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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789401720168
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 262 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées 128
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Ethics ; Pragmatism ; History ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: I: Fundamentals of Moral Action -- Empirical and Intelligible Character in the Critique of Pure Reason -- Morality as Freedom -- On the Formalism of Kant’s Ethics -- Agency and Anthropology in Kant’s Groundwork -- The Submission of our Sensuous Nature to the Moral Law in the Second Critique -- II: Moral Practice and Knowledge -- Theory as Practice in Kant -- Autonomy, Omniscience and the Ethical Imagination: From Theoretical to Practical Philosophy in Kant -- The Interests of Reason: From Metaphysics to Moral History -- III: From Morality to Justice and History -- Kant’s Principle of Justice as Categorical Imperative of Law -- Histoire et Guerre chez Kant -- Freedom as a Regulative Principle: On Some Aspects of the Kant-Herder Controversy on the Philosophy of History -- IV: Kant in Contemporary Contexts -- How Kantian is Rawls’s “Kantian Constructivism”? -- The Ideal Speech Situation: Neo-Kantian Ethics in Habermas and Apel -- Kant: Respect, Individuality and Dependence.
    Abstract: That Kant's ideas remain vitally present in ethical thinking today is as impossible to deny as it is to overlook their less persisting aspects and sometimes outdated idiom. The essays in this volume attempt to reassess some crucial questions in Kant's practical philosophy both by sketching the lines for new systematic interpretations and by examining how Kantian themes apply to contemporary moral concerns. In the previous decade, when Kant was primarily read as an answer to utilitarianism, emphasis was mainly laid on the fundamentals of his moral theory, stressing such concepts as universalization, duty for its own sake, personal autonomy, unconditional imperatives or humanity as end-in-itself, using the Groundwork and its broader (ifless popular) systematic parallel, the Analytic of the Critique of Practical Reason, as main sources. In recent years, however, emphasis has shifted and become diversified. The present essays reflect this diversification in discussing the extension of Kantian ethics in the domains of law, justice, politics and moral history, and also in considering such meta-philosophical questions as the relation between the various "inter­ ests of reason" (as Kant calls them), above all between knowledge and moral practice. The papers were first presented at the Seventh Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter, held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in December 1986. The Jerusalem Philosophical Encounters are a series of bi-annual international symposia, in which philosophers of different backgrounds meet in Jerusalem to discuss a common issue. Organized by the S. H.
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  • 2
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    ISBN: 9789400924765
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (234p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 211
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Humanities ; Logic ; Computational linguistics ; Mathematical logic.
    Abstract: I. Philosophy? -- 1. Philosophy and the Sciences -- 2. Impressions of Philosophy -- 3. The Computational Model of the Mind, a panel discussion -- 4. Discussion: Progress in Philosophy -- 5. Philosophy and the Academy -- II. Working. -- 1. Pale Fire Solved -- 2. Incremental Acquisition and a Parametrized Model of Grammar -- 3. What are General Equilibrium Theories? -- 4. Effective Epistemology, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence -- 5. The Flaws in Sen’s Case Against Paretian Libertariansism -- 6. Decisions without Ordering -- 7. Reflections on Hilbert’s Program -- 8. The Tetrad Project -- III. Postscriptum -- 1. Rationality Unbound.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789400925380
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (320p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 34
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Religion (General) ; Ethics ; Religion. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: I: A Prologue -- Some Basic Considerations on Moral Teaching in the Church -- II: The Philosophical Foundations -- Nature and Human Nature as the Norm in Medical Ethics -- The Human Person and Philosophy of Medicine: A Response to William A. Wallace -- Philosophical Foundations of Catholic Medical Morals (translated by E. E. Langan) -- Moral Disagreements in Catholicism: A Commentary on Wallace, Schüller, and Thomasma -- III: The Theological Foundations -- “Catholic” Medical Moral Theology? -- “Theological” Medical Morality? A Response to Joseph Fuchs -- Theological Argument and Hermeneutics in Bioethics -- The Doctrinal Starting Points for Theology and Hermeneutics in Bioethics: A Response to Klaus Demmer -- A Brief History of Medical Ethics from the Roman Catholic Perspective: Comments on the Essays of Fuchs, Cahill, Demmer, and Hellwig -- IV: Pluralism within the Church -- Pluralism within the Church -- One Church, Plural Theologies -- Is Ethics One or Many? -- Can Ethics Be Contradictory?: A Response to Gerard J. Hughes, S. J. -- V: Pluralism in Society -- Religious Pluralism and Social Policy: The Case of Health Care -- Consensus, Moral Witness, and Health-Care Issues: A Dialogue with J. Bryan Hehir -- Notes on a Catholic Vision of Pluralism -- A Brief Commentary on “Notes on a Catholic Vision of Pluralism” -- VI: Agapeistic Medical Ethics -- The Art and Science of Medicine -- Agape and Ethics: Some Reflections on Medical Morals from a Catholic Christian Perspective -- Notes on Contributors.
    Abstract: CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL MORALS A Catholic perspective on medical morals antedates the current world­ wide interest in medical and biomedical ethics by many centuries[5]. Discussions about the moral status of the fetus, abortion, contraception, and sterilization can be found in the writings of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. Teachings on various aspects of medical morals were scattered throughout the penitential books of the early medieval church and later in more formal treatises when moral theology became recog­ nized as a distinct discipline. Still later, medical morality was incorpor­ ated into the many pastoral works on medicine. Finally, in the contemporary period, works that strictly focus on medical ethics are produced by Catholic moral theologians who have special interests in matters medical. Moreover, this long tradition of teaching has been put into practice in the medical moral directives governing the operation of hospitals under Catholic sponsorship. Catholic hospitals were monitored by Ethics Committees long before such committees were recommended by the New Jersey Court in the Karen Ann Quinlan case or by the President's Commission in 1983 ([8, 9]). Underlying the Catholic moral tradition was the use of the casuistic method, which since the 17th and 18th centuries was employed by Catholic moralists to study and resolve concrete clinical ethical dilem­ mas. The history of casuistry is of renewed interest today when the case method has become so widely used in the current revival of interest in medical ethics[ll].
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    ISBN: 9789400923034
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (220p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Technology 6
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Humanities ; Ethics ; Technology—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I Practical Problems -- Cybernetics, Culpability, and Risk: Automatic Launch and Accidental War -- Catastrophic Possibilities of Space-Based Defense -- Judgment and Policy: The Two-Step in Mandated Science and Technology -- II Historical Dimensions -- Skull’s Darkroom: The Camera Obscura and Subjectivity -- Workplace Democracy for Teachers: John Dewey’s Contribution -- Doing and Making in a Democracy: Dewey’s Experience of Technology -- Pragmatism, Praxis, and the Technological -- III International and Intergenerational Perspectives -- Philosophy of Technology in China -- Design Methodology: A Personal Statement -- Responsibility and Future Generations: A Constructivist Model -- Name Index.
    Abstract: The corps of philosophers who make up the Society for Philosophy & Technology has now been collaborating, in one fashion or another, for almost fifteen years. In addition, the number of philosophers, world-wide, who have begun to focus their analytical skills on technology and related social problems grows increasingly every year. {It would certainly swell the ranks if all of them joined the Society!) It seems more than ap­ propriate, in this context, to publish a miscellaneous volume that em­ phasizes the extraordinary range and diversity of contemporary contribu­ tions to the philosophical understanding of the exceedingly complex phenomenon that is modern technology. My thanks, once again, to the anonymous referees who do so much to maintain standards for the series. And thanks also to the secretaries - Mary Imperatore and Dorothy Milsom - in the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware; their typing and retyping of the MSS, and especially notes and references, also contributes to keeping our standards high. PAUL T. DURBIN vii Paul T. Durbin (ed.), Philosophy ofT echnology, p. vii.
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9789400923683
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (364p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Contributions To Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 2
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    Keywords: Education ; History ; Humanities ; Art—Study and teaching. ; Education, Higher.
    Abstract: One Phenomenology and the Objective of Historiography -- Two The Idea of Being: A Platonic Speculation -- Three On Parsing the Parmenides -- Four On Participation: Beginning a Philosophical Grammar -- Five On Ritual and Rhetoric in Plato -- Six The Two Republics: A Study in Dialectic -- Seven The Liberal Arts and Plato’s Relation to Them -- Eight Saint Augustine’s Christian Dialectic -- Nine Faith and Reason in Plato and St. Augustine: A Further Dialectic -- Ten Descartes’ Revision of the Cartesian Dualism -- Eleven On Kant’s Philosophic Grammar of Mathematics -- Twelve Is Modern Physics Possible Within Kant’s Philosophy? -- Thirteen On Kant’s Refutation of Metaphysics -- Fourteen Husserl’s Ideas in the Liberal Arts Tradition -- Fifteen On the Structure and Value of the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty -- Sixteen The Unity of the Liberal Arts and the University -- Seventeen Modes of Being and Their Relation to the Liberal Arts and Artist.
    Abstract: As this collection of essays demonstrates, over a long career Edward Goodwin Ballard has written on a wide range of topics of philosophical interest. Although the present volume can be enjoy­ ably browsed, it is not simply a sampling of his writings. Rather, herein Professor Ballard has chosen and organized essays which pertain to the major concerns of his philosophic life. He has long held that the function of philosophy, particularly in a time such as ours, is the discernment and analysis of basic principles (archai) and their consequences. Indeed, in Philosophy at the Crossroads. he recommended focusing upon the history of philosophy understood as the movement of recognizing and interpreting the shifts in first principles as they reflect and determine human change. For Ballard, the study of the history of philosophy, like philosophy itself, is not so much a body of knowledge as an exercise (an art) whiQh moves the practitioner towards social and individual maturity. He holds, along with Plato and Husserl, that philosophy is a process of conversion to the love of wisdom as well as a grasp of the means for its attainment. Throughout his writings, Ballard has maintained that the difficulties of this journey have to do with the limitations of the pilgrim. Human being is perspectival, finite, and inevitably ignorant. Philosophic command and self -recognition reside in the just assessment of the limits of human knowledge.
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    ISBN: 9789400911819
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (262p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 7
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 7
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    Keywords: Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy of mind ; Artificial intelligence ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Why There Still Has To Be a Language of Thought -- How Much of the Mind is a Computer? -- Computational Functional Psychology: Problems and Prospects -- Belief and Responsibility -- Mental Images: Should Cognitive Science Learn from Neurophysiology? -- How NOT to Naturalize the Theory of Action -- Notes Toward a Faculty Theory of Cognitive Consciousness -- Modularity, Schemas and Neurons: A Critique of Fodor -- Action Explanation and the Nature of Mind -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early - though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne imme­ diately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. "Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further­ more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encour­ aged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9789401578387
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (V, 288 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 35
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: Greek Philosophers on Euthanasia and Suicide -- A Historical Introduction to Jewish Casuistry on Suicide and Euthanasia -- Suicide and Early Christian Values -- The Ethics of Suicide in the Renaissance and Reformation -- Suicide in the Age of Reason -- Sanctity of Life and Suicide: Tensions and Developments within Common Morality -- Death by Free Choice: Modern Variations on an Antique Theme.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9789401578257
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 260 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences a Yearbook 13
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 13
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Science Philosophy ; Science—Philosophy. ; Sociology.
    Abstract: One Mapping the Study of Scientific Cognition -- The Units of Analysis in Science Studies -- Contributions of Psychology to an Integrative Science Studies: The Shape of Things to Come -- Two Models for Studying Scientific Cognition -- Error and Scientific Reasoning: An Experimental Inquiry -- Scientific Cognition: Hot or Cold? -- Tacit Knowledge and the Project of Computer Modelling Cognitive Processes in Science -- Three The Modularity of Scientific Cognition -- Granny, the Naked Emperor and the Second Cognitive Revolution -- Cognitive Process and Social Practice: The Case of Experimental Macroscopic Physics -- Four Language as an Indicator of Scientific Cognition -- Models of Language Learning and their Implications for Social Constructionist Analyses of Scientific Belief -- Professor Campbell on Models of Language-Learning and the Sociology of Science: A Reply -- Reductionist Rhetoric: Expository Strategies and the Development of the Molecular Neurobiology of Behavior -- Five The Prospects for an Integration of Approaches -- Representation, Cognition and Self: What Hope for an Integration of Psychology and Sociology? -- Integrating the Science Studies Disciplines -- Participants at the Yearbook Conference.
    Abstract: If nothing else, the twelve papers assembled in this volume should lay to rest the idea that the interesting debates about the nature of science are still being conducted by "internalists" vs. "externalists,"" rationalists" vs. "arationalists, n or even "normative epistemologists" vs. "empirical sociologists of knowledge. " Although these distinctions continue to haunt much of the theoretical discussion in philosophy and sociology of science, our authors have managed to elude their strictures by finally getting beyond the post-positivist preoccupation of defending a certain division of labor among the science studies disciplines. But this is hardly to claim that our historians, philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists have brought about an "end of ideology," or even an "era of good feelings," to their debates. Rather, they have drawn new lines of battle which center more squarely than ever on practical matters of evaluating and selecting methods for studying science. To get a vivid sense of the new terrain that was staked out at the Yearbook conference, let us start by meditating on a picture. The front cover of a recent collection of sociological studies edited by one of us (Woolgar 1988) bears a stylized picture of a series of lined up open books presented in a typical perspective fashion. The global shape comes close to a trapezium, and is composed of smaller trapeziums gradually decreasing in size and piled upon each other so as to suggest a line receding in depth. The perspective is stylized too.
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9789400925953
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (416p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 155
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Logic ; Philosophy of mind ; Artificial intelligence
    Abstract: I / Introduction -- 1. The Revival of Mental Philosophy -- 2. Mechanism -- 3. Naturalism -- 4. Two Problems of Mind -- II / What Is a Rule of Mind? -- 1. Signals and Control -- 2. Turing Machines -- 3. Logic and Logic of Mind -- 4. Nerve Networks and Finite Automata -- 5. Computer Logic -- 6. Glimpses from Psychology -- 7. Summary on Rules -- III / Behavior and Structure -- 1. Some Varieties of Automata -- 2. Fitting and Guiding -- 3. Empirical Realism -- IV / Mechanism — Arguments PRO and CON -- 1. Thinking Machines -- 2. The Argument from Analogy -- 3. Psychological Explanation and Church’s Thesis -- 4. On the Dissimilarity of Behaviors -- 5. Computers, Determinism, and Action -- 6. Summary to the Main Argument from Analogy -- V / Functionalism, Rationalism, and Cognitivism -- 1. Psychological and Automaton States -- 2. Behaviorism -- 3. Neorationalism -- 4. Cognitivism -- VI / The Logic of Acceptance -- 1. Universals, Gestalten, and Taking -- 2. Acceptance -- 3. Expectation -- 4. Family Resemblances -- VII / Perception -- 1. Perceptual Objects -- 2. Perception Perspectives -- VIII / Belief and Desire -- 1. Perceptual Belief -- 2. Desire -- 3. A Model of Desire -- 4. Standing Belief — Representation -- IX / Reference and Truth -- 1. Pure Semantics versus User Semantics -- 2. Belief Sentences -- 3. Denotation -- 4. A Theory of Truth -- 5. Adequacy -- X / Toward Meaning -- 1. Linguistic Meaning -- 2. Propositions -- 3. Intensions of Names and Predicates -- XI / Psychological Theory and the Mindbrain Problem -- 1. Realism and Reduction -- 2. Explanation -- 3. Free Will -- 4. Mental Occurrents -- Table of Figures, Formulas, and Tables -- Notes.
    Abstract: This book presents a mechanist philosophy of mind. I hold that the human mind is a system of computational or recursive rules that are embodied in the nervous system; that the material presence of these rules accounts for perception, conception, speech, belief, desire, intentional acts, and other forms of intelligence. In this edition I have retained the whole of the fIrst edition except for discussion of issues which no longer are relevant in philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology. Earlier reference to disputes of the 1960's and 70's between hard-line empiricists and neorationalists over the psychological status of grammars and language acquisition, for instance, has simply been dropped. In place of such material I have entered some timely or new topics and a few changes. There are brief references to the question of computer versus distributed processing (connectionist) theories. Many of these questions dissolve if one distinguishes as I now do in Chapter II between free and embodied algorithms. I have also added to my comments on artifIcal in­ telligence some reflections. on Searle's Chinese Translator. The irreducibility of machine functionalist psychology in my version or any other has been exaggerated. Input, output, and state entities are token identical to physical or biological things of some sort, while a machine system as a collection of recursive rules is type identical to representatives of equivalence classes. This nuld technicality emerges in Chapter XI. It entails that so-called "anomalous monism" is right in one sense and wrong in another.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9789400923607
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 44
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Humanities ; Philosophy of mind ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Coherence, Justification, and Knowledge: The Current Debate -- I. Abstracts of Contributed Essays -- II. Focus: The Work of Keith Lehrer -- 1. Lehrer’s Coherentism and the Isolation Objection -- 2. Personal Coherence, Objectivity and Reliability -- 3. Fundamental Troubles With the Coherence Theory -- 4. Lehrer’s Coherence Theory of Knowledge -- 5. How Reasonable is Lehrer’s Coherence Theory? Beats Me. -- 6. When Can What You Don’t Know Hurt You? -- III. Focus: Laurence Bonjour’s The Structure of Empirical Knowledge -- 1. BonJour’s The Structure of Empirical Knowledge -- 2. BonJour’s Coherence Theory of Justification -- 3. BonJour’s Coherentism -- 4. Circularity, Non-Linear Justification, and Holistic Coherentism -- 5. Coherentist Theories of Knowledge Don’t Apply to Enough Outside of Science and Don’t Give the Right Results When Applied to Science -- 6. The St. Elizabethan World -- 7. Coherence, Observation, and the Justification of Empirical Belief -- 8. Epistemic Priority and Coherence -- 9. BonJour’s Anti-Foundationalist Argument -- 10. Foundations -- IV. Focus: Coherence and Related Epistemic Concerns -- 1. The Unattainability of Coherence -- 2. Epistemically Justified Opinion -- 3. The Multiple Faces of Knowing: The Hierarchies of Epistemic Species -- 4. Equilibrium in Coherence? -- V. Coherentists Respond -- 1. Coherence and the Truth Connection: A Reply to My Critics -- 2. Replies and Clarifications.
    Abstract: The subtitle of this book should be read as a qualification as much as an elaboration of the title. If the goal were completeness, then this book would have included essays on the work of other philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars, Nicholas Rescher, Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman and Michael Williams. Although it would be incorrect to say that each of these writers has set forth a version of the coherence theory of justification and knowledge, it is clear that their work is directly relevant, and reaction to it could easily fill a companion volume. This book concentrates, however, on the theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence BonJour, and I doubt that any epistemologist would deny that they are presently the two leading proponents of coherentism. A sure indication of this was the ease with which the papers in this volume were solicited and delivered. The many authors represented here were willing, prepared, and excited to join in the discussion of BonJour's and Lehrer's recent writings. I thank each one personally for agreeing so freely to contribute. All of the essays but two are published for the first time here. Marshall Swain's and Alvin Goldman's papers were originally presented at a symposium on BonJour's The Structure of Empirical Knowledge at the annual meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, in April, 1987.
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    ISBN: 9789400909878
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (552p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 206
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Logic ; Science—Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I: Critial Essays -- Is Science Really Inductive? -- Bolzano’s Theory of Induction -- Cellular Space Models: New Formalism for Simulation and Science -- Some Reflections on Logical Truth as A Priori -- Semantics and Ontology: Arthur Burks and the Computational Perspective -- Names and Attitudes -- Machines and Behavior -- Finite Automata and Human Beings -- On Guiding Rules -- Actuality and Potentiality -- Burks’s Logic of Conditionals -- Presuppositions and the Normative Content of Probability Statements -- Arthur Burks on the Presuppositions of Induction -- Taking Physical Probability Seriously -- Presuppositions of Induction -- Scientific Objectivity and the Evaluation of Hypotheses -- II: The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism -- The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism Replies by Arthur W. Burks -- Bibliography of Works by Arthur W. Burks -- Name Index.
    Abstract: This work is divided into two parts. Part I contains sixteen critical es­ says by prominent philosophers and computer scientists. Their papers offer insightful, well-argued contemporary views of a broad range of topics that lie at the heart of philosophy in the second half of the twen­ tieth century: semantics and ontology, induction, the nature of prob­ ability, the foundations of science, scientific objectivity, the theory of naming, the logic of conditionals, simulation modeling, the relatiOn be­ tween minds and machines, and the nature of rules that guide be­ havior. In this volume honoring Arthur W. Burks, the philosophical breadth of his work is thus manifested in the diverse aspects of that work chosen for discussion and development by the contributors to his Festschrift. Part II consists of a book-length essay by Burks in which he lays out his philosophy of logical mechanism while responding to the papers in Part I. In doing so, he provides a unified and coherent context for the range of problems raised in Part I, and he highlights interesting relationships among the topics that might otherwise have gone un­ noticed. Part II is followed by a bibliography of Burks's published works.
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    ISBN: 9789400909618
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 205
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind
    Abstract: Introduction: Acquaintance and Intentionality -- One: The Experience of Acquaintance -- I: Perceptual Awareness -- II: Consciousness and Self-Awareness -- III: Empathy and Other-Awareness -- Two: The Relation of Acquaintance -- IV: Content in Context -- V: A Sense of Presence -- VI: Grounds of Acquaintance -- Index of Names -- Index of Topics.
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    ISBN: 9789400913974
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 236 p) , digital
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: I. Introduction -- 1. Medicine -- 2. Philosophy -- 3. The book -- Acknowledgements -- II. Cultural Infusions in the Philosophy of Medicine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An American ontology -- 3. The case of anthropological medicine -- 4. Getting the record straight -- 5. Conclusions -- III. Regular Versus Alternative Medicine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How not to think about science and philosophy -- 3. What is special about science -- 4. Interlude: how to proceed? -- 5. The scientific status of homeopathy -- 6. Psychic or spiritual healing -- 7. Discussion -- IV. Concepts of Health and Disease -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Health and disease in a biological perspective -- 3. The philosophy of normativism -- 4. Towards a new research program -- 5. The interplay of science, common sense and philosophy -- 6. Afterthoughts -- V. Mind and Body in Science and Philosophy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The philosophical agenda -- 3. The mental and the physical: five philosophical views -- 4. A science of the mental? -- 5. The primacy of human existence: phenomenology -- 6. Things which don’t fit -- 7. Discussion -- VI. Mind and Body in Medicine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The mental suppressed: biological psychiatry -- 3. Will psychology help? -- 4. The psychosomatic connection -- 5. The limits of integration -- 6. The philosophical turn -- 7. Conclusions -- VII. Theses -- References.
    Abstract: 1. MEDICINE Illness, disease and disability plague man in every culture. But the form they take is not the same everywhere. Neither is man's reaction. Coping strategies, and the experience and knowledge backing them, depend very much on cultural setting. So medicine, the fabric of strategy and know­ ledge, can only be understood in the context of culture. In western society today, severe judgements are passed on medicine. Its store of knowledge and experience, and its repertory of strategies, have grown immensely during the last few decades. But it hardly alleviates dominant ailments, especially chronic diseases, diseases of old age and disturbances of social and mental functioning. We know that these ailments have come to the fore as the incidence of more "primitive" diseases declined in industrial societies. Infant deaths, and malnutrition and infections striking at young age, have dwindled to marginal significance in Western Europe and life expectancy at birth is twice that of some 150 years ago. Thus our new troubles are connected with past successes.
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    Abstract: III Transformation of Industry and Medicine -- The Role of the Military in the Electrification of Russia 1870–1890 -- World War II and the Transformation of the American Chemical Industry -- Between Cowardice and Insanity: Shellshock and the Legitimation of the Neuroses in Great Britain -- IV Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power -- The Development of the First Atomic Bomb in the USSR -- ‘Over My Dead Body’: James Bryant Conant and the Hydrogen Bomb -- A Crystal Ball in the Shadows of Nuremberg and Hiroshima: The Ethical Debate Over Human Experimentation to Develop a Nuclear Powered Bomber, 1946–1951 -- V R&D: Military, Industry and the Academy -- An Analytical Look at R&D and the Arms Race -- The Government of Military R&D in Britain -- The Government of Military R&D: A Comparative Perspective -- The Making of an Entrepreneurial University: The Traffic Among M.I.T. and the Industry and the Military, 1860–1960.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 30
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Endogenous growth (Economics) ; Ethics ; Public health ; Economic development. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: Value Conflicts in Allocation and Care -- National Health Care Systems: Conflicting Visions -- National Health Care Systems: Concurring Conflicts -- National Health Care Systems -- An Ethical Evaluation of Health Care in the United States -- The Health Care System of the Federal Republic of Germany: Moral Issues and Public Policy -- The American and West German Health Care Systems: A Physician’s Reflections -- Socialism, Equity, and Cost Containment in Health: The French Experience -- Ethics and Health Policy in the Netherlands -- Health in the U.S.S.R.: Organization, Trends, and Ethics -- The Public and Private Regulation of Health Care Markets -- Justice as Fairness or Fairness as Prudence? -- Macro-Allocation and Micro-Allocation -- Macro-Allocation in Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany -- The Macro-Allocation of Health Care Resources -- Rights, Reasonable Expectations, and Rationing: A Commentary on the Essays of Ruth Mattheis and Baruch Brody -- Political-Medical Allocations in the Compulsory Health Insurance Program in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Micro-Allocation in the Health Care System: Fiscal Consolidation with Structural Reforms? -- Medical Micro-Allocation: Is and Ought -- Preventive Medicine, Occupational Health, and Future Issues -- Preventive Interventionism and Individual Liberty -- Improving Occupational Health in the Federal Republic of Germany -- A View from a Clinician’s Window -- Epilogue.
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    Series Statement: Culture, Illness and Healing 13
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Anthropology ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Sociology. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: I: The Social Sciences and Biomedicine -- Relationships between Society, Culture, and Biomedicine: Introduction to the Essays -- II: Mind, Body, Values, and Society -- Tenacious Assumptions in Western Medicine -- Mind and Body as Metaphors: Hidden Values in Biomedicine -- Psyche, Soma, and Society: The Social Construction of Psychosomatic Disorders -- III: Reproducing Medical Perception and Practice -- Medical Students and the Cadaver in Social and Cultural Context -- Patients, Physicians and Context: Medical Care in the Home -- Discourse, Descriptions and Diagnoses: Reproducing Normal Medicine -- IV: Medicine Evolving, Medicine Adapting -- Space and Time in British General Practice -- Thinking Prevention: Concepts and Constructs in General Practice -- Clinical Science and Clinical Expertise: Changing Boundaries Between Art and Science in Medicine -- V: Medical Construction of life Cycle Processes -- Babyhood: The Social Construction of Infant Care as a Medical Problem in England in the Years Around 1900 -- Menopause as Process or Event: The Creation of Definitions in Biomedicine -- On the Boundary of Life and Death: The Definition of Dying by Medical Residents -- VI: Biomedical Knowledge and Practice Across Cultures -- A Nation at Risk: Interpretations of School Refusal in Japan -- Medical Practice in Response to a Folk Illness: The Treatment of Nervios in Costa Rica -- VII: Constructing the “Ordinary” out of the “Extraordinary” -- Physicians and the Disclosure of Undesirable Information -- The Technological Imperative in Medical Practice: The Social Creation of a “Routine” Treatment -- The Social Construction of a Machine: Ritual, Superstition, Magical Thinking and Other Pragmatic Responses to Running a CT Scanner -- List of Contributors -- Author Index.
    Abstract: The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how various facets of 20th century medicine, including edu­ cation, research, the creation of medical knowledge, the development and application of technology, and day to day medical practice, are per­ vaded by a value system characteristic of an industrial-capitalistic view of the world in which the idea that science represents an objective and value free body of knowledge is dominant. The authors of the essays are sociologists and anthropologists (in almost equal numbers); also included are papers by a social historian and by three physicians all of whom have steeped themselves in the social sci­ ences and humanities. This co-operative endeavor, which has necessi­ tated the breaking down of disciplinary barriers to some extent, is per­ haps indicative of a larger movement in the social sciences, one in which there is a searching for a middle ground between grand theory and attempts at universal explanations on the one hand, and the context-spe­ cific empiricism and relativistic accounts characteristic of many historical and anthropological analyses on the other.
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 40
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Humanities ; Philosophy of mind ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Semantics, Wisconsin Style -- Representation and Covariation -- Individualism and Psychology -- Thoughts and Belief Ascriptions -- The Alleged Evidence for Representationalism -- Narrow Content -- A Farewell to Functionalism -- Metaphysical Arguments for Internalism and Why They Don’t Work -- Dual Aspect Semantics -- Innate Representations -- Reflexive Reflections -- Some Reductive Strategies in Cognitive Neurobiology -- Computation, Representation, and Content in Noncognitive Theories of Perception -- Beliefs Out of Control -- Intentionality -- Postscript October, 1987 -- Intentionality Speaks for Itself -- A Narrow Representational Theory of the Mind -- Name Index.
    Abstract: This collection of papers on issues in the theory of mental representation expresses a diversity of recent reflections on the idea that C. D. Broad so aptly characterized in the title of his book Mind and the World Order. An important impetus in the project of organizing this work were the discussions I had with Keith Lehrer while I was a Visiting Scholar in the department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His encouragement and friendship were of great value to me and I wish to express my thanks to him here. A word of thanks too for Mike Harnish who casually suggested the title Rerepresentation. I wish to express my thanks to Hans Schuurmans of the Computer Center at Tilburg University for his patient and cheerful assistance in preparing the manuscript. Professor J. Verster of the University of Groningen kindly provided the plates for the Ames Room figures. Thieu Kuys helped not only with the texts but also relieved me of chores so that I could devote more time to meeting deadlines. Barry Mildner had a major role in the text preparation using his skills and initiative in solving what seemed like endless technical problems. My deepest thanks are reserved for Anti Sax whose contribution to the project amount to a co-editorship of this volume. She participated in every phase of its development with valuable suggestions, prepared the indexes, and worked tirelessly to its completion.
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 113
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Philosophy of mind ; Philology ; History
    Abstract: 1: The Methodological Question -- 1. The Case for a Reorientation in the History of Psychology -- 2. Counterproposition: Psychology as Discourse -- 2: The Paradigm of Conceptual Psychology -- 3. Kant and Herbart: the Initiation of Conceptual Psychology -- 4. Empiricism and Conceptual Psychology: Psychophysics and Philology -- 3: Case Studies -- 5. Dilthey and Descriptive Psychology -- 6. Phenomenology and Conceptual Psychology -- 7. Mach’s Psychology of Investigation and the Limits of Science -- 8. Freud: the Psychology of Psychoanalysis -- Afterword: Some Consequences of Conceptual Psychology -- Notes -- Index of Names.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 31
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Public health laws ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Medical laws and legislation. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: I / Historical and Conceptual Foundations -- Back from the Grave: Recurring Controversies over Defining and Diagnosing Death In History -- Does Anyone Survive Neocortical Death? -- Reexamining the Definition of Death and Becoming Clearer about What it is to be Alive -- II / Beyond Whole-Brain Criteria of Death: Legal Considerations -- Should the Law Define Death? — A Genuine Question -- Legal Issues Leading to the Notion of Neocortical Death -- III / The President’s Commission and Beyond -- The Report of the President’s Commission on the Uniform Determination of Death Act -- Whole-Brain, Neocortical, and Higher Brain Related Concepts -- Brains and Persons: A Critique of Veatch’s View -- Human Death and the Destruction of the Neocortex -- IV / The Cultural Context -- Beyond a Whole-Brain Definition of Death: Reconsidering the Metaphysics of Death -- The Many Times of Death -- The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death -- Person Perception and the Death of the Person: A New Role for Health Professionals in Cases of Brain Death -- Notes on contributors.
    Abstract: From the tone of the report by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Re­ search, one might conclude that the whole-brain-oriented definition of death is now firmly established as an enduring element of public policy. In that report, Defining Death: Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death, the President's Commission forwarded a uni­ form determination of death act, which laid heavy accent on the signifi­ cance of the brain stem in determining whether an individual is alive or dead: An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards ([1], p. 2). The plausibility of these criteria is undermined as soon as one confronts the question of the level of treatment that ought to be provided to human bodies that have permanently lost consciousness but whose brain stems are still functioning.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 28
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Public health laws ; Ethics ; Medical laws and legislation. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: Section I / Human Experimentation and the Legacy of Nuremberg -- The Search for Universality in the Ethics of Human Research: Andrew C. Ivy, Henry K. Beecher, and the Legacy of Nuremberg -- Section II / The Development in Medicine of the Imperative to Conduct Research with Human Subjects: an Historical Analysis -- Cultural Contents in the History of the Use of Human Subjects in Research -- Reflections on the History of Human Experimentation -- Comparative Models and Goals for the Regulation of Human Research -- Moral Appropriateness in Human Research -- Public Control over Biomedical Experiments Involving Human Beings: An Israeli Perspective -- Section III / Ethical and Epistemological Issues in Randomized Clinical Trials -- Diagnosing Well and Treating Prudently: Randomized Clinical Trials and the Problem of Knowing Truly -- Research Risks, Randomization, and Risks to Research: Reflections on the Prudential Use of “Pilot” Trials -- Epistemological Presuppositions Involved in the Programs of Human Research -- At What Level of Statistical Certainty Ought a Random Clinical Trial to be Interrupted? -- Comment on Michael Ruse’s Essay -- Section IV / Obligations and the Avoidance of Injury -- Is There an Obligation to Participate in Biomedical Research? -- Physicians Experimenting on Themselves: Some Ethical and Philosophical Considerations -- Protection of Human Subjects: Remedies for Injury -- Israel Health Regulations: Experiments on Human Subjects - 1980 -- Notes on Contributors.
    Abstract: This volume, which has developed from the Fourteenth Trans­ Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, September 5-8, 1982, at Tel Aviv University, Israel, contains the contributions of a group of distinguished scholars who together examine the ethical issues raised by the advance of biomedical science and technology. We are, of course, still at the beginning of a revolution in our understanding of human biology; scientific medicine and clinical research are scarcely one hundred years old. Both the sciences and the technology of medicine until ten or fifteen years ago had the feeling of the 19th century about them; we sense that they belonged to an older time; that era is ending. The next twenty-five to fifty years of investigative work belong to neurobiology, genetics, and reproductive biology. The technologies of information processing and imaging will make diagnosis and treatment almost incomprehensible by my generation of physicians. Our science and technology will become so powerful that we shall require all of the art and wisdom we can muster to be sure that they remain dedicated, as Francis Bacon hoped four centuries ago, "to the uses of life." It is well that, as philosophers and physicians, we grapple with the issues now when they are relatively simple, and while the pace of change is relatively slow. We require a strategy for the future; that strategy must be worked out by scientists, philosophers, physicians, lawyers, theologians, and, I should like to add, artists and poets.
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 103
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 103
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    Keywords: Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Stanley Goldberg/Putting New Wine in Old Bottles: The Assimilation of Relativity in America -- Jose M. Sanchez-Ron/The Reception of Special Relativity in Great Britain -- Lewis Pyenson/The Relativity Revolution in Germany -- Michel Paty/The Scientific Reception of Relativity in France -- Michel Biezunski/Einstein’s Reception in Paris in 1922 -- Barbara J. Reeves/Einstein Politicized: The Early Reception of Relativity in Italy -- Thomas F. Glick/Relativity in Spain -- V.P. Vizginand G.E. Gorelik/The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia and the USSR -- Bronis?aw ?Redniawa/The Reception of the Theory of Relativity in Poland -- Tsutomu Kaneko/Einstein’s Impact on Japanese Intellectuals -- Thomas F. Glick/Cultural Issues in the Reception of Relativity.
    Abstract: The present volume grew out of a double session of the Boston Collo­ quium for the Philosophy of Science held in Boston on March 25, 1983. The papers presented there (by Biezunski, Glick, Goldberg, and Judith Goodstein!) offered both sufficient comparability to establish regulari­ ties in the reception of relativity and Einstein's impact in France, Spain, the United States and Italy, and sufficient contrast to suggest the salience of national inflections in the process. The interaction among the participants and the added perspectives offered by members of the audience suggested the interest of commissioning articles for a more inclusive volume which would cover as many national cases as we could muster. Only general guidelines were given to the authors: to treat the special or general theories, or both, hopefully in a multidisciplinary setting, to examine the popular reception of relativity, or Einstein's personal impact, or to survey all these topics. In a previous volume, on the 2 comparative reception of Darwinism, one of us devised a detailed set of guidelines which in general were not followed. In our opinion, the studies in this collection offer greater comparability, no doubt because relativity by its nature and its complexity offers a sharper, more easily bounded target. As in the Darwinism volume, this book concludes with an essay intended to draw together in comparative perspective some of many themes addressed by the participants.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 26
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Anthropology ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: 1: Some Basic Issues in the Philosophy of Health -- 2: An Analytic Theory of Health: The Biostatistical Theory (BST) -- 3: Towards a Holistic Theory of Health -- 4: On the Factors Which Compromise Health -- 5: On Some Societal and Scientific Consequences of the Welfare Notion of Health -- 6: Conclusions and Summary of the Welfare Theory of Health -- Appendix: On the Ontology of Diseases -- 1. A Classical Debate — Physiologism Versus Ontologism -- 2. The Problem of Historical Change -- 3. Towards a Reconstruction of Medical Ontology -- 4. Some Modern Definitions of Diseases -- 5. An Analysis of the Disease Concepts -- 6. Summary -- Notes.
    Abstract: GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory. What emerges from the study is a concept of health based on an action-theoretic foundation. A person's health is characterized as his ability to achieve his vital goals. The general conception is not new. This study has been inspired by a number of scholars, both ancient and modern. The most important influences from the latter have been those of Georges Canguilhem, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. , Caroline Whitbeck and Ingmar Pörn. The novel aspect of this book consists of elaborations made to the general conception. First, the action-theoretic platform is analysed in some detail. The nature of the ability involved, as well as the conditions for having that ability, are specified. Second, the vital goals of man are given considerable attention. Some previous attempts to define such vital goals are analysed and criticized. A new characterization is proposed, in which the vital goals are conceptually linked to the notion of happiness. A person's vital goals are such states of affairs as are necessary and together sufficient for his minimal happiness. Third, a number of consequences of this con­ ception are observed and analysed. One issue which is particularly empha­ sized is that ofwhether the concept ofhealth is a theoretical or a normative concept.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 22
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics ; Public health. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: Section I: Human Sexuality -- Medical and Psychiatric Perspectives on a ‘Healthy Sexuality’ -- Medical and Psychiatric Perspectives on Human Sexual Behavior -- The Origins of Sexual Identity: A Clinician’s View -- Theories of Transsexualism -- Sex Research and Therapy -- A Survey of Human Reproduction, Infertility Therapy, Fertility Control and Ethical Consequences -- Section II: Sexuality and Sexual Concepts -- Philosophy, Medicine, and Healthy Sexuality -- Concepts of Disease and Sexuality -- Freud and Perversion -- The Politics of The Natural: The Case of Sex Differences -- Heterosex -- Bisexuality: Challenging Our Understanding of Human Sexuality and Sexual Orientation -- Sex and Love: Sexual Dysfunction as a Spiritual Disorder -- Notes on Contributors.
    Abstract: When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys­ function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma. Currently it is acceptable medical practice to treat sexual dysfunctions, disorders, or dissatisfactions that arise from psy­ chogenic etiologies, endocrine imbalances, neurologic defects or are side effects of necessary medication regimes. In addition, implanta­ tion of penile prostheses in cases of organic impotence is an increas­ ingly popular surgical procedure. These clinical approaches to sexual inadequacies, accepted by medicine since 1970, represent one horn of the dilemma. The opposite horn pictures the medical profession firmly backed into a corner by cultural influences. For example, when hospital admissions occur, a significant portion of the routine medical history is the section on system review. A few questions are asked about the cardio-respiratory, the genito-urinary, and the gastro-intestinal sys­ tems. But in a preponderance of hospitals no questions are permitted or, if raised, answers are not recorded about human sexual functioning. Physicians tend to forget that they are victims of cultural imposition first and of professional training a distant second.
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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.
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences, A Yearbook 11
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    Abstract: I Co-operative Processes and the Production of Scientific Knowledge -- The Theoretical Significance of Co-operative Research -- The Practical Management of Scientists’ Actions: The Influence of Patterns of Knowledge Development in Biology on Cooperations Between University Biologists and Non-Scientists -- II Collaborations Between Scientists and Non-Scientists at the Grassroots -- Cooperation Between Medical Researchers and a Self-Help Movement: The Case of the German Retinitis Pigmentosa Society -- The Knowledge Interests of the Environmental Movement and Its Potential for Influencing the Development of Science -- The Scientist, the Fisherman and the Oyster Farmer -- What We Have Learned from the Amsterdam Science Shop -- III Collaborations in National Contexts -- The Orientation of the Public Sciences in a Post-Colonial-Society: The Experience of India -- Workers’ Faculties and the Development of Science Cadres in the First Decade of Soviet Power -- Intellectuals in Social Movements: The Experts of “Solidarity” -- IV Collaborations and the Emergence of New Scientific Fields -- Social Change, Trade Union Politics, and Sociology of Work -- Social Sciences and Political Projects: Reform Coalitions Between Social Scientists and Policy-Makers in France, Italy, and West Germany -- Attracting Audiences and the Emergence of Toxicology as a Practical Science -- Epilogue -- The Causes and Consequences of Collaborations Between Scientists and Non-Scientific Groups.
    Abstract: This volume of the Sociology of the Sciences Yearbooks stems from our experience that collaborations between non-scientists and scientists, often initiated by scientists seeking greater social relevance for science, can be of major importance for cognitive development. It seemed to us that it would be useful to explore the conditions under which such collaborations affect scientific change and the nature of the processes involved. This book therefore focuses on a number of instances in which scientists and non-scientists were jointly involved in the genera­ tion of scientific results at the "interface" of science and society. Despite the considerable variety of cases reported here, a number of questions are central. Under what conditions do such cooperative processes occur? What perceptions of social relevance and what sorts of col­ laborations with non-scientific groups are involved? How is this collaboration achieved, and through what forums? How can insights into its conditions and mechanisms stabilize such cooperations over a longer period of time? If they are stabilized, do they really affect science, or do they mainly function to shield the rest of the science system against external influences? These questions are pertinent both to intellectual problems in the sociology of science and to the practical concerns of modern science policies. The significance of relations between knowledge producers and knowledge consumers and interest in how these relations affect science and society have changed considerably in recent decades.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 23
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: Table of Contents Volume II -- Section I: Reproduction, Medicine, and Morals -- Sexual Ethics: Some Perspectives from the History of Philosophy -- Medicine and the Control of Reproduction -- On the Connection of Sex to Reproduction -- Having Sex and Making Love: The Search for Morality in Eros -- Section II: Society, Sexuality, and Medicine -- Sex, Society, Medicine: An Historical Comment -- The Clinician as Sexual Philosopher -- The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association: Classifying Sexual Disorders -- Changing Life-Styles and Medical Practice -- Human Sexuality: Counselling and Treatment in a Family Medicine Practice -- Sex Research and Therapy: On the Morality of the Methods, Practices and Procedures -- Section III: Religion, Medicine, and Moral Controversy -- Theological Approaches to Sexuality: An Overview -- Contemporary Controversies in Sexual Ethics: A Case Study in Post-Vatican II Moral Theology -- Transsexual Surgery: Some Reflections on the Moral Issues Involved -- The Irrelevance of Theology for Sexual Ethics -- Notes on Contributors.
    Abstract: It may be unnecessary to some to publish a text on sexuality in 1986 since the popular press speaks of the sexual revolution as if it were over and was possibly a mistake. Some people characterize society as too sexually obsessed, and there is an undercurrent of desire for a return to a supposedly simpler and happier time when sex was not openly dis­ cussed, displayed, taught or even, presumedly, contemplated. Indeed, we are experiencing something of a backlash against open sexuality and sexual liberation. For example, during the '60s and '70s tolerance of homosexual persons and homosexuality increased. Of late there has been a conservative backlash against gay-rights laws. Sexual intercourse before marriage, which had been considered healthy and good, has been, of late, characterized as promiscuous. In fact, numer­ ous articles have appeared about the growing popularity of sexual abstinence. There is a renewed vigor in the fight against sex education in the schools, and an 'anti-pornography' battle being waged by those on the right and those on the left who organize under the guise of such worthy goals as deterring child abuse and rape, but who are basically uncomfortable with diverse expressions of sexuality. One would hope that such trends, and the ignorance about sex and sexuality that they reflect, would not touch medical professionals. That Dr.
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    ISBN: 9789400945609
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    Series Statement: Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 4
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 4
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    Keywords: Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The Galileo that Feyerabend Missed: An Improved Case Against Method -- Cartesian Method as Mythic Speech: A Diachronic and Structural Analysis -- Steady as a Rock: Methodology and Moving Continents -- Methodology as a Normative Conceptual Problem: The Case of the Indian ‘Warped Zipper’ Model of DNA -- Inside the Cell: Genetic Methodology and the Case of the Cytoplasm -- The Order of Ideas: Condillac’s Method of Analysis as a Political Instrument in the French Revolution -- Method and the ‘Micropolitics’ of Science: The Early Years of the Geological and Astronomical Societies of London -- Scientific Method and the Rhetoric of Science in Britain, 1830–1917 -- Notes On Contributors -- Index Of Names.
    Abstract: The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appoint­ ments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. "Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further­ more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encour­ aged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.
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    ISBN: 9789400944107
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    Series Statement: Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project Foundation 2
    Series Statement: Rembrandt Research Project Foundation 2
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Arts.
    Abstract: Since the second half of the last century art historians, realizing that the image of Rembrandt’s work had become blurred with time, have attempted to redefine the artist’s significance both as a source of inspiration to other artists and as a great artist in his own right. In order to carry on the work started by previous generations, a group of leading Dutch art historians from the university and museum world joined forces in the late 1960s in order to study afresh the paintings usually ascribed to the artist. The researchers came together in the Rembrandt Research Project which was established to provide the art world with a new standard reference work which would serve the community of art historians for the nearby and long future. They examined the originals of all works attributed to Rembrandt taking full advantage of today’s sophisticated techniques including radiography, neutron activation autoradiography, dendrochronology and paint sample analysis - thereby gaining valuable insight into the genesis and condition of the paintings. The result of this meticulous research is laid down chronologically in the following Volumes: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume I, which deals with works from Rembrandt’s early years in Leiden(1629-1631), published in 1982. THIS VOLUME: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume II, covering his first years in Amsterdam (1631-1634), published in 1986. A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, Volume III, goes into his later years of reputation (1635-1642), published in 1990. Each Volume consists of a number of Introductory Chapters as well as the full Catalogue of all paintings from the given time period attributed to Rembrandt. In this catalogue each painting is discussed and examined in a detailed way, comprising a descriptive, an interpretative and a documentary section. For the authenticity evaluation of the paintings three different categories are used to divide the works in: A. Paintings by Rembrandt, B. Paintings of which Rembrandt’s authorship cannot be positively either accepted or rejected, and C. Paintings of which Rembrandt’s authorship cannot be accepted. This volume (Volume II) contains 900 pages, starting of with five introductory chapters and discussing 101 paintings. In clear and accessible explanatory text all different paintings are discussed, larded with immaculate images of each painting. Details are shown where possible, as well as the results of modern day technical imaging
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    ISBN: 9789400947047
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 21
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Finance ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Finance, Public. ; Public health. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: I / Medical Economics and Ethics: Some Theoretical Considerations -- Economics and the Allocation of Resources to Improve Health -- Economic Cost and Moral Value -- II / Costs and Benefits in Medicine: Some Philosophical Views -- Computing the Quality of Life -- CBA, Utilitarianism, and Reliance Upon Intuitions -- Prior Consent and Valuing Life -- Cost-Benefit Analysis, Monetary Value, and Medical Decision -- III / Economics and Ethics in Health Policy -- Intervention Against Genetic Disease: Economic and Ethical Considerations -- Ethical Reflections in Genetic Screening: A Reply to Swint and Kaback -- Rationing Medical Care: Processes for Defining Adequacy -- Comments on “Rationing Medical Care: Processes for Defining Adequacy” -- Rationing and Publicity -- Comments on “Rationing and Publicity” -- IV / Controlling Costs/Maximizing Profit: The Role of Providers -- Physicians and Cost Control -- Shifting Priorities and Values: A Challenge to the Hospital’s Mission -- Shifting the Priorities and Values: A Commentary on Hiller and Gorsky -- Notes on Contributors.
    Abstract: Medicine, morals and money have, for centuries, lived in uneasy cohabitation. Dwelling in the social institution of care of the sick, each needs the other, yet each is embarrassed to admit the other's presence. Morality, in particular, suffers embarrassment, for it is often required to explain how money and medicine are not inimical. Throughout the history of Western medicine, morality's explanations have been con­ sistently ambiguous. Pla.o held that the physician must cultivate the art of getting paid as well as the art of healing, for even if the goal of medicine is healing and not making money, the self-interest of the craftsman is satisfied thereby [4]. Centuries later, a medieval medical moralist, Henri de Mandeville, said: "The chief object of the patient ... is to get cured ... the object of the surgeon, on the other hand, is to obtain his money ... ([5], p. 16). This incompatibility, while general, is not universal. Throughout history, medical practitioners have resolved the problem - either in conscience or to their satisfaction. Some physicians have been so reluctant to make a profit from the ills of those whom they treated that they preferred to live in poverty. Samuel Johnson described his friend, Dr. Robert Levet, a Practiser of Physic: No summons mock'd by chill delay, No petty gain disdain'd by pride; The modest wants of ev'ry day The toil of ev'ry day supplied [3].
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    ISBN: 9789401734615
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 92
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 92
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Humanities ; History ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: I / The Earlier Conversation -- One / Two Generations -- Two / Beyond the Enlightenment: Comte and the New Problem of Social Science -- Three / Mill and the ‘Ascent To Causes’ -- Four / Quetelet: Rates and Their Explanation -- Five / The Interregnum -- II / Durkheim as a Methodolog’ist -- Six / Realism, Teleology, and Action -- Seven / Collective Forces, Causation, and Probability -- Eight / Durkheim’s Individual -- III / Weber On Action -- Nine / Objective Possibility and Adequate Cause -- Ten / Rationality and Action -- Eleven / Large-Scale Explanations: Aggregation and Interpretation -- Epilog / The End of the Ascent -- Notes.
    Abstract: Stephen Turner has explored the ongms of social science in this pioneering study of two nineteenth century themes: the search for laws of human social behavior, and the accumulation and analysis of the facts of such behavior through statistical inquiry. The disputes were vigorously argued; they were over questions of method, criteria of explanation, interpretations of probability, understandings of causation as such and of historical causation in particular, and time and again over the ways of using a natural science model. From his careful elucidation of John Stuart Mill's proposals for the methodology of the social sciences on to his original analysis of the methodological claims and practices of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, Turner has beautifully traced the conflict between statistical sociology and a science offactual description on the one side, and causal laws and a science of nomological explanation on the other. We see the works of Comte and Quetelet, the critical observations of Herschel, Buckle, Venn and Whewell, and the tough scepticism of Pearson, all of these as essential to the works of the classical founders of sociology. With Durkheim's essay on Suicide and Weber's monograph on The Protestant Ethic, Turner provides both philosophical analysis to demonstrate the continuing puzzles over cause and probability and also a perceptive and wry account of just how the puzzles of our late twentieth century are of a piece with theirs. The terms are still familiar: reasons vs.
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    ISBN: 9789401577298
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 268 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Monographs 5
    Keywords: Humanities
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    ISBN: 9789400947245
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (224p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences 10
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 10
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Social history.
    Abstract: I The Design of Knowledge Society -- The Growing Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Social Relations -- Finite Human Capacities and the Pattern of Social Stratification in a Knowledge Society -- II The Social Role of Men of Knowledge -- Demarcation as a Strategy of Exclusion: Philosophers and Sophists -- Scientists Protect Their Cognitive Authority: The Status Degradation Ceremony of Sir Cyril Burt -- The Reproduction of Objective Knowledge: Common Sense Reasoning in Medical Decision Making -- III Processes of Scientification -- The Scientification of Police Work -- The Scientification of Architecture -- Knowledge Form and Scientific Community: Early Experimental Biology and the Marine Biological Laboratory.
    Abstract: The original essays collected here under the general title of The Knowledge Society were first commissioned for a conference held in the late fall of 1984 at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany. The conference in Darmstadt saw a larger number of contribu­ tions presented than could be accommodated in this edition of the Sociol­ ogy of the Sciences Yearbook. However, all contributions were important and affected those published in this collection. We are therefore grateful to all participants of the Darmstadt conference for their presentations and for their intense, useful as well as thoughtful discussion of all papers. Those chosen for publication in the Yearbook and those undoubtedly to be published elsewhere have all benefitted considerably from our discussions in Darmstadt which also included a number of the members of the edito­ rial board of the Yearbook. In addition, we are pleased that the authors were able to read and comment further on each other's papers prior to publication. As is the case in every endeavor of this kind, we have incurred many debts and are only able to acknowledge these at this point publicly while expressing our sincere thanks and appreciation for all the intellectual sup­ port and the considerable labor invested by a number of persons in the realization of the collection.
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    ISBN: 9789400952355
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 18
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: One/ The Social and Scientific Setting -- I/ The Status of the Physician -- II/ Theories of Health and Disease -- III/ Attitudes Toward Death -- Two/ The Rise of Medical Ethics -- IV/ Who was Hippocrates? -- V/ The Hippocratic Oath -- Three/ Abortion and Euthanasia -- VI/ The Problem of Abortion -- VII/ The Problem of Euthanasia -- VIII/ The Physician’s Moral Responsibility -- IX/ Conclusion -- X/ Epilogue -- Appendices -- Appendix A -- Principles of Medical Ethics -- Appendix B -- A Patient’s Bill of Rights -- Appendix C -- Declaration of Geneva -- Notes -- Select Bibliography.
    Abstract: The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with an eye as to how they might instruct us about the extremely lively disputes of our own contemporary medicine is such a natural one that it surprises us to real­ ize how very slow we have been to pursue it in a sustained way_ Ideologues have often seized on the very name of Hippocrates to close off debate about such matters as abortion and euthanasia - as if by appeal to a well-known and sacred authority that no informed person would care or dare to oppose_ And yet, beneath the polite fakery of such reference, we have deprived our­ selves of a familiarity with the genuinely 'unsimple' variety of Greek and Roman reflections on the great questions of medical ethics. The fascination of recovering those views surely depends on one stunning truism at least: humans sicken and die; they must be cared for by those who are socially endorsed to specialize in the task; and the changes in the rounds of human life are so much the same from ancient times to our own that the disputes and agreements of the past are remarkably similar to those of our own.
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 19
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Emergency medicine ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Public health. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: A Movable Medical Crisis -- Moral Absurdities in Critical Care Medicine: Commentary on a Parable -- Moral Tensions in Critical Care Medicine: “Absurdities” as Indications of Finitude -- “Conceptual Construals” vs. Moral Experience: A Rejoinder -- Can Principles Survive in Situations of Critical Care? -- Coercion, Conversation and the Casuist: A Reply to Jay Katz -- Justice and the Hippocratic Tradition of Acting for the Good of the Sick -- Clinical Ethics and Resource Allocation: The Problem of Chronic Illness in Childhood -- Moral Choice, the Good of the Patient, and the Patient’s Good -- What Good is Another Paper on The Good? No Codes and Dr. Pellegrino -- Allocating Resources Within Health Care: Critical Care vs. Prevention -- Report of the President’s 2003 Commission on the Fall of Medicine -- Triage and Critical Care -- The Ethics of Critical Care in Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Triage: Philosophical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- Critical Care in an Historical Context -- Commentary on Stanley J. Reiser’s ‘Critical Care in an Historical Context’ -- Notes on Contributors.
    Abstract: The expense of critical care and emergency medicine, along with widespread expectations for good care when the need arises, pose hard moral and political problems. How should we spend our tax d'ollars, and who should get help? The purpose of this volume is to reflect upon our choices. The authors whose papers appear herein identify major difficulties and offer various solutions to them. Four topics are discussed throughout the volume: First, encounters between patients and health professionals in critical situations in general, and where scarcity makes rationing necessary; second, allocation and social policy, including how much to spend on preventive, chronic or critical care medicine, or for medicine in general compared to other important social projects; third, conflicts between or ranking of important goals and values; and fourth, conceptual issues affecting the choices we make. Since these topics are raised by the authors in almost every essay, we did not divide the papers into separate sections within the volume. Warren Reich begins the volume with a parable illustrating a key problem for contemporary medicine and two very different approaches to its solution. His story begins with the "delivery" of three indigent, critically ill, foreign patients to the emergency room of a large American private hospital. Although the hospital is legally bound to care for these patients, providing long term, high cost care for them and others soon becomes a major financial strain.
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    ISBN: 9789400953178
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    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.
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    ISBN: 9789401577236
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Hendricks, John L. Theology and Bioethics: Exploring the Foundations and Frontiers. Earl E. Shelp 1989
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 20
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: Section I: Theology, Science, and Bioethics -- Religion and the Renaissance of Medical Ethics in the United States: 1965–1975 -- Theology and Science: Their Difference as a Source of Interaction in Ethics -- Scientific and Religious Aspects of Bioethics -- Hartshorne, Theology, and the Nameless God -- The Potential of Theology for Ethics -- The Role of Theology in Bioethics -- Looking for God and Finding the Abyss: Bioethics and Natural Theology -- Section II: Foundations and Frontiers in Religious Bioethics -- Theology and Bioethics: Christian Foundations -- Theological Frontiers: Implications for Bioethics -- Contextuality and Convenant: The Pertinence of Social Theory and Theology to Bioethics -- Feminist Theology and Bioethics -- Doing Ethics in a Plural World -- Section III: Religious Reasoning about Bioethics and Medical Practice -- Salvation and Health: Why Medicine Needs the Church -- Love and Justice in Christian Biomedical Ethics -- Contemporary Jewish Bioethics: A Critical Assessment -- Medical Loyalty: Dimensions and Problems of a Rich Idea -- Responsibility for Life: Bioethics in Theological Perspective -- Epilogue: Does Theology Make a Contribution to Bioethics? -- Notes on Contributors.
    Abstract: We who live in this post-modern late twentieth century culture are still children of dualism. For a variety of rather complex reasons we continue to split apart and treat as radical opposites body and spirit, medicine and religion, sacred and secular, private and public, love and justice, men and women. Though this is still our strong tendency, we are beginning to­ discover both the futility and the harm of such dualistic splitting. Peoples of many ancient cultures might smile at the belatedness of our discovery concerning the commonalities of medicine and religion. A cur­ sory glance back at ancient Egypt, Samaria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome would disclose a common thread - the close union of religion and medicine. Both were centrally concerned with healing, health, and wholeness. The person was understood as a unity of body, mind, and spirit. The priest and the physician frequently were combined in the same individual. One of the important contributions of this significant volume of essays is the sustained attack upon dualism. From a variety of vantage points, virtually all of the authors unmask the varied manifestations of dualism in religion and medicine, urging a more holistic approach. Since the editor has provided an excellent summary of each article, I shall not attempt to comment on specific contributions. Rather , I wish to highlight three 1 broad themes which I find notable for theological ethics.
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    ISBN: 9789400952294
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 17
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Bioethics.
    Abstract: Section I / Historical Analyses -- Virtue and Health/Medicine in Pre-Christian Antiquity -- Virtue and Medicine from Early Christianity Through the Sixteenth Century -- Virtue and Medicine During the Enlightenment in Germany -- Virtues, Etiquette, and Anglo-American Medical Ethics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Section II / Theories of Virtue -- Virtue and Vice -- Two Cheers for Meno: The Definition of the Virtues -- Critique of Pure Virtue: Animadversions on a Virtue-Based Ethics -- The Virtues: A Theological Analysis -- Section III / Virtue and medicine -- Virtues and Vices: The Social and Historical Construction of Medical Norms -- The Virtues of Medicine: Meaning and Import -- Virtue and Medicine: A Physician’s Analysis -- The Virtuous Physician, and the Ethics of Medicine -- Virtue and the Practice of Nursing -- The Virtuous Patient -- Virtue and Public Health: Societal Obligation and Individual Need -- Section IV / Critique -- What’s So Special About the Virtues? -- Against Virtue: A Deontological Critique of Virtue Theory in Medical Ethics -- On Medicine and Virtue: A Response -- Notes on Contributors.
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences a Yearbook 9
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 9
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    Keywords: Humanities ; History.
    Abstract: Introductory Essay -- Knowledge Producers and Knowledge Acquirers: Popularisation as a Relation Between Scientific Fields and Their Publics -- I Expository Contexts and Knowledge Types -- Expository Practice: Social, Cognitive and Epistemological Linkage -- Popularisation within the Sciences: The Purposes and Consequences of Inter-Specialist Communication -- Representing Geology: Textual Structures in the Pedagogical Presentation of Science -- Attuning Science to Culture: Scientific and Popular Discussion in Dutch Sociology of Education, 1960–1980 -- The Reaction to Political Radicalism and the Popularisation of Political Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of ‘Productive’ and ‘Unproductive’ Labour -- II The Scientific Appropriation of Major Publics -- Media Sensationalisation and Science: The Case of the Criminal Chromosome -- Speaking out about Competition: An Essay on The Double Helix as Popularisation -- Popularisation and Scientific Controversy: The Case of the Theory of Relativity in France -- The Cathedral of French Science: The Early Years of the Palais de la Découverte -- Spreading the Spirit of Science: Social Determinants of the Popularisation of Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Meets the Atom Bomb -- III The Social Appropriation of Science -- Industrial Science as a “Show”: A Case-Study of Georges Claude -- Popular Political Economy for the British Working Class Reader in the Nineteenth Century -- IV A Practitioner’s View of Popularisation -- Impacts of Present-Day Popularisation.
    Abstract: The prevailing view of scientific popularization, both within academic circles and beyond, affirms that its objectives and procedures are unrelated to tasks of cognitive development and that its pertinence is by and large restricted to the lay public. Consistent with this view, popularization is frequently portrayed as a logical and hence inescapable consequence of a culture dominated by science-based products and procedures and by a scientistic ideology. On another level, it is depicted as a quasi-political device for chan­ nelling the energies of the general public along predetermined paths; examples of this are the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution and the U. S. -Soviet space race. Alternatively, scientific popularization is described as a carefully contrived plan which enables scientists or their spokesmen to allege that scientific learn­ ing is equitably shared by scientists and non-scientists alike. This manoeuvre is intended to weaken the claims of anti-scientific protesters that scientists monopolize knowledge as a means of sustaining their social privileges. Pop­ ularization is also sometimes presented as a psychological crutch. This, in an era of increasing scientific specialisation, permits the researchers involved to believe that by transcending the boundaries of their narrow fields, their endeavours assume a degree of general cognitive importance and even extra­ scientific relevance. Regardless of the particular thrust of these different analyses it is important to point out that all are predicated on the tacit presupposition that scientific popularization belongs essentially to the realm of non-science, or only concerns the periphery of scientific activity.
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