Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
Filter
  • 1995-1999  (14)
  • 1990-1994  (23)
  • ebrary, Inc  (37)
  • Philosophy (General)  (31)
  • History.  (14)
Datasource
Material
Language
Years
Year
  • 1
    ISBN: 9789401140065
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 1110 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Humanities ; Architecture ; History ; Anthropology ; Arts. ; History. ; Cultural property. ; Architecture. ; Anthropology.
    Abstract: Memory is a subject that recently has attracted many scholars and readers not only in the general historical sciences, but also in the special field of art history. However, in this book, in which more than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled, Memory is also juxtaposed to its counterpart, Oblivion, thus generating extra excitement in the exchange of ideas. The papers are presented in eleven sections, each of which is devoted to a different aspect of memory and oblivion, ranging from purely material aspects of preservation, to social phenomena with regard to art collecting, from the memory of the art historian to workshop practices, from art in antiquity, to the newest media, from Buddhist iconography to the Berlin Wall. The book addresses readers in the field of history, history of art and psychology
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585276243
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 323 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 11
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Political science ; Ethics. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: New Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton includes a history and anecdotes of Clarence Walton's professional and personal life; a discussion of the controversial introduction of ethics into the field of management studies; contributions on a variety of subjects connected to leadership and business ethics from experts in the field; and critical essays reviewing Clarence's most recent work in social criticism. The book gives a history of the rise of the fields of business and society and business ethics, details the events leading to its acceptance in academic circles and gives personal accounts by Clarence Walton, one of the people most responsible for its creation. Intended target groups are students, former academic peers, and friends of Clarence Walton, as well as anyone interested in the history of business ethics or connected to Columbia University of America, or The American College
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 3
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585323152
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 254 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—History. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: This volume reprints in a scholar's edition the first English-language texts on bioethics, John Gregory's (1724-1773) Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician and on the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy (London, 1770) and Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician (London, 1772). Five previously unpublished manuscripts of Gregory's lectures are also included. An introduction places Gregory's medical ethics and philosophy of medicine in their eighteenth-century contexts of Scottish Enlightenment history and culture, Baconian science and philosophy of medicine, medical practice, the feminine and feminist philosophy of the Bluestocking Circle, and moral sense philosophy, particularly David Hume's concept of sympathy, and provides a bibliography of primary and secondary sources as an aid to teaching and future scholarship. The book's index provides access to Gregory's texts, by using both historical terms and current terminology of bioethics. A volume in the subseries Classics of Medical Ethics
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 4
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401155168
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 299 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 22
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy. ; History. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: The Law of Causality and its Limits (1931) a principal work from the classical period of the Vienna Circle, was written by Philipp Frank, a physicist and philosopher, to clarify the strengths and weaknesses of the notion of causal explanation. The book contains analyses of central issues in the philosophy of science: meaning of general statements, determinism, vitalism, lawfulness in biology and physical science, irreversibility, cause and chance, among others
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 5
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401151863
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 315 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 73
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: During the last two decades, applied ethics has not only developed into one of the most important philosophical disciplines but has also differentiated into so many subdisciplines that it is becoming increasingly difficult to survey it. A much-needed overview is provided by the eighteen contributions to this volume, in which internationally renowned experts deal with central questions of environmental ethics, bioethics and medical ethics, professional and business ethics, social, political, and legal ethics as well as with the aims and foundations of applied ethics in general. Thanks to a philosophical introduction and selected bibliographical references added to each chapter, the book is very well suited as a basis for courses in applied ethics. It is directed not only to philosophers and to ethicists from other disciplines but to scientists in general and to all people who are interested in the rational discussion of moral principles and their application to concrete problems in the sciences and in everyday life
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 6
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401150620
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 318 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 26
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Philosophy ; Logic. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Law—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information processing, namely by a process in which pieces of descriptive and practical information are involved. Action is explained by a formal and finalistic theory which is connected with a specific theory of institutions. The philosophical basis of the logic of norm sentences and of other systems of practical thinking (formal teleology, axiology, logic of preferences) is discussed. The author criticizes traditional deontic logic and argues in favor of a genuine logic of norms. The book gives a structure analysis of the so-called practical inference and of nomic causal propositions. Besides a critical account of von Wright's practical philosophy the author offers critical analyses of discourse rationality (Habermas, Apel, Alexy) and of Wittgenstein's views on philosophizing. The book addresses readers interested in philosophical logic, practical philosophy, sociology of institutions, legal philosophy, and theory democracy
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 7
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Science/Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401151511
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 249 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 268
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Wittgenstein's philosophy is a puzzling subject mainly because Wittgenstein himself does not appear to have given a full, explicit account of what he means by his `phenomenology', `phenomenological language' or `phenomenological problems'. This book examines the idea of phenomenology throughout the different stages of Wittgenstein's philosophical development. The author argues that Wittgenstein's entire philosophical life was mainly concerned with what is immediately given in one's experience. Early interpretations of the phenomenological elements in Wittgenstein's philosophy usually emphasized the unique nature of his later work. However, the author here convincingly makes the case that Wittgenstein's concern with immediate experience and the way we describe it guided his philosophical journey through the phenomenological problems that pervade his work. The author offers many intriguing ideas and philosophical insights for Wittgenstein scholars and students, and philosophers interested in phenomenology who wish to study one of the most distinguished but least understood philosophers of the twentieth century. Audience: Philosophers, philosophers interested in phenomenology, Wittgenstein scholars
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 8
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401152402
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 411 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy of nature. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Self.
    Abstract: In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life? If the latter, then culture is assimilated into nature and thus would lose its claim to autonomy: its criteria would be superseded by those of nature alone. Of course, nature and culture may both still be seen as being absorbed by the inner powers of specifically human inwardness, on which view, human being, caught in its own transcendence, becomes separated radically in kind from the rest of existence and may not touch even the shadow of reality except through its own prism. Excess, therefore, or prolongation? And on what terms? The relationship between culture and nature in its technical phase demands a new elucidation. Here this is pursued by excavating the root significance of the 'multiple rationalities' of life. In contrast to Husserl, who differentiated living types according to their degree of participation in the world, the phenomenology of life disentangles living types from within the ontopoietic web of life itself. The human creative act reveals itself as the Great Divide of the Logos of Life - a divide that does not separate but harmonizes, thus dispelling both naturalistic and spiritualistic reductionism
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 9
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401151085
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 399 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 273
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Asian. ; Mathematical logic. ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Epistemology.
    Abstract: This collection celebrates the centenary of the Lvov-Warsaw school, established by Kazimierz Twardowski in Lvov in 1895. This school belongs to analytic philosophy and successfully worked in all branches of philosophy. The Warsaw school of logic became perhaps the most important part of Twardowski's heritage. Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz and Tarski, leading Polish logicians, achieved results which essentially influenced the development of contemporary logic. A close connection of logic and philosophy was a typical feature of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The papers included in the collection deal with all directions of research undertaken by Polish analytic philosophers. Special attention is paid to logic and comparisons with other philosophical movements, particularly with Brentanism, which was one of the sources of the Lvov-Warsaw school
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 10
    ISBN: 9789401155304
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 312 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Philosophy ; History ; Ethics ; Medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics. ; Bioethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics -- 2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Everything Includes Itself in Power: Power and Coherence in Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics2 Not All Peace is Peace: Why Christians Cannot Make Peace With Engelhardt’s Peace -- 3 Medicine’s Monopoly: From Trust-Busting to Trust -- 4 Engelhardt’s Communitarian Ethics: The Hidden Assumptions -- 5 Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers -- 6 Beyond Forbearance as the Moral Foundation for a Health Care System: An Analysis of Engelhardt’s Principles of Bioethics -- 7 Engelhardt’s Analysis of Disease: Implications for a Feminist Clinical Epistemology -- 8 The Magic Mountain: A Prelude to Engelhardt’s Phenomenology of Illness -- 9 Persons, Property or Both? Engelhardt on the Moral Status of Young Children -- 10 Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First; Verdict Afterwards -- 11 The Foundations of The Foundations of Bioethics: Engelhardt’s Kantian Underpinnings -- 12 Engelhardt, Historicism and the Minimalist Paradox -- 13 The Unjustifiability of Substantive Liberalisms and the Inevitability of Engelhardtian Procedural Liberalism -- 14 Secular? Yes; Humanism? No: A Close Look at Engelhardt’s Secular Humanist Bioethics -- 15 The Foundations of Bioethics and Secular Humanism: Why Is There No Canonical Moral Content? -- About the Authors -- About the Editors -- Publications by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 11
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585284248
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (156 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées 147
    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy, modern ; Medicine ; Artificial intelligence ; History ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Medicine—History.
    Abstract: Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube? This was the question which the Irish politician and scientist William Molyneux posed in 1688 to John Locke. Molyneux's question has intrigued a wide variety of intellectuals for three centuries. Those who have attempted to solve it include Berkeley, Reid, Leibniz, Voltaire, La Mettrie, Condillac, Diderot, Müller, Helmholtz, William James and Gareth Evans. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the discussion about Molyneux's problem. It will be of interest to historians of both philosophy and psychology
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 12
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585374635
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 413 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 57
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Computer science ; Logic. ; Computer science. ; Linguistics. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with the history of temporal logic as well as the crucial systematic questions within the field. The book studies the rich contributions from ancient and medieval philosophy up to the downfall of temporal logic in the Renaissance. The modern rediscovery of the subject, which is especially due to the work of A. N. Prior, is described, leading into a thorough discussion of the use of temporal logic in computer science and the understanding of natural language. Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence thus interweaves linguistic, philosophical and computational aspects into an informative and inspiring whole
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 13
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401103992
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 274 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 8
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Industrial management ; Ethics. ; Management.
    Abstract: Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations to the public gaze, with management in the limelight. Facing Public Interest opens up new vistas on business policy and corporate communications facing public interest. The relationship between private enterprise and public interest is subjected to an ethical examination, highlighting the role of the general public as a locus of morality for business and the guiding concept of a corporate dialogue between management and the concerned public. Instructive case studies are also presented. The volume not only proposes corporate dialogue: it puts into practice. Business leaders, representatives of citizens' groups, public affairs consultants, and academics discuss the topics thoroughly and thoughtfully in the best contributions to the seventh conference on the European Business Ethics Network, held at the University of St. Gallen in September 1994
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 14
    ISBN: 9780585274447
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 238 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 49
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; History ; Ethics. ; History. ; Medicine—History. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: The Codification of Medical Morality, the second volume in a two-volume survey of pre-twentieth century modern medical ethics, presents fresh historical research and philosophical analyses of the evolution of medical ethics in nineteenth century America and the development of a different, but parallel, tradition of medical jurisprudence in nineteenth century Britain. These original papers are supplemented by reprints of: the first American Code of medical ethics, the Boston Medical Police of 1808; and an unabridged version of the American Medical Association's 1847 Code of Ethics; and the second (1886) edition of Jukes Styrap's Code of Ethics - a Code which, although officially rejected by the British Medical Association, nonetheless defined the `done thing' for British practitioners in the last decades of the nineteenth century
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 15
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401110426
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 307 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Artificial intelligence ; Computational linguistics ; Humanities ; Logic. ; Computational linguistics. ; Artificial intelligence. ; Linguistics.
    Abstract: This book sets out the foundations, methodology, and practice of a formal framework for the description of language. The approach embraces the trends of lexicalism and compositional semantics in computational linguistics, and theoretical linguistics more broadly, by developing categorial grammar into a powerful and extendable logic of signs. Taking Montague Grammar as its point of departure, the book explains how integration of methods from philosophy (logical semantics), computer science (type theory), linguistics (categorial grammar) and meta-mathematics (mathematical logic ) provides a categorial foundation with coverage including intensionality, quantification, featural polymorphism, domains and constraints. For the first time, the book systematises categorial thinking into a unified program which is at once both logically secured, and a practical tool for pure lexical grammar development with type-theoretic semantics. It should be of interest to all those active in computational linguistics and formal grammar and is suitable for use at advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 16
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585285566
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vii, 344 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 16
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Engineering ; Environmental sciences ; Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Phenomenology . ; Engineering. ; Environment. ; Philosophy. ; Religion.
    Abstract: Phenomenology of the Cultural Disciplines is an interdisciplinary study, reflecting the recent emergence of various particular forms of `phenomenological philosophy of ..'. Included are such fields as psychology, social sciences and history, as well as environmental philosophy, ethnic studies, religion and even more practical disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, politics, and technology. The Introduction provides a way of understanding how these various developments are integrated. On the basis of a Husserlian notion of culture, it proposes a generic concept of `cultural disciplines' (which is broader than but inclusive of `human sciences') which subsumes the more specific concepts of `cultural sciences', `axiotic disciplines' (e.g. architecture), and `practical disciplines'
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 17
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401118989
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xx, 284 p) , ill. (some col.)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 158
    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy, medieval ; Medicine ; History ; Regional planning ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Ethnology. ; Culture. ; Medicine—History.
    Abstract: Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars. To be sure, it is not only the vexed question of the historical authorship and dating of the grand corpus Jabirianum which poses a serious scholarly challenge; equally challenging is the task of unraveling all those obscure and tantalizing discourses which it contains. This book, which marks the first full-scale study of Jabir ever to be published in the English language, takes up both challenges. The author begins by critically reexamining the historical foundations of the prevalent view that the Jabirian corpus is the work not of an 8th-century individual, but that of several generations of Shi'i authors belonging to the following century and later. Tentatively concluding that this view is problematic, the author, therefore, infers that its methodological implications are also problematic. Thus, developing its own methodological matrix, the book takes up the second challenge, namely that of a substantive analysis and explication of a Jabirian discourse, the Book of Stones. Here explicating Jabir's notions of substance and qualities, analyzing his ontological theory of language and unraveling the metaphysics of his Science of Balance, the author reconstructs the doctrinal context of the Stones and expounds its central theme. He then presents an authoritative critical edition of a substantial selection of the text of the Stones, based on all available manuscripts. This critical edition has been translated in its entirety and is provided with exhaustive commentaries and textual notes -- another pioneering feature of this book: for this is the first English translation of a Jabirian text to emerge in print after a whole century. An outstanding contribution is that it announces and presents an exciting textual discovery: the author has found in the Stones a hitherto unknown Arabic translation of part of Aristotle's Categories. Given that we have so far known of only one other, and possibly later, classical Arabic translation of the Greek text, Haq's discovery gives this book an historical importance
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 18
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401108980
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 410 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 41
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Comparative Literature ; History ; Phenomenology . ; Language and languages—Style. ; History. ; Comparative literature. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Focusing mainly upon language, communication, textuality, etc., as is overwhelmingly today's fashion, we miss the very raison d'être of literature and language itself. Moving a step further in our investigation of the anthropologico-ontopoietic sources of the life-significance of literature by unravelling the function of imaginatio creatrix in man's self interpretation-in-existence, this collection seeks to bring forth the royal role of allegory in the fostering of culture. A conjoint work of human elemental passions and of the human spirit, allegory mediates between lofty ideals of the highest human strivings and the pedestrian realm of facts. Interpretative or theoretical studies encompass allegory -- mediaeval, modern and post-modern -- in various literatures. Among the authors are: Tymieniecka, Kronegger, Jorge Garcia Gomez, V. Osadnik, H. Hellerstein, H. Rudnick, R. Kiefer, V. Fichera, K. Haney, Ch. Raffini, J. Williamson, B. Ross and Sitansu Ray
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 19
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401109024
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 562 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 154
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Genetic epistemology ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy. ; Aesthetics. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: These essays by his friends, students, colleagues, and admirers honor Marx Wartofsky on his 65th birthday by their humane and rigorous investigations of themes from his own broad range of interests. Art and science, ethics and history, from the great Enlightenment through the 19th century to our time of failed hopes and ironic successes, and especially human self-understanding through praxis, Wartofsky's joys, sorrows, curiosity and intelligence find their reflections in these insightful and original contributions. The authors include Joseph Agassi, Andrew Buchwalter, Peter Caws, Robert S. Cohen, William Earle, Bernard Elevitch, Paul Feyerabend, Roger S. Gottlieb, Carol C. Gould, Hilde Hein, Jaakko Hintikka, Gregg Horowitz, Michael Kelly, Peter Kivy, Erazim Kohak, Douglas Lackey, Berel Lang, Isaac Levi, Joseph Margolis, Gyorgy Markus, Alasdair MacIntyre, William McBride, Thomas McCarthy, Joëlle Proust, Roshdi Rashed, Cheyney Ryan, Abner Shimony, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Lorenzo Simpson, Gary Smith, John Stachel, and Willis Truitt
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 20
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401120104
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiv, 394 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 137
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Astronomy—Observations.
    Abstract: Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen. He wrote his Experimenta Nova in the seventeenth century in Latin, a dead language for the most part inaccessible to contemporary scientists. Thus isolated by the remoteness of his time and his means of communication, von Guericke has for many years been denied the recognition he deserves in the English speaking world. Indeed, the century in which he lived witnessed the invention of six important and valuable scientific instruments -- the microscope, the telescope, the pendulum clock, the barometer, the thermometer, and the air pump. Von Guericke was associated with the development of the last three of these; he also experimented with a rudimentary electric machine. Thus his Experimenta Nova was an important work, heralding the emerging empiricism of seventeenth century science, and merits this first English translation of von Guericke's magnus opus
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 21
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401109147
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (242 p) , 1 ill
    Edition: Third Edition
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 153
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Metaphysics ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Metaphysics.
    Abstract: Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, the distinction between laws and theories, the relation between absolute and relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue of sustainable development
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 22
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9781461529088
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 596 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Archaeology ; Archaeology. ; History.
    Abstract: This landmark work reports the results of the authors' six year, multinational research program on the archaeology and paleoenvironment of the Eastern Sahara. 350 illustrations and more than 200 tables serve to enhance their remarkable findings
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. IntroductionStratigraphy, Paleoenvironment and Chronology -- 2. Contribution to the Stratigraphy of the Area of Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East -- 3. Middle Paleolithic Lakes in the Southwestern Desert of Egypt -- 4. Sedimentology of Pleistocene Deposits Associated with Middle Paleolithic Sites in Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East -- 5. Chemical Stratigraphy of Lacustrine Sequences Deposited During Latest Pleistocene Pluvial Periods in the Eastern Sahara -- 6. Lacustrine Paleoenvironments of the Area of Bir Sahara-Bir Tarfawi Area Reconstructed from Fossil Ostracods and the Chemistry of their Shells -- 7. Diatoms from the Pool in Section BT-A of Bir Tarfawi -- 8. The Middle Paleolithic Archaeofaunas from Bir Tarfawi (Western Desert, Egypt) -- 9. Fish Remains from the Last Interglacial at Bir Tarfawi (Eastern Sahara, Egypt) -- 10. Remains of Small Vertebrates from Bir Tarfawi and Their Paleoecological Significance -- 11. Uranium-Series Dating of Carbonates from Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East -- 12. Bir Tarfawi: A Stratigraphic Test of Uranium-Series Dating of Tooth Enamel -- 13. Thermoluminescence Dating of Deposits from the Area of Bir Sahara East and Bir Tarfawi -- 14. Thermoluminescence Dates for Burnt Earth Samples from Bir Sahara East and a Burnt Core from Bir Tarfawi -- 15. Optical Dating of Sediment Samples from Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East: An Initial Report -- 16. Electron Spin Resonance Dating of Tooth Enamel from Bir Tarfawi -- 17. ESR Study of Materials from the Middle Paleolithic of Bir Tarfawi -- 18. Chronology of Hominid Occupation at Bir Tarfawi and Bir Sahara East, Based on the Epimerization of Isoleucine in Ostrich Eggshells -- Middle Paleolithic Archaeology Archaeological Sites in the Northern Part (Section BT-A) of Bir Tarfawi -- 19. The Analysis of Middle Paleolithic Artifacts -- 20. E-88-14: An Assemblage Associated with the Tarfawi White Lake -- 21. Work at BT-14 During 1974 -- 22. BT-14 Main Excavation: The Archaeological Sequence of the East Lake (1986 and 1987 Seasons) -- 23. E-87-5: Occupations Dating to the Grey Phases -- Archaeological Sites in the Central Part (Section BT-B) of Bir Tarfawi -- 24. E-86-1: A Site Associated with the Sand Pan -- 25. E-87-4: A Sand Pan Site -- 26. E-87-1: A Locality Associated with the Sand Pan Delta -- 27. E-86-2: Occupations During the Grey and Green Phases -- 28. E-86-3: An Assemblage in Hydromorphic and Basin-Edge Sands of the Lower Lake (Grey Phase 3) -- 29. E-86-4: Artifacts in Marsh-Related Sands of the Lower Lake (Grey Phase 3) -- 30. E-87-2: A Site in Lake-Margin Deposits of the Green Phase -- 31. E-87-3: A Small, Dry-Season Occupation at the Onset of the Green Phase -- Archaeological Sites at Bir Sahara East -- 32. E-88-1: The Archaeology of the Sandsheet -- 33. BS-11: A Site in the Recessional Beach of West Lake 1 -- 34. E-88-11: A Site Associated with West Lake 2 -- 35. BS-12: A Site Associated with West Lake 2 (1988 Excavations) -- 36. E-88-2: Occupations Associated with West Lake -- Syntheses -- 37. Spatial Analyses of Middle Paleolithic Localities in the Bir Tarfawi Basin: An Interpretative Studyad -- 38. Summary and Conclusions -- References.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 23
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Basel : Birkhäuser Basel | Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser
    ISBN: 9783034885928
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (421 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: Wittgenstein et Spinoza construisent, l'un dans le Tractatus, l'autre dans l'Éthique, des systèmes philosophiques réunissant le monde, l'homme et Dieu dans lesquels ils s'opposent sur de nombreux points. C'est ainsi par exemple que, suivant Spinoza, l'homme est assuré que rien ne se produit sans cause alors que Wittgenstein rejette la possibilité de rapports d'ordre causal entre les événements. Le présent travail dissèque dans une première partie l'œuvre de Wittgenstein, il analyse dans une deuxième partie la doctrine de Spinoza, et il compare enfin dans la troisième partie les deux systèmes dont il fait ressortir les points de concordance et de dissemblance dans leurs constructions respectives. Il traite les œuvres philosophiques que sont le Tractatus et l'Éthique comme si elles relevaient de sciences telles que la mécanique, l'astronomie, etc., et utilise des modèles géométriques appropriés à leur interprétation. L'étude comparative du Tractatus et de l'Éthique, qui ne cessent d'exercer leur influence sur la pensée humaine, permet de conclure que le Tractatus, œuvre du XXe siècle, renoue avec le rationalisme du XVIIe siècle exprimé par Spinoza
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 24
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Kluver Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401116626
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 786 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 136
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; History.
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive survey of the way in which Hegel reacted to the pervasive Newtonianism of his day. Various eighteenth century developments in metaphysics, the foundations of mathematics, mechanics, optics and chemistry are considered, together with Hegel's assessment of them. It becomes apparent that the criticism he levels at several of the prevailing attitudes of his day assumes a new significance once a proper distinction is drawn between Newton's own views and those of his professed followers. One of the most remarkable results of the survey is the way in which it brings out the basic convergence of many of Hegel's views with those of the historical Newton. The work is rounded off with a fully annotated bibliography of the relevant sections of Hegel's private library
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 25
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401116381
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 251 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 17
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Political science Philosophy ; History ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Religion. ; History. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: There is a consensus among Christian theologians that the symbol of the `kingdom of God', inherited from the Judaic tradition, is the key to understanding Christianity. But theologians have for millenia differed among themselves as to the interpretation of this symbol. Political ramifications of, or reactions to, this Judaeo-Christian idea have included the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusades, the `Third Rome', American Manifest Destiny, Zionism, the Third Reich, and Liberation Theology. This book focuses on the question of whether the kingdom of God is necessarily related to certain political implications, and its possible implications for democracy and democratic theory. It examines the development of the symbol in the Old and New Testaments, the diversity of related theological interpretations and political concomitants, and the significance of the `kingdom of God' in the development of present and future political formations and political theory
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 26
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585283333
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 312 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 40
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Medicine—History. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values. Nowhere is an evaluation of this interplay more important than in the ethics of diagnosis. Traditionally, diagnosis has been understood as an epistemological activity which is concerned with facts and excludes the intrusion of values. The essays in this volume challenge this assumption. Questions of knowledge in diagnosis are intimately related to the concerns with intervention that characterize the applied science of medicine. Broad social and individual goals, as well as diverse ethical frameworks, are shown to condition both the processes and results of diagnosis. This has significant implications for bioethics, implications that have not previously been developed. With this volume, `the ethics of diagnosis' is established as an important branch of bioethics
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 27
    ISBN: 9789401126144
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 341 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 40
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy, modern ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: One On the Types of Sentences -- Two On Retracted Sentences -- Three On the Relative Extensions of Modally Qualified Terms -- Four On Consequences by Virtue of the Part and the Whole -- Five On Consequences by Virtue of Subalternation and Obversion -- Six On Consequences by Virtue of the Placement and Removal of Relational Particles and Prepositions -- Seven On Consequences by Virtue of the Placement and Removal of Modes -- Eight On Consequences by Virtue of the Conversion of Sentences -- Nine On the Modality of Consequences by Virtue of the Conversion of Sentences -- Ten On the Extension of Terms in Sentences -- One on the Conditions of the Syllogism -- Two on the Relationship between the Premises and the Conclusion of the Syllogism -- Three on the First Figure -- Four on the Second Figure -- Five on the Third Figure -- Six on the Fourth Figure -- Seven on Sorites -- Eight on the Conditions of Syllogisms with Modes, Particles, and Retracted Terms -- Nine on Syllogisms with Necessary Premises -- Ten on Syllogisms with Assertoric Premises -- Eleven on Syllogisms with Possible Premises -- Twelve on Syllogisms Mixed from Necessary and Assertoric Premises -- Thirteen on Syllogisms Mixed from Necessary and Possible Premises -- Fourteen on Syllogisms Mixed from Assertoric and Possible Premises -- Commentary -- Excursus Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic and Averroes’ Theory of Modalized Terms -- Works Cited In Commentary And Excursus -- Hebrew-EngLish Glossary -- English-HeBrew Glossary -- Selected BIbliography.
    Abstract: In the great libraries of Europe and the United States, hidden in fading manuscripts on forgotten shelves, lie the works of medieval Hebrew logic. From the end of the twelfth century through the Renaissance, Jews wrote and translated commentaries and original compositions in Aristotelian logic. One can say without exaggeration that wherever Jews studied philosophy - Spain, France, Northern Africa, Germany, Palestine - they began their studies with logic. Yet with few exceptions, the manuscripts that were catalogued in the last century have failed to arouse the interest of modem scholars. While the history of logic is now an established sub-discipline of the history of philosophy, the history of Hebrew logic is only in its infancy. The present work contains a translation and commentary of what is arguably the greatest work of Hebrew logic, the Sefer ha-Heqqesh ha-Yashar (The Book of the Correct Syllogism) of Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides; 1288-1344). Gersonides is well known today as a philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and biblical exegete. But in the Middle Ages he was also famous for his prowess as a logician. The Correct Syllogism is his attempt to construct a theory of the syllogism that is free of what he considers to be the 'mistakes' of Aristotle, as interpreted by the Moslem commentator A verroes. It is an absorbing, challenging work, first written by Gersonides when he was merely thirty-one years old, then significantly revised by him. The translation presented here is of the revised version.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 28
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401129084
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 234 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 41
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy. ; Religion. ; Medical sciences. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Medicine—History.
    Abstract: The book is an effort, from within the tradition of Catholic moral theology and philosophy, to examine issues which are raised by the possibilities of medical treatment for those patients who are dying. The book looks at possible issues for newborns, the elderly, and those, at any age, with terminal disease such as AIDS. The book examines specific moral issues such as when death occurs, the extent of obligations to treat patients, and the notion of `responsibility' towards such patients. From the Foreword by Edmund D. Pellegrino: `This new Catholic Studies in Bioethics series, inaugurated with this volume, is a welcome addition to the expanding world literature in biomedical ethics. It offers a forum in which qualified scholars in the Roman Catholic tradition may present their critical reflections for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Edited as it is by a panel of international scholars, the new series promises to reach a wide audience among theologians, health professionals, and moral philosophers.'
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 29
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401127226
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 320 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Klaits, Joseph [Rezension von: Harline, Craig E., The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe: Collected Essays of Herbert H. Rowen] 1994
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées 132
    Keywords: Humanities ; History ; Social sciences ; History. ; Social sciences. ; Political science.
    Abstract: This volume brings together the best essays and reviews of Herbert H. Rowen, professor emeritus of Rutgers University, foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and one of the first important English-speaking historians of the Dutch Republic since John Lothrop Motley. Many of the essays, though published previously, have not been readily available, while several appear here for the first time. They include close analysis of the Dutch Republic, French absolutism, the eighteenth-century Republic and the Atlantic Revolutions, and direct and indirect commentary on the task of the historian more generally. Also included are three essays and several reviews about the work of Herbert Rowen, which assess his particular contribution to historical studies. The leading characteristics of that work are reflected in the title of this collection: clarity and ease of expression, rigor of thought, and a focus on the intersection of political thought and practice in the early modern period
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 30
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401125949
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 411 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 136
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Humanities ; Science—Philosophy. ; History.
    Abstract: Sciences et Empires: un thème promètteur, des enjeux cruciaux -- Welcome Address -- For a New Historiographical Approach of the So-called “Traditional Knowledge” -- Science classique et science moderne à l’époque de l’expansion de la science européenne -- Integration Problems: Introductory Report -- Ottomans and European Science -- The “Oriental-Occidental Controversy” of 1839 and its Impact on Indian Science -- The Colonial “Model” and the Emergence of National Science in India: 1876–1920 -- Integration Problems: Discussion -- Western Mathematics in China, Seventeenth Century and Nineteenth Century -- The Reception of Western Medicine in China: Examples from Yunnan -- Du “zira” au “mètre”: une transformation métrologique dans l’Empire Ottoman -- Models of European Scientific Expansion: a Comparative Description of “Classical” Medical Science at the Time of Introduction of European Medical Science to Sri Lanka, and Subsequent Development to Present -- Technical Content and Social Context: Locating Technical Institutes. The First Two Decades in the History of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890–1910) -- The First Chair of Chemistry in Mexico (1796–1810) -- Trade and the Natural Sciences in the United States of Columbia -- Science et pouvoir au XIXe siècle: la France et le Mexique en perspective -- Le positivisme et la science au Brésil -- Les débuts de la physique mathématique et théorique au Brésil et 1’influence de la tradition française -- Brazilian Museums of Natural History and International Exchanges in the Transition to the 20th Century -- The Pan American Experiment in Eugenics -- Typologie des stratégies d’expansion en sciences exactes -- Sciences exactes et politique extérieure -- World-Science: How Is the History of World-Science to Be Written? -- Science and the Japanese Empire 1868–1945: An Overview -- Science and Nationalism in New Granada on the Eve of the Revolution of Independence -- Models of European Scientific Expansion: the Ottoman Empire as a Source of Evidence -- Problems in Science Administration: a Study of the Scientific Surveys in British India 1757–1900 -- Natural History in Colonial Context: Profit or Pursuit? British Botanical Enterprise in India 1778–1820 -- The Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation and the New French Empire: Science and Political Economy -- Patriarchal Science: the Network of the Overseas Pasteur Institutes -- Géographie et colonisation en France durant la Troisième République (1870–1940) -- La France et l’émergence des sciences modernes au Canada français (1900–1940) -- Autour de la mission française pour la création de l’Université de São Paulo (1934) -- Yvon Chatelin -- José Leite Lopes -- Abdur Rahman -- Nakayama Shigeru -- Juan-José Saldaña -- Jean-Jacques Salomon -- José Israël Vargas -- Unpublished Communications.
    Abstract: SCIENCE AND EMPIRES: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM TO THE BOOK Patrick PETITJEAN, Catherine JAMI and Anne Marie MOULIN The International Colloquium "Science and Empires - Historical Studies about Scientific De­ velopment and European Expansion" is the product of an International Colloquium, "Sciences and Empires - A Comparative History of Scien­ tific Exchanges: European Expansion and Scientific Development in Asian, African, American and Oceanian Countries". Organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the colloquium was held from 3 to 6 April 1990 in the UNESCO building in Paris. This colloquium was an idea of Professor Roshdi Rashed who initiated this field of studies in France some years ago, and proposed "Sciences and Empires" as one of the main research programmes for the The project to organize such a colloquium was a bit REHSEIS group. of a gamble. Its subject, reflected in the title "Sciences and Empires", is not a currently-accepted sub-discipline of the history of science; rather, it refers to a set of questions which found autonomy only recently. The terminology was strongly debated by the participants and, as is frequently suggested in this book, awaits fuller clarification.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 31
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585282954
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix,380 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 38
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Economics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Economics. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care -- The Rhetoric of Rights and Justice in Health Care -- Rights to Health Care: The Development of the Concept -- The Right to Health Care: Reflections on Its History and Politics -- The Right to Health Care: Presentation and Critique -- The Right to Health Care in a Capitalistic Democracy -- Justice and the Right to Health Care: An Egalitarian Account -- Rights to Health Care: Created, Not Discovered -- Why the Right to Health Care is Not a Useful Concept for Policy Debates -- A Qualified Right to Health Care: Toward a Notion of a Decent Minimum -- Rights, Reforms, and the Health Care Crisis: Problems and Prospects -- Rights, Obligations, and the Special Importance of Health Care -- Access to Health Care: Charity and Rights -- Equality, Free Markets, and the Elderly -- Equal Opportunity and Health Care Rights for the Elderly -- Free Markets, Consumer Choice, and the Poor: Some Reasons for Caution -- My Right to Care for my Health — And What About the Needy and the Elderly? -- Health Care as a Commodity -- Should Medicine be a Commodity? An Economist’s Perspective -- The Profit Motive in Kant and Hegel -- Virtue for Hire: Some Reflections on Free Choice and the Profit Motive in the Delivery of Health Care -- Rights, Public Policy, and the State.
    Abstract: Human existence is marked by pain, limitation, disability, disease, suffering, and death. These facts of life and of death give ample grounds for characterizing much of the human condition as unfortunate. A core philosophical question is whether the circumstances are in addition unfair or unjust in the sense of justifying claims on the resources, time, and abilities of others. The temptation to use the languages of rights and of justice is und- standable. Faced with pain, disability, and death, it seems natural to complain that "someone should do something", "this is unfair", or "it just isn't fight that people should suffer this way". Yet it is one thing to complain about the unfairness of another's actions, and another thing to complain about the unfairness of biological or physical processes. If no one is to blame for one's illness, disability, or death, in what sense are one's unfortunate circumstances unfair or unjust? How can claims against others for aid and support arise if no one has caused the unfortunate state of affairs? To justify the languages of fights to health care or justice in health care requires showing why particular unfortunate circumstances are also unfair, in the sense of demanding the labors of others. It requires understanding as well the limits of property claims. After all, claims regarding justice in health care or about fights to health care limit the property fights of those whose resources will be used to provide care.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 32
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585288482
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 184 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Clinical Medical Ethics 3
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Medicine ; Economics ; Ethics. ; Medical sciences. ; Economics.
    Abstract: Overview -- A Bit of History -- Economic Forces, Clinical Constraints -- Fiscal Scarcity: Challenging Fidelity -- The Limits and Obligations of Fidelity: Resource Use -- The Obligations and Limits of Fidelity: Physicians’ Professional Services -- The New Medical Ethics of Medicine’s New Economics.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 33
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585271811
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 153 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Clinical Medical Ethics 3
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Medicine ; Economics ; Ethics. ; Medical sciences. ; Economics.
    Abstract: Arguments in Favor of Coercing a Pregnant Woman to Act in the Interests of her Future Child -- Arguments against Legally Requiring a Pregnant Woman to Act in the Interests of her Future Child -- Practical Applications.
    Abstract: The issues explored in this book have unfortunately come to be known as 'maternal-fetal conflicts'. The phrase is unsatisfactory because it is misleading: It places the emphasis on the well-being of the fetus instead of on the born child (who will bear the burden of any harm done prenatally); it assumes a conflict between a pregnant women and her offspring (while the issue is usually more complex and more broadly based); and it incorrectly implies that all pregnant women are appropriately regarded as mothers. For these reasons, I have chosen to avoid the phrase 'matern- fetal conflict' altogether, and will instead speak in terms of 'preventable prenatal harm'. I mention this at the outset, for those of you familiar with 'maternal-fetal conflicts' who might be wondering if I am addressing the same issues. Yes. But I am trying to look at them in a new - and I hope more fruitful - way. I would like to thank the other participants in the Hastings Center's maternal-fetal project - especially those who disageed with me - for being so thought-provoking. And I owe a lasting debt of gratitude to Henry Ruth and Allen Buchanan for their invaluable counsel.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 34
    ISBN: 9789401133944
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 454 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 37
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Phenomenology . ; Science—Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; History.
    Abstract: One time, Historicity, Culture -- Husserl and Historicism: Fifty Years Later -- The Teleology of the Historical Being in Hartmann and Husserl -- Historical Time, Mind, and Critical Philosophy of History -- Does Man Co-Create Time? -- The Reactivation of the Past as an Ethical Demand on the Phenomenologist -- Hartmann: The Historicity of Cultural Data -- Hombre y Civilizatión: 1492, La Educatión Imposible -- Phenomenology as a Theory of Culture -- Two Husserlian and Posthusserlian Approaches to Aesthetics -- The Methodological Foundations of Phe-nomenological Aesthetics -- Bild und Kunst im Husserls Nachlass -- Aesthetic Concepts of a Phenomeno-logical Origin -- A Poet’s Life and Work in the Perspective of Phenomenology -- On the Quasi-Intentional Nature of Represented Objects in a Film Work of Art -- Three The Life-Significance of Literature and its Interpretation -- Tymieniecka’s Vindication of the Life Significance of Literature. Homo Ludens and Homo Creator: Scapino -- The Enigma of Avant-Gardes -- Phenomenology and the Pragmatics of Literary Realism -- The Reader and the Reality of the Literary Text: Towards the Construction of Aesthetic Meaning -- Art as Communication -- Phenomenology and the Reception of Literary Texts: The Implied Reader as an Element of a Genre -- L’Oeuvre Litteraire, La Construction Interieure et la Reconstruction -- The Hundredlettered Name: Thunder in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake -- Refiguring Nature: Tropes of Estrangement in Contemporary American Poetry -- Four Metaphysical Issues in Aesthetics -- Anti-Metaphysical Thinking on Art (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) -- The Sense of Possibility: On the Ontologico-Eidetic Relevance of the Character (The Experimental Ego) in Literary Experience -- Truth and Untruth in the Museum Exhibition -- Nihilism and Noesis: The Contribution of Phenomenology to the Sartrean Analysis of Flaubert -- Goethe and Schopenhauer: A Phenomenology of the Final Vision in Faust II -- The Tagorean Interpretation of “Ami”: Man’s Self-Esteem -- The Magic of Art in the Magic-Less World -- El Problema Einailogico -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality, eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns of this collection devoted to studies in aesthetics, metaphysics and literary interpretation, written by such authors as, among others, R. Cobb-Stevens, C. Moreno Marquez, J. Swiecimski, Sitansu Ray and M. Kronegger. These original studies of phenomenological aesthetics and literary theory by scholars from all parts of the world were gathered by the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learn­ ing during the year 1988/89 during its assessment of the phenomeno­ logical movement, fifty years after Husserl's death. IX A -T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXXVII, ix.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 35
    ISBN: 9789401134927
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 214 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Episteme, A Series in the Foundational, Methodological, Philosophical, Psychological, Sociological, and Political Aspects of the Sciences, Pure and Applied 18
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Philosophy of nature. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Reductionism as Negation of the Scientific Spirit -- The Power and Limits of Reduction -- Theory of Antireductionist Arguments:The Bohr Case Study -- A Short History of Emergence and Reductionism -- The Technical Problem of “Full Abstractness” as a Model for an Issue in Reductionism -- A Neutral Reduction: Analytical Method and Positivism -- Reductionism and Reduction in Logic and in Mathematics -- Reductionism in Biology -- Reductionism: Palaver without Precedent -- Must a Science of Artificial Intelligence be Necessarily Reductionist? -- Can Psychological Software be Reduced to Physiological Hardware? -- On the Problem of Reducing Value-Components in Epistemology -- Index Of Names.
    Abstract: The topic to which this book is devoted is reductionism, and not reduction. The difference in the adoption of these two denominations is not, contrary to what might appear at first sight, just a matter of preference between a more abstract (reductionism) or a more concrete (reduction) terminology for indicating the same sUbject matter. In fact, the difference is that between a philosophical doctrine (or, perhaps, simply a philosophical tenet or claim) and a scientific procedure. Of course, this does not mean that these two fields are separated; they are only distinct, and this already means that they are also likely to be interrelated. However it is useful to consider them separately, if at least to better understand how and why they are interconnected. Just to give a first example of difference, we can remark that a philosophical doctrine is something which makes a claim and, as such, invites controversy and should, in a way, be challenged. A scientific procedure, on the other hand, is something which concretely exists, and as such must be first of all described, interpreted, understood, defined precisely and analyzed critically; this work may well lead to uncovering limitations of this procedure, or of certain ways of conceiving or defining it, but it does not lead to really challenging it.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 36
    ISBN: 9789401134507
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xx, 503 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 35
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Humanities ; Phenomenology . ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: One The Foundation of Intersubjectivity -- Inter subjectivity As the Starting Point -- Les Sources de la Vie morale -- The Logical Space of Morality: A Possible Theory for the Foundation of Moral Values -- Phenomenology and the Beginnings of the Moral Problem (Dilthey — Brentano — Husserl) -- Phenomenology As the Reawakening of the Platonic Philosophical Ethos -- La Nocion de Valor en la Escuela fenomenológica -- Phänomene einer Ethik -- Responsibility As the Principle of Individuality: An Alternative to Husserl’s Theory of Intuition -- The Topicality of Husserl’s Ethical Anti-relativism -- Two Foundations of Morality and the Societal World -- Vom Sozialen Verantwortungsapriori im Sozialphänomenologischen Denken Edmund Husserls -- Le Phénoménal et le Politique -- Phenomenology, the Moral Sense, and the Meaning of Life: Some Comments of the Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and A-T. Tymieniecka -- La Actitud Natural y las Realidades Alternas -- Husserl’s Influence on Sociology: A Study of Schütz’s Phenomenology -- La Chair de la Communauté -- The Historic Horizons of Meaning in the Japanese Social World -- Three The Human Encounter, the Sphere of One’s Own, Empathy -- Analysis of the Nature of Human Encounter in a Healthy and in a Psychotic State -- A Variation on “Reduction Within Reduction”: “Interior Extraneity” -- The Empathy Problem in Edith Stein -- The Influence of Husserl in the Pedagogical Debate -- Four Beyond Dichotomies in Phenomenological Anthropology: Body, Life-World, New Approaches -- The Human Condition Within the Unity-of-Everything-There-is-Alive — A Challenge to Philosophical Anthropologies -- Toward an Open Anthropology: Developing Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology -- The Philosophy of the Body -- Corporalidad -- The “Lebenswelt” and the Meaning of Philosophy -- Science and Dialectics in a Phenomenological Anthropology -- Towards a Phenomenological Methodology for Anthropology -- Strict Science and Lebenswelt in Husserl’s Phenomenology -- A Problem in the Phenomenology of Action: Are There Unintentional Actions -- Five The Human Being: The Psychological, Psychiatric, Analytic, and Therapeutic Breakthroughs of Phenomenology -- Phenomenological Perspectives in Developmental Psychiatry -- Phenomenology in General Psychopathology and Psychiatry -- On the Possible Relationship Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis -- A Ballad on Laughter -- Phenomenological Hermeneutics of the Therapeutic Discourse -- A Phenomenological Approach to the Unconscious -- La Responsabilidad del Orientador en el Desarrolo de la Autoestima -- Existence and Guilt: A Discourse on Origins in Phenomenology -- Index of Names.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 37
    ISBN: 9789401133685
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxii, 413 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 36
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Pragmatism ; Phenomenology . ; Pragmatism. ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: One Language, Hermeneutics -- Phenomenology as Archeology vs. Contemporary Hermeneutics -- Phenomenology and Hermeneutics -- Ricoeur and Husserl: Towards a Hermeneutic Phenomenology -- Phenomenology and the Deconstruction of Sense -- Can Hermeneutics Respond to the Predicament of Reason? From Husserl to Ricoeur -- On a Linguistic Phenomenology of “Intention” -- The Hermeneutical Derivation of Phenomenology -- Fenomenología, hermenéutica y lenguaje -- Husserl’s Legacy in Derrida’s Grammatological Opening -- La metáfora en el discurso filosófico: A su imagen y semejanza -- Two Husserl’s Legacy in the Postmodern World: Retrieving the Sense of Life -- Husserl’s Legacy in the Postmodern World -- Beyond Husserl: Bracketing “All Possible Worlds” -- Contemporary Irrationalism and the Betrayal of Husserl’s Legacy -- The Constructive Critique of Reason -- Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Philosophical Attitude towards Contemporary Problems of the Relation Between Human Beings and the World -- Creativity and the Critique of Reason -- The Human Condition and the Specifically Human Significance of Life in the Philosophy of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka -- The Unity of Being and Individualization: A Metaphysical Odyssey -- World, Praxis, and Reason -- The African and the Task of Becoming a Phenomenologist -- Three Husserl and other Philosophers -- Landgrebe’s School of Phenomenology -- Phenomenological Paths to Metaphysics -- Phenomenological Convergences between Fichte and Husserl -- Husserl and Levinas: Transformations of the Epoche -- The Body as the Union of the Psychic and the Physical in Bergson and Merleau-Ponty -- Das Problem der transzendentalen Reduktion in der phänomenologischen Ontologie von Sartre -- Husserl’s Concept of “Intentionally” as the Starting Point for Sartre’s Thinking -- The Husserlian Legacy in the Philosophy of Existence: Comments on Methodology -- The Character and Limits of Sartre’s Reading of Husserl -- The Philosophy of Zubiri as a Phenomenological Philosophy -- Husserlian “Reduction” Seen from the Perspective of Phenomenological “Life” in the Ortegan School -- Ortega’s Approach to Husserlian Phenomenology -- Subjectivity between Logic and Life-World -- Index of Names.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...