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  • 1
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    Islamic law and society (1994-)
    Leiden [u.a.] : Brill | Dordrecht : Springer | Buffalo, NY : HeinOnline ; 1.1994 -
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    ISSN: 1568-5195 , 0928-9380 , 0928-9380
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 1.1994 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Islamic law and society
    DDC: 340
    Keywords: Zeitschrift
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    URL: https://brill.com/ils
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    URL: http://heinonline.org
    URL: https://www.jstor.org/journal/islalawsoci
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    Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789048123582
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Series Statement: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education 3
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Education ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lehrer ; Berufslaufbahn ; Lehrerfortbildung
    Abstract: Collects various scholarly contributions and perspectives on teachers' career trajectories and work lives. This work describes a variety of national contexts, illustrating how problems and challenges relating to the teaching profession manifest themselves and are tackled in different countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Teachers' Career Trajectories; Teachers' Career Trajectories: An Examination of Research; Career Stories as Gateway to Understanding Teacher Development; Committed for Life? Variations in Teachers' Work, Lives and Effectiveness; On the Unacknowledged Significance of Teachers' Habitus and Dispositions; Teachers' Professional Learning and the Workplace Curriculum; Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform; Postscript to 'Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform'
    Description / Table of Contents: The Careers of Urban Teachers: A Synthesis of Findings from UCLA's Longitudinal Study of Urban EducatorsTeacher Gender and Career Patterns; Regenerating Teachers; Listening to Professional Life Stories: Some Cross-Professional Perspectives; Epilogue: Teaching Professions in Restructuring Contexts;
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2358-2
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    Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness : Empirical Research Concerning the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789048126149
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 220p. 65 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 16
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Humanities ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Argumentation ; Sprachphilosophie
    Abstract: In Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness, Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels report on their systematic empirical research of the conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical discussion rules. The experimental studies they carried out during more than ten years start from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation developed at the University of Amsterdam, their home university. In these studies they test methodically the intersubjective acceptability of the rules for critical discussion proposed in this theory by confronting ordinary arguers who have not received any special education in argumentation and fallacies with discussion fragments containing both fallacious and non-fallacious argumentative moves. The research covers a wide range of informal fallacies. In this way, the authors create a basis for comparing the theoretical reasonableness conception of pragma-dialectics with the norms for judging argumentative moves prevailing in argumentative practice. Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness provides a unique insight into the relationship between theoretical and practical conceptions of reasonableness, supported by extensive empirical material gained by means of sophisticated experimental research.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; 1 Theoretical Background and Organization of the Study; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A Historical Overview of the Study of Fallacies; 1.3 Modern Theoretical Approaches to the Fallacies; 1.4 The Pragma-Dialectical Approach; 1.5 Plan of the Empirical Study; 1.6 Structure of this Volume; 2 Considerations Regarding the Design of the Study; 2.1 An Outline of Methodological Backgrounds; 2.2 Bowker and Trapp's Research of Ordinary Arguers' Assessment of Argumentation; 2.3 Implications of the Discussion of Bowker and Trapp's Research
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Schreier, Groeben and Christmann's Studies on "ArgumentationalIntegrity"2.5 Alternative Methods; 3 Ad Hominem Fallacies: An Exemplary Study; 3.1 Variants of the Argumentum Ad Hominem; 3.2 Ad hominem Attacks: Fallacies or Not?; 3.3 Organization of the Study; 3.4 Results; 3.5 Discussion; 3.6 Conclusion; 4 The Confrontation Stage: The Freedom Rule; 4.1 The Freedom Rule; 4.2 The Argumentum Ad Baculum, the ArgumentumAd Misericordiam, Declaring a Standpoint Tabooor Sacrosanct
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Judging About the Reasonableness or Unreasonablenessof Discussion Moves with and Without Violation of the FreedomRule4.4 Results; 4.5 Politeness as an Alternative Explanation; 4.6 The Loadedness of the Standpoint; 4.7 Cultural Differences and the Freedom Rule; 4.8 Conclusions; 5 The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend Rule (I); 5.1 The Obligation-to-Defend Rule in Non-mixed Disputes; 5.2 The Burden of Proof: Onus Probandi; 5.3 Shifting the Burden of Proof; 5.4 Evading the Burden of Proof: Presenting the Standpointas Self-Evident
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5 Evading the Burden of Proof: Personally Guaranteeingthe correctness of the Standpoint5.6 Evading the Burden of Proof: Immunizing a Standpoint AgainstCriticism; 5.7 Conclusions; 6 The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend (II); 6.1 The Burden of Proof in Mixed Differences of Opinion; 6.2 The Sequential Problem in Mixed Differences of Opinion; 6.3 The Presumption Principle and the Sequential Problem in MixedDifferences of Opinion; 6.4 The Role of Presumptions in Shifting and Evading the Burden ofProof
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.5 Explicit Verbal Indicators as to the Presumption Principle and Evading the Burden of Proof6.6 The Sequential Order Rule Versus the Obligation-to-Defend Rule; 6.7 Conclusions; 7 The Argumentation Stage: The Argument Scheme Rule; 7.1 Overview of Rules for the Argumentation Stage; 7.2 Argument Schemes, Critical Questions and Types of Fallacies; 7.3 The Argumentum Ad Consequentiam; 7.4 The Argumentum Ad Populum; 7.5 The Fallacy of the Slippery Slope; 7.6 The Fallacy of False Analogy; 7.7 Conclusions; 8 The Concluding Stage: The Concluding Rule; 8.1 The Concluding Rule
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 Violations of the Concluding Rule
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2614-9
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    Renaissance scepticisms (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402085185
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas 199
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Renaissance scepticisms
    RVK:
    CC 4000
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    CE 5300
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy ; Skepticism History ; 16th century ; Philosophy, Renaissance ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Skeptizismus ; Renaissance ; Skeptizismus ; Geschichte 1420-1600 ; Skeptizismus ; Renaissance ; Skeptizismus ; Geschichte 1420-1600
    Abstract: Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance scepticism, an overall synthesis comprising the entire period has not been achieved yet. No predetermined idea of that complex historical subject that is Renaissance scepticism underlies this book, and we want to sacrifice the complexity of movements, personalities, tendencies and interpretations to any sort of a priori unity of theme even less. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that we had always thought of "scepticisms" in the plural, and believe that the different contexts (philosophical, religious, cultural) in which these forms grew up must also be taken into account. Furthermore, given the transversal nature and provocative character of the sceptical challenge, this book contains essays also on philosophers who, without being sceptics and sometimes engaged in fighting scepticism, nevertheless took up its challenge. The main authors considered in this book are: Vives, Castellio, Agrippa, Pedro de Valencia, Pico, Sanchez, Montaigne, Charron, Bruno, Bacon, and Campanella. The various essays in the book show the relevance of the philosophical thought of authors little known by the general public and put in new perspective important aspects of the thought of some of the great thinkers of the Renaissance.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8518-5
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    Reasonableness and Law (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402085000
    Language: English
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    Edition: 1
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 86
    DDC: 340.1
    Keywords: Comparative law ; Constitutional law ; Law Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Public law
    Abstract: Reasonableness is at the centre of legal debate, both in academic circles and in practice. This unique reference work adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, merging jurisprudence, legal theory, political philosophy and the different branches of law. All aspects relating to reasonableness and law are addressed by the most prominent scholars in the field. In the first part of the book, the focus is on jurisprudential analyses of the concept of reasonableness and on its moral, political and constitutional implications. In the second part, reasonableness is examined in the different fields of law like Public, Private and International Law. Here in more detail the practical consequences of reasonableness are worked out, making this work of interest to practitioners as well as legal theorists.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributors; Introduction; Part I Legal, Political and Constitutional Theory; a. The Reasonableness of the Law; The Reasonableness of Law; A Sufficientist Approach to Reasonableness in Legal Decision-Makingand Judicial Review; Reasonableness, Common Sense, and Science; b. The Moral and Political Dimension of Reasonableness; Reciprocity, Balancing and Proportionality: Rawls and Habermas on Moral and Political Reasonableness; Law, Liberty and Reason; Reasonableness and Value Pluralism in Law and Politics; Global Legitimation and Reasonableness
    Description / Table of Contents: Philip Pettit's Law, Liberty and Reason: Republican Freedom andCriminal Justicec. Reasonableness in Constitutional Adjudication; Proportionality, Judicial Review, and Global Constitutionalism; Constitutional Adjudication and the Principle of Reasonableness; Some Critical Thoughts on Proportionality; Part II Private, Public and International Law; a. Reasonableness in Private Law; Reasonable Persons in Private Law; The Reasonable Consumer under European and Italian Regulations onUnfair Business-to-Consumer Commercial Practices; b. Reasonableness in Administrative and Public Law
    Description / Table of Contents: Reasonableness in Administrative LawReasonableness in Administrative Law: A Comparative Reflection onFunctional Equivalence; c. Reasonableness in Biolaw; Reasonableness, Bioethics, and Biolaw; Reasonableness in Biolaw: Is it Necessary?; Reasonableness and Biolaw; Reasonableness in Biolaw: The Criminal Law Perspective; d. Reasonableness in EU and International Law; The Principle of Reasonableness in European Union Law; An Evolving "Rule of Reason" in the European Market; From State-Centered towards Constitutional "Public Reason" inModern International Economic Law; Index of Names
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8500-0
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    Nominalism and Its Aftermath: The Philosophy of Nelson Goodman (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402099311
    Language: English
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    Edition: 1
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 343
    RVK:
    CI 6411
    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Genetic epistemology ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of mind ; Goodman, Nelson 1906-1998 ; Nominalismus
    Abstract: "Nelson Goodman's disparate writings are often written about only within their own particular discipline, such that the epistemology is discussed in contrast to others' epistemology, the aesthetics is contrasted with more traditional aesthetics, and the ontology and logic is viewed in contrast to both other contemporary philosophers and to Goodman's historical predecessors. This book argues that that is not an adequate way to view Goodman. The separate disciplines of ontology, epistemology, and aesthetics should be viewed as sequential steps within his thought, such that each provides the ground rules for the next section and, furthermore, providing the reasons for limitations on the terms available to the subsequent writing(s). This is true not merely because this is the general chronology of his writing, but more importantly because within his metaphysics lies Goodman's basic nominalist ontology and logic, and it is upon those principles that he builds his epistemology and, furthermore, it is the sum of both the metaphysics and the epistemology, with the nominalist principle as the guiding force, which constructs the aesthetics. At the end of each section of this book, the consequent limitations imposed on his terms and concepts available to him are explicated, such that, by the end of the book, the book delineates the constraints imposed upon the aesthetics by both the metaphysics and the epistemology."--P. [4] of cover
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9931-1
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    International handbook of education for spirituality, care and wellbeing (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402090189
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxvii, 1238 Seiten)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Series Statement: International handbooks of religion and education Volume 3
    Series Statement: International handbooks of religion and education
    DDC: 207.5
    Keywords: Early childhood education ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Religion and education
    Abstract: Acknowledging and understanding spiritual formation is vital in contemporary education. This book explores the dynamic relationship between education and wellbeing. It examines the theory underpinning the practice of education in different societies where spirituality and care are believed to be at the heart of all educational experiences. The book recognizes that, regardless of the context or type of educational experience, education is a caring activity in which the development of the whole person - body, mind and spirit - is a central aim for teachers and educators in both formal and inform
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Author Biographies; General Introduction; I The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality: Implications forEducation and Wellbeing - An Introduction; 1 Ways of Studying the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality; 2 Measuring Religiousness and Spirituality: Issues, ExistingMeasures, and the Implications for Education and Wellbeing; 3 Examining Religious and Spiritual Development During Childhoodand Adolescence; 4 Understanding and Assessing Spiritual Health; 5 The Contribution of Religiousness and Spirituality to SubjectiveWellbeing and Satisfaction with Life
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Culture, Religion and Spirituality in Relation to Psychiatric Illness7 Psychological Type Theory and Religious and SpiritualExperiences; 8 Understanding the Attitudinal Dimensions of Religion andSpirituality; 9 Social, Religious and Spiritual Capitals: A PsychologicalPerspective; 10 Mystical, Religious, and Spiritual Experiences; 11 The Spiritual Dimension of Coping: Theoretical and PracticalConsiderations; 12 The Psychology of Faith Development; 13 The Psychology of Prayer: A Review of Empirical Research; II The Role of Spirituality in Human Development and Identity: AnIntroduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Spirituality and Mental Health: The Mystery of Healing15 The Dynamics of Spiritual Development; 16 Does Positive Psychology Have a Soul for Adolescence?; 17 Voices of Global Youth on Spirituality and Spiritual Development:Preliminary Findings from a Grounded Theory Study; 18 Moment to Moment Spirituality in Early Childhood Education; 19 Children's Spiritual Intelligence; 20 In Search of the Spiritual: Adolescent Transitions as Portals to theSpirit Self; 21 Reflection for Spiritual Development in Adolescents
    Description / Table of Contents: 22 Developing Contemplative Capacities in Childhood andAdolescence: A Rationale and Overview23 The Contribution of Spirituality to "Becoming a Self" in Child andYouth Services; 24 Coming of Age as a Spiritual Task in Adolescence; 25 Youthful Peak Experiences in Cross-Cultural Perspective:Implications for Educators and Counselors; 26 Peak Experiences Explored Through Literature; 27 Developing Spiritual Identity: Retrospective Accounts FromMuslim, Jewish, and Christian Exemplars
    Note: Enthält Part 1 und 2. - Auf der Titelseite als Part 1 bezeichnet
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9018-9
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    Learning to be professionals (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789048126088
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Innovation and change in professional education Vol. 4
    DDC: 378/.013
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Berufsausbildung
    Abstract: Preparing professionals to meet the demands of changes in practice is a compelling issue for the development of society, professions and individual professionals. A key tenet of this book is that we currently prepare professionals for the world of work in ways that are generally limited in scope and inadequate for addressing contemporary professional practice. The book critically investigates professional education programmes and the assumptions upon which they are based. It argues for an ontological turn in which professional education attends not only to what students know and can do, but also who they are becoming as professionals. In a scholarly, well-grounded account, the book closely interweaves theory and empirical material on learning to be professionals. It provides a fresh, innovative approach to designing professional education programmes, as well as to research about this important enterprise. This book makes a timely, insightful contribution to debate about educating for the professions.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Part I Focus of the Inquiry; 1 A Deepening Crisis of Confidence in the Professions; Contemporary Context of Professional Practice; A Crisis of Confidence Re-Visited; Structure of the Book; 2 What Is Professional Practice?; What Is a Profession?; Exploring Professional Practice; A Lifeworld Perspective on Professional Practice; Professional Practice Presupposes the Lifeworld; Part II Professional Education as Preparation; 3 Investigating Preparation for Professional Practice; Technical Rationality and the Normative Curriculum; Problem-Based Learning; Work-Based Learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Curriculum Design for Professional Preparation4 Professional Education as a Process of Becoming; Becoming Professionals; Ambiguities in Becoming Professionals; Avoidance of Addressing Ontology in Professional Education; Pursuing Ontological Education for the Professions; Letting Learn; Part III Professional Ways of Being; 5 Contextualising Professional Ways of Being; A Brief History of Western Medicine; A Biomedical Model of Medicine; 6 Interplay Between Traditions and Being Professionals; Disease in Patients' Lives; Power Relations Between Medical Practitioners and Patients
    Description / Table of Contents: Exposure of Patients During Physical ExaminationEmotional Demands of Medical Practice; Being with People Who Seek Help; Social Distancing in Medical Practice; Gender and Access to Medical Practice; Medical Practice as Service Provision; 7 Learning Professional Ways of Being; Development Over Time: Unfolding Professional Ways of Being; Case1:Karl; Case2:Lotta; A Synthesis: Karl and Lotta Learning to be Professionals; Part IV Implications for Professional Education; 8 Designing Professional Education: Where to from Here?; Beyond Knowledge and Skills in Professional Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Overcoming a Theory/Practice Gap in Curriculum DesignProfessional Education as Preparation for Practice; Addressing Ambiguity in Professional Practice; Integrating Ontology and Epistemology in Professional Education; Professional Education as a Process of Becoming; Challenging and Supporting Learning to be Professionals; Developing Attuned Responsiveness to Professional Practice; Concluding Remarks; References; Index
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    Harming Future Persons : Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402056970
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 35
    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Harming future persons
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Constitutional law ; Ethics ; Human genetics ; Law Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Public health laws ; Ethics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Verfassungsrecht ; Humangenetik ; Ethik ; Rechtsphilosophie
    Abstract: This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations. Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice brings a worse off person into existence in place of a better off but 'nonidentical' person make that choice wrong? We intuitively think we are obligated to treat future persons in accordance with certain stringent standardsroughly those we think apply to our treatment of existing persons. We think we ought to create better lives for at least some future persons when we can do so without making things worse for too many existing or other future persons. We think it would be wrong to engage in risky behaviors today that will have clearly adverse effects for the children we intend one day to conceive. And we think it would be wrong to act today in a way that would turn the Earth of the future into a miserable place. Each of these intuitive points is, however, challenged by the nonidentity problem. That problem arises from the observation that future persons often owe their very existence to choices that appear to make things worse for those same persons. New reproductive technologies, for example, can be both risky and essential to one persons coming into existence in place of a 'nonidentical' other or no one at all. But so can a myriad of other choices, whether made just prior to conception or centuries beforechoices that seem to have nothing to do with procreation but in fact help to determine the timing and manner of conception of any particular future person and thus the identity of that person. Where the persons life is worth living, it is difficult to see how he or she has been harmed, or made worse off, or wronged, by such an identity-determining choice. We then face the full power of the nonidentity problem: if the choice is not bad for the future person it seems most adversely to affect, then on what
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Harming Future Persons: Introduction; Part I Can Bringing a Person into Existence Harm That Person? Can an Act That Harms No One Be Wrong?; 1 The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem; Part II If Bringing a Badly Off Person into Existence is Wrong, is Not Bringing a Well Off Person into Existence Also Wrong?; 2 Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives; 3 Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist; Part III Must an Act Worse for People be Worse for a Particular Person?; 4 Who Cares About Identity?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternate Possible Identities?6 Rule Consequentialism and Non-identity; Part IV Is the Argument to ""No Harm Done"" Correct? Must an Act that Harms a Person Make that Person Worse Off?; 7 Harming as Causing Harm; 8 Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions; 9 Harming and Procreating; 10 The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When isOne Act Better for a Person than Another?; Part V Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong?
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-identity Problem12 Two Varieties of "Better-For" Judgements; 13 Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions; Part VI Is the Person Affecting Approach Objectionable Independent of the Nonidentity Problem?; 14 Can the Person Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics?; Part VII What are the Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for Law and Public Policy?; 15 Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty; 16 Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice Over Time; Name Index; Subject Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5697-0
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    Argumentation and education : theoretical foundations and practices (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780387981253
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Parallel Title: Print version Argumentation and Education
    DDC: 370.152
    Keywords: Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Erziehungsphilosophie
    Abstract: Constituting an important dimension of daily life and of professional activities, argumentation plays a special role in democracies and is at the heart of philosophical reasoning and scientific inquiry. This title provides both theoretical backgrounds, and examples of experiments and results in school contexts in a range of domains
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-98125-3
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    Differential subject marking (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402064975
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 72
    DDC: 400
    RVK:
    ET 670
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    ET 690
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Subjekt ; Markiertheit ; Nominalphrase
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6497-5
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    The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048128419
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Education, Higher ; Philosophy
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2841-9
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    Preference Change : Approaches from Philosophy, Economics and Psychology (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048125937
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 42
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Preference change
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Microeconomics ; Philosophy ; Logic ; Microeconomics ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Präferenz ; Philosophie ; Psychologie ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: The fact that preferences change is a pressing but unresolved problem for philosophy and the social sciences. Social scientists use preferences to explain agents’ behaviour, philosophers use preferences to explicate value judgements. A lot of empirical research is invested into identifying people’s preferences. However, the success of these endeavours is seriously threatened, because precise accounts of when and why preferences change are lacking. This volume answers to this need by collecting new essays from an interdisciplinary group of experts in the field. These essays, especially written for this volume, survey the newest approaches to preference change developed in the social sciences and in philosophy, and will serve as a platform for future research. They review some standard material, including the neoclassical preference model and doxastic preference change, time preferences and the debate over policy evaluation under preference change. However, the focus is on new research that is not widely known, such as conditional utilities, non-monotonic logics, complex systems models, inter-temporal choice approaches, etc. The book serves three purposes. It introduces undergraduate students to the current state of research on preference change, it gives graduate students and researchers in-depth insights into the state-of-the-art modelling techniques of different disciplines, and it points out to experts the lacunae in the literature and directions for future research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preference Change: An Introduction; Three Analyses of Sour Grapes; For Better or for Worse: Dynamic Logics of Preference; Preference, Priorities and Belief; Why the Received Models of Considering Preference Change Must Fail; Exploitable Preference Changes; Recursive Self-prediction in Self-control and Its Failure; From Belief Revision to Preference Change; Preference Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?; The Ethics of Nudge; Preference Kinematics; Population-Dependent Costs of Detecting Trustworthiness: An Indirect Evolutionary Analysis
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2593-7
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    Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence (2008)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (319 Seiten)
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology 1
    Series Statement: The international library of ethics, law and technology
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Information systems ; Computers Law and legislation ; Economics
    Abstract: Aims to warn policy-makers, industry, academia, civil society organisations, the media and the public about the threats and vulnerabilities facing our privacy, identity, trust, security and inclusion in the rapidly approaching world of ambient intelligence (AmI)
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; The brave new world of ambient intelligence; Dark scenarios; Threats and vulnerabilities; Safeguards; Recommendations for stakeholders; Conclusions; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6662-7
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    Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation (2008)
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    DDC: 179.7
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Law Medicine ; Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Menschenwürde
    Abstract: The idea of human dignity is central to any reflection on the nature of human worth, and has become a key concept in international and national law, in medical ethics, and in much philosophical and political theory. However, the idea is a complex one that also takes on many different forms. This collection explores the idea of human dignity as it arises within these many different domains, opening up the possibility of a multidisciplinary conversation that illuminates the concept itself, as well as the idea of the human to which it stands in an essential relation. The book is not only an intri
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction to a Conversation; Human Dignity and Human Worth; Human Dignity and Human Being; On Human Dignity: Fragments of an Exploration; Two Conceptions of Dignity: Honour and Self-Determination; Human Dignity and Charity; Human Dignity: Functions and Meanings; A Brief History of Human Dignity: Idea and Application; A Journey Towards Understanding: True and False Dignity; The Question of Dignity: Doubts and Loves and a Whisper from Where the Ruined House Once Stood; Religion and Dignity: Assent and Dissent; Giving the Past Its Dignity; Dignity and Indignity
    Description / Table of Contents: Human Dignity and the LawOn the International Legal Aspects of Human Dignity; Doing Justice to Dignity in the Criminal Law; Human Dignity: The New Phase in International Law; Dignity and Health; Human Dignity: The Perspective of a Gynaecological Oncologist; The Social Origins of Dignity in Medical Care at the End of Life; Dying with Dignity: The Story Reveals Its Meaning; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6281-0
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    Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate (2008)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 93
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    Parallel Title: Print version Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate
    DDC: 174.2
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Catholicism ; Fluid Therapy ethics ; Religion and Medicine ; Nutritional Support ethics ; Persistent Vegetative State therapy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Medizinische Ethik ; Künstliche Ernährung ; Moraltheologie
    Abstract: Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. This collection of essays featuring some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope's statements, the moral issues surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the refusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for those at the end of life.
    Abstract: Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope s claim that the life of all human beings, even those in a persistent vegetative state or a coma, was worth protecting, others argued that the Pope s position marked a shift from the traditional Catholic teaching on the withdrawal of medical treatment at the end of life. The debate among Catholic bioethicists over the Pope s statement only grew more intense during the controversy surrounding Terry Schiavo s death in 2005, as bioethicists on both sides of the debate argued about the legitimacy of removing her feeding tubes. This collection of essays by some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope s statements, the moral issues surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the refusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for those at the end of life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Why do Unresponsive Patients Still Matter?; Are We Morally Obliged to Feed PVS Patients Till Natural Death?; Caring for Persons in the "Persistent Vegetative State" and Pope John Paul II's March 20 2004 Address "On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State"; Food and Fluids: Human Law, Human Rights and Human Interests; Quality of Life and Assisted Nutrition; Towards Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration; Understanding the Ethics of Artificially Providing Food and Water
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics of Pope John Paul's Allocution on Care of the PVS Patient: A Response to J.L.A. GarciaReflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care For PVS Patients; The Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients: A Reply to Fr. O'Rourke; Response to Patrick Lee; The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique of the View of Kevin O'Rourke, O.P.; Ten Errors Regarding End of Life Issues, and Especially Artificial Nutrition and Hydration; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6207-0
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    Beauty's Appeal : Measure and Excess (2008)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 97
    DDC: 111.85
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    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature's enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. This collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of the Human Condition. It endeavors to explain the relation of beauty and human existence, and explores the various aspects of beauty.
    Abstract: Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature's enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. Carried by creative imagination (Imaginatio Creatrix), beauty participates in the moulding of the forms of the intellective constitution of the mind in tandem with praxis and seeks deeper enigmas of the real in the labyrinth of the cosmos. Yet with the evolution of human development and in technological inventions, beauty, while suffusing all modalities of experience, seems to undergo transformations and expansion. Are there perduring norms and modalities of beauty or are we carried along blindly by human development? Is there a measure intrinsic to our human ontopoietic unfolding and the growth of human life that we may follow instead of the whim of fancy and excess? The present collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of Human Condition. Together, the authors aim to answer the questions posed above. Papers by: Brian Grassom, Lawrence Kimmel, Gabriel Hindin, John Baldachino, Piero Trupia, Maria Golaszewska, Mariola Sulkowska, Valerie Reed, Max Statkiewicz, Victor Gerald Rivas, Robert D. Sweeney, Raymond J. Wilson III, Tsung-I Dow, Vladimir Marchenkov, Maciej Kaluza, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Diane G. Scillia, Bruce Ross, James Werner, Elena Stylianou, Arthur Piper, Christopher Wallace, Matti Itkonen, Munir Beken, Andrew J. Svedlow.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Eros/Kalon/Agathos; The Beautiful Recollected; Art After Beauty; The Semantics of Beauty; The Aesthetics of Possibility; Aesthetization of Aesthetic Values?; Shattering Beauty; From Perfect Beauty to a Conscious Life; Von Hildebrands, Father and Son, and the Beautiful; Measure or Excess; Measure and Excess; Harmonious Balance; The Dialectic of the Serious and the Ludic in Myth and Art; The Theater of the Absurd and Reality; Too Much Is Never Enough; Minimalist Art; Dances with Bears; The Re-Emergence of Beauty in Contemporary Technology
    Description / Table of Contents: Beauty and Truth in Science and PhenomenologyAction and the Open Work; Lived Words Re-Revisited; Impenetrable Historiography and Value in Academic Music Composition; Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Mark Rothko's Painting; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6521-7
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    Education In Human Creative Existential Planning (2008)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook Of Phenomenological Research 95
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Konferenzschrift ; Erziehungsphilosophie
    Abstract: Education is the transmission of knowledge and skill from one generation to another, and is vitally significant for the growth and unfolding of the living individual. It manifests the quintessential ability of the logos to differentiate life in self-individualization from within, and in its spread through inter-generative networks. The present collection of papers focuses on the underpinnings of the creative workings of the human strategies of reason.
    Abstract: Education is the transmission of knowledge and skill from one generation to another, and is vitally significant for the growth and unfolding of the living individual. It manifests the quintessential ability of the logos to differentiate life in self-individualization from within, and in its spread through inter-generative networks. Without reaching the evolutive phase of the human creative condition, the human being establishes a unique creative platform on which to conduct its co-existence. On this platform the progress of life is being transformed from a natural ontopoietic accomplishment into an autonomous achievement of the creative planning of the human mind. Specifically, human education focuses upon creative planning moving like a pendulum between nature and freedom. The present collection of papers focuses on the underpinnings of the creative workings of the human strategies of reason. Papers by: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Zaiga Ikere, Daniela Verducci, Klymet Selvi, Andrina Tonkli-Komel, Jan Szmyd, Brian Grassom, Alon Segev, Mara Rubene, Dean Komel, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Carmen Cozma, Piotr Mroz, Clara Mandolini, Mobeen Shahid, Semiha Akinci, Oliver W. Holmes, Khawaja Muhammad Saeed, Angela Ales Bello, Virpi Yliraudanjoki, Brian Hughes, Ella Buceniece, Halil Turan, Fabio Petrelli, Roberto Verolini, Bronislaw Bombala, Osvaldo Rossi, Joanna Handerek, Rimma Kurenkova, M. Chkeneva, Maija Kule, Nikolay Kozhevnikov
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Education For Creative Planning; Human Being as a Creative Differentiator of the Logos of Life; Education And The Ontopoietic Conception Of Life; Phenomenological Approach in Education; Poetry and Knowledge in Plato'S Critique of Sophistic Education; Civilizational Contexts of the Contemporary Educational Crisis; Beyond Knowledge; Philosophical System and Art Experience in Hegel and Gadamer; Distance Education "Here" and "now"; Art As The Possibility Of Philosophical; Can Art Be Taught?; Ethical View upon the Human Situation Within the "Unity-of-Everything-There-is-Alive"
    Description / Table of Contents: The Educational Aspect of the Primordial Situation of One's Being-in-the-worldAction, Work, and Education in Blondel; Husserl's Phenomenological Analysis of Ethics As a Foundation for Pedagogy; The Philosophical Roots of the Concepts of Equality and Justice in Education; Theories of Nature and Education in the Development of the Human Self in the Eighteenth Century; Spiritual Experience and the Foundation of Education; Self-Cultivation and Educative Responsibility; Merleau-Ponty's in Northern Feminist Education Context; Hermeneutic Excellence as a Meta-Ethic
    Description / Table of Contents: Sensuous Experience and Transcendental Empiricism (F. Brentano, E. Husserl, P. DAle)Learning by Eureka; Rethinking Education from the Perspective of Life; In Search of a New Model of Education; Art Between Communion and Communication; Relations with Others in the Face of Lévinas' il-y-a; Communication in the Teacher Training University; Humanities in Transcending the Perspective of Experience; Phenomenology of Modern Universalism; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6302-2
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    Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care : An International Perspective (2008)
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    Series Statement: International Library Of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 36
    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care
    DDC: 340
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    Keywords: Ethics ; medicine Public health laws ; Philosophy (General) ; Public health laws ; Internationality ; Personal Autonomy ; Bioethics ; Human Rights ; Cultural Diversity ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gesundheitsrecht ; Menschenrecht ; Internationales Recht
    Abstract: This book offers a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted world of combative cultures and perspectives.
    Abstract: Autonomy and Human Rights in Healthcare: An International Perspective is a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. A pioneer in the field of multidisciplinary research, having integrated major theological and philosophical traditions in the west with modern science, Thomasma was a role model to the authors who have devoted essays to his major avenues of inquiry. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Evolving Bioethics and International Human Rights; Dignity, Rights, Health Care, and Human Flourishing; Human Rights: The Ethics Of Globalization; Human Rights And The Right To Health Care; Religion, International Human Rights And Women's Health: Synthesizing Principles And Politics; The Limitations And Accomplishments Of Autonomy As A Basic Principle In Bioethics And Biolaw; Person And Human Being In Bioethics And Biolaw; Welfare Rights And Health Care; Autonomy And The Rights Of Minors; Domestic Violence
    Description / Table of Contents: Balancing Autonomy And Traditional Values In Treating Terminally Ill Patients: Towards Locating The Right Questions For JapanCulture, Community Or Rights; Bioethics Between Nature And Culture; Medical Practice As The Primary Context For Medical Ethics; Euthanasia And Multiculturalism; International Law And Genetic Counselling; International Perspective On Organ Donation; Justice In The Distribution Of Transplant Organs; Human Cloning And Human Dignity; Accessing Health Care Resources: Economic, Medical, Ethical And Socio-Legal Challenges
    Description / Table of Contents: Mental Health Rights: The Relation Between Constitution And BioethicsThe "Vulnerability" Quagmire In International Research; Human Rights, Health Care And Biomedical Innovation: Confronting The Research Imperative; The Rights To Die And The Duty To Save: A Reflection On Ethical Presuppositions In Suicide Research; The Right To Bodily Security Vis-À-Vis The Needs Of Others; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5841-7
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    The Linearization Of Affixes: Evidence From Nuu-Chah-Nulth (2008)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 73
    DDC: 497.9555
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Indic philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Hochschulschrift ; Nootka-Sprache ; Affigierung ; Morphosyntax
    Abstract: This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The author's driving proposition is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement to linearize linguistic outputs. This proposition is tested using original data from Nuu-chah-nulth ('Nootka'; Wakashan family), an endangered Amerindian language that is remarkable for its complex morphology.
    Abstract: "The linearization of syntactic constructs stands at the forefront of current research on the syntax-phonology interface. This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The driving proposal of this book is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement that linguistic outputs be linearized. This hypothesis is tested against extensive original data from Nuu-chah-nulth (""Nootka"", Wakashan family), an endangered Amerindian language remarkable for its complex morphology. This volume introduces typologically rare affixation effects to current theoretical debates surrounding the division of labour between the modules of the grammar."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; PF Incorporation; Clausal Architecture of Nuu-chah-nulth; Nominal Complements of Affixal Predicates; Verbal Complements of Affixal Predicates; Implications; Back Matter
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    Phänomenologie der Schwachen Phantasie : Untersuchungen der Psychologie, Cognitive Science, Neurologie und Phänomenologie zur Funktion der Phantasie in der Wahrnehmung (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402068317
    Language: German
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 185
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Lohmar, Dieter, 1955 - Phänomenologie der schwachen Phantasie
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy of nature ; Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy of nature ; Philosophy ; Wahrnehmung ; Fantasie
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    Underdetermination : An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge (2008)
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 261
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Unterbestimmtheit
    Abstract: This timely book offers a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically 'underdetermined' by the data they account for. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological aspects of the topic in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected scientific cases, the author carefully examines the merits of arguments for and against the thesis. Along the way, he investigates methodological proposals and recent theories of confirmation.
    Abstract: Underdetermination. An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledgeis a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically 'underdetermined' by the data they account for. This much-debated thesis is a thorn in the side of scientific realists and methodologists of science alike and of late has been vigorously attacked. After analyzing the epistemological and ontological aspects of the controversy in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical facts and selected scientific cases, Bonk carefully examines the merits of arguments for and against the thesis. Along the way, he investigates methodological proposals and recent theories of confirmation, which promise to discriminate among observationally equivalent theories on evidential grounds. He explores sympathetically but critically W.V.Quine and H. Putnam’s arguments for the thesis, the relationship between indeterminacy and underdetermination, and possibilities for a conventionalist solution.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; 1 A Humean Predicament?; 1.1 Aspects of Underdetermination; 1.2 Significance of the Thesis; 1.3 Quine, Realism, and Underdetermination; 1.4 No Quick Solutions; 1.5 Three Responses and Strategies; 2 Underdetermination Issues in the Exact Sciences; 2.1 Logical Equivalence, Interdefinability, and Isomorphism; 2.2 Theorems of Ramsey and Craig; 2.3 From Denotational Vagueness to Ontological Relativity; 2.4 Semantic Arguments; 2.5 Physical Equivalence; 2.6 Underdetermination of Geometry; 3 Rationality, Method, and Evidence; 3.1 Deductivism Revisited; 3.2 Quine on Method and Evidence
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Instance Confirmation and Bootstrapping3.4 Demonstrative Induction; 3.5 Underdetermination and Inter-theory Relations; 4 Competing Truths; 4.1 Constructivism; 4.2 Things versus Numbers; 4.3 Squares, Balls, Lines and Points; 4.4 Algorithms; 5 Problems of Representation; 5.1 Ambiguity; 5.2 Conventionalism:Local; 5.3 Conventionalism:Global; 5.4 Verification and Fictionalism; 6 Underdetermination and Indeterminacy; 6.1 Underdetermination of Translation; 6.2 Indeterminacy versus Underdetermination; 6.3 Empirical Investigations of Cognitive Meaning; 6.4 Indeterminacy and the Absence of Fact
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.5 Quine's Pragmatic Interpretation of UnderdeterminationBibliography; Index
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    Virtues and Passions in Literature : Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment (2008)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook Of Phenomenological Research 96
    DDC: 801.9
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Literatur ; Wert ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.
    Abstract: Paradoxically, our human virtues that maintain our societal fabric, emerge from passional grounds/sources in individual existence. It is the Human Condition that prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. Our full possibilities allow our singular existence: excellence of individual character, courage, engagement, and wisdom to unfold. The transformations that the virtues work with a timing of human progress, never entirely accomplished, lift us toward personal fulfilment. Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Tsung-I Dow, Bernard Micallef, Victor Ger
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre; Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero; Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume's Aesthetic Thought; Virtues of the Heart; The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's Hyperborean; Virtue in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead; Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues; Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues; Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato's Symposium; The Virtue of Responsibility
    Description / Table of Contents: Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"Beyond Adaptation; Between the Ironic and the Irenic; Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia; Art and Awareness; The Image in the History of Thought; The Narrative Model; Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585-1672; Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance; Back Matter
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    Educating in the Arts : The Asian Experience: Twenty-Four Essays (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402063879
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    Series Statement: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 11
    DDC: 370.95
    Keywords: Education ; Arts ; Performing arts ; Humanities
    Abstract: Currently not available, will follow before Dec 30.
    Abstract: Written by leaders in a wide range of creative fields and from all corners of the Asian region, this collection of essays presents arts and education programs which reflect traditional and contemporary practices. The volume brings together researchers, practitioners, educators, children and young people with shared interests in the arts and activities that cross disciplinary divisions and aims to encourage the use of the arts in developing international understanding, celebrating cultural diversity, building cultural bridges and creating cross-cultural dialogue throughout the Asian region. Thi
    Description / Table of Contents: The Arts - Unifying Principles in Education; Masters and Pupils; Art for Education; Arts Education in Iran; The Arts-in-Education Programme; Arts Education in Cambodia; Representation of Japanese Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia); Mountains in the Evolution of Visual Arts in Kyrgyzstan; Development of Contemporary Art in Thailand; Information Technology, Art Education and Creativity in Singapore; The Power of Creation and Expression in Digital-Age Children; Art Education in Uzbekistan; To Strive, to Seek, to Find and not to Yield
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Education for Sustaining CommunitiesNew and Varied Initiatives in Arts Education for Cultural Development in Philippine Society; Crossroads for Cultural Education Through Music; Symphony and Sa Re Ga; A Paradigm Shift in Teaching Music in Schools; Layers of Thought on Korean Music, Music Education and the Value of Music and Arts in the Context of Education and Human Development; Rasa - A Life Skill; Tertiary Dance Education in Malaysia; Theatre and Education; The Black Box Exercise; Conclusion
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    Values and violence : intangible aspects of terrorism (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402086601
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in global justice Vol. 4
    DDC: 303.625
    Keywords: Political violence ; Terrorism ; Values
    Abstract: Most books on terrorism deal with descriptions of terrorist organizations and activities, some examine privacy and civil liberties issues, and others treat terrorism as a series of policy choices. Hardly any books deal with the foundational questions of values and violence as they relate to terrorism. The two unique features of this book are that it deals with violence at the normative foundations of values and human dignity and that it includes many of the best-known authors in the world from a variety of disciplines, making it a paradigmatic example of cutting-edge study in interdisciplinary scholarship, with a focus on bringing theories and policy issues closer together. 'Values and Violence' includes chapters by a dozen of the leading scholars in the world on patterns of political violence, responses to terrorism, and the basic value choices inherent in them.
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Social identity and political violence -- pt. 2. Scope of the terrorist threat -- pt. 3. Values and policy choices.
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    Possibility, Agency and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402052453
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library 61
    Parallel Title: Print version Possibility, Agency and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy, modern ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Metaphysik ; Möglichkeit
    Abstract: This book reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz's metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones. It presents Leibniz's subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. The book provides an original approach to the questions of individuation and relations in Leibniz, offering a novel account of Leibniz's notion of Nested Individuals.
    Abstract: This work presents Leibniz's subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential repercussions in his metaphysics. Ohad Nachtomy presents Leibniz's approach to possibility by exposing his early suppositions, arguing that he held a combinatorial conception of possibility. He considers the transition from possibility to actuality through the notion of agency, the role divine agency plays in actualization, moral agency and human freedom of action and the relation between agency and necessity in comparison to Spinoza. Nachtomy analyzes Leibniz's notion of nested, organic individuals and their peculiar unity, in distinction from his notion of aggregates. Nachtomy suggests that Leibniz defined possible individuals through combinatorial rules that generate unique and maximally consistent structures of predicates in God's understanding and that such rules may be viewed as programs for action. He uses this definition to clarify Leibniz's notions of individuation, relations and his distinction between individual substances and aggregates as well as the notion of organic individuals, which have a nested structure to infinity. Nachtomy concludes that Leibniz's definition of a possible individual as a program of action helps clarifying the unity and simplicity of nested individuals. The book thus reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz's metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones.
    Description / Table of Contents: Leibniz's Combinatorial Approach to Possibility; Possible Individuals; The Individual's Place in Logical Space; Individuals, Worlds and Relations; Possibility and Actuality; Agency and Freedom; Agency and Necessity; Aggregates; Nested Individuals; Possibility and Individuality
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5245-3
    URN: urn:nbn:de:1111-200708029319
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    International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402057472
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    Series Statement: Springer International Handbooks of Education 17
    DDC: 371.2
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    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Education and state ; Wörterbuch ; Schulentwicklung
    Abstract: This book reviews of the development, implementation and practice of the disciplines of school effectiveness and school improvement. Seven main topics are addressed: History of the school effectiveness movement over the last 25 years; Changes in accountability and standards; Leadership in school effectiveness; Changes in teacher education; Impact of Diverse Populations; Education Funding and its Impact; and Best Practice Case Studies. The contributors are active in school effectiveness research worldwide.
    Abstract: This handbook provides the most comprehensive international review of the school effectiveness and school improvement research in the twenty five years since the disciplines became prominent. The handbook contains chapters, not only from most of the key contributors to this research from the USA, the UK, Hong Kong and Europe, but also contains a number of chapters that document the progress of the field in regions of the world that are less known, including the Asian-Pacific region, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. It contains the thoughts of not only the proponents of school effectiveness research, but those that have been critical of it. It documents the progress of the field over the past quarter century and clearly identifies the improvements in research techniques and the ability to consider context as a major feature. It provides both theoretical constructs and practical applications and case studies that are transnational and those that are local. Finally, it provides some possibilities for future research, policy and practice to guide the discipline into the next decade of change. The handbook provides a state of the art analysis of the complex issues facing schools, school systems, societies and nations that will support researchers, policy makers and practitioners in their search for ways to provide a high quality education to all students.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; 20 Years of ICSEI: The Impact of School Effectiveness and School Improvement on School Reform; Four Decades of Body-Surfing the Breakers of School Reform: Just Waving, Not Drowning; Generic and Differentiated Models of Educational Effectiveness: Implications for the Improvement of Educational Practice; Improving School Effectiveness: Retrospective and Prospective; School Effectiveness Research in Latin America; "Effective for What; Effective for Whom?" Two Questions SESI Should Not Ignore; Pursuing the Contextualisation Agenda: Recent Progress and Future Prospects
    Description / Table of Contents: A History of School Effectiveness and Improvement Research in the USA Focusing on the Past Quarter CenturyHistory of the School Effectiveness and Improvement Movement in Canada over the Past 25 Years; School Improvement in Latin America: Innovations over 25 Years (1980-2006); Growing Together: School Effectiveness and School Improvement in the UK; Educational Effectiveness and Improvement: The Development of the Field in Mainland Europe; School Effectiveness and Improvement in Asia: Three Waves, Nine Trends and Challenges; School Effectiveness and Improvement in Taiwan
    Description / Table of Contents: School Effectiveness and Improvement in Mainland ChinaThe Maturing of a Movement: Tracking Research, Policy and Practice in Australia; Schooling Reform: Reflections on the New Zealand Experience; History of the School Effectiveness and Improvement Movement in Africa; School Autonomy for School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of Israel; Recent Initiatives in School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of Turkey; Recent Initiatives in School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran; The Relationship Between Student Attainment and School Resources
    Description / Table of Contents: Accountability, Funding and School Improvement in CanadaCost and Financing of Education and Its Impact on Coverage and Quality of Services and Efficiency and Equity in Sub-Saharan African Countries; Resources and School Effectiveness and Improvement; School Effectiveness and School Improvement (SESI): Links with the International Standards/Accountability Agenda; Evolution of School Performance Research in the USA: From School Effectiveness to School Accountability and Back; Education Decentralisation and Accountability Relationships in Latin American and the Caribbean Region
    Description / Table of Contents: Equity, Efficiency and the Development of South African SchoolsPolicy Perspective on School Effectiveness and Improvement at the State Level: The Case of South Australia; Diverse Populations and School Effectiveness and Improvement in the USA; School Leadership, School Effectiveness and School Improvement: Democratic and Integrative Leadership; Leadership and School Reform Factors; The Emotional Side of School Improvement: A Leadership Perspective; Leadership and School Effectiveness and Improvement; Leadership Development for School Effectiveness and Improvement in East Asia
    Description / Table of Contents: Teacher Leadership: Barriers and Supports
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5747-2
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    Handbook of Spatial Logics (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402055874
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Science Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Geometry ; Topology ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Raum ; Mathematische Logik
    Abstract: Johan Benthem
    Abstract: A spatial logic is a formal language interpreted over any class of structures featuring geometrical entities and relations, broadly construed. In the past decade, spatial logics have attracted much attention in response to developments in such diverse fields as Artificial Intelligence, Database Theory, Physics, and Philosophy. The aim of this handbook is to create, for the first time, a systematic account of the field of spatial logic. The book comprises a general introduction, followed by fourteen chapters by invited authors. Each chapter provides a self-contained overview of its topic, descr
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; Contributing Authors; Second Readers xxi; Chpater 1 What is Spatial Logic?; Chapter 2 First-Order Mereotopology; Chapter 3 Axioms, Algebras and Topology; Chpater 4 Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Using Constraint Calculi; Chapter 5 Modal Logics of Space; Chapter 6 Topology and Epistemic Logic; Chapter 7 Logical Theories for Fragments of Elementary Geometry; Chapter 8 Locales and Toposes as Spaces; Chapter 9 Spatial Logic + Temporal Logic = ?; Chapter 10 Dynamic Topological Logic; Chapter 11 Logic of Space-Time and Relativity Theory; Chapter 12 Discrete Spatial Models
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 13 Real Algebraic Geometry and Constriaint DatabasesChapter 14 Mathematical Morphology; Chapter 15 Spatial Resoning and Ontology: Parts, Wholes, and Locations; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5587-4
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    Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059087
    Language: English
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    DDC: 370
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    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5908-7
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    Ethics, Hunger and Globalization : In Search of Appropriate Policies (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402061318
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 12
    DDC: 338.19
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethik ; Hunger ; Globalisierung ; Religion ; Hunger ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Ethics, Hunger and Globalization adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Outstanding scholars and practitioners from several disciplines discuss what action is needed for ethics to play a bigger role in action by governments, civil society, and the private sector to reduce poverty and hunger within the context of globalization. The book concludes that much of the rhetoric by policy makers is not followed up with appropriate action, and discusses the role of ethics in attempts to match action with rhetoric. The book also concludes that a better understanding of the values underlying both public and private sector action towards the alleviation of poverty and hunger would lead to more enlightened policies and greater success in attempts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The interaction between ethical, economic, and policy aspects is discussed and scholars and experienced practitioners from several disciplines suggest how such integration may be promoted.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction and Summary; Eliminating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: A Moral Imperative or Enlightened Self-Interest?; Ethics, Globalization, and Hunger: an Ethicist's Perspective; The Ethics of Hunger: Development Institutions and the World of Religion; What Hunger-Related Ethics Lessons can we Learn from Religion? Globalization and the World's Religions; Freedom from Hunger as a Basic Human Right: Principles and Implementation; Millennium Development Goals and Other Good Intentions
    Description / Table of Contents: What We Know About Poverty and What We Must Do: Ethical and Political Aspects of EmpowermentEthics and Hunger: A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Perspective; Economic Development, Equality, Income Distribution, and Ethics; On The Ethics and Economics of Changing Behavior; Agricultural and Food Ethics in the Western World: A Case of Ethical Imperialism?; Ethics, Hunger, and The Case for Genetically Modified (GM) Crops; Reforming Agricultural Trade: Not Just for the Wealthy Countries; Agricultural Subsidy and Trade Policies; Food Safety Standards in Rich and Poor Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Concluding Reflections on the Role of EthicsBack Matter
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    Law as Symbolic Form : Ernst Cassirer and the anthropocentric view of law (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402062568
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 82
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Coskun, Deniz Law as symbolic form
    DDC: 340
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    Keywords: Law Philosophy ; Philosophy of law ; Law ; Political science ; Humanities ; Cassirer, Ernst 1874-1945 ; Rechtsphilosophie
    Abstract: This book describes the rule of law as the reign of persuasion rather than the reign of force, and democracy as the reign by persuasion rather than the reign by force. It synthesizes a vast amount of current Cassirer-literature and makes a contribution to jurisprudence. The book is the first systematic elaboration on law as a symbolic form and it sheds new light on a still dark area of intellectual and jurisprudential thought.
    Abstract: Jurisprudence, according to Cassirer, is not merely the systematic, conceptual pursuance of ethics. They are separate domains for Cassirer, and both direct their claims differently on the individual. Whereas ethics concerns the motives of the individual, law ultimately achieves a cosmos for our world of outward actions. However, they are not separated by a neutral line or a vacuum. For law to have effect as a symbolic form it is necessary that it reflects the law in the mind of people i.e., that one could and ought to have assented to it out of ethical principles and maxims. The conceptual analysis of law goes hand to hand with its genetic account. Both ethics and law are products of, spring forth from the formative or symbolic powers of man, and although, as any other symbolism, they might confront us as something objective, i.e., as part of reality that is beyond our immediate reach, ultimately we must always bring them to account to their very source: our independent and individual moral judgment. In this book we describe the rule of law as the reign of persuasion rather than the reign of force, and democracy as the reign by persuasion rather than the reign by force.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Cassirer's Public Engagement with Weimar; Cassirer And Heidegger. An Intermezzo on Magic Mountain; Cassirer In Exile An Essay On The Recovery Of Individual Moral Judgement; The Politics Of Myth. Cassirer's Pathology Of The Totalitarian State; The Philosophy Of Symbolic Forms; Cassirer's Position In Relation To Neo-Kantianism?; Law As A Symbolic Form; The Linguistic Turn Of Social Contract Theory; Cassirer's Position In Relation To Neo-Kantian Jurisprudence; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6256-8
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    Efficiency, Justice and Care : Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402052149
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    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine v. 33
    DDC: 174.2
    Keywords: Ethics ; Medicine ; medicine Medical ethics ; Public health ; Philosophy (General) ; Medical ethics ; Health Services Accessibility ; Prejudice ; Social Justice ; Public Health ethics ; Medizinische Ethik
    Abstract: This book attempts to answer the question how health care can be incorporated into a comprehensive theory of justice, while realising an acceptable balance between efficiency, justice and care. It seems to be that we can have any two but not all three. Essentially, the central question addressed by this book is the following: how best to square the proverbial welfare circle.
    Abstract: What does just health care imply? Does it mean that people have a right to health care? Does it entail that there are rights-based social obligations to provide equal access to health care for everyone? And if so, why? Why are health care interests so important that they deserve special protection? What kind of social good is health care? What are its functions and do these make it different from other commodities? Furthermore, how much equality should there be in health care? What inequalities are morally acceptable and how should the burdens of achieving equality be distributed? Which matters of health care belong to the domain of justice, and which to the domain of charity? To what extent should we allow personal responsibility to play a role in allocating health care services and resources, or in distributing the costs? And what does justice require with regard to long-term care for the chronically ill and irreversibly dependent? Since the 90's, issues of scarcity, priority setting, and rationing lie at the centre of most current debates on health care. These are pressing issues: one way or another, limits have to be set. As such, the question of what is involved in just health care becomes much more complex. This complexity can be represented as an inconsistent triad, a set of three propositions of which any two are compatible but which together form a contradiction. In the case of health care, the three rival values are: social efficiency, justice, and decent-quality care. It seems to be that we can have any two but not all three. Essentially, the central question is the following: how best to square the proverbial welfare circle. How can resources be matched to needs, or needs to resources in socially acceptable and economically feasible ways? This book attempts to answer the question how health care can be incorporated into a comprehensive theory of justice, while realising an acceptable balance between efficiency, justice and care. ' - I find it (the book) to be uncommonly good. The author very carefully analyzes key philosophical positions as they have been applied in this area, the research is very thorough, the writing is clear and engaging. This book could well be used in just about any university course dealing with public health care.' Professor David Novak, University of Toronto, Canada 'One of the most interesting books I have read in a long time - a very extensive overview of some prominent modern theories of justice and their application to resource distribution in health care. Based on this it raises a number of new and original questions, some of which also receive original and convincing answers.' Professor Søren Holm, Cardiff Law School, United Kingdom
    Description / Table of Contents: Just Health Care: Core Issues; Scarcity, Finitude and the Normative Value of Health; Justice as Fairness: John Rawls; Nussbaum's Approach: A Non-Contractarian Account of Care; Setting Limits: Dworkin's Proposal; Just Health Care: Foundations and Prospects
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5214-9
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    New Forms of Governance in Research Organizations : Disciplinary Approaches, Interfaces and Integration (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402058318
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 242 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als New forms of governance in research organizations
    DDC: 001.40943
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    Keywords: Law ; Public law ; Economics ; Political science ; Sociology ; Forschungspolitik ; Wissenschaftspolitik ; Wissenschaftliche Einrichtung ; Aufgabenträger ; Forschung ; Forschungsinstitut ; Governance ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Universität ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Governance ; Forschungseinrichtung ; Governance ; Hochschulreform ; Governance ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Forschungskooperation ; Governance
    Abstract: This book undertakes to develop a sector specific theory of governance of the public research sector and applies it to the German research system. The book is the outcome of a large interdisciplinary project. It analyzes the reforms in the German research system from an integrated perspective of law, economics and social sciences. The case of Germany is compared to reforms in other European countries such as Austria, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
    Abstract: Higher education and research institutions are confronted with changing and sometimes contradictory claims from state, industry and society, today. They have to face growing volatility and an acceleration and internationalization of the knowledge process. This book undertakes to develop a sector specific theory of governance of the public research sector and applies it to the German research system. The book is the outcome of a large interdisciplinary project. It analyzes the reforms in the German research system from an integrated perspective of law, economics and social sciences. The case of Germany is compared to reforms in other European countries such as Austria, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The study emphasizes an integrated approach considering the research function of universities as well as the non-university research sector. The focus is on the integration of external and internal governance. First, we pose the question how external competition and control mechanisms do influence internal governance of research institutions and universities and vice versa. Second, we discuss the consequences of these impacts on research. The book addresses scholars in the field of science and technology studies and research policy as well as actors responsible for establishing and implementing research policies. Managers of research institutions will find insights and guidelines for the strategic positioning of their institutions in a rapidly changing environment. Researchers in the field of governance may profit from the approaches to governance which are applied to the German research system in comparison to other research systems.
    Description / Table of Contents: Governance - A Political Science Perspective; Governance - A Legal Perspective; Governance - A Sociological Perspective; Governance - An Integrated Theory; On the Way towards New Public Management? The Governance of University Systems in England, the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany; Governance Modes in University Reform in Germany - From the Perspective of Law; The Application of the Concept of Governance to the Structures of German Extra-University Research Organizations from a Legal Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Analysis of Heterogeneous Collaboration in the German Research System with a Focus on NanotechnologyGovernance Reforms and Scientific Production Evidence from German Astrophysics
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5831-8
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    Careers of University Graduates : Views and Experiences in Comparative Perspectives (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059261
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 17
    DDC: 331.114235
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    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Akademiker ; Berufslaufbahn
    Abstract: This book offers detailed comparative analyses of graduate employment and work, drawn from a survey of graduates in 11 European countries and Japan. The book shows how transition to employment, job assignments, employee assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates' socio-biographic and educational background. It demonstrates more substantial differences in the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested.
    Abstract: "Graduates from institutions of Higher Education do not only hope to get employed and be better paid. Study can also have an impact on employment and work in many respects: facilitating transition to employment, opening up opportunities for demanding, interesting and responsible professional assignments, increasing remuneration and job security, providing opportunities for continuing learning and leading the way to international mobility and visibly international assignments. The book provides a series of detailed analyses of graduate employment and work in comparative perspective. It draws from the survey of graduates from 11 European countries and Japan first published in H. Schomburg und U. Teichler ""Higher Education and Graduate Employment and Work"" (Dordrecht: Springer 2006). In this volume, scholars from twelve countries show how transition to employment, job assignments, employment assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates' socio-biographic and educational background. It also focuses on experiences during the course of study and competences acquired, international experience, regional background and regions of employment. It demonstrates more substantial differences of the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Ulrich Teichler Graduate Employment and Work: Various Issues in a Comparative Perspective; Brenda Johnston and Brenda Little Socio-Biographical Background and Educational Path; Jake Murdoch and Jean-Jacques Paul Study Content and Process, Competences Upon Graduation and Employment; Jim Allen and Rolf van der Velden Transitions from Higher Education to Work; Trine Stavik and Clara Åse Arnesen Early Career; José García-Montalvo, José-Ginés Mora and Adela Garcia-Aracil The Employment Situation About Four Years After Graduation; Paul Kellermann Acquired Competences and Job Requirements
    Description / Table of Contents: Osmo Kivinen and Jouni Nurmi Job Requirements and Competences: Do Qualifications Matter?Jake Murdoch and Jean-Jacques Paul Links Between Knowledge and Work and Appropriate Employment; Gunhild Sagmeister Early Career Education; Torgerdur Einarsdottir ""On Different Tracks""; The Gendered Lanscape of Educational and Occupational Paths Amongst European Graduates; Roberto Moscati and Michele Rostan Regional Wealth, Employment and Mobility; Volker Jahr and Ulrich Teichler Graduates' International Experience and Mobility; Egbert de Weert Graduate Employment in Europe: The Employers' Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Harald Schomburg Work Orientation and Job SatisfactionUlrich Teichler Confirminf Conventional Wisdom and Contributing to New Insights: The Results of a Comparative Study on Graduate Employment and Work; List of Contributors
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    Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (2007)
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    Series Statement: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research 22
    DDC: 378
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education and state ; Education, Higher
    Abstract: Part of a series which offers a compendium of integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. This book focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; A Career Out of Control (Maybe); Accountability, Assessment, and the Scholarship of "Best Practice"; Striving for What? Exploring the Pursuit of Prestige; 'Outsiders', Student Subcultures, and the Massification of Higher Education; Teachers' Nonverbal Behavior and its Effects on Students; The Pell Program at Thirty Years; The Political Economy of Redistribution Through Higher Education Subsidies; Adjusting for Nonresponse in Surveys; Neoliberal Policies and Community College Faculty Work; Signals and Strategies in Hiring Faculty of Color
    Description / Table of Contents: Marketing Sameness: Consumerism, Commercialism, and the Status QuoBack Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5666-6
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    Temporality in Life as Seen Through Literature : Contributions to Phenomenology of Life (2007)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook Of Phenomenological Research 86
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Philosophy ; Phenomenology ; Aesthetics ; Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Zeitlichkeit ; Phänomenologie ; Leben ; Literatur
    Abstract: Temporality pervades all the dynamic joint of existence, and the human being as such. As human beings unfold through ontopoiesis, each move of which punctuates the temporality of life, they, whose life experience, deliberation, planning, reflection and dreaming are permeated by temporal motivations and concerns, feel that they are engaged in the spinning of a common thread. Attributing to that involvement universal laws, constant existential validity and power, they absolutise/hypostasise its rule as a cosmic/human factor: 'time'. Yet today technologies are transforming the temporality of our existence by accelerating, intensifying, expanding our partaking in the world of life. Human communal and social involvement is being challenged in its personal significance to the core of our being. What happens to 'time'? A basic reinvestigation of the nature of temporality is called for. Human creative endeavor - especially literature - may initiate it. Having the human subject - the creator - at its center, literature is essentially engaged in temporality whether that of the mind or of the world of life through the creative process of writing, stage directing, or the reader's and viewer's reception. Out of the cross-motivations that the creative mind filters in its temporal synthesis in touch with all the perspectives of existence, there surges the deepest significance of life in humanity and culture. But, first of all, life comes to light as timing itself in its logos.(Tymieniecka) Papers by: A-T. Tymieniecka, A. Ashvo-Munoz, A. Omrani, R. Gray, T.E. Afejuku, M.-Q. Ma, W.S. Smith, J.S. Smith, V. Kocay, I. Okhamafe, P. Mroz, T. Despotovic, M. Dion, R.M. Painter, V.G. Rivas, W. O'Brien, J. Kim-Reuter, A. Zacharz, L. Kimmel, J. Handerek, M. Durante, V. Reed, M. Statkiewicz, D. Doyle, J. Collins, L. Livesay, R.J. Wilson III.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; A Temporal Chora; Literature and the Sense of the Past; "A Moment in Timelessness": Ben Okri's Astonishing the Gods (1995; 1999); A Mode of Recollection in African Autobiography; "In an Instant of Time": The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the "Upsurge" of the Present in Ezra Pound's Cantos; Ascent Patterns in the Early Poetry of Tennyson; Ontology and Epistemology of Time in the Stage Play: Revisiting Roman Ingarden's The Literary Work of Art and The Cognition of Literary Work of Art; Temporal Sequence and Permanence in Neiges by Saint-John Perse
    Description / Table of Contents: Non-Teleological Temporality in Philosophy and Literature: Camus, Achebe, Emerson, Ellison, Hurston, and NietzscheThe Conflicting World-Views of the Traditional and the Modernist Novel; Towards the Infinite Memory; Between the Dialectics of Time-Memory and the Dialectics of Duration-Moment: Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf in Dialogue; TemporalRearrangement of the Moral Cosmos: Alice Munro's Fiction; On the Distinction of Tragedy and Pathos Through the Perusal of Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle; Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and Trauma
    Description / Table of Contents: Transcendence Unbound: Existence and Temporality in Montaigne's EssaysTranslation Lost, Translation Regained - on Temporality, or on Being; Notes on a Poetics of Time; Camus, time and literature; The "Deepening of the Present" Throughout Representation as the Temporal Condition of a Creative Process; "My Dear Time's Waste": The Experience of Time and Creation in Proust; Indexicalities of image, text and time; Achieving a Human Time: What We Can Learn from Faulkner's Benjy; Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Gregor's Da-Sein Paralyzed by Debt
    Description / Table of Contents: Time in Post-Modern Fiction: Time's Arrow, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and "The Alexandria Quartet"Back Matter
    Note: "Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning , Includes bibliographical references and index , International conference proceedings , Selected papers from the 29th annual conference of the International Society of Phenomenology and Literature (affiliated with the World Phenomenology Institute) held May 25-26, 2005, at the Harvard Divinity Schoool, Cambridge, Mass , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    A Life (Un)Worthy of Living : Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany (2007)
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 34
    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Hashiloni-Dolev, Yael A life (un)worthy of living
    DDC: 362.1983200943
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Reproductive Medicine ; Human genetics ; Sociology ; Philosophy (General) ; Reproductive Techniques ; Genetic Screening ; Genetic Screening ; Prenatal Diagnosis ; Prenatal Diagnosis ; Reproductive Techniques ; Israel ; Humangenetik ; Reproduktionsmedizin ; Ethik ; Deutschland ; Humangenetik ; Reproduktionsmedizin ; Ethik
    Abstract: This book presents the findings of a study into the social shaping of reproductive genetics in Germany and Israel. The study reveals dramatic differences between German and Israeli societies in addressing the question of a life (un)worthy of living. A close analysis of the ways that these two societies handle the balance between the quality and sanctity of life illuminates controversies over reproductive genetics in an original and provocative way.
    Abstract: Based on a variety of empirical materials the study reveals dramatic differences between the way that the German and Israeli societies address the question of a life (un)worthy of living: while in Germany, social, cultural, religious and legal conditions restrict the selection of embryos based on prenatal diagnosis, in Israel they strongly encourage it. A close comparative analysis of the ways that these two societies handle the delicate balance between the quality and sanctity of life illuminates the controversy around reproductive genetics in an original and provocative way. The study is also innovative in its use of contemporary social theory concerning the politics of life in comprehending the differences between two societies positioned at opposite extremes in their adoption of reproductive genetics. It thus offers an original cross-cultural discussion concerning present-day techno-medical manipulations of life itself.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Theoretical Background; Methodology; Getting to Know the Field of Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany; Genetic Counselors' Moral Practices; Abortions on Embryopathic Grounds: Policy and Practice in Israel and Germany; Sex Chromosome Anomalies (SCAs) in Israel and Germany: Assessing "Birth Defects" and edical Risks According to the Importance of Fertility*; "Wrongful Life", in the eyes of the law, the counselors and the disabled; The Conflicts Between Individuals, Families and Society, as Well as Between Different Family Members, Embodied in Reproductive Genetics
    Description / Table of Contents: Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5218-9
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    A Problem-based Approach for Management Education : Preparing Managers for Action (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402057564
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    DDC: 658.4/07124
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education, Higher ; Economics ; Führungskraft ; Ausbildung ; Problemorientiertes Lernen
    Abstract: This book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. The book explores how PBL can make knowledge about management locally relevant, and clarifies how PBL can enable students to apply their knowledge to real problems.
    Abstract: The past two decades have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of management education around the world. At the same time, however, influential scholars - Mintzberg, Bennis, Pfeffer and others - have levelled pointed critiques at these programs questioning their quality and relevance, as well as their approaches to teaching and learning. 'Preparing Managers for Action' is a timely contribution for management schools as well as other higher education institutions seeking the means to increase the relevance and quality of their professional education programs. The book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. PBL is an active learning approach first pioneered in medical education, but whose use has grown steadily in a variety of professional fields over the past two decades. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. This book is designed to provide both novice and experienced users of PBL with resources for designing and implementing problem-based management education. The book provides the novice with useful theoretical and practical background on how design a PBL curriculum, use PBL in a classroom, and develop PBL materials. At the same time, the book will challenge experienced users of PBL and case teaching to extend their applications through the use of learning technologies and more systematic approaches to assessment and curriculum design.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; About the Authors; Foreword; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Preparing 'Managers for Action'; Chapter 2 PBL: A Promising Approach to Education in the Professions; Chapter 3 Developing Problem-based Learning Materials; Chapter 4 Implementing Problem-based Learning in the Classroom; Chapter 5 Integrating Technology and Problem-Based Learning; Chapter 6 Student Assessment in a PBL Environment; Chapter 7 Problem-Based Learning as a Curriculum Approach; Chapter 8 Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education Programs; PART II: INTRODUCTION
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9 Leading Organizational Change PHILIP HALLINGERChapter 10 Data to Intelligence KAMONTIP SNIDVONGS; Chapter 11 New Product Positioning RANDALL SHANNON; Chapter 12 Retail to e-Tail VICHITA VATHANOPHAS; Chapter 13 Reorganizing for Competitiveness SOOKSAN KANTABUTRA; Chapter 14 Employee Selection PHILIP HALLINGER & EDWIN M. BRIDGES; Chapter 15 PHILIP HALLINGER & BRIAN HUNT; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5756-4
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    Cartographies of the Mind : Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Brain and Mind 4
    DDC: 128/.2
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    CC 5500
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    CC 4400
    Keywords: Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy (General) ; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics) ; Philosophy ; Consciousness ; Psychological Theory ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geist ; Philosophie ; Psychologie
    Abstract: This book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology. The chapters reflect the different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of 'cartographies of the mind'.
    Abstract: "The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology. In the last three decades, the level of interaction between philosophy and psychology has increased dramatically. As a contribution to this trend, this book explores some areas in which this interaction has been very productive - or, at least, highly provocative. The interaction between philosophy and psychology can be of different kinds. For example, psychology can be the subject for philosophy of science. In such a case, the philosopher of science pursues the usual set of issues (explanation, reduction, etc.) within the special case of psychology. Or, philosophy can be the source of proposals for improving psychology. Vice versa, the findings of psychology can be used to criticize philosophical theories and suggest ways to resolve some traditional philosophical questions about the mind, such as the nature of mental representation, perception, emotion, memory, consciousness and free will. The chapters in this book reflect these different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of ""cartographies of the mind""."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributors; Preface; I. THE INTERPLAY OF LEVELS; 1 Setting the stage: Persons, minds and brains; 2 Computational explanation and mechanistic explanation of mind; 3 Computationalism under attack; II. DIMENSIONS OF MIND; 4 Vision science and the problem of perception; 5 Synaesthesia, functionalism and phenomenology; 6 Integrating the philosophy and psychology of memory: Two case studies; 7 Emotion and cognition: A new map of the terrain; 8 Categorization and concepts: A methodological framework; 9 Errors in deductive reasoning; 10 Language and comprehension processes
    Description / Table of Contents: III. DIMENSIONS OF AGENCYA. Self-Knowledge; B. Consciousness; C. Agency and the Self; D. Social Agency; References; Index of names; Index of subjects
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5444-0
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    Becoming an Urban Physics and Math Teacher : Infinite Potential (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059223
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    Series Statement: Science & Technology Education Library 32
    DDC: 507.1
    Keywords: Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Erlebnisbericht ; Philadelphia, Pa. ; High school ; Mathematik ; Physik ; Lehrer ; Berufslaufbahn ; Arbeitsfeld ; Philadelphia, Pa. ; High school ; Interkulturelle Erziehung
    Abstract: This book explores what happens as beginning urban teachers transition through their first few years in the classroom. It captures one teacher's journey through the first three years of teaching science and mathematics in a large urban district in the US. Combining narrative with critical analysis, the authors focus on Ian's agency as a beginning teacher and explore his success in working with diverse students.
    Abstract: What happens as beginning urban teachers transition through their first few years in the classroom? This book captures one teacher's journey through the first three years of teaching science and mathematics in a large urban district in the US. The authors focus on Ian's agency as a beginning teacher and explore his success in working with diverse students. Using critical ethnography combined with first-person narrative, they investigate Ian's teaching practices in four contexts: his student teaching experience, his work with students on a summer curriculum development project, his first year of teaching in a small, urban high school, and his second year of teaching in a large, comprehensive high school. In each field, the authors describe the structural changes Ian encounters and the ways in which he re-utilizes the practices he used successfully in previous fields. Specific practices that helped foster community and led to the increased agency of his students as learners are highlighted.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5922-3
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    School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective : Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402057366
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    Series Statement: CERC Studies in Comparative Education 18
    DDC: 375.006
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    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Curriculum planning ; Education and state ; Sociology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Grundschule ; Lehrplanentwicklung ; Sekundarstufe ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: In this special edited volume, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school curricula over time and place. In providing regional and global perspectives on curricular policies, practices and reforms, the authors move beyond the conventional notion that school contents reflect principally national priorities and subject-based interests.
    Abstract: School curricula are established not only to prepare young people for a real world, but also to beckon an imagined one anchored in individual rights and collective progress. Both worlds the real and the imagined increasingly reflect influential trans-national forces. In this special edited volume, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school curricula over time and place. In providing regional and global perspectives on curricular policies, practices and reforms, the authors move beyond the conventional notion that school contents reflect principally national priorities and subject-based interests. Some authors emphasize a convergence to standardized global curricular structures and discourses. Others suggest that changes regarding the intended contents of primary and secondary school curricula reveal regional or trans-cultural influences. Overall, these comparative and historical studies demonstrate that the dynamics of curriculum-making and curricular reform are increasingly forged within wider regional, cross-regional and global contexts.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; List of Tables and Figures; Acronyms; Series Editor's Foreword; Dedication to Cecilia Braslavsky Juan Carlos TEDESCO; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE CHANGING IDEOLOGICAL BASES OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM; 1 Educational Ideology and the School Curriculum; 2 The Worldwide Rise of Human Rights Education; CURRICULAR CONTENTS AND PRACTICES IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; 3 The Spread of English Language Instruction in the Primary School; 4 Educating Future Citizens in Europe and Asia; 5 Historical Competence as a Key to Promote Democracy
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 The Marginalization of Aesthetic Education in the School Curriculum7 Transmission of Values in Muslim Countries: Religious Education; 8 World Models of Secondary Education, 1960--2000; 9 Micro-politics and the Examination of Curricular Practices:; THE DYNAMICS OF CURRICULUM-MAKING AND CURRICULAR REFORM; 10 The Current Discourse on Curriculum Change: A Comparative Analysis of National Reports on Education; 11 The Dynamics of Curriculum Design and Development: Scenarios for Curriculum Evolution; 12 Socio-historical Processes of Curriculum Change
    Description / Table of Contents: 13 New Proposals for Upper Secondary Curricula inSCHOOL CURRICULA IN PERSPECTIVE: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE; 14 Cecilia Braslavsky and the Curriculum: Reflections on a Lifelong Journey in Search of Quality Education for All; 15 World Models, National Curricula, and the Centrality of the Individual; Contributors; Bibliography; Index
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    Apprehension and Argument : Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 3
    DDC: 121
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy of mind ; Science Philosophy ; Griechenland ; Argumentation ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Wissensbasis ; Geschichte 400 v. Chr.-300
    Abstract: This book offers the first synoptic study of how the primary elements in knowledge structures were analysed in antiquity from Plato to late ancient commentaries. It argues that, in the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition, the question of starting points was treated from two distinct points of view: as a question of how we acquire basic knowledge; and as a question of the premises we may immediately accept in the line of argumentation.
    Abstract: If we know something, do we always know it through something else? Does this mean that the chain of knowledge should continue infinitely? Or, rather, should we abandon this approach and ask how we acquire knowledge? Irrespective of the fact that very basic questions concerning human knowledge have been formulated in various ways in different historical and philosophical contexts, philosophers have been surprisingly unanimous concerning the point that structures of knowledge should not be infinite. In order for there to be knowledge, there must be at least some primary elements which may be called 'starting points'. This book offers the first synoptic study of how the primary elements in knowledge structures were analysed in antiquity from Plato to late ancient commentaries, the main emphasis being on the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition. It argues that, in the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition, the question of starting points was treated from two distinct points of view: from the first perspective, as a question of how we acquire basic knowledge, and from the second perspective, as a question of the premises we may immediately accept in the line of argumentation. It was assumed that we acquire some general truths rather naturally and that these function as starting points for inquiry. In the Hellenistic period, an alternative approach was endorsed: the very possibility of knowledge became a central issue when sceptics began demanding that true claims should always be distinguishable from false ones.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts; Introduction; The Topic, Scope, and Aim of this Book; The Structure of the Book; A Brief Survey of the Existing Literature; PART I: PLATONIC-ARISTOTELIAN TRADITION; 1. Theories of Argumentation; 1.1 Plato; 1.2 Aristotle; 1.3 Later Developments; 2. Intellectual Apprehension; 2.1 The Connection between the Two Contexts; 2.2 Perception; 2.3 From Perception to Intellection; PART II: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; 3. Hellenistic Philosophy; 3.1 Is there a Starting Point for Knowledge?
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2 Is There a Transition from the Evident to the Non-Evident?3.3 What is Left for the Sceptic?; 3.4 What Does a Doctor Know? - Medical Empiricism as an Alternative Approach to Scientific Knowledge; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index Locorum; Index of Topics
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5043-5
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    Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems (2007)
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 37
    RVK:
    ES 847
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    ES 945
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    ES 950
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Computer science ; Computational linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gesprochene Sprache ; Automatische Spracherkennung ; Dialogsystem ; Evaluation
    Abstract: In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology. This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Speech and Speaker Recognition Evaluation; Evaluation of Speech Synthesis; Modelling and Evaluating Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Talking Animated Interface Agents; Evaluating Part-of-Speech Tagging and Parsing; General Principles of User-Oriented Evaluation; An Overview of Evaluation Methods in TREC Ad Hoc Information Retrieval and TREC Question Answering; Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær and Wolfgang Minker; Linguistic Resources, Development, and Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards International Standards for Language ResourcesBack Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5817-2
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    Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion (2007)
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    DDC: 210
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kontinentaleuropa ; Religionsphilosophie ; Selbst ; Der Andere
    Abstract: The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion. These primary topics include self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. The articles are by an international group of leading contributors to recent continental philosophy of religion.
    Abstract: It is well known that the philosophy of religion has flourished in recent decades in Anglo-American philosophy, where philosophers are bringing new techniques to the study of many of the traditional problems. Although there is more diversity in Anglo-American philosophy of religion than is sometimes recognized, it nevertheless provides a body of literature with a recent history that is sufficiently coherent to enable commentators to identify the movement with some clarity. The story is somewhat different with the emerging field of continental philosophy of religion, where many of the leading contributors are not generally known as philosophers of religion and where many of the approaches are based upon a critique of traditional western theories of rationality, experience and theism and an extension of the more traditional boundaries of philosophical reflection on religion. The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion, including self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. Contributors are Pamela Sue Anderson, Maeve Cooke, Richard A. Cohen, Fred Dallmayr, Hent de Vries, William Franke, Anselm K. Min, Michael Purcell, Calvin O. Schrag, Merold Westphal, Edith Wyschogrod and the editor Eugene Thomas Long.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Self and other: An introduction; On Hesitation before the Other; Levinas: thinking least about death-contra Heidegger; Life, death and (inter)subjectivity: realism and recognition in continental feminism; Apophasis and the turn of philosophy to religion: From Neoplatonic negative theology to postmodern negation of theology; From "ghost in the machine" to "spiritual automaton": Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Levinas; Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida, and Marion; Vision and voice: Phenomenology and theology in the work of Jean-Luc Marion
    Description / Table of Contents: Suffering and transcendenceOtherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil?; Repentance and forgiveness: the undoing of time; An end to evil? Philosophical and political reflections; Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas's postmetaphysical proposal
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5861-5
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    How to Think About Meaning (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402058578
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 109
    DDC: 121.68
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Linguistics Semantics ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Philosophy (General) ; Semantik ; Philosophie
    Abstract: According to truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth. This book develops a more radical mentalist semantics by shifting the object of semantic inquiry. Classical semantics analyzes an abstract sentence or utterance such as 'Grass is green'; in attitudinal semantics the object of inquiry is a propositional attitude such as 'Speaker so-and-so thinks grass is green'.
    Abstract: According to the dominant theory of meaning, truth-conditional semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth. Classical truth-conditional semantics is coming under increasing attack, however, from contextualists and inferentialists, who agree that meaning is located in the mind. How to Think about Meaning develops an even more radical mentalist semantics, which it does by shifting the object of semantic inquiry. Whereas for classical semantics the object of analysis is an abstract sentence or utterance such as 'Grass is green', for attitudinal semantics the object of inquiry is a propositional attitude such as 'Speaker so-and-so thinks grass is green'. Explicit relativization to some speaker S allows for semantic theory then to make contact with psychology, sociology, historical linguistics, and other empirical disciplines. The attitudinal approach is motivated both by theoretical considerations and by its practical success in dealing with recalcitrant phenomena in the theory of meaning. These include: presuppositions as found in hate speech, and more generally the connotative force of evaluative language, the problem of how to represent ambiguity, quotation and the use-mention distinction, and the liar paradox, which appears to contradict truth-based semantics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; The Case of the Missing Truth-Conditions; Foundations of Attitudinal Semantics; Objections and Replies; Hate Speech; Ambiguity; Quotation and Use-Mention; Liars and Truth-Tellers; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5857-8
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    Perspectives On Mathematical Practices : Bringing Together Philosophy of Mathematics, Sociology of Mathematics, and Mathematics Education (2007)
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 5
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Perspectives on mathematical practices
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    Keywords: Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Mathematics ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Mathematik ; Wissenschaftstheorie
    Abstract: In the eyes of the editors, this book will be considered a success if it can convince its readers of the following: that it is warranted to dream of a realistic and full-fledged theory of mathematical practices, in the plural. If such a theory is possible, it would mean that a number of presently existing fierce oppositions between philosophers, sociologists, educators, and other parties involved, are in fact illusory.
    Abstract: Philosophy of mathematics has transformed into a very complex network of diverse ideas, viewpoints, and theories. This title emphasises on the "classical" foundational work (often connected with the use of formal logical methods), and on the sociological dimension of the mathematical research community
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5034-8
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    International Perspectives on Teachers and Lecturers in Technical and Vocational Education (2007)
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    Series Statement: UNESCO-UNEVOC Book Series Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 7
    DDC: 371.11
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    Keywords: Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Berufsbildung ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This book provides insight into the history and current status of teaching in technical and vocational education across a broad range of countries. It contains studies of the profiles of teachers and lecturers and their educational practices in: Germany, Brazil, Denmark, China, France, Japan, Norway, Turkey, the UK and the USA. All chapters follow a common structure making it easy for the reader to focus on specific aspects. An overarching introduction embeds the content of the book into the current global context of Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
    Abstract: This book provides insight into the history and current status of teaching in technical and vocational education across a broad range of countries. It contains studies of the profiles of teachers and lecturers and their educational practices in: Germany, Brazil, Denmark, China, France, Japan, Norway, Turkey, the UK and the USA. All chapters follow a common structure making it easy for the reader to focus on specific aspects. An overarching introduction embeds the content of the book into the current global context of Technical and Vocational Education and Training
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; TVET Teachers: an Endangered Species or Professional Innovation Agents?; TVET Teachers in Brazil; China's TVET Teachers and Their Professionalization; The Professional Situation and Training of Vocational Teachers in Denmark; Teachers of Technical and Vocational Education in France; TVET Teachers and Instructors in Germany; The Development and Present Situation of Vocational and Technical Teachers' Professions in Japan; Technical and Vocational Education and its Teacher Training in Norway; Vocational Teachers in Russia; TVET Teachers and Lecturers in Turkey
    Description / Table of Contents: Perspectives on Teachers of Vocational and Technical Education in the UKCareer and Technical Teaching and Teacher Education in the United States of America; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5704-5
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    Argumentative Indicators in Discourse : A Pragma-Dialectical Study (2007)
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    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 12
    DDC: 400
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Language and languages ; Englisch ; Konversationsanalyse ; Argumentation ; Diskursmarker
    Abstract: This volume identifies and analyses English words and expressions that are crucial for an adequate reconstruction of argumentative discourse. It provides a systematic set of instruments for giving a well founded analysis that results in an analytic overview of the elements that are relevant for the evaluation of the argumentation. By starting from everyday examples, the study immediately connects with the practice of argumentative discourse.
    Abstract: Argumentative Indicators: A Pragma-Dialectical Study identifies and analyses English words and expressions that are crucial for an adequate reconstruction of argumentative discourse. It provides the analyst of argumentative discussions and texts with a systematic set of instruments for giving a well founded analysis which results in an analytic overview of the elements that are relevant for the evaluation of the argumentation. In the book a systematic connection is made between linguistic insights into the characteristics of argumentative discourse and insights from argumentation theory into the resolution of differences of opinion by means of argumentation.
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    Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts : Essays on John Searle's Social Ontology (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402061042
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 41
    DDC: 121
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    Keywords: Ontology ; Science medicine_xOntology ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; medicine Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Searle, John R. 1932- ; Gesellschaft ; Ontologie
    Abstract: Ten original essays examine the central themes of John Searle's ontology of society. Written by an international team of philosophers and social scientists, the essays contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle's work. Moreover, these essays open the door to new approaches to addressing fundamental questions about social phenomena. This book also features a new essay by Searle himself that summarizes and further develops his work.
    Abstract: This book includes ten original essays in three parts that critically examine central themes of John Searle s ontology of society, as well as a new essay by Searle that summarizes and further develops his work in that area. Part I (Aspects of Collective Intentionality) examines the account of collective intention and action underlying Searle s analysis of social and institutional facts, with special emphasis on how that account relates to the dispute between individualism and anti-individualism in the analysis of social behaviour, and to the opposition between internalism and externalism in the analysis of intentionality. Part II (From Intentions to Institutions: Development and Evolution) scrutinizes the ontogenetic and phylogenetic credentials of Searle s view that, unlike other kinds of social facts, institutional facts are uniquely human, and develops original suggestions concerning their place in human evolution and development. Part III (Aspects of Institutional Reality) focuses on Searle s claim that institutional facts owe their existence to the collective acceptance of constitutive rules whose effect is the creation of deontic powers, and examines central issues relevant to its assessment (among others, the status of the distinction between regulative and constitutive rules, the significance of the distinction between brute and deontic powers, and the issue of the logical derivability of normative from descriptive propositions, and the import of the difference between moral and non-moral normative principles).
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Aspects of collective intentionalitypt. 2. From intentions to institutions : development and evolution -- pt. 3. Aspects of institutional reality.
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    Constitutionalism and Legal Reasoning (2007)
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    Series Statement: Law and philosophy library v. 79
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Politisches System ; Verfassungsmäßigkeit ; Rechtsdenken
    Abstract: This book of legal philosophy contends that positive law is better understood if it is not too easily equated with power, force, or command. Law is more a matter of discourse and deliberation than of sheer decision or of power relations. Here is thought-provoking reading for lawyers, advocates, scholars of jurisprudence, students of law, philosophy and political science, and general readers concerned with the future of the constitutional state.
    Abstract: Talks about the search of a model for a humane law - where the cruelty ban is still in force. Presenting the contention that positive law is better understood, if it is not too easily equated with power, force, or command, this book shows that law is more a matter of discourse and deliberation, than of sheer decision or of power relations
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Law as Constitution; Legal Argumentation and Concepts of Law; The Practice of Law and Legal Ethics; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5595-9
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    Code-Switching in Bilingual Children (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 37
    DDC: 404.2083
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Germanic languages ; Romance languages ; Beispielsammlung ; Kind ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Sprachwechsel ; Deutsch ; Sprachwechsel ; Italienisch
    Abstract: This volume demonstrates that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. It provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, but also in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data.
    Abstract: The goal of this volume is to prove that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. Analyzing a rich corpus of spontaneous child data, the author provides detailed empirical evidence for latest minimalist assumptions on the architecture of mind and confirms that code-switching is only constrained by the two grammars of the languages involved. The data show that the quantity of mixing in children depends on an individual choice rather than on language development, language dominance, or other factors. Besides critically reviewing the literature on language mixing in children and adults, this work offers a thorough grammatical analysis of the code-switching data of five Italian/German children. The book provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, but also in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Bilingualism and Bilingual First Language Acquisition; Early mixing; The theoretical framework; Code-switching; Data; The analysis of early mixing; The analysis of code-switching; Findings and conclusions; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5784-7
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    RETHINKING EXPLANATION (2007)
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    Series Statement: BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 252
    DDC: 121
    Keywords: Science Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Erklärung ; Philosophie
    Abstract: The nature of scientific explanation has been an important topic in philosophy of science for many years. This book highlights some of the conceptual problems that still need to be solved and points out a number of fresh philosophical ideas to explore. Anyone interested in causal and probabilistic explanation, explanation-seeking questions and contrastive explanations, inference to the best explanation, or explanations within the special sciences should find something of interest in this book.
    Abstract: The nature of scientific explanation has been an important topic in philosophy of science for many years. This book highlights some of the conceptual problems that still need to be solved and points out a number of fresh philosophical ideas to explore
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; EXPLANATIONS ARE ABOUT CONCEPTS AND CONCEPT FORMATION; WHAT TO ASK OF AN EXPLANATION-THEORY; THE IDEA OF CONTRASTIVE EXPLANANDUM; THE PRAGMATIC-RHETORICAL THEORY OF EXPLANATION; CAUSAL EXPLANATION PROVIDES KNOWLEDGE WHY; CAUSAL EXPLANATION AND MANIPULATION; ASSESSING THE EXPLANATORY POWER OF CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS; SOME NOTES ON UNIFICATIONISM AND PROBABILISTIC EXPLANATION; SELECTION AND EXPLANATION; IBE AND EBI; EXPLAINING WITH EQUILIBRIA68; EXPLANATION AND ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL NOTIONS OF INNATENESS AND EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; ASPECT KINDS; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5581-2
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    Leibniz and the English-Speaking World (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402052439
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 62
    Parallel Title: Print version Leibniz and the English-speaking World
    DDC: 193
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Englisches Sprachgebiet ; Rezeption ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Englisches Sprachgebiet
    Abstract: This volume explores the attention awarded in the English-speaking world to German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete with an introductory overview, the book collects fourteen essays that consider Leibniz's connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. It sheds new light on Leibniz's philosophy and that of his contemporaries.
    Abstract: These essays comprise a first attempt to assess overall the attention awarded to Leibniz s philosophy in the English-speaking world in his own time and up to the present day. In addition to an introductory overview there are fourteen original and previously unpublished essays considering Leibniz s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. Some of the papers shed new light on familiar topics, including the influence of Hobbes on Leibniz, his relations with Locke and the well-publicised controversy with Samuel Clarke. Others chart less familiar territory, including Leibniz s connections with Boyle and Berkeley, Wilkins and Dalgarno. And others still break new ground in considering Leibniz s connections with John Wallis and Margaret Cavendish. There are four concluding papers on the later reception of Leibniz s philosophy in the English-speaking world, including two on Bertrand Russell and Leibniz, and two on the reception of Leibniz by American philosophers, Peirce and Loemker.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Leibniz and the English-Speaking World; Leibniz's Debt to Hobbes; Two Opponents of Material Atomism; Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz and the Descriptive Nature of Metaphysical Concepts; ''Un de mes amis''; Leibniz and Robert Boyle; Leibniz and the Cambridge Platonists; Leibniz's Nouveaux Essais; Leibniz, Locke, and the Epistemology of Toleration; ''Is the Logic in London Different from the Logic in Hanover?''; The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition; Synechism and Monadology; How did Bertrand Russell make Leibniz into a ''Fellow Spirit''?*; Leibniz and Russell
    Description / Table of Contents: Leibniz and the Personalism of L. E. LoemkerBack Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5243-9
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    Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning : Collected Papers on Legal Interpretation in Theory, Adjudication and Political Practice (2007)
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    DDC: 340
    Keywords: Philosophy of law ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Rechtssystem ; Semiotik
    Abstract: The study of legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses. New problems, changing power structures and societal norms and new faces of injustice - all these force reconsideration, reformulation and even replacement of established doctrines. This book focuses on the application of law in a wide variety of contexts, including international politics and diplomatic practice.
    Abstract: "Legal semiotics emphasizes the contingency and fluidity of legal concepts and stresses the existence of overlapping, competing and coexisting legal discourses. In response to new problems, changing power structures, changing societal norms and new faces of injustice established doctrines are reconsidered, reformulated and partly replaced by competing doctrines and hypotheses. Given the relative indeterminacy of law, it is no surprise that the problem of interpretation has always been one of the focal points of attention for legal semiotics. Who has the power to define words and concepts? Who can successfully assume the power to speak on behalf of the legal community? Which methods are used to justify the power to define? This book discusses the questions mentioned above from three, related perspectives: Legal theory (Part I). This part discusses how more traditional approaches have dealt with the problem of legal interpretation and indeterminacy, questions the methods applied in traditional legal theory and offers new theoretical tools to understand the problem of legal interpretation. Judicial reasoning (Part II). The insights discussed in Part I are refined using legal semiotics, speech act theory and rhetorics and applied to the legal reasoning of courts and tribunals either in common law and civil law traditions. Application of law in politics and diplomatic practice (Part III). Traditionally, the study of legal reasoning has focussed on the application of law by courts and tribunals. However, legal reasoning also takes place outside the courtroom and takes up in the political and diplomatic arena. Who is included and excluded by particular conceptions of law? How does law deal with the phenomenon of interculturality? ""Combining theoretical inspiration with a keen interest in case law, this volume will appeal to scholars and students of legal theory, jurisprudence, legal anthropology, postcolonial studies, indeed to anyone who's interested in problems of interpretation in legal and political theory and practice. It should also come in very handy in the classroom.""Ronnie Lippens, Professor of Criminology, Keele University."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Law as Fact, Law as Fiction; Lexical Indeterminacy; Topical Jurisprudence; Legal Speech Acts as Intersubjective Communicative Action; Who needs Fact when you've got Narrative? The Case of P,C&S vs. United Kingdom; Taking Facts Seriously; Transforming Ambiguity into Vagueness in Legal Interpretation; The Inclusive/Exclusive Nation; Global Values and Floating Borders in the Brazilian Amazon; Landmarks for Aboriginal Law in Australia; Back Matter
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    Lifelong Learning - Signs, Discourses, Practices (2007)
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    Series Statement: Lifelong Learning Book Series 8
    DDC: 374
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education and state ; Education Philosophy ; Lebenslanges Lernen ; Lernpsychologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning as an emerging discourse in education.
    Abstract: This text explores the different ways in which the various social practices in which people participate becomes signed as learning, how and why that occurs and with what consequences. It takes seriously the linguistic turn in social theory to draw upon semiotics and poststructuralism through which to explore the significance of lifelong learning as an emerging discourse in education. The text explores the different ways in which learning conveys meaning and is given meaning. Given this, lifelong learning therefore is a way, and a significant way, in which learning is fashioned. The text then explores the notion that, if learning is lifelong and lifewide, what precisely is learning as distinct from other social practices and how those practices are given meaning as learning.
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    Disciplines and Doctorates (2007)
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 16
    DDC: 378.12
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Education Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Promotion ; USA ; Promotionsstudium ; Curriculum ; USA ; Promotion
    Abstract: Generic advice in earning a PhD usually falls short of relevance, because of differences in the degree path from one discipline to another. Yet doctoral candidates and their supervisors know this process is governed by protocols and parameters - often implicit - that must be understood and mastered. This book explores these protocols, drawing upon a large-scale study of Australian universities, and also compares doctoral programs in different national systems.
    Abstract: Provides an analysis of the experience of learning to make knowledge at the level of the research doctorate. This book draws principally upon an empirical investigation at a number of Australian universities. It also provides a comparative account of doctoral study in different national systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Doctoral Study and Disciplinary Learning; Socialisation; Induction Processes; Exploring the Research Environment; Coping in the Arena; Linguistic Acceptability; Achieving Socialisation; Improving the Doctoral Experience
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5312-6
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    Establishing Medical Reality : Essays In The Metaphysics And Epistemology Of Biomedical Science (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402052163
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 90
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    DDC: 610.1
    RVK:
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    XC 2500
    Keywords: Metaphysics ; medicine Science_xMetaphysics ; Social sciences Medicine ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Medicine ; Philosophy, Medical ; Bioethics ; Bioethical Issues ; Metaphysics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Biomedizin
    Abstract: Medicine raises numerous philosophical issues. This volume approaches the philosophy of medicine from the broad naturalist perspective. This holds that philosophy must be continuous with, constrained by, and relevant to empirical results of the natural and social sciences. The upshot is a unique volume that ties medicine to contemporary issues in philosophy of science and metaphysics.
    Abstract: Contemporary medicine is a rich source of controversies and examples that raise important issues in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and metaphysics. This volume presents a collection of essays in the philosophy of medicine. It also ties medicine to contemporary issues in philosophy of science and metaphysics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Normality, Disease and Enhancement; Holistic Theories of Health as Applicable to Non-Human Living Beings; Disease and the Concept of Supervenience; Decision and Discovery in Defining 'Disease'; Race and Scientific Reduction; Towards an Adequate Account of Genetic Disease; Why Disease Persists: An Evolutionary Nosology; Creating Mental Illness in Non-Disordered Community Populations; Gender Identity Disorder; Clinical Trials as Nomological Machines: Implications for Evidence-Based Medicine; The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences
    Description / Table of Contents: Maternal Agency and the Immunological Paradox of PregnancyViolence and Public Health: Exploring the Relationship Between Biological Perspectives on Violent Behavior and Public Health Approaches to Violence Prevention; Taking Equipoise Seriously: The Failure of Clinical or Community Equipoise to Resolve the Ethical Dilemmas in Randomized Clinical Trials
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5216-2
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    Diagrammatology : An Investigation On The Borderlines Of Phenomenology, Ontology, And Semiotics (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402056529
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 336
    DDC: 121.68
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology ; Pragmatism ; Comparative Literature ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 ; Semiotik
    Abstract: Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. This book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporaneous doctrine of categorical intuition and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology.
    Abstract: "Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. The book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporanous doctrine of ""categorial intuition"" and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology. Diagrams, on a Peircean account, allow for observation and experimentation with ideal structures and objects and thus furnish the access to the synthetic a priori of the regional and formal ontology of the Husserlian tradition. The second part of the book focuses on three regional branches of semiotics: biosemiotics, picture analysis, and the theory of literature. Based on diagrammatology, these domains appear as accessible for a diagrammatological approach which leaves the traditional relativism and culturalism of semiotics behind and hence constitutes a realist semiotics."
    Description / Table of Contents: 0stjfm.pdf; 0stj01.pdf; 0stj02.pdf; 0stj03.pdf; 0stj04.pdf; 0stj05.pdf; 0stj06.pdf; 0stj07.pdf; 0stj08.pdf; 0stj09.pdf; 0stj10.pdf; 0stj11.pdf; 0stj12.pdf; 0stj13.pdf; 0stj14.pdf; 0stj15.pdf; 0stj16.pdf; 0stj17.pdf; 0stj18.pdf; 0stjpers.pdf; 0stjapp.pdf; 0stjnotes.pdf; 0stjbib.pdf; 0STJERNauthorindex.pdf; 0STJERsubjectindex.pdf
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5652-9
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    Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey 9
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Architecture ; Music ; Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ästhetik
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5069-5
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    Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories : Suppositio, Consequentiae and Obligationes (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402058530
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science 7
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy (General) ; Logik ; Formalisierung ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: This book presents formalizations of three important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence and obligations. These are based on innovative vantage points: supposition theories as algorithmic hermeneutics, theories of consequence analyzed with tools borrowed from model-theory and two-dimensional semantics, and obligations as logical games. The analysis of medieval logic is relevant for the modern philosopher and logician. This is the first book to render medieval logical theories accessible to the modern philosopher.
    Abstract: This book presents novel formalizations of three of the most important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence and obligations. In an additional fourth part, an in-depth analysis of the concept of formalization is presented a crucial concept in the current logical panorama, which as such receives surprisingly little attention. Although formalizations of medieval logical theories have been proposed earlier in the literature, the formalizations presented here are all based on innovative vantage points: supposition theories as algorithmic hermeneutics, theories of consequence analyzed with tools borrowed from model-theory and two-dimensional semantics, and obligations as logical games. For this reason, this is perhaps the first time that these medieval logical theories are made fully accessible to the modern philosopher and logician who wishes to obtain a better grasp of them, but who has always been held back by the lack of appropriate translations into modern terms.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Supposition Theory: Algorithmic Hermeneutics; Buridan's Notion of Consequentia; Obligationes as Logical Games; The Philosophy of Formalization; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5853-0
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    Financing Public Universities : The Case of Performance Funding (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402055607
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    Series Statement: HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS 18
    DDC: 378.44
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    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Nonprofit-Management ; Hochschulreform ; Hochschulpolitik ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Finance ; Social policy ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulfinanzierung
    Abstract: This crucial book addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie university funding to indicators of performance. It covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding, the public management reform debate within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved, and sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead. Four appendices cover more technical matters.
    Abstract: "Financing Public Universities addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise the quality of institutional systems. Performance-based budgeting and funding of public universities is part of broader efforts to reform public management, and it is being promoted and implemented by various government agencies around the globe. In particular, European universities with their normally strong governmental ties, or higher education systems molded on European universities, are prime targets of such reforms. Performance funding has made its inroads in attempts to grant university systems managerial autonomy: autonomy was to be granted in exchange for funding modes which are tied to the measurement of performance indicators. Unfortunately, performance-based budgeting or funding measures cannot meet the various expectations: they do not raise the quality of teaching or learning, they do not raise research performance, they take back a great deal of managerial autonomy which is commonly judged to be essential for the well being of higher education institutions, in particular research universities, and they act as automata in place of proper governance and management. ""Financing Public Universities"" addresses policy makers, higher education administrators, scholars and students of higher education management. After an introduction to the theme and to the book (Chapter 1), ""Financing Public Universities"" covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding (Chapter 2), the public management reform debate (Chapter 3) within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved (Chapter 4), sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead (Chapter 5), and epitomizes inertia or challenges (Chapter 6). Four appendices cover more technical matters, such as a comparative exposition of the research performance of universities by nation (Appendix C) and examples of funding systems in the UK and in the USA (Appendix D)."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Mass Higher Education and Funding Bases; Public Management Reform Debate; Performance-Based Budgeting or Funding; Alternative Governance and Management Modes; Inertia and Challenges; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5560-7
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    Portraits of Influential Chinese Educators (2007)
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    Series Statement: CERC Studies in Comparative Education 17
    DDC: 370.922
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Education and state ; Education Philosophy ; History ; Humanities ; China ; Pädagogik
    Abstract: This book conveys an understanding of China s educational development from within. It does so through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. These eleven educators are portrayed in the context of their cultural heritage, families, communities and schools, offering their own deeply reflective interpretations of Chinese education. The book provides glimpses into the educational context of China s recent move onto the world stage.
    Abstract: This book conveys an understanding of China??'s educational development from within. It does so through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. These eleven educators are portrayed in the context of their cultural heritage, families, communities and schools, offering their own deeply reflective interpretations of Chinese education. The book provides glimpses into the educational context of China??'s recent move onto the world stage
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Creating the Portraits - An Interpretive Framework; Wang Chengxu - A Leading Figure in Comparative Education; Li Bingde - Pioneer of Learning Theory and Educational Experimentation; Zhu Jiusi - A Visionary University Leader; Pan Maoyuan - Founder of Higher Education Studies in China; Xie Xide - An Outstanding Scientist and Educator; Wang Fengxian - A Leading Philosopher of Education; Wang Yongquan - Higher Education Thinker and Leader; Gu Mingyuan - Comparative Educator and Modernization Theorist; Lu Jie - A Woman Educator of Standing
    Description / Table of Contents: Liu Fonian and Ye Lan - Influential Educators of Two GenerationsComparative Reflections on the Portraits; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5568-3
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    Words and Intelligence II : Essays in Honor of Yorick Wilks (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402058332
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 36
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Computational linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wilks, Yorick 1939-
    Abstract: Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. This book celebrates Wilks's career from the perspective of his peers in original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area. This volume forms a two-part set together with Words and Intelligence I: Selected Works by Yorick Wilks, by the same editors.
    Abstract: Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence has extends to many areas of these fields and includes contributions to Machine Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Information Extraction. This book celebrates the work of Yorick Wilks from the perspective of his peers. It consists of original chapters each of which analyses an aspect of his work and links it to current thinking in that area. His work has spanned over four decades but is shown to be pertinent to recent developments in language proc
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Yorick Alexander Wilks: A Meaningful Journey; Metaphor, Semantic Preferences and Context-Sensitivity; Towards a New Generation of Language Resources in the Semantic Web Vision; Information Access and Natural Language Processing: A Stimulating Dialogue; Three Steps in Wilks Work: From Theory to Resources to Practice; Preference Syntagmatics; Historical Ontologies; An Amorphous Object Must be Cut by a Blunt Tool; Homer, the Author of The Iliad and the Computational-Linguistic Turn; Philosophical Engineering; Machine Translation and the World Wide Web
    Description / Table of Contents: Semantic Primitives: The Tip of the IcebergMolecules, Meaning and Post-Modernist Semantics
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5833-0
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    The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: An Evidence-Based Perspective (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402057427
    Language: English
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    DDC: 378.125
    RVK:
    AL 34000
    RVK:
    AL 91900
    RVK:
    CX 4500
    RVK:
    DM 3000
    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Education Psychology ; Hochschulbildung ; College ; Collegeunterricht
    Abstract: Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21stCentury is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. This book brings together pre-eminent scholars to critically assess teaching and learning issues that cut across most disciplines. Systematically explored throughout the book is the avowed linkage between classroom teaching and motivation, learning, and performance outcomes in students.
    Abstract: Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21st Century is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. This book brings together pre-eminent scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and the USA to critically assess teaching and learning issues that cut across most disciplines. In addressing long-standing and newly emerging issues, the researchers examine the scientific evidence on what constitutes effective teaching in college classrooms, on the psychometric integrity of measures of teaching effectiveness, and on the use of such measures for tenure, promotion, and salary decisions. Systematically explored throughout the book is the avowed linkage between classroom teaching and motivation, learning, and performance outcomes in students. In so doing, the book deals with the nexus between knowledge production by researchers and knowledge utility for end-users made up of classroom instructors, department heads, deans, directors, and policymakers. The book will appeal to researchers interested in teaching and learning, faculty members developing evidence-based pedagogical practices, academic administrators and policymakers responsible for instituting teaching and learning protocols, and faculty development officers promoting the effective teaching practices.
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5742-7_5_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_1_Part_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_2_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_3_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_4_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_1_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_6_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_2_Part_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_7_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_8_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_9_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_10_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_11_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_3_Part_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_12_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_13_OnlinePDF.pdf
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5742-7_14_OnlinePDF.pdf978-1-4020-5742-7_15_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_16_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_BookFrontMatter_OnlinePDF.pdf
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5742-3
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    Collective Improvisation in a Teacher Education Community (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402056680
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 4
    DDC: 370.71/1
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Teachers Training of ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lehrerbildung
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5668-0
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    Husserl's Logical Investigations in the New Century: Western and Chinese Perspectives (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402057588
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 55
    DDC: 160
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    Keywords: Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 Logische Untersuchungen ; China ; Europa
    Abstract: In this volume, phenomenologists from the West join hands with specialists from mainland China and Hong Kong to discuss the heritage of Husserl's Logical Investigations. Readers will learn of the early reception of Husserl's Logical Investigations in China and understand how Husserl's doctrine of intentionality of consciousness has paved the way to a novel phenomenological explication of religious experience.
    Abstract: This volume is the first of its kind in which phenomenologists from the West join hands with specialists from mainland China and Hong Kong to discuss the heritage of Husserl s Logical Investigations. Whereas all Western contributors to the volume are scholars who possess indubitable authority in phenomenology, their Chinese counterparts are much less well-known in the Western academic arena. Yet the latters' contributions are of the utmost interest. From them readers will learn of the early reception of Husserl s Logical Investigations in China. They will also understand in what way Husserl s doctrine of intentionality of consciousness in the Logical Investigations has paved the way to Scheler s phenomenology of feeling, to a novel phenomenological explication of religious experience, as well as to the little known young Foucault s tentative formulation of a paradoxical phenomenology of the dream. Last but not least, they will also discover how a young Chinese scholar undertakes a thorough reassessment of the problem of being in Husserl in the light of Heideggerian ontology. With these joint perspectives - Western and Chinese - we hope that this volume will contribute to demonstrate the surprisingly rich and inexhaustible life that Husserl s Logical Investigations continues to enjoy in the new century.
    Description / Table of Contents: table of contents.pdf; preface.pdf; Ch 01.pdf; Ch 02.pdf; Ch 03.pdf; Ch 04.pdf; Ch 05.pdf; Ch 06.pdf; Ch 07.pdf; Ch 08.pdf; Ch 09.pdf; Ch 10.pdf; Ch 11.pdf; Notes on Contributors.pdf; Index of Names.pdf
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5758-8
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    The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402056123
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    Series Statement: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business 10
    DDC: 658.40711
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Führungskräfteentwicklung ; Betriebswirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftspädagogik ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Educational tests and measurements ; Führungskraft ; Hochschulbildung
    Abstract: This volume explores the challenges of educating professionals to succeed in a complex, uncertain and global business world. The book contains intellectual concepts and practical advice from leaders in innovative education around the globe. It will help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing the teaching/learning challenges associated with helping students prepare to face their own challenges.
    Abstract: "As an educator, are you struggling with any of the following challenges? Do you know what competencies, capacities, attitudes, and perspectives learners need to develop so they can be contributing, productive members of organizations and society? What resource constraints do you need to address in trying to provide innovative and meaningful education? How can you make the learning process more effective? How can you best use technology to effectively deliver content and meaningfully engage learners in the educational process? What can you do to help people become effective leaders of businesses and other organizations in an increasingly complex and values-driven world that is changing rapidly and often contentiously? How do you accommodate the needs of learners throughout their lives? How do you accomplish all of this in a multicultural and global environment? If you are facing any of these challenges, this volume is a ""must read"" it tackles these questions and more, providing perspectives and insights from leading educators around the globe. This volume will help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing the teaching/learning challenges associated with helping students prepare to face their own challenges as leaders and followers in an increasingly complex, uncertain, and global economy."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributing Authors; Acknowledgments; Editorial Team; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World; PART II: THE TEACHING/LEARNING CONUNDRUM: ISSUES, CHALLENGES, AND PROSPECTS; The Education Objective for the Knowledge Economy; A Process for Implementing Problem-based Learning; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; A Tempus Tacis Project as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Soviet Georgia; Is There a Gap Between the Idea and its Application in Higher Education?; Implementing and Sustaining Educational Innovations
    Description / Table of Contents: Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Student Evaluations of InstructionPART III: ASSESSING THE DIMENSIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNING AND LEARNERS; The Identification of Constructivist Pedagogy in Different Learning Environments; Development of Competence in Translating Business Ideas into Practice; Commonalities in Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Different Academic Subjects; Multicultural Perceptions of the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle; Developing Learning Materials for the Unknown Online Learner; Piloting the Accreditation of Experiential Learning - A Case Study
    Description / Table of Contents: PART IV: DEVELOPING COMPETENCIES FOR CAREER SUCCESS: ISSUES AND PRACTICESTeaching for Life - Generic Capabilities that Link University Learning with Workplace Learning; How Distance Education Can Sustain the Development of Competencies; An Approach for Helping Students Become Authentic Ethical Role Models; Developing Critical Thinking Skills Online to Facilitate a Discursive Multicultural Classroom; The Role of University Education; PART V: USING TECHNOLOGY TO FACILITATE TEACHING AND LEARNING; Where Did the Didactics Go?; An Exploratory Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Applying the Concept of a Corporate University to a Business SectorThe ITESM Model; An Exploratory Case Study Examining the Impact of Action Learning on the Design of Management-level Web-based Instruction; Lower Perceived Performance by Students; PART VI: TEACHING AND LEARNING INSIGHTS FROM UNIQUE APPLICATIONS; Powerful Ideas for Innovative Learning Design and the Use of IT in Corporate Education; Leveraging Diversity in Globalizing Education; The Relevance of a Public Sector Experiment for Innovative Education; Principles and Practices; PBL Experience with First Year Business Undergraduates
    Description / Table of Contents: Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5612-3
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    Dynamic Population Models (2007)
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    Series Statement: The Springer Series On Demographic Methods And Population Analysis 17
    Keywords: Social sciences Methodology ; Genetics Mathematics ; Statistics ; Social Sciences ; Demography ; Populationsdynamik ; Mathematisches Modell
    Abstract: Comprehensively discusses and synthesizes the emerging field of dynamic modeling. This book includes discussions of population growth and momentum under gradual fertility declines, the impact of changes in the timing of events on fertility measures, and the complex relationship between period and cohort measures
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Population Models With Constant Rates; Convergence to Stability; Population Momentum; Demographic Change at the Margin; Longevity and Dynamic Mortality; Timing Effects on Fertility, Marriage, and Divorce; Dynamic Birth-Death (Multi-Age) Models; Dynamic Multistate Models; Dynamic Models With Multiple Ages and~States; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5230-8
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    The Moral Wager : Evolution and Contract (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402058554
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 108
    DDC: 08.38
    RVK:
    CC 7200
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Evolution (Biology) ; Mathematics ; Ethik ; Rationalität
    Abstract: This book illuminates and sharpens moral theory, by analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of interpersonal relations in a variety of games. We discover that successful players in evolutionary games operate as if following this piece of normative advice: Don't do unto others without their consent. From this advice, some significant implications for moral theory follow. First, we cannot view morality as a categorical imperative. Secondly, we cannot hope to offer rational justification for adopting moral advice. This is where Glaucon and Adeimantus went astray: they wanted a proof of the benefits of morality in every single case. That is not possible. Moral constraint is a bad bet taken in and of itself. But there is some good news: moral constraint is a good bet when examined statistically.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Irrealism; Against Moral Categoricity; Self-Interest; Rationality's Failure; Evolutionary Fit; Consent Theory; Concerned Parties; Suffering and Indifference; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5855-4
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    Hearing Visions and Seeing Voices : Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Personalities (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059391
    Language: English
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Zollner, Hans, 1966 - [Rezension von: Glas, Gerrit, Hearing Visions and Seeing Voices. Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Personalities] 2009
    DDC: 220.6019
    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy ; Psychiatry ; Psychotherapy ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Theologie ; Psychologie
    Abstract: This book's aim is to enrich and deepen our psychological understanding of biblical concepts and personalities. The book contains masterful analysis of biblical personalities, such as Job, Jeremiah, Paul, and Jesus. It may help theologians to contextualize their discipline by bringing it into contact with contemporary psychological and existential issues and tensions, both at an individual and a societal level.
    Abstract: This book s aim is to enrich and deepen our psychological understanding of biblical concepts and personalities. Such understanding is relevant for theology as well as for psychology and psychiatry. It may help theologians to contextualize their discipline by bringing it into contact with contemporary psychological and existential issues and tensions, both at an individual and a societal level. It also encourages psychologists and psychiatrists to develop and refine their vocabularies when they try to comprehend the existential meaning of what is transmitted to them by their clients. The book highlights the concepts of prophecy, martyrdom, and messianism from Christian and Judaic perspectives. Each concept offers one biblical figure as representative: Jeremiah, Paul, and Jesus, respectively. The book investigates the possibility of a theological criticism on common frameworks of psychological and psychiatric understanding of the inner world of the client. It also offers new ways to understand the transformative power of religion.
    Description / Table of Contents: Book_Glas_1402059388_FM_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch01_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch02_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch03_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch04_070607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch05_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch06_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch07_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch08_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch09_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch10_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch11_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch12_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch13_070607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch14_210607.pdf
    Description / Table of Contents: Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch15_210607.pdfBook_Glas_1402059388_Ch16_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch17_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch18_210607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch19_070607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch20_070607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Ch21_070607.pdf; Book_Glas_1402059388_Index_210607.pdf
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5939-1
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    Quality Assurance In Higher Education : Trends in Regulation, Translation and Transformation (2007)
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 20
    DDC: 378.107
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    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on the same subject. Containing comprehensive discussion of the most relevant trends in quality assurance regulation, translation and transformation, researchers and policy makers will find an engaged, academic reflection on how quality assurance is embedded in higher education and in a dynamic way to assess its impacts and potential improvements.
    Abstract: By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on quality assurance. First, it brings together views from micro to macro levels in the multi-actor space, showing how quality assurance impacts the higher education system throughout. Second, it links quality assurance solidly to issues of regulation, translation (rather than mechanical implementation ) and transformation, instead of being only focused on quality assurance as a single policy instrument. Third, it uses this broad range of research insights to criticize current practices, explaining for instance why sometimes people have difficulty in tracing any concrete effects of all initiatives taken in this area. Finally, the book offers proposals for better focusing quality assurance in the future to address institutional challenges better. The general purpose of the book then is to give an engaged, academic reflection on how quality assurance is embedded in higher education and in a dynamic way to assess its impacts and potential improvements.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Public Regulation of Higher Education Qualities: Rationale, Processes, and Outcomes; Will Market Competition Assure Academic Quality? An Analysis of the UK and US Experience; States and Europe and Quality of Higher Education; Quality as Fashion: Exploring the Translation of a Management Idea into Higher Education; The 'Quality Game': External Review and Institutional Reaction over Three Decades in the United States; Analysing Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Proposals for a Conceptual Framework and Methodological Implications
    Description / Table of Contents: A Self-assessment of Higher Education Institutions from the Perspective of the EFQM Excellence ModelImproving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Can Learning Theory Add Value to Quality Review?; Transforming Quality Evaluation: Moving On; Conclusions and Further Challenges; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6012-0
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    Phenomenology And The Non-Human Animal : At the Limits of Experience (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402063077
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology 56
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Phänomenologie ; Tiere
    Abstract: The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become a prominent topic within the philosophical debates of the last two decades. This volume explores in substantial ways how phenomenology can contribute to these debates. It offers specific insights into the description and interpretation of the experience of the non-human animal, the relation between phenomenology and anthropology, the relation between phenomenology and psychology, as well as ethical considerations.
    Abstract: The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become a prominent topic within the philosophical debates of the last two decades. This volume explores in substantial ways how phenomenology can contribute to these debates. It offers specific insights into the description and interpretation of the experience of the non-human animal, the relation between phenomenology and anthropology, the relation between phenomenology and psychology, as well as ethical considerations
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Attunement, Deprivation, and Drive; Being Beyond: Aristotle's and Plessner's Accounts of Animal Responsiveness; How Not to be a Jellyfish; How do Primates Think? Phenomenological Analyses of Non-language Systems of Representation in Higher Primates and Humans; Phenomenology and the Study of Animal Behavior; The Intentionality and Animal Heritage of Moral Experience; Appropriating the Philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein; The Human as Just an Other Animal; The Intertwining of Incommensurables; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6307-7
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    Scientific Progress : A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402063541
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library 153
    DDC: 501
    RVK:
    CC 3200
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    MR 1050
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    TB 6200
    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Science Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Philosophie ; Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt
    Abstract: Answers questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. This book provides a conception of science in which scientific progress is based on both rational and empirical considerations
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Deductive Model; The Basis Of The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Science; The Basis Of The Popperian Conception Of Science; The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Scientific Progress; The Popperian Conception Of Scientific Progress; Popper, Lakatos, And The Transcendence Of The Deductive Model; Kuhn, Feyerabend, And In Commensurability; The Gestalt Model; The Perspectivist Conception Of Science; Development Of The Perspectivist Conception In The Context Of The Kinetic Theory Of Gases; The Set-Theoretic Conception Of Science
    Description / Table of Contents: Application Of The Perspectivist Conception To The Views Of Newton, Kepler And GalileoBack Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6354-1
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    The Rule of Law (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402057458
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 80
    DDC: 340.11
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Philosophy of law ; Political science ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Rechtsstaat
    Abstract: Authors Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires reference to a global problematic horizon. This book offers some relevant guides for orienting the reader through a political and legal debate where the rule of law (and the doctrine of human rights) is a concept both controversial and significant at the national and international levels.
    Abstract: Costa and Zolo share the conviction that a proper understanding of the rule of law today requires referring to a global problematic horizon. It seems unavoidable to investigate into the relationship between Europe and the United States, on the one hand, and the rest of the world, on the other. Over the last centuries this relationship developed in terms of conquest and colonisation, on the widespread view that Western civilisation should be opposed as a whole to barbaric others. Today, however, the notion of rule of law is still rousing a debate that cannot be said to have come to an end. The reason is quite simple: if the origins of the rule of law are in Western societies and cultures, and if until recently the West took the lion s share in the debate on our subject matter, it remains true that today other societies and other cultures take an active and creative part into a sustained philosophical-political debate. This is by no means a merely intellectual or academic question: the Arab-Islamic world, India, China, are not far away planets whose orbits never crossed the European and American West. On the contrary, in fairly recent times the encounters have been close and traumatic. In sum, the book intends to offer some relevant guides for orienting the reader through a political and legal debate where the rule of law (and the doctrine of human rights ) is a concept both controversial and significant at the national and international levels.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Rule of Law: A Critical Reappraisal; The Rule of Law: A Historical Introduction; The Rule of Law and the "Liberties of the English": The Interpretation of Albert Venn Dicey; Popular Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and the "Rule of Judges" in the United States; Rechtsstaat and Individual Rights in German Constitutional History; État de Droit and National Sovereignty in France; Rechtsstaat and Constitutional Justice in Austria: Hans Kelsen's Contribution; The Past and the Future of the Rule of Law; Beyond the Rule of Law: Judges' Tyranny or Lawyers' Anarchy?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Rule of Law and Gender DifferenceMachiavelli, the Republican Tradition, and the Rule of Law; Leoni's and Hayek's Critique of the Rule of Law in Continental Europe; The Rule of Law and the Legal Treatment of Native Americans; The Colonial Model of the Rule of Law in Africa: The Example of Guinea; Is Constitutionalism Compatible with Islam?; The Rule of Morally Constrained Law: The Case of Contemporary Egypt; "Asian Values" and the Rule of Law; The Rule of Law and Indian Society: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism; The Chinese Legal Tradition and the European View of the Rule of Law
    Description / Table of Contents: Modern Constitutionalism in ChinaHuman Rights and the Rule of Law in Contemporary China; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5745-8
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    Multilateralism, Regionalism and Bilateralism in Trade and Investment : 2006 World Report on Regional Integration (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059513
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    Series Statement: United Nations University Series on Regionalism 1
    DDC: 337.1
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Internationale Handelspolitik ; Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Welt ; Development Economics ; Human Geography ; International economics ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Handel ; Regionalismus ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Integration ; Finanzinvestition
    Abstract: In 2001, the United Nations University launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. This is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. The report represents a unique collaboration between all regional UN Economic Commissions. It focuses on one of the central issues in the debate on global governance.
    Abstract: Global governance is a concern of not only global organisations but also of all individual states and of regional co-operation agreements among sovereign states. In 2001, the United Nations University has launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. The present first volume of the World Report on Regional Integration is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. This new series of World Reports will certainly contribute to the discussion on the interaction between regional and global governance. And by bringing together insights from different parts of the UN system, in particular the five UN regional economic commissions and UNCTAD, this report will also contribute to a better understanding of the role of regions in the UN. (Hans van Ginkel, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Rector of UNU) The World Report on Regional Integration brings together a well-balanced mix of economic analysis, facts and political perspectives on the topic of regional integration. The most valuable and unique contribution of this volume is the enhanced clarity it brings to the complex picture of trade and investment integration, the entanglement of which points to the need for more effective regional governance as a building block of multilateral governance in this area. As the world's most dynamic trading region, Asia and the Pacific is a key player in this process, and the UNESCAP secretariat, in its service to the region, will continue to accord high priority to this policy objective. (Kim Hak-Su, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of UNESCAP)
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Developing Countries' Participation in Regional Integration: Trends, Prospects and Policy Implications; Preferential Trading Arrangements for Developing Countries; Making Multi-Level Rules Work: Trade and Investment Rules in Regional and Bilateral Agreements; Reconciling Regionalism and Multilateralism: Towards Multilevel Trade Governance; Asia-Pacific Regionalism Quo Vadis? Charting the Territory for New Integration Routes; Regional Integration in the Western Hemisphere: An Overview; Regional Economic Integration in Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: Developments in Regional Integration in Western Asia and Arab RegionTrade and Integration in (South) East Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia; Regional Integration in the European Union: Enlargement Without Constitution; Back Matter
    Note: "United Nations university comparative regional integration studies , "Garnet , Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5951-3
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    Ages, Generations and the Social Contract : The Demographic Challenges Facing the Welfare State (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059735
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    DDC: 361.65
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    Keywords: Alternde Bevölkerung ; Sozialstaat ; Generationengerechtigkeit ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Social sciences ; Population ; Social policy ; Aging Research ; Demography ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lebenserwartung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Wohlstandsgesellschaft ; Altern ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Familienbeziehung
    Abstract: In this important and timely book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time. For the first time in history, three and sometimes four generations are living at the same time; this book examines the new interactions between family change, labour force participation and population ageing.
    Abstract: Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and collective solidarity adapting in this context of longer life spans, low fertility, and work that is simultaneously scarce and abundant? The welfare states are currently facing three main challenges: ensure satisfactory living conditions for the elderly without increasing the cost burden on the active population, reduce social inequality, and maintain equity between successive generations. In this book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Demographic Change, Welfare, and Intergenerational Transfers: A Global Overview; Demographic Context of the Social Contract in Developed Countries: Unity and Diversity; Economics of the Intergenerational Debate: Normative, Accounting and Political Viewpoints; Reorganizing the Activity Cycle: The Stakes in a New Social Contract; Social Contract and Age at Retirement: Some Elements of a Franco-American Comparison; Longevity and Work; Changes to the Legal Relationship Between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Quebec: A Disconcerting Evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and the Social Contract of Informal Support Within the FamilyChange and Reciprocity in Intergenerational Relationships: The Discourse Of Spanish Working Mothers; Intergenerational Exchanges in Older Populations; Family Solidarities at the Beginning of Retirement in France; Pensions and Income Redistribution in a Comparative Perspective: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study; Social Spending: Recent Changes and Conditions for its Long-Term Viability; Pensions, Privilege and Poverty: Another "Take" on Intergenerational Equity
    Description / Table of Contents: Toward a 24-Hour Economy: Implications for the Temporal Structure and Functioning of Family LifeWorking Schedules: In Search of a Balance Between Family Time and Economic Wellbeing; Determinants of Paths of Transition to Total-Work Retirement: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis; Back Matter
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    University Dynamics and European Integration (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059711
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 19
    DDC: 378.4
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Political science ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Hochschulreform ; Europäische Integration ; Europäische Union ; Hochschulpolitik ; Bologna-Prozess ; Lissabon-Strategie
    Abstract: "The European University is under stress. It has become commonplace to argue that radical reforms are needed. The claim is that while environments are changing rapidly, European universities do not learn, adapt and reform themselves fast enough. Reform plans comprise the purposes of universities, i.e. definitions of what the University is, can be and should be, criteria for quality and success, the kinds of research, education., services and innovation to be produced, and for whom. Reform plans also include the universities' organization and financial basis, their governance structures, who should influence the future dynamics of universities, and according to what principles. In contrast, it can be argued that the currently dominant reform rhetoric is only one among several competing visions and understandings of the University and its dynamics. What is at stake is ""what kind of University for what kind of society"" and which, and whose values, interests and beliefs should be given priority in University governance and reforms? This book explores the visions underlying the attempts to reform the European University as well as two European integration processes (""Bologna"" and ""Lisbon"") affecting University dynamics. Above all, the book presents a framework for analyzing ongoing ""modernization"" reforms and reform debates that take place at various governance levels, not least the European level, and a long-term research agenda."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; European Debates on the Knowledge Institution: The Modernization of the University at the European Level; The Institutional Dynamics of the European University; A Rule-governed Community of Scholars: The Humboldt Vision in the History of the European University; An Instrument for National Political Agendas: The Hierarchical Vision; An Internal Representative System: The Democratic Vision; A Service Enterprise: The Market Vision; The Bologna Process: An Intergovernmental Policy Perspective; The Lisbon Process: A Supranational Policy Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: "Europe of Knowledge:" Search for a New PactBack Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5971-1
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    Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life (2007)
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    Series Statement: Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue 3
    DDC: 181.07
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, medieval ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: The puzzling nature of temporality and timing of reality remains controversial. This book offers a collection of studies that seeks a new answer by initiating a novel investigation informed by the ancient wisdom of the Greaco-Arabic-Islamic sources and inheritance, on the one side, and the contemporary discernment of Occidental phenomenology of life, on the other, in a common dialogical effort to unravel this great enigma of existence.
    Abstract: From time immemorial, concern with timing of life has been crucial for the regulation of human praxis as well as for the philosophical quest to understand existence by seeking its meaning. The two used to inform each other, until modernity, when they parted. In spite of the extensive progress in manipulating change and motion, and of the abundance of metaphysical attempts to enlighten human beings about their fate, the puzzling nature of temporality and timing of reality remains controversial. The present collection of studies seeks a new answer by initiating a novel investigation informed by
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The View from Nowhere: Ibn al-'ArabI on the Soul's Temporal Unfolding; The Great Metamorphosis of The Logos of Life in Ontopoietic Timing; Temporal Origination of the Material world and Mulla Sadra's Trans-substantial Motion; The Timing of The Ontopoiesis of Life; Edmund Husserl: The Genesis and Origin of Time; Time, Temporal, and Temporality; Some Phenomenological and Classical Corollaries on Time; MIr Damad on Time and Temporality; Historical and Messianic Time: The Structure of Subjectivity and the Question of Judgement
    Description / Table of Contents: The Historicality of Linguistic Signs and the Ahistoricality of Meanings: The Role of Divine Neologisms in the Making of Islamic-Arab TraditionTime and The Formation of the Human Person: a Comparison of Edith Stein's and Martin Heidegger's Thoughts; Virtues in Al-Biruni's Philosophy of Science; The Ontopoietic Timing of Life Versus The Kairic Unfolding of The Trans-Natural Destiny (A-T. Tymieniecka); Pure Love in Mulla Sadra; The Phenomenology of Wujud In the Thought of Ibn Al-'Arabi; "Ibn Khaldûn's Concept of History and the Qur'anic Notions of Economic Justice and Temporality"; Back Matter
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    Education in the era of globalization (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059452
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 16
    DDC: 370.115
    RVK:
    DF 3000
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    DI 1000
    Keywords: Education ; Education Philosophy
    Abstract: Education seems to have lost its orientation in Western culture and is in disarray all over the globe in time of global transitions. This book attempts to address the challenge of globalization to education in the broadest sense of the concept of education. The various texts are written by some of the most famous and interesting scholars in the field. This collection is unique and opens the door for further research and public discussion on the future role of education.
    Abstract: Education seems to have lost its orientation in Western culture and is in disarray all over the globe in time of global transitions. Globalizing capitalism is the general headline for some of the most profound, deep and dramatic developments in our era that education must address. The response of educationalists is only in its beginning and there is an urgent need to address the dramatic changes inflicted on/promised to our era philosophically, sociologically, culturally, ecologically, physically, aesthetically and politically. In the proposed book we try to address the challenge of globalization to education in the broadest sense of the concept of education, by treating this challenge in various perspectives through different disciplines and topics within which the challenge of globalization is conceived as the most profound dynamic of this historical moment, a development that is realized in many diverse and different levels, fields and spaces of human and natural existence. The various texts in this collection, written by some of the famous and interesting scholars in the field of philosophy of education and the sociology of education, try to address the richness and diversity of the challenge of globalization. It tries to reconstruct historically, sociologically and philosophically the roots, the practices and the fruits of globalization as a threat and as a gateway for new possibilities for today's education. The collection is a meeting point for research that is not only analytical and critical but also offers new roads and possibilities for education in the 21st century in face of globalization. As such, this collection is unique in this field and opens the door for further research and public discussion on the future role of education.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Dialogue, Difference And Globalisation: An Interview With Nicholas C. Burbules; Moral Education, Liberal Education And The Voice Of The Individual; A Kantian Conception Of Human Rights Education; Ambiguities Of Cosmopolitanism: Difference, Gender And The Right To Education; (Dis)Locating Imaginative And Ethical Aims Of Global Education; Education For Responsibility: Knowledge, Ethics And Deliberation; Education For Deliberative Democracy; Multicultural Metaphors; Racism: The Birth Of A Concept
    Description / Table of Contents: Education As Subjectivity: Three Perspectives On The Construction Of Subjectivity And The Position Of KnowledgeSports Education Facing Globalizing Capitalism; Toward A Critique Of Paideia And Humanitas: (Mis)Education And The Global Ecological Crisis; Hope And Education In The Era Of Globalization; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5945-2
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    De L'Éthique À La Justice : Langage et politique dans la philosophie de Lévinas (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Collection Fondée Par H.L. Van Breda Et Publiée Sous Le Patronage Des Centres D'Archives-Husserl 183
    DDC: 320.01
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Ontology ; Phenomenology ; Political science Linguistics_xOntology ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Ernst Wolff
    Abstract: Emmanuel Lévinas est le philosophe de la non-indifférence; il nest en aucune sorte un philosophe indifférent. Son inquiétude personnelle et engagement politique ont trouvé une expression philosophique dans une quête à deux versants. Dans le versant ontologique, il cherche à montrer que même si lhomme est lévénement de compréhension de lêtre, tout lhomme et toute signification ne se réduisent pas à la compréhension de lêtre seul. Dans le versant politique, il sinterroge sur la possibilité de soumettre la tendance totalitaire de toute politique à une recherche de justice qui ne dépend pas finalement de la politique même. Mais ces deux versants nen font quun. La découverte dune signification qui excède la compréhension de lêtre léthique fournit en même temps la source de renouvellement de la justice. Ainsi, par cette double question, Lévinas nous présente les fils conducteurs de notre enquête: une signification au-delà de la compréhension de lêtre et sa portée éthique, que nous appelons «langage» et que nous explorons dans la perspective de son importance politique. Les études analytiques dans lesquelles les notions de politique et de langage fonctionnent comme clef dinterprétation mutuelle débouchent sur une critique centrée sur deux problèmes: limpossibilité dinterpréter la signifiance de lautre et le danger inhérent à la conception dune justice dépassant lEtat.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6122-6
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    Studies in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture : Presented to Albert van der Heide on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Series Statement: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought 12
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Judentum
    Abstract: The articles presented here include studies in Rabbinics, Classical Hebrew linguistics, early Hebrew-Greek glossary, Hebrew manuscripts, Medieval and Modern Hebrew literature, Medieval and Early-Modern interpretation of Scripture, Medieval and Early-Modern Jewish philosophy, Hebrew book print in the 18th century, and Jewish Enlightenment. The articles cover a substantial part of the fields included in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and offer a fine example of the wealth and variety of the present day academic study of Hebrew, Judaism, and Jewish culture.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6202-5
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    New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry : Contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21-23 April 2005, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Series Statement: Archimedes New Studies In The History And Philosophy Of Science and Technology 18
    DDC: 540.9033
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Science History ; Chemie ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts--often built around Lavoisier--have remained quite selective. This volume presents new approaches and topics in an attempt to build a richer, fuller, more complex view of chemical work during the period. Themes include late-phase alchemy, professionalization, chemical education, and the links and relations between chemistry and pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, and geology.
    Abstract: The 18th century has been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts - often built around Lavoisier - have remained quite selective. This volume presents approaches and topics to build a view of chemical work during the period
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; A Revolution Nobody Noticed? Changes in Early Eighteenth-Century Chymistry; Georg Ernst Stahl's Alchemical Publications: Anachronism, Reading Market, and A Scientific Lineage Redefined; Chemistry without Principles: Herman Boerhaave on Instruments and Elements; Practicing Chemistry "After the Hippocratical Manner": Hippocrates and the Importance of Chemistry for Boerhaave's Medicine; Public Lectures of Chemistry in Mid-Eighteenth-Century France; Apothecary-Chemists in Eighteenth-Century Germany
    Description / Table of Contents: The Aberdeen Agricola: Chemical Principles and Practice in James Anderson's Georgics and GeologyDr. Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808): Chemistry, Medicine, and Books in the French and Chemical Revolutions; Refl ections: "A Likely Story"; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6278-0
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    Pluralistic Casuistry : Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory (2007)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 94
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    DDC: 174.2
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    Keywords: Brody, Baruch A ; medicine Medical ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medical ethics ; Ethics, Medical ; Bioethics ; Casuistry ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kasuistik
    Abstract: This volume presents a sustained philosophical analysis of Brody's contributions to biomedical ethics. The book combines methodological, philosophical considerations with applied chapters, and each contributor carefully and critically explores Brody's writings in biomedical ethics and the philosophy of medicine. The volume includes a response by Baruch Brody that critically engages the contributions to the volume.
    Abstract: Baruch A. Brody has been one of the most important voices in bioethics over the last several decades, asking new and challenging questions about a range of problems, examining recalcitrant issues in novel ways, always with the goal of offering practical solutions to complex problems. This volume presents a sustained philosophical analysis of Brody s contributions to biomedical ethics. The essays in this volume compass epistemological, methodological, and topical contributions to bioethics, including both application and criticism of Brody s normative moral theory pluralistic casuistry Jewish medical ethics, human embryo transfer, medical futility, life and death decisions in pediatrics, euthanasia and end-of-life decision-making, the obligations of clinical researchers toward study participants, and professional integrity. Done well, philosophical work can clarify complex issues, facilitate creative problem solving, and lead to real-world solutions to difficult situations. Each contributor carefully and critically explores Brody s writings in biomedical ethics and the philosophy of medicine, illustrating his appreciation that thorough and critical scientific research and philosophical analysis are central to reining in the untutored human desire to ameliorate pain and suffering so that medical treatments and health care policy do more good than harm.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Moral Casuistry, Medical Research, and Innovation, and Rabbinical Decision-Making; Notes Toward a Pluralistic Professional Medical Ethics; Ethics and Deep Moral Ambiguity; Moral Judgment and the Ideal Intuitor: Dealing with Moral Confusion and Moral Disagreement; Casuistry Naturalized; Intuitionism, Divine Commands, and Natural Law; In Case: Contingency and Particularity in Bioethics; The Euthyphro's Dilemma Reconsidered: A Variation on a Theme from Brody on Halakhic Method
    Description / Table of Contents: The Good (Philosophy), the Bad (Public Policy) and the Ugliness of Blaming Families for Ineffectual TreatmentsA Matter of Obligation: Physicians Versus Clinical Investigators; Is Withholding Artificial Nutrition and Hydration from PVS Patients Active Euthanasia?; The Virtue of Integrity in Baruch Brody's Moral Framework; Paradigms, Practices and Politics: Ethics and the Language of Human Embryo Transfer/Donation/Rescue/Adoption; Brody on Passive and Active Euthanasia; Comments on the Essays; Back Matter
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    International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Series Statement: Springer International Handbook of Research in Arts Education 16
    DDC: 700.71
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    Keywords: Education ; Arts ; Humanities ; Music ; Performing arts ; Ästhetische Erziehung
    Abstract: Providing a distillation of knowledge in the various disciplines of arts education (dance, drama, music, literature and poetry and visual arts), the Handbook synthesizes existing research literature, helps define the past, and contributes to shaping the substantive and methodological future of the respective and integrated disciplines of arts education. While research can at times seem distant from practice, the Handbook aims to maintain connection with the lived practice of art and of education, capturing the vibrancy and best thinking in the field of theory and practice. The Handbook is organized into 13 sections, each centering on a major area or issue in arts education research. These areas include: History of arts education, curriculum, evaluation, cultural centers, appreciation, composition, informal learning, child culture, creativity, the body, spirituality, and technology. The individual chapters address cross-cultural research related to the central theme of the section from the perspectives of the particular arts discipline. Interludes provide reflective thoughts on the theme.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction; List of Reviewers; Section 1 History; 1 Prelude: History of Education and Arts Education; 2 Capitalizing Art Education: Mapping International Histories; 3 Interlude: Arts Education, the Aesthetic and Cultural Studies; 4 A History of Drama Education: A Search for Substance; 5 The Teaching and Learning of Music in the Settings of Family, Church, and School: Some Historical Perspectives; 6 Interlude: History Looking Forward; 7 Social History and Dance as Education; 8 The Teaching of English Language Arts as Poetic Language: An Institutionalist View; Section 2 Curriculum
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Prelude: Making Sense of Curriculum Research in Arts Education10 Currents of Change in the Music Curriculum; 11 Experiencing the Visual and Visualizing Experiences; 12 Interlude: On Learning to Draw and Paint as an Adult; 13 Proteus, the Giant at the Door: Drama and Theater in the Curriculum; 14 Narrative as Artful Curriculum Making; 15 Interlude: Imagining Ms. Eddy Alive; or, the Return of the Arts Teacher and her Personalized Curriculum; 16 Dance Curriculum Research; 17 Music (and Arts) Education from the Point of View of Didaktik and Bildung
    Description / Table of Contents: 18 Arts Integration in the Curriculum: A Review of Research and Implications for Teaching and Learning19 Artists in the Academy: Curriculum and Instruction; Section 3 Assessment and Evaluation; 20 Prelude: Making Connections in Assessment and Evaluation in Arts Education; 21 To See and to Share: Evaluating the Dance Experience in Education; 22 Harmonizing Assessment and Music in the Classroom; 23 Interlude: Reflections on a Line from Dewey; 24 Assessing English within the Arts; 25 Wrestling with Assessment in Drama Education; 26 Interlude: Assessment and Evaluation in Education and the Arts
    Description / Table of Contents: 27 Evaluation Research in Visual Arts EducationSection 4 Composition; 28 Prelude: The Composition Section Composing as Metaphor and Process; 29 Compositional Process in Music; 30 Four Metaphors of the Composing Process; 31 Interlude: Metaphor and the Mission of the Arts; 32 Composition in Theater: Writing and Devising Performance; 33 Research in Choreography; 34 Interlude: Art and Metaphor, Body and Mind; 35 Composing in Visual Arts; Section 5 Appreciation; 36 Prelude: Locating the Heart of Experience; 37 Moving into Dance: Dance Appreciation as Dance Literacy
    Description / Table of Contents: 38 Appreciation: The Weakest Link in Drama/Theater Education39 Music Appreciation: Exploring Similarity and Difference; 40 Later "In the Early World": The Changing Role of Poetry and Creative Writing in the K-12 Classroom; 41 Teaching Toward Appreciation in the Visual Arts; 42 Interlude: The Arches of Experience; 43 Interlude: On Reading Maxine's Interlude; 44 Postcards from "A World Made Possible": Excerpts from Virtual Conversations; Section 6 Musuems and Cultural Centers; 45 Prelude: Museums, Cultural Centers, and What We Don't Know
    Description / Table of Contents: 46 The Role of Theater in Museums and Historic Sites: Visitors, Audiences, and Learners
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-3052-9
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    Contributions from Science Education Research (2007)
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    Language: English
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    DDC: 507.12
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Teachers Training of
    Abstract: In August 2005, over 500 international researchers from the field of science education met at the 5th European Science Education Research Association conference in Barcelona, Spain. Two of the main topics at this conference were: the decrease in the number of students interested in school science and concern about the worldwide outcomes of studies on students??? scientific literacy. At the conference, over 400 papers were presented, covering a wide range of topics relevant to science education research, such as evidence-based practice, teachers??? professional development, the role of ICT and
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Interest in Science: Lessons and non-lessons from TIMSS and PISA; Research-based Innovative Units for Enhancing Student Cognitive Outcomes and Interest in Science; Girls and Physics: Dilemmas and Tensions; Contested Territory: The Actual and Potential Impact of Research on Teaching and Learning Science on Students' Learning; Studying Science Teaching Practices in Relation to Learning: Time Scales of Teaching Phenomena; The Potential of Video Studies in Research on Teaching and Learning Science; Pedagogical Content Knowledge: What Does it Mean to Science Teachers?
    Description / Table of Contents: Science Teachers' PCK and Teaching Practice: Learning to Scaffold Students' Open-inquiry LearningPhysics in Context - A program for Improving Physics Instruction in Germany; The Relationship of Capability Beliefs and Teaching Environments of New Danish Elementary Teachers of Science to Teaching Success; A Beginners' Module of Integrated Natural Science for Secondary Teacher Students: The result of an Educational Reconstruction Process over Three Iterations; Learning Process Studies; Meaning Construction and Contextualization While Solving a Dynamics Task in the Laboratory
    Description / Table of Contents: Development of a Model of Formative AssessmentMemorisation of Information from Scientific Movies; Micro-organisms: Everyday Knowledge Predates and Contrasts with School Knowledge; Using the Processes of Electrical Charge of Bodies as a Tool in the Assessment of University Students' Learning in Electricity; Representation and Learning about Evaporation; Learning from the History and Philosophy of Science: Deficiencies in Teaching the Macroscopic Concepts of Substance and Chemical Change; Non-Formal Science Teaching and Learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Adults' Understanding of Analogy-based Exhibits in an Interactive Science MuseumThe Puppets Project: Using Puppets to Promote Engagement and Talk in Science; Inquiring the Inquiry Laboratory in High School; Developing Students' Views on the Nature of Science through Non-traditional Writing-to-Learn Experiences in the Science Classroom; Towards a Validated Conception of Scientific Models; The Development of Elementary Students' Understanding of Complex Ecosystems Through a Model-Based Approach
    Description / Table of Contents: Effects of Model-Based Teaching on the Durability of Pre-Service Physics Teachers' Conceptions of Lunar EventsLearning and Teaching about Ecosystems Based on Systems Thinking and Modelling in an Authentic Practice; Argumentation and the Learning of Science; Students' Argumentation in Group Discussions on a Socio-Scientific Issue; Exemplary Teaching of Argumentation: A Case Study of Two Science Teachers; What Can We Learn from a Study of Argumentation in the Students Answers and Group Discussion to Open Physics Problems?
    Description / Table of Contents: Evaluating Students' Multimedia Science Design Projects in the Elementary Classroom
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5032-9
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    Successful Principal Leadership in Times of Change : An International Perspective (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies In Educational Leadership 5
    DDC: 371.2012
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Schulleitung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book contributes significantly to our understanding of successful school leaders by describing similarities and differences in the work of such leaders in countries ranging from England to Australia, the United States to Norway, and Sweden to Hong Kong. Bringing together case study research, the book helps explain what all successful principals do and the ways in which context shapes some of their work.
    Abstract: The leadership of school principals is an enormously powerful influence on the quality of schools and the learning of pupils. While the work of principals has been examined intensively over the past 20 years, almost no effort has been made to understand the role from an international or cross-cultural perspective. This book contributes significantly to our understanding of successful school leaders by describing similarities and differences in the work of such leaders in countries ranging from England to Australia, the United States to Norway, Sweden to Hong Kong. Bringing together case study research, the book helps explain what all successful principals do and the ways in which context shapes some of their work.
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5516-4_BookFrontmatter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5516-4_1_OnlinePDF.pdf; Starting with What we Know; 978-1-4020-5516-4_2_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful School Principalship in Tasmania; 978-1-4020-5516-4_3_OnlinePDF.pdf; Models of Successful Principal Leadership: Victorian Case Studies; 978-1-4020-5516-4_4_OnlinePDF.pdf; Sustaining Success in Challenging Contexts: Leadership in English Schools; 978-1-4020-5516-4_5_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Leadership Based on Democratic Values; 978-1-4020-5516-4_6_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful PrincipalshipThe Swedish Case
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5516-4_7_OnlinePDF.pdfCommunicative Strategies Among Successful Danish School Principals; 978-1-4020-5516-4_8_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Leadership: Does Context Matter and If So, How?; 978-1-4020-5516-4_9_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Principalship in Shanghai: A Case Study; 978-1-4020-5516-4_10_OnlinePDF.pdf; Against the Odds: Successful Principals in Challenging U.S. Schools; 978-1-4020-5516-4_11_OnlinePDF.pdf; Building and Sustaining Successful Principalship: Key Themes; 978-1-4020-5516-4_12_OnlinePDF.pdf; What We Learned: A Broad View
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    Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800 (2007)
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library 63
    DDC: 320.82094
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Developmental psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Frau ; Politisches Denken ; Geschichte 1400-1800
    Abstract: This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women's ideas. The volume provides a partial insight into the richness and complexity of women's political ideas in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. The essays in this collection examine women's political writings with particular reference to the themes of virtue (especially the virtue of phronesis or prudence), liberty, and toleration.
    Abstract: This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights the depth and complexity of women's political thought in the centuries prior to the French Revolution.From the late medieval period to the enlightenment, a significant number of European women wrote works dealing with themes of political significance. The essays in this collection examine their writings with particular reference to the ideas of virtue, liberty, and toleration. The figures discussed include Christine de Pizan, Catherine d'Amboise, Isabella d'Este, Elizabeth I, Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, Elizabeth Carter, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Cornélie Wouters. These women actively contributed to the political practice and discourse of their times. Some of the women question their exclusion from political power and argue in favour of women's virtue, prudence, and capacity to govern. Others aim to demonstrate women's spiritual equality with men, to defend liberty of conscience, and to highlight the importance of education as a means to moral development. And some women explore the notion of female citizenship or attempt to come to terms with issues of religious freedom and religious toleration.Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women's ideas.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Political Thought as Improvisation: Female Regency and Mariology in Late Medieval French Thought; Phronesis Feminised: Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I; Catherine d'Amboise's Livre des Prudents et Imprudents : Negotiating Space for Female Voices in Political Discourse; "Machiavelli in Skirts." Isabella d'Este and Politics; Liberty and the Right of Resistance:Women's Political Writings of the English Civil War Era; Margaret Cavendish and the False Universal; The Social and Political Thought of Damaris Cudworth Masham
    Description / Table of Contents: "Our Religion and Liberties": Mary Astell's Christian Political PolemicsVirtue, God, and Stoicism in the Thought of Elizabeth Carter and Catharine Macaulay; Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft on the Will; Keeping Ahead of the English? A Defence of Jews by Cornélie Wouters, Baroness of Vasse (1790); Back Matter
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    Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 1281066672 , 9781402062209 , 9781281066671
    Language: English
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    DDC: 320.513
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    QM 000
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Political science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Neoliberalismus ; Global Governance
    Abstract: This book explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance, exploring national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies. Among the strengths of this volume are its detailed global scope, its range of case studies in diverse policy areas, its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Abstract: The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. It also contends that the role of politics in general, and the state and global governance in particular, should be defined more broadly than the simple neo-liberal construction of institutions for the market. Part One explores the pattern of national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies, despite the pressure to converge towards the dominant neo-liberal paradigm. Part Two analyses a variety of trans-national policy prescriptions for neo-liberalism and state power. Part Three explores whether the governance of labour markets is a special case in the global economy. Part Four sets out the need for institutional reform of the neo-liberal order in trade and finance. The volume concludes that there is the prospect of a more plural approach to state power and global governance, and one that recognizes the importance of the public domain of citizenship for delivering the global public goods of security, prosperity and environmental sustainability in the twenty-first century. The distinctive features of this book are: Its range of case studies of the impact of neo-liberalism upon state power in both industrialized (i.e. Germany, Canada, England) and emergent market economies (i.e. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua), Its range of case studies in different policy areas (i.e. education, labour markets, competitiveness policy, competition policy, financial markets' governance, monetary policy), Its range of case studies of different institutions of global governance (i.e. OECD, WTO), and Its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Description / Table of Contents: Lee-FM.pdf; Lee-Ch01.pdf; Lee-Ch02.pdf; Lee-Ch03.pdf; Lee-Ch04.pdf; Lee-Ch05.pdf; Lee-Ch06.pdf; Lee-Ch07.pdf; Lee-Ch08.pdf; Lee-Ch09.pdf; Lee-Ch10.pdf; Lee-Ch11.pdf; Lee-Ch12.pdf; Lee-Ch13.pdf; Lee-Ch14.pdf; Lee-Ch15.pdf; Lee-Ch16.pdf; Lee-Index.pdf
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6220-9
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    Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059353
    Language: English
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    DDC: 404/.2019
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Language and languages ; Consciousness ; Kognition ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Psycholinguistik
    Abstract: This work has a uniquely cognitive-functional perspective on bi-lingualism. This means that it makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. The authors examine too some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism, such as, among others, gender systems in the bilingual mind, synergic concepts, and ontological categorization.
    Abstract: A unique feature of this book is that chapters favor that line of cognitive linguistics which makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. Also, chapters add some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism to the well-known ones, such as gender systems in the bilingual mind, context and task, synergic concepts, blending, the relationship between lexical categorization and ontological categorization among others.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Neurofunctional Components of the Bilingual Cognitive System; Synergic Concepts in the Bilingual Mind; Matrix: Schematic Universals. How Many Minds Does a Bilingual Have?; Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon: A Psycholinguistic Approach; Bilingualism and Cognitive Arithmetic; The Role of Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Experiences in Bilinguals' Divergent Thinking; Task and Context Effects in Bilingual Lexical Processing; Representation and Skill in Second Language Learners and Proficient Bilinguals
    Description / Table of Contents: Second Language Gender System Affects First Language Gender ClassificationBeyond Language: Childhood Bilingualism Enhances High-Level Cognitive Functions; Cross-Linguistic and Cognitive Structures in the Acquisition of WH-Questions in an Indonesian-Italian Bilingual Child
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5935-3
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    Arabic Computational Morphology : Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402060465
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 38
    DDC: 492.70973
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Information storage and retrieval systems ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Arabic languages ; Computational linguistics ; Semitic languages ; Arabisch ; Morphologie
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive overview of computational approaches to Arabic morphology. The subtitle aims to reflect that widely different computational approaches to the Arabic morphological system have been proposed. The book provides a showcase of the most advanced language technologies applied to one of the most vexing problems in linguistics. It covers knowledge-based and empirical-based approaches.
    Abstract: The morphology of Arabic poses special challenges to computational natural language processing systems. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute to making computational approaches to Arabic very challenging. Indeed many computational linguists across the world have taken up this challenge over time, and many of the researchers with a track record in this research area have contributed to this book. The book's subtitle aims to reflect that widely different computational approaches to the Arabic morphological system have been proposed. These accounts fall into two main paradigms: the knowledge-based and the empirical. Since morphological knowledge plays an essential role in any higher-level understanding and processing of Arabic text, the book also features a part on the role of Arabic morphology in larger applications, i.e. Information Retrieval (IR) and Machine Translation (MT).
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods; On Arabic Transliteration; Issues in Arabic Morphological Analysis; A Syllable-based Account of Arabic Morphology; Inheritance-based Approach to Arabic Verbal Root-and-Pattern Morphology; Arabic Computational Morphology: A Trade-off Between Multiple Operations and Multiple Stems; Grammar-Lexis Relations in the Computational Morphology of Arabic; Learning to Identify Semitic Roots; Automatic Processing of Modern Standard Arabic Text; Supervised and Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Morphology
    Description / Table of Contents: Memory-based Morphological Analysis and Part-of-speech Tagging of ArabicLight Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval; Adapting Morphology for Arabic Information Retrieval*; Arabic Morphological Representations for Machine Translation; Arabic Morphological Generation and its Impact on the Quality of Machine Translation to Arabic; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6046-5
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    Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning (2007)
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    Series Statement: Lifelong Learning Book Series 11
    DDC: 374.001
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education and state ; Education Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the philosophy, theory, categories and concepts of lifelong learning. Written in a straightforward understandable manner, the book examines in depth the range of philosophical perspectives in the field of lifelong learning theory, policy, practice and applied scholarship.
    Abstract: The aim of this book is provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the philosophy, theory, categories and concepts of lifelong learning. The books is concerned to examine in depth the range of philosophical perspectives in the field of lifelong learning theory, policy, practice and applied scholarship, extending the scale and scope of the substantive contribution made by philosophical and theoretical approaches to our understanding of education. The book seeks to make an informed contribution to shaping, expanding and deepeni
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Conceptions; Lifelong Learning and the Politics of the Learning Society; Lifelong Learning and Vocational Education and Training: Values, Social Capital, and Caring in Work-Based Learning Provision; From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning and Back Again; 'Framing' Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-First Century: Towards a Way of Thinking; Lifelong Learning: Conceptual and Ethical Issues; Lifelong Learning: Beyond Neo-Liberal Imaginary; Widening Participation in Higher Education: Lifelong Learning as Capability
    Description / Table of Contents: Lifelong Learning: Exploring Learning, Equity and Redress, and AccessLifelong Learning and Democratic Citizenship Education in South Africa; Lifelong Learning and Knowledge: Towards a General Theory of Professional Inquiry; The Nature of Knowledge and Lifelong Learning; Reading Lifelong Learning Through a Postmodern Lens; Good Practice in Lifelong Learning; Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning: Insights from Education, Engineering, and Economics; Building a Learning Region: Whose Framework of Lifelong Learning Matters?; Changing Ideas and Beliefs in Lifelong Learning?; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6193-6
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    Accessing and sharing the benefits of the genomics revolution (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402058226
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    Series Statement: The international library of environmental, agricultural and food ethics Vol. 11
    DDC: 174.957286
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Genomics ; Intellectual property
    Abstract: This volume explores the legal, economic and political debate over intellectual property rights for traditional knowledge and genetic resources, analyzing theory and practice of access and benefits sharing around the world. The book investigates current flashpoints - the battle between Monsanto and Percy Schmeiser over farmers' rights; disputes over coexistence of genetically modified and organic produce; and ownership and control of human genetic materials stored in human gene banks around the world.
    Abstract: There is a veritable gold rush mentality in the life science world as scientists, entrepreneurs and multinationals are staking claims to the code of life embodied in the world s current stock of plants, animals, microbes and human populations. This edited volume explores the legal, economic and political context for the debate about intellectual property rights for traditional knowledge and genetic resources and critically analyses the theory and practice of access and benefits sharing efforts around the world. The book also investigates the current flashpoints the David and Goliath battle between Monsanto and Percy Schmeiser over farmers rights, the dispute over coexistence of GM and organic production, and the ownership and control of human genetic materials stored in human gene banks around the world.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributors; Acknowledgements; PART ONE: ACCESS AND BENEFITS SHARING IN CONTEXT; 1. Introduction to the Challenge of Access and Benefit Sharing; PART TWO: SHARING THE BENEFITS OF INVENTIONS, PGRS AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; 2. Ideology of the Commons and Property Rights: Who Owns PlantGenetic Resources and the Associated Traditional Knowledge?; 3. Farmers' Privilege and Patented Seeds; 4. Traditional Knowledge and Benefit Sharing: From Compensationto Transaction
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. Biological Resources, Intellectual Property Rights and InternationalHuman Rights: Impacts on Indigenous and Local Communities6. Lost in Translation? The Rhetoric of Protecting Indigenous Peoples'Knowledge in International Law and the Omnipresent Realityof Biopiracy; PART THREE: IMPLEMENTING ACCESS AND BENEFITS SHARING; 7. Liability Principles and their Impact on Access and Benefits Sharing; 8. Beyond the Rhetoric: Population Genetics and Benefit-Sharing; 9. Bioprocessing Partnerships in Practice: A Decade of Experiencesat INBio in Costa Rica
    Description / Table of Contents: PART FOUR: ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM10. Conclusions: New Paths to Access and Benefit Sharing; Index;
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    Governance and Performance of Education Systems (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402064463
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    DDC: 371.207
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Educational tests and measurements ; Bildungswesen ; Organisationsentwicklung ; Governance
    Abstract: Educational systems are now more than ever faced with the challenge of improving their performance and proving that suitable measures are being taken to guarantee greater efficiency regarding equity. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and experience in several countries, this book details possible models of governance and describes ways to measure their effects in terms of efficiency and equity.
    Abstract: Education has increasingly become the focus of public discourse and policy, with its methods, resources and achievements widely debated. As a result, educational systems are now more than ever faced with the challenge of improving their performance and of proving that suitable measures are being taken to guarantee greater efficiency regarding equity. This desire for better results requires that better methods for their measurement exist so that they can be better understood and, ultimately, improved. Several disciplines have already developed instruments for this purpose. The educational sciences have been particularly active in this field. Other disciplines, such as sociology, economics, management, information technology, and political science are also making significant contributions to the emergence of a better form of governance. Before one can benefit from these developments, one first must know about their existence and analyse and question them. The proposed book is unique in that it brings together a wide range of disciplines and experience from several countries. What are possible models of governance? How do we measure their effects in terms of efficiency and equity? What type of contribution can financial and information systems make? How do we adapt the prevailing culture to the challenge of better performance? These are some of the concrete questions to which this book provides an answer.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction: Governance and Performance of Education Systems; The New Regulation Forms of Educational Systems in Europe: Towards a Post-bureaucratic Regime; Comparing Higher Education Governance Systems in Four European Countries; Purpose and Limits of a National Monitoring of the Education System Through Indicators; Measuring and Comparing the Equity of Education Systems in Europe; The Economic Benefits of Improved Teacher Quality; Direct Democracy and Public Education in Swiss Cantons; School Factors Related to Quality: Multilevel Analysis for Three Swiss Cantons
    Description / Table of Contents: Are Swiss Secondary Schools Efficient?Funding Schools by Formula; A Cost Model of Schools: School Size, School Structure and Student Composition; The Potential of School Information Systems for Enhancing School Improvement; School Autonomy and Financial Manoeuvrability: French Principals' Strategies; Finnish Strategy for High-Level Education for All; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6446-3
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    Scientism and education : empirical research as neo-liberal ideology (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402066788
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 134 S.) , v.: digital
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    DDC: 370
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    Keywords: Education ; Genetic epistemology ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Education Philosophy ; Pädagogik ; Empirische Forschung ; Neoliberalismus ; Szientismus
    Abstract: "This volume offers a critical examination of the growing pressure to apply scientific principles as a means to improve education. The authors trace the ideology of scientism to the early faith Auguste Comte placed in science and the scientific method as a panacea to all human problem solving. By revealing many of the epistemological problems confronted by the social sciences, including education, the authors undermine the prevailing view that a science of education is possible or desirable. Besides revealing the epistemological problems associated with education research, they suggest that the instrumentalism and micro level responsibility related to scientism in education constitute a manipulative ideological smokescreen to distract public attention away from the structural inequities that generate disparate academic outcomes among students in industrialized democracies. The book deals a severe blow to the belief that science is a suitable lens through which to view or strengthen educational practice. ""One begins this book with the skeptical belief that it can t be right. The task of reading, then, is to locate where Hyslop-Margison goes wrong to reach his radical and disturbing conclusions. At the very least, even the most skeptical will have to recognize that the unsayable that current educational research has proven largely fruitless for discernable reasons is certainly plausible. He brilliantly brings an issue that has been considered too eccentric to contemplate into the heart of current educational discourse. Everyone concerned with educational research researchers and those policy-makers, administrators, and other educational workers who draw on the products of educational research should read this important book carefully."" Kieran Egan, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University"
    Abstract: "This volume offers a critical examination of the growing pressure to apply scientific principles as a means to improve education. The authors trace the ideology of scientism to the early faith Auguste Comte placed in science and the scientific method as a panacea to all human problem solving. By revealing many of the epistemological problems confronted by the social sciences, including education, the authors undermine the prevailing view that a science of education is possible or desirable. Besides revealing the epistemological problems associated with education research, they suggest that the instrumentalism and micro level responsibility related to scientism in education constitute a manipulative ideological smokescreen to distract public attention away from the structural inequities that generate disparate academic outcomes among students in industrialized democracies. The book deals a severe blow to the belief that science is a suitable lens through which to view or strengthen educational practice. ""One begins this book with the skeptical belief that it can t be right. The task of reading, then, is to locate where Hyslop-Margison goes wrong to reach his radical and disturbing conclusions. At the very least, even the most skeptical will have to recognize that the unsayable that current educational research has proven largely fruitless for discernable reasons is certainly plausible. He brilliantly brings an issue that has been considered too eccentric to contemplate into the heart of current educational discourse. Everyone concerned with educational research researchers and those policy-makers, administrators, and other educational workers who draw on the products of educational research should read this important book carefully."" Kieran Egan, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University"
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Education Research; Epistemological Problems in Social Science Research; Empirical Research in Education; Education Research as Analytic Truths; Empirical Research as Neo-liberal Ideology; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6678-8
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    Educational research: networks and technologies (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402066139
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Educational Research: Networks and Technologies 2
    Parallel Title: Print version Educational Research
    DDC: 370.72
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    DF 2500
    Keywords: Education ; Education Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Pädagogik ; Empirische Forschung ; Pädagogik ; Forschungsmethode
    Abstract: There have always been networks in the context of educational research as well as particular technologies. Yet recent developments in ICT have put their mark on contemporary education and on educational research and more in general on knowledge and understanding. Does the ???network society??? and its supporting technologies constitute a thoroughly radical innovation in social practice? Does information technology poison the minds of the younger generation? Do educational institutions have to be transformed in order to effectively serve the needs of the twenty-first century? And what are the i
    Description / Table of Contents: FM.pdf; Toc.pdf; Book_Smeyers.pdf; Introduction.pdf; Ch-01.pdf; Ch-02.pdf; Ch-03.pdf; Ch-04.pdf; Ch-05.pdf; Ch-06.pdf; Ch-07.pdf; Ch-08.pdf; Ch-09.pdf; Ch-10.pdf; Ch-11.pdf; Ch-12.pdf; Ch-13.pdf; Ch-14.pdf; Ch-15.pdf; Ch-16.pdf
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6613-9
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    International Handbook of Catholic Education : Challenges for School Systems in the 21st Century (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402057762
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    Series Statement: International Handbooks of Religion and Education 2
    DDC: 371.0712
    Keywords: Education ; Education Philosophy
    Abstract: Knowledge of Catholic educational scholarship and research has been largely confined to specific national settings. Now is the time to bring together this scholarship. This is the first international handbook on Catholic educational scholarship and research. The unifying theme of the Handbook is 'Catholic Education: challenges and responses' in a number of international settings. In addition to analyzing the largest faith-based educational system worldwide, the book also critically examines contemporary issues such as church-state relations and the impact of secularization and globalization.
    Abstract: Knowledge of Catholic educational scholarship and research has been largely confined to specific national settings. Now is the time to bring together this scholarship in an international Handbook reflecting the fact that the Catholic Church is an international organisation and that its various educational systems can learn from each other. The unifying theme of the Handbook will be 'Catholic Education: challenges and responses' in a number of international settings. The analytical focus will be problem orientated in examining church-state relations, the consequences of globalisation, the impact of secularisation, the extent of Vatican II transformations of educational policy and practice, issues of school leadership and governance and other contemporary challenges. At the same time an examination will be undertaken of the various responses which are being made to these challenges. The two volumes will be organized by geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Grace_FM.pdf; Grace Ch01.pdf; Grace Ch02.pdf; Grace Ch03.pdf; Grace Ch04.pdf; Grace Ch05.pdf; Grace Ch06.pdf; Grace Ch07.pdf; Grace Ch08.pdf; Grace Ch09.pdf; Grace Ch10.pdf; Grace Ch11.pdf; Grace Ch12.pdf; Grace Ch13.pdf; Grace Ch14.pdf; Grace Ch15.pdf; Grace Ch16.pdf; Grace Ch17.pdf; Grace Ch18.pdf; Grace Ch19.pdf; Grace Ch20.pdf; Grace Ch21.pdf; Grace Ch22.pdf; Grace Ch23.pdf; Grace Ch24.pdf; Grace Ch25.pdf; Grace Ch26.pdf; Grace Ch27.pdf; 978-1-4020-5776-2_Book_OnlinePDF.pdf;
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    Forming the Mind : Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402060847
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 5
    DDC: 100
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    CC 5300
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    CE 1060
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy of mind ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Geschichte 1000-1800
    Abstract: This book deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from scholars in this promising field of research. It brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. This collection opens up new and interesting perspectives.
    Abstract: Forming the Mind deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It stresses how important and fruitful it is to see the time period between 1100 and 1700 as one continuous tradition, and brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. In this respect, this collection opens up several new and interesting perspectives on the history of the philosophy of mind.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction: The Mind/Body Problem and Late Medieval Conceptions of the Soul; Memory and Recollection in IBN SÎNÂ'S and IBN Rushd'S Philosophical Texts Translated into Latin in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: A Perspective on the Doctrine of the Internal Senses in Arabic; Imagination and Experience in the Sensory Soul and Beyond: Richard Rufus, Roger Bacon & Their Contemporaries; The Soul as an Entity: Dante, Aquinas, and Olivi; Self-Knowledge and Cognitive Ascent: Thomas Aquinas and Peter Olivi on the KK-THESIS; The Invention of Singular Thought
    Description / Table of Contents: John Buridan on the Immateriality of the IntellectHow Matter Becomes Mind: Late-Medieval Theories of Emergence; Passions and Old Men in Renaissance Gerontology; Why Isn't the Mind-Body Problem Medieval?; Matter, Mind, and Hylomorphism in IBN Gabirol and Spinoza; Cajetan and Suarez on Agent Sense: Metaphysics and Epistemology in Late Aristotelian Thought; Is Descartes' Body A Mode of Mind?; Mind and Extension (Descartes, Hobbes, More); Emotional Pathologies and Reason in French Medical Enlightenment; Back Matter
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    On The Interpretation of Treaties : The Modern International Law as Expressed in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402063626
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 83
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Linderfalk, Ulf, 1964 - On the interpretation of treaties
    DDC: 340
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Law ; Law Philosophy ; Comparative law ; Public law ; Comparative law ; European Law/Public International Law ; General Law/Fundamentals ; International & Foreign Law/Comparative Law ; Law Theory/Law Philosophy ; Law Philosophy ; Law ; Public law ; Völkerrechtlicher Vertrag ; Auslegung ; Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités : 1969
    Abstract: This is the first comprehensive account of the modern international law of treaty interpretation expressed in 1969 Vienna Convention, Articles 31-33. As stated by the anonymous referee, it is the most theoretically advanced and analytically refined work yet accomplished on this topic. The style of writing is clear and concise, and the organisation of the book meets the demands of scholars and practitioners alike.
    Abstract: In the practice of modern international law, disputes as to the meaning of specific treaty provisions are a frequent occurrence. It is the assumption underlying any such dispute that in a process of interpretation a distinction has to be made between the legally correct and incorrect interpretation result. The legal correctness of an interpretation result is determined by reference to the relevant international law, as reflected in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), Articles 31-33. The result of an interpretation process is correct when it can be successfully defended as being in accordance with the provisions of VCLT Articles 31-33. The result is incorrect when it cannot be so defended. Traditionally, the substance of Articles 31-33 has been described by reference to the various means of interpretation enumerated in said provisions, and little more than that. As argued in this book, more detail is required. On closer inspection, not only does the Vienna Convention provide information on the interpretation data (or means of interpretation) to be used by appliers when interpreting a treaty provision. It also instructs the appliers how, by using each datum, they shall argue to arrive at a conclusion about the meaning of the interpreted provision, and, to some extent, it determines the weight that different data of interpretation shall be afforded when appliers discover that, depending on the specific datum they bring to bear on the interpretation process, the conclusion arrived at will be different. Hence, the regime laid down in VCLT Articles 31-33 will have to be described as a system of rules. This book investigates the contents and structure of this system. By importing knowledge from linguistics, and pragmatics in particular, a model is established giving representation to the concept of a rule of interpretation. Drawing on this model, the book then proceeds to reconstruct the contents of the various rules of interpretation. To facilitate reference, the conclusions suggest a list of 44 rules, all of which can be invoked by appliers citing VCLT Articles 31-33.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; The Rule Of Interpretation; Using Conventional Language ("The Ordinary Meaning"); Using the Context: The "Text" of a Treaty; Using the Context: The Elements Set Out in VCLT Article 31 2(A) AND (B); Using The Context: The Elements Set Out in VCLT Article 31 3; Using the Object and Purpose; Using the Supplementary Means of Interpretation; Using Supplementary Means of Interpretation (Cont'd); The Relationships Between Different Means of Interpretation; The Special Rule Regarding the Interpretation of Treaties Authenticated In Two Or More Languages
    Description / Table of Contents: Reflecting on the Outcome: International Law on a Scale Between Radical Legal Skepticism And The One-Right-Answer ThesisBack Matter
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    Computing Meaning Volume 3 (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 83
    DDC: 401/.43/0285
    Keywords: Linguistics ; Artificial intelligence ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Computational linguistics ; Semantics
    Abstract: This book provides an in-depth view of the current issues, problems and approaches in the computation of meaning as expressed in language. Aimed at linguists, computer scientists, and logicians with an interest in the computation of meaning, this book focuses on two main topics in recent research in computational semantics. The first topic is the definition and use of underspecified semantic representations, i.e. formal structures that represent part of the meaning of a linguistic object while leaving other parts unspecified. The second topic discussed is semantic annotation. Annotated corpora have become an indispensable resource both for linguists and for developers of language and speech technology, especially when used in combination with machine learning methods. The annotation in corpora has only marginally addressed semantic information, however, since semantic annotation methodologies are still in their infancy. This book discusses the development and application of such methodologies.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5958-2
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    Goguen Categories : A Categorical Approach to L-fuzzy Relations (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402061646
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Trends in Logic 25
    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Fuzzy-Logik ; Fuzzy-Logik
    Abstract: Goguen categories extend the relational calculus and its categorical formalization to the fuzzy world. Starting from the fundamental concepts of sets, binary relations and lattices, this book introduces several categorical formulations of an abstract theory of relations such as allegories, Dedekind categories and related structures. It is shown that neither theory is sufficiently rich to describe basic operations on fuzzy relations.
    Abstract: Goguen categories extend the relational calculus and its categorical formalization to the fuzzy world. Starting from the fundamental concepts of sets, binary relations and lattices this book introduces several categorical formulations of an abstract theory of relations such as allegories, Dedekind categories and related structures. It is shown that neither theory is sufficiently rich to describe basic operations on fuzzy relations. The book then introduces Goguen categories and provides a comprehensive study of these structures including their representation theory, and the definability of norm-based operations. The power of the theory is demonstrated by a comprehensive example. A certain Goguen category is used to specify and to develop a fuzzy controller. Based on its abstract description as well as certain desirable properties and their formal proofs, a verified controller is derived without compromising the - sometimes - intuitive choice of norm-based operations by fuzzy engineers.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Sets, Relations, And Functions; Lattices; L-Fuzzy Relations; Categories Of Relations; Categories Of L-Fuzzy Relations; Fuzzy Controllers In Goguen Categories; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6164-6
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