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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789401796736
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 502 p. 30 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 36
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Unifying the Philosophy of Truth
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy
    Abstract: This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the nature of truth, with papers selected from key conferences in 2011 such as Truth Be Told (Amsterdam), Truth at Work (Paris), Paradoxes of Truth and Denotation (Barcelona) and Axiomatic Theories of Truth (Oxford). Studying the nature of the concept of ‘truth’ has always been a core role of philosophy, but recent years have been a boom time in the topic. With a wealth of recent conferences examining the subject from various angles, this collection of essays recognizes the pressing need for a volume that brings scholars up to date on the arguments. Offering academics and graduate students alike a much-needed repository of today’s cutting-edge work in this vital topic of philosophy, the volume is required reading for anyone needing to keep abreast of developments, and is certain to act as a catalyst for further innovation and research
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionPart 1. Truth and Natural Language -- ‘Truth Predicates’ in Natural Language; Friederike Moltmann,- Truth and Language, Natural and Formal; John Collins -- Truth and Trustworthiness ; Michael Sheard -- Part 2. Uses of Truth -- Putting Davidson’s Semantics to Work to Solve Frege’s Paradox on Concept and Object; Philippe de Rouilhan -- Sets, truth, and recursion; Reinhard Kahle -- Unfolding feasible arithmetic and weak truth; Sebastian Eberhard and Thomas Strahm -- Some remarks on the finite theory of revision; Ricardo Bruni -- Part 3. Truth as a Substantial Notion -- Truth as a Composite Correspondence; Gila Sher -- Complexity and Hierarchy in Truth Predicates; Michael Glanzberg -- Can Deflationism Account for the Norm of Truth?; Pascal Engel -- Part 4. Deflationism and Conservativity -- Norms For Theories Of Reflexive Truth; Volker Halbach and Leon Horsten -- Some weak theories of truth; Graham E. Leigh -- Deflationism and Instrumentalism; Martin Fischer -- Typed and Untyped Disquotational Truth; Cezary Cieśliński -- New Constructions Of Satisfaction Classes; Ali Enayat and Albert Visser -- Part 5. Truth Without Paradox -- Truth, Pretense and the Liar Paradox; Bradley Armour-Garb and James A. Woodbridge -- Groundedness, Truth and Dependence; Denis Bonnay and Floris Tijmen van Vugt -- On Stratified Truth; A. Cantini -- Part 6. Inferentialism and Revisionary Approach -- Truth, Signi_cation and Paradox; Stephen Read -- Vagueness, truth and permissive consequence; Pablo Cobreros, Paul Egré, David Ripley, Robert van Rooij.-  Validity and Truth-Preservation; Julien Murzi and Lionel Shapiro -- Getting One for Two, or the Contractors' Bad Deal. Towards a Uni_ed Solution to the Semantic Paradoxes; Zardini -- Kripke’s Thought-Paradox and the 5th Antinomy; Graham Priest.
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  • 2
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    ISBN: 9789401772648
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 311 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 62
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Cooley, Dennis R. Death's Values and Obligations
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Neurosciences ; Ethics ; Psychology, clinical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Neurosciences ; Ethics ; Psychology, clinical ; Death ; Medizinische Ethik ; Tod ; Wertphilosophie
    Abstract: This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous. By using the best, and often the latest, work in thanatology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, physics, philosophy and ethics, it develops a framework for understanding both what death is - which requires a great deal of time spent developing definitions of the various types of identity-in-the-moment and identity-over-time - and the values involved in death. This pragmatic framework answers questions about why death is a form of loss; why we experience the emotional reactions, feelings and desires that we do; which of these reactions, feelings and desires are justified and which are not; if we can survive death and how; whether our deaths can harm us; and why and how we should prepare for death. Thanks to the pragmatic framework employed, the answers to the various questions are more likely to be accurate and acceptable than those with less rigorous scholarly underpinnings or which deal with utopian worlds.
    Description / Table of Contents: A Pragmatic MethodA Pragmatic Framework of Values and Principles: The Beginning -- Defining and Valuing Properties and Individuals -- What harm does death do to the decedent? -- How should we feel about our own death? -- How should we feel about another’s death? -- Is there a duty to die? -- A duty to suicide.
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  • 3
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    ISBN: 9789401795821
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 349 p. 62 illus., 6 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 8
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Biology Philosophy ; Biochemistry ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Biology Philosophy ; Biochemistry
    Abstract: Recounting the compelling story of a scientific discovery that took more than a century to complete, this trail-blazing monograph focuses on methodological issues and is the first to delve into this subject. This book charts how the biochemical and biophysical mechanisms of photosynthesis were teased out by succeeding generations of scientists, and the author highlights the reconstruction of the heuristics of modelling the mechanism-analyzed at both individual and collective levels. Photosynthesis makes for an instructive example. The first tentative ideas were developed by organic chemists around 1840, while by 1960 an elaborate proposal at a molecular level, for both light and dark reactions, was established. The latter is still assumed to be basically correct today. The author makes a persuasive case for a historically informed philosophy of science, especially regarding methodology, and advocates a history of science whose narrative deploys philosophical approaches and categories. She shows how scientists’ attempts to formulate, justify, modify, confirm or criticize their models are best interpreted as series of coordinated research actions, dependent on a network of super- and subordinated epistemic goals, and guided by recurrent heuristic strategies. With dedicated chapters on key figures such as Otto Warburg, who borrowed epistemic fundamentals from other disciplines to facilitate his own work on photosynthesis, and on more general topics relating to the development of the field after Warburg, this new work is both a philosophical reflection on the nature of scientific enquiry and a detailed history of the processes behind one of science’s most important discoveries.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction1. In Pursuit of a Pathway (1843-1918) -- 2. Otto Warburg and the Turn to Manometry (1912-25) -- 3. Struggling with the Standard Model (1930-41) -- 4. The Maximum Quantum Yield Controversy (1937-55) -- 5. The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis (1937-1954) -- 6. Elucidating the Light Reactions (1950-1961) -- Epilogue.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789401799669
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXII, 1000 p. 5 illus, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 216
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Models of the history of philosophy ; vol. 3: The second enlightenment and the Kantian age
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History
    Abstract: This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and D'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit humain animated by the idea of progress to the a priori history of human thought. The interest of the philosophes and the Kantians (Buhle and Tennemann) in the study and the reconstruction of the philosophies of the past was characterized by a spirit that was highly critical, but at the same time systematic. The material is divided into four large linguistic and cultural areas: the French, Italian, British and German. The detailed analysis of the 35 works which can be considered to be “general” histories of philosophy is preceded and accompanied by lengthy introductions on the historical background and references to numerous other works bordering on philosophical historiography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I The History of Philosophy and the histoire de l’esprit humain in France Between the Encyclopaedia and the Revolution1. The History of Philosophy in the Encyclopédie -- 2. The Impact of the esprit des lumières on the History of Philosophy -- 3. Religious Apologetics and Historiographical Practice -- Part II. The Historiography of Philosophy in Italy in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century -- 4. The Enlightenment, Erudition and Religious Apologetics -- 5. The Historiography of Philosophy: from School Textbooks to Works for a Wider Readership -- 6. Theism and the History of Philosophy -- Part III The Historiography of Philosophy in Great Britain -- 7. The Scottish Enlightenment and “Philosophical History”. Part IV The Historiography of Philosophy in Germany in the Late Enlightenment -- 8. Textbooks after Brucker -- 9. The Göttingen School and Popular philosophie -- Part V The Historiography of Philosophy in Germany in the Age of Kant -- 10. Philosophy and Historiography: The Kantian Turning-Point -- 11. The Historiographical Developments of Kantianism -- Index of Names -- Index of “Nations”, Philosophical Schools and “Sects”.
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9789401791755
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 394 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey 12
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Philosophy of justice
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Philosophy
    Abstract: This book presents surveys of significant trends in contemporary philosophy. Contributing authors explore themes relating to justice including natural rights, equality, freedom, democracy, morality and cultural traditions. Key movements and thinkers are considered, ranging from ancient Greek philosophy, Roman and Christian traditions to the development of Muslim law, Enlightenment perspectives and beyond. Authors discuss important works, including those of Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, John Locke, Immanuel Kant and Mary Wollstonecraft. Readers are also invited to examine Hegel and the foundation of right, Karl Marx as a utopian socialist and the works of Paul Ricœur, amongst the wealth of perspectives presented in this book. Through these chapters, readers are able to explore the relationship of the state to justice and consider the rights of the individual and the role of law. Contributions presented here discuss concepts including Sharia law, freedom in the community and Libertarian Anarchism. Readers may follow accounts of justice in the Scottish Enlightenment and consider fairness, social justice and the concept of injustice. The surveys presented here show different approaches and a variety of interpretations. Each contribution has its own bibliography
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface ; Guttorm FløistadIntroduction; Guttorm Fløistad -- La justice à la lumière des Lois ; Bertrand Saint-Sernin -- Justice and Moderation in the State: Aristotle and Beyond; Eleni Leontsini -- Jean Bodin - The Modern State Comes into Being; Thomas Krogh -- Samuel Pufendorf - Natural Law, Moral Entities and the Civil Foundation of Morality; Thor Inge Rørvik -- Hugo Grotius - Individual Rights as the Core of Natural Law; Andreas Harald Aure -- Baruch Spinoza: Democracy and Freedom of Speech; Paola De Cuzzani -- Ibn Khaldun: Law and Justice in the Science of Civilisation; Lars Gule -- Inscrutable Divinity or Social Welfare? The Basis of Islamic Law; Knut S. Vikør -- John Locke - Libertarian Anarchism; Helga Varden -- Accounts of Justice in the Scottish Enlightenment; Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsini -- Rousseau - Equality and Freedom in the Community; Ellen Krefting -- Immanuel Kant - Justice as Freedom; Helga Varden -- Hegel and the Foundation of Right; Terje Stefan Sparby -- Mary Wollstonecraft - The Call for a Revolution of Female Manners; Kjersti Fjørtoft -- Karl Marx - a Utopian Socialist?; Jørgen Pedersen -- Humanity in Times of Crisis Hannah Arendt’s Political Existentialism; Odin Lysaker -- John Rawls’ Theory of Justice as Fairness; Andreas Follesdal -- Love and Justice in Ricœur; Peter Kemp -- Justice sociale, justice globale; Dominique Terré -- Seeing Injustice; Gülriz Uygur -- Justices : entre les impossibilités et la sagesse tragique; Jean-Godefroy Bidima.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9789401797658
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 238 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 10
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; medicine Philosophy ; Psychiatry ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; medicine Philosophy ; Psychiatry
    Abstract: Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psychiatry. In The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel, experts in the philosophy of psychiatry propose original essays that explore the main issues related to the DSM-5, such as the still weak validity and reliability of the classification, the scientific status of its revision process, the several cultural, gender, and sexist biases that are apparent in the criteria, the comorbidity issue, and the categorical vs. dimensional debate. For several decades the DSM has been nicknamed “The Psychiatric Bible.” This volume would like to suggest another biblical metaphor: the Tower of Babel. Altogether, the essays in this volume describe the DSM as an imperfect and unachievable monument - a monument that was originally built to celebrate the new unity of clinical psychiatric discourse, but that ended up creating, as a result of its hubris, ever more profound practical divisions and theoretical difficulties
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Steeves Demazeux and Patrick SingyPart I. General issues -- Chapter 1. The Ideal of Scientific Progress and the DSM; Steeves Demazeux --  Chapter 2. DSM-5 and Research Concerning Mental Illness; Jeffrey Poland -- Chapter 3. DSM-5 and Psychiatry’s Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Approaches to Psychiatric Classification; Jonathan Tsou -- Chapter 4. DSM-5: The Delayed Demise of Descriptive Diagnosis; Stuart A. Kirk, David Cohen, Tomi Gomory -- Chapter 5. Must Disorders Cause Harm? The Changing Stance of the DSM; Rachel Cooper -- Chapter 6.‘Deviant Deviance’: Cultural Diversity in DSM-5; Dominic Murphy -- Part II. Specific issues -- Chapter 7. Danger and Difference: The Stakes of Hebephilia; Patrick Singy -- Chapter 8. Sexual Dysfunctions and Asexuality in DSM-5; Andrew Hinderliter -- Chapter 9. The Crippling Legacy of Monomanias in DSM-5; John Z. Sadler -- Chapter 10. The Loss of Grief: Science and Pseudoscience in the Debate Over DSM-5’s Elimination of the Bereavement Exclusion; Jerome Wakefield -- Chapter 11. Against Hyponarrating Grief: Incompatible Research and Treatment Interests in the DSM-5; Şerife Tekin -- Chapter 12. RDoC: Thinking Outside the DSM Box without Falling into a Reductionist Trap; Luc Faucher and Simon Goyer -- Chapter 13. DSM-5 and the Reconceptualization of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Anthropological Perspective from the Neuroscience Laboratory; Baptiste Moutaud.
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9789401794756
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 98 p) , online resource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Behavioral Science
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology
    Abstract: This book critically examines current workplace diversity management practices and explores a nuanced framework for undertaking, supporting, and implementing policies that equally favor all people. It presents critical perspectives that not only elevate respect for differences but also provide insights into the nature and dynamics of differences in view of an inclusive and truly participative organizational environment. The book first presents a brief overview of the connotations associated with workplace diversity and its effective management. Next, it focuses on the organizational appropriation of differences through the formation and mediation of various diversity discourses. It demonstrates the particular articulations of these discourses with inequality and oppressive structures that perpetuate structural disadvantage due to existing power disparity between dominant and unprivileged group members. The book then goes on to underscore the need of constructing relational and context-sensitive diversity management frameworks. Overall, the book outlines that current business cases for diversity focus solely on instrumental goals and tangible outcomes and, as a result, fail to fully capture the complexity as well as the particularity of the diversity phenomenon. The book underlines the necessity for a more inclusive paradigm, implying a progressive problem-shift in the dominant diversity research agenda from a market-driven business-oriented diversity management to one highly valuing, affirming, and respecting otherness
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Workplace Diversity: A Resource or a Source of Conflict?Chapter 2: Different Approaches to Managing a Diverse Workforce -- Chapter 3: The Rhetoric of Diversity Management: How Critical Diversity Studies Explicate Organizational Appropriation of Differences -- Chapter 4: The Social Construction of Diversity Discourses: Critical Perspectives on Diversity Management, Power and Inequality -- Chapter 5: Operationalizing Critical Diversity Theories: A Contextual Framework of Implementing New Diversity Practices.
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  • 8
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    ISBN: 9789401792325
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 221 p. 1 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Advancing Global Bioethics 4
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Bioethik ; Ethikunterricht ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This book critically analyses experiences with bioethics education in various countries across the world and identifies common challenges and interests. It presents ethics teaching experiences in nine different countries and the basic question of the goals of bioethics education. It addresses bioethics education in resource-poor countries, as the conditions and facilities are widely different, and set limits and provide challenges to bioethics educators. Further, the question of how bioethics education can be improved is explored by the contributors. Despite the volume of journal publications agreement on bioethics education is rather limited. There are only few examples of core curricula, demonstrating consensus on the contents, goals, methods and assessment of teaching programs. We need ask: How can agreement on the best modalities of bioethics education be promoted?
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Henk ten Have; Introduction. Globalization of bioethics educationPart I: Ethics teaching experiences around the globe -- Chapter 2: William Saad Hossne and Leo Pessini; Bioethics education in Brazil -- Chapter 3: Vina Vaswani and Ravi Vaswani: Bioethics education in India -- Chapter 4: Toshitaka Adachi; Bioethics education in Japan: Ethics education for medical and nursing students -- Chapter 5: Ademola J. Ajuwon; Access to bioethics education in Nigeria: Past history, current situation, and opportunities for the future -- Chapter 6: Nada Adeeb Omar ElTaiba; Teaching ethics to social work students in Qatar: a vibrant challenge -- Chapter 7: Hongqi Wang and Xin Wang; Medical ethics education in China -- Part II: Ethics education for professionals -- Chapter 8: Paul Ndebele; The goal of ethics education in institutions of higher learner. The case of the University of Botswana -- Chapter 9: Bahaa Darwish; How effective can ethics education be? -- Chapter 10: Rosemary Donley: Teaching ethics to nurses -- Part III: Educating bioethics in resource-poor countries -- Chapter 11: Claude Vergès; Teaching bioethics in the socio-ecological context of resource-poor countries -- Chapter 12: Leonardo de Castro and Sarah Jane Toledano; Bioethics education in resource-challenged countries in resource-challenged countries -- Part IV: Can bioethics education be improved? -- Chapter 13: Berna Arda; Ways to improve bioethics education -- Chapter 14: Bert Gordijn; Moral improvement through ethics education -- Chapter 15: Volnei Garrafa, Natan Monsores and Claudio Lorenzo; Challenges for bioethics education in Brazil - adapting the core curriculum of UNESCO for critical practice -- Chapter 16: Jan Helge Solbakk; Movements and movies in bioethics: The use of theatre and cinema in teaching bioethics.
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9789401795852
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 307 p. 22 illus., 5 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 9
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; Sexual behavior ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; Sexual behavior
    Abstract: This root-and-branch reevaluation of Darwin’s concept of sexual selection tackles the subject from historical, epistemological and theoretical perspectives. Contributions from a wealth of disciplines have been marshaled for this volume, with key figures in behavioural ecology, philosophy, and the history of science adding to its wide-ranging relevance. Updating the reader on the debate currently live in behavioural ecology itself on the centrality of sexual selection, and with coverage of developments in the field of animal aesthetics, the book details the current state of play, while other chapters trace the history of sexual selection from Darwin to today and inquire into the neurobiological bases for partner choices and the comparisons between the hedonic brain in human and non-human animals. Welcome space is given to the social aspects of sexual selection, particularly where Darwin drew distinctions between eager males and coy females and rationalized this as evolutionary strategy. Also explored are the current definition of sexual selection (as opposed to natural selection) and its importance in today’s biological research, and the impending critique of the theory from the nascent field of animal aesthetics. As a comprehensive assessment of the current health, or otherwise, of Darwin’s theory, 140 years after the publication of his Descent of Man, the book offers a uniquely rounded view that asks whether ‘sexual selection’ is in itself a progressive or reactionary notion, even as it explores its theoretical relevance in the technical biological study of the twenty-first century
    Description / Table of Contents: Opening Pandora’s Boxes in Sexual Selection Research; Thierry HoquetSection 1. In Darwin’s footsteps: historical issues -- Chapter 1. Sexual Selection: Why does it Play such a Large Role in the Descent of Man?; Michael Ruse -- Chapter 2. Utility vs Beauty: The Darwin/Wallace Debate as a Structuring Pattern in the History of Sexual Selection?; Thierry Hoquet and Michael Levandowsky -- Chapter 3. Darwin on the proportion of the sexes and general fertility: discovery and rejection of sex-ratio evolution and density-dependent selection; Michel Veuille -- Chapter 4. Sexual selection in the French school of population genetics: Claudine Petit (1920-2007); Jean Gayon -- Section 2. Current challenges --  Chapter 5. Sexual selection: is anything left?; Joan Roughgarden -- Chapter 6. Standing on Darwin’s shoulders: the nature of selection hypotheses; Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Chapter 7. Sexual selection: the logical imperative; Tommaso Pizzari and Geoff. Parker -- Chapter 8. Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection; Nina Wedell and Tom A.R. Price -- Chapter 9. Preference, rationality and interindividual variation: the persisting debate about female choice; Frank Cézilly -- Chapter 10. Reaction norms of sex and adaptive individual flexibility in reproductive decisions; Malin Ah-King and Patricia Adair Gowaty -- Section 3. Prospects: Animal aesthetics? -- Chapter 11. The role of sexual autonomy in evolution by mate choice; Richard O. Prum -- Chapter 12. The riddle of attractiveness: looking for an ‘Aesthetic sense’ within the hedonic mind of the beholders; Michel Kreutzer and Verena Aebischer -- Chapter 13. Aesthetics and reinforcement: A behavioural approach to aesthetics; Shigeru Watanabe.
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    ISBN: 9789401799997
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 173 p. 21 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 13
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy
    Abstract: Biogeography is a multidisciplinary field with multiple origins in 19th century taxonomic practice. The Origins of Biogeography presents a revised history of early biogeography and investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. This book moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses on the important pioneering work of earlier practitioners such as Zimmermann, Stromeyer, de Candolle and Humboldt. Tracing the academic history of biogeography over the decades and centuries, this book recounts the early schisms in phyto and zoogeography, the shedding of its bonds to taxonomy, its adoption of an ecological framework, and its beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century. This book assesses the contributions of key figures such as Zimmermann, Humboldt and Wallace, and reminds us of the forgotten influence of plant and animal geographers including Stromeyer, Prichard and de Candolle, whose early attempts at classifying animal and plant geography would inform later progress. The Origins of Biogeography is a science historiography aimed at biogeographers, who have little access to a detailed history of the practices of early plant and animal geographers. This book will also reveal how biological classification has shaped 18th and 19th century plant and animal geography and why it is relevant to the 21st biogeographer
    Description / Table of Contents: PrologueChapter 1. A History of Biogeography for the 21st century Biogeographer -- Chapter 2 Origins, Race & Distribution -- Chapter 3. Humboldt, Stromeyer and Candolle -- Chapter 4. Classification Divided -- Chapter 5. Plant and Animal Geography in Practise: Maps, Regions and Regionalisation -- Chapter 6. The Legacy of 19th Century Plant and Animal Geography -- Epilogue -- Biosketches -- Appendix. Translation of the Introduction to “Commentatio Inauguralis Sistens Historiae Vegetablium Geographiae Specimen” by Friedrich Stromeyer (1800)(Translation by Mark Garland).  .
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    ISBN: 9789401799638
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 218 p. 20 illus, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
    Series Statement: Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation 7
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    Keywords: Behavioral economics ; Social sciences ; Neuropsychology ; Psychology ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences ; Psychology, clinical
    Abstract: The volume offers an exploration of methods for analysis of emotion in negotiation, such as cognitive modeling, discourse analysis, all testing, subsequent multidimensional scaling, impression rating, and graph modeling for conflict resolution, reasonable and unreasonable disagreement. It covers activities, such as business negotiation, conflict solving, bargaining, task management meetings, discussions, and elaborates on different kinds of emotions. Some emotions stimulate negotiation (e.g. empathy), others -hinder it (e.g. disgust). However, all emotions open a door to uncertainty in relations and negotiation, which in turn provides an opportunity. The volume views language in negotiation not only as a vehicle for transmission of thought but also as a manifestation of emotion and the ethical
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionChapter 1: Emotions in Interaction: Towards a Supraindividual Study of Empathy -- Chapter 2: With Feeling: How Emotions Shape Negotiation -- Chapter 3: The Cognitive-Affective Structure Of Political Ideologies -- Chapter 4: Reputation and Egotiation: The Impact of Self-Image on the Negotiator -- Chapters 5: Emotions in E-negotiations -- Chapter 6: Interaction Analysis of Emotion in Face-to-Face Group Decision and Negotiation -- Chapter 7: Emotion in Game Theory.
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    ISBN: 9789401797627
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 258 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 18
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Economics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Economics
    Abstract: This edited volume explores the interplay between philosophies in a wide-ranging analysis of how technological applications in science inform our systems of thought. Beginning with a historical background, the volume moves on to explore a host of topics, such as the uses of technology in scientific observations and experiments, the salient relationship between technology and mechanistic notions in science, and the ways in which today’s vast and increasing computing power helps scientists achieve results that were previously unattainable. Technology allows today’s researchers to gather, in a matter of hours, data that would previously have taken weeks or months to assemble. It also acts as a kind of metaphor bank, providing biologists in particular with analogies (the heart as a ‘pump’, the nervous system as a ‘computer network’) that have become common linguistic currency. This book also examines the fundamental epistemological distinctions between technology and science and assesses their continued relevance. Given the increasing amalgamation of the philosophies of science and technology, this fresh addition to the literature features pioneering work in a promising new field that will appeal both to philosophers and scientific historiographers
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceContributors -- Part I. Introductory -- Preview; Sven Ove Hansson -- Chapter 1. Science and technology. What they are and why their relation matters; Sven Ove Hansson.-Part II. The technological origins of science -- Chapter 2. Technological thinking in science; David F. Channell -- Chapter 3. The scientific use of technological instruments; Mieke Boon -- Chapter 4. Experiments before science. What science learned from technological experiments Sven Ove Hansson -- Part III. Modern technology shapes modern science -- Chapter 5. Iteration unleashed. Computer technology in science; Johannes Lenhard -- Chapter 6. Computer simulations: a new mode of scientific inquiry?; Stéphanie Ruphy -- Chapter 7. Adopting a technological stance toward the living world. Promises, pitfalls and perils; Russell Powell -- Part IV. Reflections on a complex relationship -- Chapter 8. Goal rationality in science and technology. An epistemological perspective; Erik J. Olsson -- Chapter 9. Reflections on rational goals in science and technology. A comment on Olsson; Peter Kroes -- Chapter 10. The naturalness of the naturalistic fallacy and the ethics of nanotechnology; Maoro Dorato -- Chapter 11. Human well-being, nature and technology; Ibo van de Poel -- Chapter 12. Philosophy of science and philosophy of technology: one or two philosophies of one or two objects?; Maarten Franssen.
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    ISBN: 9789401794121
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 490 p. 54 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 307
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Embryology ; Evolution (Biology) ; History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Embryology ; Evolution (Biology) ; History
    Abstract: This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features revised papers that originated from the workshop "Conceptual Change in Biological Science: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, 1981-2011" held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in July 2010. In these papers, philosophers and biologists compare and contrast key concepts in evolutionary developmental biology and their development since the original, seminal Dahlem conference on evolution and development held in Berlin in 1981. Many of the original scientific participants from the 1981 conference are also contributors to this new volume and, in conjunction with other expert biologists and philosophers specializing on these topics, provide an authoritative, comprehensive view on the subject. Taken together, the papers supply novel perspectives on how and why the conceptual landscape has shifted and stabilized in particular ways, yielding insights into the dynamic epistemic changes that have occurred over the past three decades. This volume will appeal to philosophers of biology studying conceptual change, evolutionary developmental biologists focused on comprehending the genesis of their field and evaluating its future directions, and historians of biology examining this period when the intersection of evolution and development rose again to prominence in biological science
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Conceptual Change and Evolutionary Developmental Biology; Alan C. LovePART I: ADAPTATION, ALLOMETRY, HETEROCHRONY AND HOMOPLASY -- Chapter 2: Adaptive Aspects of Development: A Thirty-year Perspective on the Relevance of Biomechanical and Allometric Analyses; Karl Niklas -- Chapter 3: Do Functional Requirements for Embryos and Larvae Have a Place in Evo-devo? Richard Strathmann -- Chapter 4: Is Heterochrony Still an Effective Paradigm for Contemporary Studies of Evo-devo? James Hanken -- Chapter 5: Homoplasy, a Moving Target; David Wake -- PART II: PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY, DEVELOPMENTAL VARIATION AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY -- Chapter 6: The Concept of Phenotypic Plasticity and the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Life History Traits; Stephen Stearns -- Chapter 7: A Developmental-physiological Perspective on the Development and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity; H. Fred Nijhout -- Chapter 8: Cellular Basis of Morphogenetic Change: A Retrospective from the Vantage Point of Developmental Signaling Pathways; John Gerhart -- Chapter 9: The Road to Facilitated Variation; Marc Kirschner -- PART III: MODELS, LARVAE, PHYLA AND PALEONTOLOGY -- Chapter 10: Phyla, Phylogeny, and Embryonic Body Plans; Gary Freeman -- Chapter 11: Evo-devo and the Evolution of Marine Larvae: From the Modern World to the Dawn of the Metazoa; Rudolf Raff -- Chapter 12: Dahlem 1981: Before and Beyond; Armand de Ricqlès -- Chapter 13: What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us about Evo-devo; James Griesemer -- PART IV: CONSTRAINT AND EVOLVABILITY -- Chapter 14: From Developmental Constraint to Evolvability: How Concepts Figure in Explanation and Disciplinary Identity; Ingo Brigandt -- Chapter 15: Reinventing the Organism: Evolvability and Homology in Post-Dahlem Evolutionary Biology; Günter Wagner -- Chapter 16: Internal Factors in Evolution: The Morphogenetic Tree, Developmental Bias, and Some Thoughts on the Conceptual Structure of Evo-devo; Wallace Arthur -- Chapter 17: Entrenchment as a Theoretical Tool in Evolutionary Developmental Biology; William Wimsatt -- PART V: HIERARCHIES AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY -- Chapter 18: Hierarchies and Integration in Evolution and Development; Marvalee Wake -- Chapter 19: Development and Evolution: The Physics Connection; Stuart Newman -- Chapter 20: The Interaction of Research Systems in the Evo-devo Juncture; Elihu Gerson -- Chapter 21: Evo-devo as a Trading Zone; Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789401796361
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 393 p. 18 illus., 10 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 309
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Sciences in the universities of Europe, nineteenth and twentieth centuries
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Education, Higher ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Hochschule ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1800-2000
    Abstract: This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the institutionalization of science teaching and research. A useful book for understanding the deep changes that universities were undergoing in the last years of the 20th century. The book is organized around four central themes: 1) Universities in the longue durée; 2) Universities in diverse political contexts; 3) Universities and academic research; 4) Universities and discipline formation. The book is addressed at a broad readership which includes scholars and researchers in the field of General History, Cultural History, History of Universities, History of Education, History of Science and Technology, Science Policy, high school teachers, undergraduate and graduate students of sciences and humanities, and the general interested public
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Contributors; Chapter-1 ; Introduction ; 1.1 European Universities in the Marketplace ; 1.1.1 Bibliocentrism ; 1.1.2 Funding ; 1.1.3 Teaching ; 1.1.4 Assessment ; 1.2 The Painful Transition of European Universities ; 1.3 Academic Landscapes. Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centu; Part I; Universities in the longue durée; Chapter-2; "Those that Have Most Money Must Have Least Learning": Undergraduate Education at the University of Oxford in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 Oxford in the Eighteenth Century: The University in Decline?2.2 The Oxford Student Ranks; 2.3 The Oxford Gentleman and a Different Education; 2.4 Limited Opportunities for Poor Students; 2.5 Jeremy Bentham and Vicesimus Knox; References; Chapter-3; From Ørsted to Bohr:The Sciences and the Danish University System, 1800-1920; 3.1 University and Natural Philosophy until 1800; 3.2 Troubles and Progress in the Romantic Era; 3.3 Universities and Wars; 3.4 A Network of Science Institutions; 3.5 The Copenhagen Science Faculty; 3.6 Some Highlights; 3.7 Between Internationalism and Provincialism
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter-4; Changing Concepts of 'The University' and Oxford's Governance Debates, 1850s-2000s; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Victorian Reform: 1850s to 1870s; 4.3 New Role for the State: 1920s; 4.4 Increasing Access and University Expansion: 1960s; 4.5 Accountability and Efficiency: 1990s-2000s; Conclusion; References; Chapter-5; Challenging the Backlash: Women Science Students in Italian Universities (1870s-2000s); 5.1 In the Long Term; 5.2 'Women in a World Without Women':The International Context in the 'Age of Science'; 5.3 In Italy: The Big Sleep; 5.4 From 1900 to the Second World War
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5 From the Cold War to the PresentConclusions; References; Chapter-6; The University of Strasbourg and World Wars; 6.1 A Regained Prestigious Institution; 6.2 Anchoring of the University in the Alsace and the Attendant Tensions; 6.3 Restaffing the Chemistry Institute and Moving into New Areas; 6.4 Strasbourg and Paris; 6.5 A Difficult Coexistence in Clermont-Ferrand; 6.6 Attack of the Nazis on the University of Strasbourg in Clermont-Ferrand; 6.7 Survival of New Subdisciplines Started in Strasbourg; 6.8 Overview and Conclusions; References; Chapter-7
    Description / Table of Contents: Universities in Central Europe: Changing Perspectives in the Troubled Twentieth Century7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Provincial Universities in the Multinational Habsburg Empire before 1918; 7.3 Completion, Restructuring, and Modernisation of the Higher-Education Network in Interwar Czechoslovakia (1918-1938); 7.4 Disintegration and Devolution of Original Czechoslovak System (1939-1945); 7.5 Reconstruction, Regionalization, and Sovietization (1945-1989); 7.6 Transformations and Reforms (1990-); Conclusions; References; Part II; Universities in diverse political contexts; Chapter-8
    Description / Table of Contents: University Models in Changing Political Contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: PART I: UNIVERSITIES IN THE LONGUE DURÉEChapter 1: “Those That Have Most Money Must Have Least Learning”: Undergraduate Education at the University of Oxford in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; Robert Wells -- Chapter 2: From Ørsted to Bohr: The Sciences and the Danish University System, 1800-1920; Helge Kragh -- Chapter 3: Changing Concepts of “the University” and Oxford’s Governance Debates, 1850s-2000s; Andrew M. Boggs -- Chapter 4: Challenging the Backlash: Women Science Students in Italian Universities, 1870s-2000s; Paola Govoni -- Chapter 5: The University of Strasbourg and World Wars; Pierre Laszlo -- Chapter 6: Universities in Central Europe: Changing Perspectives in the Troubled Twentieth Century; Petr Svobodny -- PART II: UNIVERSITIES IN DIVERSE POLITICAL CONTEXTS -- Chapter 7: University Models in Changing Political Contexts; Gabor Pallo -- Chapter 8: The Autonomous Industrial University of Barcelona and the Frustrated Expectations of Democracy in Pre-war Spain, 1933-34? Antoni Roca-Rosell -- Chapter 9: Reform and Repression: Manuel Lora Tamayo and the Spanish University in the 1960s; Agustí Nieto-Galan -- Chapter 10: Universities in Russia: Current Reforms through the Prism of Soviet Heritage and International Practice; Evgeny Vodichev -- PART III: UNIVERSITIES AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH -- Chapter 11: University Societies and Clubs in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Britain and their Role in the Promotion of Research; William Lubenow -- Chapter 12: The German Model of Laboratory Science and the European Periphery, 1860-1914; Geert Vanpaemel -- Chapter 13: Foundation of the Lisbon Polytechnic School Astronomical Observatory in Late Nineteenth Century: A Step Towards Establishing a University in Lisbon; Luís Miguel Carolino -- Chapter 14: The Political and Cultural Revolution of the CNRS: An Attempt at the Systematic Organization of Research in Opposition to “the Academic Spirit”; Robert Belot -- Chapter 15: Visions of Science: Research at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon seen through its Journal; Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro and Ana Simões -- PART IV: UNIVERSITIES AND DISCIPLINE FORMATION -- Chapter 16: The Reforms of the Austrian University System and their Influence on the Process of Discipline Formation, 1848-1860; Christof Aichner -- Chapter 17: The Physics Laboratory of Leiden University; Dirk von Delft -- Chapter 18: A Peripheral Center: Early Quantum Physics at Cambridge; Jaume Navarro -- Chapter 19: From the Museum to the Field: Geology Teaching in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon; Teresa Salomé Mota -- Chapter 20: The Emergence of Biotypology in Brazilian Medicine: The Italian Model, Textbooks, and Discipline Building, 1930-1940; Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes -- Epilogue.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence
    Abstract: Philosophical Logic and Artificial Intelligence -- I’m OK if You’re OK: On the Notion of Trusting Communication -- Concepts of Information: Comparative Axiomatics -- Logic and the Complexity of Reasoning -- Circumscriptive Theories: A Logic-Based Framework for Knowledge Representation -- Artificial Intelligence, Logic and Formalizing Common Sense -- Efficient Reasoning about Rich Temporal Domains.
    Abstract: cians concerned with using logical tools in philosophy have been keenly aware of the limitations that arise from the original con­ centration of symbolic logic on the idiom of mathematics, and many of them have worked to create extensions of the received logical theories that would make them more generally applicable in philosophy. Carnap's Testability and Meaning, published in 1936 and 1937, was a good early example of this sort of research, motivated by the inadequacy of first-order formalizations of dis­ 'This sugar cube is soluble in water'. positional sentences like And in fact there is a continuous history of work on this topic, extending from Carnap's paper to Shoham's contribution to the present volume . . Much of the work in philosophical logic, and much of what has appeared in The Journal of Philosophical Logic, was mo­ tivated by similar considerations: work in modal logic (includ­ ing tense, deontic, and epistemic logic), intensional logics, non­ declaratives, presuppositions, and many other topics. In this sort of research, sin.ce the main point is to devise new formalisms, the technical development tends to be rather shallow in comparison with mathematical logic, though it is sel­ dom absent: theorems need to be proved in order to justify the formalisms, and sometimes these are nontrivial. On the other hand, much effort has to go into motivating a logical innovation.
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    ISBN: 9789400910515
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 137 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Psychology. ; Ethics.
    Abstract: Foreword -- II. The Essence of Acts of Empathy -- 1. The Method of the Investigation -- 2. Description of Empathy in Comparison with Other Acts -- 3. Discussion in Terms of Other Descriptions of Empathy—Especially That of Lipps—and Continuation of the Analysis -- 4. The Controversy Between the View of Idea and That of Actuality -- 5. Discussion in Terms of Genetic Theories of the Comprehension of Foreign Consciousness -- 6. Discussion in Terms of Scheler’s Theory of the Comprehension of Foreign Consciousness -- 7. Münsterberg’s Theory of the Experience of Foreign Consciousness -- III. The Constitution of the Psycho-Physical Individual -- 1. The Pure “I” -- 2. The Stream of Consciousness -- 3. The Soul -- 4. “I” and Living Body -- 5. Transition to the Foreign Individual -- IV. Empathy as the Understanding of Spiritual Persons -- 1. The Concept of the Spirit and of the Cultural Sciences [Geisteswissenschaften] -- 2. The Spiritual Subject -- 3. The Constitution of the Person in Emotional Experiences -- 4. The Givenness of the Foreign Person -- 5. Soul and Person -- 6. The Existence of the Spirit -- 7. Discussion in Terms of Dilthey -- 8. The Significance of Empathy for the Constitution of Our Own Person -- 9. The Question of the Spirit Being Based on the Physical Body -- Personal Biography -- Notes.
    Abstract: he radical viewpoint of phenomenology is presented by T 3 Edmund Husser! in his Ideas. This viewpoint seems quite simple at first, but becomes exceedingly complex and involves intricate distinctions when attempts are made to apply it to actual problems. Therefore, it may be well to attempt a short statement of this position in order to note the general problems with which it is dealing as well as the method of solution which it proposes. I shall emphasize the elements of phenomenology which seem most relevant to E. Stein's work. Husser! deals with two traditional philosophical questions, and in answering them, develops the method of phenomenological reduction which he maintains is the basis of all science. These questions are, "What is it that can be known without doubt?" and "How is this knowledge possible in the most general sense?" In the tradition of idealism he takes consciousness as the area to be investigated. He posits nothing about the natural world. He puts it in "brackets," as a portion of an algebraic formula is put in brackets, and makes no use of the material within these brackets. This does not mean that the "real" wor!d does not exist, he says emphatically; it only means that this existence is a presupposition must be suspended to achieve pure description.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 47
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: C. B. Martin, A Biographical Sketch -- Cause -- C. B. Martin, Counterfactuals, Causality, and Conditionals -- Freedom and Indeterminism -- Mind -- Intention -- Remenibering ‘Remembering’ -- The Revival of ‘Fido’-Fido -- Locke’s Ideas, Abstraction, and Substance -- Why Perception is not Singular Reference -- Low Claim Assertions -- On Formulating Materialism and Dualism -- Reality -- Tense and Existence -- Propositions and Philosophical Ideas -- A Puzzle About Ontological Commitment -- Objectivity and Ideology in the Physical and Social Sciences -- Motion and Change of Distance -- On Being Ontologically Unserious -- Verificationism -- C. B. Martin, Publications 1952-1987.
    Abstract: T is said that there is no progress in philosophy. The illusion of standing I still, however, arises only when we lose sight of our history and so fail to notice the distance we have travelled. Philosophers nowadays find obvious ideas and themes that, as it happens, emerged slowly and painfully and largely in reaction to prevailing sensibilities. The essays here honour a man to whom present-day philosophy owes much: Charles Burton Martin. In reflecting on my own on-going and somewhat chaotic philosophical education, I find considerable evidence of Charlie Martin's influence. After departing graduate school, one of the first papers I succeeded in publishing consisted of an attack on Martin and Deutscher's 'Remembering'. ' After that, Charlie more or less vanished from my conscious awareness until the winter of 1985, when we appeared together in a colloquium at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association. Although Charlie was nominally a commentator on a paper I was delivering, his 'comments' contained more philosophy and went considerably beyond the tentative and highly circumscribed thesis I had elected to defend. Whereas my focus had been on a tiny feature of Hilary Putnam's argument against realism, Charlie went straight for the jugular, addressing matters that immediately took us into deep water.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Social sciences Methodology ; Economics ; Science—Philosophy. ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: Philosophy of Economics -- Arbitrage Arguments -- Average Explanations -- Are Generic Predictions Enough? -- Self-Refuting Theories of Strategic Interaction: A Paradox of Common Knowledge -- Open Problems in the Foundations of Price Formation Dynamics -- Economics and Technological Change: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- Ordinary Least Squares as a Method of Measurement -- The Development of Marx’s Economic Theory -- Structuralist Reconstructions of Classical and Keynesian Macroeconomics -- Stratification of General Equilibrium Theory: A Synthesis of Reconstructions -- Micro-Economic Models of Problem Choice in Basic Science -- On the (Idealizational) Structure of Economic Theories -- Sneed Versus Nowak: An Illustration in Economics -- Further Publications of the Authors.
    Abstract: The last decade witnessed an unprecedented annual growth of the literature dealing with the philosophy of economics,as well as the first signs of an institutionalization (conferences, an international journal) of the philosophy of economics as a scientific subject in itself - in particular in the U.S. In 1981 a meeting took place with participants mainly of European "continental" origin. In July 1987, we organized a second conference "Philosophy of Economics II" at Tilburg Uni­ versity, The Netherlands, mainly aiming at the establishment of first contacts between the middle-European group and researchers from the U.S. The present volume contains the papers presented at this conference. Philosophical thought on economics in recent years split up in many different streams, two of which are represented in the larger part of this volume. The first of these streams was formed by a group of researchers mainly from middle-Europe, who make empirical studies of the logical structures of the different theories as they find them presented in economic literature. Two methods prevail here. First, the structuralist method, as exemplified in the writings of Sneed, Stegmiiller and others, of describing the object of a theory as a set of ("partial potential") models. Such models consist of sets and relationships between these sets, which represent the concepts used in the theory.
    Description / Table of Contents: Philosophy of EconomicsArbitrage Arguments -- Average Explanations -- Are Generic Predictions Enough? -- Self-Refuting Theories of Strategic Interaction: A Paradox of Common Knowledge -- Open Problems in the Foundations of Price Formation Dynamics -- Economics and Technological Change: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- Ordinary Least Squares as a Method of Measurement -- The Development of Marx’s Economic Theory -- Structuralist Reconstructions of Classical and Keynesian Macroeconomics -- Stratification of General Equilibrium Theory: A Synthesis of Reconstructions -- Micro-Economic Models of Problem Choice in Basic Science -- On the (Idealizational) Structure of Economic Theories -- Sneed Versus Nowak: An Illustration in Economics -- Further Publications of the Authors.
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    ISBN: 9789401734448
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 112
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 112
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Science—Philosophy. ; Sociology—Methodology. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of the modem world, but usually the ideas were taken separately and as divided from their systematic context. The power of number was an idea the En­ lightenment thinkers deployed with their legendary passion and vigor, particularly as an instrument for social reconstruction. It is no exaggemtion to say that the role of quantities in contemporary social scientific theorizing cannot be understood with any depth absent a recollection of the philosophes' axial development of the notion of quantification. It is a commonplace that for the philosophes progress required releasing human abilities to have power over nature. Aprerequisite for this power was knowledge of the underlying causes of natural events, knowledge that required quantitative precision. Enlightenment thinkers were sufficiently aware of themselves as products of their time to appreciate the importance of a liberal social environment to the knowledge enterprise; the supposition that the reverse is also the case, that enhanced knowledge could advance social conditions, came easily.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: The Context -- The Contemporary View -- Problems with the Contemporary View -- I Originality -- Originality, Novelty, and Continuity -- Art -- Science and Technology -- Mathematics -- Problem-Solving and Originality in Everyday Life -- Summary -- II Value -- Value in Art -- Value in Science -- Art and Science -- Summary -- III Product, Process, Person -- Product -- Process -- Persons -- Summary -- IV Rules, Skills, and Knowledge -- Rules and Art -- Rules and Science -- Knowledge and Problem-Solving -- Summary -- V The Something More -- Art and the Something More -- Science and the Something More -- Generation and Criticism -- Emotion and Attitude -- Fostering Creativity.
    Abstract: CREATIVITY HAS become a popular slogan in contemporary education and society. We are urged continually to be creative with respect to all our endeavours - to be creative writers, creative cooks, creative teachers, creative thinkers, creative lovers. Ascribing creativity has become one of the principal means of praising, approving, and commending. Yet in the process of becoming a universal term of positive evaluation, the concept of creativity has tended to lose its connection with its origins. We have forgotten that creativity has to do with creating, that it is connected with great achievements and quality productions. And as a consequence of this lapse of memory, most attempts to foster creativity in educational practice have been misleading at best and dangerous at worst. We have come to settle for the encouragement of certain personality traits at the expense of the encouragement of significant achievement - and this in the name of creativity. If we are not clear about what is meant by creativity, we may end up sacrificing creativity precisely in the process of trying to foster it. This book is an attempt to be clear about creativity. The Context For the poet is an airy thing, a winged and a holy thing; and he cannot make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his senses and no mind is left in him. l Plato If creativity and its growth are to be viewed scientifically, creativity must be defined in a way that permits objective observation and measurement . . .
    Description / Table of Contents: The ContextThe Contemporary View -- Problems with the Contemporary View -- I Originality -- Originality, Novelty, and Continuity -- Art -- Science and Technology -- Mathematics -- Problem-Solving and Originality in Everyday Life -- Summary -- II Value -- Value in Art -- Value in Science -- Art and Science -- Summary -- III Product, Process, Person -- Product -- Process -- Persons -- Summary -- IV Rules, Skills, and Knowledge -- Rules and Art -- Rules and Science -- Knowledge and Problem-Solving -- Summary -- V The Something More -- Art and the Something More -- Science and the Something More -- Generation and Criticism -- Emotion and Attitude -- Fostering Creativity.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: One — The Convergence of Interests -- I The Nature of the Social Bond -- II The General Will Leitmotiff -- Two — Public Good and Public Demand -- III Bias, Descriptive and Other -- IV The Opacity of Results -- V The Opacity of Satisfaction Prognosis — Needs -- VI The Opacity of Satisfaction Prognosis — Perspectives -- VII the opacity of satisfaction prognosis — Demands -- Three — Procedural Proposals -- VIII Constitutionalism -- IX Sequentialism -- X Pluralism.
    Abstract: Section 1 One of the big problems facing us is the need to plan for the betterment and improvement of society. In any status quo there are many unsatisfactory moments and experience shows that with changing conditions, even those elements of our communal structure that work well will often get out of step and become a problem. We need then to introduce devices both to alleviate present troubles and, if possible, to anticipate future ones. On the whole, it might appear to the untutored eye that the matter is relatively simple. For instance, if we keep increasing prices of commodities without increasing incomes, and especially if we allow inflation to proceed unfettered as well, the situation will certainly deteriorate. What we need to.
    Description / Table of Contents: One - The Convergence of InterestsI The Nature of the Social Bond -- II The General Will Leitmotiff -- Two - Public Good and Public Demand -- III Bias, Descriptive and Other -- IV The Opacity of Results -- V The Opacity of Satisfaction Prognosis - Needs -- VI The Opacity of Satisfaction Prognosis - Perspectives -- VII the opacity of satisfaction prognosis - Demands -- Three - Procedural Proposals -- VIII Constitutionalism -- IX Sequentialism -- X Pluralism.
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 10
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Religion—Philosophy.
    Abstract: One: Death -- 1: Death -- 2: “My Death” -- 3 : The Fear of Death -- 4: Death and the Meaning of Life -- Two: Immortality -- 5: Immortality -- 6: Disembodied Existence -- 7: Resurrection -- 8: Rebirth -- Postscript -- Appendix: Karma and the Problem of Suffering -- Selected Bibliography.
    Abstract: The research for this work was undertaken during my tenure of a Senior Tutor­ ship in the Faculty of Arts and Music at the University of Otago (1983-85). Versions of some of the chapters herein have already been accepted for publication in the form of journal articles in Philosophy, Philosophy East and West, Sophia, and Religious Studies. My thanks to the editors and publishers concerned for permission to reuse this material. A number of people have assisted me in various ways. My greatest debt is to Graham Oddie, who supervised my doctoral research in this area and with whom I have had the benefit of innumerable discussions on these and other philosophical matters. I am very grateful for all I have learned from him. I would also like to thank: Bob Durrant for commenting helpfully on Chapter 2; the late Jim Harvie, both for his valuable suggestions (particularly regarding the material of Chapter 4) and for his encouraging enthusiasm for the whole project; George Hughes for his extensive comments on the whole work; and (for various points of detail) Alan Musgrave, Charles Pigden and Bryan Wilson. Despite much good advice, however, I have some­ times preferred to go my own way, recalling Blake's proverb: "If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. " With regard to the typing of the manuscript I am indebted to the word-processor wizardry of Jane Tannahill and Christine Colbert.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Ethics ; Biology—Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Moral levels -- 2. The Alpha-moral level. In the beginning was Darwin -- 3. The Beta-moral level: to feel or to reason. The Kantian obstacle -- 4. The Beta-moral level. The good and the yellow -- 5. The Beta-moral level: rational preference from Smith to Rawls -- 6. The Gamma-moral level: genes and tyrants -- 7. The Delta-moral level: gods and genes -- 8. Moral progress -- 9. Adversus liberales: the right to excellence and distributive justice -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Our future was with the collective, but our survival was with the individual, and the paradox was killing us everyday. John Le Carre Smiley's People (1979) Since the time of Ancient Greek lyrical poetry, it has been one of man's dreams to explain his own conduct. This is the background to all his activities, from literature to speculative philosophy, including those odds and ends which, for want of a better name and more precise boundaries are called "human science". Over the past nine or ten years a new member has been added to this inquisitive family, one which, moreover, claims to be scientific to an extremely high degree: biology. This is in fact a recurrent event, since theses designed to introduce causal biological expla­ nations into the general field of human action had already been formulated on at least two occasions (in original Darwinism and the Neo-Darwinist synthesis). Ethologists and sociobiologists are today taking over and as­ suring us that they have the necessary tools to provide an answer to what perhaps seemed the most slippery subject in the hands of science: the social being. As might be expected, philosophers have reacted with some scepticism. Though human conduct is undoubtedly subject to determinants, the lion's share of responsi­ bility lies with society itself. At the time when biology was beginning to develop the theories necessary to overcome cre­ ationism, Karl Marx had already managed to construct highly sophisticated interpretive models of human social behaviour.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Moral levels2. The Alpha-moral level. In the beginning was Darwin -- 3. The Beta-moral level: to feel or to reason. The Kantian obstacle -- 4. The Beta-moral level. The good and the yellow -- 5. The Beta-moral level: rational preference from Smith to Rawls -- 6. The Gamma-moral level: genes and tyrants -- 7. The Delta-moral level: gods and genes -- 8. Moral progress -- 9. Adversus liberales: the right to excellence and distributive justice -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    Series Statement: Primary Sources in Phenomenology 1
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy of law ; Metaphysics ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Law—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Adolf Reinach: An Intellectual Biography -- Promisings and other Social Acts: Their Constituents and Structure -- Reinach and Searle on Promising — a Comparison -- Adolf Reinach and the Analytic Foundations of Social Acts -- Reinach on Representative Acts -- Demystifying Reinach’s Legal Theory -- Verpflichtung und Verbindlichkeit. Ethische Aspekte in der Rechtsphilosophie Adolf Reinachs -- The Intentionality of Thinking: The Difference Between State of Affairs and Propositional Matter -- On the Cognition of States of Affairs -- Johannes Dauberts Kritik der ”Theorie des negativen Urteils“ von Adolf Reinach -- Husserl und Reinach -- Husserl and Reinach on Hume’s “Treatise” -- Adolf Reinachs Vortrag über die Grundbegriffe der Ethik -- William James and Pragmatism -- Adolf Reinach: An Annotated Bibliography.
    Abstract: Phenomenology as practised by Adolf Reinach ( 1883-191 7) in his all too brief philosophical career exemplifies all the virtues of Husserl's Logical Investigations. It is sober, concerned to be clear and deals with specific problems. It is therefore understandable that, in a philosophical climate in which Husserl's masterpiece has come to be regarded as a mere stepping stone on the way to his later Phenomeno­ logy, or even to the writings of a Heidegger, Reinach's contributions to exact philo­ sophy have been all but totally forgotten. The topics on which Reinach wrote most illuminatingly, speech acts (which he called 'social acts') and states of affairs (Sachverhalte ), as well as his realism about the external world, have come to be regarded as the preserve of other traditions of exact philosophy. Like my fellow­ contributors, I hope that the present volume will go some way towards correcting this unfortunate historical accident. Reinach's account of judgements and states of affairs, an account that precedes those of Russell and Wittgenstein, his 1913 treatment of speech acts, his reinter­ pretation of Hume and aspects of his legal philosophy are the main philosophical topics dealt with in what follows. But his analysis of deliberation as well as his work on movement and Zeno's paradoxes get only a passing mention.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: 1. My Major Concern -- 2. Why I Waited So Long -- 3. New Challenges from Today’s Human Situation -- 4. New Dimensions of Human Existence -- 5. First Responses to the New Challenges -- 6. Minimum and Optimum Meanings for Human Existence -- 7 The Steppingstones: A Preview -- I New Ontic Dimensions of the Self -- 1. On the I-Am-Me Experience in Childhood and Adolescence -- 2. A Phenomenological Approach to the Ego -- 3. On the Motility of the Ego -- 4. Initiating: A Phenomenological Analysis -- 5. Putting Ourselves into the Place of Others: Toward a Phenomenology of Imaginary Self-Transposal -- II New Ethical Dimensions -- 6. ‘Accident of Birth’: A Non-Utilitarian Motif in Mill’s Philosophy -- 7. A Defense of Human Equality -- 8. Equality in Existentialism -- 9. Human Dignity: A Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy -- 10. Ethics for Fellows in the Fate of Existence -- 11. Good Fortune Obligates: Albert Schweitzer’s Second Ethical Principle -- 12. Why Compensate the Naturally Handicapped? -- III Applications Problems of the Nuclear Age -- 13. Is there a Human Right to One’s Native Soil? -- 14. Toward Global Solidarity -- 15. The Nuclear Powers are Forfeiting their Claim to Civil Obedience -- IV Phenomenological Foundations -- 16. Unfairness and Fairness: A Phenomenological Analysis -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: In releasing the text of this volume, originally set aside as a collec­ tion for possible posthumous publication, during my lifetime, I am acting in a sense as my own executor: I want to save my heirs and literary executors the decision whether these pieces should be print­ ed or reprinted in the present context, a decision which I wanted to postpone to the last possible moment. As to the reasons why I changed my mind I can refer to the Introduction. Here I merely want to make some acknowledgments, first to the copyright holders for the reprinted pieces and then to some personal friends who had an important influence on the premature birth of this brainchild. The copyright holders to whom I am indebted for·the permis­ sion to reprint here, in the original or in slightly amended form, the articles listed are, with their names in alphabetical order: Ablex Publishing Company: 'Putting Ourselves into the Place of Others' Atherton Press: 'Equality in Existentialism' and 'Human Dignity: A Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy' Friends Journal: 'Is There a Human Right to One's Native Soil?' Gordon Breach: 'Human Dignity: A Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy?' Humanities Press: 'Ethics for Fellows in the Fate of Existence' Journal of the History of Ideas: 'Accident of Birth: A Non-utili­ tarian Motif in Mill's Philosophy' Philosophical Review: 'A Defense of Human Equality' Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry: 'On the I-am­ me Experience in Childhood and Adolescence' The Monist: 'A Phenomenological Approach to the Ego'.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. My Major Concern2. Why I Waited So Long -- 3. New Challenges from Today’s Human Situation -- 4. New Dimensions of Human Existence -- 5. First Responses to the New Challenges -- 6. Minimum and Optimum Meanings for Human Existence -- 7 The Steppingstones: A Preview -- I New Ontic Dimensions of the Self -- 1. On the I-Am-Me Experience in Childhood and Adolescence -- 2. A Phenomenological Approach to the Ego -- 3. On the Motility of the Ego -- 4. Initiating: A Phenomenological Analysis -- 5. Putting Ourselves into the Place of Others: Toward a Phenomenology of Imaginary Self-Transposal -- II New Ethical Dimensions -- 6. ‘Accident of Birth’: A Non-Utilitarian Motif in Mill’s Philosophy -- 7. A Defense of Human Equality -- 8. Equality in Existentialism -- 9. Human Dignity: A Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy -- 10. Ethics for Fellows in the Fate of Existence -- 11. Good Fortune Obligates: Albert Schweitzer’s Second Ethical Principle -- 12. Why Compensate the Naturally Handicapped? -- III Applications Problems of the Nuclear Age -- 13. Is there a Human Right to One’s Native Soil? -- 14. Toward Global Solidarity -- 15. The Nuclear Powers are Forfeiting their Claim to Civil Obedience -- IV Phenomenological Foundations -- 16. Unfairness and Fairness: A Phenomenological Analysis -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Law—Philosophy. ; Operations research.
    Abstract: Table of Content -- Action Theory as a Resource for Decision Theory -- Voluntary Exertion of the Body: A Volitional Account -- Intrinsic Intentionality -- An Action-Plan Interpretation of Purposive Explanations of Actions -- Formal Logic and Practical Reasoning -- Leading a Rational Life -- Announcements.
    Abstract: Most of the papers in this collection are contributions to action theory intended to be of some relevance to one or another concern of decision theory, particularly to its application to concrete human behavior. Some of the papers touch only indirectly on problems of interest to decision theorists, but taken together they should be of use to both decision theorists and philosophers of action. Robert Audi's paper indicates how a number of questions in action theory might bear on problems in decision theory, and it suggests how some action-theoretic results may help in the construction or interpretation of theories of decision, both normative and empirical. Carl Ginet's essay lays foundations for the conception of action. His volitional framework roots actions internally and conceives them as irreducibly connected with intentionality. Hugh McCann's essay is also foundational, but stresses intention more than volition and lays some of the groundwork for assessing the rationality of intention and intentional action. In William Alston's paper, the notion of a plan as underlying (intentional) action is central, and we are given both a con­ ception of the structure of intentional action and a set of implicit goals and beliefs - those whose content is represented in the plan - which form an indispensable part of the basis on which the rationality of the action is to be judged.
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of ContentAction Theory as a Resource for Decision Theory -- Voluntary Exertion of the Body: A Volitional Account -- Intrinsic Intentionality -- An Action-Plan Interpretation of Purposive Explanations of Actions -- Formal Logic and Practical Reasoning -- Leading a Rational Life -- Announcements.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern
    Abstract: One -- 1/Four Stages of Reflection -- 2/Defending Common Sense -- 3/Descriptive Metaphysics -- 4/Conceptual Reform -- Two -- 5/Metaphysics Out of Logic -- 6/Inside the Revolution -- 7/A Passage to America -- 8/Recent Philosophy of Language -- Three -- 9/Values in General -- 10/Ethical Theory -- 11/Applied Ethics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Name Index.
    Abstract: Over the past several decades serious work in philosophy has become almost wholly inaccessible to people who do not specialize in the subject. To be sure, the writings of Aristotle and Kant were never easy reading, and even relatively untechnical philosophers like Mill or Santayana de­ mand careful study if we are really to understand them. But during the last generation or two the situation has steadily become worse for readers who may want to know what philosophers of their own time are doing. And this is true even though many writers have been learning to avoid the unnecessary jargon that disfigures so much of traditional philosophy. No matter how direct the English style of recent philosophers may be, their methodic purposes and argument style will re­ main obscure to anyone who has not gone to considerable trouble to be introduced to them. Then too, the closeness of their analysis and the con­ sequent narrowness of many of the issues pursued make it hard to catch onto the argument without some familiarity with slightly earlier discus­ sions from which those issues emerged. All of this helps to account for the rather common but false belief that professional philosophy is now only a collection of technical exercises that could hardly be of interest to anyone but the philosophers themselves.
    Description / Table of Contents: One1/Four Stages of Reflection -- 2/Defending Common Sense -- 3/Descriptive Metaphysics -- 4/Conceptual Reform -- Two -- 5/Metaphysics Out of Logic -- 6/Inside the Revolution -- 7/A Passage to America -- 8/Recent Philosophy of Language -- Three -- 9/Values in General -- 10/Ethical Theory -- 11/Applied Ethics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Name Index.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: The Concept of Crisis and the Unity of Husserl’s position -- Towards a Computational Phenomenology (1) -- Habitual Body and Memory in Merleau-Ponty -- Merleau-Ponty: The Triumph of Dialectics over Structuralism -- The Hermeneutics of Suspicion -- Boeckh and Dilthey: The Development of Methodical Hermeneutics -- The Limits of Logocentrism (On the Way to Grammatology) -- Legislation-Transgression: Strategies and Counter-Strategies in the Transcendental Justification of Norms -- Nietzschean Aphorism as Art and Act -- Why Politik? Philosophia? -- Hope and Its Ramifications for Politics.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Concept of Crisis and the Unity of Husserl’s positionTowards a Computational Phenomenology (1) -- Habitual Body and Memory in Merleau-Ponty -- Merleau-Ponty: The Triumph of Dialectics over Structuralism -- The Hermeneutics of Suspicion -- Boeckh and Dilthey: The Development of Methodical Hermeneutics -- The Limits of Logocentrism (On the Way to Grammatology) -- Legislation-Transgression: Strategies and Counter-Strategies in the Transcendental Justification of Norms -- Nietzschean Aphorism as Art and Act -- Why Politik? Philosophia? -- Hope and Its Ramifications for Politics.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Law—Philosophy.
    Abstract: One. The Theory of Justice -- I The Problem of Justice -- II Justice and Legal Theory -- III Empirical Evidence from the Administration of Justice -- IV Empirical Evidence from Injustice -- V A Definition of Justice Explained and Defended -- VI Theoretical Evidence from Ethics and Morality -- Two. The Theory of Law -- VII The Law: Origins and Development -- VIII The Legal System -- IX Morality -- X Human Needs, Morality and the Law -- XI Institutions, Law and Morals -- XII The State as Legal Custodian -- XIII The Operation of Law -- XIV How the Law is Corrupted -- XV The Specific Laws -- XVI The Metaphysics of Law -- Appendix Rival Theories of Justice -- XVII Some Ancient Theories of Justice -- XVIII Some Traditional Theories of Justice -- XIX Some Recent Theories of Justice -- XX Some Contemporary Theories of Justice.
    Abstract: The following pages contain a theory of justice and a theory of law. Justice will be defined as the demand for a system of laws, and law as an established regulation which applies equally throughout a society and is backed by force. The demand for a system of laws is met by means of a legal system. The theory will have to include what the system and the laws are in­ tended to regulate. The reference is to all men and their possessions in a going concern. In the past all such theories have been discussed only in terms of society, justice as applicable to society and the laws promul­ gated within it. However, men and their societies are not the whole story: in recent centuries artifacts have played an increasingly important role. To leave them out of all consideration in the theory would be to leave the theory itself incomplete and even distorted. For the key conception ought to be one not of society but of culture. Society is an organization of men but culture is something more. I define culture (civilization has often been employed as a synonym) as an organization of men together with their material possessions. Such possessions consist in artifacts: material objects which have been altered through human agency in order to reduce human needs. The makers of the artifacts are altered by them. Men have their possessions together, and this objectifies and consolidates the culture.
    Description / Table of Contents: One. The Theory of JusticeI The Problem of Justice -- II Justice and Legal Theory -- III Empirical Evidence from the Administration of Justice -- IV Empirical Evidence from Injustice -- V A Definition of Justice Explained and Defended -- VI Theoretical Evidence from Ethics and Morality -- Two. The Theory of Law -- VII The Law: Origins and Development -- VIII The Legal System -- IX Morality -- X Human Needs, Morality and the Law -- XI Institutions, Law and Morals -- XII The State as Legal Custodian -- XIII The Operation of Law -- XIV How the Law is Corrupted -- XV The Specific Laws -- XVI The Metaphysics of Law -- Appendix Rival Theories of Justice -- XVII Some Ancient Theories of Justice -- XVIII Some Traditional Theories of Justice -- XIX Some Recent Theories of Justice -- XX Some Contemporary Theories of Justice.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Development and Continuity in Schlick’s Thought -- Problems of Knowledge in Moritz Schlick -- Remarks on Affirmations (Konstatierungen) -- Moritz Schlick on Self-Evidence -- Reconstruction of Schlick’s Psycho-Sociological Ethics -- Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle -- On Physicalism -- The Vienna Circle Archive and the Literary Remains of Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath -- Schlick before Wittgenstein -- On the Concept of Unity of Consciousness.
    Abstract: The idea for this issue arose during a gathering of scholars to com­ memorate the hundredth anniversary of Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), the philosopher from Germany whose influence gave Austria its most characteristic philosophical voice between the two world wars. He was cut off, tragically, in his prime and while he escaped the exile that awaited most of those who thought like him, he was unable (sadly for philosophy) to continue to steer their thoughts in his own direction and he even lost some of the credit for work already done. Thus it seemed to some of his former pupils and to others more remote from him in the tra­ dition that a small collection of papers throwing light on his especial con­ tribution and on the extent to which it is still active or still needed today was a requirement of justice no less than of piety. Tscha Hung, a mem­ ber of the Vienna Circle and since director of the Institute for Western Philosophy at Peking University, was the chief mover here. Also among the contributors, Ludovico Geymonat (Professor at Milan) was a visitor to the Circle and a friend of Schlick. Henrich Melzer and Joseph Schlichter were Viennese pupils of Schlick's. The former died in the war of 1939-45, the latter is still prominent in the cultural and educational life of Israel.
    Description / Table of Contents: Development and Continuity in Schlick’s ThoughtProblems of Knowledge in Moritz Schlick -- Remarks on Affirmations (Konstatierungen) -- Moritz Schlick on Self-Evidence -- Reconstruction of Schlick’s Psycho-Sociological Ethics -- Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle -- On Physicalism -- The Vienna Circle Archive and the Literary Remains of Moritz Schlick and Otto Neurath -- Schlick before Wittgenstein -- On the Concept of Unity of Consciousness.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Environmental management ; Economic policy ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Introduction -- One: An Overview of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis -- Two: Assessing Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis, the Preeminent Method of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis -- II. General Methodological Problems -- Three: The Retreat from Ethical Analysis -- Four: The Fallacy of Unfinished Business -- III. Particular Methodological Problems -- Five: RCBA and the Aggregation Assumption -- Six: RCBA and the Assumption of Partial Quantification -- Seven: The Problem of Regional Equity -- IV. Steps towards Solutions -- Eight: Ethically Weighted Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Nine: Assessment Through Adversary Proceedings -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold for social decisionmaking, much as Milton Friedman has accepted neoclassical econom­ ics. Or, he can condemn them, regardless of their value, much as Stuart Hampshire has rejected risk-cost-benefit analysis (RCBA). Finally, he can critically assess these scientific methods and attempt to provide solutions to the problems he has uncovered. As a philosopher of science seeking the middle path between uncritical acceptance and extremist rejection of the economic methods used in policy analysis, I have tried to avoid the charge of being "anti science". Fred Hapgood, in response to my presentation at a recent Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, said that my arguments "felt like" a call for rejection of the methods of risk-cost-benefit analysis. Not so, as Chapter Two of this volume should make eminently clear. All my criticisms are construc­ tive ones, and the flaws in economic methodology which I address are uncovered for the purpose of suggesting means of making good techniques better. Likewise, although I criticize the economic methodology by which many technology assessments (TA's) and environmental-impact analyses (EIA's) have been used to justify public projects, it is wrong to conclude that I am anti-technology.
    Description / Table of Contents: I. IntroductionOne: An Overview of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis -- Two: Assessing Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis, the Preeminent Method of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis -- II. General Methodological Problems -- Three: The Retreat from Ethical Analysis -- Four: The Fallacy of Unfinished Business -- III. Particular Methodological Problems -- Five: RCBA and the Aggregation Assumption -- Six: RCBA and the Assumption of Partial Quantification -- Seven: The Problem of Regional Equity -- IV. Steps towards Solutions -- Eight: Ethically Weighted Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Nine: Assessment Through Adversary Proceedings -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Architecture
    Abstract: 1. Dwelling, place and environment: An introduction -- I. Beginnings and directions -- 2. Geographical experiences and being-in-the-world: The phenomenological origins of geography -- 3. The quest for authenticity and the replication of environmental meaning -- 4. Language and the emergence of the environment -- 5. Place, body and situation -- II. Environment and place -- 6. Acoustic space -- 7. Bound to the environment: Towards a phenomenology of sightlessness -- 8. Towards revealing the sense of place: An intuitive “reading” of four Dalmatian towns -- 9. The circle and the cross: Loric and sacred space in the holy wells of Ireland -- 10. Many dwellings: Views of a Pueblo world -- 11. A phenomenological approach to architecture and its teaching in the design studio -- III. Place and dwelling -- 12. The dwelling door: Towards a phenomenology of transition -- 13. Body, house and city: The intertwinings of embodiment, inhabitation and civilization -- 14. Reconciling old and new worlds: The dwelling-journey relationship as portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg’s “Emigrant” novels -- 15. The role of spiritual discipline in learning to dwell on earth -- IV. Discovering wholes -- 16. Nature, water symbols and the human quest for wholeness -- 17. Counterfeit and authentic wholes: Finding a means for dwelling in nature -- The contributors.
    Abstract: themes among the essays resurface and resonate. Though our request for essays was broad and open-ended, we found that topics such as seeing, authenticity, interpretation, wholeness, care, and dwelling ran as undercur­ rents throughout. Our major hope is that each essay plays a part in revealing a larger whole of meaning which says much about a more humane relation­ ship with places, environments and the earth as our home. Part I. Beginnings and directions At the start, we recognize the tremendous debt this volume owes to philosopher Martin Heidegger (1890-1976), whose ontological excavations into the nature of human existence and meaning provide the philosophical foundations for many of the essays, particularly those in Part I of the volume. Above all else, Heidegger was regarded by his students and colleagues as a master teacher. He not only thought deeply but was also able to show others how to think and to question. Since he, perhaps more than anyone else in this century, provides the instruction for dOing a phenomenology and hermeneutic of humanity's existential situation, he is seminal for phenomenological and hermeneutical research in the environmental disci­ plines. He presents in his writings what conventional scholarly work, especially the scientific approach, lacks; he helps us to evoke and under­ stand things through a method that allows them to come forth as they are; he provides a new way to speak about and care for our human nature and environment.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Dwelling, place and environment: An introductionI. Beginnings and directions -- 2. Geographical experiences and being-in-the-world: The phenomenological origins of geography -- 3. The quest for authenticity and the replication of environmental meaning -- 4. Language and the emergence of the environment -- 5. Place, body and situation -- II. Environment and place -- 6. Acoustic space -- 7. Bound to the environment: Towards a phenomenology of sightlessness -- 8. Towards revealing the sense of place: An intuitive “reading” of four Dalmatian towns -- 9. The circle and the cross: Loric and sacred space in the holy wells of Ireland -- 10. Many dwellings: Views of a Pueblo world -- 11. A phenomenological approach to architecture and its teaching in the design studio -- III. Place and dwelling -- 12. The dwelling door: Towards a phenomenology of transition -- 13. Body, house and city: The intertwinings of embodiment, inhabitation and civilization -- 14. Reconciling old and new worlds: The dwelling-journey relationship as portrayed in Vilhelm Moberg’s “Emigrant” novels -- 15. The role of spiritual discipline in learning to dwell on earth -- IV. Discovering wholes -- 16. Nature, water symbols and the human quest for wholeness -- 17. Counterfeit and authentic wholes: Finding a means for dwelling in nature -- The contributors.
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