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  • 1
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    Evaluability Assessment : A Practical Approach (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789401578271
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 220 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 26
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Evaluability Assessment: Overview of Process -- 3 Determine Purpose, Secure Commitment, and Identify Work Group Members -- 4 Define Boundaries of Program to be Studied -- 5 Identify and Analyze Program Documents -- 6 Develop/Clarify Program Theory -- 7 Identify and Interview Stakeholders -- 8 Describe Stakeholder Perceptions of Program -- 9 Identify Stakeholder Needs, Concerns, and Differences in Perceptions -- 10 Determine Plausibility of Program Model -- 11 Draw Conclusions and Make Recommendations -- 12 Plan Specific Steps for Utilization of EA Data -- 13 Observations about the Process -- Appendix One The Cooperative Extension System -- Appendix Two Evaluability Assessment of the 4-H Youth Program, Maryland Cooperative Extension Service -- Appendix Three Evaluability Assessment of the Local Government Officials Program, Illinois Cooperative Extension Service -- Appendix Four Evaluability Assessment of the Master Gardener Program, California Cooperative Extension -- References.
    Abstract: My interest in and appreciation for program evaluation began in the early 1970's when conducting a curriculum development research project at the University of Florida's P. K. Y onge Laboratory School. This interest was sparked when it became apparent that testing the success of an education program required more skills than just statistics and research methods. After pursuing additional formal schooling, I embarked on a career featuring educational program evaluation as its central thrust--as a private consultant, later in a university health sciences center involving seven academic colleges, and then in the Cooperative Extension Services of Florida and Maryland. Adding evaluability assessment (EA) to the performance of evaluations, to program development, and to teaching about evaluation has been a significant development for me personally, and I hope to those who have been participants with me in each endeavor. This book grew out of many of these experiences and involved numerous colleagues who made significant contributions. First among these is Dr. George Mayeske, Program Evaluation Specialist, Extension Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. c.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-7827-1
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    Test Policy and Test Performance: Education, Language, and Culture (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789400925007
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (324p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 23
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Economic policy
    Abstract: I Tests as Tools of Educational Policy: Theory, Attribution, and Belief -- Mandated Tests: Educational Reform or Quality Indicator? -- Student Achievement Tests as Tools of Educational Policy: Practices and Consequences -- Making Sense of School Testing -- The Irish Study Revisited -- II Tests in Educational Decision Making: Psychometric and Political Boundary Conditions -- Using Test Scores for Decision Making -- If Not Tests, Then What? Conference Remarks -- Advice to the Commission Conference Remarks -- III Language, Culture, Ethnicity, and Testing -- Aspects of Differential Performance by Minorities on Standardized Tests: Linguistic and Sociocultural Factors -- Ethnic Group Differences in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Performance of American Youth: Implications for Career Prospects -- Testing Bilingual Proficiency for Specialized Occupations: Issues and Implications -- Informal Assessment of Asian Americans: A Cultural and Linguistic Mismatch? -- Black and White Cultural Styles in Pluralistic Perspective.
    Abstract: Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities. Most major institutions of higher education require applicants to supplement their records of academic achievements with scores on standardized tests. Similarly, in the workplace, as a condition of employment or assignment to training programs, more and more employers are requiring prospective employees to sit for standardized tests. In short, with increasing frequency and intensity, individual members of the political economy are required to transmit to the opportunity marketplace scores on standardized examinations that purport to be objective measures of their abilities, talents, and potential. In many instances, these test scores are the only signals about their skills that job applicants are permitted to send to prospective employers. THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TESTING AND PUBLIC POLICY In view of the importance of these issues to our current national agenda, it was proposed that the Human Rights and Governance and the Education and Culture Programs of the Ford Foundation support the establishment of a ''blue ribbon" National Commission on Testing and Public Policy to investigate some of the major problems, as well as the untapped opportunities, created by recent trends in the use of standardized tests, particularly in the workplace and in schools.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2500-7
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    Hume and the Problem of Miracles: A Solution (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789400922457
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (224p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 41
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I Hume’s Analysis of Causation in Relation to His Analysis of Miracles -- 1. Hume’s Account of A Posteriori Reasoning -- 2. Miracles and Reasoning based on Experience -- 3. The Indian and The Ice: Understanding and Rejecting Hume’s Argument -- 4. A Better But Less Interesting Humean Argument -- 5. Miracles and The Logical Entailment Analysis of Causation -- 6. Are Miracles Violations of Laws of Nature? -- Notes to Part I -- II Can Anyone Ever Know That a Miracle Has Occurred? -- 7. What Is Involved In Knowing That a Miracle has Occurred? -- 8. Hume’s Account of Tillotson and the Alleged “Argument of a Like Nature” -- 9. Testimony and Sensory Evidence: Reasons For Belief in Miracles? -- 10. Tillotson’s Argument: Its Application to Justified Belief in Miracles -- 11. Conclusion: Miracles and Contemporary Epistemology -- Notes to Part II -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: This book developed from sections of my doctoral dissertation, "The Possibility of Religious Knowledge: Causation, Coherentism and Foundationalism," Brown University, 1982. However, it actually had its beginnings much earlier when, as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, I first read Hume's "Of Miracles" and became interested in it. (Fascinated would be too strong. ) My teacher put the following marginal comment in a paper I wrote about it: "Suppose someone told you that they had been impregnated by an angel whispering into their ear. Wouldn't you think they had gone dotty?" She had spent time in England. I thought about it. I agreed that I would not have believed such testimony, but did not think this had much to do with Hume's argument against belief in miracles. What surprised me even more was the secondary literature. I became convinced that Hume's argument was misunderstood. My main thesis is established in Part I. This explains Hume's argument against justified belief in miracles and shows how it follows from, and is intrinsically connected with, his more general metaphysics. Part II Part I. It should give the reader a more complete understanding builds on of both the structure of Hume's argument and of his crucial and questionable premises. Chapters 5 and 11 are perhaps the most technical in the book, but they are also the least necessary. They can be skipped by the reader who is only interested in Hume on miracles.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2245-7
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    The Philosophy of Thomas Reid (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789400923386
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (500p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 42
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; History ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Note on references to the works of Thomas Reid -- Section 1 - Perception -- Reids Attack on the Theory of Ideas -- Reid on Perception and Conception -- The Theory of Sensations -- Reids View of Sensations Vindicated -- Sensation, Perception and Reids Realism -- Reids Opposition to the Theory of Ideas -- Thomas Reid on the Five Senses -- Section 2 - Knowledge and Common Sense -- Reid on Evidence and Conception -- The Defence of Common Sense in Reid and Moore -- The Scottish Kant? -- Did Reid Hold Coherentist Views? -- Reid and Peirce on Belief -- Reid on Testimony -- Section 3 - Mind and Action -- Making Out the Signatures: Reids Account of the Knowledge of Other Minds -- Causality and Agency in the Philosophy of Thomas Reid -- Reid, Scholasticism and Current Philosophy of Mind -- Section 4 - Aesthetics, Moral and Political Philosophy -- Seeing (and so forth) is Believing(among other things); on the Significance of Reid in the History of Aesthetics -- Reid versus Hume: a Dilemma in the Theory of Moral Worth -- Reid and Active Virtue -- Thomas Reid on Justice: A Rights-Based Theory -- Taking Upon Oneself a Character: Reid on Political Obligation -- Section 5 - Historical Context and Influences -- Thomas Reid and Pneumatology: the Text of the Old, the Tradition of the New -- Reid in the Philosophical Society -- Common Sense and the Association of Ideas; the Reid-Priestley Controversy -- Reid on Hypotheses and the Ether: a Reassessment -- The Role of Thomas Reids Philosophy in Science and Technology: the Case of W.J.M. Rankine -- George Jardines Course in Logic and Rhetoric: an Application of Thomas Reids Common Sense Philosophy -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: Note on references to the works of Thomas Reid 5 SECTION 1 - Perception Yves Michaud (University of Paris, France) 9 'Reid's Attack on the Theory of Ideas' William P. Alston (Syracuse University, U. S. A. ) 35 'Reid on Perception and Conception' Vere Chappell (University of Massachusetts, U. S. A. ) 49 'The Theory of Sensations' Norton Nelkin (University of New Orleans, U. S. A. ) 65 'Reid's View of Sensations Vindicated' A. E. Pitson (University of Stirling, Scotland) 79 'Sensation, Perception and Reid's Realism' Aaron Ben-Zeev (University of Haifa, Israel) 91 'Reid's Opposition to the Theory of Ideas' Michel Malherbe (University of Nantes, France) 103 'Thomas Reid on the Five Senses' SECTION 2 - Knowledge and COlIIOOn Sense Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona, U. S. A. ) 121 'Reid on Evidence and Conception' Dennis Charles Holt (Southeast Missouri State 145 University, U. S. A. ) 'The Defence of Common Sense in Reid and Moore' T. J. Sutton (University of Oxford, England) 159 'The Scottish Kant?' Daniel Schulthess (university of Berne, Switzerland) 193 'Did Reid Hold Coherentist Views?' VI Claudine Engel-Tiercelin (University of Rouen, France) 205 'Reid and Peirce on Belief' C. A. J. Coady (University of Melbourne, Australia) 225 'Reid on Testimony' SECTION 3 - Mind and Action James Somerville (University of Hull, England) 249 'Making out the Signatures: Reid's Account of the Knowledge of Other Minds' R. F.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2338-6
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    A Practical Guide to Teacher Education Evaluation (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789400925120
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (292p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services Series 27
    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 27
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- 2 Background for Teacher Education Program Evaluation -- 3 The Accreditation Plus Model -- 4 Selection and Evaluation of Knowledge Bases for Teacher Education Programs -- 5 Quality Controls in Teacher Education Programs -- 6 Testing for Admissions -- 7 Evaluating Field-Based Experiences in Teacher Education -- 8 Assessing Student Performance Outcomes in Teacher Education Programs -- 9 Assessment of Faculty in Teacher Education Programs -- 10 Use of Mail Surveys to Collect Information for Program Improvement -- 11 Follow-Up Evaluation of Teacher Education Programs -- 12 Evaluating the Structure of the Education Unit -- 13 Physical Facilities Evaluation in Teacher Education Programs -- 14 Evaluating Financial Resources for Teacher Education Programs -- 15 Evaluation of Library Resources for a Teacher Education Program -- 16 Models and Modeling for Teacher Education Evaluation -- 17 Implementation of Evaluation Results -- 18 Elements of Law as They Relate to Teacher Education Evaluation -- 19 We Can Get There from Here -- Author Index -- NCATE Standards Index.
    Abstract: J. T. Sandefur Western Kentucky University American's ability to compete in world markets is eroding. The productivity growth of our competitors outdistances our own. The capacity of our economy to provide a high standard of living for all our people is increasingly in doubt. As jobs requiring little skill are automated or go offshore and demand increases for the highly skilled, the pool of educated and skilled people grows smaller and the backwater of the unemployable rises. Large numbers of American children are in limbo--ignorant of the past and unprepared for the future. Many are dropping out--notjust out of school--but out of productive society. These are not my words. They are a direct quote from the Executive Summary of the Carnegie Forum Report on Education and the Economy entitled A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century (p. 2, 1986). This report was motivated by four purposes: 1. To remind Americans, yet again, of the economic challenges pressing us on all sides; 2. To assert the primacy of education as the foundation of economic growth, equal opportunity and a shared national vision; 3. To reaffirm that the teaching profession is the best hope for establishing new standards of excellence as the hallmark of American education; and 4. To point out that a remarkable window of opportunity lies before us in the next decade to reform education, an opportunity that may not present itself again until well into the next century.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2512-0
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    Creative Ideas For Teaching Evaluation : Activities, Assignments and Resources (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789401578295
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 312 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 24
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: Introduction: Practical and Theoretical Framework -- I Conceptualizing and Planning an Evaluation -- 1 Constructing an Operational Evaluation Design -- 2 Conceptualizing Evaluation: The Key Evaluation Checklist -- 3 Journal Writing in Evaluation -- 4 Field Experiences in Evaluation Courses -- 5 Identifying the Evaluation and Its Usefulness -- 6 Evaluability Assessment -- 7 Evaluation Questions and Methods -- 8 Alternative Evaluation Data Collection Techniques -- 9 Establishing Evaluation Boundaries -- 10 Alternative Models for Evaluation -- 11 Planning a Discrepancy-Based Evaluation -- II Qualitative Methods in Evaluation -- 12 Naturalistic Interviewing -- 13 Critical Issues in Participant Observation -- 14 Naturalistic Data Collection: Case Study Discussion -- 15 “Trustworthiness” in Naturalistic Inquiry: Audit Trails -- 16 Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation -- 17 Writing and Interpreting Ethnographic Protocols -- 18 The Computer-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Data -- 19 Understanding Content Analysis Through the Sunday Comics -- 20 Using Case Records -- III Needs Assessment -- 21 Collection Techniques for Needs Assessment -- 22 A Quick Look at the Nominal Group Technique -- 23 Developing Focus Group Questions for Needs Assessment -- IV Proposal Writing -- 24 Proposal Writing in Early Childhood Special Education -- 25 Responding to an Informal Request to Evaluate: Writing a Proposal -- V Personnel Evaluation -- 26 A Hands-On Experience in Clinical Supervision -- 27 Tensions and Accommodations Among Administrators and Teachers about Staff Appraisal -- VI Issues in Evaluation: Reporting, Utilization, and Ethics -- 28 Information Portrayal and Use -- 29 Ethics and Evaluation: Problems, Issues and Usefulness -- VII Policy Analysis -- 30 Policy/Goal Percentaging -- VIII The Evaluator’s Tools: Statistics, Measurement, and Computers -- 31 Statistical Software Expert System -- 32 Charting Student Progress -- 33 Activities for Teaching Regression to the Mean -- 34 Using Microcomputer Database Management Software to Solve Evaluation Data Management Problems.
    Abstract: In 1976, the first session on the teaching of evaluation was held at an annual meeting of evaluators. A few hardy souls gathered to exchange ideas on improving the teaching of evaluation. At subsequent annual meetings, these informal sessions attracted more and more participants, eager to talk about common teaching interests and to exchange reading lists, syllabuses, assignments, and paper topics. The ses­ sions were irreverent, innovative, lively, and unpredictable. Eventually the group for­ malized itself with the American Evaluation Association as the Topical Interest Group in the Teaching of Evaluation (TIG: TOE). As word of TIG: TOE's activities spread, instructors from all over the country clamored for assistance and advice. It became apparent that a handbook was need­ ed, a practical interdisciplinary guide to the teaching of evaluation. Donna M. Mertens, a long-standing member of TIG: TOE and an accomplished teacher of evaluation, volunteered to edit the book, and her skills, sensitivity, and experience in the craft of teaching are apparent throughout.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-7829-5
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    The Metaphysics of Liberty (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789400909014
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (214p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 6
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 6
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Economics ; Philosophy. ; Political science.
    Abstract: 1 James McGill Buchanan and Individualism -- 1.1 The Work of Buchanan -- 1.2 Buchanan’s Individualism -- 1.3 A First Move away from Strict Methodological Individualism -- 1.4 New Contractarian Man -- 1.5 The Methodological Meaning of the Unanimity Rule -- 1.6 Additional Requirements for New Contractarian Man -- 1.7 Potential Abuses of the Unanimity Criterion -- 1.8 Duties to Obey the Laws? -- 1.9 Contractarianism and Natural Rights -- 1.10 Conclusion -- 2: Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Collectivism -- 2.1 Unger’s Characterization of Individualism -- 2.2 Buchanan’s Implicit Agreement with Unger -- 2.3 Unger’s Criticisms of the Individualist World View -- 2.4 The Factual Basis for the Separation of Theory and Fact -- 2.5 Unger on the Separation of Reason and Desire in Individualism -- 2.6 Response to Unger -- 2.7 Unger on the Separation of Public Rules and Private Values -- 2.8 Response to Unger -- 2.9 Unger’s Evolutionism -- 2.10 Conclusion -- 3: Mario Augusto Bunge and Scientific Metaphysics -- 3.1 The Aim of Bunge’s Philosophy -- 3.2 Bunge’s Furniture -- 3.3 Bunge’s Systemism -- 3.4 Bunge on Mind -- 3.5 Bunge’s Systemic Conception of Society -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4: Friedrich August Von Hayek and the Mirage of Social Justice -- 4.1 Hayek’s Own Argument against Social Justice -- 4.2 The Metaphysical Issues in Hayek’s Argument -- 4.3 Progressive Taxes Not Necessarily a Mirage -- 4.4 Multi-Generational Social Contracts -- 4.5 Elitism -- 5: Ayn Rand and Natural Rights -- 5.1 Similarities and Differences with Contractarianism -- 5.2 The Arguments for Natural Rights -- 5.3 The Advantages of Contractarianism over Natural Rights -- 5.4 Value and Fact Again -- 6: Raymond Bernard Cattell and Evolutionary Federalism -- 6.1 The Self of Self-Interest -- 6.2 Teleology -- 6.3 Cattell’s Morality from Science -- 6.4 Criticism of Cattell -- 6.5 The Ontology of Federalism -- 6.6 Problems for Contractarianism in the Composition of Countries -- 6.7 Evolutionary Morality -- 6.8 Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Appendices -- No. 1: Egalitarianism as a Morality Racket -- No. 4: Contracting for Natural Rights -- About the Author -- Name Index -- Man as a Part of Nature Subindex -- Divine Subindex.
    Abstract: Philosophy suffers from an excess of convoluted introspection. One result is that concepts multiply unchecked. That some events have observable causes gets reified into a First Cause or, in a more secular age, to the thesis that every event is fatalistically determined. Another drawback of convoluted introspection is that tiny but crucial assumptions slip in, often unawares, with the result that densely argued counter-tomes are written in reply and no progress is made toward any kind of consensus. At bottom, subjectivity reigns. I exaggerate. Toward the other pole of the subjectivity-objectivity continuum, consensus among scientists is in fact always at a good healthy distance from compulsive unanimity. New theories replace old, and at any one time the evidence can usually be interpreted two ways. Indeed, it is possible to pile epicycle upon epicycle in the Ptolemaic system of the heavens and approximate the ellipses planets travel in the Copernican system. What cinched the case for Copernicus was not simplicity--after all alchemy is simpler than chemisty. Nor was it experiment--there were no moon shots back then. Rather it was Newton's foundations. He established a physics for the earth and the heavens alike. Earthly physics we can verify, and it does not jell with the Ptolemaic system.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0901-4
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    Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation: The Workplace and the Law (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789400925021
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (326p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 22
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Economic policy
    Abstract: I Grounding Testing Policy: Three Perspectives -- The Allocation of Opportunities and the Politics of Testing: A Policy Analytic Perspective -- The Mandarin Mentality: Civil Service and University Admissions Testing in Europe and Asia -- Testing Companies, Trends, and Policy Issues: A Current View from the Testing Industry -- II Testing and the Law: Title VII and the Federal Guidelines -- Employment Testing and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Non-Discriminatory Use of Personnel Tests Conference Remarks -- The Uniform Guidelines and Subjective Selection Criteria and Procedures Conference Remarks -- III Testing and the Law: The Role of the Courts -- Testing, Public Policy, and the Courts -- Testing in Elementary and Secondary Schools: Can Misuse Be Avoided? -- IV Testing in the Workplace: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives -- Economic Models of Discrimination, Testing, and Public Policy -- Ability Testing for Job Selection: Are the Economic Claims Justified? -- Examples of Testing Programs in the Insurance Industry and a Discussion of Employment Testing Policy Issues -- Test Scores and Evaluation: The Military as Data -- Los Angeles Testing Policies Conference Remarks.
    Abstract: Bernard R. Gifford In the United States, the standardized test has become one of the major sources of information for reducing uncertainty in the determination of individual merit and in the allocation of merit-based educational, training, and employment opportunities. Most major institutions of higher education require applicants to supplement their records of academic achievements with scores on standardized tests. Similarly, in the workplace, as a condition of employment or assignment to training programs, more and more employers are requiring prospective employees to sit for standardized tests. In short, with increasing frequency and intensity, individual members of the political economy are required to transmit to the opportunity marketplace scores on standardized examinations that purport to be objective measures of their and potential. In many instances, these test scores are the abilities, talents, only signals about their skills that job applicants are permitted to send to prospective employers. THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TESTING AND PUBLIC POLICY In view of the importance of these issues to our current national agenda, it was proposed that the Human Rights and Governance and the Education and Culture Programs of the Ford Foundation support the establishment of a ''blue ribbon" National Commission on Testing and Public Policy to investigate some of the major problems as well as the untapped opportunities created by recent trends in the use of standardized tests, particularly in the workplace and in schools.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2502-1
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    Aesthetic Values (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789400924529
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    Series Statement: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series 31
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Subjectivism -- II Objectivism -- III. Relationism -- IV. Panaestheticism -- V. Relativism and Universalism -- VI. Monism and Pluralism -- VII. Aesthetic Values in Avant-Garde Art -- VIII. Performance -- Selected Bibliography.
    Abstract: What is aesthetic value? A property in an object? An experience of a perceiving person? An ideal object existing in a mysterious sphere, inaccessible to normal cognition? Does it appear in one form only, or in many forms, perhaps infinitely many? Is it something constant, immutable, or rather something susceptible to change, depending on the individual, the cultural milieu, or the epoch? Is a rational defence of aesthetic value judgements possible, or is any discussion of this topic meaningless? The above questions arise out of the most complicated philosophic problems. Volumes have been written on each of them. The discussions which continue over the centuries, the plurality of views and suggested solutions, indicate that all issues are controversial and contestable. Each view can adduce some arguments supporting it; each has some weaknesses. Another source of difficulty is the vagueness and ambiguity of the language in which the problems are discussed. This makes it hard to understand the ideas of particular thinkers and sometimes makes it impossible to decide whether different formulations express the actual divergence of views or only the verbal preferences of their authors. Let us add that this imperfection does not simply spring from inaccuracy on the part of scholars, but also results from the complexity of the problems themselves. The matter is further complicated by important factors of a social character.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2452-9
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    Constructing Test Items (1989)
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    ISBN: 9789400910713
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 25
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1 What Is Constructing Test Items? -- What This Book Is About -- Major Purposes Of This Book -- Why This Information Is Important -- Persons For Whom This Book Is Intended -- Overview Of The Remaining Chapters -- How To Approach the Chapters -- 2 Definition, Purpose, And Characteristics of Items -- Defining A Test Item -- Test Item Nomenclature -- Purpose For Test Items -- Criteria For Good Test Items -- Assumptions For Test Items -- Classification Of Items -- Conclusion -- 3 Determining the Content For Items: Validity -- Basic Concepts of Validity -- The Relationship Between Constructing Test Items and Validity -- Conditions For Items To Contribute To Validity -- Initial Considerations When Selecting Content For Items -- Achieving Clarity In A Test’s Content -- Developing Test Content Specifications -- Melding Cognitive Processing Levels With Items Content -- Test Item Specifications -- Making An Item Consistent With Its Specification -- Conclusion -- 4 Starting To Write Items: Practical Considerations -- The Importance Of Good Writing In Test Items -- Sources For Information On Writing Style -- Using Taxonomies In Writing Items -- Distinctness Between Stem and Response Alternatives -- Importance Of An Interrogative Stem -- Determining The Correct Response For Test Items -- Determining The Optimal Number Of Response Alternatives -- Making Response Alternatives Plausible -- Use Of All Of The Above Or None Of The Above As Response Alternatives -- Using Specific Determiners In Test Items -- Constructing Complex Response Alternatives -- Time Examinees Need To Respond To Items -- Conclusion -- 5 Style, Editorial, and Publication Guidelines For Items in the Multiple-Choice Format -- Understanding The Multiple-Choice Item Format -- Advantages and Criticisms Of Items In The Multiple-Choice Format -- Editorial Format For Items -- Using Directions Correctly -- Specialized Style Rules For Multiple-Choice Items -- Type Characteristics and Page Layout -- Conclusion -- 6 Style, Editorial, and Publication Guidelines For Items in Other Common Formats -- Precision In Wording, Again -- Understanding Items In The True-False Format -- Understanding Items In The Matching Format -- Understanding Short-Answer AndSentence-Completion Items -- Understanding Cloze-Procedure -- Conclusion -- 7 Judging the Quality Of Test Items: Item Analysis -- Measurement Error -- Understanding Item Analysis -- Validating The Content Of Items -- Using Leading Questions In Item Analysis -- Item Statistics -- Item Parameters -- Item Bias -- Conclusion -- 8 Ethical, Legal Considerations, and Final Remarks for Item Writers -- Ethical Concerns For Item Writers -- Concluding Comments About Constructing Test Items -- References -- Author Index.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1071-3
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    Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 2 The Airy Elements in Poetic Imagination : Breath, Breeze, Wind, Tempest, Thunder, Snow, Flame, Fire, Volcano (1988)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400928411
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 443 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 23
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Inaugural Address -- “Poetics at the Creative Crucibles” Offering New Guidelines for Literary Interpretation -- I Plurivocal Poiesis of the Airy Elements -- Empedocles: The Phenomenology of the Four Elements in Literature -- Fire in Goethe’s Work: Neptunism and Volcanism -- The Tempestuous Conflict of the Elements in Baroque Poetry and Painting -- Fire Transfigured in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets -- Fire and Snow: The Dichotomies and Dichomachies of Polish Baroque Poetry -- II The Metamorphic Poiesis of Air -- Temporality Puts on Airs: Process, Purpose, and Poetry in Shakespeare’s Histories -- Filles de l’air -- Concretizations of the Aeolian Metaphor -- III The Aesthetic Forces of the Airy Elements -- Le thème de l’air dans la poésie de Paul-Marie Lapointe -- “L’Etre contre le vent”: Aspects du vent dans la poésie de Paul Valéry -- “Le Ciel est mort”: Mallarmé and a Metaphysics of (Im)Possibility -- IV The Elemental Fire and the Poetic Transfiguration of Reality -- Man against Fire: Alfred Döblin’s Utopian Novel Mountains, Oceans and Giants -- “This Hard Gemlike Flame”: Walter Pater and the Aesthetic Accommodation of Fire -- Thoreau’s Waiden: The Pro-vocation of Fire -- Flannery O’Connor: The Flames of Heaven and Hell -- V Fire, the Poetry of Elemental Passion -- From Fire to Fireworks in Baroque Poetry -- “Falling Fire”: The Negativity of Knowledge in the Poetry of William Blake -- The Poetics of Fire in Jean Giono’s Le Chant du Monde -- VI The Elemental Expanse -- Ruskin’s Queen of the Air -- Breathless Messages: Phenomenology in Deep Space -- A Poetics of Space: William Bronk’s Unhousing of the Universe -- Jean Giono’s Le Chant du monde: The Harmony of the Elements -- VII The Significance of Literature and Related Topics -- The Significance of Literature According to Contemporary Writers -- The “Literature in Life” Philosophy vs. Reality: The Role of the River in Beppe Fenoglio’s Il partigiano Johnny -- “The Origin of the Work of Art”: Truth in Existence and the Scholastic Tradition -- The Ontology of Language in a Post-Structuralist Feminist Perspective: Explosive Discourse in Monique Wittig -- Être-dans-un-monde-littéraire -- Index of Names.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2841-1
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    The Horizons of Continental Philosophy : Essays on Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty (1988)
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    ISBN: 9789401733502
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 305 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 30
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Comparative Literature ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: 1. Questions of Method: On Describing the Individual as Exemplary -- 2. The Necessity of Intersubjectivity -- 3. Existence and Essence in Thomas and Husserl -- 4. A Phenomenological Exploration of Popper’s ‘World 3’ -- 5. Dwelling -- 6. Textuality and the Origin of the Work of Art -- 7. On the Occlusion of the Subject: Heidegger and Lacan -- 8. From the Deconstruction of Hermeneutics to the Hermeneutics of Deconstruction -- 9. Communication Science and Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of the Objectivist Illusion -- 10. Merleau-Ponty: The Depth of Memory as the Depth of the World -- 11. Towards an Erotics of Art -- 12. Merleau-Ponty on Silence and the Work of Philosophy -- Notes on Contributors.
    Abstract: lacan. Barthes. Jakobson. Horkheimer. Adorno. Gadamer. Ricoeur. Foucault. Deleuze. Derrida. lyotard. Vattimo. Kofman. and Irigaray are also part of that outer horizon of continental philosophy. The purpose of this volume however is to establish that space within the core of continental philosophy -­ specifically in relation to the work of Husserl. Heidegger. and Merleau-Ponty -- and to move out to some of its various horizons. In some cases. these horizons are set by the history of philosophy. in others by newer directions in contemporary philosophy. and in others by alternative modes of philosophizing. The horizons also appear in areas as diverse as epistemology and the philosophy of science. metaphysics. philosophical psychology. and aesthetics. Furthermore. these limits are set by the relationships between philosophy and other disciplines such as psychology. communication theory. and the arts. Nevertheless the volume is organized around each of the three major figures in the phenomenological core of continental philosophy. The twelve essays provide important investigations into current research -- they represent the range and skills of contemporary work in relation to Husserl. Heidegger. and Merleau-Ponty. In themselves however they indicate advances in philosophical research and are hardly simple commentaries on these three figures. Husserl. Heidegger. and Merleau-Ponty constitute texts on the basis of which phenomenology is taken to its limits -- and even beyond.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3350-2
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    Educational Evaluation: Classic Works of Ralph W. Tyler (1988)
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    ISBN: 9789400926790
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (332p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services
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    Abstract: I The Service Study Years: 1929 to 1938 -- 1 Overview -- 2 Service Studies in Higher Education -- 3 Constructing Achievement Tests -- II Appraising and Recording Student Progress: The Eight-Year Study -- 1 Overview -- 2 Appraising and Recording Student Progress -- III Tyler’s Rationale for Curriculum Development -- 1 Overview -- 2 New Dimensions in Curriculum Development -- IV National Testing Programs -- 1 Overview -- 2 Appraisal of Educational Achievement Gained in the Armed Forces -- 3 The Objectives and Plans for a National Assessment of Educational Progress -- 4 National Assessment — Some Valuable By-Products for Schools -- V Tyler’s Recent Reflections on His Work -- 1 Overview -- 2 An Interview with Ralph Tyler -- 3 Appendix: Vitae of Ralph Winfred Tyler -- VI A Chronological Bibliography.
    Abstract: I personally learned to know Ralph Tyler rather late in his career when, in the 1960s, I spent a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His term of office as Director of the Center was then approaching its end. This would seem to disqualify me thoroughly from preparing a Foreword to this "Classic Works. " Many of his colleagues and, not least, of his students at his dear Alma Mater, the University of Chicago, are certainly better prepared than I to put his role in American education in proper perspective. The reason for inviting me is, I assume, to bring out the influence that Tyler has had on the international educational scene. I am writing this Foreword on a personal note. Ralph Tyler's accomplishments in his roles as a scholar, policy maker, educational leader, and statesman have been amply put on record in this book, not least in the editors' Preface. My reflections are those of an observer from abroad but who, over the last 25 years, has been close enough to overcome the aloofness of the foreigner. Tyler has over many years been criss-crossing the North American con­ tinent generously giving advice to agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, lecturing, and serving on many committees and task forces that have been instrumental in shaping American education.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2679-0
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    Logos and Life: The Three Movements of the Soul : The Spontaneous and the Creative in Man’s Self-Interpretation-in-the-Sacred (1988)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400928398
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXV, 219 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 25
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Foreground -- I / Toward the Extended Phenomenology of The Soul: The Soul as the “Soil” of Life’s Forces and the Transmitter of Life’s Constructive Progress from the Primeval Logos of Life to Its Annihilation in the Anti-Logos of Man’s “Transnatural Telos” -- II / In Which the Principles of a New Phenomenological Explication of Spiritual Interiority, as Well as an Outline of its Philosophical Interpretation, are Proposed -- One The First Movement of The Soul: Radical Examination -- I / “Radical Examination” and the Current of Man’s Life -- II / The Second Movement of the Soul: Exalted Existence. The Discovery of the Finiteness of Life (Does the Soul Have Its Very Own Resources and Hidden Means for Passing beyond This Finitude ?) -- III / The Third Movement of the Soul: Toward Transcending -- Two Progress in the Life of the Soul as the Logos of Life Declines -- I / Inward “Communication” -- II / “Personal Truth” and the Essential Point of Communiscation -- Three The Secret Architecture of the Soul -- I / The Establishment of the “Inward Sacredness” of the Soul’s Quest -- II / The Dianoiac Thread of the Logos Running Through Our Polyphonic Exploration of the Pursuit of Destiny: Creative Self-Interpretation between the Self and the Other -- Notes -- Index of Names -- of Book 1.
    Abstract: PART I THE CRITIQUE OF REASON CONTINUED: FROM LOGOS TO ANTI-LOGOS 1. THE NEW CRITIQUE OF REASON A new critique of reason is the crucial task imposed on the philosophy of our times as we emerge more and more from so-called "modernism" into a historical phase which will have to take its own paths and find its own determination. It may be considered that the main developmental line of modern times in its philosophy as well as in its culture at large was traced by the Cartesian cogito. The unfolding of Occidental philos­ ophy has culminated in reason or intellect's being awarded the central place. This is its specific trait. We can see a direct line of progression from the cogito to Kant's Critique. It is no wonder that this work is the landmark of modern philosophy. Kant's Critique was concerned with the foundation of the sciences. Edmund-Husserllaunched a second major, renewed, critique of reason, one which addresses not only the critical situation of the sciences but extends the critique even to the situation of Occidental culture as its malaise is diagnosed by this great thinker. Edmund Husserl voiced, in fact, the conviction that Occidental humanity has reached in our age the peak of its unfolding. His identify­ ing this peak with the formulation of phenomenological philosophy strikes at the point in which the significant and novel developments of Occidental culture and philosophy (phenomenology, that is) coincide.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2839-8
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    The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought (1988)
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    ISBN: 9789400914315
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (410p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 102
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 102
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    Abstract: I / Hindu Systems of Thought as Epistemic Disciplines -- I. The Science of Philosophies -- II. The Mechanism of Organization -- III. The Structural Design -- IV. Para-Methodology -- V. Modality and Modalization -- VI. The Self-Developing Culture and Text -- VII. Six Epistemic Disciplines Unfolding Into One Another -- VIII. Modal Semiotics and the Categories of Philosophical Thinking -- IX. Six Entries into the World of Philosophical Reflections -- X. Summa Philosophiae -- II / The Birth of ‘Meaning’: A Systematic Genealogy of Indian Semantics -- I. Segregation of Meaning and Language -- II. The Rgveda in the Making: A Meaningful Activity Without ‘Meaning’ -- III. The Nirukta: A Knot of Semantic and Etymological Problems -- IV. P?nini: Separating and Interconnecting Language and Logic -- V. The Individual and the Universal in Language and Knowledge -- III / Dialectics in Kant and in the Ny?ya-S?tra: Toward the History of the Formation of Formal Logical Thinking -- IV / The Canonical Self in the World of Knowledge: A Note on Ny?ya Gnoseology -- V / Revelation in Advaita Ved?nta as an Experiment in the Semantic Destruction of Language -- I. Theoretical Basis of the Possibility of Coming to Know Brahman (Pary?ya) -- II. Intuitive Basis of the Possibility of Coming to Know Brahman (Prayojana) -- III. Pary?ya of the First Stage of Reflection from the Structure of the Text to the Nature of Brahman: The Theory of False Attribution and its Sublation (Transcendence) -- IV. Prayojana of the First Stage of Reflection: The Intuition of False Attribution and its Sublation (Transcendence) -- V. Pary?ya of the Second Stage of Reflection: The Theory of Brahman Shown in a Metaphoric Occurrence (Laksan?vritti) -- VI. Prayojana of the Second Stage of Reflection: Intuition of Brahman Shown by the Method of Metamorphic Definition -- VII. Language Inappropriateness Exposed and Brahman Demonstrated by the Netiv?da Method: The Theory of Intuition (Pary?ya) -- VIII. Prayojana of the Vedic Realization by the Netiv?da Method: The Intuition of a Theory -- VI / Is The Bodhisattva a Skeptic? On the Trichotomy of ‘Indicative’, ‘Recollective’, and ‘Collective’ Signs -- VII / Hindu Values and Buddhism: An Exemplary Discourse -- I. Methodological -- II. Theoretical -- II.1. The Mim?msa Normology -- VIII / Understanding Cultural Traditions Through Types of Thinking -- I. Level of Absolute Reality -- II. Level of Phenomenation -- III. Level of Absolute Irreality -- IX / The Family of Hindu ‘Visions’ as Cultural Entities -- Notes and References -- Bibliography: Selected Works of David Zilberman.
    Abstract: In his letter to B. K. Matilal, dated February 20, 1977, the author of this book wrote about his work on Advaita-Vedanta: " ... It was not to present Advaita in the light of current problems of the logic of scientific discovery and modern philosophy of language ... but just the contrary. I do not believe that any 'logic without metaphysics' or 'philosophy of language without thinking' is possible." This passage alone may serve as the clue to Zilberman's understanding and mode of explaining that specific and highly original approach to (not 'of'!) philosophy that he himself nicknamed modal. Four points would seem to me to be most essential here. First, a philosophy cannot have 'anything un-thinking' as its object of investigation. Language, to Zilberman, is not a phenomenon of con­ sciousness but a spontaneously working natural mechanism (like, for instance, 'mind' to some Buddhist philosophers). It may, of course, be­ come used for and by consciousness; consciousness may see itself, so to speak, in language, but only secondarily, only as in one of its modifica­ tions, derivations or modalities. That is why to Zilberman linguistic- as to Kant psychology - cannot and must not figure as the primary ground for any philosophical investigation.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1431-5
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    The Ideal and the Real : An Outline of Kant’s Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction (1988)
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    ISBN: 9789400914155
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (156p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series 37
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Epistemology. ; Philosophy and science. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: One Prologue: Newton and Leibniz -- 1.1. Newton on Space, Time and Metaphysics -- 1.2. Leibniz: The Ideal and the Real -- Two Kant’s Theory of Space and Time -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Concepts and Definitions -- 2.3. Kant’s Anti-logicist programme -- 2.4. Transcendental Aesthetic -- 2.5. Construction and Schematism -- 2.6. Spaces and Geometries -- 2.7. Incongruent Counterparts & the Intuitive Nature of Space -- 2.8. Infinity: Reason and Experience -- 2.9. Transcendental Idealism -- Three Acts, Intuitions and Constructions -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Concepts, Intuitions and the Schematism -- 3.3. Kant’s Constructivism -- 3.4. Incongruity and Constructions -- 3.5. Indirect Proof -- Notes -- Notes on Further Reading.
    Abstract: Many students coming to grips with Kant's philosophy are understandably daunted not only by the complexity and sheer difficulty of the man's writings, but almost equally by the amount of secondary literature available. A great deal of this seems to be - and not only on first reading - just about as difficult as the work it is meant to make more accessible. Any writer deliberately setting out to provide an authentically introductory text thus faces a double problem: how to provide an exegesis which would capture some of the spirit of the original, without gross and misleading over-simplification; and secondly, how to anchor the argument in the best and most imaginative secondary literature, yet avoid the whole project appearing so fragmented as to make the average book of chess openings seem positively austere. Until fairly recently, matters were made even more difficul t, in that commentaries on Kant were very often of a whole work, say, The Critique of Pure Reason, with the result that students would have to struggle through a very great deal of material indeed in order to feel any confidence at all that they had begun to understand the original writings. Recently, things have changed somewhat. There are now excellent commentaries on "Kant's Analytic", "Kant's Analogies" etc. . We have also seen, (at least as reflected in book titles), a resurgence of interest in what is perhaps the most controversial and far-reaching Kantian claim, viz.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1415-5
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    Teacher Education Evaluation (1988)
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    ISBN: 9789400926752
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Assessment.
    Abstract: 1 Teacher Selection: A Problem of Admission Criteria, Certification Criteria, or Prediction of Job Performance? -- 2 Evaluation of Teacher Education Programs -- 3 The Professional Education Unit -- 4 An Outcomes-Based Teacher Preparation Program -- 5 Teacher Education Follow-up Evaluation: How To Do It -- 6 Pupil Achievement: The Weakest Link in the Evaluation Chain -- 7 Reflections on Conference Proceedings for the Center for Teacher Education Evaluation -- 8 Some Missing Links.
    Abstract: In an age that dictates accountability and verifiability of educational programs, institutions of higher education are called on to justify their programs. To meet these demands, there is a need for improved methods for the evaluation of teacher education programs. More importantly, there is a need for the development of methods and procedures to conduct continuous and on-going evaluation that can aid the process of program improvement. Many institutions have had difficulties in developing and implementing satisfactory systems for conducting needed evaluation. In recent years the standards for the approval of teacher education programs in all of the states were strengthened as were the standards for approval by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). These revised standards put even more emphasis on accountability and the need for both summative and formative evaluation in a teacher education program. Tennessee Technological University has long been recognized as an institution with an exemplary project in program evaluation. As a result, in 1986, the state of Tennessee established at Tennessee Technological University, a Center for Teacher Education Evaluation. The Center began work in July 1986, on the development of models and systems for conducting teacher education program evaluation. To most, teacher education program evaluation is simple and straightforward. Evaluation includes a set of options, a set of criteria, data collection and interpretation, x and then use in meeting accountability needs.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2675-2
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    The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic : Selected Essays (1988)
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    ISBN: 9789400926479
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 200
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Essay 1. Is Alethic Modal Logic Possible? -- Essay 2. Reasoning About Knowledge in Philosophy: The Paradigm of Epistemic Logic -- Essay 3. Are There Nonexistent Objects? Why Not? But Where Are They? -- Essay 4. On Sense, Reference, and the Objects of Knowledge -- Essay 5. Impossible Possible Worlds Vindicated -- Essay 6. Towards a General Theory of Individuation and Identification -- Essay 7. On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Montague Semantics -- Essay 8. The Cartesian cogito, Epistemic Logic and Neuroscience: Some Surprising Interrelations -- Essay 9. Quine on Who’s Who -- Essay 10. How Can Language Be Sexist? -- Essay 11. On Denoting What? -- Essay 12. Degrees and Dimensions of Intentionality -- Essay 13. Situations, Possible Worlds and Attitudes -- Essay 14. Questioning as a Philosophical Method -- Erratum -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2647-9
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    Evaluation in Decision Making : The case of school administration (1988)
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    ISBN: 9789400926691
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services Series 19
    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 19
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: I Concepts -- 1 The School Principalship -- 2 A Focus on Decision Making and Evaluation -- 3 Evaluation in Education -- 4 How Evaluation Can Improve Decision Making in the School Principalship -- II Studies -- 5 Assigning Teachers to Classrooms -- 6 Making Schoolwide Decisions While Interacting with Teachers -- 7 Performing the Role of Teacher Evaluation -- 8 Guiding and Evaluating Teachers on Student Achievement-Based Instructional Objectives -- 9 Guiding Rational Solutions to Academic Problems of Low Achievers -- 10 Coordinating Student Achievement Testing -- III Implications -- 11 Conclusions -- 12 Toward Improvement -- References.
    Abstract: This book is about the practice of decision making by school principals and about ways to improve this practice by capitalizing on evaluation dimensions. Much has been written on decision making but surprisingly little on decision making in the school principalship. Much has been also written on evaluation as well as on evaluation and decision making, but not much has been written on evaluation in decision making, especially decision making in the principalship. This book presents two messages. One is that decision making in the principalship can be studied and improved and not only talked about in abstract terms. The other message is that evaluation can contribute to the understanding of decision making in the principalship and to the improvement of its practice. In this book we call for the conception of an evaluation-minded principal, a principal who has a wide perspective on the nature of evaluation and its potential benefits, a principal who is also inclined to use evaluation perceptions and techniques as part of his/her decision-making process. This book was conceived in 1985 with the idea to combine thoughts about educational administration with thoughts about educational evaluation. Studies of decision making in the principalship had already been on their way. We decided to await the findings, and in the meantime we wrote a first conceptual version of evaluation in decision making. As the studies were completed we wrote a first empirical version of same.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2669-1
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    Meaning and Inference in Medieval Philosophy : Studies in Memory of Jan Pinborg (1988)
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    ISBN: 9789400928435
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 32
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Philosophy. ; Historical linguistics.
    Abstract: On Boethius’s Notion of Being: A Chapter of Boethian Semantics -- Logic in the Early Twelfth Century -- The Distinction Actus Exercitus/Actus Significatus in Medieval Semantics -- Denomination in Peter of Auvergne -- Concrete Accidental Terms: Late Thirteenth-Century Debates About Problems Relating to Such Terms as ‘Album’ -- Concrete Accidental Terms and the Fallacy of Figure of Speech -- The Logic of the Categorical: The Medieval Theory of Descent and Ascent -- Tu Scis Hoc Esse Omne Quod Est Hoc: Richard Kilvington and the Logic of Knowledge -- Logic and Trinitarian Theology: De Modo Predicandi ac Sylogizandi in Divinis -- A Seventeenth-Century Physician on God and Atoms: Sebastian Basso -- Index of Persons.
    Abstract: The studies that make up this book were written and brought together to honor the memory of Jan Pinborg. His unexpected death in 1982 at the age of forty-five shocked and saddened students of medieval philosophy everywhere and left them with a keen sense of disappoint­ ment. In his fifteen-year career Jan Pinborg had done so much for our field with his more than ninety books, editions, articles, and reviews and had done it all so well that we recognized him as a leader and counted on many more years of his scholarship, his help, and his friendship. To be missed so sorely by his international colleagues in an academic field is a mark of Jan's achievement, but only of one aspect of it, for historians of philosophy are not the only scholars who have reacted in this way to Jan's death. In his decade and a half of intense productivity he also acquired the same sort of special status among historians of linguistics, whose volume of essays in his memory is being G. L. Bursill-Hall almost simultane­ published under the editorship of ously with this one. Sten Ebbesen, Jan's student, colleague, and successor as Director of the Institute of Medieval Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Copenhagen, has earned the gratitude of all of us by memorializing Jan 1 in various biographical sketches, one of which is accompanied by a 2 complete bibliography of his publications.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2843-5
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    A History of Women Philosophers : Ancient Women Philosophers 600 B.C. - 500 A.D (1987)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 229 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: A History of Women Philosophers 1
    Series Statement: History of Women Philosophers 1
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; History ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy, Ancient.
    Abstract: to Volume 1 -- 1. Early Pythagoreans: Themistoclea, Theano, Arignote, Myia, and Damo -- I. Themistoclea, Arignote, and Damo -- II. Theano of Crotona -- III. Myia; Notes. -- 2. Late Pythagoreans: Aesara of Lucania, Phintys of Sparta, and Perictione I -- I. Aesara of Lucania -- II. Phintys of Sparta -- III. Perictione I -- 3. Late Pythagoreans: Theano II, and Perictione II -- I. Theano II -- II. Perictione II -- 4. Authenticating the Fragments and Letters -- I. The Forgery Hypothesis -- II. The Pseudonymy Hypothesis -- III. The Eponymy Hypothesis: -- 5. Aspasia of Miletus -- I. Background -- II. The Menexenus and Pericles’ Funeral Oration -- III. Two arguments about the Menexenus -- IV. Aspasia and Sophistic Rhetoric; Conclusions; Notes. -- 6. Diotima of Mantinea -- I. Distinguishing Diotima from Plato and Socrates -- II. The Tradition of Diotima as a Fictitious Character -- III. The historical Diotima -- IV. In Support of Thesis B -- 7. Julia Domna -- I. Julia Domna’s Biography -- II. “The Philosopher Julia” -- III. Conclusion; Notes. -- 8. Makrina -- I. Biography -- II. Makrina and the Spiritual Tradition -- III. Makrina and Woman’s Soul -- IV. Makrina on Creation, Reincarnation, and Resurrection -- 9. Hypatia of Alexandria -- I. Biography -- II. Teaching -- III. Works -- 10. Arete, Asclepigenia, Axiothea, Cleobulina, Hipparchia, and Lasthenia -- I. Arete of Cyrene -- II. Asclepigenia of Athens -- III. Axiothea of Philesia -- IV. Cleobulina of Rhodes -- V. Hipparchia the Cynic -- VI. Lathenia of Mantinea; Notes.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3497-9
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    Jaakko Hintikka (1987)
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    ISBN: 9789400937635
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    Series Statement: Profiles, An International Series on Contemporary Philosophers and Logicians 8
    Series Statement: Profiles 8
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: One -- Self-Profile -- Two -- Constituents -- Surface Information and Analyticity -- Hintikka on Quantifying In and On Trans-World Identity -- Game-Theoretical Semantics and Logical Form -- Hintikka’s Inductive Logic -- Hintikka’s Epistemic Logic -- Hintikka’s Theory of Questions -- What Is a “Perceptually Well-Defined Individual”? Hintikka’s Views on Perception -- On Objects and Worlds of Thought in the Philosophy of Hintikka -- Hintikka on Modalities and Determinism in Aristotle -- Hintikka’s Ontology -- Replies and Comments -- Three -- Bibliography of Jaakko Hintikka -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc. ) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profession. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will summarize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of significant contribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant his to rial and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, references to significant reviews and discussion will also be included.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3763-5
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    Evaluating Business and Industry Training (1987)
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 17
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Personnel management. ; International education . ; Comparative education.
    Abstract: I Organizational Context of Training Evaluation -- 1 The Role of Training in Implementing Strategic Change -- 2 Strategic Evaluation of Training -- 3 The Organizational Context of Training Evaluation for Staff Development -- 4 Evaluating Training Programs for Decision Making -- 5 Management Education: Articulating the Unspoken, Riding the Herd, Wasting Money, or Preparing for Tomorrow? -- II Evaluation of Training Products -- 6 Evaluation Issues in the Educational Product Life-Cycle -- 7 Applying Quality Management Concepts and Techniques to Training Evaluation -- 8 Content Validity as an Evaluation Strategy for Examining Training Programs -- 9 The Role of Media in the Evaluation of Training -- 10 Management Education: An Emerging Role for Systematic Evaluation -- III Evaluating and Maximizing the Use of Evaluation Results -- 11 Establishing Corporate Evaluation Policy: Cost Versus Benefit -- 12 Communicating Evaluation Results: The External Evaluator Perspective -- 13 Communicating Evaluation Results: The Internal Evaluator Perspective -- 14 Implementing a Testing Strategy Within a Training Program -- 15 Use of Training Data in Personnel Decision Making.
    Abstract: In the abstract, training is seen as valuable by most people in business and industry. However, in the rush of providing training programs "on time" and "within budget," evaluation of training is frequently left behind as a "nice to have" addition, if practical. In addition, the training function itself is left with the dilemma of proving its worth to management without a substantive history of evaluation. This book is designed to provide managers, educators, and trainers alike the opportunity to explore the issues and benefits of evaluating business and industry training. The purpose is to motivate more effective decisions for training investments based on information about the value of training in attaining business goals. Without evaluation, the value of specific training efforts cannot be adequately measured, the value of training investments overall cannot be fully assessed, and the contributions of the training function to the corporation's goals cannot be duly recognized. Articles are grouped into three sections, althou~h many themes appear across sections. The first section estabhshes the context of training evaluation in a business organization. The second section emphasizes evaluation of training products and services; and the third section discusses costs and benefits of evaluation, and communication and use of evaluation results in decision making. In Section I, the context of training evaluation is established from a variety of perspectives. First, training and trainin~ evaluation are discussed in the context of corporate strateglc goals.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-7423-7
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    Pierre Gassendi : From Aristotelianism to a New Natural Philosophy (1987)
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    ISBN: 9789400937932
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (268p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 30
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; History ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Pierre Gassendi -- Manuscripts and published works -- Bibliographical survey -- 1. Sceptical anti-Aristotelianism -- 2. Copernican anti-Aristotelianism -- 3. Epicurean anti-Aristotelianism -- Epicureanism as substitute for Aristotelianism -- 4. Empirical anti-Aristotelianism -- 1. Logical writings: from Aristotelian dialectic to Epicurean canonic -- 2. Cognition: the physical and physiological processes -- 3. Cognition: the ‘psychological’ processes -- 4. Empirical anti-Aristotelianism -- 5. The ‘sceptical crisis’ -- 5. “A truer philosophy” -- 1. Atoms and the void -- 2. The substance of physical causes -- 3. Obscurity vanquished -- Conclusion -- Notes.
    Abstract: Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) lived in three civilizations in the span of one life-time: medieval ecclesiastic, Renaissance humanist and modern and he never cut himself loose from any of them. It is probably scientific; because he managed to be at home in all three that history has allocated to him a position somewhere on the fringe of the inner circle of genius in the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. While he was not a front-runner, Gassendi was nevertheless a pioneer of modern corpuscularianism and his influence on the development of empirical science was truly international. It is precisely because Gassendi was a figure of the second rank - a significant but lesser luminary - that we need to examine his work closely, for the less famous contemporaries help us to explain what the great ones do. It might seem that Gassendi has received his share of attention from scholars, even though it is sometimes suggested otherwise. Several full­ length monographs have been published in the past three decades, and there have been a number of articles in scholarly journals. Yet, despite the indisputable worth of these studies, the picture of Gassendi that has emerged from them has been partial and at times wide of the mark, so that the true story remains to be told.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3793-2
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    Alternative Approaches to the Assessment of Achievement (1987)
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    ISBN: 9789400932579
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 16
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1: Educational Assessment: A Brief History -- 2: Toward More Sensible Achievement Measurement: A Retrospective -- 3: Analysis of Patterns: The S-P Technique -- 4: The Rasch Model for Item Analysis -- 5: The Three-Parameter Logistic Model -- 6: Measuring Achievement with Latent Structure Models -- 7: Generalizability Theory and Achievement Testing -- 8: Analysis of Reading Comprehension Data -- 9: A Comparison of Models for Measuring Achievement.
    Abstract: Ingrained for many years in the science of educational assessment were a large number of "truths" about how to make sense out of testing results, artful wisdoms that appear to have held away largely by force of habit alone. Practitioners and researchers only occasionally agreed about how tests should be designed, and were even further apart when they came to interpreting test responses by any means other than categorically "right" or "wrong." Even the best innovations were painfully slow to be incorporated into practice. The traditional approach to testing was developed to accomplish only two tasks: to provide ranking of students, or to select relatively small proportions of students for special treatment. In these tasks it was fairly effective, but it is increasingly seen as inadequate for the broader spectrum of issues that educational measurement is now called upon to address. Today the range of questions being asked of educational test data is itself growing by leaps and bounds. Fortunately, to meet this challenge we have available a wide panoply of resource tools for assessment which deserve serious attention. Many of them have exceptionally sOphisticated mathematical foundations, and succeed well where older and less versatile techniques fail dismally. Yet no single new tool can conceivably cover the entire arena.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3257-9
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    Philosophy of Prediction and Capitalism (1987)
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    ISBN: 9789400936379
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 20
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Sociology. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I The Three Characters of Absolute Time -- a) The Coincidence of Meaning and Phase -- b) The Distinction between Becoming and What Comes-To-Be -- c) The Phenomenon of Transition -- II The Impulsion of Life -- a) Ultimate Foundations of Organic and Inorganic Matter -- b) Impulsion and Phantasy -- c) The Factors of Reality and Ideality -- III Mind and the Genesis of Human Ideas -- a) Two Examples for the Genesis of Ideas in Greek Philosophy -- b) Contemporary Conception of Ideas: The Essence of Pragmatism -- c) The Essence of Pragmatic Truth: Functionalization -- d) Idea as “Sketch”: Introductory Comment -- IV The Unfinished Idea of Man -- a) Man’s Self-Understanding as Sketch -- b) Capitalism and the Concept of an Entity -- c) Variations of the Functional Appearance of Entities and the Role of the Sketch -- d) A Second Look at the Idea as Sketch and the Essence of Capitalism and Economics -- Notes.
    Abstract: There is little more than a decade left before the bells allover the world will be ringing in the first hour of the twenty-first century, which will surely be an era of highly advanced technology. Looking back on the century that we live in, one can realize that generations of people who have already lived in it for the better parts of their lives have begun to ask the same question that also every individual person thinks about when he is faced with the first signs of the end of his life. It is the question: "Why did everything in my life happen the way it did?" Or, "It would have been so easy to have channelled events into directions other than the way they went. " Or, "Why, in all the world, is my life coming to an end as it does, or, why must all of us face this kind of end of our century?" Whenever human beings take retrospective views of their lives and times - when they are faced with their own personal "fin du siecle" - there appears to be an increasing anxiety throughout the masses asso­ ciated with a somber feeling of pessimism, which may even be mixed with a slight degree of fatalism. There is quite another feeling with those persons who were born late in this century and who did not share all the events the older generation experi­ enced.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3637-9
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    The Event of Death: A Phenomenological Enquiry (1987)
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    ISBN: 9789400935099
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 23
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: One: Ontological Roots of the Phenomenon of Death: A Heideggerean Interpretation -- One: Individuation and Temporality -- Two: Temporality as the Meaning of Being-Towards-Death -- Three: Death, Time and Appropration -- Four: A Project Beyond Heidegger -- Two: Death as an Ontic E-Vent: Coming to terms with the phenomenon of death as a determinate possibility -- One: Reflecting on One’s own Death -- Two: The Death of the Other -- Three: The Phenomenon of Immortality -- Three: Ontic/Ontological Implications -- One: Ontology as Concrete -- Two: Is Phenomenology still too Metaphysical? -- Key to abbreviations.
    Abstract: Building upon the "preliminary conception of Phenomenology" introduced by Heidegger in section II of the Introduction to Sein und zeit,l one may say that a phenomenology of death would mean: "to let death, as that which shows itself, be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself. " Does this mean then, that a properly phenomenological d- cription of death may reveal to us what death as a factical event is like "in the very way in which it shows itself from itself"? Although I cannot experience my death in order to describe it, may some kind of phenomenologica'l inference or "extrapolation"2 be the condition for a unique and privileged revelation of what it is like to be dead? There is an important element of phenomenological descr- tion which renders such an extrapolation implausible, and it involves what Husserl originally called the reduction to signi- cance or meaning. It can never be true for the phenomenologist, 1 Heidegger, Martin, Sein und zeit, p. 34. e. t. page 58. 2 Henry W. Johnstone Jr. thinks that while one cannot extrapo­ late from the experience of sleep to the experience of death, it may be possible to extrapolate from the phenomeno­ lQgy of sleep to the phenomenology of death. Cf. H. W. John­ stone Jr. , "Toward a Phenomenology of Death", in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, 1975, pages 396-7. Cf.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3509-9
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    Philosophy and the Visual Arts : Seeing and Abstracting (1987)
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    ISBN: 9789400938472
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    Series Statement: Royal Institute of Philosophy Conferences 4
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Aesthetics ; Arts. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I Abstracting and Depicting -- Depiction and the Golden Calf -- Painting, Expression, Abstraction -- Dimensions of Meaning -- Cubism — abstract or realist? -- Representing and Abstracting -- Alienation and Disalienation in Abstract Art -- On Attempting to Define Abstract Art -- On Being an Abstract Artist -- II Depicting Colours -- Identity, Predication and Colour -- Colour Systems and Perception in Early Abstract Painting -- Colour, Culture and Cinematography -- Form and Meaning in Colour -- Colour Appearances and the Colour Solid -- III The Limits of Depiction -- Perspective and Meaning: Illusion, Allusion and Collusion -- Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things -- Some New Problems in Perspective -- The Limits of Portrayal -- Bibliography of Works Cited.
    Abstract: This volume consists of papers given to the Royal Institute of Philos­ ophy Conference on 'Philosophy and the Visual Arts: Seeing and Abstracting' given at the University of Bristol in September 1985. The contributors here come about equally from the disciplines of Philosophy and Art History and for that reason the Conference was hosted jointly by the Bristol University Departments of Philosophy and History of Art. Other conferences sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy have been concerned with links between Philosophy and related disciplines, but here, with the generous support of South West Arts and with the enthusiastic co-operation of the staff of the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol we were able to attempt even more in the way of bridge building; not only were we able to hold some of our meetings in as possible to the general the Gallery, thus making them as accessible public, but we were also privileged in having our discussions supported by two exhibitions of contemporary painting that together presented contrasting aspects of the abstracting enterprise. One, featuring works by Ian McKeever, and drawings and painting by Frank Auerbach, some of which are discussed and illustrated in the present volume, was about the painterly exploration of 'abstracting from' images in nature and in painting itself. The other, curated by Waldemar Januszczak, while showing some figurative works, was concerned with the 'pure' power of colour perceived 'abstractly, in its own right.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3847-2
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    Rationality: The Critical View (1987)
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    ISBN: 9789400934917
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    Series Statement: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series 23
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Philosophy and science. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I: Rationality in General -- 1. Seven Desiderata for Rationality -- 2. Arguments for Skepticism -- 3. Skeptical Rationalism -- 4. The Sceptic at Bay -- 5. Esotericism -- 6. Science and the Search for Truth -- 7. Rationality and the Problem of Scientific Traditions -- 8. An Ethic of Cognition -- 9. Methodological Individualism and Institutional Individualism -- 10. Epistemology and Politics -- 11. The Concept of Decision -- 12. Galileo’s Knife -- 13. The Objectivity of Criticism of the Arts -- 14. What is Literature? -- 15. Utopia and the Architect -- II: Rationality and Criticism -- 16. Theories of Rationality -- 17. Rationality and Problem-Solving -- 18. The Choice of Problems and the Limits of Reason -- 19. Rationality and Criticism -- 20. On Explaining Beliefs -- 21. Historicist Relativism and Bootstrap Rationality -- 22. On Two Non-Justificationist Theories -- 23. A Critique of Good Reasons -- III: Rationality and Irrationality -- 24. The Problem of the Rationality of Magic -- 25. Magic and Rationality Again -- 26. A Study in Westernization -- 27. Is Face the Same as Li? -- 28. The Rationality of Dogmatism -- 29. The Rationality of Irrationalism -- For Further Reading -- Sources -- Biographical Sketches -- Name Index.
    Abstract: In our papers on the rationality of magic, we distinghuished, for purposes of analysis, three levels of rationality. First and lowest (rationalitYl) the goal­ directed action of an agent with given aims and circumstances, where among his circumstances we included his knowledge and opinions. On this level the magician's treatment of illness by incantation is as rational as any traditional doctor's blood-letting or any modern one's use of anti-biotics. At the second level (rationalitY2) we add the element of rational thinking or thinking which obeys some set of explicit rules, a level which is not found in magic in general, though it is sometimes given to specific details of magical thinking within the magical thought-system. It was the late Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard who observed that when considering magic in detail the magician may be as consistent or critical as anyone else; but when considering magic in general, or any system of thought in general, the magician could not be critical or even comprehend the criticism. Evans-Pritchard went even further: he was sceptical as to whether it could be done in a truly consistent manner: one cannot be critical of one's own system, he thought. On this level (rationalitY2) of discussion we have explained (earlier) why we prefer to wed Evans­ Pritchard's view of the magician's capacity for piece-meal rationality to Sir James Frazer's view that magic in general is pseudo-rational because it lacks standards of rational thinking.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3491-7
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    Roderick M. Chisholm (1986)
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    Series Statement: Profiles, An International Series on Contemporary Philosophers and Logicians 7
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Self-Profile -- Chisholm on Intentionality, Thought, and Reference -- States of Affairs -- The Objects of Perception -- Chisholm on Certainty -- Chisholm’s Theory of Action -- Replies -- Three -- Bibliography of Roderick Chisholm -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc. ) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library oj Living Phi/osophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of wh at happens in the profession. PRO­ FILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will summarize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of signifi­ cant contribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to­ date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, references to significant reviews and discussions will also be included.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2919-2
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    Instrument Development in the Affective Domain (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789401572590
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 199 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 12
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1 Affective Characteristics: Their Conceptual Definitions -- 2 Constructing Affective Instruments -- 3 Scaling Affective Characteristics -- 4 The Validity of Affective Instruments -- 5 The Reliability of Affective Instruments -- 6 A Review of the Steps for Developing an Affective Instrument -- References -- Appendixes A. Semantic Differential: Me As a Counselor -- B. Occupational Values Inventory: Normative Form 191 Occupational Values Inventory: Ipsative Form -- Author Index.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-7259-0
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    Evaluating Educational and Social Programs : Guidelines for Proposal Review, Onsite Evaluation, Evaluation Contracts, and Technical Assistance (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789401174206
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (368p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 15
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1: Introduction -- Purpose and Organization of This Book -- Description of Programs Upon Which This Book is Based -- Relevance of the Examples Used in This Book to Other Programs -- Section I: Proposal Review Guidelines and Instruments -- 2: Strategies for Eliciting High-Quality Proposals -- 3: Preparing for the Proposal Review -- 4: Conducting the Proposal Review Process and Presenting the Results -- Section II: Onsite Evaluation Guidelines and Procedures -- 5: Uses and Functions of Onsite Evaluations -- 6: Considerations and Activities Preceding the Onsite Visit -- 7: Conducting, Reporting and Evaluating Onsite Evaluation Activities -- Section III: Technical Assistance for Funded Projects -- 8: Organizing a Technical Assistance System -- 9: Providing Technical Assistance -- Section IV: Establishing Evaluation Agreements and Contracts -- 10: Basic Considerations in Establishing Evaluation Contracts and Agreements -- 11: Negotiating and Monitoring Evaluation Contracts and Agreements -- References.
    Abstract: During the past two decades, evaluation has come to play an increasingly important role in the operation of educational and social programs by national, state, and local agencies. Mandates by federal funding agencies that programs they sponsored be evaluated gave impetus to use of evaluation. Realization that evaluation plays a pivotal role in assuring program quality and effectiveness has maintained the use of evaluation even where mandates have been relaxed. With increased use --indeed institutionalization --of evaluation in many community, state, and national agencies, evaluation has matured as a profession, and new evaluation approaches have been developed to aid in program planning, implementation, monitoring, and improvement. Much has been written about various philosophical and theoretical orientations to evaluation, its relationship to program management, appropriate roles evaluation might play, new and sometimes esoteric evaluation methods, and particular evaluation techniques. Useful as these writings are, relatively little has been written about simple but enormously important activities which comprise much of the day-to-day work of the program evaluator. This book is focused on some of these more practical aspects that largely determine the extent to which evaluation will prove helpful.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-7420-6
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    Language and Production : A Critique of the Paradigms (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789400945746
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (208p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 96
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 96
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Anthropology ; Philosophy. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: I: On the Paradigm of Language: Positivism and Hermeneutics as Theories of Objectivation -- II: On the Paradigm of Production: Marxian Materialism and the Problem of the Constitution of the Social World -- 1. On the Meaning of Marx’s Materialism -- 2. Consumption as an Intrinsic Moment of Productive Activity -- 3. Reification and the Antinomies of Its Overcoming -- 4. Production Versus Communication: Paradigm-Change in Radical Theory -- 5. On the Possibility of Critical Theory -- Appendix I: Four Forms of Critical Theory — Some Theses on Marx’s Development -- Appendix II: Marx and the Problem of Technology -- Notes -- Name Index.
    Abstract: In Language and Production, Gyorgy Markus presents us with a pro­ found critique of contemporary social theory: of the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; of the philosophy of language; of hermeneutics and critical theory; and finally, of Marx and of Marxisms. The sweep of Markus' project is complemented by the extraordinary detail of his analysis and the elaborately developed argument which gives the work its clear logical structure: it is a dialectical work. Markus begins with a critique of the paradigm of language and of that scientific ra­ tionality modeled on language, as frameworks for the understanding of social reality, and for a rational 'science of society' . After revealing what he takes to be the essential failure of that paradigm in its positivist ver­ sion (in the work of Sir Karl Popper, who, he argues, remains within the positivist framework despite his differences with other positivists) - Markus examines the alternative interpretations of that paradigm in the hermeneutic tradition from Dilthey through Heidegger and Gadamer, and then in the structural anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss and in the philosophy of language of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In all of these approaches, Markus sees a systematic flaw in the at­ tempt to frame human action as one or another form of linguistic prac­ tice, or even to read human self-constitution as essentially linguistic.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4574-6
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    Rationality, Relativism and the Human Sciences (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789400943629
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (252p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Studies of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium 1
    Series Statement: Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium 1
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I -- Why Studies of Human Capacities Modeled on Ideal Natural Science Can Never Achieve Their Goal -- Narrative versus Analysis in History -- Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science: The Two Essences of Science -- II -- The Intelligibility of Action -- How to Interpret Actions -- Mind as a Social Formation -- III -- Intentionality and Rationality -- The Rationality of Science -- Philosophy, Swarthmore CollegeHeuristics for Scientific and Literary Creativity: The Role of Models, Analogies, and Metaphors -- IV -- Art and Its Mythologies: A Relativist View -- On Relativity, Relativism, and Social Theory -- Rationality and Realism -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium was launched in the early eighties. It began during a particularly lean period in the American economy. But its success is linked as much to the need to be in touch with the rapidly changing currents of the philosophical climate as with the need to insure an adequately stocked professional community in the Philadelphia area faced, perhaps permanently, with the threat of increasing attrition. The member schools of the Consortium now include Bryn Mawr College, the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Villanova University, that is, the schools of the area that offer advanced degrees in philosophy. The philosophy faculties of these schools form the core of the Consortium, which offers graduate students the instructional and library facilities of each member school. The Consortium is also supported by the associated faculties of other regional schools that do not offer advanced degrees - notably, those at Drexel University, Haverford College, La Salle University, and Swarthmore College - both philosophers and members of other departments as well as interested and professionally qualified persons from the entire region. The affiliated and core professionals now number several hundreds, and the Consortium's various ventures have been received most enthusiastically by the academic community. At this moment, the Consortium is planning its fifth year of what it calls the Conferences on the Philosophy of the Human Studies.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4362-9
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    Possibility of the Aesthetic Experience (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789400943728
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (180p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 14
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: Content -- I. Aporetic Character of the Aesthetic Experience -- One: The Idea of Aesthetic Experience -- Two: A Critique of Aesthetics -- Three: The Actualities of Non-Aesthetic Experience -- Four: Can We Speak of ‘Aesthetic Experience’? -- II. Having an Aesthetic Experience -- Five: Experiencing Aesthetically, Aesthetic Experience, and Experience in Aesthetics -- Six: The Deweyan View of Experience -- Seven: Experience and Theory in Aesthetics -- Eight: The Aesthetic Experience: An Exploration -- III. Nature of the Aesthetic Experience -- Nine: What Makes an Experience Aesthetic? -- Ten: Controversy About Aesthetic Attitude: Does Aesthetic Attitude Condition Aesthetic Experience? -- Eleven: Mode of Existence of Aesthetic Qualities.
    Abstract: The majority of aestheticians have focused their attention during the past three decades on the identity, or essential nature, of art: can 'art' be defined? What makes an object a work of art? Under what conditions can we characterize in a classificatory sense an object as an art work? The debate, and at times controversy, over these questions proved to be constructive, intellectually stimulating, and in many cases suggestive of new ideas. I hope this debate continues in its momentum and creative outcome. The time is, however, ripe to direct our attention to another important, yet neglected, concept - viz. , 'aesthetic experience' - which occupies a prominent place in the philosohpy of art. We do not only create art; we also enjoy, i. e. , experience, and evaluate it. How can we theorize about the nature of art in general and the art work in particular, and about what makes an object a good work of art, if we do not experience it? For example, how can we identify an object as an art work and distinguish it from other types of objects unless we first perceive it, that is in a critical, educated manner? Again, how can we judge a work as good, elegant, melodramatic, or beautiful unless we first perceive it and recognize its artistic aspect? It seems to me that experiencing art works is a necessary condition for any reasonable theory on the nature of art and artistic criticism.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4372-8
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    School-Based Evaluation : A Guide for Board Members, Superintendents, Principals, Department Heads, and Teachers (1986)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400942219
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (304p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 14
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1 An Overview and Some Foundations -- 2 The Evaluate-Your-Instruction Process -- 3 The Evaluation of Productivity, Quality, and Quality-with-Equity in Education -- 4 The Learning Event: A High School’s Math Program for the College Bound -- 5 The Learning Event: the Reading Comprehension Program in a K-8 Elementary School -- 6 An Objectives-Driven Example: Certain Language Arts Basic Skills -- 7 A Cross-Cutting, Interdisciplinary Learning Event: The Character Development of the Students in a K-12 District -- 8 Testing Issues Germane to Evaluating Your Instruction -- 9 Instructional Monitoring with Maximum Performance Tests -- 10 Self-Report and Typical Performance Measures -- References -- Appendix A Mathematics Basic Skills Objective List -- Appendix B Objectives for Capitalization, Punctuation, Grammar Terms, and Grammar Usage.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4221-9
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    Decision-Oriented Educational Research (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789400942271
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 11
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: I Background -- 1 Educational Research and Educational Systems -- 2 The Pittsburgh Experience -- II Generalizations About Decision-Oriented Educational Research -- 3 Client Orientation -- 4 The Importance of Being Methodologically Eclectic -- 5 Monitoring Indicators and Tailoring Practice -- 6 Computer-Based Information Systems -- 7 Program Documentation -- 8 Understanding Achievement Test Results -- 9 Utilization and the Role of the Dissemination Process -- 10 Summary, Conclusions, and Implications -- III The Case Histories -- Case History 1 Elementary School Achievement Study -- Case History 2 Achievement Implications of Grade Reorganization -- Case History 3 Evaluation of Project Pass -- Case History 4 A District-Wide Needs Assessment -- Case History 5 Documenting the Development of a School Improvement Program -- Case History 6 Title I Program for Secondary Students -- Case History 7 Middle-School Needs Assessment -- Case History 8 Computer-Based Information Systems -- Case History 9 Documenting the Development of a Secondary Teacher Center -- Case History 10 The Use of Achievement Test Results in Personnel Evaluation -- Case History 11 Selection of a New Reading Program -- References.
    Abstract: Decision-Oriented Educational Research considers a form of educational research that is designed to be directly relevant to the current information requirements of those who are shaping educational policy or managing edu­ cational systems. It was written for those who plan to conduct such research, as well as for policy makers and educational administrators who might have such research conducted for them. The book is divided into three main parts. Part I is background. Chapter 1 describes some of the basic themes that are woven throughout subsequent chapters on decision-oriented research. These themes include the impor­ tance of taking a systems view of educational research; of understanding the nature of decision and policy processes and how these influence system re­ search; of integrating research activities into the larger system's processes; of the role of management in the research process; of researchers and managers sharing a sense of educational purposes; and of emphasizing system improvement as a basic goal of research process. Chapter 2 is a discussion of the background of the research activities that form the bases of this book. Our collaboration with the Pittsburgh public school system is described, as are the methods and structure we used to build the case histories of our work with the district. Part II, encompassing chapters 3 through 9, addresses basic generaliza­ tions about decision-oriented educational research that we have derived from our experiences.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4227-1
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    Critical Perspectives on the Organization and Improvement of Schooling (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789400942295
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 13
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    Abstract: 1 Critical Inquiry for School Renewal: Liberating Theory and Practice -- 2 A Critical Perspective on Administration and Organization in Education -- 3 An Alternative and Critical Perspective for Clinical Supervision in Schools -- 4 Reformulating the Evaluation Process -- Reflections -- 5 On Critical Theory and Educational Practice -- 6 Teaching as Reflective Practice -- Author Index.
    Abstract: Major "paradigm shifts"-replacing one "world view" with another­ regarding what constitutes appropriate knowledge do not happen over­ night. Centuries usually intervene in the process. Even minor shifts­ admitting alternative world views into the domain of legitimate knowledge­ producing theory and practice-require decades of controversy, especially, it seems to us, in the field of education. It has only been in the last 20 years or so that the educational research community has begun to accept the "scientific" credibility of the qualitative approaches to inquiry such as participant observation, case study, ethnogra­ phy, and the like. In fact, these methods, with their long and distinguished philosophical traditions in phenomenology, have really only come into their own within the last decade. The critical perspective on generating and evaluating knowledge and practice-what this book is mostly about-is in many ways a radical depar­ ture from both the more traditional quantitative and qualitative perspec­ tives. The traditional approaches, in fact, are far more similar to one another than they are to the critical perspective. This is the case, in our view, for one crucial reason: Both the more quantitative, empirical-analytic and qualitative, interpretive traditions share a fundamental epistemological commitment: they both eschew ideology and human interests as explicit components in their paradigms of inquiry. Ideology and human interests, however, are the "bread and butter" of a critical approach to inquiry.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4229-5
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    Likeness to Truth (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789400946583
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (236p) , digital
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    Series Statement: The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 30
    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 30
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic ; Philosophy. ; Mathematical logic.
    Abstract: One: Truth and Closeness to Truth -- 1.1 The problem of truthlikeness -- 1.2 Explications and intuitions -- 1.3 Some adequacy conditions -- Notes -- Two: Popper on Truthlikeness -- 2.1 Truthlikeness in Popper’s methodology -- 2.2 Truthlikeness by truth content and falsity content -- 2.3 Measuring truth content and falsity content -- Notes -- Three: Distance in Logical Space -- 3.1 Conceptual frameworks and possible worlds -- 3.2 Distance between propositions -- 3.3 Measuring the symmetric difference -- 3.4 Truthlikeness for a propositional framework -- 3.5 Truthlikeness by similarity spheres -- Notes -- Four: Truthlikeness by Distributive Normal Forms -- 4.1 Languages and pictures -- 4.2 Worlds and interpretations -- 4.3 Constituents in a first-order language -- 4.4 The symmetric difference on constituents -- 4.5 The propositional measure extended -- Notes -- Five: Beyond First-Order Truthlikeness -- 5.1 Questions, answers, and propositional distance again -- 5.2 Infinitely deep theories and ultimate questions -- 5.3 Higher-order frameworks -- 5.4 Verisimilitude and legisimilitude -- Notes -- Six: Truthlikeness and Translation -- 6.1 Invariance under translation -- 6.2 The identity of states of affairs -- 6.3 Coactualisation and structure -- 6.4 Two criticisms of the structure argument -- 6.5 Numerical accuracy, confirmation and disconfirmation -- 6.6 Privileged properties -- Notes -- Seven: Truthlikeness, Content, and Utility -- 7.1 The content condition -- 7.2 The attractions of brute strength -- 7.3 Epistemic utilities -- 7.4 Accuracy and action: a conjecture -- Notes -- 8.1 First-order languages and their interpretations -- 8.2 Higher-order languages -- 8.3 Examples J and K formalized -- 8.4 First-order normal forms -- 8.5 Permutative normal forms -- 8.6 The distance between constituents -- Notes -- References.
    Abstract: The concept of likeness to truth, like that of truth itself, is fundamental to a realist conception of inquiry. To demonstrate this we need only make two rather modest aim of an inquiry, as an inquiry, is realist assumptions: the truth doctrine (that the the truth of some matter) and the progress doctrine (that one false theory may realise this aim better than another). Together these yield the conclusion that a false theory may be more truthlike, or closer to the truth, than another. It is the aim of this book to give a rigorous philosophical analysis of the concept of likeness to truth, and to examine the consequences, some of them no doubt surprising to those who have been unduly impressed by the (admittedly important) true/false dichotomy. Truthlikeness is not only a requirement of a particular philosophical outlook, it is as deeply embedded in common sense as the concept of truth. Everyone seems to be capable of grading various propositions, in different (hypothetical) situations, according to their closeness to the truth in those situations. And (if my experience is anything to go by) there is remarkable unanimity on these pretheoretical judge­ ments. This is not proof that there is a single coherent concept underlying these judgements. The whole point of engaging in philosophical analysis is to make this claim plausible.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4658-3
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    Hector-Neri Castañeda (1986)
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    Series Statement: Profiles, An International Series on Contemporary Philosophers and Logicians 6
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: One -- Self-Profile -- Two -- Casta?eda’s Ontology -- Mind and Guise: Castaneda’s Philosophy of Mind in the World Order -- Castaneda’s Philosophy of Language -- Castaneda’s Theory of Knowing -- Thinking-to-Be and Thinking-to-Do: Some Remarks on Casta?eda on Believing and Intending -- Good Samaritans and Castaneda’s System of Deontic Logic -- Casta?eda’s Theory of Deontic Meaning and Truth -- Casta?eda Theory of Morality -- Casta?eda on Plato, Leibniz, and Kant -- Replies -- Three -- Philosophical Bibliography of Hector-Neri Casta?Eda -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the logic. results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schipp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profession. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will summarize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of significant contribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, references to significant reviews and discussion will also be included.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4534-0
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    Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker : Papers Presented at the Fifth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter, April 1983 (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789400943605
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (248p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 13
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I. Nietzsche and the Method of Philosophy -- Nietzsche on Philosophy, Interpretation, and Truth -- Nietzsche, Hume, and the Genealogical Method -- Nietzsche and the Project of Bringing Philosophy to an End -- Nietzsche and Contemporary Hermeneutics -- II. Varieties of Nietzsche’s Affirmation -- A More Severe Morality: Nietzsche’s Affirmative Ethics -- Will to Knowledge, Will to Ignorance, and Will to Power in Beyond Good and Evil -- The Socratic Nietzsche -- Nietzsche’s Concept of Education -- Nietzsche’s Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy -- Nietzsche: Psychology vs. Philosophy, and Freedom -- Nietzsche’s Enticing Psychology of Power -- III. Nietzschean Affinities and Confrontations -- Nietzsche and Spinoza: amor fati and amor dei -- Nietzsche und Heine. Kritik des christlichen Gottesbegriffs -- Nietzsche—Wagner im Sommer 1878.
    Abstract: The full century that has elapsed since Nietzsche was at the height of his work did not obliterate his impact. In many ways he is still a contemporary philosopher, even in that sense of 'contemporary' which points to the future. We may have outgrown his style (always, however, admirable and exciting to read), his sense of drama, his creative exaggeration, his sometimes flamboy­ ant posture of a rebel wavering between the heroic and the puerile. Yet Nietzsche's critique of transcendental values and, especially, his attack on the inherited conceptions of rationality remain pertinent and continue to pro­ voke anew cultural critique or dissent. Today Nietzsche is no longer discussed apologetically, nor is his radicalism shunned or suppressed. That his work remains the object of extremely diverse readings is befitting a philosopher who replaced the concept of truth with that of interpretation. It is, indeed, around the concept of interpretation that much of the rem:wed interest in Nietzsche seems to center today. Special emphasis is being laid on his manner of doing philosophy, and his views on interpretation and the genealogical method are often re-read in the context of contemporary hermeneutics and "deconstructionist" positions.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4360-5
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    An Ontology of Consciousness (1986)
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    ISBN: 9789401707152
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 205 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 18
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ontology ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I—Psychological Methods of Observing Consciousness -- II—The Relation between Consciousness and Physiology -- III—The Ego as Continuity of Conscious Functions -- IV—Conscious Structures -- V—The Directed Attention Progression.
    Abstract: The object of this study is to find a coherent theoretical approach to three problems which appear to interrelate in complex ways: (1) What is the ontological status of consciousness? (2) How can there be 'un­ conscious,' 'prereflective' or 'self-alienated' consciousness? And (3) Is there a 'self' or 'ego' formed by means of the interrelation of more elementary states of consciousness? The motivation for combining such a diversity of difficult questions is that we often learn more by looking at interrelations of problems than we could by viewing them only in isola­ tion. The three questions posed here have emerged as especially prob­ lematic in the context of twentieth century philosophy. 1. The question of the ontological status of consciousness The question 'What is consciousness?' is one of the most perplexing in philosophy-so perplexing that many have been motivated to proceed as though consciousness did not exist. If William James was speaking rhetorically when he said "Consciousness does not exist," 1 many behaviorists of the recent past were not. 2 James meant only to imply that consciousness is not an independently existing soul-substance, along­ side physical substances. He did not mean that we do not really 'have' consciousness, and he did not provide final resolution for the problem of the causal interrelations between consciousness and the physical realm (e. g. , our bodies). Many recent philosophers and psychologists, however, try to proceed as though these problems did not exist.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0715-2
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    Conducting Educational Needs Assessments (1985)
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    ISBN: 9789401178075
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 229 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 10
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1 Introduction to Needs Assessment -- The Current Practice of Needs Assessment -- Current Needs Assessment Literature -- Problems in the Practice and Theory of Needs Assessment -- Definition of Need -- The Needs Assessment Process -- A Checklist for Designing and Evaluating Needs Assessments -- Summary -- 2 Preparation -- Identifying the Client, Other Audiences, and the Target Population -- Purposes of the Needs Assessment -- Determining Information Needs -- Identifying the Agency or Person that Will Conduct the Assessment -- Needs Assessment Planning: An Example -- Developing the Basic Design -- Converting the Design into a Management Plan -- Institutional Support -- Reaching and Formalizing Agreements to Govern the Assessment -- The Example Revisited -- Appendix 2A: Needs Assessment Planning Chart -- Appendix 2B: Planning Budget -- Appendix 2C: Summary Budget -- Appendix 2D: Memorandum of Agreement Between the School Board and Learning Disabilities Council -- Appendix 2E: Grant Letter -- 3 Information Gathering -- Definition -- Designing and Operationalizing the Information Collection Plan -- Planning Information Collection -- Conducting Observation Procedures -- 4 Analysis -- Preliminary Analysis -- Needs and Strengths Analysis -- Treatments Analysis -- Summary -- 5 Reporting Needs Assessment Information -- General Guidelines -- Reporting Criteria -- Preparing a Reporting Plan -- Functional Elements in Reporting -- Reporting Examples -- Charts, Graphs, and Tables -- Summary -- 6 Evaluating the Needs Assessment -- Why Evaluate a Needs Assessment? -- Standards of a Good Needs Assessment -- Evaluation Questions -- Types of Evaluation -- Summary -- Appendix 6A: Questions for Evaluating a Needs Assessment -- Appendix 6B: Checklist for Judging the Adequacy of an Evaluation Design -- Appendix A: Establishing Validity and Reliability in Instrumentation -- Appendix B: Techniques for Analyzing Needs Assessment Information.
    Abstract: What goals should be addressed by educational programs? What priorities should be assigned to the different goals? What funds should be allocated to each goal? How can quality services be maintained with declining school enrollments and shrinking revenues? What programs could be cut if necessary? The ebb and flow of the student population, the changing needs of our society and the fluctuation of resources constantly impinge on the education system. Educators must deal with students, communities, and social institutions that are dynamic, resulting in changing needs. It is in the context of attempting to be responsive to these changes, and to the many wishes and needs that schools are asked to address, that needs assessment can be useful. Needs assessment is a process that helps one to identify and examine both values and information. It provides direction for making decisions about programs and resources. It can include such relatively objective procedures as the statistical description and analysis of standardized test data and such subjective procedures as public testimony and values clarification activities. Needs assessment can be a part of community relations, facilities planning and consolidation, program development and evaluation, and resource allocation. Needs assessment thus addresses a xiii XIV PREFACE broad array of purposes and requires that many different kinds of procedures be available for gathering and analyzing information. This book was written with this wide variation of practices in mind.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-7807-5
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    Philosophy, its History and Historiography (1985)
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    ISBN: 9789400953178
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 337 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Royal Institute of Philosophy Conferences 3
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; History ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: The End of Metaphysics: Philosophy’s Supreme Fiction? -- ‘The End of Metaphysics’ and the Historiography of Philosophy -- The End of Metaphysics: A Comment -- Reply to Ayers and Manser -- Epistemology without Foundations -- Philosophy after Rorty -- Comment on Rorty -- ‘Heterodox’, ‘Xenodox’, and Hermeneutic Dialogue -- Reply to Mary Hesse -- Occultism and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century -- Occultism and Reason -- Reply to Simon Schaffer -- First Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in Descartes -- Cartesian Science in France, 1660–1700 -- Caricatures in the History of Philosophy: The Case of Spinoza -- Leibniz’s Break with Cartesian ‘Rationalism’ -- Lockean Mechanism -- Lockean Mechanism: A Comment -- Hume and the “Metaphysical Argument A Priori” -- The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Hume’s Theory of the Self -- Kant’s Refutation of Idealism -- The Hagiography of Common Sense: Dugald Stewart’s Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid.
    Abstract: The Royal Institute of Philosophy has been sponsoring conferences in alternate years since 1969. These have from the start been intended to be of interest to persons who are not philosophers by profession. They have mainly focused on interdisciplinary areas such as the philosophies of psychology, education and the social sciences. The volumes arising from these conferences have included discussions between philosophers and distinguished practitioners of other disciplines relevant to the chosen topic. Beginning with the 1979 conference on 'Law, Morality and Rights' and the 1981 conference on 'Space, Time and Causality' these volumes are now constituted as a series. It is h.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5317-8
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    Evaluation of Continuing Education in the Health Professions (1985)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400949867
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (192p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 18
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    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: 1 The Need, the Conference, the Book -- 2 The Relevance of the Joint Committee Standards for Improving Evaluations in Continuing Education in the Health Professions -- 3 Another View of the Standards -- 4 Design Problems in Evaluation -- 5 Contemporary Evaluation Designs in Continuing Education -- 6 Data-Collection Problems in Evaluation -- 7 Data-Collection Techniques in Evaluation -- 8 Data Analysis in Evaluation -- 9 Another View of Data Analysis -- 10 Politics of Evaluation -- 11 The State of the Art: A Summary Statement -- Name Index.
    Abstract: Phil R. Manning "Can you prove that continuing education really makes any difference?" Over the years, educators concerned with continuing education (CE) for health professionals have either heard or voiced that question in one form or another more than once. But because of the difficulty in measuring the specific effects of a given course, program, or conference, the question has not been answered satisfactorily. Since CE is costly, since CE is now mandated in some states for re-registration, and since its worth has not been proven in for­ mal evaluation research, the pressure to evaluate remains strong. The question can be partially answered by a more careful definition of continuing education, particularly the goals to be achieved by CEo Another part of the answer depends on the development of a stronger commitment to evaluation of CE by its providers. But a significant part of the answer might be provided through the improvement of methods used in evaluation of continuing education for health professionals. To address this last concern, the Development and Demonstration Center in Continuing Education for the Health Professions of the Univer­ sity of Southern California organized and conducted a meeting of academi­ cians and practitioners in evaluation of continuing education. During a three-day period, participants heard formal presentations by five invited speakers and then discussed the application of the state of the art of educa­ tional evaluation to problems of evaluation of continuing education for health professionals.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4986-7
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    Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice (1985)
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    ISBN: 9789400954243
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 93
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 93
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Sociology. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: I: Problems and Theories in the Social Sciences -- I.1. Objectivism Versus Relativism -- 1 / The Notion of a Social Science -- 2 / Social Perception and Social Change -- 3 / Realism and the Supposed Poverty of Sociological Theories -- 4 / Rationality and Relativism -- 5 / Popper on the Difference between the Natural and the Social Sciences -- I.2. Philosophy of Anthropology -- 6 / The Emergence of Social Anthropology from Philosophy -- 7 / On Theories of Fieldwork and the Scientific Character of Social Anthropology -- 8 / Limits to Functionalism and Alternatives to It in Anthropology -- 9 / On the Objectivity of Anthropology -- 10 / The Problem of Ethical Integrity in Participant Observation -- 11 / Anthropology as Science and the Anthropology of Science and of Anthropology -- 12 / Epistle to the Anthropologists -- 13 / On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology -- 14 / The Problem of the Ethnographic Real -- 15 / Anthropologists and the Irrational -- 16 / Freeman on Mead -- II: Applications and Implications -- II.1 Society and the Arts -- 17 / The Objectivity of Criticism of the Arts -- 18 / The Rationality of Creativity -- II.2. Society and Technology -- 19 / Technology and the Structure of Knowledge -- 20 / The Social Character of Technological Problems -- 21 / Is Technology Unnatural? -- 22 / Utopia and the Architect -- II.3. Society and social control -- 23 / Nationalism and the Social Sciences -- 24 / Explorations in the Social Career of Movies: Business and Religion -- 25 / Methodological and Conceptual Problems in the Study of Pornography and Violence -- Sources -- List of Publications -- Indexes.
    Abstract: I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship. Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser­ vation not as useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology; rather, it all depends on the problem-situation. And so Jarvie remained an anthro­ pologist at heart, who, in addition to some studies in rather conventional anthropological or sociological molds, also studied the tribe of social scien­ tists, but also critically examining their problems - especially their overall, rather philosophical problems, but not always so: a few of the studies in­ cluded in this volume exemplify his work on specific issues, whether of technology, or architecture, or nationalism in the academy, or moviemaking, or even movies exhibiting excessive sex and violence. These studies attract his attention both on account of their own merit and on account of their need for new and powerful research tools, such as those which he has forged in his own intellectual workshop over the last two decades.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5424-3
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    Alvin Plantinga (1985)
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    ISBN: 9789400952232
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (436p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Profiles, An International Series on Contemporary Philosophers and Logicians 5
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: One -- Self-Profile -- Two -- Plantinga on Trans-World Identity -- Plantinga on Possible Worlds -- Plantinga on the Reduction of Possibilist Discourse -- Plantinga’s Theory of Proper Names -- Plantinga and the Philosophy of Mind -- Plantinga on the Problem of Evil -- Plantinga and the Ontological Argument -- Plantinga on Foreknowledge and Freedom -- Plantinga’s Epistemology of Religious Belief -- Replies -- Three -- Bibliography of Alvin Plantinga -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc.) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is designed to present the research activity and the results of already outstanding personalities and schools and of newly emerging ones in the various fields of philosophy and logic. There are many Festschrift volumes dedicated to various philosophers. There is the celebrated Library of Living Philosophers edited by P. A. Schilpp whose format influenced the present enterprise. Still they can only cover very little of the contemporary philosophical scene. Faced with a tremendous expansion of philosophical information and with an almost frightening division of labor and increasing specialization we need systematic and regular ways of keeping track of what happens in the profession. PROFILES is intended to perform such a function. Each volume is devoted to one or several philosophers whose views and results are presented and discussed. The profiled philosopher(s) will summarize and review his (their) own work in the main fields of significant contribution. This work will be discussed and evaluated by invited contributors. Relevant historical and/or biographical data, an up-to-date bibliography with short abstracts of the most important works and, whenever possible, references to significant reviews and discussions will also be included.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5223-2
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    Texts in Context : Revisionist Methods for Studying the History of Ideas (1985)
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    ISBN: 9789400950757
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (296p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library 12
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: History, Historicism, and Hermeneutics -- One British Idealism and the Philosophy of History: Sources of Sustenance -- Two Historians of Political Thought and Their Critics: Sources of Anxiety -- Three Philosophical History: W.H. Greenleaf and the Study of the History of Political Thought -- Four The Priority of Paradigms: The Pocock Alternative -- Five The View from the Inside: Skinner and the Priority of Retrieving Authorial Intentions -- Assessment and Conclusion.
    Abstract: The methodology of the study of the history of political thought is an area of study which has occupied my interests for nearly a decade. I was introduced to the subject in University College, Swansea. My teachers there provided me with an excellent grounding in political studies. I am particularly indebted to Bruce Haddock, Peter Nicholson and W. H. Greenleaf. Professor Greenleaf was kind enough to supply me with a copy of his bibliography and copies of two of his unpublished papers. I continued to pursue my interest in methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am indebted to Ken Minogue and Robert Orr who taught me there. My greatest debt is to Dr. Joseph Femia ofthe University of Liverpool who devoted a great deal of time to considering the arguments presented here. His criticisms and suggestions for improvement proved to be invaluable. I would also like to thank Alan Ryan for his general comments and encouraging advice. It would be remiss of me if I neglected to express my gratitude to Dewi Beynon who was my first teacher of politics. The research for this project was carried out in the following places; The British Library of Political Science, London; The Sidney Jones Library, University of Liverpool; The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; The Main Library, University of Edinburgh; The Arts and Social Science Library, University College, Cardiff; and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5075-7
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