by theoretical considerations and by its practical success in dealing with recalcitrant phenomena in the theory of meaning. These include: presuppositions as found in hate speech, and more generally the connotative force of evaluative language, the problem of how to represent ambiguity, quotation and the use-mention distinction, and the liar paradox, which appears to contradict truth-based semantics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; The Case of the Missing Truth-Conditions; Foundations of Attitudinal Semantics; Objections and Replies; Hate Speech; Ambiguity; Quotation and Use-Mention; Liars and Truth-Tellers; Back Matter
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    Series Statement: Studies in Brain and Mind 4
    DDC: 128/.2
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    Keywords: Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy (General) ; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics) ; Philosophy ; Consciousness ; Psychological Theory ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geist ; Philosophie ; Psychologie
    Abstract: This book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology. The chapters reflect the different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of 'cartographies of the mind'.
    Abstract: "The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology. In the last three decades, the level of interaction between philosophy and psychology has increased dramatically. As a contribution to this trend, this book explores some areas in which this interaction has been very productive - or, at least, highly provocative. The interaction between philosophy and psychology can be of different kinds. For example, psychology can be the subject for philosophy of science. In such a case, the philosopher of science pursues the usual set of issues (explanation, reduction, etc.) within the special case of psychology. Or, philosophy can be the source of proposals for improving psychology. Vice versa, the findings of psychology can be used to criticize philosophical theories and suggest ways to resolve some traditional philosophical questions about the mind, such as the nature of mental representation, perception, emotion, memory, consciousness and free will. The chapters in this book reflect these different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of ""cartographies of the mind""."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributors; Preface; I. THE INTERPLAY OF LEVELS; 1 Setting the stage: Persons, minds and brains; 2 Computational explanation and mechanistic explanation of mind; 3 Computationalism under attack; II. DIMENSIONS OF MIND; 4 Vision science and the problem of perception; 5 Synaesthesia, functionalism and phenomenology; 6 Integrating the philosophy and psychology of memory: Two case studies; 7 Emotion and cognition: A new map of the terrain; 8 Categorization and concepts: A methodological framework; 9 Errors in deductive reasoning; 10 Language and comprehension processes
    Description / Table of Contents: III. DIMENSIONS OF AGENCYA. Self-Knowledge; B. Consciousness; C. Agency and the Self; D. Social Agency; References; Index of names; Index of subjects
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    ISBN: 9781402052163
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 90
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    DDC: 610.1
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; medicine Science_xMetaphysics ; Social sciences Medicine ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Medicine ; Philosophy, Medical ; Bioethics ; Bioethical Issues ; Metaphysics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Biomedizin
    Abstract: Medicine raises numerous philosophical issues. This volume approaches the philosophy of medicine from the broad naturalist perspective. This holds that philosophy must be continuous with, constrained by, and relevant to empirical results of the natural and social sciences. The upshot is a unique volume that ties medicine to contemporary issues in philosophy of science and metaphysics.
    Abstract: Contemporary medicine is a rich source of controversies and examples that raise important issues in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and metaphysics. This volume presents a collection of essays in the philosophy of medicine. It also ties medicine to contemporary issues in philosophy of science and metaphysics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Normality, Disease and Enhancement; Holistic Theories of Health as Applicable to Non-Human Living Beings; Disease and the Concept of Supervenience; Decision and Discovery in Defining 'Disease'; Race and Scientific Reduction; Towards an Adequate Account of Genetic Disease; Why Disease Persists: An Evolutionary Nosology; Creating Mental Illness in Non-Disordered Community Populations; Gender Identity Disorder; Clinical Trials as Nomological Machines: Implications for Evidence-Based Medicine; The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences
    Description / Table of Contents: Maternal Agency and the Immunological Paradox of PregnancyViolence and Public Health: Exploring the Relationship Between Biological Perspectives on Violent Behavior and Public Health Approaches to Violence Prevention; Taking Equipoise Seriously: The Failure of Clinical or Community Equipoise to Resolve the Ethical Dilemmas in Randomized Clinical Trials
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library 63
    DDC: 320.82094
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Developmental psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Frau ; Politisches Denken ; Geschichte 1400-1800
    Abstract: This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women's ideas. The volume provides a partial insight into the richness and complexity of women's political ideas in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. The essays in this collection examine women's political writings with particular reference to the themes of virtue (especially the virtue of phronesis or prudence), liberty, and toleration.
    Abstract: This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights the depth and complexity of women's political thought in the centuries prior to the French Revolution.From the late medieval period to the enlightenment, a significant number of European women wrote works dealing with themes of political significance. The essays in this collection examine their writings with particular reference to the ideas of virtue, liberty, and toleration. The figures discussed include Christine de Pizan, Catherine d'Amboise, Isabella d'Este, Elizabeth I, Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, Elizabeth Carter, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Cornélie Wouters. These women actively contributed to the political practice and discourse of their times. Some of the women question their exclusion from political power and argue in favour of women's virtue, prudence, and capacity to govern. Others aim to demonstrate women's spiritual equality with men, to defend liberty of conscience, and to highlight the importance of education as a means to moral development. And some women explore the notion of female citizenship or attempt to come to terms with issues of religious freedom and religious toleration.Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women's ideas.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Political Thought as Improvisation: Female Regency and Mariology in Late Medieval French Thought; Phronesis Feminised: Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I; Catherine d'Amboise's Livre des Prudents et Imprudents : Negotiating Space for Female Voices in Political Discourse; "Machiavelli in Skirts." Isabella d'Este and Politics; Liberty and the Right of Resistance:Women's Political Writings of the English Civil War Era; Margaret Cavendish and the False Universal; The Social and Political Thought of Damaris Cudworth Masham
    Description / Table of Contents: "Our Religion and Liberties": Mary Astell's Christian Political PolemicsVirtue, God, and Stoicism in the Thought of Elizabeth Carter and Catharine Macaulay; Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft on the Will; Keeping Ahead of the English? A Defence of Jews by Cornélie Wouters, Baroness of Vasse (1790); Back Matter
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    Parallel Title: Print version Possibility, Agency and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy, modern ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Metaphysik ; Möglichkeit
    Abstract: This book reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz's metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones. It presents Leibniz's subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. The book provides an original approach to the questions of individuation and relations in Leibniz, offering a novel account of Leibniz's notion of Nested Individuals.
    Abstract: This work presents Leibniz's subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. Ohad Nachtomy presents Leibniz's approach to possibility by exposing his early suppositions, arguing that he held a combinatorial conception of possibility. He considers the transition from possibility to actuality through the notion of agency, the role divine agency plays in actualization, moral agency and human freedom of action and the relation between agency and necessity in comparison to Spinoza. Nachtomy analyzes Leibniz's notion of nested, organic individuals and their peculiar unity, in distinction from his notion of aggregates. Nachtomy suggests that Leibniz defined possible individuals through combinatorial rules that generate unique and maximally consistent structures of predicates in God's understanding and that such rules may be viewed as programs for action. He uses this definition to clarify Leibniz's notions of individuation, relations and his distinction between individual substances and aggregates as well as the notion of organic individuals, which have a nested structure to infinity. Nachtomy concludes that Leibniz's definition of a possible individual as a program of action helps clarifying the unity and simplicity of nested individuals. The book thus reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz's metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones.
    Description / Table of Contents: Leibniz's Combinatorial Approach to Possibility; Possible Individuals; The Individual's Place in Logical Space; Individuals, Worlds and Relations; Possibility and Actuality; Agency and Freedom; Agency and Necessity; Aggregates; Nested Individuals; Possibility and Individuality
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 55
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    Keywords: Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 Logische Untersuchungen ; China ; Europa
    Abstract: In this volume, phenomenologists from the West join hands with specialists from mainland China and Hong Kong to discuss the heritage of Husserl's Logical Investigations. Readers will learn of the early reception of Husserl's Logical Investigations in China and understand how Husserl's doctrine of intentionality of consciousness has paved the way to a novel phenomenological explication of religious experience.
    Abstract: This volume is the first of its kind in which phenomenologists from the West join hands with specialists from mainland China and Hong Kong to discuss the heritage of Husserl s Logical Investigations. Whereas all Western contributors to the volume are scholars who possess indubitable authority in phenomenology, their Chinese counterparts are much less well-known in the Western academic arena. Yet the latters' contributions are of the utmost interest. From them readers will learn of the early reception of Husserl s Logical Investigations in China. They will also understand in what way Husserl s doctrine of intentionality of consciousness in the Logical Investigations has paved the way to Scheler s phenomenology of feeling, to a novel phenomenological explication of religious experience, as well as to the little known young Foucault s tentative formulation of a paradoxical phenomenology of the dream. Last but not least, they will also discover how a young Chinese scholar undertakes a thorough reassessment of the problem of being in Husserl in the light of Heideggerian ontology. With these joint perspectives - Western and Chinese - we hope that this volume will contribute to demonstrate the surprisingly rich and inexhaustible life that Husserl s Logical Investigations continues to enjoy in the new century.
    Description / Table of Contents: table of contents.pdf; preface.pdf; Ch 01.pdf; Ch 02.pdf; Ch 03.pdf; Ch 04.pdf; Ch 05.pdf; Ch 06.pdf; Ch 07.pdf; Ch 08.pdf; Ch 09.pdf; Ch 10.pdf; Ch 11.pdf; Notes on Contributors.pdf; Index of Names.pdf
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Evolution (Biology) ; Mathematics ; Ethik ; Rationalität
    Abstract: This book illuminates and sharpens moral theory, by analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of interpersonal relations in a variety of games. We discover that successful players in evolutionary games operate as if following this piece of normative advice: Don't do unto others without their consent. From this advice, some significant implications for moral theory follow. First, we cannot view morality as a categorical imperative. Secondly, we cannot hope to offer rational justification for adopting moral advice. This is where Glaucon and Adeimantus went astray: they wanted a proof of the benefits of morality in every single case. That is not possible. Moral constraint is a bad bet taken in and of itself. But there is some good news: moral constraint is a good bet when examined statistically.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Irrealism; Against Moral Categoricity; Self-Interest; Rationality's Failure; Evolutionary Fit; Consent Theory; Concerned Parties; Suffering and Indifference; Back Matter
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science 7
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy (General) ; Logik ; Formalisierung ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: This book presents formalizations of three important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence and obligations. These are based on innovative vantage points: supposition theories as algorithmic hermeneutics, theories of consequence analyzed with tools borrowed from model-theory and two-dimensional semantics, and obligations as logical games. The analysis of medieval logic is relevant for the modern philosopher and logician. This is the first book to render medieval logical theories accessible to the modern philosopher.
    Abstract: This book presents novel formalizations of three of the most important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence and obligations. In an additional fourth part, an in-depth analysis of the concept of formalization is presented a crucial concept in the current logical panorama, which as such receives surprisingly little attention. Although formalizations of medieval logical theories have been proposed earlier in the literature, the formalizations presented here are all based on innovative vantage points: supposition theories as algorithmic hermeneutics, theories of consequence analyzed with tools borrowed from model-theory and two-dimensional semantics, and obligations as logical games. For this reason, this is perhaps the first time that these medieval logical theories are made fully accessible to the modern philosopher and logician who wishes to obtain a better grasp of them, but who has always been held back by the lack of appropriate translations into modern terms.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Supposition Theory: Algorithmic Hermeneutics; Buridan's Notion of Consequentia; Obligationes as Logical Games; The Philosophy of Formalization; Back Matter
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 62
    Parallel Title: Print version Leibniz and the English-speaking World
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Englisches Sprachgebiet ; Rezeption ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Englisches Sprachgebiet
    Abstract: This volume explores the attention awarded in the English-speaking world to German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete with an introductory overview, the book collects fourteen essays that consider Leibniz's connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. It sheds new light on Leibniz's philosophy and that of his contemporaries.
    Abstract: These essays comprise a first attempt to assess overall the attention awarded to Leibniz s philosophy in the English-speaking world in his own time and up to the present day. In addition to an introductory overview there are fourteen original and previously unpublished essays considering Leibniz s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. Some of the papers shed new light on familiar topics, including the influence of Hobbes on Leibniz, his relations with Locke and the well-publicised controversy with Samuel Clarke. Others chart less familiar territory, including Leibniz s connections with Boyle and Berkeley, Wilkins and Dalgarno. And others still break new ground in considering Leibniz s connections with John Wallis and Margaret Cavendish. There are four concluding papers on the later reception of Leibniz s philosophy in the English-speaking world, including two on Bertrand Russell and Leibniz, and two on the reception of Leibniz by American philosophers, Peirce and Loemker.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Leibniz and the English-Speaking World; Leibniz's Debt to Hobbes; Two Opponents of Material Atomism; Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz and the Descriptive Nature of Metaphysical Concepts; ''Un de mes amis''; Leibniz and Robert Boyle; Leibniz and the Cambridge Platonists; Leibniz's Nouveaux Essais; Leibniz, Locke, and the Epistemology of Toleration; ''Is the Logic in London Different from the Logic in Hanover?''; The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition; Synechism and Monadology; How did Bertrand Russell make Leibniz into a ''Fellow Spirit''?*; Leibniz and Russell
    Description / Table of Contents: Leibniz and the Personalism of L. E. LoemkerBack Matter
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook Of Phenomenological Research 86
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Phenomenology ; Aesthetics ; Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Zeitlichkeit ; Phänomenologie ; Leben ; Literatur
    Abstract: Temporality pervades all the dynamic joint of existence, and the human being as such. As human beings unfold through ontopoiesis, each move of which punctuates the temporality of life, they, whose life experience, deliberation, planning, reflection and dreaming are permeated by temporal motivations and concerns, feel that they are engaged in the spinning of a common thread. Attributing to that involvement universal laws, constant existential validity and power, they absolutise/hypostasise its rule as a cosmic/human factor: 'time'. Yet today technologies are transforming the temporality of our existence by accelerating, intensifying, expanding our partaking in the world of life. Human communal and social involvement is being challenged in its personal significance to the core of our being. What happens to 'time'? A basic reinvestigation of the nature of temporality is called for. Human creative endeavor - especially literature - may initiate it. Having the human subject - the creator - at its center, literature is essentially engaged in temporality whether that of the mind or of the world of life through the creative process of writing, stage directing, or the reader's and viewer's reception. Out of the cross-motivations that the creative mind filters in its temporal synthesis in touch with all the perspectives of existence, there surges the deepest significance of life in humanity and culture. But, first of all, life comes to light as timing itself in its logos.(Tymieniecka) Papers by: A-T. Tymieniecka, A. Ashvo-Munoz, A. Omrani, R. Gray, T.E. Afejuku, M.-Q. Ma, W.S. Smith, J.S. Smith, V. Kocay, I. Okhamafe, P. Mroz, T. Despotovic, M. Dion, R.M. Painter, V.G. Rivas, W. O'Brien, J. Kim-Reuter, A. Zacharz, L. Kimmel, J. Handerek, M. Durante, V. Reed, M. Statkiewicz, D. Doyle, J. Collins, L. Livesay, R.J. Wilson III.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; A Temporal Chora; Literature and the Sense of the Past; "A Moment in Timelessness": Ben Okri's Astonishing the Gods (1995; 1999); A Mode of Recollection in African Autobiography; "In an Instant of Time": The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the "Upsurge" of the Present in Ezra Pound's Cantos; Ascent Patterns in the Early Poetry of Tennyson; Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingarden's The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of Literary Work of Art; Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John Perse
    Description / Table of Contents: Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and NietzscheThe Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist Novel; Towards the Infinite Memory; Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue; TemporalRearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munro's Fiction; On the Distinction of Tragedy and Pathos Through the Perusal of Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle; Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and Trauma
    Description / Table of Contents: Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaigne's EssaysTranslation Lost, Translation Regained - on Temporality, or on Being; Notes on a Poetics of Time; Camus, time and literature; The "Deepening of the Present" Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative Process; "My Dear Time's Waste": The Experience of Time and Creation in Proust; Indexicalities of image, text and time; Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulkner's Benjy; Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Gregor's Da-Sein Paralyzed by Debt
    Description / Table of Contents: Time in Post-Modern Fiction: Time's Arrow, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and "The Alexandria Quartet"Back Matter
    Note: "Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning , Includes bibliographical references and index , International conference proceedings , Selected papers from the 29th annual conference of the International Society of Phenomenology and Literature (affiliated with the World Phenomenology Institute) held May 25-26, 2005, at the Harvard Divinity Schoool, Cambridge, Mass , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 336
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    Keywords: Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology ; Pragmatism ; Comparative Literature ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 ; Semiotik
    Abstract: Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. This book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporaneous doctrine of categorical intuition and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology.
    Abstract: "Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. The book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporanous doctrine of ""categorial intuition"" and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology. Diagrams, on a Peircean account, allow for observation and experimentation with ideal structures and objects and thus furnish the access to the synthetic a priori of the regional and formal ontology of the Husserlian tradition. The second part of the book focuses on three regional branches of semiotics: biosemiotics, picture analysis, and the theory of literature. Based on diagrammatology, these domains appear as accessible for a diagrammatological approach which leaves the traditional relativism and culturalism of semiotics behind and hence constitutes a realist semiotics."
    Description / Table of Contents: 0stjfm.pdf; 0stj01.pdf; 0stj02.pdf; 0stj03.pdf; 0stj04.pdf; 0stj05.pdf; 0stj06.pdf; 0stj07.pdf; 0stj08.pdf; 0stj09.pdf; 0stj10.pdf; 0stj11.pdf; 0stj12.pdf; 0stj13.pdf; 0stj14.pdf; 0stj15.pdf; 0stj16.pdf; 0stj17.pdf; 0stj18.pdf; 0stjpers.pdf; 0stjapp.pdf; 0stjnotes.pdf; 0stjbib.pdf; 0STJERNauthorindex.pdf; 0STJERsubjectindex.pdf
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 5
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Perspectives on mathematical practices
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    Keywords: Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Mathematics ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Mathematik ; Wissenschaftstheorie
    Abstract: In the eyes of the editors, this book will be considered a success if it can convince its readers of the following: that it is warranted to dream of a realistic and full-fledged theory of mathematical practices, in the plural. If such a theory is possible, it would mean that a number of presently existing fierce oppositions between philosophers, sociologists, educators, and other parties involved, are in fact illusory.
    Abstract: Philosophy of mathematics has transformed into a very complex network of diverse ideas, viewpoints, and theories. This title emphasises on the "classical" foundational work (often connected with the use of formal logical methods), and on the sociological dimension of the mathematical research community
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology 56
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Phänomenologie ; Tiere
    Abstract: The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become a prominent topic within the philosophical debates of the last two decades. This volume explores in substantial ways how phenomenology can contribute to these debates. It offers specific insights into the description and interpretation of the experience of the non-human animal, the relation between phenomenology and anthropology, the relation between phenomenology and psychology, as well as ethical considerations.
    Abstract: The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become a prominent topic within the philosophical debates of the last two decades. This volume explores in substantial ways how phenomenology can contribute to these debates. It offers specific insights into the description and interpretation of the experience of the non-human animal, the relation between phenomenology and anthropology, the relation between phenomenology and psychology, as well as ethical considerations
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Attunement, Deprivation, and Drive; Being Beyond: Aristotle's and Plessner's Accounts of Animal Responsiveness; How Not to be a Jellyfish; How do Primates Think? Phenomenological Analyses of Non-language Systems of Representation in Higher Primates and Humans; Phenomenology and the Study of Animal Behavior; The Intentionality and Animal Heritage of Moral Experience; Appropriating the Philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein; The Human as Just an Other Animal; The Intertwining of Incommensurables; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402060847
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 5
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy of mind ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Geschichte 1000-1800
    Abstract: This book deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from scholars in this promising field of research. It brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. This collection opens up new and interesting perspectives.
    Abstract: Forming the Mind deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It stresses how important and fruitful it is to see the time period between 1100 and 1700 as one continuous tradition, and brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. In this respect, this collection opens up several new and interesting perspectives on the history of the philosophy of mind.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction: The Mind/Body Problem and Late Medieval Conceptions of the Soul; Memory and Recollection in IBN SÎNÂ'S and IBN Rushd'S Philosophical Texts Translated into Latin in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: A Perspective on the Doctrine of the Internal Senses in Arabic; Imagination and Experience in the Sensory Soul and Beyond: Richard Rufus, Roger Bacon & Their Contemporaries; The Soul as an Entity: Dante, Aquinas, and Olivi; Self-Knowledge and Cognitive Ascent: Thomas Aquinas and Peter Olivi on the KK-THESIS; The Invention of Singular Thought
    Description / Table of Contents: John Buridan on the Immateriality of the IntellectHow Matter Becomes Mind: Late-Medieval Theories of Emergence; Passions and Old Men in Renaissance Gerontology; Why Isn't the Mind-Body Problem Medieval?; Matter, Mind, and Hylomorphism in IBN Gabirol and Spinoza; Cajetan and Suarez on Agent Sense: Metaphysics and Epistemology in Late Aristotelian Thought; Is Descartes' Body A Mode of Mind?; Mind and Extension (Descartes, Hobbes, More); Emotional Pathologies and Reason in French Medical Enlightenment; Back Matter
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 34
    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Hashiloni-Dolev, Yael A life (un)worthy of living
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Reproductive Medicine ; Human genetics ; Sociology ; Philosophy (General) ; Reproductive Techniques ; Genetic Screening ; Genetic Screening ; Prenatal Diagnosis ; Prenatal Diagnosis ; Reproductive Techniques ; Israel ; Humangenetik ; Reproduktionsmedizin ; Ethik ; Deutschland ; Humangenetik ; Reproduktionsmedizin ; Ethik
    Abstract: This book presents the findings of a study into the social shaping of reproductive genetics in Germany and Israel. The study reveals dramatic differences between German and Israeli societies in addressing the question of a life (un)worthy of living. A close analysis of the ways that these two societies handle the balance between the quality and sanctity of life illuminates controversies over reproductive genetics in an original and provocative way.
    Abstract: Based on a variety of empirical materials the study reveals dramatic differences between the way that the German and Israeli societies address the question of a life (un)worthy of living: while in Germany, social, cultural, religious and legal conditions restrict the selection of embryos based on prenatal diagnosis, in Israel they strongly encourage it. A close comparative analysis of the ways that these two societies handle the delicate balance between the quality and sanctity of life illuminates the controversy around reproductive genetics in an original and provocative way. The study is also innovative in its use of contemporary social theory concerning the politics of life in comprehending the differences between two societies positioned at opposite extremes in their adoption of reproductive genetics. It thus offers an original cross-cultural discussion concerning present-day techno-medical manipulations of life itself.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Theoretical Background; Methodology; Getting to Know the Field of Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany; Genetic Counselors' Moral Practices; Abortions on Embryopathic Grounds: Policy and Practice in Israel and Germany; Sex Chromosome Anomalies (SCAs) in Israel and Germany: Assessing "Birth Defects" and edical Risks According to the Importance of Fertility*; "Wrongful Life", in the eyes of the law, the counselors and the disabled; The Conflicts Between Individuals, Families and Society, as Well as Between Different Family Members, Embodied in Reproductive Genetics
    Description / Table of Contents: Back Matter
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 41
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    Keywords: Ontology ; Science medicine_xOntology ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; medicine Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Searle, John R. 1932- ; Gesellschaft ; Ontologie
    Abstract: Ten original essays examine the central themes of John Searle's ontology of society. Written by an international team of philosophers and social scientists, the essays contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle's work. Moreover, these essays open the door to new approaches to addressing fundamental questions about social phenomena. This book also features a new essay by Searle himself that summarizes and further develops his work.
    Abstract: This book includes ten original essays in three parts that critically examine central themes of John Searle s ontology of society, as well as a new essay by Searle that summarizes and further develops his work in that area. Part I (Aspects of Collective Intentionality) examines the account of collective intention and action underlying Searle s analysis of social and institutional facts, with special emphasis on how that account relates to the dispute between individualism and anti-individualism in the analysis of social behaviour, and to the opposition between internalism and externalism in the analysis of intentionality. Part II (From Intentions to Institutions: Development and Evolution) scrutinizes the ontogenetic and phylogenetic credentials of Searle s view that, unlike other kinds of social facts, institutional facts are uniquely human, and develops original suggestions concerning their place in human evolution and development. Part III (Aspects of Institutional Reality) focuses on Searle s claim that institutional facts owe their existence to the collective acceptance of constitutive rules whose effect is the creation of deontic powers, and examines central issues relevant to its assessment (among others, the status of the distinction between regulative and constitutive rules, the significance of the distinction between brute and deontic powers, and the issue of the logical derivability of normative from descriptive propositions, and the import of the difference between moral and non-moral normative principles).
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Aspects of collective intentionalitypt. 2. From intentions to institutions : development and evolution -- pt. 3. Aspects of institutional reality.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Philosophy of law ; Philosophy of mind ; Deontologie ; Glaube ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Meinung ; Handlung ; Verantwortung
    Abstract: Believing the wrong thing can have drastic consequences. The question of when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief goes to the root of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral responsibility. This book explores the conditions under which someone may be deemed blameworthy for holding a particular belief, drawing on contemporary epistemology, ethics and legal scholarship.
    Abstract: Believing the wrong thing may sometimes have drastic consequences. The question as to when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief is an important one: It touches upon the roots of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral responsibility. The answer to this question may influence the extent to which we are willing to submit each other to punishments ranging from mild resentment to harsh prison terms. This book presents an extensive effort to shed light on the conditions under which we may appropriately deem someone blameworthy for holding a particular belief. It regiments and unifies several debates within contemporary epistemology, ethics and legal scholarship. Finally, the book brings a new philosophical look on issues like our power to control beliefs and the extent and nature of foresight.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Belief and Acceptance; Approaching a Conception of Epistemic Blameworthiness; Blameworthy Belief as Inexcusably Undesirable Belief; Epistemic Undesirability; Bruce Russell's Basic Analysis of the Notion of Epistemic Blameworthiness; Doxastic Control; Direct Content-Directed Doxastic Control or Doxastic Voluntarism; Direct Property-Directed Doxastic Control or Property Voluntarism; Indirect Content-Directed Doxastic Control or Doxastic Pascalianism; Indirect Property-Directed Doxastic Control or Property Pascalianism; Intellectual Obligations
    Description / Table of Contents: Foresight and Blameworthy Inadvertence to RiskEpistemic Blameworthiness Analysed; Epistemic Autonomy; Back Matter
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 80
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    Keywords: Philosophy of law ; Political science ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Rechtsstaat
    Abstract: Authors Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires reference to a global problematic horizon. This book offers some relevant guides for orienting the reader through a political and legal debate where the rule of law (and the doctrine of human rights) is a concept both controversial and significant at the national and international levels.
    Abstract: Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires referring to a global problematic horizon. It seems unavoidable to investigate into the relationship between Europe and the United States, on the one hand, and the rest of the world, on the other. Over the last centuries this relationship developed in terms of conquest and colonisation, on the widespread view that Western civilisation should be opposed as a whole to barbaric others. Today, however, the notion of rule of law is still rousing a debate that cannot be said to have come to an end. The reason is quite simple: if the origins of the rule of law are in Western societies and cultures, and if until recently the West took the lion s share in the debate on our subject matter, it remains true that today other societies and other cultures take an active and creative part into a sustained philosophical-political debate. This is by no means a merely intellectual or academic question: the Arab-Islamic world, India, China, are not far away planets whose orbits never crossed the European and American West. On the contrary, in fairly recent times the encounters have been close and traumatic. In sum, the book intends to offer some relevant guides for orienting the reader through a political and legal debate where the rule of law (and the doctrine of human rights ) is a concept both controversial and significant at the national and international levels.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Rule of Law: A Critical Reappraisal; The Rule of Law: A Historical Introduction; The Rule of Law and the "Liberties of the English": The Interpretation of Albert Venn Dicey; Popular Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and the "Rule of Judges" in the United States; Rechtsstaat and Individual Rights in German Constitutional History; État de Droit and National Sovereignty in France; Rechtsstaat and Constitutional Justice in Austria: Hans Kelsen's Contribution; The Past and the Future of the Rule of Law; Beyond the Rule of Law: Judges' Tyranny or Lawyers' Anarchy?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Rule of Law and Gender DifferenceMachiavelli, the Republican Tradition, and the Rule of Law; Leoni's and Hayek's Critique of the Rule of Law in Continental Europe; The Rule of Law and the Legal Treatment of Native Americans; The Colonial Model of the Rule of Law in Africa: The Example of Guinea; Is Constitutionalism Compatible with Islam?; The Rule of Morally Constrained Law: The Case of Contemporary Egypt; "Asian Values" and the Rule of Law; The Rule of Law and Indian Society: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism; The Chinese Legal Tradition and the European View of the Rule of Law
    Description / Table of Contents: Modern Constitutionalism in ChinaHuman Rights and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402060823
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 4
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Philosophy, medieval ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Psychology History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bewusstsein ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Despite decades of theoretization, consciousness continues to haunt contemporary philosophy of mind. The coherence and validity of the concept are in question, yet consciousness seems to resist the projects of reduction and naturalization. This collection opens a diachronical perspective to intuitions about consciousness and our aspiration of coming to grips with it. Through investigating ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern discussions in their original philosophical context, the articles offer understanding of the emergence of our problems concerning consciousness, as well as a wealth
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; On Plato's Lack of Consciousness; The Problem of Consciousness in Aristotle's Psychology; Ownness of Conscious Experience in Ancient Philosophy; Sense-Perception and Self-Awareness: Before and After Avicenna; Intention and Presence: The Notion of Presentialitas in the Fourteenth Century; The Structure of Self-Consciousness: A Fourteenth-Century Debate; Augustine and Descartes on the Function of Attention in Perceptual Awareness; Orders of Consciousness and Forms of Reflexivity in Descartes; The Status of Consciousness in Spinoza's Concept of Mind
    Description / Table of Contents: Human Consciousness and its Transcendental Conditions: Kant's Anti-Cartesian RevoltThe Living Consciousness of the German Idealists; The Heidelberg School and the Limits of Reflection; Contemporary Naturalism and the Concept of Consciousness; Selfhood, Consciousness, and Embodiment: A Husserlian Approach; Back Matter
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 12
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethik ; Hunger ; Globalisierung ; Religion ; Hunger ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Ethics, Hunger and Globalization adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Outstanding scholars and practitioners from several disciplines discuss what action is needed for ethics to play a bigger role in action by governments, civil society, and the private sector to reduce poverty and hunger within the context of globalization. The book concludes that much of the rhetoric by policy makers is not followed up with appropriate action, and discusses the role of ethics in attempts to match action with rhetoric. The book also concludes that a better understanding of the values underlying both public and private sector action towards the alleviation of poverty and hunger would lead to more enlightened policies and greater success in attempts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The interaction between ethical, economic, and policy aspects is discussed and scholars and experienced practitioners from several disciplines suggest how such integration may be promoted.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction and Summary; Eliminating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: A Moral Imperative or Enlightened Self-Interest?; Ethics, Globalization, and Hunger: an Ethicist's Perspective; The Ethics of Hunger: Development Institutions and the World of Religion; What Hunger-Related Ethics Lessons can we Learn from Religion? Globalization and the World's Religions; Freedom from Hunger as a Basic Human Right: Principles and Implementation; Millennium Development Goals and Other Good Intentions
    Description / Table of Contents: What We Know About Poverty and What We Must Do: Ethical and Political Aspects of EmpowermentEthics and Hunger: A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Perspective; Economic Development, Equality, Income Distribution, and Ethics; On The Ethics and Economics of Changing Behavior; Agricultural and Food Ethics in the Western World: A Case of Ethical Imperialism?; Ethics, Hunger, and The Case for Genetically Modified (GM) Crops; Reforming Agricultural Trade: Not Just for the Wealthy Countries; Agricultural Subsidy and Trade Policies; Food Safety Standards in Rich and Poor Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Concluding Reflections on the Role of EthicsBack Matter
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    ISBN: 9783540480587
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 270 p. 8 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Pylkkänen, Paavo Mind, matter and the implicate order
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ontology ; Philosophy of mind ; Quantum theory ; Science (General) ; Consciousness ; Philosophy ; Ontology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Quantum theory ; Science (General) ; Consciousness ; Metaphysics ; Quantum Theory ; Consciousness ; Bohmsche Quantenmechanik ; Kognitionswissenschaft ; Bewusstsein ; Erfahrung
    Abstract: Proposes that Bohm's alternative interpretation of quantum theory resolves the paradoxes such as Schrodinger's cat, and the EPR paradox. This work uses Bohm's concepts of "implicate order", "active information" and "soma-significance" as tools to tackle several well-known problems in the philosophy of mind
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 182
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Neurosciences ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Consciousness ; Philosophy ; Neurosciences ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Consciousness ; Phenomenology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Phänomenologie ; Exakte Wissenschaften ; Erkenntnis ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Transzendentale Phänomenologie ; Mathematik ; Logik ; Physik ; Wahrnehmung ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: This book proposes a new phenomenological analysis of the questions of perception and cognition which are of paramount importance for a better understanding of those processes which underlies the formation of knowledge and consciousness. It presents many clear arguments showing how a phenomenological perspective helps to deeply interpret most fundamental findings of current research in neurosciences and also in mathematical and physical sciences.
    Abstract: Beyond their remarkable technical accomplishments, the new directions taken by the sciences in recent decades call for renewal of their epistemological basis. The purpose of this book is to show that Husserl s transcendental phenomenology, if properly re-examined, provides the required framework for such an epistemology. This re-examination is both critical and constructive. (i) The absolute subjectivization or the full naturalization of consciousness must be rejected. (ii) The necessarily transcendental character of phenomenology is put to work in the search for a systematic connection between the modes of theoretical objectivation and the apprehension of the phenomenal world by intentional consciousness. A new look at some of the fundamental issues opened up by Husserl is thus suggested by recent advances in the theory of perception, attention, and the will, foundations of mathematics and formal logic, space-time or quantum physics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Husserl and the Phenomenology of Attention; Phénoménologie et méréologie de la perception spatiale, de Husserl aux théoriciens de la Gestalt; On the Relationship between Parts and Wholes in Husserl's Phenomenology; Space and Movement. On Husserl's Geometry of the Visual Field; On Naturalizing Free; Perseverance and Adjustment: On Weyl's Phenomenological Philosophy of Nature; Mathematical Concepts and Physical Objects; Understanding Quantum Mechanics with Bohr and Husserl; Husserl between Formalism and Intuitionism
    Description / Table of Contents: The Two-Sidedness and the Rationalistic Ideal of Formal Logic: Husserl and GödelMettre les structures en mouvement: La phénoménologie et la dynamique de l'intuition conceptuelle. Sur la pertinence phénoménologique de la théorie des catégories; Pourquoi les nombres sont-ils «naturels»?; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9783540273523
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 292 p, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. The discovery of historicity in German idealism and historism
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; History ; Economics Methodology ; Philosophy ; History ; Philosophy (General) ; Economics Methodology ; Deutscher Idealismus ; Geschichtlichkeit ; Deutschland ; Geschichtsphilosophie ; Historismus ; Geschichte 1780-1900 ; Deutscher Idealismus ; Geschichtlichkeit
    Abstract: German Idealism develops its philosophy of history as the theory of becoming absolute and as absolute knowledge. Historism also originates from Hegel's and Schelling's discovery of absolute historicity as it turns against Idealism's philosophy of history by emphasizing the singular and unique in the process of history. German Idealism and Historism can be considered as the central German contribution to the history of ideas. Since Idealism became most influential for modern philosophy and Historism for modern historiography, they are analyzed in this volume in a collaboration of philosophers and historians. German Idealism is presented in Schelling and its critics Schlegel, Baader, and Nietzsche, Historism in Ranke, Droysen, Burckhardt, and Treitschke. The volume further presents the impact of Idealism and Historism on present German approaches to the philosophy of history and outlines the debates on the possibility of a philosophy of history and on the methodology of the historical sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Absolute Historicity, Theory of the Becoming Absolute, and the Affect for the Particular in German Idealism and Historism: Introduction; Schlegel's Theory of History and his Critique of Idealistic Reason; History as the Control of Speculation: Schelling's Discovery of History and Baader's Critique of Absolute Historicity; Leopold von Ranke; Droysen and Nietzsche: Two Different Answers to the Discovery of Historicity; Philosophy of History and Theory of Historiography in Jacob Burckhardt
    Description / Table of Contents: Historiography as Political Activity: Heinrich von Treitschke and the Historical Reconstruction of PoliticsLiterary Criticism and Historical Science: The Textuality of History in the Age of Goethe - and Beyond; Social and Philosophical Theory in the 19th Century German Thought; Philosophy of History After the End of the Formative Substantial Philosophy of History: Remarks on the Present State of the Philosophy of History; Why Kant's Reflections on History Still Have Relevance; Rehabilitating the Philosophy of History
    Description / Table of Contents: History and Subjectivity - The Relevance of a Philosophical Concept of History in the Kantian TraditionTowards a New Theory-Based History of Historiography; Philosophy of History After the Philosophy of History: Toward a Cultural History with Historical-Philosophical Background
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    ISBN: 9783540283034
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 376 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Mittelstaedt, Peter, 1929 - 2014 Laws of nature
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Quantum theory ; Mathematics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Quantum theory ; Mathematics ; Naturgesetz ; Naturgesetz
    Abstract: The book is concerned with the laws of nature and in particular with the laws of physics. The authors discuss three important questions: First, whether the observed regularities are based on strict 'laws of nature' that hold rigorously and without any exception. Second, what we call a 'law of nature' is studied by comparing this concept with invariance principles, causality principles, teleological principles and means of predicting future events. Finally, on the basis of these investigations the authors treat the ambitious and intricate third question, why the laws of nature hold. Are there rational reasons for this largely unexplained phenomenon? This book addresses students as well as researchers. It will be an excellent reference for those interested in the philosophical foundations of the natural sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Are there Laws of Nature at All?; Can the Laws of Nature be Genuine Laws?; Are the Laws of Logic Laws of Nature?; Are the Laws of Mathematics Laws of Nature?; Does Every Law of Nature Express an Invariance (Symmetry)?; Is Every Law of Nature Spacetime Invariant?; Dynamical and Statistical Laws; Laws, Boundary Conditions, and Constants of Nature; Causality and Predictability; Laws and Objects; Completeness and Reliability; Statistical Laws; Quantum Logic
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    ISBN: 9781402021275
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 570 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 78
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    Keywords: Life sciences. ; Ethics. ; Medical ethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ontology. ; Medical laws and legislation. ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Public health laws ; Bioethik
    Abstract: Introduction: Taking Stock of Bioethics From a Philosophical Perspective -- Introduction: Taking Stock of Bioethics From a Philosophical Perspective -- The Emergence of Bioethics -- The History of Bioethics as a Discipline -- Bioethical Theory -- Principles and Principlism -- Casuistry -- Virtue Theory in Philosophy of Medicine -- Common Morality -- Feminist Approaches to Bioethics -- Four Narrative Approaches to Bioethics -- Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics: A Phenomenological Perspective -- Core Concepts in Clinical Ethics -- The Logic of Health Concepts -- Physicians and Patients in Relation: Clinical Interpretation and Dialogues of Trust -- Informed Consent -- Philosophical Challenges to the Use of Advance Directives -- Ethics Committees and Case Consultation: Theory and Practice -- The Public Policy Context -- The Ethics of Controlled Clinical Trials -- Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Prioritization of Health Resources -- Sic Et Non: Some Disputed Questions in Reproductive Ethics -- Testing Genes and Constructing Humans — Ethics and Genetics -- Foundations of the Health Professions -- Death, Dying, Euthanasia, and Palliative Care: Perspectives from Philosophy of Medicine and Ethics -- Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry -- Nursing Ethics -- Geroethics -- Ethics and Philosophy of Public Health.
    Abstract: In general, the history of virtue theory is well-documented (Sherman, 1997; O’Neill, 1996). Its relationship to medicine is also recorded in our work and in that of others (Pellegrino and Thomasma, 1993b; 1996; Drane, 1994; Ellos, 1990). General publications stress the importance of training the young in virtuous practices. Still, the popularity of education in virtue is widely viewed as part of a conservative backlash to modern liberal society. Given the authorship of some of these works by professional conservatives like William Bennett (1993; 1995), this concern is authentic. One might correspondingly fear that greater adoption of virtue theory in medicine will be accompanied by a corresponding backward-looking social agenda. Worse yet, does reaffirmation of virtue theory lacquer over the many challenges of the postmodern world view as if these were not serious concerns? After all, recreating the past is the “retro” temptation of our times. Searching for greater certitude than we can now obtain preoccupies most thinkers today. One wishes for the old clarity and certitudes (Engelhardt, 1991). On the other hand, the same thinkers who yearn for the past, like Engelhardt sometimes seems to do, might stress the unyielding gulf between past and present that creates the postmodern reaction to all systems of Enlightenment thought (1996).
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    ISBN: 9781402020810
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(II, 358 p. 123 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 38
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    Keywords: Statistical physics. ; Dynamical systems. ; Optical data processing. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Artificial intelligence. ; System theory. ; Image processing—Digital techniques. ; Computer vision. ; Mathematical physics. ; Philosophy (General) ; Artificial intelligence ; Computer vision ; Physics ; Engineering ; Consciousness ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Kognitive Entwicklung
    Abstract: Seeing and Thinking: A New Approach -- Neural Models of Seeing and Thinking -- Functional Architecture of the Visual Cortex and Variational Models for Kanizsa’s Modal Subjective Contours -- Gestalt Theory and Computer Vision -- Towards an Analytic Phenomenology: The Concepts of “Bodiliness” and “Grabbiness” -- Internal Representations of Sensory Input Reflect the Motor Output with Which Organisms Respond to the Input -- Movemes for Modeling Biological Motion Perception -- Form Constraints in Motion Integration, Segmentation and Selection -- Scintillations, Extinctions, and Other New Visual Effects -- Commonalities between Visual Imagery and Imagery in Other Modalities; an Investigation by Means of fMRI -- Forms and Schemes of Perceptual and Cognitive Self-Organisation -- Microgenesis, Immediate Experience and Visual Processes in Reading -- Language, Space and the Theory of Semantic Forms -- Emotion-Cognition Interaction and Language -- Appearance of Structure and Emergence of Meaning in the Visual System -- The Embodied Meaning: Self-Organisation and Symbolic Dynamics in Visual Cognition.
    Abstract: According to Putnam to talk of “facts” without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing; “object” itself has many uses and as we creatively invent new uses of words “we find that we can speak of ‘objects’that were not ‘values of any variable’in 1 any language we previously spoke” . The notion of object becomes, then, like the notion of reference, a sort of open land, an unknown territory. The exploration of this land - pears to be constrained by use and invention. But, we may wonder, is it possible to guide invention and control use? In what way, in particular, is it possible, at the level of na- ral language, to link together program expressions and natural evolution? To give an answer to these onerous questions we should immediately point out that cognition (as well as natural language) has to be considered first of all as a peculiar fu- tion of active biosystems and that it results from complex interactions between the - ganism and its surroundings. “In the moment an organism perceives an object of wh- ever kind, it immediately begins to ‘interpret’this object in order to react properly to it . . . It is not necessary for the monkey to perceive the tree in itself. . . What counts is sur- 2 vival” .
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Preliminaries""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""NEURAL MODELS OF SEEING AND THINKING""; ""FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE VISUAL CORTEX AND VARIATIONAL MODELS FOR KANIZSA�S MODAL SUBJECTIVE CONTOUR""; ""GESTALT THEORY AND COMPUTER VISION""; ""TOWARDS AN ANALYTIC PHENOMENOLOGY""; ""INTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SENSORY INPUT REFLECT THE MOTOR OUTPUT WITH WHICH ORGANISMS RESPOND TO THE INPUT""; ""MOVEMES FOR MODELING BIOLOGICAL MOTION PEPCEPTION""; ""FORM CONSTRAINTS IN MOTION INTEGRATION, SEGMENTATION AND SELECTION""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""SCINTILLATIONS, EXTINCTIONS AND OTHER NEW VISUAL EFFECTS""""COMMONALITIES BETWEEN VISUAL IMAGERY AND IMAGERY IN OTHER MODALITIES""; ""MICROGENESIS, IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE AND VISUAL PROCESSES IN READING""; ""LANGUAGE, SPACE AND THE THEORY OF SEMANTIC FORMS""; ""EMOTION-COGNITION INTERACTION AND LANGUAGE""; ""APPEARANCE OF STRUCTURE AND EMERGENCE OF MEANING IN THE VISUAL SYSTEM""; ""THE EMBODIED MEANING""; ""NAME INDEX""; ""SUBJECT INDEX""
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    ISBN: 9781402032110
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 360 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Philosophy and science. ; Logic. ; Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: Hintikka on Epistemological Axiomatizations -- Hintikka on the Problem with the Problem of Transworld Identity -- What is Epistemic Discourse About? -- Interrogative Logic and the Economic Theory of Information -- A Metalogical Critique of Wittgensteinian ‘Phenomenology’ -- Theoretical Commensurability By Correspondence Relations: When Empirical Success Implies Theoretical Reference -- What is Abduction?: An Assessment of Jaakko Hintikka's Conception -- The Dialogic of Just Being Different: Hintikka's New Approach to the Notion of Episteme and its Impact on “Second Generation” Dialogics -- Probabilistic Features in Logic Games -- On Some Logical Properties of ‘Is True’ -- The Results are in: The Scope and Import of Hintikka's Philosophy.
    Abstract: Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significant contributions to virtually all areas of the discipline, from epistemology and the philosophy of logic to the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science. Part of the fruitfulness of Hintikka’s work is due to its opening important new lines of investigation and new approaches to traditional philosophical problems. This volume gathers together essays from some of Hintikka’s colleagues and former students exploring his influence on their work and pursuing some of the insights that we have found in his work. This book includes a comprehensive overview of Hintikka’s philosophy by Dan Kolak and John Symons and an annotated bibliography of Hintikka’s work.
    Description / Table of Contents: ForewordHintikka on Epistemological Axiomatizations -- Hintikka on the Problem with the Problem of Transworld Identity -- What is Epistemic Discourse About. Interrogative Logic and the Economic Theory of Information -- A Metalogical Critique of Wittgensteinian ‘Phenomenology’ -- Theoretical Commensurability By Correspondence Relations: When Empirical Success Implies Theoretical Reference -- What is Abduction?: An Assessment of Jaakko Hintikka's Conception -- The dialogic of just being different: Hintikka's new approach to the notion of episteme and its impact on "second generation" dialogics -- Probabilistic Features in Logic Games. On Some Logical Properties of ‘Is True’ -- The Results are in: The Scope and Import of Hintikka's Philosophy -- Annotated Bibliography of Jaakko Hintikka -- Index.
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Religion. ; History. ; Philosophy—History. ; History ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Science Congresses history ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Rezeption ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727 ; Religion ; Newton, Isaac 1643-1727
    Abstract: The New Newtonian Scholarship and the Fate of the Scientific Revolution -- Plans for Publishing Newton’s Religious and Alchemical Manuscripts, 1982–1998 -- Digitizing Isaac: The Newton Project and an Electronic Edition of Newton’s Papers -- Was Newton a Voluntarist? -- Providence and Newton’s Pantokrator: Natural Law, Miracles, and Newtonian Science -- Eighteenth-Century Reactions to Newton’s Anti-Trinitarianism -- Prosecuting Athanasius: Protestant Forensics and the Mirrors of Persecution -- Lust, Pride, and Ambition: Isaac Newton and the Devil -- Women, Science, and Newtonianism: Emilie du Châtelet versus Francesco Algarotti -- Reflections on Newton’s Alchemy in Light of the New Historiography of Alchemy -- The Trouble with Newton in the Eighteenth Century.
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 25
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    Keywords: Religion. ; Philosophy. ; Metaphysics. ; Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: Philosophy of Religion for a New Century: Introduction -- The Future of Religion in the West: Prospects at the Beginning of a Millennium -- The Grammar of Transcendence -- Does Philosophy Tolerate Christening? Thomas Aquinas and the Notion of Christian Philosophy -- God in the Summa Theologiae: Entity or Event? -- Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts -- Value Judgments, God, and Ecological Ecumenism -- An Audience for Philosophy of Religion? -- What’s a Philosopher of Religion to Do? -- Nietzsche and Christians with Beautiful Feet -- The Religious (Re)Turn in Recent French Philosophy -- Instances: Levinas on Art and Truth -- Appropriating Beginnings: Creation and Natality -- ‘Moralizing’ Love In Philosophy of Religion -- The Role of Concepts of God in Cross Cultural Comparative Theology -- God and Nothingness: Two Sides of the Same Coin? -- Universal Religion and Comparative Philosophy -- Religion and Politics, Fear and Duty -- On the Proper Roles of Secular Reason and Religious Reason in a Liberal Democracy -- Eugene Thomas Long: A Brief Biography -- The Works of Eugene Thomas Long.
    Abstract: Philosophy of Religion for a New Century represents the work of nineteen scholars presented at a conference in honor of Eugene T. Long at the University of South Carolina, April 5-6, 2002. This volume is a good example of philosophy in dialogue; there is both respect and genuine disagreement. First, an account of our present situation in the Philosophy of Religion is given, leading to a discussion of the very idea of a 'Christian Philosophy' and the coherence of the traditional concept of God. The implications of science and a concern for the environment in our concepts of God are carefully examined. A discussion follows on the possibility of speech about God and silence about God. Since much of modern European philosophy is concerned with the `Death of God' theme, the positions of Nietzsche and some of his twentieth-century interpreters are presented. There are presentations on Feminist Approaches to Philosophy of Religion, and Comparative Religion is examined in relation to cultures and the demands of rationality. The volume concludes with a critical dialogue on the relation of Religious Discourse to the Public Sphere. Developing global awareness has led to significant change in the Philosophy of Religion. One-dimensional approaches have given way to honest dialogue. The traditional boundaries between the secular and the religious have shifted, and new approaches to traditional problems are required. This volume presents examples of these new approaches.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; List of Authors; Preface; Philosophy of Religion for a New Century: Introduction; The Future of Religion in the West: Prospects at the Beginning of a Millennium ; The Grammar of Transcendence; Does Philosophy Tolerate Christening? Thomas Aquinas and the Notion of Christian Philosophy ; God in the Summa Theologiae: Entity or Event?; Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts; Value Judgments, God, and Ecological Ecumenism; An Audience for Philosophy of Religion?; What's a Philosopher of Religion to Do?; Nietzsche and Christians with Beautiful Feet
    Description / Table of Contents: The Religious (Re)Turn in Recent French PhilosophyInstances: Levinas on Art and Truth; Appropriating Beginnings: Creation and Natality; 'Moralizing' Love In Philosophy of Religion; The Role of Concepts of God in Cross Cultural Comparative Theology ; God and Nothingness: Two Sides of the Same Coin?; Universal Religion and Comparative Philosophy; Religion and Politics, Fear and Duty; On the Proper Roles of Secular Reason and Religious Reason in a Liberal Democracy ; Eugene Thomas Long: A Brief Biography; The Works of Eugene Thomas Long; Index
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Ethics. ; Metaphysics. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy of mind
    Abstract: Personal Borders -- Border Control -- Physiological Borders -- Neurological Borders -- Spatial Borders -- Psychological Borders -- Causal Borders -- Metaphysical Borders -- Identity Borders -- Phenomenological Borders -- Transcendental Borders -- Moral Borders.
    Abstract: Borders enclose and separate us. We assign to them tremendous significance. Along them we draw supposedly uncrossable boundaries within which we believe our individual identities begin and end, erecting the metaphysical dividing walls that enclose each one of us into numerically identical, numerically distinct, entities: persons. Do the borders between us—physical, psychological, neurological, causal, spatial, temporal, etc.—merit the metaphysical significance ordinarily accorded them? The central thesis of I Am You is that our borders do not signify boundaries between persons. We are all the same person. Variations on this heretical theme have been voiced periodically throughout the ages (the Upanishads, Averroës, Giordano Bruno, Josiah Royce, Schrödinger, Fred Hoyle, Freeman Dyson). In presenting his arguments, the author relies on detailed analyses of recent formal work on personal identity, especially that of Derek Parfit, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert Nozick, David Wiggins, Daniel C. Dennett and Thomas Nagel, while incorporating the views of Descartes, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Kant, Husserl and Brouwer. His development of the implied moral theory is inspired by, and draws on, Rawls, Sidgwick, Kant and again Parfit. The traditional, commonsense view that we are each a separate person numerically identical to ourselves over time, i.e., that personal identity is closed under known individuating and identifying borders—what the author calls Closed Individualism—is shown to be incoherent. The demonstration that personal identity is not closed but open points collectively in one of two new directions: either there are no continuously existing, self-identical persons over time in the sense ordinarily understood—the sort of view developed by philosophers as diverse as Buddha, Hume and most recently Derek Parfit, what the author calls Empty Individualism—or else you are everyone, i.e., personal identity is not closed under known individuating and identifying borders, what the author calls Open Individualism. In making his case, the author: * offers a new explanation both of consciousness and of self-consciousness * constructs a new theory of Self * explains psychopathologies (e.g. multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia) * shows Open Individualism to be the best competing explanation of who we are * provides the metaphysical foundations for global ethics. The book is intended for philosophers and the philosophically inclined—physicists, mathematicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, economists, and communication theorists. It is accessible to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
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    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Series Statement: Synthese Library 161
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Science—Philosophy. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Frau ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Frau ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: Woman is Not a Rational Animal: On Aristotle’S Biology of Reproduction -- Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul -- The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover -- Have Only Men Evolved? -- Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science -- The Trivialization of the Notion of Equality -- How Can Language be Sexist? -- A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method -- The Man of Professional Wisdom -- Gender and Science -- The Mind’S Eye -- Individualism and the Objects of Psychology -- Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics -- The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism -- Why Has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now?.
    Abstract: Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than human understanding distort our models of reason and of scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this collection explore the evidence for these increasingly reasonable and intriguing questions. They identify how it is distinctively masculine perspectives on masculine experience which have shaped the most fundamental and formal aspects of systematic thought in philosophy and the natural and social sciences - precisely the aspects of thought believed most gender-neutral. They show how these understandings ground Aristotle's biology and metaphysics; the very definition of the problems of philosophy in Plato, Descartes, Hobbes and Rousseau; the `adversary method' which is the paradigm of philosophic and scientific reasoning; principles of individuation in philosophical ontology and the philosophy of language; individualistic assumptions in psychology; functionalism in sociological and biological theory; evolutionary theory; the methodology of political science; Marxist political economy; and conceptions of `objective inquiry' in the social and natural sciences. These essays also begin to identify for us the distictive aspects of women's experience which can provide the resources needed for the creation of a truly human understanding. Audience: The book will be of interest to those involved in epistemology, and philosophy of the natural and social sciences, as well as feminist scholars in philosophy. The work will also be of value for theorists, methodologists, and feminist scholars in the natural and social sciences.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 191 p.)
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    Series Statement: Catholic Studies in Bioethics 84
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    Keywords: Medical ethics. ; Ethics. ; Religion. ; Bioethics. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Medical ethics ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: Introduction: John Paul II's Contribution to Catholic Bioethics -- Pope John Paul II's Teaching on Human Dignity and its Implications for Bioethics -- John Paul II's Encyclical Veritatis Splendor and Bioethics -- Liberty and Responsibility: John Paul II, Ethics, and the Law -- Bioethics in the Ruins of Christendom: Why John Paul II's Diagnosis Requires a More Radical Cure Than May and Colvert Provide -- Protecting Persons -- The Human Body and Sexuality in the Teaching of Pope John Paul II -- Protestants, Natural Law, and Reproductive Ethics -- John Paul II on the Good of Life -- Karol Wojtyla on Treating Patients as Persons -- John Paul II and the Goods of the Body (of Christ).
    Abstract: Any list of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century would arguably have to begin with the name of Pope John Paul II. From 1978, when he was inaugurated, to the present, over a quarter of a century later, the Pope has been a dominant force in the world, both within the Catholic and Christian Church, and in the larger international community. Among the areas in which the Pope has been of signal importance to contemporary discussion, argument, and policy has been the field of bioethics. This collection brings together for the first time in an accessible and readable form a summary and assessment of John Paul II's contribution to bioethical issues and theories. It includes discussion of the Pope's views on the dignity of the person and the sanctity of human life, and the application of these views to various difficulties in medical ethics such as abortion and embryo research, the right to health care and the problem of suffering. Throughout, attention is paid to the way in which the Pope stands as a recognizably authentic voice for the Catholic faith in the medical arena.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 202 p.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 11
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Philosophy. ; Religion. ; Ethics. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturrecht ; Ethik
    Abstract: Confronting Moral Pluralism: Assessing Universal Applicability -- Natural Law and Global Ethics -- Natural Law and Moral Pluralism -- Natural Law and Modern Meta-Ethics -- Moral Identity and the Natural Law Theory -- Engaging The Limits of Human Nature -- Global Ethics and Natural Law -- Natural Law and Conflict -- Natural Law and Historical Mindedness -- An Assessment of the Requirements of the Study of Natural Law -- Beyond Rationalistic Philosophy: Assessing Universal Accessibility -- Natural Law and Global Ethics -- The Perversity of Thomistic Natural Law Theory -- Natural Law and the Free Church Tradition -- Natural Law and the Free Church Tradition: A Biblicist Responds -- The Natural Law Tradition and a Culture in Crisis -- Insights and Hindsights from Seeking a Global Ethic.
    Abstract: Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural reason itself. This volume critically explores and assesses our contemporary culture wars in terms of: the possibility of natural law moral philosophy and theology to provide a unique, content-full, canonical morality; the character and nature of moral pluralism; the limits of justifiable national and international policy seeking to produce and preserve human happiness, social justice, and the common good; the ways in which morality, moral epistemology, and social political reform must be set within the broader context of an appropriately philosophically and theologically anchored anthropology. This work will be of interest to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists, ethicists and political scientists.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 359 p.)
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna Vienna Circle Society, Society for the Advancement of Scientific World Conceptions 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy and science. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: Induction and Deduction in the Philosophy of Science: a Critical Account since the Methodenstreit -- Historicizing Deduction: Scientific Method, Critical Debate, and the Historian -- Inference to the Best Theory, rather than Inference to the Best Explanation — Kinds of Abduction and Induction -- The Significance of Explanatory Considerations -- Truth-seeking by Abduction -- Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism -- Adaptive Logics and the Integration of Induction and Deduction -- Argument, Inference and Reasoning — Integrating Induction and Deduction -- Laws are Persistent Inductive Schemes -- Physical Intuition as Inductive Support -- Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics -- Remarks About a “General Science of Reasoning” -- Two Questions About the Revival of Frege’s Programme -- Handling Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and the Bayesian Controversy -- Artificial Intelligence and Its Methodological Implications -- Supplying Planks for Neurath’s Boat: Can Economists Meet the Demands of the Dynamics of Scientific Theories? -- Informational Economy and Creativity -- The Place of the Notion of Corroboration in Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science -- How can a Falsified Theory Remain Corroborated ? -- Inductivism in 19th Century German Economics -- The Uniformity of Nature: What Purpose does it Serve? -- Planning, Democratization and Popularization with ISOTYPE, ca. 1945: a Study of Otto Neurath’s Pictorial Statistics with the Example of Bilston, England -- Reviews -- Activities 2003 -- Preview 2004 -- Remembering Dick Jeffrey (1926-2002) (Maria Carla Galavotti) -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and deductivists. They explore the different methods of explanation and justification in the sciences in different contexts and with different objectives. The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences, especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws, probability and explanation, ranging from logic, mathematics, natural to the social sciences. They present a highly topical pluralist re-evaluation of methodological and foundational procedures and reasoning, e.g. focusing in Bayesianism and Artificial Intelligence. They document the second international conference in Vienna on "Induction and Deduction in the Sciences" as part of the Scientific Network on "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy of Science in Europe", funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; A Critical Account since the Methodenstreit
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 233 p.)
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 52
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Phenomenology . ; Cognitive psychology. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Neuropsychology. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Psychology, clinical ; Consciousness
    Abstract: Situational Understanding: A Gurwitschian Critique of Theory of Mind -- Vertical Context after Gurwitsch -- Schizophrenia: A Disturbance of the Thematic Field -- Intentionality, Consciousness, and Intentional Relations: From Phenomenology to Cognitive Science -- The Experience of the Present Moment -- Field Theories of Mind and Brain -- The Marginal Body -- Experimental Evidence for Three Dimensions of Attention -- The Structure of Context and Context Awareness -- The Field of Consciousness as a Living System: Toward a Naturalized Phenomenology of Cognition -- The Three Species of Relevancy in Gurwitsch -- Kinds of Knowledge: Phenomenology and the Sciences.
    Abstract: When I heard the rumor that the findings about the central nervous system obtained with new technology, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), were too subtle to correlate with the crude results of many decades of behavioristic psychology, and that some psychologists were now turning to descriptions of subjective phenomena in William James, Edmund Husserl, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty—and even in Buddhism—I asked myself, “Why not Aron Gurwitsch as well?” After all, my teacher regularly reflected on the types, basic concepts, and methods of psychology, worked with Adhémar Gelb and Kurt Goldstein in the institute investigating brain-injured veterans at Frankfurt in the 1920s, conspicuously employed Gestalt theory to revise central Husserlian doctrines, and taught Merleau-Ponty a thing or two. That the last book from his Nachlass had recently been published and that I had recently written an essay on his theory of 1 psychology no doubt helped crystallize this project for me. What is “cognitive science”? At one point in assembling this volume I polled the participants, asking whether they preferred “the cognitive sciences” or “cognitive science. ” Most who answered preferred the latter expression. There is still some vagueness here for me, but I do suspect that cognitive science is 2 another example of what I call a “multidiscipline. ” A multidiscipline includes participants who confront a set of issues that is best approached under more than one disciplinary perspective.
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 50
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Philosophy. ; Phenomenology . ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: The Development of Hermeneutical Consciousness -- The Development of Hermeneutical Consciousness in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The Genesis of Philological-Historical Hermeneutics -- Methodological Hermeneutics -- Toward a General Theory of Understanding -- A Typology of Understanding -- Cultural Understanding -- Method and Methodology -- The Unsolved Problems of Methodological Hermeneutics -- Parts, Wholes, and Circles -- The First Canon and the Philological-Historical Method.
    Abstract: The goal of the investigation is a phenomenological theory of the methods and later the methodology of the human sciences, first of all the philological interpretation of texts. The first part is a critical reflection on the historical development of hermeneutics as method of interpreting texts and the tradition including the first steps toward the emergence of scientific methodological hermeneutics. Such reflections show that the development of hermeneutics is onesidedly founded in the development of hermeneutical consciousness, i.e. the changing attitudes in the application and rejection of cultural traditions. All methods and finally methodologies are onesidedly founded in the activities of the lifeworld. The second part is a first attempt to develop an outline of a general phenomenological theory of pre-methodical and methodical understanding in the lifeworld. The third part offers a critical phenomenologically guided analysis of methodological hermeneutics. .
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 189
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Medieval philosophy. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination -- Outlines of Perennial Philosophy -- Glory -- Divine Names -- Kosmos Anthropos -- Archetypes -- Spiritual Spaces -- Theology of Time -- The Return of Time -- Epochs and Eras -- Translatio Sapientiae -- The Echo of Perennial Philosophy -- Schelling's “World-Ages”.
    Abstract: The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 15
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    Keywords: Ontology. ; Ethics. ; Criminal law. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Criminal Law
    Abstract: Overpopulation and the Quality of Life -- Two Parfit Puzzles -- Critical-Level Population Principles And The Repugnant Conclusion -- O Repugnance, Where Is Thy Sting? -- Resolving The Repugnant Conclusion -- Person-Based Consequentialism And The Procreation Obligation -- Person-Affecting Moralities -- Repugnance Or Intransitivity: A Repugnant But Forced Choice -- The Root Of The Repugnant Conclusion And Its Rebuttal -- The Paradoxes Of Future Generations And Normative Theory -- Why We Ought To Accept The Repugnant Conclusion -- The Repugnant Conclusion And Worthwhile Living -- Postscript.
    Abstract: Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'. This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics.
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    Series Statement: Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers 6
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Epistemology. ; History. ; Philosophy, Ancient. ; Ontology. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy—History. ; Ontology ; History ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Genetic epistemology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aristoteles v384-v322 ; Logik
    Abstract: On Aristotle’s Notion of Existence -- Semantical Games, the Alleged Ambiguity of “Is”, and Aristotelian Categories -- Aristotle’s Theory of Thinking and Its Consequences for His Methodology -- On the Role of Modality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics -- On the Ingredients of An Aristotelian Science -- Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomotics -- Aristotelian Induction -- Aristotelian Explanations -- Aristotle’s Incontinent Logician -- On the Development of Aristotle’s Ideas of Scientific Method and the Structure of Science -- What Was Aristotle Doing in His Early Logic, Anyway? A Reply to Woods and Hansen -- Concepts of Scientific Method from Aristotle to Newton -- The Fallacy of Fallacies -- Socratic Questioning, Logic and Rhetoric.
    Abstract: Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. In particular, logic was originally a study of answers necessitated by earlier answers. For Aristotle, thought-experiments were real experiments in the sense that by realizing forms in one's mind, one can read off their properties and interrelations. Treating forms as independent entities, knowable one by one, committed Aristotle to his mode of syllogistic explanation. He did not think of existence, predication and identity as separate senses of estin. Aristotle thus serves as an example of a thinker who did not rely on the distinction between the allegedly different Fregean senses, thereby shedding new light on our own conceptual presuppositions. This collection comprises several striking interpretations that Jaakko Hintikka has put forward over the years, constituting a challenge not only to Aristotelian scholars and historians of ideas, but to everyone interested in logic, epistemology or metaphysics and in their history.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 321 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 83
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Phenomenology . ; Anthropology. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Anthropology ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: The Ontopoietic Spread of the Logos of Life -- Around the Aretelogical Challenge of the “ontopoiesis of Life” -- The Cipher as the Unity of Signifier and Signified -- “Ontopoi?sis” and the Interpretation of Plato’s “khÔra” -- Self-individualization as the Main Principle in the Phenomenology of Life -- The Individualized Living Being as Node in Networks of Significant Affairs within a Vital System -- A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophasis and the Experience of Truth and Totality -- Creative Imagination Ciphering the Moral Discourse Between the Self and the Other -- Creative Process as a Factor and Condition of the Phenomenology of Life -- Levinas’ Disruptive Imagination: Time, Self and the Other -- Human Life as a Creative Completion of an An-archical Promise of Goodness in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas -- The Ethical Orientation of the Art of Human Creativity in the Book Ethics of Value and Hope by J. Tischner -- Creative “Représentance”: Ricoeur on Care, Death and History -- The Productive Function of the Will in the Philosophical Thought of William James -- The ‘Is-Ought Question’ Once More Reconsidered -- Multiple Rays of Creative Imagination Ciphering the Elemental Expansion of the Human Condition -- Wilderness: A Zoocentric Phenomenology — from Hediger to Heidegger -- Gewalt und Passibilität des Lebens: Entwurf Einer Praktischen Phänomenologie -- “African Vitalogy”: The African Mind and Spirituality -- The Tales of the Woods -- What the Eyes Alone Cannot See: Lakota Phenomenology and the Vision Quest -- The Ontopoiesis of the Dwelling: Art as Construction of a Human Space -- Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Organic Architecture”: An Ecological Approach in Theory and Practice -- The Creative Inwardness As a Forge of the Novel Types of Aesthetic Ciphers -- Creative Inwardness in Early Modern Italian Thought -- Creativity and Aesthetic Experience: The Problem of the Possibility of Beauty and Sensitiveness -- Confirmations of ‘life’ in a Phenomenology of Poetic Images -- The Sense of Creativity by Andrei Tarkovski -- Twilight of the Eidos: The Question of Form in Heidegger’s Reading of Nietzsche’s Thought upon Art -- Traditional Works of Art and Networks of Art: Phenomenological Reflection -- Vincent Van Gogh’s Five Bedrooms at Arles: An Analysis of Creative Copies -- Figureless Landscape: The Persistence of the Sublime in American Landscape Painting -- The Aestheticization of Life by Photography -- The Convergent ‘I’: Empathy as an Aesthetic Category -- Mass-media Communication as a Possible Creative Source -- La Modernidad y la Filosofía de la Historia -- Creativity, Intentionality, Hermeneutics; Husserlian Inquiries -- The Function of Intentionality and the Function of Creativity; A.-T. Tymieniecka and E. Husserl: A Confrontation -- Creativity in Husserl’s Impulsive Intentionality -- Merleau-Ponty and Expressive Life: A Hermeneutical Study -- The Philosophical Psyche and Creativity -- Sein und Zeit in the Works of Edith Stein -- Creative Imagination in the Invention of Ciphers of the Cognitive Scientific Logos -- Transworld Individuals Versus David Lewis’s Creation of Counterpart Individuals -- The Endurance of Aesthetic Objects and the Relative Durability of Scientific Theories -- Phenomenology of Creative Application of Mathematical Analogy in Arts and Literature -- The Analogy Between “Orthodox” Quantum Theory and Polyphony of Fiction -- A Systemic Typology of Scientific Phenomena -- New Humanism.
    Abstract: The fulgurating power of creative imagination - Imaginatio Creatrix - setting in motion the Human Condition within the-unity-of-everything there-is-alive is the key to the rebirth of philosophy. From as early as 1971 (see the third volume of the Analecta Husserliana series, The Phenomenological Realism of the Possible Worlds, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, ed.), Imaginatio Creatrix has been the leitmotif for the research work of the World Phenomenology Institute (now published in eighty-three Analecta Husserliana volumes), one that is eliciting echoes from all around. Husserl's diagnosis of a crisis in Western science and culture, the inspiration of much of postmodern phenomenology, has yielded place to a wave of scientific discovery, technological invention, and change in societal life, individual lifestyles, the arts, etc. These throw a glaring light on human creative genius and the crucial role of the imagination that gives it expression. This present collection is an instance of that expression and the response it evokes. It manifests the role of imagination in forming and interpreting our world -in-transformation in a new way and opens our eyes to marvel at the new world on the way. Papers by: Semiha Akinci, John Baldacchino, Angela Ales Bello, Elif Cirakman, Tracy Colony, Carmen Cozma, Charles de Brantes, Mamuka G. Dolidze, Edward Domagala, Shannon Driscoll, Nader E1-Bizri, Ignacy Fiut, William Franke, Elga Freiberga, Beata Furgalska, Nicoletta Ghigi, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, David Grünberg, Oliver W. Holmes, Milan Jaros, Rolf Kühn, Maija Kule, Rimma Kurenkova, Matthew Landrus, Nancy Mardas, David Martinez, William D. Melaney, Mieczyslaw, Pawel Migon, Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia, Leszek Pyra, W. Kim Rogers, Bruce Ross, Osvaldo Rossi, Julio E. Rubio, Diane G. Scillia, Mina Sehdev, Dennis E. Skocz, Mariola Sulkowska, Robert D. Sweeney, Jan Szmyd, Piero Trupia, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Richard T. Webster.
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    ISBN: 9781402025549
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 222 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 16
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Ontology. ; Ethics. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy of law
    Abstract: Proportionalism and its Justifications -- The Seriousness of Crimes -- The Severity of Punishments -- The Anchor Problem -- Proportionalism and Penal Practice -- Relaxed Proportionality.
    Abstract: The philosophical discussion of state punishment is well on in years. In contrast with a large number of ethical problems which are concerned with right and wrong in relation to a narrowly specified area of human life and practice and which hav- at least since the early 70’s - been regarded as a legitimate part of philosophical thinking constituting the area of applied ethics, reflections on punishment can be traced much further back in the history of western philosophy. This is not surprising. That the stately mandated infliction of death, suffering, or deprivation on citizens should be met with hesitation - from which ethical reflections may depar- seems obvious. Such a practice certainly calls for some persuasive justification. It is therefore natural that reflective minds have for a long time devoted attention to punishment and that the question of how a penal system can be justified has constituted the central question in philosophical discussion. Though it would certainly be an exaggeration to claim that the justification question is the only aspect of punishment with which philosophers have been concerned, there has in most periods been a clear tendency to regard this as the cardinal issue. Comparatively much less attention has been devoted to the more precise questions of how, and how much, criminals should be punished for their respective wrong-doings. This may, of course, be due to several reasons.
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    ISBN: 9781402025396
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 159 p. 3 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 18
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    Keywords: Political philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Todesstrafe ; Medizinische Ethik ; Todesstrafe ; Medizinische Ethik
    Abstract: Medicalisation of Capital Punishment -- Role/Professional Versus Ordinary Morality -- The Morality of Euthanasia and Its Implications for the Medicalisation of Capital Punishment -- The Military Doctor -- Medical Involvement in the Wider Capital Punishment Process -- Kantian Theory -- Utilitarian Arguments for Medicalisation -- The Medical Doctor and a Condemned Prisoner.
    Abstract: The morality of capital punishment has been debated for a long time. This however has 1 not resulted in the settlement of the question either way. Philosophers are still divided. In this work I am not addressing the morality of capital punishment per se. My question is different but related. It is this. Whether or not capital punishment is morally right, is it moral or immoral for medical doctors to be involved in the practice? To deal with this question I start off in Chapter One delineating the sort of involvement the medical associations consider to be morally problematic for medical doctors in capital punishment. They make a distinction between what they call 2 “medicalisation” of and “involvement” in capital punishment, and argue that there is a moral distinction between the two. Whilst it is morally acceptable for doctors to be “involved” in capital punishment, according to the medical associations, it is immoral to medicalise the practice. I clarify this position and show what moral issues arise. I then suggest that there should not be a distinction between the two. The medical associations argue that the medicalisation of capital punishment, especially the use by medical doctors of lethal injection to execute condemned prisoners is immoral and therefore should be prohibited, because it involves doctors in doing what is against the aims of medicine.
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    ISBN: 9781402024917
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 181 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Topoi Library 5
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Aesthetics. ; Metaphysics. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Aesthetics ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775-1854 ; Ästhetik ; Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775-1854 ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: The Dissertation of 1792 on the Origin of Evil -- Schelling’s Timæus -- The Essay on the Possibility of a Form of All Philosophy (1794) -- The Opposition Between the Unconditional -- The Dramatization of Contrast -- The Paradox of Opposition -- Philosophy of Nature -- The System of Transcendental Idealism (1800) -- Epilogue on Earth.
    Abstract: This book is not a merely historical reconstruction of Schelling’s thought; its main goal is to provide a contribution for a better comprehension of the importance of the philosophical quest of the young German philosopher from within, which represents a turning point for the whole thought of modernity. I did not describe the various fields of Schelling’s work, but I pointed out the central position of his Aesthetics, through the analysis of the inner mechanisms of his concepts. This mechanism, in my opinion, shows the reason why an Aesthetic philosophy is possible, and why its origin can be traced to Kant’s Aesthetics (particularly in Kant’s Critique of Judgement) and in the speculations of the early post-Kantian philosophy. The young Schelling’s philosophical problems precede his encounter with Fichte’s philosophy. Schelling discovers these problems, related to Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Wolff, Leibniz and Kant, in the protestant college of the Stift in Tübingen. Fichte confirmed the necessity of an urgent reform of transcendental philosophy, and offered to the young philosopher a philosophical dictionary and an orientation. Schelling exploited these resources with a great degree of autonomy, independence and originality. In these years Hölderlin’s influence on Schelling was much greater. Schelling’s and Hölderlin’s speculations, in these crucial years, were tightly connected.
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    ISBN: 9780306482144
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 427 p. 6 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna Vienna Circle Society, Society for the Advancement of Scientific World Conceptions 10
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    Keywords: Philosophy and science. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Epistemology. ; Philosophy of nature. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy of Nature ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Wiener Kreis ; Neopositivismus
    Abstract: What is the Vienna Circle? -- What is the Vienna Circle? -- Origins and History -- Pluralism of Tenable World Views -- On the Formation of Logical Empiricism -- Bolzano’s Account of Justification -- Kantian Metaphysics and Hertzian Mechanics -- Moritz Schlick -- Moritz Schlick’s Idea of Non-territorial States -- An Unknown Side of Moritz Schlick’s Intellectual Biography: The Reviews for the “Vierteljahrschrift Für Wissenschaftliche Philosophie und Soziologie” (1911–1916) -- Between Meaning and Demarcation -- “Let’s Talk about Flourishing!” — Moritz Schlick and the Non-cognitive Foundation of Virtue Ethics -- Hans Reichenbach -- Coordination and Convention in Hans Reichenbach’s Philosophy of Space -- Reichenbach’s ?-Definition of Simultaneity in Historical and Philosophical Perspective -- Other Proponents and Periphery -- Towards a Physicalistic Attitude -- Logical Empiricism and Phenomenology: Felix Kaufmann -- Béla von Juhos and the Concept of “Konstatierungen” -- Wittgenstein’s Constructivization of Euler’s Proof of the Infinity of Primes -- Quine’S Historical Argument for Epistemology Naturalized -- Unity and Plurality -- Two Uses of Unification -- Unity and Plurality in the Concept of Causation -- Edgar Zilsel’s Research Programme: Unity of Science as an Empirical Problem -- Contexts of Science -- Criticizing a Difference of Contexts — On Reichenbach’S Distincition Between “Context of Discovery” and “Context of Justification” -- Contextualizing an Epistemological Issue: The Case of Error in Experiment -- The Contexts of Scientific Justification. Some Reflections on the Relation Between Epistemological Contextualism and Philosophy of Science -- Epistemology -- Modal Skepticism. Philosophical Thought Experiments and Modal Epistemology -- Structure and Heuristic: In Praise of Structural Reallism in the Case of Niels Bohr -- Ethics -- The Neutrality of Meta-Ethics Revisited — How to Draw on Einstein and the Vienna Circle in Developing an Adequate Account of Morals -- Women of Logical Empiricism -- No Woman, No Try? — Else Frenkel-Brunswik and the Project of Integrating Psychoanalysis into the Unity of Science -- Susan Stebbing on Cambridge and Vienna Analysis -- Susan Stebbing’s Criticism of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus -- Rose Rand: a Woman in Logic -- Report — Documentation -- Logical Positivism in Russia.
    Abstract: The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism is for scholars, researchers and students in history and philosophy of science focusing on Logical Empiricism and analytic philosophy (of science). This volume features recent work from international research and historiography on the Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism and their influence. It is unique in that it: -provides historical and systematic research; -deals with the influence and impact of the Vienna Circle/Logical Empiricism on today's philosophy of science; -explores the intellectual context of this scientific philosophy; -unites contributions by renowned scholars and a younger generation of philosophers; -focuses on main figures and peripheral adherents; -features crucial issues of Logical Empiricism; -documents the activities of the Vienna Circle Institute; -includes reviews on related topics.
    Note: Includes papers from a symposium held July 12-14, 2001 at the University of Vienna , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9780306481345
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 342 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 91
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    Keywords: Semantics. ; Logic. ; Phenomenology . ; Philosophy of mind. ; Psycholinguistics. ; Semiotics. ; Logic ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Psychologismus ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Psychologism in Logic: Bacon to Bolzano -- Between Leibniz and Mill: Kant’s Logic and the Rhetoric of Psychologism -- Psychologism and Non-Classical Approaches in Traditional Logic -- The Concept of ‘Psychologism’ in Frege and Husserl -- Psychologism and Sociologism in Early Twentieth-Century German-Speaking Philosophy -- The Space of Sings: C.S. Peirce’s Critique of Psychologism -- Quinean Dreams or, Prospects for a Scientific Epistemology -- Late froms of Psychologism and Antipsychologism -- Propositions and the Objects of Thought -- The Concepts of Truth and Knowledge in Psychologism -- Psychologism Revisited in Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology -- Why There is Nothing Rather Than Something: Quine on Behaviorism, Meaning, and Indeterminacy -- Cognitive Illusions and the Welcome Psychologism of Logicist Artificial Intelligence.
    Abstract: Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism presents a remarkable diversity of contemporary opinions on the prospects of addressing philosophical topics from a psychological perspective. It considers the history and philosophical merits of psychologism, and looks systematically at psychologism in phenomenology, cognitive science, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophical semantics, and artificial intelligence. It juxtaposes many different philosophical standpoints, each supported by rigorous philosophical argument. Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism is intended for professionals in the fields indicated, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in related areas of study, and interested lay readers.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 347 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 8
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    Keywords: Logic. ; Social sciences. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Social sciences
    Abstract: 1. Reasons -- 2. The Pragmatic Dimension of Premise Acceptability -- 3. Rationality and Judgment -- 4. The Dialectical Tier Revisited -- 5. The Rabbit in the Hat: The Internal Relations of the Pragma-Dialectical Rules -- 6. Toulmin’s Warrants -- 7. Metadialogues -- 8. Relationships Among Logic, Dialectic and Rhetoric -- 9. Logical Fallacies, Dialectical Transgressions, Rhetorical Sins, and Other Failures of Rationality In Argumentation -- 10. A Pragmatic View of the Burden of Proof -- 11. The Ordinary Practice of Presuming and Presumption With Special Attention to Veracity and the Burden Of Proof -- 12. Two Conceptions of Openness in Argumentation Theory -- 13. Multidimensionality and Non-Deductiveness in Deliberative Argumentation -- 14. Argumentation Studies in France: A New Legitimacy -- 15. Discourse Correspondence Between Argumentative and Grammatical Sequences -- 16. Diagramming, Argumentation Schemes and Critical Questions -- 17. Legal Argumentation Theory and the Concept of Law -- 18. Arguer’s Obligations: Another Perspective -- 19. Charles S. Peirce’s Theory of Abduction and the Aristotelian Enthymeme From Signs -- 20. Rhetoric and Dialectic in Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ -- 21. On the Argumentative Quality of Explanatory Narratives -- 22. The Wiles of Argument: Protodeliberation and Heroic Prudence in Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ -- 23. Felicity Conditions for the Circumstantial ad Hominem: The Case of ‘Bush V. Gore’ -- 24. The Potential Conflict Between Normatively-Good Argumentative Practice and Persuasive Success: Evidence from Persuasion Effects Research -- 25. The Concept of Argument Quality in the Elaboration Likelihood Model: A Normative and Empirical Approach to Petty and Cacioppo’s ‘Strong’ and ‘Weak’ Arguments -- 26. How Narrative Argumentation Works: An Analysis of Argumentation Aimed at Reconsidering Goals -- 347.
    Abstract: This volume of the Argumentation Library contains a collection of twenty-six theor­ etical contributions to the study of argumentation. Together they provide an over­ view of recent developments in the theory of argumentation which does justice to the theoretical variety in the field. InAnyone Who Has a View, the subject of argu­ mentation is approached from different angles. Both the formal and informal logical approaches and the rhetorical and communicative approaches arc represented in various ways. We arc convinced that the collection of essays as a whole will be of interest not only to those engaged directly in the study of argumentation, but also to scholars from a variety of disciplines who arc interested in the recent developments in this field. The book opens with an essay by the informal logician Robert C. Pinto. For all the differences between them, James B. Freeman, Harvey Siegel, Ralph H. Johnson, Hans V. Hansen, and J. Anthony Blair are also prominent members of that move­ ment. Some informal logicians either eschew or simply do not use formal methods in their approach to argumentation, while others, such as David Hitchcock, use both formal and informal methods. Erik C.W. Krabbe is a logician who proudly defends a formal dialectical approach to argumentation. Daniel H. Cohen, Frans H. van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser, Fred J. Kauffeld, C. Scott Jacobs, Christian Kock, Christian Plantin, Sorin Stati, Chris Reed, Douglas N.
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    ISBN: 9781402061684
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 230 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 9
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    Keywords: Philosophy and social sciences. ; Philosophy. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Self. ; Philosophy (General) ; Education Philosophy ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Between the Classical and Post-modern: Milestones and Central Approaches in Humanistic Education -- An Integrative and Normative Model for Humanistic Education at the Advent of the 21st Century -- Education Towards Humanistic Morality in an Era of Value Crisis -- Humanistic Education in the Test of Current Events.
    Abstract: In Jean PaulSartre's Nausea, Roquentin feels bound to listen to the sentimental ramblings about humanism and humanity by the Self Taught Man. "Is it my fault," muses Roquentin, "in all he tells me, I recognize the lack of the genuine article? Is it my fault if, as he speaks, I see all the humanists I have known rise up? I have known so many ofthem!" And then he lists the radical humanist, the so called"left" humanist, and Communist Humanist, the Catholic humanist, all claiming a passion for their fellow men. "But there are others, a swarm of others: the humanist philosopher who bends over his brothers like a wise older brother with a sense of his responsibility; the humanist who loves men as they are, the humanist who loves men as they ought to be, the one who wants to save them with their consent, and the one who will save them in spite of themselves. . . . " Quite naturally, the skeptical Roquentin ends by saying how "they all hate each other: as individuals, not as men. " Fully aware of the misuse and false comfort in the use of the term, Professor Aloni proceeds to restore meaning to the word as well as appropriate its educational significance. There is a freshness in this book, a restoration of a lost clarity, a regaining of authentic commitment.
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    ISBN: 9780306481529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 326 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 7
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Cultural heritage. ; History. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Cultural property. ; History ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Humanities ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaftliches Manuskript ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The Hanging Chain: A Forgotten “Discovery” Buried in Galileo’s Notes on Mition -- The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey -- Newton’s Optical Notebooks: Public Versus Private Data -- At Play with Nature: Luigi Galvani’s Experimental Approach to Muscular Physiology -- The Practice of Studying Practice: Analyzing Research Records of Ampère and Faraday -- From Agents to Cells: Theodor Schwann’s Research Notes of the Years 1835–1838 -- Narrating by Numbers: Keeping an Account of Early 19th Century Laboratory Experiences -- Exploring Contents and Boundaries of Experimental Practice in Laboratory Notebooks: Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Mapping of the Infra-Red Region of the Solar Spectrum -- The Pocket Schedule -- From Lone Investigator to Laboratory Chief: Ivan Pavlov’s Research Notebooks as a Reflection of His Managerial and Interpretive Style -- Carl Correns’ Experiments with Pisum, 1896–1899 -- Errors and Insights: Reconstructing the Genesis of General Relativity from Einstein’s Zurich Notebook -- Hans Krebs’ and Kurt Henseleit’s Laboratory Notebooks and Their Discovery of the Urea Cycle-Reconstructed with Computer Models -- Laboratory Notebooks and Investigative Pathways -- The Scholar’s Seeing Eye.
    Abstract: Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the established milestones in the development of modern science. The use of research records to probe the nature of scientific investigation itself however is a recent development in the history of science. With Eduard Dijksterhuis, we could address them as a veritable "epistemologiCal laboratory". The purpose of a workshop entitled "Reworking the Bench: Laboratory Notebooks in the History of Science", held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was to bring together historians who have been exploiting such resources, to compare the similarities and differences in the materials they had used and and to measure the potential and scope for future explorations of "science in the making" based on such forms of documentation. The contributions which form this volume are based on papers presented at this workshop or written afterward by participants in the discussions. This is the first book that addresses the issue of research notes for writing history of science in a comprehensive manner. Its case studies range from the early modern period to present and cover a broad range of different disciplines.
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    ISBN: 9789400710153
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 231 p.)
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Klinnert, Lars, 1972 - Modern Biotechnology in Postmodern Times? A Reflection on European Policies and Human Agency 2005
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Ontology. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Technology—Philosophy. ; International law. ; Comparative law. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Technology Philosophy
    Abstract: 1: Biotechnology in Modern Times -- 2: Council of Europe Policies on Biotechnology -- 3: Biotechnology and Human Agency -- 4: Biotechnology Beyond Modernity -- European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine ETS 164 (Full text) with list of declarations -- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings ETS 168 (Full text) with list of declarations -- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin. ETS186. (Full text) -- References.
    Abstract: Modern Biotechnology in Postmodern Times? A Reflection on European Policies and Human Agency is for bioethicists, ethicists (theologians/philosophers), professionals in biotechnology, EU and national policy makers, and professors/teachers of courses in applied ethics (master level or equivalent). This volume presents an interdisciplinary reflection on the nature and scope of current biotechnology in Europe. The author contemplates upon the actual structures and potential functions of biotechnology in our societies in order to allow for a balanced discussion and common reflection on the topic. This volume is unique in that it offers a concise presentation of the current biotechnological arena in Europe with its ethical implications. It provides a survey of topical Council of Europe documents and treaties.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Biotechnology in Modern Times2: Council of Europe Policies on Biotechnology -- 3: Biotechnology and Human Agency -- 4: Biotechnology Beyond Modernity -- European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine ETS 164 (Full text) with list of declarations -- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on the Prohibition of Cloning Human Beings ETS 168 (Full text) with list of declarations -- Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin. ETS186. (Full text) -- References.
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    Keywords: Medical ethics. ; Ethics. ; Ontology. ; Philosophy. ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, Medical ; Ethics, Medical
    Abstract: The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: An Introduction to the Framing of a Field -- The Philosophy of Medicine and Bioethics: An Introduction to the Framing of a Field -- The Philosophy of the Body and Bioethics -- Bodies of Knowledge, Philosophical Anthropology, and Philosophy of Medicine -- Bodies, Body Parts, and Body Language: Reflections on Ontology and Personal Identity in Medical Practice -- Bodies and Minds in the Philosophy of Medicine: Organ Sales and the Lived Body -- Euthanasia, Secular Priests, And the Centrality of Choice -- Accommodating Death: Euthanasia in The Netherlands -- Why Should Anyone Listen to Ethics Consultants? -- Changing Views of Paternalism in Research: Aids Activists Demand Change -- Fundamental Categories: The Mind, Equity, The State, and Time -- Three Designations of Disorder: Diversity, Disease and Determinism in Psychiatric Thought and Practice -- Equity and the Health Effects of Urbanization -- Engelhardt on Kant’s Moral Foundations and Hegel’s Category of the State -- Bole on Kant, Hegel, and Engelhardt: A Brief Reply -- Epilogue: The Use of the Past.
    Abstract: The term `bioethics' was coined in 1971, just as interest in the medical humanities claimed a prominent place in medical education. Out of this interest, a substantial area of research and scholarship took shape: the philosophy of medicine. This field has been directed to the epistemological, ontological, and value-theoretical issues occasioned by medicine and the biomedical sciences. Bioethics is nested in this field and can only be fully understood in terms of the foundational issues it addresses. This collection of essays in honor of Stuart F. Spicker, one of the individuals who gave shape to the philosophy of medicine, lays out the broad scope of concerns from the philosophy of embodiment, to issues of the role of ethics consultants, to concepts of disease, equity and the meaning of history.
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    Keywords: Medical ethics. ; Ethics. ; Medical laws and legislation. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics. ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Public health laws
    Abstract: Medical Ethics and Medical Jurisprudence: The Conceptual Landscape -- A Historical Perspective on the Relationship Between Law and Morality -- Law and the Physician-Patient Relationship: Informed Consent in Theory and practice -- From Autonomy to Prospective Autonomy: Advance Directives in Bioethics, Law and Public Policy -- Constitutional Liberty and Privacy: The Supreme Court and the Physician-Patient Relationship -- The dance of Intimacy: Abortion, Medical Ethics and the Constitution -- Death, Dying, and the Responsibility of the Ethical Physician -- The New Synergy — Bioethics in Court -- Lessons Learned and Prospects for the Future of Medical Jurisprudence and Bioethics.
    Abstract: The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation. Physicians and non-physician bioethicists, generally speaking, consider the willingness of courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies to insinuate themselves into clinical practice and medical research to be a distinctly negative aspect of contemporary American society. They are quick to point out that their colleagues in other Western developed nations are not similarly afflicted, and that the situation which obtains elsewhere is highly preferable to the legalization and purported over-regulation of medicine that has taken place in the United States during the last fifty years. In this book I offer a decidedly different perspective. It is, admittedly, not entirely without personal and professional bias. Prior to becoming a fu- time academic, teaching bioethics in the setting of an academic medical center, I was, for nearly 20 years, an attorney specializing in health law. Even after earning a doctorate in philosophy, I was frequently considered to be the “resident lawyer” on the bioethics faculty, much more frequently looked to for my insights on the law than my perspective as one who had formally studied moral philosophy and applied ethics. I note this not out ofa sense of frustration or disappointment, but as confirmation that even among physicians and n- physician bioethicists, there is widespread recognition that the law does have important contributions to make in assessing the practice ofmedicine and the conduct of medical research.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 90
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Ontology. ; Metaphysics. ; Pragmatism. ; Philosophy of nature. ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Philosophy of nature ; Pragmatism
    Abstract: 1: SOME KEY MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT OF CAUSATION -- 2: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO CAUSATION -- 3: PEIRCE ON FINAL CAUSATION -- 4: FINAL CAUSES AND NATURAL GLASSES -- 5: THE RIDDLE OF SEMEIOTIC CAUSATION -- 6: A SEMEIOTIC ACCOUNT OF CAUSATION -- Notes.
    Abstract: From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of `cause'. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and discusses their historical roots. He makes a distinction between "causality", which is the relation between cause and effect, and causation, which is the production of a certain effect. He argues that, by focusing on causality, the contemporary theories fatally neglect the more fundamental problem of causation. The author successively discusses Peirce's theories of final causation, natural classes, semeiotic, and semeiotic causation. Finally, he uses Peirce's semeiotic to develop a new approach to causation, which relates causation to our experience of signs.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 157 p.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy and social sciences. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Education Philosophy ; Pädagogik ; Forschung ; Erziehungsphilosophie
    Abstract: and Overview -- Positivism and the Old Divides -- Two Dogmas of Educational Research -- The Quantitative Qualitative Dogma, the Incompatibility Thesis, and the Pragmatic Alternative -- The Persistence of the Fact/Value Dogma: A Characterization and Critique of the “Received View” -- Interpretivism and the New Divides -- The Interpretive Turn -- The Constructivist Turn -- On the Threat of Epistemological Bias -- Ethical and Political Frameworks -- The Interpretive Turn and Research Ethics -- Toward Democratic Educational Research.
    Abstract: The issues I treat in this book—qualitative versus quantitative methods, facts versus values, science versus politics, subjectivity versus objectivity, postm- ernism versus pragmatism, to name a few—are at the core of a lively, sometimes divisive, conversation that has been unfolding in the theory and practice of e- cational research for some time. These issues fall squarely within the province of philosophy, and thus philosophical investigation has an especially useful contribution to make. But these issues are by no means the exclusive province of philosophy; they are ones in which a diverse group of educational theorists have had a keen interest and about which they have had important things to say. The conversation I hope to join—and to move forward—is this broad and inclusive one. Philosophy of education is at its best when it dives headlong into the fray. The book borrows liberally from my previously published work, but is far from a simple compilation. The ideas developed in Chapter 7, “On the Threat of Epistemological Bias,” are new. The ideas developed in Chapter 9, “Toward Democratic Educational Research,” are a significant extension of the application of similar ideas to evaluation research. The ideas developed in Chapter 4, “The Persistence of the Fact/Value Dogma,” are in a form and at a level of detail not published before. Finally, Chapter 1, “Introduction and Overview,” weaves together my thinking on a large array of issues on educational research methodology that had only been loosely connected before.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 210 p.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 88
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    Keywords: Metaphysics. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Ontology. ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy of mind
    Abstract: 1 Pollyanna Realism and the Simple Theory -- 2 Why Colors are Not Physical Properties -- 3 Why Colors are Not Relational Properties -- 4 Identifying Colors: Relationally Specifying a Nonrelational Property -- 5 Colors, Dispositions, and Causal Powers -- 6 A Simple Theory of Normal Conditions -- 7 Animals, the Color Blind, and Far Away Places -- 8 Ecce Colores -- References 195 -- Index 203.
    Abstract: In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism, Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects. Consequently, Watkins breaks from what has become the received view that either colors are reducible to certain properties of interest to science, or else nothing is really colored. What is novel about the work is that Watkins, unlike other Mooreans, takes seriously the metaphysics of colors. Consequently, Watkins provides an account of what colors are, how they are related to the physical properties on which they supervene, and how colors can be causally efficacious without the threat of causal overdetermination. Along the way, he provides novel accounts of normal conditions and non-human color properties. The book will be of interest to any metaphysician and philosopher of mind interested in colors and color perception.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 400 p.)
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    Keywords: Medical ethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Ontology. ; Bioethics. ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mensch ; Körper ; Philosophie ; Organhandel
    Abstract: Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, and the Sale of Organs -- Bodies and Persons: Ontological Questions -- Body and Soul in Greek Philosophy -- A Millian Perspective on the Relationship Between Persons and Their Bodies -- What Does It Mean To Be Somebody? Phenomenological Reflections and Ethical Quandaries -- An Orthodox Christian View of Persons and Bodies -- Natural Law and Natural Rights -- Personal Responsibility and Freedom in Health Care: A Contemporary Natural Law Perspective -- The Alienability of Lockean Natural Rights -- Inalienable Rights in the Moral and Political Philosophy of John Locke: A Reappraisal -- Metaphysical Quandaries and Moral Questions -- The Integrity of Body: Kantian Moral Constraints on the Physical Self -- Whose Body? What Body? The Metaphysics of Organ Transplantation -- The Impact of Biomedical Developments on the Legal Theory of the Mind-body Relationship -- The Body for Profit: Organ Sales and Moral Theory -- The Body for Fun, Beneficence, and Profit: A Variation on a Post-Modern Theme -- Despair, Desire, and Decision: A Fugal Response to Engelhardt -- The Sale of Organs and Obligations to One’s Body: Inferences from the Histoy of Ethics -- Persons and Their Bodies: Key Arguments and Contemporary Critiques -- The Integrity of the Body: Critical Remarks on a Persistent Theme in Bioethics -- The Commercialization of Human Body Parts: Public Policy Considerations.
    Abstract: Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special moral concerns, such as permissible uses of the body, which have a long history of analysis. The essays compass the views of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Mill and Christianity, as well as particular methodological approaches, such as the phenomenology of the body, natural law theory, legal theory and libertarian critique of legal theory. These discussions cluster a number of conceptually independent philosophical concerns: (1) What is the appropriate understanding of the relationship between persons and their bodies? (2) What does it mean to `own' an organ? (3) Do governments have moral authority to regulate how persons use their own body parts? (4) What are the costs and benefits of a market in human organs? Such questions are related by an urgent public health challenge: the considerable disparity between the number of patients who could significantly benefit from organ transplantation and the number of human organs available for transplantation. This volume explores the theoretical, normative, and historical foundations for alternative policies for procurement and transplantation of human organs.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 627 p.)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 305
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    Keywords: Logic. ; Mathematical logic. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
    Abstract: Logic, truth and number: The elementary genesis of arithmetic -- Second-order logic -- A representation of relation algebras using Routley-Meyer frames -- Church’s set theory with a universal set -- Axioms of infinity in Church’s type theory -- Logical objects -- The lambda calculus and adjoint functors -- Atomic Boolean algebras and classical propositional logic -- Improved decision procedures for pure relevant logic -- The “triumph” of first-order languages -- Equivalence relations and groups -- Discriminating coded lambda terms -- ?-calculus as a foundation for mathematics -- Peano’s lambda calculus: The functional abstraction implicit in arithmetic -- The undecidability of ?-definability -- A construction of the provable wellorderings of the theory of species -- Semantics for first and higher order realizability -- Language and equality theory in logic programming -- Alternative (1*): A criterion of identity for intensional entities -- Nominalist paraphrase and ontological commitment -- Peace, justice and computation: Leibniz’ program and the moral and political significance of Church’s theorem -- Tarski’s theorem and NFU -- Church’s theorem and randomness -- Russellian type theory and semantical paradoxes -- The logic of sense and denotation: Extensions and applications -- Analysis, synonymy and sense -- The very possibility of language.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 211 p.)
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    Series Statement: Topoi Library 3
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Metaphysics. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Logic ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy, modern
    Abstract: 1. Knowledge Versus Belief -- 2. A Strange (?) Quantum World -- 3. Promissory Names -- 4. What Is Logic About? -- 5. Dialectical Logic at Work in the Elective Affinities What We Can Learn From Goethe About Hegel -- 6. Discriminating From Within -- 7. The Poetics of (Philosophical) Interpretation -- 8. Kant’s Sadism -- 9. Respect for Structure -- 10. The End of Analysis -- 11. Being-Idle -- 12. Taking Care of Ethical Relativism -- 13. Montaigne’s Pre-and Post-Modern Notion of Subjectivity -- 14. An Oblique View -- 15. Beyond Tolerance? -- 16. An Answer to the Question “Liberating the Future From the Past? Liberating the Past From the Future” -- 17. Machiavelli, for Example -- 18. The Degradation of Talent -- 19. Philosophy and Literature in Calvino’s Tales -- 20. “I”: J.D -- Notes.
    Abstract: Philosophy in this century has often self-consciously presented itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of the philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such. The basis for such self-description may well be a deep-seated anxiety about death; but whatever its grounds, the procession of distinguished intellectuals who seem mostly concerned with who gets to turn off the light on philosophy on his/her way out is one main reason why philosophy seems to have lost its grip on public opinion and public policy. Which is ironical, because there is often considerable constructive work going on under the pretence of all this `destruction', but the superficial rhetoric has more currency and impact than the substance of that work. This book brings back the spirit of bold, imaginative, even outrageous theorizing into philosophy, and contains a series of examples of it, venturing playfully into quantum mechanics and political theory, psychoanalysis and environmental ethics, philosophy of language and sociology, without any attempt at `systematically exhausting' these disparate fields but rather using them as suggestive excuses and arenas for the display of intellectual creativity. There are numerous echoes among the various pieces, and between them and other works by the same author; but again these resonances are not systematized. The result is more to be seen as a collection of snapshots of an intellectual landscape than as a hierarchical regimentation of it.
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    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy and social sciences. ; Philosophy and science. ; History. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; History ; Education Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Audiovisuelles Unterrichtsmittel ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
    Abstract: Science Education -- The Moiton Picture -- Radio in the Science Classroom -- Instructional Television -- The Computer -- Perspective.
    Abstract: This book deals with the use of technology in science teaching. The author is not, nor has ever had an intention of being a “techie. ” Rather, I spent the first decade of my professional life as a high school physics teacher, making occasional uses of technology to further student understanding and to automate my own teaching practices. During my graduate work, my interest in the use of technology continued. Catalyzed, to some extent by the increasing availability of graphical interfaces for computers, the realization struck that the computer was more and more becoming a tool that all teachers could use to support their teaching practice—not simply those with a passion for the technology itself. The rapid changes in the hardware and software available, however, frequently caused me to reflect on the usefulness of technology—if it were to change at such a rapid pace, would anyone, save for those who diligently focused on the development of these tools, be able to effectively use technology in science teaching? Was change to rapid to yield a useful tool for teachers? To address this interest, I examined the nature of science teaching during this century—using the equally fluid notion of “scientific literacy”—which formed the organizing principle for this study. The result is a examination of how technology was used to accomplishing this goal of producing scientifically literate citizens. What was observed is that technology, indeed, consistently came to the service of teachers as they attempted to achieve this goal.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 8
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    Keywords: Ontology. ; Ethics. ; Religion. ; Medicine—History. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Medicine ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: 1 The Broad Conception Of Temperance -- 2 The Narrow Conception Of Temperance -- 3 A Normative Account Of Temperance -- 4 Emotion, Desire, And Morality -- 5 Temperance In Relation To Emotion -- 6 Temperance As Equanimity In Clinical Medicine -- 7 Emotion And The Care Ethic In Clinical Deliberation -- 8 Conclusion: Care-Ful, Rational, Moral Deliberation.
    Abstract: Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical philosophy and moving through early to medieval Christian conceptions. I find contemporary notions oftemperance to be sorely lacking when compared and contrasted to these historical conceptions. Aristotelian and Thomistic accounts of temperance are particularly important to the normative statement of temperance I offer here. To fully understand temperance one must recognize its place among the moral virtues, in particular phronesis or practical judgment. Though I place temperance within practical judgment, this study stops short ofoffering a full account of virtue theory and how it mayor may not relate to other theories ofthe moral life. While contemporary views of temperance occasionally note its general relevance to the experience of emotion, I elaborate upon the work of temperance as an essential part of the effort to include emotion in the moral life. In present-day studies of the psychology of emotion, cognitive theories have reasserted the classical conception of emotion as consisting of both physiological and psychological elements ofhuman personhood. Temperance is the primary virtue in the moral agent's effort to appropriately include the entirety ofthe emotional experience in moral deliberation. I find it relevant to a moral response to both the physiological and psychological elements of emotion.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 538 p.)
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Power, William L. Eugene Thomas Long, Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900–2000 2001
    Series Statement: Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion 1
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Religion. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: 1. General Introduction -- One Philosophy of Religion at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century -- 2. Introduction to Part One -- 3. Absolute Idealism -- 4. Personal Idealism -- 5. Neo-Kantianism -- 6. Positivism and the Science of Religion -- Two Philosophy of Religion Between the Wars -- 7. Introduction to Part Two -- 8. Neo-Realism -- 9. Phenomenology -- 10. American Pragmatism -- 11. Personalism -- 12. Philosophy of History -- Three Philosophy of Religion After Mid-Century -- 13. Introduction to Part Three -- 14. Philosophical Analysis -- 15. Existential Philosophy -- 16. Neo-Thomism -- 17. Process Philosophy -- Four Philosophy of Religion at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- 18. Introduction to Part Four -- 19. Analytic Philosophy -- 20. Hermeneutics and Deconstruction -- 21. Critical Theory -- 22. Comparative Philosophy -- 23. Feminist Philosophy -- 24. Concluding Remarks -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: In the fall of 1994, Hendrik-Jan van Leusen, an acquisitions editor from Kluwer Academic Publishers, visited me in my home to discuss a proposal for a handbook in the philosophy of religion. He reported that he had been talking about this with philosophers of religion at several universities and that the response to the idea had been quite favorable. I suggested that given the dif­ ferent approaches to the philosophy of religion, it might be good for him to meet with philosophers representing different philosophical traditions at an up-coming meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Jude Dougherty, Joseph Kockelmans, Robert Neville, William Rowe and Merold Westphal kindly agreed to attend that meeting. They made many substantial and helpful suggestions and a summary of the discussions was sent to van Leusen. Some months later, he wrote to inquire whether I might consider editing the series and writing the first volume which was to provide a historical map of twentieth century western philosophy of religion. Although I could imagine myself editing the series I was initially reluctant to under­ take the task of writing a volume that would take me across the lines of many different philosophical traditions. By coincidence I had been asked some months earlier to contribute an essay on the philosophy of religion for a conference being held at the Catholic University of America on the general topic, "One Hundred Years of Philosophy.
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 67
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    Keywords: Phenomenology . ; Philosophy of nature. ; Philosophy. ; Anthropology. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy of nature ; Anthropology
    Abstract: Inaugural Essay -- The Origins of Life: The Existential Senses of Sharing-in-Life — Vital, Societal, Creative — a Radically Novel Platform -- Section I Transitions of Sense: From the Vital Towards the Existential/Societal Sharing-in-Life -- Logos and Ethos in the Thought of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka: The Aspect of“Beginning” -- In Defense of a Moth. The Search for Foundations of Environmental Ethics -- Life, Person, Responsibility -- Values Within Relations -- Creativity and Everyday Life — Ricoeur’s Aesthetics -- Section II The Surging of The Intentional platform of Life -- The Human Arts and the Natural Laws of Bios: Return to Consciousness -- The Phenomenon of Loneliness and the Meta-Theory of Consciousness -- Jung’s Concept of Individuation and the Problem of Alienation -- “Human Dignity” as“Rationality” — The Development of a Conception -- On Emotion and Self-Determination in Max Scheler and Antoni K?pi?ski -- The Paradoxical Transformation of Existence: On Kierkegaard’s Concept of Individuation -- Multiple Persons in Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymous Authorship -- Section III The Emergence of The Creative Sphere of Sharing-in-Life -- Human Existence as a Creative Process: A Commentary on Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Anthropological Reflection -- The Methodologies of Life, Self-Individualization and Creativity in the Educational Process -- Stimuli to Invention: New Technologies, New Audiences, New Images -- Stefan Zweig and His Literary Biographies -- The Artistic Event in the Space of Life as an Effect of the Interaction of Instincts, Feelings, Images and Spiritual Transcendence -- Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to the“Freed Field of Light” -- Death and Ontology -- Sein als “Position” und Ereignis: Kants These über das Sein und Heidegger -- Section IV The Spirit of Creativity Soaring towards the Sense of Beauty and Transcendence -- au]Chinese Gardens: The Relation of Man to Nature in Seventeenth-Century French Culture -- Life: The True, the Good and the Beautiful: A Comparative Study of Greek and Pre-Qin Philosophies -- Towards an Aesthetics of Nature: Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Ontology -- Ontology and Poetry: The Principles of Being of Creation -- Heaven’s Angels with Grinding Organs: John Ruskin’s Idea of Life -- Du Mortel a l’Impossible Éternel: La Transcendance de la Mort -- Section V Time, World, and Hermeneutics -- The Phenomenon of the Future as It was Constituted by Kierkegaard, Husserl and Heidegger -- Time as Viewed by Husserl and Heidegger -- Postmodernism is Existential Phenomenology -- Postmodernism as a Completion of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics -- The Human Being in the Liberal-Democratic Epoch -- Six Para-Philosophical Exercises in Latvian Euro(onto)poiesis -- Index of Names.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 63
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    Keywords: Medical ethics. ; Philosophy and science. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Bioethics. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Medical ethics
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Social Constructivism Vs. Scientific Realism -- 3. Fact Vs. Value -- 4. The Concept of Disease -- 5. The Classification of Diseases -- 6. The Elements of Diagnosis -- 7. The Process of Diagnosis -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes.
    Abstract: The germs of the ideas in this book became implanted in me during my experience as a resident in clinical pathology at Boston University Medical Center. At the time, I had inklings that the test results churned out by our laboratories were more than scientific facts. As a philosophically unsophisticated young physician, however, I had no language or framework to analyze what I saw as a deep philosophical problem, a problem largely unrecognized by most physicians. The test results provided by our laboratories were accurate and of great practical importance for patient care. However, most of the physicians who relied on our test results to diagnose and treat their patients either did not have the time or interest to consider the philosophical issues inherent in diagnosis, or, like me, had inadequate means to further analyze them. It was more than ten years later that I began doctoral studies in philosophy, and I was fortunate to find a faculty that was supportive of my efforts to address the problem. This book began as my doctoral dissertation in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. I would like to acknowledge the assistance of my mentor, Robert Veatch, Ph. D. Our conversations during my Georgetown years led me in new and often fascinating directions. I would also like to acknowledge the help of Kenneth Schaffner, M. D. , Ph. D.
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 70
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    Keywords: Philosophy and science. ; Modern philosophy. ; Phenomenology . ; Philosophy. ; Metaphysics. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: Foreground Following the Logos through the Labyrinth of Life -- One From The Elusive Primeval Logos to the Open-Ended Great Plan of Life -- One The Primeval Logos -- Two Life and Non-Life -- Three Life in Its Specifics -- Tying Point One The Manifestation of Life Through the Nature-Life Complex and Its Radius -- Nature -Life -- Two Embodiment And the Transformation of Sense -- One The Embodiment of the Logoic Lifedynamics and The Phases of the Conversion of Sense -- Two The Gathering of the Dynamic Logoic Threads -- Three The Embodiment of the Logos in the Second Phase: Transformation of Sense -- Four Voluminosity Crystalizing the Vital Dimension of Beingness -- Five The Differentiation of the Logos in Constitutive and Intelligible Expression -- Tying Point Two Anticipating the Manifestation of the Logos of Life -- One Metaphysics of Manifestation Logos in the Individualization of Life, Sociability, and Culture -- Two Spontaneity, Constructive Dynamism, and Ciphering in the Human Condition -- Three Manifestation and Differentiation -- One The Surging Manifestation of Life -- Two The Strategies of Differentiation and Harmony in the Self-Individualizing Life Process -- Three Ontopoietic Diversity and the Unity of Apperception -- Tying Point Three The Great Plan of Life — Anticipating the Triadic Logos -- One The esoteric Logos -- Two The Great Plan of Life, the Esoteric Passion of the Mind -- Four The Emergence of the Triadic Logos: The Turning Point -- One The Manifestation of the Intellection in the Universe in the Triadic Logos: The Turning Point -- Two Knowledge and Cognition in the Self-Individualizing Progress of Life -- Three The Creative Rise of the Human Spirit -- Tying Point Four The Logos of Subliminal Passions — Their Crucial Role in Human Self-Interpretation in Existence -- One The Passionfor Place as the Thread Leading out of the Labyrinth of Life -- Two Spacing/Scanning as the Foundational Function of Individualization Within The Territory of Life -- Three The Release of Subliminal Yearnings -- five The Promethean Direction of the Logos of Life In Quest of Accomplishment The Dialectic of Embodiment and Freedom -- One The Human Self in the Communal Fabric -- Two From Husserl’s Formulation of the Soul-Body Problem to the Differentiation of Faculties -- Three Telos and Destiny -- Tying Point Five Introducing the Measure: Chronos and Kairos -- Life’s Timing Itself vs. The Human Esoteric Passion For Accomplishment -- One Chronos and Kairos: Ordering on the One Side and Radiating on the Other -- Two Chronos and Kairos Seen in Their Ontopoietic Roles -- Six The Strategies of Impetusiequipoise in Communal Sharing-In-Life -- One The Fulguration of the Logos in the “overt” Strategies of the Existential Interaction the Communal Significance of Life -- Two The Dialectic Junction In The Logoic Strategies: Moral Law Vs. Commitment -- Three The Creative Forge of the Logos within the Human Condition The Twilight of Consciousness and the Human Virtues -- Four Moral and Civic Virtue as the Bedrock of the Manifest Game of Life, the Cornerstone of Dynamic Social Equipoise -- Tying Point Six -- The Golden Measure: Toward a New Enlightenment -- The Meta-Ontopoietic Closure -- Notes -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: Employing her original concept of the ontopoiesis of life, the author uncovers the intrinsic law of the primogenital logos - that which operates in the working of the indivisible dyad of impetus and equipoise. This is the crucial, intrinsically motivated device of logoic constructivism. This key instrument is engaged - is at play - at every stage of the advance of life. In a feat unprecedented in the history of western philosophy, the emergence and unfolding of the entire orbit of the human universe is shown to bear out this insight. Furthermore, the intrinsic rhythms of impetus and equipoise are taken as a guide in uncovering the workings of the logos all at once, in contrast to the piecemeal exposition of a single line of argument. In a schema covering the entire career of beingness-in-becoming between the infinities of origin and destiny, an historically unprecedented harmonizing all sectors of rationality is accomplished in a span of reflection comparable to Spinoza's Ethics. The work draws on interdisciplinary investigations in both science and the arts. All of the history of Occidental philosophy finds summary in it, even as feelers, guidelines, leitmotifs are thrown out for its future development. A landmark of Occidental philosophy at the turn of the millennium.
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Philosophy and science. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy ; Consciousness
    Abstract: I: The Development of a Science of Psychology -- 1 Introduction to Assumptions and Arguments -- 2 Alternative Assumptions and Principles -- 3 Problems of Explanations and Theories of Visual Perception -- 4 Consequences for Perception Psychology and Epistemology -- II: The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality -- 5 The Relation Between Language and Reality -- 6 Language, Concepts and Reality -- 7 Situations, Action and Knowledge -- 8 Scientific and Other Descriptions of Reality -- 9 Physicalism and Psychology -- 10 Context, Content and Reference- the Case for Beliefs and Intentionality -- 11 Propositions about Real as Opposed to Fictitious Things -- 12 Why There Still Cannot be a Causal Theory of Content -- 13 The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality I -- 14 The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality II -- 15 The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality III -- III: Identity -- 16 Identity and Identification - Same and Different -- IV: Persons -- 17 Some Consequences of Epistemological Idealism -- 18 Wittgenstein’s Theories of Language -- 19 The External World and the Internal -- 20 The Inter-Subjectivity of Knowledge and Language -- 21 The Conditions for People to be and Function as Persons: Summary and Consequences -- References.
    Abstract: This book addresses a growing concern as to why Psychology, now more than a hundred years after becoming an independent research area, does not yet meet the basic requirements of a scientific discipline on a par with other sciences such as physics and biology. These requirements include: agree­ ment on definition and delimitation of the range of features and properties of the phenomena or subject matter to be investigated; secondly, the development of concepts and methods which unambiguously specify the phenomena and systematic investigation of their features and properties. A third equally important requirement, implicit in the first two, is exclusion from enquiry of all other mattes with which the discipline is not concerned. To these requirements must then be added the development of basic assumptions about the nature of what is under investigation, and of principles to account for its properties and to serve as a guide as to what are relevant questions to ask and theories to develop about them.
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 22
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; History. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: The Law of Causality and its Limits (1931) a principal work from the classical period of the Vienna Circle, was written by Philipp Frank, a physicist and philosopher, to clarify the strengths and weaknesses of the notion of causal explanation. The book contains analyses of central issues in the philosophy of science: meaning of general statements, determinism, vitalism, lawfulness in biology and physical science, irreversibility, cause and chance, among others
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 273
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Asian. ; Mathematical logic. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Epistemology.
    Abstract: This collection celebrates the centenary of the Lvov-Warsaw school, established by Kazimierz Twardowski in Lvov in 1895. This school belongs to analytic philosophy and successfully worked in all branches of philosophy. The Warsaw school of logic became perhaps the most important part of Twardowski's heritage. Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz and Tarski, leading Polish logicians, achieved results which essentially influenced the development of contemporary logic. A close connection of logic and philosophy was a typical feature of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The papers included in the collection deal with all directions of research undertaken by Polish analytic philosophers. Special attention is paid to logic and comparisons with other philosophical movements, particularly with Brentanism, which was one of the sources of the Lvov-Warsaw school
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—History. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: This volume reprints in a scholar's edition the first English-language texts on bioethics, John Gregory's (1724-1773) Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician and on the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy (London, 1770) and Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician (London, 1772). Five previously unpublished manuscripts of Gregory's lectures are also included. An introduction places Gregory's medical ethics and philosophy of medicine in their eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy, and provides a bibliography of primary and secondary sources as an aid to teaching and future scholarship. The book's index provides access to Gregory's texts, by using both historical terms and current terminology of bioethics. A volume in the subseries Classics of Medical Ethics
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 73
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: During the last two decades, applied ethics has not only developed into one of the most important philosophical disciplines but has also differentiated into so many subdisciplines that it is becoming increasingly difficult to survey it. A much-needed overview is provided by the eighteen contributions to this volume, in which internationally renowned experts deal with central questions of environmental ethics, bioethics and medical ethics, professional and business ethics, social, political, and legal ethics as well as with the aims and foundations of applied ethics in general. Thanks to a philosophical introduction and selected bibliographical references added to each chapter, the book is very well suited as a basis for courses in applied ethics. It is directed not only to philosophers and to ethicists from other disciplines but to scientists in general and to all people who are interested in the rational discussion of moral principles and their application to concrete problems in the sciences and in everyday life
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 268
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Wittgenstein's philosophy is a puzzling subject mainly because Wittgenstein himself does not appear to have given a full, explicit account of what he means by his `phenomenology', `phenomenological language' or `phenomenological problems'. This book examines the idea of phenomenology throughout the different stages of Wittgenstein's philosophical development. The author argues that Wittgenstein's entire philosophical life was mainly concerned with what is immediately given in one's experience. Early interpretations of the phenomenological elements in Wittgenstein's philosophy usually emphasized the unique nature of his later work. However, the author here convincingly makes the case that Wittgenstein's concern with immediate experience and the way we describe it guided his philosophical journey through the phenomenological problems that pervade his work. The author offers many intriguing ideas and philosophical insights for Wittgenstein scholars and students, and philosophers interested in phenomenology who wish to study one of the most distinguished but least understood philosophers of the twentieth century. Audience: Philosophers, philosophers interested in phenomenology, Wittgenstein scholars
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 11
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Political science ; Ethics. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: New Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton includes a history and anecdotes of Clarence Walton's professional and personal life; a discussion of the controversial introduction of ethics into the field of management studies; contributions on a variety of subjects connected to leadership and business ethics from experts in the field; and critical essays reviewing Clarence's most recent work in social criticism. The book gives a history of the rise of the fields of business and society and business ethics, details the events leading to its acceptance in academic circles and gives personal accounts by Clarence Walton, one of the people most responsible for its creation. Intended target groups are students, former academic peers, and friends of Clarence Walton, as well as anyone interested in the history of business ethics or connected to Columbia University of America, or The American College
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy of nature. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Self.
    Abstract: In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life? If the latter, then culture is assimilated into nature and thus would lose its claim to autonomy: its criteria would be superseded by those of nature alone. Of course, nature and culture may both still be seen as being absorbed by the inner powers of specifically human inwardness, on which view, human being, caught in its own transcendence, becomes separated radically in kind from the rest of existence and may not touch even the shadow of reality except through its own prism. Excess, therefore, or prolongation? And on what terms? The relationship between culture and nature in its technical phase demands a new elucidation. Here this is pursued by excavating the root significance of the 'multiple rationalities' of life. In contrast to Husserl, who differentiated living types according to their degree of participation in the world, the phenomenology of life disentangles living types from within the ontopoietic web of life itself. The human creative act reveals itself as the Great Divide of the Logos of Life - a divide that does not separate but harmonizes, thus dispelling both naturalistic and spiritualistic reductionism
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 26
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Philosophy ; Logic. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Law—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information processing, namely by a process in which pieces of descriptive and practical information are involved. Action is explained by a formal and finalistic theory which is connected with a specific theory of institutions. The philosophical basis of the logic of norm sentences and of other systems of practical thinking (formal teleology, axiology, logic of preferences) is discussed. The author criticizes traditional deontic logic and argues in favor of a genuine logic of norms. The book gives a structure analysis of the so-called practical inference and of nomic causal propositions. Besides a critical account of von Wright's practical philosophy the author offers critical analyses of discourse rationality (Habermas, Apel, Alexy) and of Wittgenstein's views on philosophizing. The book addresses readers interested in philosophical logic, practical philosophy, sociology of institutions, legal philosophy, and theory democracy
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 49
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; History ; Ethics. ; History. ; Medicine—History. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: The Codification of Medical Morality, the second volume in a two-volume survey of pre-twentieth century modern medical ethics, presents fresh historical research and philosophical analyses of the evolution of medical ethics in nineteenth century America and the development of a different, but parallel, tradition of medical jurisprudence in nineteenth century Britain. These original papers are supplemented by reprints of: the first American Code of medical ethics, the Boston Medical Police of 1808; and an unabridged version of the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics; and the second (1886) edition of Jukes Styrap's Code of Ethics - a Code which, although officially rejected by the British Medical Association, nonetheless defined the `done thing' for British practitioners in the last decades of the nineteenth century
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 8
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Industrial management ; Ethics. ; Management.
    Abstract: Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations to the public gaze, with management in the limelight. Facing Public Interest opens up new vistas on business policy and corporate communications facing public interest. The relationship between private enterprise and public interest is subjected to an ethical examination, highlighting the role of the general public as a locus of morality for business and the guiding concept of a corporate dialogue between management and the concerned public. Instructive case studies are also presented. The volume not only proposes corporate dialogue: it puts into practice. Business leaders, representatives of citizens' groups, public affairs consultants, and academics discuss the topics thoroughly and thoughtfully in the best contributions to the seventh conference on the European Business Ethics Network, held at the University of St. Gallen in September 1994
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Computer science ; Logic. ; Computer science. ; Linguistics. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with the history of temporal logic as well as the crucial systematic questions within the field. The book studies the rich contributions from ancient and medieval philosophy up to the downfall of temporal logic in the Renaissance. The modern rediscovery of the subject, which is especially due to the work of A. N. Prior, is described, leading into a thorough discussion of the use of temporal logic in computer science and the understanding of natural language. Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence thus interweaves linguistic, philosophical and computational aspects into an informative and inspiring whole
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 16
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Engineering ; Environmental sciences ; Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Phenomenology . ; Engineering. ; Environment. ; Philosophy. ; Religion.
    Abstract: Phenomenology of the Cultural Disciplines is an interdisciplinary study, reflecting the recent emergence of various particular forms of `phenomenological philosophy of ..'. Included are such fields as psychology, social sciences and history, as well as environmental philosophy, ethnic studies, religion and even more practical disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, politics, and technology. The Introduction provides a way of understanding how these various developments are integrated. On the basis of a Husserlian notion of culture, it proposes a generic concept of `cultural disciplines' (which is broader than but inclusive of `human sciences') which subsumes the more specific concepts of `cultural sciences', `axiotic disciplines' (e.g. architecture), and `practical disciplines'
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 137
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Astronomy—Observations.
    Abstract: Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen. He wrote his Experimenta Nova in the seventeenth century in Latin, a dead language for the most part inaccessible to contemporary scientists. Thus isolated by the remoteness of his time and his means of communication, von Guericke has for many years been denied the recognition he deserves in the English speaking world. Indeed, the century in which he lived witnessed the invention of six important and valuable scientific instruments -- the microscope, the telescope, the pendulum clock, the barometer, the thermometer, and the air pump. Von Guericke was associated with the development of the last three of these; he also experimented with a rudimentary electric machine. Thus his Experimenta Nova was an important work, heralding the emerging empiricism of seventeenth century science, and merits this first English translation of von Guericke's magnus opus
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 154
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Genetic epistemology ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy. ; Aesthetics. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: These essays by his friends, students, colleagues, and admirers honor Marx Wartofsky on his 65th birthday by their humane and rigorous investigations of themes from his own broad range of interests. Art and science, ethics and history, from the great Enlightenment through the 19th century to our time of failed hopes and ironic successes, and especially human self-understanding through praxis, Wartofsky's joys, sorrows, curiosity and intelligence find their reflections in these insightful and original contributions. The authors include Joseph Agassi, Andrew Buchwalter, Peter Caws, Robert S. Cohen, William Earle, Bernard Elevitch, Paul Feyerabend, Roger S. Gottlieb, Carol C. Gould, Hilde Hein, Jaakko Hintikka, Gregg Horowitz, Michael Kelly, Peter Kivy, Erazim Kohak, Douglas Lackey, Berel Lang, Isaac Levi, Joseph Margolis, Gyorgy Markus, Alasdair MacIntyre, William McBride, Thomas McCarthy, Joëlle Proust, Roshdi Rashed, Cheyney Ryan, Abner Shimony, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Lorenzo Simpson, Gary Smith, John Stachel, and Willis Truitt
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (242 p) , 1 ill
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 153
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Metaphysics ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Metaphysics.
    Abstract: Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, the distinction between laws and theories, the relation between absolute and relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue of sustainable development
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 41
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Comparative Literature ; History ; Phenomenology . ; Language and languages—Style. ; History. ; Comparative literature. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Focusing mainly upon language, communication, textuality, etc., as is overwhelmingly today's fashion, we miss the very raison d'être of literature and language itself. Moving a step further in our investigation of the anthropologico-ontopoietic sources of the life-significance of literature by unravelling the function of imaginatio creatrix in man's self interpretation-in-existence, this collection seeks to bring forth the royal role of allegory in the fostering of culture. A conjoint work of human elemental passions and of the human spirit, allegory mediates between lofty ideals of the highest human strivings and the pedestrian realm of facts. Interpretative or theoretical studies encompass allegory -- mediaeval, modern and post-modern -- in various literatures. Among the authors are: Tymieniecka, Kronegger, Jorge Garcia Gomez, V. Osadnik, H. Hellerstein, H. Rudnick, R. Kiefer, V. Fichera, K. Haney, Ch. Raffini, J. Williamson, B. Ross and Sitansu Ray
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    ISBN: 9789401110426
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 307 p) , ill
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics ; Humanities ; Logic. ; Computational linguistics. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Linguistics.
    Abstract: This book sets out the foundations, methodology, and practice of a formal framework for the description of language. The approach embraces the trends of lexicalism and compositional semantics in computational linguistics, and theoretical linguistics more broadly, by developing categorial grammar into a powerful and extendable logic of signs. Taking Montague Grammar as its point of departure, the book explains how integration of methods from philosophy (logical semantics), computer science (type theory), linguistics (categorial grammar) and meta-mathematics (mathematical logic ) provides a categorial foundation with coverage including intensionality, quantification, featural polymorphism, domains and constraints. For the first time, the book systematises categorial thinking into a unified program which is at once both logically secured, and a practical tool for pure lexical grammar development with type-theoretic semantics. It should be of interest to all those active in computational linguistics and formal grammar and is suitable for use at advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 136
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History.
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive survey of the way in which Hegel reacted to the pervasive Newtonianism of his day. Various eighteenth century developments in metaphysics, the foundations of mathematics, mechanics, optics and chemistry are considered, together with Hegel's assessment of them. It becomes apparent that the criticism he levels at several of the prevailing attitudes of his day assumes a new significance once a proper distinction is drawn between Newton's own views and those of his professed followers. One of the most remarkable results of the survey is the way in which it brings out the basic convergence of many of Hegel's views with those of the historical Newton. The work is rounded off with a fully annotated bibliography of the relevant sections of Hegel's private library
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 17
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Political science Philosophy ; History ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Religion. ; History. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: There is a consensus among Christian theologians that the symbol of the `kingdom of God', inherited from the Judaic tradition, is the key to understanding Christianity. But theologians have for millenia differed among themselves as to the interpretation of this symbol. Political ramifications of, or reactions to, this Judaeo-Christian idea have included the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the `Third Rome', American Manifest Destiny, Zionism, the Third Reich, and Liberation Theology. This book focuses on the question of whether the kingdom of God is necessarily related to certain political implications, and its possible implications for democracy and democratic theory. It examines the development of the symbol in the Old and New Testaments, the diversity of related theological interpretations and political concomitants, and the significance of the `kingdom of God' in the development of present and future political formations and political theory
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 41
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy. ; Religion. ; Medical sciences. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Medicine—History.
    Abstract: The book is an effort, from within the tradition of Catholic moral theology and philosophy, to examine issues which are raised by the possibilities of medical treatment for those patients who are dying. The book looks at possible issues for newborns, the elderly, and those, at any age, with terminal disease such as AIDS. The book examines specific moral issues such as when death occurs, the extent of obligations to treat patients, and the notion of `responsibility' towards such patients. From the Foreword by Edmund D. Pellegrino: `This new Catholic Studies in Bioethics series, inaugurated with this volume, is a welcome addition to the expanding world literature in biomedical ethics. It offers a forum in which qualified scholars in the Roman Catholic tradition may present their critical reflections for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Edited as it is by a panel of international scholars, the new series promises to reach a wide audience among theologians, health professionals, and moral philosophers.'
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    ISBN: 9789401126144
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 341 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 40
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy, modern ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: One On the Types of Sentences -- Two On Retracted Sentences -- Three On the Relative Extensions of Modally Qualified Terms -- Four On Consequences by Virtue of the Part and the Whole -- Five On Consequences by Virtue of Subalternation and Obversion -- Six On Consequences by Virtue of the Placement and Removal of Relational Particles and Prepositions -- Seven On Consequences by Virtue of the Placement and Removal of Modes -- Eight On Consequences by Virtue of the Conversion of Sentences -- Nine On the Modality of Consequences by Virtue of the Conversion of Sentences -- Ten On the Extension of Terms in Sentences -- One on the Conditions of the Syllogism -- Two on the Relationship between the Premises and the Conclusion of the Syllogism -- Three on the First Figure -- Four on the Second Figure -- Five on the Third Figure -- Six on the Fourth Figure -- Seven on Sorites -- Eight on the Conditions of Syllogisms with Modes, Particles, and Retracted Terms -- Nine on Syllogisms with Necessary Premises -- Ten on Syllogisms with Assertoric Premises -- Eleven on Syllogisms with Possible Premises -- Twelve on Syllogisms Mixed from Necessary and Assertoric Premises -- Thirteen on Syllogisms Mixed from Necessary and Possible Premises -- Fourteen on Syllogisms Mixed from Assertoric and Possible Premises -- Commentary -- Excursus Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic and Averroes’ Theory of Modalized Terms -- Works Cited In Commentary And Excursus -- Hebrew-EngLish Glossary -- English-HeBrew Glossary -- Selected BIbliography.
    Abstract: In the great libraries of Europe and the United States, hidden in fading manuscripts on forgotten shelves, lie the works of medieval Hebrew logic. From the end of the twelfth century through the Renaissance, Jews wrote and translated commentaries and original compositions in Aristotelian logic. One can say without exaggeration that wherever Jews studied philosophy - Spain, France, Northern Africa, Germany, Palestine - they began their studies with logic. Yet with few exceptions, the manuscripts that were catalogued in the last century have failed to arouse the interest of modem scholars. While the history of logic is now an established sub-discipline of the history of philosophy, the history of Hebrew logic is only in its infancy. The present work contains a translation and commentary of what is arguably the greatest work of Hebrew logic, the Sefer ha-Heqqesh ha-Yashar (The Book of the Correct Syllogism) of Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides; 1288-1344). Gersonides is well known today as a philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and biblical exegete. But in the Middle Ages he was also famous for his prowess as a logician. The Correct Syllogism is his attempt to construct a theory of the syllogism that is free of what he considers to be the 'mistakes' of Aristotle, as interpreted by the Moslem commentator A verroes. It is an absorbing, challenging work, first written by Gersonides when he was merely thirty-one years old, then significantly revised by him. The translation presented here is of the revised version.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 40
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Medicine—History. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values. Nowhere is an evaluation of this interplay more important than in the ethics of diagnosis. Traditionally, diagnosis has been understood as an epistemological activity which is concerned with facts and excludes the intrusion of values. The essays in this volume challenge this assumption. Questions of knowledge in diagnosis are intimately related to the concerns with intervention that characterize the applied science of medicine. Broad social and individual goals, as well as diverse ethical frameworks, are shown to condition both the processes and results of diagnosis. This has significant implications for bioethics, implications that have not previously been developed. With this volume, `the ethics of diagnosis' is established as an important branch of bioethics
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 136
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Humanities ; Science—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: Sciences et Empires: un thème promètteur, des enjeux cruciaux -- Welcome Address -- For a New Historiographical Approach of the So-called “Traditional Knowledge” -- Science classique et science moderne à l’époque de l’expansion de la science européenne -- Integration Problems: Introductory Report -- Ottomans and European Science -- The “Oriental-Occidental Controversy” of 1839 and its Impact on Indian Science -- The Colonial “Model” and the Emergence of National Science in India: 1876–1920 -- Integration Problems: Discussion -- Western Mathematics in China, Seventeenth Century and Nineteenth Century -- The Reception of Western Medicine in China: Examples from Yunnan -- Du “zira” au “mètre”: une transformation métrologique dans l’Empire Ottoman -- Models of European Scientific Expansion: a Comparative Description of “Classical” Medical Science at the Time of Introduction of European Medical Science to Sri Lanka, and Subsequent Development to Present -- Technical Content and Social Context: Locating Technical Institutes. The First Two Decades in the History of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890–1910) -- The First Chair of Chemistry in Mexico (1796–1810) -- Trade and the Natural Sciences in the United States of Columbia -- Science et pouvoir au XIXe siècle: la France et le Mexique en perspective -- Le positivisme et la science au Brésil -- Les débuts de la physique mathématique et théorique au Brésil et 1’influence de la tradition française -- Brazilian Museums of Natural History and International Exchanges in the Transition to the 20th Century -- The Pan American Experiment in Eugenics -- Typologie des stratégies d’expansion en sciences exactes -- Sciences exactes et politique extérieure -- World-Science: How Is the History of World-Science to Be Written? -- Science and the Japanese Empire 1868–1945: An Overview -- Science and Nationalism in New Granada on the Eve of the Revolution of Independence -- Models of European Scientific Expansion: the Ottoman Empire as a Source of Evidence -- Problems in Science Administration: a Study of the Scientific Surveys in British India 1757–1900 -- Natural History in Colonial Context: Profit or Pursuit? British Botanical Enterprise in India 1778–1820 -- The Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation and the New French Empire: Science and Political Economy -- Patriarchal Science: the Network of the Overseas Pasteur Institutes -- Géographie et colonisation en France durant la Troisième République (1870–1940) -- La France et l’émergence des sciences modernes au Canada français (1900–1940) -- Autour de la mission française pour la création de l’Université de São Paulo (1934) -- Yvon Chatelin -- José Leite Lopes -- Abdur Rahman -- Nakayama Shigeru -- Juan-José Saldaña -- Jean-Jacques Salomon -- José Israël Vargas -- Unpublished Communications.
    Abstract: SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De­ velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien­ tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO building in Paris. This colloquium was an idea of Professor Roshdi Rashed who initiated this field of studies in France some years ago, and proposed "Sciences and Empires" as one of the main research programmes for the The project to organize such a colloquium was a bit REHSEIS group. of a gamble. Its subject, reflected in the title "Sciences and Empires", is not a currently-accepted sub-discipline of the history of science; rather, it refers to a set of questions which found autonomy only recently. The terminology was strongly debated by the participants and, as is frequently suggested in this book, awaits fuller clarification.
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    Series Statement: Clinical Medical Ethics 3
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Medicine ; Economics ; Ethics. ; Medical sciences. ; Economics.
    Abstract: Overview -- A Bit of History -- Economic Forces, Clinical Constraints -- Fiscal Scarcity: Challenging Fidelity -- The Limits and Obligations of Fidelity: Resource Use -- The Obligations and Limits of Fidelity: Physicians’ Professional Services -- The New Medical Ethics of Medicine’s New Economics.
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    Series Statement: Clinical Medical Ethics 3
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Medicine ; Economics ; Ethics. ; Medical sciences. ; Economics.
    Abstract: Arguments in Favor of Coercing a Pregnant Woman to Act in the Interests of her Future Child -- Arguments against Legally Requiring a Pregnant Woman to Act in the Interests of her Future Child -- Practical Applications.
    Abstract: The issues explored in this book have unfortunately come to be known as 'maternal-fetal conflicts'. The phrase is unsatisfactory because it is misleading: It places the emphasis on the well-being of the fetus instead of on the born child (who will bear the burden of any harm done prenatally); it assumes a conflict between a pregnant women and her offspring (while the issue is usually more complex and more broadly based); and it incorrectly implies that all pregnant women are appropriately regarded as mothers. For these reasons, I have chosen to avoid the phrase 'matern- fetal conflict' altogether, and will instead speak in terms of 'preventable prenatal harm'. I mention this at the outset, for those of you familiar with 'maternal-fetal conflicts' who might be wondering if I am addressing the same issues. Yes. But I am trying to look at them in a new - and I hope more fruitful - way. I would like to thank the other participants in the Hastings Center's maternal-fetal project - especially those who disageed with me - for being so thought-provoking. And I owe a lasting debt of gratitude to Henry Ruth and Allen Buchanan for their invaluable counsel.
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    ISBN: 9789401133685
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 36
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Pragmatism ; Phenomenology . ; Pragmatism. ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: One Language, Hermeneutics -- Phenomenology as Archeology vs. Contemporary Hermeneutics -- Phenomenology and Hermeneutics -- Ricoeur and Husserl: Towards a Hermeneutic Phenomenology -- Phenomenology and the Deconstruction of Sense -- Can Hermeneutics Respond to the Predicament of Reason? From Husserl to Ricoeur -- On a Linguistic Phenomenology of “Intention” -- The Hermeneutical Derivation of Phenomenology -- Fenomenología, hermenéutica y lenguaje -- Husserl’s Legacy in Derrida’s Grammatological Opening -- La metáfora en el discurso filosófico: A su imagen y semejanza -- Two Husserl’s Legacy in the Postmodern World: Retrieving the Sense of Life -- Husserl’s Legacy in the Postmodern World -- Beyond Husserl: Bracketing “All Possible Worlds” -- Contemporary Irrationalism and the Betrayal of Husserl’s Legacy -- The Constructive Critique of Reason -- Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Philosophical Attitude towards Contemporary Problems of the Relation Between Human Beings and the World -- Creativity and the Critique of Reason -- The Human Condition and the Specifically Human Significance of Life in the Philosophy of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka -- The Unity of Being and Individualization: A Metaphysical Odyssey -- World, Praxis, and Reason -- The African and the Task of Becoming a Phenomenologist -- Three Husserl and other Philosophers -- Landgrebe’s School of Phenomenology -- Phenomenological Paths to Metaphysics -- Phenomenological Convergences between Fichte and Husserl -- Husserl and Levinas: Transformations of the Epoche -- The Body as the Union of the Psychic and the Physical in Bergson and Merleau-Ponty -- Das Problem der transzendentalen Reduktion in der phänomenologischen Ontologie von Sartre -- Husserl’s Concept of “Intentionally” as the Starting Point for Sartre’s Thinking -- The Husserlian Legacy in the Philosophy of Existence: Comments on Methodology -- The Character and Limits of Sartre’s Reading of Husserl -- The Philosophy of Zubiri as a Phenomenological Philosophy -- Husserlian “Reduction” Seen from the Perspective of Phenomenological “Life” in the Ortegan School -- Ortega’s Approach to Husserlian Phenomenology -- Subjectivity between Logic and Life-World -- Index of Names.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 38
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Economics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care -- The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care -- Rights to Health Care: The Development of the Concept -- The Right to Health Care: Reflections on Its History and Politics -- The Right to Health Care: Presentation and Critique -- The Right to Health Care in a Capitalistic Democracy -- Justice and the Right to Health Care: An Egalitarian Account -- Rights to Health Care: Created, Not Discovered -- Why the Right to Health Care is Not a Useful Concept for Policy Debates -- A Qualified Right to Health Care: Toward a Notion of a Decent Minimum -- Rights, Reforms, and the Health Care Crisis: Problems and Prospects -- Rights, Obligations, and the Special Importance of Health Care -- Access to Health Care: Charity and Rights -- Equality, Free Markets, and the Elderly -- Equal Opportunity and Health Care Rights for the Elderly -- Free Markets, Consumer Choice, and the Poor: Some Reasons for Caution -- My Right to Care for my Health — And What About the Needy and the Elderly? -- Health Care as a Commodity -- Should Medicine be a Commodity? An Economist’s Perspective -- The Profit Motive in Kant and Hegel -- Virtue for Hire: Some Reflections on Free Choice and the Profit Motive in the Delivery of Health Care -- Rights, Public Policy, and the State.
    Abstract: Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in the sense of justifying claims on the resources, time, and abilities of others. The temptation to use the languages of rights and of justice is und- standable. Faced with pain, disability, and death, it seems natural to complain that "someone should do something", "this is unfair", or "it just isn't fight that people should suffer this way". Yet it is one thing to complain about the unfairness of another's actions, and another thing to complain about the unfairness of biological or physical processes. If no one is to blame for one's illness, disability, or death, in what sense are one's unfortunate circumstances unfair or unjust? How can claims against others for aid and support arise if no one has caused the unfortunate state of affairs? To justify the languages of fights to health care or justice in health care requires showing why particular unfortunate circumstances are also unfair, in the sense of demanding the labors of others. It requires understanding as well the limits of property claims. After all, claims regarding justice in health care or about fights to health care limit the property fights of those whose resources will be used to provide care.
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