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    Renaissance scepticisms (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402085185
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas 199
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Renaissance scepticisms
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    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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    Harming Future Persons : Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402056970
    Language: English
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    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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    CC 7264
    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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    Reasonableness and Law (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402085000
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    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)
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    ISBN: 9781402099311
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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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    Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness : Empirical Research Concerning the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules (2009)
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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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    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
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2614-9
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    The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048128419
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    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
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    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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    Underdetermination : An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402068997
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 261
    DDC: 501
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    CC 3200
    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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6899-7
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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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    CB 4300
    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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    Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402062810
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    DDC: 179.7
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    CC 7620
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    BL 6300
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    PI 3600
    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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    Virtues and Passions in Literature : Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment (2008)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402064227
    Language: English
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6422-7
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    Beauty's Appeal : Measure and Excess (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402065217
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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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    Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402062070
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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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    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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    Phänomenologie der Schwachen Phantasie : Untersuchungen der Psychologie, Cognitive Science, Neurologie und Phänomenologie zur Funktion der Phantasie in der Wahrnehmung (2008)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6831-7
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    Hans Christian Ørsted And The Romantic Legacy In Science : Ideas, Disciplines, Practices (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402029875
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies In The Philosophy Of Science 241
    DDC: 306.4509409034
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Physics History ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This fascinating text is an exploration of the relationship between science and philosophy in the early nineteenth century. This subject remains one of the most misunderstood topics in modern European intellectual history. By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans ChristianØrsted as their organizing theme, leading international philosophers and historians of science reveal illuminating new perspectives on the intellectual map of Europe in the age of revolution and romanticism.
    Abstract: The relations between science and philosophy in the early nineteenth century remain one of the most misunderstood topics in modern European intellectual history. By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans Christian Ørsted as their organizing theme, leading international philosophers and historians of science reveal illuminating new perspectives on the intellectual map of Europe in the age of revolution and romanticism. They show how Ørsted, an intrepid traveller and cosmopolitan from the periphery of enlightened Europe, mediated between the great scientists of Germany, France, and Britain and profoundly shaped post-kantian philosophy and the emerging new energy physics of the nineteenth-century.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Way From Nature To God; The Other Side Of Ørsted: Civil Obedience; The Making Of A Danish Kantian: Science And The New Civil Society; Phrenology And Danish Romanticism; Natural Ends And The End Of Nature; The Influence Of Kant's Philosophy On The Young H. C. Ørsted; Ørsted's Concept Of Force And Theory Of Music; Kant-Naturphilosophie-Electromagnetism; Steffens, Ørsted, And The Chemical Construction Of The Earth; The Culture Of Science And Experiments In Jena Around 1800; The Romantic Experiment As Fragment; Ørsted And The Rational Unconscious
    Description / Table of Contents: Romanticism And Resistance: Humboldt And "German" Natural Philosophy In Napoleonic FranceBetween Enlightenment And Romanticism: The Case Of Dr. Thomas Beddoes; Ørsted's Presentation Of Others'-And His Own-Work; Ørsted, Ritter, And Magnetochemistry; Ørsted's Work On The Compressibility Of Liquids And Gases, And His Dynamic Theory Of Matter; Hans Christian Ørsted's Spiritual Interpretation Of Natural Science; The Spiritual In The Material; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2987-5
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    Democracy in an Age of Globalisation (2007)
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    ISBN: 128095549X , 9781402056628 , 9781280955495
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    Series Statement: Studies In Global Justice 3
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Political science ; Political science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Globalisierung ; Demokratie ; Staat ; Weltstaat ; Bürger ; Föderalismus
    Abstract: In this book, the author develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity.The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation. The question central to the book can be formulated as follows: 'How can the social, moral and legal achievements of the nation-state be retained while its structure is reshaped to satisfy the requirements of a globalised world?'
    Abstract: "In ""Democracy in an Age of Globalisation"", Otfried Höffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process of globalization exerts on the political organisations of humanity. The author starts from a diagnosis of the process of globalisation and frees its concept from its economistic narrowing: Globalisation is a comprehensive process which puts new strains on the economies and political systems of the world, the cultural and social structures of peoples. The scope of its challenges demands solutions, which transcend the powers of the classical nation-state. The question central to the book can be formulated as follows: ""How can the social, moral and legal achievements of the nation-state be retained while its structure is reshaped to satisfy the requirements of a globalised world?"""
    Description / Table of Contents: FM.pdf; Ch01.pdf; Ch02.pdf; Ch03.pdf; Ch04.pdf; Ch05.pdf; Ch06.pdf; Ch07.pdf; Ch08.pdf; Ch09.pdf; Ch10.pdf; Ch11.pdf; Ch12.pdf; Ch13.pdf; Ch14.pdf; Ch15.pdf; Ch16.pdf; Biblio.pdf; Author index.pdf; Subject index.pdf; BM.pdf
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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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    ISBN: 9781402053207
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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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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5320-7
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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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    Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402058615
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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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    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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    The Moral Wager : Evolution and Contract (2007)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 108
    DDC: 08.38
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    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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    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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    Handbook of Spatial Logics (2007)
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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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    Forming the Mind : Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 5
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    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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    Scientific Progress : A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories (2007)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library 153
    DDC: 501
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    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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    Ethics, Hunger and Globalization : In Search of Appropriate Policies (2007)
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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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    Handbook of Philosophical Logic (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402063244
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    Series Statement: Handbook of Philosophical Logic 14
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    Keywords: Logic ; Linguistics Science_xLogic design ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Logic design ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Logik
    Abstract: The fourteenth volume of the Second Edition covers central topics in philosophical logic that have been studied for thousands of years, since Aristotle: Inconsistency, Causality, Conditionals, and Quantifiers. These topics are central in many applications of logic in central disciplines such as computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and philosophy. This book is indispensable to any advanced student or researcher using logic in these areas. The chapters are comprehensive and written by major figures in the field
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Logics of Formal Inconsistency; Causality; On Conditionals; Quantifiers in Formal and Natural Languages; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6324-4
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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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    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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    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
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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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    Consciousness : From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 4
    DDC: 142.7
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Philosophy, medieval ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of mind ; Psychology History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bewusstsein ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Despite decades of theoretization, consciousness continues to haunt contemporary philosophy of mind. The coherence and validity of the concept are in question, yet consciousness seems to resist the projects of reduction and naturalization. This collection opens a diachronical perspective to intuitions about consciousness and our aspiration of coming to grips with it. Through investigating ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern discussions in their original philosophical context, the articles offer understanding of the emergence of our problems concerning consciousness, as well as a wealth
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; On Plato's Lack of Consciousness; The Problem of Consciousness in Aristotle's Psychology; Ownness of Conscious Experience in Ancient Philosophy; Sense-Perception and Self-Awareness: Before and After Avicenna; Intention and Presence: The Notion of Presentialitas in the Fourteenth Century; The Structure of Self-Consciousness: A Fourteenth-Century Debate; Augustine and Descartes on the Function of Attention in Perceptual Awareness; Orders of Consciousness and Forms of Reflexivity in Descartes; The Status of Consciousness in Spinoza's Concept of Mind
    Description / Table of Contents: Human Consciousness and its Transcendental Conditions: Kant's Anti-Cartesian RevoltThe Living Consciousness of the German Idealists; The Heidelberg School and the Limits of Reflection; Contemporary Naturalism and the Concept of Consciousness; Selfhood, Consciousness, and Embodiment: A Husserlian Approach; Back Matter
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    Phenomenology of Life from the Animal Soul to the Human Mind : Book I In Search of Experience (2007)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 93
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Consciousness ; Tiere ; Mensch ; Bewusstsein ; Erfahrung ; Phänomenologie
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    Induction, Algorithmic Learning Theory, and Philosophy (2007)
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 9
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    Keywords: Genetic epistemology ; Science Algorithms ; Computer science ; Algorithms ; Philosophy (General) ; Consciousness ; Algorithmische Lerntheorie
    Abstract: This is the first book to collect essays from philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists working at the exciting interface of algorithmic learning theory and the epistemology of science and inductive inference. Readable, introductory essays provide engaging surveys of different, complementary, and mutually inspiring approaches to the topic, both from a philosophical and a mathematical viewpoint.
    Abstract: This is the first book to collect essays from philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists working at the exciting interface of algorithmic learning theory and the epistemology of science and inductive inference. Readable, introductory essays provide engaging surveys of different, complementary, and mutually inspiring approaches to the topic, both from a philosophical and a mathematical viewpoint. Building upon this base, subsequent papers present novel extensions of algorithmic learning theory as well as bold, new applications to traditional issues in epistemology and the philosophy of science. The volume is vital reading for students and researchers seeking a fresh, truth-directed approach to the philosophy of science and induction, epistemology, logic, and statistics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction to the Philosophy and Mathematics of Algorithmic Learning Theory; Inductive Inference Systems for Learning Classes of Algorithmically Generated Sets and Structures; Deduction, Induction, and beyond in Parametric Logic; How Simplicity Helps You Find the Truth without Pointing at it; Induction over the Continuum; Logically Reliable Inductive Inference; Some Philosophical Concerns about the Confidence in 'Confident Learning'; How to Do Things with an Infinite Regress; Trade-Offs; Two Ways of Thinking about Induction; Between History and Logic; Back Matter
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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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    Studies in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture : Presented to Albert van der Heide on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (2007)
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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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    Efficiency, Justice and Care : Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care (2007)
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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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    Husserl's Logical Investigations in the New Century: Western and Chinese Perspectives (2007)
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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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    Diagrammatology : An Investigation On The Borderlines Of Phenomenology, Ontology, And Semiotics (2007)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 336
    DDC: 121.68
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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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    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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    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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    Establishing Medical Reality : Essays In The Metaphysics And Epistemology Of Biomedical Science (2007)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 90
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    DDC: 610.1
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    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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    Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories : Suppositio, Consequentiae and Obligationes (2007)
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    Series Statement: Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science 7
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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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    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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    The Rule of Law (2007)
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 80
    DDC: 340.11
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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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    Blameworthy Belief : A Study in Epistemic Deontologism (2007)
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library 338
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Philosophy of law ; Philosophy of mind ; Deontologie ; Glaube ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Meinung ; Handlung ; Verantwortung
    Abstract: Believing the wrong thing can have drastic consequences. The question of when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief goes to the root of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral responsibility. This book explores the conditions under which someone may be deemed blameworthy for holding a particular belief, drawing on contemporary epistemology, ethics and legal scholarship.
    Abstract: Believing the wrong thing may sometimes have drastic consequences. The question as to when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief is an important one: It touches upon the roots of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral responsibility. The answer to this question may influence the extent to which we are willing to submit each other to punishments ranging from mild resentment to harsh prison terms. This book presents an extensive effort to shed light on the conditions under which we may appropriately deem someone blameworthy for holding a particular belief. It regiments and unifies several debates within contemporary epistemology, ethics and legal scholarship. Finally, the book brings a new philosophical look on issues like our power to control beliefs and the extent and nature of foresight.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Belief and Acceptance; Approaching a Conception of Epistemic Blameworthiness; Blameworthy Belief as Inexcusably Undesirable Belief; Epistemic Undesirability; Bruce Russell's Basic Analysis of the Notion of Epistemic Blameworthiness; Doxastic Control; Direct Content-Directed Doxastic Control or Doxastic Voluntarism; Direct Property-Directed Doxastic Control or Property Voluntarism; Indirect Content-Directed Doxastic Control or Doxastic Pascalianism; Indirect Property-Directed Doxastic Control or Property Pascalianism; Intellectual Obligations
    Description / Table of Contents: Foresight and Blameworthy Inadvertence to RiskEpistemic Blameworthiness Analysed; Epistemic Autonomy; Back Matter
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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
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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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    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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    Goguen Categories : A Categorical Approach to L-fuzzy Relations (2007)
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    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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    Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany : The History of the Accademia del Cimento (2007)
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    Series Statement: Australasian Studies In History And Philosophy Of 21
    DDC: 016.5094542
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    Keywords: Science (General) ; Science History ; Philosophy (General) ; History ; Mathematics_$xHistory ; Toskana ; Experiment ; Naturphilosophie ; Geschichte 1600-1700
    Abstract: This work counters historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices of Europe's first scientific institutions, such as the Cimento. It proposes that we should look beyond the experimental rhetoric found in published works, to find that the Cimento academicians were participants in a culture of natural philosophical theorising that existed throughout Europe.
    Abstract: The Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667) was the first institution in Europe purporting to use an experimental method in its scientific inquiries. According to some recent accounts, the Cimento belonged to a new culture of knowledge making that abandoned the practice of constructing theories in favour of a programme that simply accumulated 'matters of fact', free from theoretical arguments and speculations. However, while the Cimento, led by Tuscany's Prince Leopoldo de'Medici, created a persuasive experimental rhetoric, in actuality the academicians continued to construct experiments and interpret their results on the basis of their theoretical aims and their broader interests in natural philosophy. This analysis begins by examining the use of experiments, mathematics, and natural philosophy in seventeenth-century Italy. Once these topics are clearly defined, it becomes easier to understand the intellectual interests and motivations of each of the Cimento's members. Case studies regarding the Cimento's work on air-pressure, the vacuum, the freezing process, and the properties and effects of heat and cold, reveal the group's natural philosophical skills, commitments, and agendas. Meanwhile, in an attempt to avoid religious pressure and to maintain an uncontroversial reputation for the academy, Leopoldo censored the academicians from publicly expressing their views on a number of issues. The purpose of this work is to counter historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices of Europe's first scientific institutions, such as the Cimento. It proposes that we should look beyond the experimental rhetoric found in published works, to find that the Cimento academicians were participants in a culture of natural philosophical theorising that existed throughout Europe.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; 350 Years of coming to grips with the experimental activities of Galileo and his followers; Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703): Galileo's last disciple; Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679); What it meant to be a Cimento academician; Experiments concerning air pressure and the void and a look at the Accademia's internal workings; The artificial freezing process of liquids, and the properties and effects of heat and cold; The Cimento's publication process and presentational techniques: formulating a policy of self-censorship
    Description / Table of Contents: The Saturn problem and the path of comets: an analysis of the academicians' theoretical and observational AstronomyBack Matter
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    The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction (2007)
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    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 71
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematik ; Abstraktion ; Hume, David 1711-1776 ; Zahlentheorie ; Philosophie
    Abstract: This volume collects together a number of important papers concerning both the method of abstraction generally and the use of particular abstraction principles to reconstruct central areas of mathematics along logicist lines. Attention is focused on extending the Neo-Fregean treatment to all of mathematics, with the reconstruction of real analysis from various cut- or cauchy-sequence-related abstraction principles and the reconstruction of set theory from various restricted versions of Basic Law V as case studies.
    Abstract: This volume collects together a number of important papers concerning both the method of abstraction generally and the use of particular abstraction principles to reconstruct central areas of mathematics along logicist lines. Gottlob Frege's original logicist project was, in effect, refuted by Russell's paradox. Crispin Wright has recently revived Frege's enterprise, however, providing a philosophical and technical framework within which a reconstruction of arithmetic is possible. While the Neo-Fregean project has recieved extensive attention and discussion, the present volume is unique in presenting a thorough going examination of the mathematical aspects of the neo-logicist project (and the particular philosophical issues arising from these technical concerns). Attention is focused on extending the Neo-Fregean treatment to all of mathematics, with the reconstruction of real analysis from various cut - or cauchy-sequence-related abstraction principles and the reconstruction of set theory from various restricted versions of Basic Law V as case studies. As a result, the volume provides a test of the scope and limits of the neo-logicist project, detailing what has been accomplished and outlining the desiderata still outstanding. All papers in the anthology have their origins in presentations at Arché events, thus providing a volume that is both a survey of the cutting edge in research on the technical aspects of abstraction and a catalogue of the work in this area that has been supported in various ways by Arché.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Is Hume's Principle Analytic?; Is Hume's Principle Analytic?; Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics; Finitude and Hume's Principle; On Finite Hume; Could Nothing Matter?; On the Philosophical Interest of Frege Arithmetic; "Neo-Logicist" Logic is not Epistemically Innocent; Aristotelian Logic, Axioms, and Abstraction; Frege's Unofficial Arithmetic; Reals by Abstraction; The State of the Economy: Neo-Logicism and Inflation; Frege Meets Dedekind: A Neo-Logicist Treatment of Real Analysis; Neo-Fregean Foundations for Real Analysis: Some Reflections on Frege's Constraint
    Description / Table of Contents: New V, ZF, and AbstractionWell- and Non-Well-Founded Fregean Extensions; Abstraction & Set Theory; Prolegomenon to Any Future Neo-Logicist Set Theory: Abstraction and Indefinite Extensibility; Neo-Fregeanism: An Embarrassment of Riches; Iteration one More Time;
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    De L'Éthique À La Justice : Langage et politique dans la philosophie de Lévinas (2007)
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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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    Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (2007)
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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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    Leibniz and the English-Speaking World (2007)
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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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    How to Think About Meaning (2007)
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 109
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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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    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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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6104-2
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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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    Hearing Visions and Seeing Voices : Psychological Aspects of Biblical Concepts and Personalities (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059391
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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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    Nature, Value, Duty : Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III (2007)
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 8
    DDC: 179.1
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    Keywords: Philosophy of Nature ; Nature Conservation ; Philosophy (General) ; Regional planning ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Rolston, Holmes 1932- ; Umweltethik
    Abstract: This is a collection of contemporary writings on the work of Holmes Rolston, III. The authors contributing to this volume are a mixture of senior scholars in environmental ethics and new voices in philosophy and in literature. Together they provide an in depth evaluation of many of the topics discussed by Rolston. Rolston himself, in a detailed reply to each of his critics at the end of the volume, reveals where some of these criticisms sting him the most.
    Abstract: "Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics. From his authorship of one of the first articles in professional environmental philosophy (""Is there an Ecological Ethic?"" 1975) to his most recent article on the place of humanity in the cosmos (""Generating Life on Earth: Five Looming Questions"" 2007) no author has taken a more prominent role in mapping out the terrain in environmental philosophy. His writings range between natural philosophy and theology and include detailed presentations of an interlocking position that includes aesthetics, value theory, natural resource policy, wilderness advocacy, and sustainable development. ""Nature Value and Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III"" is a collection of contemporary writings on the work of Holmes Rolston, III. The authors contributing to this volume are a mixture of senior scholars in environmental ethics and new voices in philosophy and in literature. Together they provide an in depth evaluation of many of the topics discussed by Rolston. They probe the strengths and weaknesses of his work and suggest valuable correctives. Rolston himself, in a detailed reply to each of his critics at the end of the volume, reveals where some of these criticisms sting him the most and in the process provides one of the most detailed and articulate defenses of his position ever offered."
    Description / Table of Contents: Rolston's theory of value / Katie McShaneBiotic and abiotic nature : how radical is Rolston's environmental philosophy? / Keekok Lee -- Refining Rolston : a natural ontological attitude towards natural values / Christopher J. Preston -- In Rolston's footsteps : human emotions and values in nature / Mark Wynn -- Religion in Rolston's environmental ethics / Ned Hettinger -- Writing straight with crooked lines : Holmes Rolston's ecological theology and theodicy / Lisa Sideris -- "We see beauty now where we could not see it before" : Rolston's aesthetics of nature / Allen Carlson -- Rolston on objective and subjective beauty in nature / Eugene Hargrove -- Words gone wild : language in Rolston's philosophy of nature / Brenda Hausauer -- Caring for nature : an ecofeminist's view of Rolston on eating, hunting, and genetics / Victoria Davion -- Rethinking animal ethics in appropriate context : how Rolston's work can help / Clare Palmer -- Nature diminished or nature managed : applying Rolston's environmental ethics in national parks / John Lemons -- Rolston on urban environments / James W. Sheppard and Andrew Light -- Living on Earth : dialogue and dialectic with my critics / Holmes Rolston, III.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4878-5
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    The God Beyond Belief : In Defence of William Rowe'S Evidential Argument from Evil (2007)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 27
    DDC: 214
    Keywords: Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Hochschulschrift ; Rowe, William L. 1931- ; Das Böse ; Theodizee
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5145-X
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    Revisiting discovery and justification : historical and philosophical perspectives on the context distinction (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402042515
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 232 Seiten)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Revisiting discovery and justification
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Naturwissenschaften ; Philosophie ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Entdeckung ; Verifikation
    Abstract: The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes the need to re-open the debate about the nature, development, and significance of the context distinction, about its merits and flaws. The discussion clears the ground for the productive and fruitful integration of these new developments into philosophy of science.
    Abstract: The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has had a turbulent career in philosophy of science. At times celebrated as the hallmark of philosophical approaches to science, at times condemned as ambiguous, distorting, and misleading, the distinction dominated philosophical debates from the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1980s. Until today, it informs our conception of the content, domain, and goals of philosophy of science. It is due to this fact that new trends in philosophy of experimentation and history and sociology of science have been marginalized by traditional scholarship in philosophy. To acknowledge properly this important recent work we need to re-open the debate about the nature, development, and significance of the context distinction, about its merits and flaws. The contributions to this volume provide close readings and detailed analyses of the original textual sources for the context distinction. They revise those accounts of 'forerunners' of the distinction that have been written through the lens of Logical Empiricism. They map, clarify, and analyse the derivations and mutations of the context distinctions as we encounter them in current history and philosophy of science. The re-evaluation of the distinction helps us deal with the philosophical challenges that the New Experimentalism and historically, socio-politically and economically oriented science studies have placed before us. This volume thus clears the ground for the productive and fruitful integration of these new developments into philosophy of science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Some Thoughts on the Discovery Justification Distinction; Inductive Justification and Discovery; Freedom in a Scientific Society: Reading the Context of Reichenbach's Contexts; Germano Cantabrigian History of the Fundamental Ideas; Autonomy versus Development: Duhem on Progress in Science; Psychologism and the Distinction Between Discovery and Justification; Context of Discovery versus Context of Justification and Thomas Kuhn; Weaknesses of the Strong Programme in the Sociology of Science; Heuristic Appraisal: Context of Discovery or Justification
    Description / Table of Contents: Concept Formation and the Limits of Justification Discovering the two ElectricitiesContexts of Justifying and Discovering the Nature of Ecosystems; On the Inextricability of the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4251-5
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    The Sphere Of Attention : Context and Margin (2006)
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    Series Statement: Contributions To Phenomenology 54
    DDC: 153.733
    Keywords: Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Consciousness ; Attention ; Gestalt Theory ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: The Sphere of Attention uses the latest empirical research to illustrate how attention is organized according to gestalt-phenomenological principles inside and outside the focus of attention. For the first time, this book classifies how attention shifts, and argues that self-awareness, reflection, and even morality, are best thought of as dynamic transformations in the sphere of attention. The radical thesis of this book is that attention is always the center of a sphere of attention, which consists in contextual and marginal processing. Together these three organizational dimensions - focus, context, margin - constitute the human being as a sphere of attention. In addition to assessing the most recent laboratory results from prominent psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists, The Sphere of Attention also examines the views of phenomenologists such as Gurwitsch, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre. This book demonstrates that gestalt-phenomenology is a powerful new method for investigating human nature.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; CHAPTER 1 THE SPHERE OF ATTENTION IS THEME CONTEXT AND MARGIN; CHAPTER 2: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SPHERE OF Attention; CHAPTER 3: TRANSFORMATIONS IN ATTENDING; CHAPTER 4: GURWITSCH AND HUSSERL ON ATTENTION; CHAPTER 5: SUBJECTIVITY AND THE SPHERE OF ATTENTION; CHAPTER 6: MORALITY AND THE SPHERE OF ATTENTION; CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3572-1
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    Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Three : Logos of History - Logos of Life. Historicity, Time, Nature, Communication, Consciousness, Alterity, Culture (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402037184
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 90
    DDC: 142.7
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy of Nature ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Phänomenologie ; Geschichte ; Zeit ; Geschichtlichkeit ; Bewusstsein ; Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 ; Das Andere ; Subjektivität ; Philosophie ; Raum ; Welt ; Lebenswelt ; Kommunikation ; Kultur
    Abstract: Does brute nature unfold a history? Does human history have a telos? Does human existence have a purpose? Phenomenology of life projects an interrogative system for examining these questions. This work follows the logos of life as it spins in innumerable ways the interplay of natural factors, human passions, social forces, science and experience
    Description / Table of Contents: Phenomenological History and Phenomenological Historiography; Phenomenology and the Challenge of History; Phenomenology, History and Historicity in Karl Jaspers' Philosophy; Does History Have a Purpose?; History Theory of Merleau-Ponty in the Latter Half of the 1940S; History as the Unveiling of the Telos. the Husserlian Critique of the Wel Tanschauungen; Husserl and Bergson on Time and Consciousness; The Historicity of Nature; The Enlightenment and Early Romantic Concepts of Nature and the Self; Inhabited Time: Couperin' Passacaille; Social Imagination and History in Paul Ricoeur
    Description / Table of Contents: Anxiety and Time in the Hermeneutic Phenomenology of HeideggerPrinciple of Historicity in the Phenomenology of Life; Emmanuel Levinas and the Deformalization of Time; Emmanuel Levinas: Non-Intentional Consciousness and the Status of Representational Thinking; The Phenomenology of Time in the Philosophy of Levinas: Temporality and Otherness in the Hebraic Tradition; Lifeworld Between Scientific and Cultural Experience: On "European Crisis"; Time, Space and the Individual Being in the Internal and External Worlds During the Lifecourse; Space Travel: When "Space" is a Metaphor
    Description / Table of Contents: Phenomenology of Life of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and Some Issues of Contemporary Georgian PhilosophyThe Philosophical Sense is the Mature Sense - Husserl's Reflection on the Measure of Philosophy; Language, Time and Otherness; Virtual Decadence; Some Considerations Concerning the Question of Measure in the Phenomenology of Life; The Interfacing of Language and World; De L'idée de la Forme Phénoménologique; Husserl and the Crisis of Philosophy; Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Intermediacy and the Constitution of Intercultural Sense
    Description / Table of Contents: Arendt's Revision of Praxis: On Plurality and Narrative ExperiencePhenomenology in Mongolia; Phenomenology of Lifelong Learning; From the Station to the Lyceum;
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    Intersubjective Temporality : It's About Time (2006)
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 176
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rodemeyer, Lanei M. Intersubjective temporality
    DDC: 115
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Phänomenologie ; Zeit ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Intersubjektivität
    Abstract: "This book contains phenomenological analyses of each dimension of temporalizing consciousness, turning primarily to Husserl's later manuscripts on time. From these manuscripts, the author takes up certain important notions heretofore generally neglected by the secondary literature in Husserl scholarship, such as ""near"" and ""far"" retention, and ""world-time"". Integrating a consideration of intersubjective existence, the author suggests that the notion of ""intersubjective temporality"" might be a more appropriate way to understand the foundation of the subject understood phenomenologically."
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; PART ONE THE PRESENT; WORLD TIME A NEW TEMPORAL SYNTHESIS; PART TWO RETENTION; PART THREE PROTENTION; PART FOUR INTERSUBJECTIVE TEMPORALITY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES
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    Intuition and the Axiomatic Method (2006)
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    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields 70
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Intuition ; Naturwissenschaften ; Intuition ; Logik ; Intuitionistische Mathematik
    Abstract: Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era considered Kant's theory of intuition to be obsolete. But this only represents one side of the story concerning Kant, intuition and twentieth century science. Several prominent mathematicians and physicists were convinced that the formal tools of modern logic, set theory and the axiomatic method are not sufficient for providing mathematics and physics with satisfactory foundations. All of Hilbert, Gödel, Poincaré, Weyl and Bohr thought that intuition was an indispensable element in describing the foundations of science. They had very different reasons for thinking this, and they had very different accounts of what they called intuition. But they had in common that their views of mathematics and physics were significantly influenced by their readings of Kant. In the present volume, various views of intuition and the axiomatic method are explored, beginning with Kant's own approach. By way of these investigations, we hope to understand better the rationale behind Kant's theory of intuition, as well as to grasp many facets of the relations between theories of intuition and the axiomatic method, dealing with both their strengths and limitations, in short, the volume covers logical and non-logical, historical and systematic issues in both mathematics and physics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Locke and Kant on Mathematical Knowledge; The View from 1763: Kant on the Arithmetical Method Before Intuition; The Relation of Logic and Intuition in Kant'S Philosophy of Science, Particularly Geometry; Edmund Husserl on the Applicability of Formal Geometry; The Neo-Fregean Program in the Philosophy of Arithmetic; Gödel, Realism and Mathematical 'Intuition'; Intuition, Objectivity and Structure; Intuition and Cosmology: The Puzzle of Incongruent Counterparts; Conventionalism and Modern Physics: A Re-Assessment; Intuition and the Axiomatic Method in Hilbert's Foundation of Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: Soft Axiomatisation: John von Neumann on Method and von Neumann's Method in the Physical SciencesThe Intuitiveness and Truth of Modern Physics; Functions of Intution in Quantum Physics; Intuitive Cognition and the Formation of the Theories
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4040-7
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    Body and Practice in Kant (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402041198
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    Series Statement: Studies in German Idealism 6
    DDC: 193
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Philosophy of Mind ; Pragmatism ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy (General) ; Hochschulschrift ; Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 ; Körper ; Praxis
    Abstract: Kant is generally conceived to have offered little attention to the fact that we experience the world in and through our bodies. This book argues that this standard image of the great German philosopher is radically wrong. Not only does Kant - throughout his career and in works published before and after the Critique of pure reason - reflect constantly upon the fact that human life is embodied, but the Critique of pure reason itself may be read as a critical reflection aimed at exploring some significant philosophical implications of this fact. Bringing this aspect of Kant's philosophy into focus is important, not only because it sheds new light on our understanding of Kant's work, but also because it is relevant to contemporary discussions in philosophy about embodiment, learning and practice. By taking his philosophy of embodiment into account, the author makes Kant stand out as a true contemporary in new and unexpected ways.
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; THE EMBODIED MIND; BODY AND SPACE; RATIONALITY AND EMBODIED PRACTICE; THE BODY IN THE CRITIQUE; SPATIAL EXPERIENCE AND THE BODY IN THE CRITIQUE; SPATIAL SCHEMATISM; KANT'S TRANSCENDENTAL EPISTEMOLOGY; QUANTITY; THE RELATIONAL CATEGORIES;
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    Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm (2006)
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    Series Statement: Islamic philosophy and occidental phenomenology in dialogue v.2
    DDC: 110
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Islamische Philosophie ; Phänomenologie ; Analogie ; Makrokosmos ; Mikrokosmos
    Abstract: "By proposing the Microcosm and Macrocosm analogy for dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, the authors of this volume are reviving the perennial positioning of the human condition in the play of forces within and without the human being. This theme has run from Plato through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modernity, and has been ignored by contemporaries. It now acquires a new pertinence and striking significance due to the scientific discoveries into the ""infinitely small"" in life, on the one hand, and the prodigious technological discoveries of the ""infinitely great"" on the other. Both open up undreamt-of prospects for the continuing conquest of cosmic forces. The human person - thrown into turmoil by the new approaches to life and needing to acquire new habits of mind, having lost security of all beliefs - desperately seeks a new clarification of the Human Condition within the unity of everything-there-is, of cosmic forces, and of his destiny. The dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and phenomenology of life can show the way. Papers by: Gholam-Reza A'awani, Mehdi Aminrazavi, Roza Davari Ardakani, Mohammad Azadpur, Gary Backhaus, Marina Banchetti-Robino, William Chittick, Seyed Mostafa Muhaghghegh Damad, Golamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani, Nader El-Bizri, Kathleen Haney, Salahaddin Khalilov, Sayyid Mohammad Khamenei, Mahmoud Khatami, Mieczyslaw Pawel Migon, Nikolay Milkov, Sachiko Murata, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Daniela Verducci."
    Description / Table of Contents: The Microcosm/Macrocosm Analogy: A Tentative Encounter Between Graeco-Arabic Philosophy and Phenomenology; The Microcosm/Macrocosm Analogy in Ibn Sînâ and Husserl; Hermann Lotze's Microcosm; Connection of Microcosm with Macrocosm in Max Scheler's Philosophy: Man, Logos and Ethos; Improvisation in the Dance of Life: the Microcosm and Macrocosm; The Uncovering of the Microcosmic-Macrocosmic Setting of Life's Process: The Cosmological Expansion of Phenomenology's Notion of Evidence; Soul and its Creations; The Creative Transformation in Liu Chih's "Philosophy of Islam"
    Description / Table of Contents: "Man's Creativity/Vicegerency" in Islamic Philosophy and MysticismThe Sadrean Theory of the World of Divine Command; A Glance at the World of Image; The World of Imagination; The Sublime Visions of Philosophy: Fundamental Ontology and the Imaginal World; The Circle of Life in Islamic Thought; Between Microcosm and Macrocosm: Man at Work; The Illuminative Notion of Man in Persian Thought: A Response to an Original Quest; Being and Necessity: A Phenomenological Investigation of Avicenna's Metaphysics and Cosmology; Al-Suhrawardi's Doctrine and Phenomenology
    Description / Table of Contents: Martin Heidegger and Omar Khayyam on the Question of "Thereness" (Dasein)
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4115-0
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    Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature: The Construction of Eighteenth-Century Botanical Illustrations (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402048203
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    Series Statement: Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) v. 15
    DDC: 580.22209033
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Botanik ; Illustration ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Pflanzen ; Illustration ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Botanik ; Illustration ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: This book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations. Its findings offer a completely new insight into the working practices of the botanists and scientific draughtsmen of this period. The author describes the different production stages of these illustrations. For the first time, the author presents a convincing description of how botanical illustrations developed, ascertaining the criteria that drove this process.
    Abstract: Presents a study of 18th-century botanical illustrations, offering insight into the working practices of botanists and scientific draughtsmen of this period. This book describes the different production stages of these illustrations, traces their uses, and explores their visual language, with particular emphasis on the difficult issue of colour
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Making of Botanical Illustrations; The Content of Botanical Illustrations; The Role of Botanical Illustrations; Visual Language; Links with Tradition; The Construction of Botanical Illustrations; Methods and Materials
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Revised thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Bern, 2002 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4820-3
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : The Art of Controversies (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402052286
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 60
    Parallel Title: Print version Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : The Art of Controversies
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of law ; Philosophy ; Social sciences ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Kontroverse ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716 ; Kontroverse
    Abstract: Remembered mainly as a logician and mathematician, Leibniz also endeavored to resolve political and religious conflicts of his day by bringing opponents into negotiation. The dialectical Leibniz who emerges from the texts here translated, commented, and interpreted is certainly not the familiar one. The book sheds new light on the familiar, yet incomplete image of Leibniz, providing further reason for cherishing and cultivating the heritage of a truly great man.
    Abstract: Leibniz is known to the wide public and to many scholars mainly as a logician and mathematician, and as the creator of a fascinating but strange metaphysical system. In these, as well as in other fields, his remarkable innovations were achieved by painstaking efforts to establish a fruitful critical dialogue with the leading contemporary thinkers. He was no less important, however, in his practical endeavor to bring opponents to negotiate reasonable solutions to key political and religious conflicts of his time. Both his theoretical and practical activities were informed by a philosophical mind that sought in all circumstances the most general underlying principles, by a juridical mind that sought to bring order and structure to human interaction, without sacrificing the necessary flexibility, by an argumentative mind that knows that persuading is often more important than proving, by a scientific mind eager to organize past and present knowledge so as not to miss any bit of information capable of pointing the way to new discoveries, by a theologian mind that refuses to admit that religious conflicts between true believers are irresolvable, and by an ethical and political mind whose major concern is to direct all our intellectual work towards improving the well-being of humankind.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Vices of Mingled Disputes; The Controversy of Controversies; The Religion of a Peasant; The Elements of Thinking; The Balance of Law; Can there be an Obligation to Believe?; Controversies on Sacred Matters; The Judge of Controversies; Towards a Heuristics for Litigation; The Method of Jurists and the Method of Doctors; Interpretation and Argumentation in Law; Towards a Heuristics for Discovery; Estimating the Uncertain; Towards a Numerical Universal Language; The Encyclopedia and the Method of Discovery; Towards a Heuristics for Persuading; The Other's Place
    Description / Table of Contents: Persuading a SkepticOn Controversies; On Principles; Two Prefaces to the General Science; Introduction to a Secret Encyclopedia; On the Creation of a New Logic; New Openings; Theology and the Principle of Contradiction; Changing Religion; Methods of Reunion; An ARS Characteristica for the Rational Sciences; 'Characterizing' Definitions and Demonstrating Propositions; Advancing the Art of Discovery; Correspondence with the Hamburg Jungians; The Philosophical Sin Controversy; Confronting the Catholic Hardliners; Defining what Pertains to Faith; Judgment of a Catholic Doctor
    Description / Table of Contents: Presumptions and Fictions in Legal ArgumentationThe 'Method Of Establishments'; The Achievements Of Logic and Beyond; Pacts, Contracts, and Natural Law; Approching the Church of England; Dialectic Principles and their Application; The History and Tasks of Logic; Bold Conjectures; The Dynamics of Formulating and Expounding the System; The Use of Logic Against Skepticism; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5228-6
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    THE BEGINNINGS OF PIEZOELECTRICITY : A Study in Mundane Physics (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402046704
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: BOSTON STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 246
    DDC: 537.2446
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    Keywords: Science Science_xHistory ; Particles (Nuclear physics) ; Crystallography ; Physics History ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Piezoelektrizität ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The Beginnings of Piezoelectricity, the first history of the subject, exhaustively examines how diverse influences led to the discovery of the phenomenon in 1880, and how they shaped subsequent research until the consolidation of an empirical and theoretical knowledge of the field circa 1895. Shaul Katzir's historical account shows that this 'mundane' science was an intriguing intellectual and practical enterprise, which involved originality, surprises and controversies.
    Abstract: Studies a particular subdiscipline representative of many similar "mundane" branches of physics that did not bear revolutionary consequences beyond their field. This work shows that this mundane science was an intriguing intellectual and practical enterprise, which involved, among other things, originality, surprises and controversies
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; INTRODUCTION; THE DISCOVERY OF THE PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECT; THE ROAD TO THE DESCRIPTIVE THEORY; THEORIES AND MODELS ABOUT THE CAUSES OF THE PIEZOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; THEORETICAL ELABORATION OF VOIGT'S THEORY; EMPIRICAL WORK IN THE 1890s; Back Matter
    Note: Dissertation , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4670-4
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    Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Two : The Human Condition in-the-Unity-of-Everything-there-is-alive. Individuation, Self, Person, Self-determination, Freedom, Necessity (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402037078
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 89
    DDC: 142.7
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy of Nature ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Phänomenologie ; Logos ; Philosophische Anthropologie ; Leib ; Individualität ; Intersubjektivität ; Freiheit ; Notwendigkeit ; Selbstbestimmung ; Religionsphilosophie
    Abstract: "The human being is today at the center of scientific, social, ethical and philosophical debates. The Human Condition-in-the-unity-of-everything-there-is-alive, under whose aegis the present selection of essays falls, offers the urgently needed new approach to reinvestigating humanness. While recent advances in the neurosciences, genetics and bio-engineering challenge the traditional abstract conception of ""human nature"", indicating its transformability, thus putting in question the main tenets of traditional philosophical anthropology, in the new perspective of the Human Creative Condition the human individual is seen in its emergence and unfolding within the dynamic networks of the logos of life, and within the evolution of living types. Just the same, the creative logos of the mind lifts the human person into a sphere of freedom. Within the networks of the logos we retrieve the classical principles - human subject, ego, self, body, soul, person - reinterpret them to counter the naturalistic critique (Tymieniecka). Thus principles of a new philosophical anthropology satisfying the requirements of the present time are laid down. Papers by: Tristan Ace, Michael F. Andrews, Ann Astell, Stella Zita De Azevedo, Carmen Balzer, Angela Ales Bello, Andreas Brenner, Carmen Cozma, Agnes B. Curry, Roberta de Monticelli, Eddo Evink, Maria Golebiewska, Laura Hengehold, Kadria Ismail, Marzenna Jakubczak, Maria Mercede Ligozzi, Maria Manuela Brito Martins, Piotr Mroz, Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia, Maria Teresa de Noronha, Peter Reynaert, Victor Gerald Rivas, Mobeen Shahid, Olena Shkubulyani, Michael Staudigl, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Willem Van Groenou."
    Description / Table of Contents: The Language of Our Living Body; What is it Like to Be Embodied, Naturalizing Bodily Self-Awareness?; Edmund Husserl's Anthropological Proposal in the Ideen I/II; Non-Intentionality of the Lived-Body; Plato's Teaching about "Living Creature"; An Enquiry Concerning the Dialectic of Personality and its Practical Consequences; Discussion on the Notion of "Life" and "Existentia" in the Philosophical Conceptions of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty; "Vitalogy": The African Vision of the Human Person; Conflict with Our Self; Essential Individuality: On the Nature of a Person
    Description / Table of Contents: Ego-Making Principle in Samkhya Metaphysics and CosmologyThe "Person" and the "Other" in María Zambrano's Philosophical Anthropology; Les Figures de L#x2019; Intersubjectivité Chez Husserl; The Logos of Life and Sexual Difference; Phenomenology of Life's Opening to the Moral Philosophy - The Virtue's Issue; The Vulnerable Body: Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Violence; Phenomenology of Life in Border Situations: The Experience of the Ultimate; The Phenomenology of Resistance; Patocka and Derrida on Responsibility
    Description / Table of Contents: "Perfect Health" and the Disembodiment of the Self. An Approach to Michel Henry's ThoughtBeauvoirian Existentialism: An Ethic of Individualism or Individuation?; The Creationism of Leonardo Coimbra and Saudade as a Moral Gift; Mater-Natality: Augustine, Arendt, and Levinas; Religion without Why: Edith Stein and Martin Heidegger on the Overcoming of Metaphysics, with Particular Reference to Angelus Silesius and Denys the Areopagite; Hermeneutics of the Mystical Phenomenon in E dith Stein;
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3707-4
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    John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (2006)
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 193
    DDC: 130.92
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Mathematics_$xHistory ; Linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Dee, John 1527-1608
    Abstract: "The career of John Dee has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and "angel magic"), seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and his collaborators and colleagues"--Dust jacket
    Abstract: "The career of the sixteenth-century English mathematician and natural philosopher John Dee (1527-1609) has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and ""angel magic"") seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and his collaborators and colleagues. The essays in the volume present new views on the nature of Dee's various projects, as well as the uses to which he put the books and manuscripts in his library at Mortlake (one of the largest private collections in Elizabethan England)."
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; JOHN DEE'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED; WINGS (OR STAIRS) TO THE HEAVENS; LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON?; JOHN DEE AND ASTROLOGY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND; JOHN DEE'S INTEREST IN THE APPLICATION OF NAUTICAL SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND LAW TO ENGLISH NAVAL AFFAIRS; JOHN DEE'S COLUMBIAN ENCOUNTER; JOHN DEE AND THE KABBALAH; THE ALCHEMICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF JOHN DEE'S MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA; JOHN DEE AND THE MAGIC TABLES IN THE BOOK OF SOYGA; PARACELSUS, SCRYING, AND THE LINGUA ADAMICA; JOHN DEE'S ANGELIC CONVERSATIONS AND THE ARS NOTORIA
    Description / Table of Contents: THE NEXUS OF ANGELOLOGY, ESCHATOLOGY, AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHYIN JOHN DEE'S ANGEL CONVERSATIONS AND LIBRARYABSENT PRESENCES; IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EDWARD KELLEY; ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO "JOHN DEE'S LIBRARY CATALOGUE"; RECENT WORKS ON JOHN DEE (1988-2005)
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Sixteen contributions, based on presentations made at an interdisciplinary colloquium held at Birkbeck College, University of London, Apr. 1995 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4246-9
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    Being Apart from Reasons : The Role of Reasons in Public and Private Moral Decision-Making (2006)
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 76
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Law Philosophy ; Begründung ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Recht
    Abstract: Being Apart from Reasons deals with the question of how we should go about using reasons to decide what to do. More particularly, the book presents objections to the most common response given by contemporary legal and political theorists to the moral complexity of decision-making in modern societies, namely: the attempt to release public agents from their argumentative burden by insulating a particular set of reasons from the general pool of reasons and assigning the former systematic priority over all other reasons. If those attempts succeed, public agents should not reason comprehensively, taking into account all reasons and weighing them against one another. Some reasons would be excluded from decision-making by kind. That strategy is apparent both in Rawls' claim that reasons concerning the right are systematically prior to reasons concerning the good and in Raz's claim that pre-emptive reasons are systematically prior to first-order reasons. The same strategy is also instantiated by certain arguments for the procedural value of law, such as Jeremy Waldron's. In the book, each of those arguments for the insulation of reasons is objected to in order to defend the thesis the reasoning by public agents must always be as comprehensive as possible. In order to reach that conclusion a particular picture of public decision-making is needed. That picture is provided by the comparison between the use of reasons in public and private decision-making which is carried out in the first two chapters of the book. That comparison brings to light peculiar features of public decision-making that imply the need for public agents to reason comprehensively before deciding. The remaining chapters object to those arguments mentioned above which aim at justifying the exclusion of certain reasons from public agents' decision-making.
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; MORAL ACTION, REASON AND INCLINATION; REASONING IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CONTEXTS; NEUTRALIST PUBLIC LIBERALISM AND THE INSULATION OF THE RIGHT FROM THE GOOD; LEGAL AND NON-LEGAL REASONS IN THE COMMON GROUND OF DELIBERATION; THE PROCEDURAL VALUE OF LAW AND THE INSULATION BETWEEN LEGAL AND MORAL REASONS FOR ACTION; CONCLUSION
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4283-3
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    Rationality and Reality : Conversations with Alan Musgrave (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402042072
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    Series Statement: Studies in history and philosophy of science v. 20
    DDC: 121
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Musgrave, Alan 1940- ; Philosophie ; Wissenschaftstheorie ; Musgrave, Alan 1940- ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical: critical realism and critical rationalism. In this volume a group of internationally-renowned authors discuss themes that are relevant in one way or another to Musgrave's work. Rather than a standard celebratory festschrift, this book offers a new examination of topics of current interest in philosophy. The contributory essays are followed by responses from Alan Musgrave himself.
    Abstract: Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical - critical realism and critical rationalism. In defence of critcal realism he argues for the objective existence of the external world as opposed to idealism, as well as arguing for scientific realism against all anti-realist accounts of science. His critical rationalism is drawn from the work of Karl Popper and stands opposed to inductivist and irrationalist methodologies. In defence of these positions, Musgrave's writings have covered a wide range of topics in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, history of science, theories of truth, and economic theory. In this volume a group of internationally-renowned authors discuss themes that are relevant in one way or another to Musgrave's work. This is not intended as a standard celebratory festschrift but rather as a new examination of topics of current interest in philosophy. The contributory essays are followed by responses from Alan Musgrave himself.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Where Does the Burden of Theory Lie?; Testimony, Induction and Reasonable Belief; Theory-Confirmation and History; Critical Rationalism and its Failure to Withstand Critical Scrutiny; Methodological Rules, Rationality, and Truth; Why is it Rational to Believe Scientific Theories are True?; Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism; The Unseen World; Why Alan Musgrave Should Become an Essentialist; The Metaphysics of Realism and Structural Realism; Scientific Realism and Mathematical Nominalism: A Marriage Made in Hell
    Description / Table of Contents: A Methodological Critique of the Semantic Conception of TheoriesA Refutation of Peircean Idealism; Historiography as a Hypothetico-Deductive Science: A Criticism of Methodological Historism; Ptolemy's Musical Models for Mind-Maps and Star-Maps; Responses
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    Indicators of Children's Well Being : Understanding Their Role, Usage and Policy Influence (2006)
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    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Series 27
    DDC: 362.7
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    Keywords: Kinder ; Lebensqualität ; Sozialer Indikator ; Pediatrics ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life Research ; Human Geography ; Philosophy (General) ; Child Welfare ; Public Policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kind ; Wohlfahrt ; Sozialer Indikator
    Abstract: This book contains a series of articles that represent a broad range of viewpoints about how the use of social indicators affects child and family policy. The book discusses the use of indicators as an effective tool to change policy. A distinguished, international group of researchers and policymakers provide insights into the past, current and future use of good information to develop and change policy that improves the well-being of children and youth in the United States. This book will be of value to policymakers, journalists, researchers and professionals working in the social sciences, humanities and health professions. It is one of the first efforts to link child well-being indicators to policies and services. It combines methodology issues with conceptual issues and actual experience, and looks on child well-being indicators from an effectiveness perspective.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Role of Social Indicators in an Era of Human Service Reform in the United States; Measuring and Monitoring Children'sWell-Being: The Policy Process; Indicator Measurement in Comprehensive Community Initiatives; The Power of Regional Indicators in Achieving Action: The Southern Regional Initiative on Child Care; The Use of Indicators of Child Well-Being in the United Kingdom and the European Union; Using Indicators of Child Well-Being at the International Level; Preparing Indicators for Policymakers and Advocates
    Description / Table of Contents: Using Indicators of School Readiness to Improve Public Policy for Young ChildrenIncreasing the Impact of Indicators Among Legislative Policymakers; How Can We Better Use Whole Population and Outcomes Indicators: A Policymaker's Perspective; Studying the Role of Child Well-Being Indicators in the Policy Process: Using Surveys Among Decision Makers; Indicators and Policy Decisions: The Important Role of Experimental Studies; Informative or Not? Media Coverage of Child Social Policy Issues.; Some Possible Directions for Research
    Description / Table of Contents: Studying the Impact of Indicators of Child Well-Being on Policies and Programs
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    Heaven upon earth (2006)
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    Series Statement: INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS 194
    DDC: 236.9
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    Keywords: History ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Mede, Joseph 1586-1638 ; Großbritannien ; Apokalyptik ; Chiliasmus ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book contributes to the ongoing revision of early modern British history by examining the apocalyptic tradition through the life and writings of Joseph Mede (1586-1638). The history of the British apocalyptic tradition has yet to undergo a thorough revision. Past studies followed a historiographical paradigm which associated millenarianism with a revolutionary agenda. A careful study of Joseph Mede, one of the key individuals responsible for the rebirth of millenarianism in England, suggests a different picture of seventeenth-century apocalypticism. The roots of Mede's apocalyptic thought are not found in extreme activism, but in the detailed study of the Apocalypse with the aid of ancient Christian and Jewish sources. Mede's legacy illustrates the geographical prevalence and long-term sustainability of his interpretations. This volume shows that the continual discussion of millenarian ideas reveals a vibrant tradition that cannot be reconstructed to fit within one simple historiographical narrative.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Biography; Crypto-Papists, Anti-Calvinists and the Antichrist; Joseph Mede and the Cambridge Platonists; Protestant Irenicism and the Millennium: Mede and the 65 Hartlib Circle; The Origins of the Clavis Apocalyptica: A Millenarian Conversion; Millenarians, The Church Fathers and Jewish Rabbis; An English Millenarian Legacy; Colonial North America: The Puritan Errand Revised; The Continental Millenarian Tradition; Conclusion: Revising British Millenarianism
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4293-0
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    The voice of breast cancer in medicine and bioethics (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402044779
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine 88
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    DDC: 616.99449
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Oncology ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Developmental psychology ; Breast Neoplasms ; Bioethical Issues ; Ethics, Medical ; Philosophy, Medical ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Brustkrebs ; Medizinische Ethik
    Abstract: Unlike any other volume focusing on women's health issues, this collection brings together a wealth of cross-disciplinary perspectives to bear on the intersection of breasts and medicine.Among other works on similar subject matters, the academic versatility of this volume is unparalleled. This collection can serve as a textbook in a wide range of courses including those in philosophy, women's studies, biology, psychology, literature, history, and medicine.
    Abstract: Few diseases have made more difference to our understanding of illness, the relation of the patient to the physician and other health care professionals, and the social context of disease than breast cancer. Breast cancer activism has provided a model of public policy advocacy for women, as well as for sufferers from other diseases, and even in causes unrelated to health. In many ways it has become emblematic of issues in women's health. This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives - historical, philosophical, psychological, socio-political - these essays explore the competing narratives that have made breast cancer a contested site. It addresses debates about the autonomy of the patient in relation to the authority of the physician, as well as the importance of patient narratives in understanding disease. It analyzes the relation between the community and medical practice, particularly with regard to the effect of breast cancer activists and feminists on the medical understanding and treatment of breast cancer. And, it questions the intersection of medical science with political institutions and agencies of public policy in determining priorities of research and strategies of treatment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human Contingency Negotiating Personal and Political Settlements with Breast Cancer; Power, Gender, and Pizzazz: The Early Years of Breast Cancer Activism; Breast Cancer: Dueling Discourses and the Persistence of an Outmoded Paradigm; Doing Things with Ideas and Affects in the Illness Narratives Of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; The Breast Cancer Diaries; Breast Cancer: The Maternal Body Reflected in a Three-way Mirror; Learn to Love What's Left; Death and the Other; Breast Cancer Research
    Description / Table of Contents: Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer and Informed ConsentThe Role of Psychosocial Research in Understanding and Improving the Experience of Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Risk; Teaching about Breast Cancer and ""Common Health""; Theoretical Considerations on ""Reading"" the Breast; Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Research
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4477-1
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    Aquinas and Maimonides on the possibility of the knowledge of god : An examination of the quaestio de attributis (2006)
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    Language: English , Latin
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vi, 324 Seiten)
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    Series Statement: Amsterdam studies in Jewish thought v. 11
    Series Statement: Amsterdam studies in Jewish thought
    DDC: 212.6
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Thomas von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274 ; Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204 ; Gotteserkenntnis
    Abstract: This in-depth study of Thomas Aquinas' Quaestio de Attributis binds together the findings of previous research on the unique history of this text by reconstructing the historical circumstances surrounding its composition, shows that the Quaestio contains Aquinas' final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes, and thoroughly examines his interpretation of Maimonides' position on the issue of the knowledge of God by analysing this and other texts related to it chronologically and doctrinally.
    Abstract: Presents a study of Thomas Aquinas' "Quaestio de attributis", which binds together the findings of research on the history of this text by reconstructing the historical circumstances surrounding its composition. This book also shows that the "Quaestio" contains Aquinas' final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes
    Description / Table of Contents: The Dispute on the Divine Attributes; Aquinas and Maimonides on the Divine Names; The Quaestio de Attributis and Zechariah 14, 9; The Quaestio de Attributis and the Limits of Natural Knowledge; The Knowledge of the Existence of God
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4747-9
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    A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion (2006)
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    DDC: 210
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Ethnische Religion ; Religionsphilosophie
    Abstract: Philosophy of religion as a discipline first arose in Europe; its subject matter has been profoundly influenced by the practices of European Christianity. While Eastern and Western religions subsequently found a place in these studies, one global religious tradition, namely, the primal tradition, remains unrepresented in its discussions. This book examines the significantly different perspectives offered by primal religions on virtually every theme discussed in the philosophy of religion.
    Abstract: The philosophy of religion has been a largely European intellectual enterprise in two ways. It arose in Europe as a discipline and its subject matter has been profoundly influenced by Christianity as practised in Europe. The process of its deprovincialization in this respect started when it began to take religions other than Christianity within its purview - such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Although now the religions of both East and West have found a place in it, a religious tradition which is present in both the East and the West, namely, the primal religious tradition, still remains unrepresented in its discussions, perhaps under the mistaken assumption that this religious tradition has little to offer by way of philosophical reflection. This book challenges this widespread assumption and demonstrates how primal religions have something significant to offer on virtually every theme discussed in the philosophy of religion. Through this book the primal religious tradition stakes its claim for a place at the table.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Concept of God: Monotheism; Other Concepts of God; Arguments for the Existence of God; Arguments Against the Existence of God; The Problem of Evil; The Concept of Revelation and the Primal Religious Tradition; Theories of Faith; Evidentialism, Foundationalism and Rational Belief; Language and Religious Thought; The Problems of Religious Language; The Problem of Verification; Conflicting Truth Claims of Different Religions; Human Destiny: Immortality and Resurrection; Human Destiny: Karma and Reincarnation
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5014-3
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    Signs of logic : Peircean themes on the philosophy of language, games, and communication (2006)
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    Series Statement: Synthese library v. 329
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    Keywords: Logic ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Mathematics ; Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 ; Spieltheorie ; Sprachphilosophie ; Zeichen ; Kommunikation ; Sprachphilosophie ; Zeichen ; Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 ; Semiotik ; Logik
    Abstract: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was one of the United States' most original and profound thinkers, and a prolific writer. Peirce's game theory-based approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of signs and language, to the theory of communication, and to the evolutionary emergence of signs, provide a toolkit for contemporary scholars and philosophers. Drawing on unpublished manuscripts, the book offers a rich, fresh picture of the achievements of a remarkable man.
    Abstract: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the principal subject of this book, was one of the most profound and prolific thinkers and scientists to have come out of the United States. His pragmatic logic and scientific methodology largely represent the application of interactive and intercommunicative triadic processes, best viewed as strategic and dialogic conceptualisations of logical aspects of thought, reasoning and action. These viewpoints also involve pragmatic issues in communicating linguistic signs, and are unified in his diagrammatic logic of existential graphs. The various game-theoretic approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of signs and language, to the theory of communication, and to the evolutionary emergence of signs, provide a contemporary toolkit, the relevance of which Peirce envisioned to a wondrous extent. This work sheds considerable new light on these and other aspects of Peirce s philosophy and his pragmatic theory of meaning. Many of his most significant writings in this context reflect his later thinking, covering roughly the last 15-20 years of his life, and they are still unpublished. Drawing comprehensively from his unpublished manuscripts, the book offers a fresh and rich picture of this remarkable man s original involvement with logical aspects of thought in action.
    Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to peirce's logic and semeiotics; From pragmatism to the pragmatics of communication; Peirce's game-theoretic ideas in logic; Moving pictures of thought I; Moving pictures of thought II; Existence, constructivism, models, modalities; Spiel-trieb operationalised: semantic games in logic and language; Logic, language games and ludics; Dialogue foundations and informal logic; Games as formal tools versus games as explanations; The evolution of semantics and language games for meaning; Common ground, relevance and other notions of pragmatics: from peirce to grice and beyond
    Description / Table of Contents: Peirce's theory of communication and its contemporary relevanceGames VIS-À-VIS multi-agent systems: a peircean manifesto; Final words
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3729-5
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    SELF-ORGANIZATION AND EMERGENCE IN LIFE SCIENCES (2006)
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    Series Statement: Synthese library v. 331
    DDC: 570.1
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Genetic epistemology ; Biology Philosophy ; Life sciences ; Philosophy ; Models, Biological ; Computational Biology trends ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Biologie ; Naturphilosophie ; Selbstorganisation ; Selbstorganisation ; Biowissenschaften ; Emergenz
    Abstract: Self-organization constitutes one of the most important theoretical debates in contemporary life sciences. The present book explores the relevance of the concept of self-organization and its impact on such scientific fields as: immunology, neurosciences, ecology and theories of evolution. Historical aspects of the issue are also broached. Intuitions relative to self-organization can be found in the works of such key western philosophical figures as Aristotle, Leibniz and Kant. Interacting with more recent authors and cybernetics, self-organization represents a notion in keeping with the modern world's discovery of radical complexity. The themes of teleology and emergence are analyzed by philosophers of sciences with regards to the issues of modelization and scientific explanation. The implications of self-organization for life sciences are here approached from an interdisciplinary angle, revealing the notion as already rewarding and full of promise for the future.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Complex Adaptative Systems Approach to Biology; Emergence and Reductionism: from the Game of Life to Science of Life; Formalizing Emergence: the Natural After-Life of Artificial Life; Analysis and Synthesis of Regulator Networks in Terms of Feedback Circuits; Properties Emerging from Sensorimotor Interfaces: Interaction Between Experimentation and Modeling in Neurosciences; Neuronal Synchrony and Cognitive Functions; About Biology and Subjectivity in Psychiatry; Self-Organization and Meaning in Immunology; Kant and the Intuitions of Self-Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: On a ""Mathematical Neo-Aristotelism"" in Leibniz""Essential Force"" and ""Formative Force"": Models for Epigenesis in the 18th Century; From Logic to Self-Organization-Learning about Complexity; The Concept of Emergence in the XIXth Century: from Natural Theology to Biology; Artificial Life and the Sciences of Complexity: History and Future; Self-Organization in Second-Order Cybernetics: Deconstruction or Reconstruction of Complexity; Teleology in Self-Organizing Systems; Phenomenology and Self-Organization; A Role for Mathematical Models in Formalizing Self-Organizing systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Explanation and Causality in Self-Organizing SystemsSelf-Organization, Selection and Emergence in the Theories of Evolution
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3917-4
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    Action and Responsibility (2006)
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 18
    DDC: 128.4
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    CC 6960
    Keywords: Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Handlung ; Verantwortung ; Philosophische Psychologie ; Moralisches Handeln
    Abstract: "What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls ""productionism"", is methodologically and substantially mistaken. In particular, productionist answers to this question tend to be either individualistic or foundationalist, or both, without explicit defence. Instead, Sneddon offers an externalist, anti-foundationalist account of what makes an event count as an action, which he calls neo-ascriptivism, after the work of H.L.A. Hart. Specifically, Sneddon argues that our practices of attributing moral responsibility to each other are at least partly constitutive of events as actions."
    Description / Table of Contents: Two Questions; Ascriptivism Resurrected: The Case for Ascriptivism; Ascriptivism Defended: The Case Against Ascriptivism; Responsibility and Causation I: Legal Responsibility; Responsibility and Causation II: Moral Responsibility; Foundationalism and the Production Question; Foundationalism and the Status Question: Strong Productionism; Nouveau Volitionism; Weak Productionism; Concluding Reflections on Ascriptivism and Action
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3982-4
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    MORAL DILEMMAS IN REAL LIFE : Current Issues in Applied Ethics (2006)
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 74
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Angewandte Ethik ; Dilemma ; Recht
    Abstract: OVADIA EZRA
    Abstract: Aims to supply ways of thinking of, and dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument. Applied ethics is that intellectual locale where theory meets praxis. This book is designed to make that meeting point explicit, by presenting a series of issues in philosophical formulations
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; A. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC DUTIES; 1. Privacy and the Public Sphere; 2. The Obligation of the State toward Individuals; 3. Public Security vs. the Right to "Be Let Alone"; 4. Freedom of Expression in Academia and the Media; B. MEDICAL ETHICS; 5. Mercy Death or Killing; 6. Donating or Selling Organs; 7. Genetic Engineering and Reproduction; C. PARENTHOOD AND THE FAMILY; 8. Rights of Relatives and Generations; 9. Procreation after Death; 10. Babies as Commodities; D. PUNISHMENT; 11. Punishment of Sex Offenders; 12. Punishment and Domestic Violence
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. Capital Punishment and the Mentally RetardedIndex
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4105-5
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    Bioethics in Cultural Contexts : Reflections on Methods and Finitude (2006)
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 28
    DDC: 174.957
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; medicine Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Bioethics ; Ethical Relativism
    Abstract: "This book discusses a range of methodological issues for an interdisciplinary bioethics. How can bioethics be an enterprise that does not only isolate issues and moral reasons but also (re)contextualises them? What are the strengths and weaknesses of different traditional and innovative modes of ethical work in terms of these tasks? By introducing the term ""finitude"" in the sense of limits of human existence, limits of human knowledge and knowledge capacity, a difference was set in the cultural apprehension of medicine. Is medicine aimed at overcoming our existential limits: to fight diseases and prolong life? Finitude reintroduces the existential and cultural basis on which every medicine (limits-sensitive or off-limits medicine) depends, but it concerns also ethical judgment. An apprehension of the limitations of different ethical approaches to biomedicine, however, could strengthen the collaborative effort of an interdisciplinary bioethics that embraces also cultural studies and social sciences."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction; Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Switzerland; Marcus Düwell, the Netherlands and Dietmar Mieth; Germany; I. Fundamental Aspects; II. Classical Approaches; III. Culture and Society; IV. Body and Identity; V. Innovative Modes of Analysis; Erica Haimes, UK; List of Contributors
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4241-8
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    THE LIMITS OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM : SELECTED PAPERS OF ARTHUR PAP (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402042997
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    Series Statement: SYNTHESE LIBRARY 334
    DDC: 146.42
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    Keywords: Logic ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Biografie ; Bibliografie ; Notwendigkeit ; Synthetisches Urteil ; Analytizität ; Logik ; Formale Semantik ; Pap, Arthur 1921-1959 ; Pap, Arthur 1921-1959 ; Neopositivismus
    Abstract: This volume collects some of the most significant papers of Arthur Pap. Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This goes beyond the merely historical fact of Pap's influential views of dispositional and modal concepts. Pap's writings in philosophy of science, modality, and philosophy of mathematics provide insightful alternative perspectives on philosophical problems of current interest.
    Abstract: Arthur Pap s work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This role goes beyond the merely historical fact that Pap s views of dispositional and modal concepts were influential. As a sympathetic critic of logical empiricism, Pap, like Quine, saw a deep tension in logical empiricism at its very best in the work of Carnap. But Pap s critique of Carnap is quite different from Quine s, and represents the discovery of limits beyond which empiricism cannot go, where there lies nothing other than intuitive knowledge of logic itself. Pap s arguments for this intuitive knowledge anticipate Etchemendy s recent critique of the model-theoretic account of logical consequence. Pap s work also anticipates prominent developments in the contemporary neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics championed by Wright and Hale. Finally, Pap s major philosophical preoccupation, the concepts of necessity and possibility, provides distinctive solutions and perspectives on issues of contemporary concern in the metaphysics of modality. In particular, Pap s account of modality allows us to see the significance of Kripke s well-known arguments on necessity and apriority in a new light.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; On the Meaning of Necessity (1943); The Different Kinds of A Priori (1944); Logic and the Synthetic A Priori (1949); Are all Necessary Propositions Analytic? (1949); Necessary Propositions and Linguistic Rules (1955); Note on the "Semantic" and the "Absolute" Concepts of Truth (1952); Propositions, Sentences, and the Semantic Definition of Truth (1954); Belief and Propositions (1957); Semantic Examination of Realism (1947); Logic and the Concept of Entailment (1950); Strict Implication, Entailment, and Modal Iteration (1955)
    Description / Table of Contents: Mathematics, Abstract Entities, and Modern Semantics (1957)Extensionality, Attributes, and Classes (1958); A Note on Logic and Existence (1947); The Linguistic Hierarchy and the Vicious-Circle Principle (1954); Other Minds and the Principle of Verifiability (1951); Semantic Analysis and Psycho-Physical Dualism (1952); The Concept of Absolute Emergence (1951); Reduction Sentences and Open Concepts (1953); Extensional Logic and Laws of Nature (1955); Disposition Concepts and Extensional Logic (1958); Are Physical Magnitudes Operationally Definable? (1959)
    Description / Table of Contents: Arthur Pap (1921-1959) : Intellectual Biography of Arthur PapArthur Pap: Biographical Notes; A Bibliography of Arthur Pap; References; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4299-X
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    Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach (2006)
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 19
    DDC: 330.556
    Keywords: Sen, Amartya ; Lebensqualität ; Einkommensverteilung ; Sozialethik ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Social sciences ; Wirtschaft ; Gerechtigkeit ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Sen, Amartya 1933-
    Abstract: " The ""capability approach"" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses a major challenge to the dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics. According to Sen, human well-being does not depend on the consumption of commodities but on the freedoms human beings have reason to choose and value. The capability approach has frequently been criticised for a lack of attention to the ways in which unjust social, political and economic structures restrict human capabilities. The contributors to this volume take up this criticism in a number of ways, both theoretical and practical. The theoretical discussion engages with the thought of Sen himself and with the hermeneutical tradition represented by Paul Ricoeur. The practical discussion consists of five case studies examining the effectiveness of the capability approach in dealing with cases of structural injustice. These cover: racism in South Africa, access to labour markets in Europe, participation in higher education in the UK, poverty and welfare reforms in the US, and biotechnology patents. How effectively, ask all the contributors, can Sen's capability approach be deployed in the transformation of unjust structures? "
    Description / Table of Contents: Capabilities and Rights; "Necessary Thickening": Ricoeur's Ethic of Justice as a Complement to Sen's Capability Approach; Structural Injustice and Democratic Practice: The Trajectory in Sen's Writings; "Capable Individuals" and Just Institutions: Sen and Rawls; Justice for Women: Martha Nussbaum and Catholic Social Teaching; Narrative Capability: Telling Stories in the Search for Justice; Promoting Capability for Work: The Role of Local Actors; Enhancing Students' Capabilities?: UK Higher Education and the Widening Participation Agenda
    Description / Table of Contents: Enter the Poor: American Welfare Reform, Solidarity and the Capability of Human Flourishing"Patent Injustice": Applying Sen's Capability Approach to Biotechnologies
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4432-1
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    Religion, Politics and Thomas Hobbes (2006)
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 195
    DDC: 192
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Political science Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Quelle ; Religionsphilosophie ; Trinitätslehre ; Geschichte 1668 ; Häresie ; Religionsphilosophie ; Geschichte 1668 ; Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679 ; Exil ; Religiöse Verfolgung ; Hobbes, Thomas 1588-1679 ; Religionsphilosophie ; Politische Philosophie
    Abstract: "This collection develops insight into the relation which Hobbes describes between his theory of government and the three-part division he draws with respect to religion. Pursuing the chain of causes that proves God's existence as first cause, Hobbes identifies and defines both ""true religion"" and such superstition as he found in the theology and practices of the Roman Catholic Church of his era. He then emphasizes the difference between natural religion and revealed religion in order to extinguish the claim of contemporary theologians to an authority in the state greater than that of the political sovereign. Although, according to the author, Hobbes falters in carrying out his politico/theological project, his careful, radical and innovative attempt to describe the relationship of religion and politics, church and state, has special relevance for us today, as forms of religious fundamentalism in many countries are increasingly claiming and, in some cases, winning control of political institutions.Written for:Political scientists, philosophers, historians, political theorists, people interested in history of theology, legal theory and the English Civil War Keywords:ChristianityHobbes, ThomasPoliticsReligionSuperstition"
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to the 1668 Appendix; 2. Hobbes and the Economic Trinity; 3. The Haunting of Thomas Hobbes; 4. Hobbes in Exile; Afterword; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Names
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-335) and indexes , Includes the text of the "Appendix" to the 1668 edition of Hobbe's Leviathan, in Latin with English translation on facing pages , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    THE TASTE FOR ETHICS (2006)
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 7
    DDC: 178
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Lebensmittelüberwachung
    Abstract: The field of ethics must be extended to cover responsibility for the production and choice of foodstuffs. This book shows how the focus of ethics can be expanded from its concern for the good life with and for others to cover the good life in fair food production practices
    Description / Table of Contents: Eating, Society and Ethics; Food to Science: On the Intellectualization of Food; The Storylessness of Food; Tracing the Production History; Food Ethics as the Ethics of the Trace; Traceability and Food Ethics
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4554-9
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    The death of metaphysics; the death of culture : Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402046216
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 12
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Political science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Metaphysik ; Kultur ; Ethik
    Abstract: The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In both interpretations the outcome is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume offers a critical examination of the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis, focused on its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding.
    Abstract: The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In each case, the focus is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding. Prime among the issues at stake are the meaning and significance of birth, copulation, suffering, and death, expressed in debates regarding human embryo-experimentation and stem cell research, the character of moral and scientific norms, as well as more fundamentally, the character of an adequate epistemology for coming to appreciate the deep nature of reality and its normative implications. Given varying background ontological, epistemological, and axiological presuppositions, different moral positions and political objections will appear as not merely morally permissible but as socially and politically obligatory. The volume is addressed to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists and public policy professionals as it critically assesses the increasing void between the traditional Christian metaphysical and moral understandings that guided the flourishing of Christian culture and today's very secular, and frequently empty, cultural backdrop.
    Description / Table of Contents: A ccepting God's Offer of Personal Communion in the Words and Deeds of Christ, Handed on in the Body of Christ, His Church; Whose Nature? Natural Law in a Pluralistic World; Intellectual Virtues and the Prospects of A Christian Epistemology; God Manifested in God's Works: The Knowledge of God in the Reformed Tradition; Holy Knowing: A Wesleyan Epistemology; Subversive Natural Law: MacIntyre and African-American Thought; Is there a Distinctive American Version of Natural Law?; Why did the Principle of Double Effect Appear in the West?
    Description / Table of Contents: How much Guidance can a Secular Natural Law Ethic Offer? A Study of Basic Human Goods in Ethical Decision-MakingOn Women's Health Care: In Search of Nature and Norms; Toward an Inclusive Epistemology; Using Natural Law to Guide Public Morality: The Blind Leading the Deaf; Ethical Life and the Natural Law: Hegel and the Limits of Morality
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4621-9
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    Life conduct in modern times : Karl Jaspers and psychoanalysis (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402047657
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine v. 89
    DDC: 150.195
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    Keywords: Jaspers, Karl ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Psychoanalysis History ; Dissent and Disputes History ; History, 20th Century ; Jaspers, Karl 1883-1969 ; Kritik ; Psychoanalyse ; Jaspers, Karl 1883-1969 ; Psychoanalyse
    Abstract: This award-winning book investigates the critique of psychoanalysis formulated by the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) over some five decades, systematically examining Jasper's arguments against Freud and his followers. The book traces the medico-historical roots of Jasper's criticism of psychoanalysis and places it within the framework of scientific theory before devoting itself extensively to medico-ethical aspects of the controversy, which are ultimately treated in terms of a history of mentalities.
    Abstract: This award-winning book investigates the critique of psychoanalysis formulated by the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) over a period of five decades. His arguments against Freud and his followers are examined from systematic perspectives. The study traces the medico-historical roots of Jasper's criticism of psychoanalysis and then places it within the framework of scientific theory before devoting itself extensively to medico-ethical aspects of the controversy, which are ultimately treated in terms of a history of mentalities. According to this view, Jasper's student Hannah Arendt saw to it that the philosopher be made aware of the socio-cultural impact which psychoanalysis was beginning to have in the USA. The philosopher came to look upon psychoanalysis as a theory - in particular as it was propagated after 1945 in Germany and the US - whose claim to scientific objectivity constituted a serious threat to the freedom of the individual. Max Weber's theory of science and his concept of modernity serve as a critical guide for the interpretation. Thus the normative premise of the investigation is the liberal idea that in a secular and pluralistic society it is ultimately the individual who is to take responsibility for life conduct.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Critique of Psychoanalysis 1913-1920; Life Conduct in Modern Times; Critique of Psychoanalysis in 1931; Critique of Psychoanalysis in 1941; The Founding of the Psychosomatic Clinic in Heidelberg 1946-1949; Critique of Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics 1949-1953; On the Critique of Psychoanalysis and Society 1950-1968; Summary and Prospective View
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4765-7
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    Character Evidence : An Abductive Theory (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402049439
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 11
    DDC: 345.06
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    Keywords: Criminal Law ; Philosophy of Law ; Law Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Charakter
    Abstract: This book examines the nature of evidence for character judgments, using a model of abductive reasoning called Inference To The Best Explanation. The book expands this notion based on recent work with models of reasoning using argumentation theory and artificial intelligence. The aim is not just to show how character judgments are made, but how they should be properly be made based on sound reasoning, avoiding common errors and superficial judgments.
    Abstract: This book is on evidence for character judgments, answering questions about how such judgments are and should be supported or refuted by verifiable evidence. For example, if I claim that some particular person has integrity, or does not, what kind of justification should properly be used to support or refute the claim? This book answers the question using a model of abductive reasoning, commonly called inference to the best explanation. The methodology of the book derives from recent work on models of reasoning in argumentation theory and artificial intelligence. The aim is not just to show how character judgments are made, but to show how they should be properly be made based on sound reasoning, in order to avoid errors and superficial judgments of a kind that are common. Character evidence in law is on a razor s edge. It is generally inadmissible, for it might tend to prejudice a jury, but it is a kind of evidence often needed in trials, for example, to cross-examine a witness. This book shows that we are not as good at judging character as we think, and often make serious mistakes. But it is shown how character judgments can, in some instances, be based on good reasoning supported by factual evidence in a case.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Problem of Character Evidence; Defining and Judging Character; Integrity and Hypocrisy; Simulative Reasoning and Plan Recognition; Multi-Agent Dialogue; A Multi-Agent System for Character Evidence
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4943-9
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    How Ficta Follow Fiction : A Syncretistic Account of Fictional Entities (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402051470
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 105
    DDC: 808.397
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Metaphysik ; Fiktion ; Entität ; Fiktion ; Objekt ; Semantik ; Metaphysik
    Abstract: This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set-theoretical element. The author advances a new combined semantic and ontological defence of the existence of fictional entities.
    Abstract: This book presents a novel theory of fictional entities which is syncretistic insofar as it integrates the work of previous authors. It puts forward a new metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set-theoretical element. The fictional entity is constructed by imagining the existence of an individual with certain properties and adding a set-theoretical element consisting of the set of properties corresponding to the properties of the imagined entity. Moreover, the book advances a new combined semantic and ontological defence of the existence of fictional entities.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Committal Theories (I); The Committal Theories (II); The Syncretistic Theory; Further Developments of the Syncretistic Theory; The Noncommittal Theories; The Syncretistic Theory; An Ontological Argument in Favor of the Existence of Fictional Entities
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5147-6
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    Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Five : The Creative Logos. Aesthetic Ciphering in Fine Arts, Literature and Aesthetics (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402037443
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 92
    DDC: 142.7
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Philosophy of mind ; Aesthetics ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Phänomenologie ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: Dealing with creative logos, this collection aims to lift human experience into spirit and culture. In it, the momentum of a gathering "creative brainstorm" leads to the vertiginous imaginative transformability of the creative logos as it ciphers through the elements of experience - sensing, feeling, emotions, forming - in works of art
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THEMATIC INTRODUCTION; ANNA-TERESA TYMIENIECKA / The Metamorphosis of the Logos of Life in Creative Experience: Treatise in a Nutshell; SECTION I; THE BRAINSTORM OF CREATIVE EXPERIENCE; PATRICIA TRUTTY-COOHILL / The Ontopoiesis of Leonardo da Vinci's Brainstorm Drawings; PIERO TRUPIA / Phenomenology of the Countenance: Portraying the Soul, Staging a Lived Experience; ANTONIO DOMÍNGUEZ REY / Principios de Objetividad Poética; J. C. COUCEIRO-BUENO / Essential ''Poiesis''; ELLEN J. BURNS / Musical Progeny: The Case of Music and Phenomenology
    Description / Table of Contents: BRIAN GRASSOM / Art, Alterity and Logos: In the Spaces of SeparationJAMES P. WERNER / Logos, Rationale and Desire in Convergent Art Practices; SECTION II; THE WORK OF ART AND ITS EXPERIENTIAL RADIUS; ELGA FREIBERGA / Phenomenological Interpretation of the Work of Art: R. Ingarden, M. Dufrenne, P. Ricoeur; DAVID BRUBAKER / Painting from the Heart: Beauty, Moore and Merleau-Ponty's Wholes of Visibility; MOLODKINA LJUDMILA / On Phenomenology of Memory and Memorial (In Terms of Architectural and Landscaping Creations)
    Description / Table of Contents: MADALINA DIACONU / Patina - Atmosphere - Aroma: Towards an Aesthetics of Fine DifferencesMAO CHEN / The Persistence of Phenomenological Time: Reflections on Three Recent Chinese Films; LAWRENCE KIMMEL / Notes on the Art of Memory; ALEKSANDRA PAWLISZYN/ The Truth of Suffering (Levinas) and the Truth Crystallized in the Work of Art; SECTION III; VARIOUS AESTHETIC RAYS IN LITERATURE; JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI-FERENCEI / Articulate Spontaneity and the Aesthetic Imagination; CALLEY A. HORNBUCKLE / Exploring Aesthetic Perception of the Real in Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince
    Description / Table of Contents: REBECCA M. PAINTER / Fiction and the Growth of Moral Consciousness: Attention and EvilJADWIGA SMITH / Phenomenology of Emotions: Aurel Kolnai's On Disgust and Jacobean Drama; OSVALDO ROSSI / Light/Shadow: Lines for an Aesthetic Reflection; RAYMOND J. WILSON III / A Phenomenological Theory of Literary Creativity: Ricoeur and Joyce; MICHEL DION / Basic Conditionings of the Inner and Corporeal Life: Representations from Two Major Novelists of the 19th and 20th Century Literature (Dostoyevsky, Proust); CHIEDOZIE OKORO / Phenomenology for World Reconstruction; INDEX OF NAMES
    Description / Table of Contents: APPENDIX / The Program of the Oxford Third World Congress
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3744-9
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    Arguing on the Toulmin Model : New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402049385
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Argumentation library v. 10
    DDC: 168
    Keywords: Logic ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy (General) ; Artificial intelligence ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Toulmin, Stephen Edelston 1922-2009 ; Logik ; Toulmin, Stephen Edelston 1922-2009 ; Argumentation ; Argumentationstheorie ; Toulmin, Stephen Edelston 1922-2009 ; Argumentationstheorie
    Abstract: In The Uses of Argument (1958), Stephen Toulmin proposed a model for the layout of arguments: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Since then, Toulmin's model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. This book assembles the best contemporary reflection in these fields, extending or challenging Toulmin's ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments.
    Abstract: In The Uses of Argument, first published in 1958, Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing. Toulmin's model has been appropriated, adapted and extended by researchers in the fields of speech communications, philosophy and artificial intelligence. The present volume aims to bring together the best contemporary reflection in these fields on the Toulmin model and its current appropriation. The volume includes 24 articles by 27 scholars from 10 countries. All the essays are newly written, have been selected from among those received in response to a call for papers, and have been revised extensively in response to referees' comments. They are not exegetical but substantive, extending or challenging Toulmin's ideas in ways that make fresh contributions to the theory of analysing and evaluating arguments. Collectively, they represent the only comprehensive book-length study of the Toulmin model. They point the way to new developments in the theory of argument, including a typology of warrants, a comprehensive theory of defeaters, a rapprochement with formal logic, and a turn from propositions to speech acts as the constituents of argument.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Reasoning in Theory and Practice; A Citation-Based Reflection on Toulmin and Argument; Complex Cases and Legitimation Inference: Extending the Toulmin Model to Deliberative Argument in Controversy; A Metamathematical Extension of the Toulmin Agenda; Toulmin's Model of Argument and the Question of Relativism; Systematizing Toulmin's Warrants: An Epistemic Approach; Warranting Arguments, the Virtue of Verb; Evaluating Inferences: The Nature and Role of Warrants; 'Probably'
    Description / Table of Contents: The Voice of the Other: A Dialogico-Rhetorical Understanding of Opponent and of Toulmin's RebuttalEvaluating Arguments Based on Toulmin's Scheme; Good Reasoning on the Toulmin Model; The Fluidity of Warrants: Using the Toulmin Model to Analyse Practical Discourse; Artificial Intelligence & Law, Logic and Argument Schemes; Multiple Warrants in Practical Reasoning; The Quest for Rationalism without Dogmas in Leibniz and Toulmin; From Arguments to Decisions: Extending the Toulmin View; Using Toulmin Argumentation to Support Dispute Settlement in Discretionary Domains
    Description / Table of Contents: Toulmin's Model and the Solving of Ill-Structured ProblemsArguing By Question: A Toulminian Reading of Cicero's Account of the Enthymeme; The Uses of Argument in Mathematics; Translating Toulmin Diagrams: Theory Neutrality in Argument Representation; The Toulmin Test: Framing Argumentation within Belief Revision Theories; Eight Theses Reflecting on Stephen Toulmin; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4938-5
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    Philosophy Of Chemistry : Synthesis of a New Discipline (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402032615
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 242
    DDC: 540.1
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    VB 2100
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Chemistry ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Chemie ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: This comprehensive volume marks a new standard in scholarship in the emerging field of the philosophy of chemistry. Philosophers, chemists, and historians of science ask some fundamental questions about the relationship between philosophy and chemistry.
    Abstract: Including selections drawn from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, philosophers, chemists, and historians of science, this work asks some of the fundamental questions about the relationship between philosophy and chemistry
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Philosophy of Chemistry; Aristole's Theory of Chemical Reaction and Chemical Substances; Kant's Legacy for the Philosophy of Chemistry; The Conceptual Structure of the Sciences; Normative and Descriptive Philosophy of Science and the Role of Chemistry; How Classical Models of Explanation Fail to Cope with Chemistry; Professional Ethics in Science; Is There Downward Causation in Chemistry?; Physics in the Crucible of Chemistry; Some Philosophical Implications of Chemical Symmetry; The Periodics Systems of Molecules; A New Paradigm for Schrödinger and Kohn; Virtual Tools
    Description / Table of Contents: Space in Molecular Representation or How Pictures Represent Objects; Visualizing Instrumental Techniques of Surface Chemistry; Are Chemical Kinds Natural Kinds?; Water is Not H2O; From Metaphysics to Metachemistry
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3261-7
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    Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Four : The Logos of Scientific Interrogation. Participating in Nature-Life-Sharing in Life (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402037375
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 91
    DDC: 142.7
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    CC 4400
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    CI 1120
    Keywords: Logic ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Wissenschaft ; Erkenntnis ; Interrogativlogik ; Phänomenologie ; Sozialphilosophie ; Logos ; Kommunikation ; Psychologie
    Abstract: Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results. Coming closer and closer to phenomenology, the sciences of life find the common ground of the reality in the ontopoiesis of life. Could it not be that the interrogative logos of science, participating in human creative inventiveness will bring together also the divergent scientific methods in a common network? A network which comprises natural processes, societal sharing-in-life, and existential communication.
    Abstract: Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results. Coming closer and closer to phenomenology, the sciences of life find the common ground of the reality in the ontopoiesis of life. Could it not be that the interrogative logos of science, participating in human creative inventiveness will bring together also the divergent scientific methods in a common network? A network which comprises natural processes, societal sharing-in-life, and existential communication. Papers by: Gary Backhaus, Anjana Bhattacharjee, Simon Du Plock, Ignacy Fiut, Maria Golaszewska, Wendy C. Hamblet, Alexandr Kouzmin, Nikolay Kozhevnikov, Olga Louchakova, Jarlath Mc Kenna, Amy Louise Miller, Aria Omrani, Arthur Piper, Leszek Pyra, W. Kim Rogers, A.L. Samian, Camilo Serrano Bonitto, Natalia Smirnova, Eva Syristova, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Roberto Verolini, Eldon C. Wait, Leo Zonneveld.
    Description / Table of Contents: Scientific Knowledge and Human Knowledge; Science in Mind: Exploring the Language of the Logos; "Objective Science" in Husserlian Life-World Phenomenology; Phenomenological Aspects of the Natural Coordinate System; Alienation and Wholeness; M. Heidegger's Project for the Optical Interpretation of Reflexion: The Time, the Reflexion and the Logos; "Phenomena" in Newton's Mathematical Experience; What Computers Could Never Do; Sensible Models in Cognitive Neuroscience; Philosophical Aspects of the New Evolutionistic Paradigms; Phenomenology and Ecophilosophy; Men in Front of Animals
    Description / Table of Contents: Toward a Cultural PhenomenologyContexts: The Landscapes of Human Life; Schutz's Conception of Relevances and Its Influence on Social Philosophy; Demonstrating Mobility; The Phenomenology of Self as Non-Local: Theoretical Considerations and Research Report; An Existential-Phenomenological Critique of Philosophical Counselling; Logos in Psychotherapy: The Phenomena of Encounter and Hope in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship; The Meaningfulness of Mental Health as Being Within a World of Apparently Meaningless Being
    Description / Table of Contents: Ontopoiesis and Union in the Prayer of the Heart: Contributions to Psychotherapy and LearningDas Lachen als die Kehrseite der Existenziellen Not;
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    Responsibility and Punishment (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402041488
    Language: English
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    Edition: Third Edition
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 9
    DDC: 170
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    CC 7250
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    PI 4510
    Keywords: Ethics ; Ontology ; Criminology ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethik ; Strafe
    Abstract: Responsibility and Punishment, Third Edition presents a clear-headed defense of retributivism against several long-standing criticisms. In the end, a viable version of retributivism emerges as one which withstands more criticism than competing theories of responsibility and punishment. Extending the problem of wrong doing to collectives and compensation, Corlett explores the matter of reparations for past wrongs in the case of the crimes committed against Native Americans by the United States Government. No other philosophical work on responsibility and punishment exhibits this breadth of scope, as it delves deeply into particular concerns with retributivism, responsibility, and certain areas of compensation. Academicians and professionals in ethics, moral, social, political, and legal philosophy are likely to benefit from this analytical treatment of responsibility and punishment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Problem of Responsibility; The Problem of Punishment; Foundations of a Kantian Retributivism; Assessing Retributivism; Forgiveness, Apology, and Retributive Punishment; Capital Punishment; The Problem of Collective Responsibility; Corporate Responsibility and Punishment; Collective Wrongdoing, Reparations, and Native Americans; Conclusion
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4148-9
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    Cambridge and Vienna : Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402041013
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook [2004] 12
    DDC: 146.42
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    CI 1150
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ramsey, Frank Plumpton 1903-1930 ; Wiener Kreis
    Abstract: The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in Vienna in 2003, Cambridge and Vienna - Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, to commemorate the philosophical and scientific work of Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930). This Ramsey conference provided not only historical and biographical perspectives on one of the most gifted thinkers of the Twentieth Century, but also new impulses for further research on at least some of the topics pioneered by Ramsey, whose interest and potential are greater than ever. Ramsey did pioneering work in several fields, practitioners of which rarely know of his important work in other fields: philosophy of logic and theory of language, foundations of mathematics, mathematics, probability theory, methodology of science, philosophy of psychology, and economics. There was a focus on the one topic which was of strongest mutual concern to Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, namely the question of foundations of mathematics, in particular the status of logicism. Although the major scientific connection linking Ramsey with Austria is his work on logic, to which the Vienna Circle dedicated several meetings, certainly the connection which is of greater general interest concerns Ramsey's visits and discussions with Wittgenstein. Ramsey was the only important thinker to actually visit Wittgenstein during his school-teaching career in Puchberg and Ottertal in the 1920s, in Lower Austria, and later, Ramsey was instrumental in getting Wittgenstein positions at Cambridge.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frank Ramsey - A Biographical Sketch; Wittgenstein and Ramsey; The Vicious Circle Principle; Ramsey's Psychological Theory of Belief; Discovering "Weight, or the Value of Knowledge"; Ramsey's Ramsey-sentences; Ramsey and the Vienna Circle on Logicism; Logical Problems Suggested by Logicism; The Foundation of Human Evaluation in Democracies from Ramsey to Damasio; Ramsey'S "Note on Time"; Philosophy of Science after the Social Turn; Notes on the Origins of Fleck's Concept of "Denkstil"; Hans Reichenbach and Logical Empiricism in Turkey
    Description / Table of Contents: Steve Awodey & Carsten Klein (eds.), Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena. Full Circle: Publications of the Archive of Scientific Philosophy. Volume 2. Chicago: Open Court, 2004Bergmann, Gustav, Collected Works Vol. I: Selected Papers I, edited by E. Tegtmeier , Frankfurt/Lancaster: Ontos-Verlag, 2003; Ferrari, Massimo : Ernst Cassirer - Stationen einer philosophischen Biographie. Von der Marburger Schule zur Kulturphilosophie, Meiner: Hamburg, 2003 (German translation of Cassirer. Dalla Scuola di M
    Description / Table of Contents: Richard C. Jeffrey , Subjective Probability: The Real Thing, Cambridge University Press, 2004 Richard C. Jeffrey , After Logical Empiricism/Depois do Empirismo Lógico, English edition with Portuguese; Patrick Suppes , Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures, CSLI publications, Stanford, California (distributed by Chicago University Press)
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4101-2
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    Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402041853
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 22
    DDC: 362.10973
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Economics ; Health Services Administration ; Health Services Administration ethics
    Abstract: This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.
    Abstract: The effective management of appropriate health care should be able to contain medical care costs and improve accessibility while addressing rationing concerns. However, managed care in the United States has not lived up to the expectations set for it.Managed care quickly gained popularity among employers and public policy makers as a mechanism for curbing the excessive growth of health care insurance costs. Nonetheless, since its introduction, the system of largely for-profit managed care has been the subject of much public and political debate. The change from a fee-for-service system toward a system in which the health care insurance component is combined with the delivery of a broad range of integrated health care services for populations of plan enrollees that are financed prospectively from a limited budget has been widely criticized and has even been called repugnant. Instead of placing the blame on managed care organizations, however, we need to keep in mind that such organizations operate without societal agreement on critical issues such as a workable definition of health, an authoritative standard for defining the scope of entitlements, and on the distribution of labor between public and private sector entities. The health care system in the United States is also characterized by decentralization as well as the absence of a comprehensive health care planning or budgeting system, substantive access rules, and agreed-upon minimum health care benefit package. Therefore, managed care organizations only have limited responsibilities. The nonexistence of a shared, unifying paradigm of responsibility has been called the leading cause of the inability to manage health care appropriately. The stakeholders in health care operate on a set of widely varying interpretations of the notion of responsibility. The concept of genuine responsibility, recognizing the complexity of health care and the need for stakeholder-specific interpretations of responsibility, proposes as the underlying premise of responsibility (at least in regard to health care) the social agreement that distributive choices should be made on the basis of the premise of deliberate reciprocity. When all parties share the same foundation on which the notion of responsibility is built the resulting trust and cooperation among stakeholders enables them to find morally appropriate solutions in reforming health care.
    Description / Table of Contents: HEALTH CARE COSTS AND SCARCITY OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES; THE CONCEPT OF MANAGED CARE AND ITS PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; IDEOLOGY: THE SILENT PARTNER; THE CONCEPT OF GENUINE RESPONSIBILITY; REVISING THE TEMPLATE FOR MODELING HEALTH CARE; THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS; IMPLEMENTATION IN THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4185-3
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    Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402043109
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Brain and Mind 3
    DDC: 610
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    CC 5500
    Keywords: Neurosciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Consciousness physiology ; Psychophysiology
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4310-4
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    Physical Theory and its Interpretation : Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402048760
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 72
    DDC: 530.1
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    CC 3500
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Quantum theory ; Quantum computing ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Quantentheorie ; Mathematische Physik
    Abstract: The essays in this volume were written by leading researchers on classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity. They detail central topics in the foundations of physics, including the role of symmetry principles in classical and quantum physics, Einstein's hole argument in general relativity, quantum mechanics and special relativity, quantum correlations, quantum logic, and quantum probability and information.
    Abstract: Includes essays that cover a number of central topics in the foundations of physics, including the role of symmetry principles in classical and quantum physics, Einstein's hole argument in general relativity, quantum mechanics and special relativity, quantum correlations, quantum logic, and quantum probability and information
    Description / Table of Contents: A New Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in Terms of Relational Properties; Why Special Relativity Should Not Be a Template for a Fundamental Reformulation of Quantum Mechanics; On Symmetry and Conserved Quantities in Classical Mechanics; On the Notion of a Physical Theory of an Incompletely Knowable Domain; Markov Properties and Quantum Experiments; Quantum Entropy; Symmetry and the Scope of Scientific Realism; Is it True; or is it False; or Somewhere in Between? The Logic of Quantum Theory; Einstein's Hole Argument and Weyl's Field-body Relationalism
    Description / Table of Contents: Quantum Mechanics as a Theory of ProbabilityJohn Von Neumann on Quantum Correlations; Kriske, Tupman and Quantum Logic: The Quantum Logician's Conundrum
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4876-9
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