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    Behavior Genetics of Cognition Across the Lifespan (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781461474470
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 300 p. 22 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Advances in Behavior Genetics 1
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Behavior genetics of cognition across the lifespan
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Psychology ; Human genetics ; Neurosciences ; Psychiatry ; Animal behavior ; Psychic research ; Consciousness ; Kognition ; Lebenslauf ; Gen ; Neurowissenschaften ; Pathologie ; Psychologie
    Abstract: Part I: Childhood -- 1.Cognitive abilities in childhood and adolescence.-2.Interactions between socioeconomic status and components of variation in cognitive ability.-3.Genetic and environmental influences on intellectual disability in childhood -- Part II: Adulthood -- 4.Cognition in middle adulthood.-5.Normative cognitive aging -- 6.Gene by environment interplay in cognitive aging -- 7.Dementia: Genes, environments, interactions -- Part III: Biology and Neurobiology -- 8.Brain imaging and cognition -- 9.Animal models of general cognitive ability for genetic research into cognitive functioning -- Part IV: Conclusion.-10.Future directions.-
    Abstract: Behavior Genetics of Cognition across the Lifespan Deborah Finkel and Chandra A. Reynolds, editors Series: Advances in Behavioral Genetics Series Editor: Yong-Kyu Kim One of the primary advances for the 21st century is progress beyond the need to defend the findings of behavioral genetic investigations of intelligence. With the advent of developmental behavioral genetics-and molecular genetics-researchers have taken their discoveries far beyond simple nature/nurture constructs to a finer understanding of how genes and environment intersect to affect cognitive function. Behavior Genetics of Cognition across the Lifespan presents the state of the field in well-documented detail as noted experts examine gene-environment interactions in cognitive function from childhood into old age. Fluidity is at the heart of this coverage: normative and non-normative brain development get equal attention, and statistical, molecular, biological, brain imaging, and neurobiological approaches contribute separately and in combination to the findings. All major life stages are examined as periods of gene-based cognitive change, including midlife, which until recently has been considered a period for marking time until "real" age-related change occurs. And the book is written so that individual chapters can be as useful on their own as the volume is as a whole. Among the topics covered in depth: Cognitive abilities in childhood and adolescence Genetic and environmental influences on intellectual disabilities in childhood Cognition in middle adulthood Gene by environment interplay in cognitive aging Dementia: genes, environments, interactions Brain imaging and cognition By synthesizing where the field is today--and identifying issues that need further attention--Behavior Genetics of Cognition across the Lifespan is a bedrock text for behavioral geneticists, cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists.
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    Men Trapped in Men's Bodies : Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781461451822
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 242 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Focus on Sexuality Research
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Lawrence, Anne A. Men Trapped in Men's Bodies
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    MS 2870
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Psychology ; Psychology, clinical ; Applied psychology ; Sexual behavior ; Developmental psychology ; Philosophy (General) ; Psychology, clinical ; Applied psychology ; Sexual behavior ; Developmental psychology ; USA ; Mann ; Transsexualität ; Transgender ; Crossdressing ; Sexualpsychologie
    Abstract: Men Trapped in Men's Bodies -- Theory and Case Histories -- Narratives by Autogynephilic Transsexuals -- Confronting Autogynephilia -- Developmental Histories -- Manifestations of Autogynephilia -- Autogynephilia and Heterosexuality -- Sex with Men -- Other Aspects of Autogynephilic Sexuality -- Debating the Meaning of Autogynephilia -- Narratives by Nontranssexual Autogynephiles -- Autogynephilic Transsexualism in Perspective
    Abstract: As a child, he played with trucks and action figures and wanted to be a firefighter. As a youth, he began dressing up in his mother's clothes and becoming sexually aroused. When he started dating, he dreamed of being his girlfriends. "What am I?" he asked his therapist. "A transsexual? A transvestite? Something else?" This vignette describes a man who experiences autogynephilia: a paraphilic disorder in which men who are attracted to women are also erotically aroused by the idea of being women and sometimes want to undergo sex reassignment and live as women. Men Trapped in Men's Bodies explores the phenomenon of autogynephilia, arguing cogently that it accounts for many cases of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism in Western countries. The book demonstrates that not all MtF transsexuals conform to the familiar stereotype of women trapped in men's bodies: Many resemble-and even describe themselves as-men trapped in men's bodies. Sometimes at odds with conventional wisdom about the interrelationships of sex, gender, and sexuality, the book examines the manifestations and clinical implications of autogynephilia, based on narratives provided by over 300 autogynephilic MtF transsexuals and transgender persons: stories of shame and confusion, courage and self-acceptance. The final chapter examines current and possible future treatment options for autogynephilic gender dysphoric men. Included in this important volume are: • Narratives by autogynephilic transsexuals • Developmental histories of autogynephilic transsexuals • Descriptions of different types of autogynephilia • Autogynephilia's relationship to heterosexuality • Narratives by nontranssexual autogynephiles • Contrasting views of the meaning of autogynephilia For researchers who study gender dysphoria, MtF transsexualism, paraphilias, and related conditions, and for clinicians who treat patients with these conditions, Men Trapped in Men's Bodies provides an essential resource for understanding an underappreciated aspect of MtF transsexualism. For MtF transsexuals and transgender persons, as well as their partners, family members, friends, and associates, the book is a welcome new source of information and validation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Men Trapped in Men's Bodies -- Theory and Case Histories -- Narratives by Autogynephilic Transsexuals -- Confronting Autogynephilia -- Developmental Histories -- Manifestations of Autogynephilia -- Autogynephilia and Heterosexuality -- Sex with Men -- Other Aspects of Autogynephilic Sexuality -- Debating the Meaning of Autogynephilia -- Narratives by Nontranssexual Autogynephiles -- Autogynephilic Transsexualism in Perspective.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5182-2
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    Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders : Research • Practice • Policy (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781461453352 , 1283934051 , 9781283934053
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 208 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Public health ; Geriatrics ; Educational policy ; ducation and state ; Social policy ; Social work ; Clinical psychology ; Psychology ; Philosophy (General) ; Geriatrics ; Public health ; Social policy ; Social work ; Psychology, clinical ; Caregivers psychology ; Alzheimer Disease ; Patient Care ethics ; Social Support
    Abstract: Assisting someone with Alzheimer’s disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family. Like many disabling conditions, Alzheimer’s disease leads to difficulty or inability to carry out common activities of daily life, and so family members take over a variety of tasks ranging from managing the person’s finances to helping with intimate activities such as bathing and dressing.Key coverage in Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders includes:Early diagnosis and family dynamicsEmotional needs of caregiversDevelopmentally appropriate long-term care for people with Alzheimer’sFamily caregivers as members of the Alzheimer’s treatment TeamLegal and ethical issues for caregiversFaith and spiritualityThe economics of caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s diseaseCultural, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic issues of minority caregiversAdvances in Alzheimer’s disease researchCaregiving for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders offers a wealth of insights and ideas for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students across the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, public health, geriatrics and gerontology, and medicine as well as public and education policy makers.
    Description / Table of Contents: Caregiving for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders; Editorial Board; Series Foreword; Preface; Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving: The Needs of Family Caregivers; De fi nitions of Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, and Caregiving; Genesis of the Rosalynn Carter Institute Caregiving Book Series; Overview of This Volume; References; Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Part I: Issues Affecting the Care Triad; Chapter 1: Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Caregiving, and Family Dynamics; What Is Known?; Trends Towards Early Diagnosis
    Description / Table of Contents: Use of Genetics Testing in Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's DiseaseEarly Diagnosis and Family Dynamics; What Is Needed?; Research; Practice; Education; Policy; Future Directions; References; Chapter 2: Psychosocial Interventions to Address the Emotional Needs of Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease; Why Is Caring for a Relative with Alzheimer's Disease Emotionally Stressful?; How Does the Severity of Dementia Affect the Emotional Impact on the Caregiver?; The Impact of the Illness on the Relationship Between Caregiver and Care Receiver; Caregiving and Risk of Mental Illness
    Description / Table of Contents: Risk of Depression Among Caregivers of Relatives with DementiaAre All Family Caregivers at Equal Risk of Psychological Distress?; Social Support and Emotional Well-Being of Family Caregivers; How Can Psychosocial Interventions Help Family Caregivers Cope with the Emotional Consequences of Caregiving?; Examples of Interventions with Proven Ef fi cacy; Examples of Studies of Interventions to Help Caregivers Whose Emotional Distress Is Suf fi cient for a Diagnosis of Depression
    Description / Table of Contents: Examples of Interventions to Help Caregivers, Regardless of Psychological Morbidity, Withstand the Emotional Distress of CaregivingPsychosocial Interventions Currently Widely Available to Caregivers of Relatives with Alzheimer's Disease; Summary and Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Education, Training, and Support Programs for Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease; The Essence of Alzheimer's Family Care; Evidence for and Limits of Caregiver Education and Training; Educational Materials as a Form of Alzheimer's Family Support; Educational Interventions; A Wide Variety of Support
    Description / Table of Contents: Policy InitiativesWhat's Ahead?; References; Part II: Issues in Providing Quality Care; Chapter 4: Developmentally Appropriate Long-Term Care for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders; What Is Developmentally Appropriate Care?; Community-Based Programs; Early Stage Programs; Community-Based Programs in Middle and Late Stages; Institutional Care; Barriers to Developmentally Appropriate Institutional Care; Innovative Approaches to Institutional Care; Directions for the Future; References; Chapter 5: The Economics of Caring for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease
    Description / Table of Contents: Who Provides Care for AD Patients
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiving: The Needs of Family Caregivers -- Section I: Issues Affecting the Care Triad -- Chapter 1.  Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease: Caregiving, and Family Dynamics -- Chapter 2.  Psychosocial Interventions to Address the Emotional Needs of Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 3.  Education, Training, and Support Programs for Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease -- Section II: Issues in Providing Quality Care -- Chapter 4.  Developmentally Appropriate Long-Term Care for People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders -- Chapter 5.  The Economics of Caring for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 6.  Faith and Spirituality: Supporting Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia -- Chapter 7.  Family Caregivers as Members of the Alzheimer’s Treatment Team -- Chapter 8.  End-of-Life Issues for Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias -- Section III: Cross-cutting Issues Impacting Caregivers and Caregiving -- Chapter 9.  Ethical Issues: Perspective 1: Providing Care for Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease: Practice, Education, and Research -- Chapter 10.  Ethical Issues: Perspective 2: The Fundamental Role of Personhood -- Chapter 11.  Legal Issues for Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 12. Advances in Alzheimer’s Disease Research: Implications for Family Caregiving..
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5335-2
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    Caregiving Across the Lifespan : Research • Practice • Policy (2013)
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    ISBN: 9781461455530 , 1283945452 , 9781283945455
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 186 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy
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    Keywords: Public health ; Geriatrics ; Educational policy ; ducation and state ; Social policy ; Social work ; Clinical psychology ; Psychology ; Philosophy (General) ; Geriatrics ; Public health ; Social policy ; Social work ; Psychology, clinical
    Abstract: Most scholars do not consider the long-term nature of caregiving, but rather focus on a specific developmental period (e.g., old age) or a specific disability (e.g., cancer). Yet the most important lessons about caregiving may occur at any age, regardless of disabilities or other limitations. Caregiving is a lifelong process. It begins in a mother’s womb, continues throughout the lifespan, and ends after death. Caregiving Across the Lifespan emphasizes caregiving as a process that occurs throughout one’s life. It discusses infant care, the developmental needs of children and adolescents, the many caregiving issues in adulthood and mid-life, and finally end-of-life care and bereavement.Key coverage includes:· Examining caregiving issues across a developmental perspective.· Caregiving from infancy through early childhood through end of life.· Mid-life and multigenerational bonds and responsibilities.· Caregiver identity in older adults.· Family caregiving at the end of life. This must-have volume offers a wealth of insights and ideas for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students across the caregiving fields, including psychology, social work, public health, geriatrics and gerontology, and medicine as well as public and education policy makers.
    Description / Table of Contents: Caregiving Acrossthe Lifespan; Editorial Board; Series Foreword; Contents; About the Editors; Author Biographies; Contributors; Part I: Caregiving from Birth Through Adolescence; Chapter 1: Caregiving: A Developmental, Life-Long Perspective; Caring: A Life-Long Process; Genesis of the Rosalynn Carter Institute Caregiving Book Series; De fi nitions Used in this Volume; Contents and Organization of this Book; Caregiving in Birth Through Adolescence; Caregiving in Adulthood; References; Chapter 2: Caregiving in Early Childhood; What Basic Caregiving Needs Do Young Children Have?
    Description / Table of Contents: Emotional AvailabilityGuidance and Control; Parental Mental Health; Young Children's Needs; Emotional Commitment; How Well Are Young Children Cared For?; Educational Programs for Parents; Research Implications to Improve Caregiving; Why Should We Develop Caregiving Programs for Young Children?; A Public Health Example; A Mental Health Example; What Should Be Done?; References; Chapter 3: Caregiving in Middle Childhood: Coping with Typical and Atypical Development; Caregiving: "Typical" Challenges of Middle Childhood; Child Changes
    Description / Table of Contents: Caregiver Changes: Evaluation of Identity and Progress Toward GoalsCaregiving Challenges and Needs; Need for Involvement with Child; Need for Educational Services and Resources; Need for Social Support; Need for Involvement with School; Caregiving in the Twenty-First Century; Caregiving: Intellectual Disability and Further Challenges of Middle Childhood; Future Needs and Directions; Need for Parent Education; Need for More Respite; Support Services for Parents; Need for School Involvement; Attention to Social Policy and Research; Recommendations for Policy; Recommendations for Research
    Description / Table of Contents: ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 4: Responding to the Challenges of Preadolescence: Roles for Caregivers; Responding to the Challenges of Preadolescence: The Role of Caregivers; The Importance of Caregiving in Preadolescence; Caregiving in the Home; Caregiving Outside the Home; The Roles of Caregivers with High Risk Populations: Children Exposed to Violence or Trauma; Future Directions in Education: Developing Training for Caregivers; Future Directions in Practice: Increasing Opportunities for After School Activities and Mentoring Programs
    Description / Table of Contents: Future Directions in Policy: Normalizing Mental Health Services in SchoolsFuture Directions for Research; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Caregiving Across the Lifespan: Adolescence; Education and Training and Its Impact on Caregivers of Adolescents; Research: Challenges Facing Adolescents; Additional Challenges Facing Special Populations; Policy/Advocacy and Adolescent Caregivers; References; Part II: Issues for Caregivers of Adults; Chapter 6: Early Adult Caregivers: Characteristics, Challenges, and Intervention Approaches; Caregiver Responses to Care: Distress and Burden
    Description / Table of Contents: Understanding Distress and Burden
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Rosalynn Carter -- Chapter 1. Caregiving: A Lifelong Developmental Perspective; Ronda C. Talley & Rhonda V. J. Montgomery -- Section I: Caregiving from Birth Through Adolescence -- Chapter 2. Caregiving in Early Childhood; David A. Mrazek -- Chapter 3. Middle Childhood: Coping with Typical and Atypical Development; Jan Blacher & Kristin Abbott Feinfield -- Chapter 4. Responding to the Challenges of Preadolescence: Roles for Caregivers; Marleen Wong & Erum Nadeem -- Chapter 5. Caregiving Across the Lifespan: Adolescence; Deryl F. Bailey -- Section II: Caregiving in Adulthood -- Chapter 6. Caregivers in Early Adulthood: The Challenges; Charles W. Given & Barbara A. Given -- Chapter 7. Midlife, Multigenerational Bonds, and Caregiving; Judith G. Gonyea -- Chapter 8. Pathways to a Caregiver Identity for Older Adults; Rhonda V. J. Montgomery & Karl D. Kosloski -- Chapter 9. Family Caregiving at the End-of-life: Current Status and Future Directions; William E. Haley -- Chapter 10. Perspectives on Caregiving Across the Life Span: Current Status and Future Directions; Rhonda V.J. Montgomery & Ronda C. Talley.
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    One-dot Theory Described, Explained, Inferred, Justified, and Applied (2012)
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    ISBN: 9781461421672
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 114 p. 15 illus., 9 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy 3
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Science and Law
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Economics ; Economic history ; Economic theory ; Philosophy (General)
    Abstract: Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Can the Diagrams be Applied to All the Scales? -- Chapter 3. Converting and/or Reinventing Some Non-“dialectical” Theories and Models or Studies as One Dot -- Chapter 4. Findings from Each Chapter -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- Appendix I. The Beijing versus Taipei Chart .
    Abstract: The ancient Chinese scholars are fond of applying the Yin and Yang diagram to correlate almost everything. This book continues that tradition and uses the model to study other non-“dialectical” theories and models. The major finding qua contribution in this publication is to point out that the four diagrams are equivalent to the BaGua or BaGuaTu (BG), a set of eight ancient China symbolic notations/gossip. Another finding is that dialectical/crab and frog motion remark is just the opposite of a non-dialectical/crab and frog motion (usually deductive, linear, or cause and effect) remark, or, at best, they must meet half-way. The two major tasks of this book are to, first, apply the author's one-dot theory, which is shored up by the crab and frog motion model, to convert other theories and models as well as studies and, second, apply his theory and model to reinvent some well-known western-derived theories and models and studies, such as game theory. The attempt is to narrow down the gap between the East and the West scholarship/XueShu, broadly defined, making the book of interest to Eastern and Western philosophers and scholars alike.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2167-2
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    Handbook of identity theory and research (2011)
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    ISBN: 9781441979889
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XLII, 998 S. : graph. Darst.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Handbook of identity theory and research
    DDC: 155.2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Anthropology ; Sociology ; Applied psychology ; Developmental psychology ; Consciousness ; Psychology ; Identity (Philosophical concept) ; Identity (Psychology) ; Psychologie ; Philosophie ; Sozialpsychologie ; Identitätstheorie ; Selbst ; Sinnkonstitution ; Sinnfindung ; Identität ; Bewusstsein ; Selbstbild ; Individuum ; Person
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7988-9
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    Peer-Led Team Learning: Evaluation, Dissemination, and Institutionalization of a College Level Initiative (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402061868
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    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 16
    DDC: 378.1795
    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Educational tests and measurements
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    Abstract: This book is a real-world study of Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL), a method in which undergraduates work together, under the guidance of a peer leader, in course-connected workshops. PLTL is intended to complement lecture. The text explains how the method evolved into a teaching/learning model. The evaluation uncovered six critical components for successful implementation. Evaluation at each new site looked at implementation, comparing methods, materials, training, and organizational arrangements with what had been found to work effectively. Those disseminating the model used the critical compo
    Description / Table of Contents: Plan and Context of the Study; Development and Implementation of Peer-Led Team Learning; Dissemination Strategies; Adopting and Adapting PLTL: Successes and Limits; Indicators of Institutionalization; Study of Former Workshop Leaders; Impact on Minority Students and Women; PLTL and the Goals of Higher Education; Issues in Implementation, Dissemination and Institutionalization; Evaluation Strategies
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    China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The Market (2008)
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    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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    Underdetermination : An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge (2008)
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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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    Powerful Pedagogy : Self-Study of a Teacher Educator's Practice (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402081965
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    Series Statement: Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 6
    DDC: 370.7
    Keywords: Education ; Mathematics ; Education, Higher ; Unterrichtsmethode
    Abstract: Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educator’s Practice is the outcome of the author’s systematically questioning her assumptions about teaching and, in various ways, gives voice to the many individuals who have had an impact on the development of the author’s pedagogy as a mathematics teacher educator. Using self-study as both a lens and a methodology to research her practice over the past three years, the author examines the impact of reflection and reflective practice in pre-service teacher education, voice, silence and that which remains "unsaid", the ways in which teacher identities emerge and develop, and the role of authority and power in learning about teaching.
    Description / Table of Contents: Brandenburg_FM.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch01.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch02.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch03.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch04.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch05.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch06.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch07.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch08.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch09.pdf; Brandenburg_Ch10.pdf; Brandenburg_Appx.pdf; Brandenburg_Ref.pdf; Brandenburg_Author Index.pdf; Brandenburg_Sub Index.pdf; Brandenburg_BM.pdf
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    Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (2008)
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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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    Physicians at War : The Dual-Loyalties Challenge (2008)
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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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    Constructive Negations and Paraconsistency (2008)
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6867-6
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    Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402053429
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    Series Statement: Lifelong Learning Book Series 6
    DDC: 305.55
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Education Philosophy ; Lebenslanges Lernen ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Explains why generic capacities have become so important and presents an argument that the process of acquiring them is both lifelong and developmental. By using case studies and theoretical analyses, this book provides a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of the issues concerning generic abilities
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Nature And Development of Generic Attributes; Graduate Attributes in an Age of Uncertainty; Graduate Attributes and Changing Conceptions of Learning; Graduate Employability and Lifelong Learning: A Need for Realism?; The OECD: Its Role in the Key Competencies Debate and in the Promotion of Lifelong Learning; Graduate Attributes and the Transition to Higher Education; Academics' Understandings of Generic Graduate Attributes: A Conceptual Basis for Lifelong Learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Skills Development: Ten Years of Evolution from Institutional Specification to a more Student-Centred ApproachLifelong Learning, Graduate Capabilities and Workplace Learning; Work-Based Learning, Graduate Attributes and Lifelong Learning; Generic Attributes and the First Job: Graduates' Perceptions and Experiences; Constructing Professionals' Employ-Abilities: Conditions for Accomplishment; Synthesis: A Lifelong Learning Framework for Graduate Attributes;
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5342-8
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    Democracy in an Age of Globalisation (2007)
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5662-8
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    RETHINKING EXPLANATION (2007)
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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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    How to Think About Meaning (2007)
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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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    Cartographies of the Mind : Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (2007)
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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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    The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402056123
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    Series Statement: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business 10
    DDC: 658.40711
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    Keywords: Führungskräfteentwicklung ; Betriebswirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftspädagogik ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Educational tests and measurements ; Führungskraft ; Hochschulbildung
    Abstract: This volume explores the challenges of educating professionals to succeed in a complex, uncertain and global business world. The book contains intellectual concepts and practical advice from leaders in innovative education around the globe. It will help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing the teaching/learning challenges associated with helping students prepare to face their own challenges.
    Abstract: "As an educator, are you struggling with any of the following challenges? Do you know what competencies, capacities, attitudes, and perspectives learners need to develop so they can be contributing, productive members of organizations and society? What resource constraints do you need to address in trying to provide innovative and meaningful education? How can you make the learning process more effective? How can you best use technology to effectively deliver content and meaningfully engage learners in the educational process? What can you do to help people become effective leaders of businesses and other organizations in an increasingly complex and values-driven world that is changing rapidly and often contentiously? How do you accommodate the needs of learners throughout their lives? How do you accomplish all of this in a multicultural and global environment? If you are facing any of these challenges, this volume is a ""must read"" it tackles these questions and more, providing perspectives and insights from leading educators around the globe. This volume will help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing the teaching/learning challenges associated with helping students prepare to face their own challenges as leaders and followers in an increasingly complex, uncertain, and global economy."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributing Authors; Acknowledgments; Editorial Team; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World; PART II: THE TEACHING/LEARNING CONUNDRUM: ISSUES, CHALLENGES, AND PROSPECTS; The Education Objective for the Knowledge Economy; A Process for Implementing Problem-based Learning; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; A Tempus Tacis Project as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Soviet Georgia; Is There a Gap Between the Idea and its Application in Higher Education?; Implementing and Sustaining Educational Innovations
    Description / Table of Contents: Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Student Evaluations of InstructionPART III: ASSESSING THE DIMENSIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNING AND LEARNERS; The Identification of Constructivist Pedagogy in Different Learning Environments; Development of Competence in Translating Business Ideas into Practice; Commonalities in Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Different Academic Subjects; Multicultural Perceptions of the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle; Developing Learning Materials for the Unknown Online Learner; Piloting the Accreditation of Experiential Learning - A Case Study
    Description / Table of Contents: PART IV: DEVELOPING COMPETENCIES FOR CAREER SUCCESS: ISSUES AND PRACTICESTeaching for Life - Generic Capabilities that Link University Learning with Workplace Learning; How Distance Education Can Sustain the Development of Competencies; An Approach for Helping Students Become Authentic Ethical Role Models; Developing Critical Thinking Skills Online to Facilitate a Discursive Multicultural Classroom; The Role of University Education; PART V: USING TECHNOLOGY TO FACILITATE TEACHING AND LEARNING; Where Did the Didactics Go?; An Exploratory Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Applying the Concept of a Corporate University to a Business SectorThe ITESM Model; An Exploratory Case Study Examining the Impact of Action Learning on the Design of Management-level Web-based Instruction; Lower Perceived Performance by Students; PART VI: TEACHING AND LEARNING INSIGHTS FROM UNIQUE APPLICATIONS; Powerful Ideas for Innovative Learning Design and the Use of IT in Corporate Education; Leveraging Diversity in Globalizing Education; The Relevance of a Public Sector Experiment for Innovative Education; Principles and Practices; PBL Experience with First Year Business Undergraduates
    Description / Table of Contents: Index
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    Establishing Medical Reality : Essays In The Metaphysics And Epistemology Of Biomedical Science (2007)
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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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    Successful Principal Leadership in Times of Change : An International Perspective (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402055164
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    Series Statement: Studies In Educational Leadership 5
    DDC: 371.2012
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Schulleitung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book contributes significantly to our understanding of successful school leaders by describing similarities and differences in the work of such leaders in countries ranging from England to Australia, the United States to Norway, and Sweden to Hong Kong. Bringing together case study research, the book helps explain what all successful principals do and the ways in which context shapes some of their work.
    Abstract: The leadership of school principals is an enormously powerful influence on the quality of schools and the learning of pupils. While the work of principals has been examined intensively over the past 20 years, almost no effort has been made to understand the role from an international or cross-cultural perspective. This book contributes significantly to our understanding of successful school leaders by describing similarities and differences in the work of such leaders in countries ranging from England to Australia, the United States to Norway, Sweden to Hong Kong. Bringing together case study research, the book helps explain what all successful principals do and the ways in which context shapes some of their work.
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5516-4_BookFrontmatter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5516-4_1_OnlinePDF.pdf; Starting with What we Know; 978-1-4020-5516-4_2_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful School Principalship in Tasmania; 978-1-4020-5516-4_3_OnlinePDF.pdf; Models of Successful Principal Leadership: Victorian Case Studies; 978-1-4020-5516-4_4_OnlinePDF.pdf; Sustaining Success in Challenging Contexts: Leadership in English Schools; 978-1-4020-5516-4_5_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Leadership Based on Democratic Values; 978-1-4020-5516-4_6_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful PrincipalshipThe Swedish Case
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5516-4_7_OnlinePDF.pdfCommunicative Strategies Among Successful Danish School Principals; 978-1-4020-5516-4_8_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Leadership: Does Context Matter and If So, How?; 978-1-4020-5516-4_9_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Principalship in Shanghai: A Case Study; 978-1-4020-5516-4_10_OnlinePDF.pdf; Against the Odds: Successful Principals in Challenging U.S. Schools; 978-1-4020-5516-4_11_OnlinePDF.pdf; Building and Sustaining Successful Principalship: Key Themes; 978-1-4020-5516-4_12_OnlinePDF.pdf; What We Learned: A Broad View
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    Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800 (2007)
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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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    Possibility, Agency and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics (2007)
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library 61
    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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5245-3
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    Disciplines and Doctorates (2007)
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 16
    DDC: 378.12
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Education Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Promotion ; USA ; Promotionsstudium ; Curriculum ; USA ; Promotion
    Abstract: Generic advice in earning a PhD usually falls short of relevance, because of differences in the degree path from one discipline to another. Yet doctoral candidates and their supervisors know this process is governed by protocols and parameters - often implicit - that must be understood and mastered. This book explores these protocols, drawing upon a large-scale study of Australian universities, and also compares doctoral programs in different national systems.
    Abstract: Provides an analysis of the experience of learning to make knowledge at the level of the research doctorate. This book draws principally upon an empirical investigation at a number of Australian universities. It also provides a comparative account of doctoral study in different national systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Doctoral Study and Disciplinary Learning; Socialisation; Induction Processes; Exploring the Research Environment; Coping in the Arena; Linguistic Acceptability; Achieving Socialisation; Improving the Doctoral Experience
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5312-6
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    Husserl's Logical Investigations in the New Century: Western and Chinese Perspectives (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402057588
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 55
    DDC: 160
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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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    The Moral Wager : Evolution and Contract (2007)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 108
    DDC: 08.38
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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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    University Dynamics and European Integration (2007)
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 19
    DDC: 378.4
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Political science ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Hochschulreform ; Europäische Integration ; Europäische Union ; Hochschulpolitik ; Bologna-Prozess ; Lissabon-Strategie
    Abstract: "The European University is under stress. It has become commonplace to argue that radical reforms are needed. The claim is that while environments are changing rapidly, European universities do not learn, adapt and reform themselves fast enough. Reform plans comprise the purposes of universities, i.e. definitions of what the University is, can be and should be, criteria for quality and success, the kinds of research, education., services and innovation to be produced, and for whom. Reform plans also include the universities' organization and financial basis, their governance structures, who should influence the future dynamics of universities, and according to what principles. In contrast, it can be argued that the currently dominant reform rhetoric is only one among several competing visions and understandings of the University and its dynamics. What is at stake is ""what kind of University for what kind of society"" and which, and whose values, interests and beliefs should be given priority in University governance and reforms? This book explores the visions underlying the attempts to reform the European University as well as two European integration processes (""Bologna"" and ""Lisbon"") affecting University dynamics. Above all, the book presents a framework for analyzing ongoing ""modernization"" reforms and reform debates that take place at various governance levels, not least the European level, and a long-term research agenda."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; European Debates on the Knowledge Institution: The Modernization of the University at the European Level; The Institutional Dynamics of the European University; A Rule-governed Community of Scholars: The Humboldt Vision in the History of the European University; An Instrument for National Political Agendas: The Hierarchical Vision; An Internal Representative System: The Democratic Vision; A Service Enterprise: The Market Vision; The Bologna Process: An Intergovernmental Policy Perspective; The Lisbon Process: A Supranational Policy Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: "Europe of Knowledge:" Search for a New PactBack Matter
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    Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories : Suppositio, Consequentiae and Obligationes (2007)
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5853-0
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    Leibniz and the English-Speaking World (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402052439
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5243-9
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    Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature : Contributions to Phenomenology of Life (2007)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook Of Phenomenological Research 86
    DDC: 100
    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
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    Careers of University Graduates : Views and Experiences in Comparative Perspectives (2007)
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 17
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    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Akademiker ; Berufslaufbahn
    Abstract: This book offers detailed comparative analyses of graduate employment and work, drawn from a survey of graduates in 11 European countries and Japan. The book shows how transition to employment, job assignments, employee assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates' socio-biographic and educational background. It demonstrates more substantial differences in the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested.
    Abstract: "Graduates from institutions of Higher Education do not only hope to get employed and be better paid. Study can also have an impact on employment and work in many respects: facilitating transition to employment, opening up opportunities for demanding, interesting and responsible professional assignments, increasing remuneration and job security, providing opportunities for continuing learning and leading the way to international mobility and visibly international assignments. The book provides a series of detailed analyses of graduate employment and work in comparative perspective. It draws from the survey of graduates from 11 European countries and Japan first published in H. Schomburg und U. Teichler ""Higher Education and Graduate Employment and Work"" (Dordrecht: Springer 2006). In this volume, scholars from twelve countries show how transition to employment, job assignments, employment assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates' socio-biographic and educational background. It also focuses on experiences during the course of study and competences acquired, international experience, regional background and regions of employment. It demonstrates more substantial differences of the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Ulrich Teichler Graduate Employment and Work: Various Issues in a Comparative Perspective; Brenda Johnston and Brenda Little Socio-Biographical Background and Educational Path; Jake Murdoch and Jean-Jacques Paul Study Content and Process, Competences Upon Graduation and Employment; Jim Allen and Rolf van der Velden Transitions from Higher Education to Work; Trine Stavik and Clara Åse Arnesen Early Career; José García-Montalvo, José-Ginés Mora and Adela Garcia-Aracil The Employment Situation About Four Years After Graduation; Paul Kellermann Acquired Competences and Job Requirements
    Description / Table of Contents: Osmo Kivinen and Jouni Nurmi Job Requirements and Competences: Do Qualifications Matter?Jake Murdoch and Jean-Jacques Paul Links Between Knowledge and Work and Appropriate Employment; Gunhild Sagmeister Early Career Education; Torgerdur Einarsdottir ""On Different Tracks""; The Gendered Lanscape of Educational and Occupational Paths Amongst European Graduates; Roberto Moscati and Michele Rostan Regional Wealth, Employment and Mobility; Volker Jahr and Ulrich Teichler Graduates' International Experience and Mobility; Egbert de Weert Graduate Employment in Europe: The Employers' Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Harald Schomburg Work Orientation and Job SatisfactionUlrich Teichler Confirminf Conventional Wisdom and Contributing to New Insights: The Results of a Comparative Study on Graduate Employment and Work; List of Contributors
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    Diagrammatology : An Investigation On The Borderlines Of Phenomenology, Ontology, And Semiotics (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402056529
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 336
    DDC: 121.68
    RVK:
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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."
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5652-9
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    Perspectives On Mathematical Practices : Bringing Together Philosophy of Mathematics, Sociology of Mathematics, and Mathematics Education (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402050343
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5034-8
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    Phenomenology And The Non-Human Animal : At the Limits of Experience (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402063077
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology 56
    DDC: 100
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6307-7
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    Forming the Mind : Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402060847
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 5
    DDC: 100
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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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    A Life (Un)Worthy of Living : Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402052187
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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
    DDC: 362.1983200943
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5218-9
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    Financing Public Universities : The Case of Performance Funding (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402055607
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    Series Statement: HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS 18
    DDC: 378.44
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    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Nonprofit-Management ; Hochschulreform ; Hochschulpolitik ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Finance ; Social policy ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulfinanzierung
    Abstract: This crucial book addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie university funding to indicators of performance. It covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding, the public management reform debate within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved, and sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead. Four appendices cover more technical matters.
    Abstract: "Financing Public Universities addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise the quality of institutional systems. Performance-based budgeting and funding of public universities is part of broader efforts to reform public management, and it is being promoted and implemented by various government agencies around the globe. In particular, European universities with their normally strong governmental ties, or higher education systems molded on European universities, are prime targets of such reforms. Performance funding has made its inroads in attempts to grant university systems managerial autonomy: autonomy was to be granted in exchange for funding modes which are tied to the measurement of performance indicators. Unfortunately, performance-based budgeting or funding measures cannot meet the various expectations: they do not raise the quality of teaching or learning, they do not raise research performance, they take back a great deal of managerial autonomy which is commonly judged to be essential for the well being of higher education institutions, in particular research universities, and they act as automata in place of proper governance and management. ""Financing Public Universities"" addresses policy makers, higher education administrators, scholars and students of higher education management. After an introduction to the theme and to the book (Chapter 1), ""Financing Public Universities"" covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding (Chapter 2), the public management reform debate (Chapter 3) within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved (Chapter 4), sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead (Chapter 5), and epitomizes inertia or challenges (Chapter 6). Four appendices cover more technical matters, such as a comparative exposition of the research performance of universities by nation (Appendix C) and examples of funding systems in the UK and in the USA (Appendix D)."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Mass Higher Education and Funding Bases; Public Management Reform Debate; Performance-Based Budgeting or Funding; Alternative Governance and Management Modes; Inertia and Challenges; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5560-7
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    Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts : Essays on John Searle's Social Ontology (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402061042
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 41
    DDC: 121
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6104-2
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    Blameworthy Belief : A Study in Epistemic Deontologism (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059612
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library 338
    DDC: 121
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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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    The Rule of Law (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402057458
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 80
    DDC: 340.11
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5745-8
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    Consciousness : From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 4
    DDC: 142.7
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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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    Ethics, Hunger and Globalization : In Search of Appropriate Policies (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer | [Berlin : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402061318
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 12
    DDC: 338.19
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6131-8
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    Rediscovering Phenomenology : Phenomenological Essays on Mathematical Beings, Physical Reality, Perception and Consciousness (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | [Berlin : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402058813
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 393 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 182
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Rediscovering phenomenology
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5881-3
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    Creating the European area of higher education (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | [Berlin : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402046162
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 313 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 12
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Creating the European Area of Higher Education
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    Keywords: Education, Higher ; Political science ; Education ; Education ; Political Science ; Education, Higher ; EU/EG sowie Mitgliedsländer Internationale Bildungs-/Wissenschaftsbeziehungen ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Hochschulreform ; Bologna-Prozess ; Europa ; Studium ; Europa ; Hochschulreform ; Bologna-Prozess
    Abstract: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: COM(91) 349 final and the Peripheries of European Higher Education. What is the Point of Bologna in National Reform? The Case of Norwegian Quality Reform in Higher Education. The Bologna Process in Finland: Perspectives from Basic Units -- Searching for the Sub-Plot Between the Lines of Bologna: Qualms and Conservatism of the French Academia in the Face of European Competition. Emergent European Educational Policies Under Scrutiny: The Bologna Process from a Central European Perspective -- The Bologna Process: An Estonian Perspective. What the Bologna Process says about Teaching and Learning Development in Practice: Some Experience from Macedonia. Restructuring Bulgarian Higher Education: The Bulgarian Strategy Towards The Bologna Declaration -- Turkish Academics in Europe: Nomads Chasing a European Dream -- The Challenge of Bologna: The Nuts and Bolts of Higher Education Reform in Georgia. Pizza Bolognese à la Russe: Promise and Peril of the Bologna Process in Russia. European Students in the Periphery of the Bologna Process. The End of Europe and the Last Intellectual: Fine-Tuning of Knowledge Work in the Panopticon of Bologna
    Abstract: Since 1999 European higher education has been engaged in the most radical reform seen during its 900 years of history. Out of the widely diverse national higher education systems and sub-systems a common European Higher Education Area is being created. This process, driven by the great ideas of establishing federal Europe, is full of tensions and conflicts often ignored in the official discourse. Expanding the project well beyond the borders of the European Union created the difficulty that relatively prosperous and high quality universities in the Western part find themselves side-by-side with much poorer universities of sometimes questionable quality in other parts of the continent. This has led to the rise of many controversial issues, as some of the sponsors of the Process, particularly the European Commission, see international competitiveness of European universities as its most significant goal. The Process is being perceived as following the logic of re-design of European knowledge products for the purposes of the world markets and certain elements of the production process. University communities - academic staff and students - however, sometimes feel that such an approach may not only carry the threat of compromising their vital interests but also call for the revision of the principles of academic autonomy as understood in Europe since the early 19th century. This volume brings together a group of higher education researchers across Europe and looks into the implementation of the Bologna Process in the countries often attributed a peripheral status. Although it is also obvious that if the Process has a center, it stands external to higher education systems and universities it concerns. One can possibly find it either in Brussels or across the Atlantic in the United States, internationally perceived as the main competitor to European higher education. In addition to cultural and political issues the European higher education project faces in various countries, the volume pays particular attention to the role of students as well as the changing position of the intellectuals under its impact. 'This is an important book on a central topic at an important time. It is learned in the best sense, eminently readable and that across many different levels. It is also caustic, deeply ironic and passionate and because passionate, unswervingly provocative.' Professor Guy Neave, Professor of Comparative Higher Education Policy Studies at CHEPS, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands and Director of Research at the International Association of Universities, Paris, France
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction: COM(91) 349 final and the Peripheries of European Higher Education; What is the Use of Bologna in National Reform? The Case of Norwegian Quality Reform in Higher Education; The Bologna Process in Finland: Perspectives from the Basic Units; Searching for the Sub-Plot Between the Lines of Bologna Qualms and Conservatism of the French Academia in the Face of European Competition; Emergent European Educational Policies Under Scrutiny: The Bologna Process from a Central European Perspective; The Bologna Process: An Estonian Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: What the Bologna Process says about Teaching and Learning Development in Practice: Some Experience from MacedoniaRestructuring Bulgarian Higher Education: The Bulgarian Strategy Towards The Bologna Declaration; Turkish Academics in Europe: An Autumn Tale; The Challenge of Bologna: The Nuts and Bolts of Higher Education Reform in Georgia; Pizza Bolognese á la Russe: The Promise and Peril of the Bologna Process in Russia; European Students in the Periphery of the Bologna Process; The End of Europe and the Last Intellectual: Fine-Tuning of Knowledge Work in the Panopticon of Bologna; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4616-2
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    The Dream of Reality : Heinz von Foerster’s Constructivism (2001)
    New York, NY : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781461301158
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (184p) , digital
    Edition: Second Edition
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Fine arts. ; Physics ; Philosophy. ; Arts. ; Astronomy.
    Abstract: What if there were no objective facts, no objective truth, no objectivity at all, only our belief in them? What if our consciousness itself is an unconscious invention, constructed out of logic and language? In this thought-provoking volume, Lynn Segal describes how the ideas of Heinz von Foerster compel us to explore the question, "Do we discover the world or do we invent it?" and suggests that we must first know how we think before we can claim knowledge of the world. The resulting philosophy, Constructivism, examines the limits of what we can know and argues that understanding these limits can lead us to be more responsible for our personal and collective behavior. After tracing the historical transition from religious belief to a belief in science, Segal examines objectivity from semantic, philosophical, and neurological perspectives. Segal shows that we can never achieve objectivity and that the scientific method ensures only a consensus among observers. Next, he details how language and logic unwittingly predetermine the very conclusions we derive when we try to know the world. Finally, he describes a computational model of cognition that does not depend on first positing the world to account for cognition and consciousness. While Constructivism may seem relevant only to those in the cognitive sciences, it is, in fact, highly relevant to everyone. Paradoxically, grasping the limits of our own under-standing can free us to live more creative and meaningful personal and professional lives
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0115-8
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