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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789048129324
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 422 Seiten , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Series Statement: Dao companions to Chinese philosophy volume 11
    Series Statement: Dao companions to Chinese philosophy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dao Companion to Korean Confucian Philosophy
    DDC: 181.11209519
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    Keywords: Philosophy, Asian ; Religion ; Philosophy ; Culture-Study and teaching ; Non-Western Philosophy ; Philosophy, Confucian ; Korea ; History ; Philosophy, Confucian ; Korea ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Korea ; Konfuzianismus ; Philosophie ; Geschichte
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789402409703
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 277 p. 4 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 42
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    Keywords: Ethics ; Modern philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Political philosophy ; History
    Abstract: This volume brings together recent scholarly contributions on Hermann by physicists, historians and philosophers of science, and philosophers and educators following in Hermann’s steps. Also included are translations of Hermann’s two most important essays, in the foundations of physics and in ethics. The former is here translated into English for the first time. Those interested in the many fields Hermann contributed to will find here a comprehensive discussion of her philosophy of physics that places it in the context of her wider work. Grete Hermann (1901-1984) was a pupil of mathematical physicist Emmy Noether, follower and co-worker of neo-Kantian philosopher Leonard Nelson, and an important intellectual figure in post-war German social democracy. She is also known for her work on the philosophy of modern physics in the 1930s, some of which emerged from intense discussions with Heisenberg and Weizsäcker in Leipzig. Hermann’s avowed aim was to counter the perceived threat to the Kantian notion of causality stemming from the new quantum mechanics. She not only succeeded to her satisfaction, but also discussed in depth the question of ‘hidden variables’ (including the first critique of von Neumann’s alleged impossibility proof) and provided an extensive analysis of Bohr’s notion of complementarity. Her work places her in the first rank among philosophers who wrote about modern physics in the first half of the last century
    Abstract: Introduction: G. Bacciagaluppi and E.Crull -- Philosophical background of Grete Hermann's work: F. Leal Carratero -- Hermann's road to Leipzig and the 1935 essay: E. Crull -- Understanding Hermann's philosophy of nature: G. Paparo -- Grete Hermann's pioneering contribution to the philosophy of quantum physics: An attempt to reconcile quantum mechanics with transcendental philosophy: L.Soler -- Changing perspectives on Heisenberg's microscope thought experiment: M. Frappier -- C.F.von Wiezsäcker's article on the Heisenberg microscope and its influence on Grete Hermann's notion of 'relative causation': T.Filk -- Challenging the gospel: Grete Hermann on von Neumann's no-hidden-variables proof: M. Seevinck -- Grete Hermann and the 'Copenhagen Interpretation': G. Bacciagaluppi.-Panel discussion on Grete Hermann's ethics and politics: D. Krohn, F. Leal Carretero and R. Saran -- General Discussion -- The natural-philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics: G. Hermann -- Conquering chance: G. Hermann
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789401799034
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 173 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Landscape series volume 19
    Series Statement: Landscape series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ruptured landscapes
    DDC: 577
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    Keywords: Anthropology ; Geography ; Humanities ; Landscape ecology ; Regional planning ; Landschaft ; Wahrnehmung ; Soziokultureller Wandel
    Abstract: This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection is rupture. The book explores the ways in which societal, economic and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and understandings of landscapes. The text explores both how landscapes are contesting changes in society and changing society. The volume combines empirically fine-grained accounts of landscape rupture, from different parts of the world, with a sustained effort to explore, rethink and analytically extend the concept of rupture itself. The book therefore combines fresh empirical data with innovative theoretical approaches to open understanding of landscape as a dynamic, living entity subject to abrupt change and unpredictable disruptions. Through this dual reflection the volume is able to provide a powerful demonstration of the possibilities that are available for human action, social change and material landscape to combine.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789401794428
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 372 p. 4 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Contributions To Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 74
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Horizons of authenticity in phenomenology, existentialism, and moral psychology
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Humanities ; Consciousness ; Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Phänomenologie ; Existenzialismus ; Existenzphilosophie ; Authentizität ; Ethik ; Moralpsychologie
    Abstract: This volume centers on the exploration of the ways in which the canonical texts and thinkers of the phenomenological and existential tradition can be utilized to address contemporary, concrete philosophical issues. In particular, the included essays address the key facets of the work of Charles Guignon, and as such, honor and extend his thought and approach to philosophy. To this end, the four main sections of the volume deal with the question of authenticity, i.e. what it means to be an authentic person, the ways in which the phenomenological and existential traditions can impact the sciences, how best to understand the fact of human mortality, and, finally, the ways philosophical reflection can help address current questions of value. The volume is designed primarily to serve as a secondary resource for students and specialists interested in rediscovering the practical application of existential and phenomenological thought. The collection of scholarly essays, then, could be used in conjunction with some of the more recent scholarship concerning the practical value of philosophy. Along with contributing to previous scholarship, the essays in this proposed volume attempt to update and expand the scope of phenomenological and existential inquiry
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789401793643
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 233 p. 10 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 306
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Philosophy of chemistry
    Keywords: History ; Chemistry ; Chemie ; Philosophie
    Abstract: This volume follows the earlier successful book in the same series, which helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, and science educators, as well as chemists, physicists and biologists. The introduction summarizes the way in which the field has developed in the ten years since the previous volume was conceived and introduces several new authors who did not contribute to the earlier book. The editors are well placed to assemble this book, as they are the editor in chief and deputy editors of the leading academic journal in the field, Foundations of Chemistry. The philosophy of chemistry remains a somewhat neglected field, unlike the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology. Why there has been little philosophical attention to the central discipline of chemistry among the three natural sciences is a theme that is explored by several of the contributors. This volume will do a great deal to redress this imbalance. Among the themes covered is the question of reduction of chemistry to physics, the reduction of biology to chemistry, whether true chemical laws exist and causality in chemistry. In addition more general questions of the nature of organic chemistry, biochemistry and chemical synthesis are examined by specialist in these areas
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  • 6
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    ISBN: 9789401793490
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 210 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life 2
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Aesthetics ; History ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy
    Abstract: This notable collection provides an interdisciplinary platform for prominent thinkers who have all made significant recent contributions to exploring the nexus of philosophy and narrative. It includes the latest assessments of several key positions in the current philosophical debate. These perspectives underpin a range of thematic strands exploring the influence of narrative on notions of selfhood, identity, temporal experience, and the emotions, among others. Drawing from the humanities, literature, history and religious studies as well as philosophy, the volume opens with papers on narrative intelligence and the relationship between narrative and agency. It features special sections of in-depth commentary on a range of topics. How, for example, do narrative and philosophical biography interact? Do celebrated biographical and autobiographical accounts of the lives of philosophers contribute to our understanding of their work? This new volume has a substantive remit that incorporates the intercultural religious view of philosophy’s links to narrative together with its many secular aspects. A valuable new resource for more advanced scholars in all its constituent disciplines, it represents a significant addition to the literature of this richly productive area of research
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9789401797290
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 197 p. 4 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research 13
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Nation-building and history education in a global culture
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    Keywords: Curriculum planning ; Education, Higher ; History ; Education ; Schulbildung ; Geschichtsunterricht ; Erziehungsziel ; Relation ; Globalisierung ; Geschichtsbild ; Nationenbildung ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Identitätsentwicklung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Theorie ; Praxis ; Erde
    Abstract: This book examines the nexus between nation-building and history education globally and the implication for cultural diversity and social justice. It studies some of the major education reforms and policy issues in history education in a global culture, and regards them in the light of recent shifts in history education and policy research. In doing so, the volume provides a comprehensive picture of the intersecting and diverse discourses of globalisation, history education and policy-driven reforms. It makes clear that the impact of globalisation on education policy and reforms is a strategically significant issue for us all. The book focuses on the importance of nation-building and patriotism in history education, and presents up-to-date research on global trends in history education reforms and policy research. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concerns in the field of globalisation, history education and policy research
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9783319016863
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIX, 151 p. 8 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Reinhard-DeRoo, Matthias Beneficial ownership
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Anthropology ; Law ; Law ; Humanities ; Anthropology
    Abstract: The hunt for beneficial owners is on. Like an elephant, the beneficial owner hides in the jungle of complex legal structures, waiting to be discovered by eager prosecutors. But what lies behind this metaphor? What is a Beneficial Owner? Is beneficial ownership a right? What does this right encompass? What is the value of this right compared to other rights? And if beneficial ownership is not a right, is it still a legally relevant relation? How do courts, namely the U.S. Supreme Court deal with the concept? When do Anglo-American judges and European scholars resort to the concept? This book approaches these questions from two perspectives: legal fundamentals and the field of U.S. federal Indian law. Both legal theories and case law are scrutinized with the aim to find a better understanding of the basic conception and characteristics of beneficial ownership. Federal Indian law has been chosen for the study of the concrete implications of the beneficial ownership concept in what Roscoe Pound referred to as “the law in action.” To some, this choice of legal field might seem somewhat unusual. What answers could federal Indian law possibly offer with regard to pressing questions from the financial industry? As always, there is a short and a long answer. The short answer is that the analysis of an equally sophisticated field of law can open new perspectives on a given field of law. For example, not only potential criminals and tax evaders but also members of an older civilization are beneficial owners. The long answer can be found in this very book
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionThe Term Beneficial Ownership -- Beneficial Ownership as a Concept -- Common Law, Equity and Beneficial Ownership -- Beneficial Ownership Used in U.S. Supreme Court Decisions -- Fundamental Aspects of Federal Indian Law -- The Beneficial Ownership Concept Applied in Federal Indian Law -- Epilogue.
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9789400709294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVII, 1860 p. 29 illus., 26 illus. in color. eReference, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Humanities ; Humanities / Arts ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Agriculture ; Environmental law ; Landwirtschaft ; Nahrung ; Ethik
    Abstract: This Encyclopedia offers a definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important new area of food and agricultural ethics. It includes summaries of historical approaches, current scholarship, social movements, and new trends from the standpoint of the ethical notions that have shaped them. It combines detailed analyses of specific topics such as the role of antibiotics in animal production, the Green Revolution, and alternative methods of organic farming, with longer entries that summarize general areas of scholarship and explore ways that they are related. Renewed debate, discussion and inquiry into food and agricultural topics have become a hallmark of the turn toward more sustainable policies and lifestyles in the 21st century. Attention has turned to the goals and ethical rationale behind production, distribution and consumption of food, as well as to non-food uses of cultivated biomass and the products of animal husbandry. These wide-ranging debates encompass questions in human nutrition, animal rights and the environmental impacts of aquaculture and agricultural production. Each of these and related topics is both technically complex and involves an - often implicit - ethical dimension. Other topics include methods for integrating ethics into scientific and technical research programs or development projects, the role of intensive agriculture and biotechnology in addressing persistent world hunger and the role of crops, forests and engineered organisms in making a transition to renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy. The Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics proves an indispensible reference point for future research and writing on topics in agriculture and food ethics for decades to come
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9789400778290
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (278 pages) , illustrations.
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Series 53
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Ser. v.53
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of life ; Humanities ; Quality of life -- Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social sciences ; Quality of life ; Humanities ; Quality of life ; Research ; Developmental psychology ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This publication will fill a significant gap in the literature on quality of life and subjective wellbeing by addressing the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizing how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective wellbeing across the lifespan. Sex-disaggregation of data on objective conditions of quality of life is now routinely undertaken in many countries of the world. However, despite the burgeoning of objective data on sex differences in life conditions across the world, very little gender analysis is carried out to explain fully such difference and there is still a serious dearth of data on gender differences in subjective experiences of quality of life and wellbeing. This publication will assist researchers, teachers, service providers and policy makers in filling some of the gaps in currently available literature on the nexus between age and gender in producing differential experiences of subjective wellbeing. The book brings together research which compares female's and male's subjective experiences of wellbeing at various life stages from a variety of countries and regions, particularly focusing on women's subjective wellbeing.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter-1 -- Gender, Lifespan, Cultural Context and QOL -- References -- Chapter-2 -- Personal Well-being and Interpersonal Communication of 12-16 Year-Old Girls and Their Own Mothers: Gender and Intergenerational Issues -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Method Procedure and Sample -- 2.2.1 Description of the Variables -- 2.3 Results -- 2.3.1 Activities -- 2.3.2 Conversations -- 2.3.3 Satisfaction -- 2.3.4 Values Aspired to for the Girls' Future -- 2.3.5 Explained Model of Girls' and Mothers' Satisfaction with Life as a Whole -- 2.4 Discussion -- References -- Chapter-3 -- Gender Dimensions of Life Quality for Adults in Australia -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis -- 3.3 Homeostatic Buffers -- 3.4 External Buffers -- 3.5 Internal Buffers -- 3.6 Gender Differences -- 3.7 Method -- 3.8 Results -- 3.8.1 Gender × Survey -- 3.8.2 Personal Wellbeing Domains -- 3.8.3 Domain Stability Across Surveys × Gender -- 3.8.4 Demographic Influences on Gender Differences in SWB -- 3.8.5 Age -- 3.8.6 Living Alone -- 3.8.7 Relationship Status -- 3.8.8 Work Status -- 3.9 Discussion -- 3.9.1 Overall Pattern of Gender Differences -- 3.9.2 Age -- 3.9.3 Living Alone -- 3.9.4 Work Status -- 3.10 Summary -- References -- Chapter-4 -- Chasing the 'Good Life': GenderDifferences in Work Aspirationsof American Men and Women -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Conceptual Framework -- 4.3 Data and Methods -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainments -- 4.4.1.1 Material Goods -- 4.4.1.2 Good Health -- 4.4.1.3 Family Life -- 4.4.1.4 Work -- 4.4.1.5 Work Aspirations over the Life Course -- 4.5 Summary and Discussion -- References -- Chapter-5 -- Gender Dimensions of Quality of Life in Algeria -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Gender Equalities: The Current Situation.
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9789400772465
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 189 Seiten
    Series Statement: Muslims in global societies series volume 7
    Series Statement: Muslims in global societies series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hoffmann, Thomas Muslims and the New Information and Communication Technologies
    DDC: 070.4
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Computer science ; Religion (General) ; Anthropology ; Medien ; Social Media ; Internet ; Medienkonsum ; Islam ; Muslim ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Auswirkung ; Islamische Staaten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Islamische Staaten ; Islam ; Neue Medien ; Medien ; Muslim ; Medien
    Abstract: This volume deals with the so-called new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interrelationship with Muslims and the interpretation of Islam. This volume taps into what has been labelled Media Studies 2.0, which has been characterized by an intensified focus on everyday meanings and ‘lay’ users - in contrast to earlier emphases on experts or self-acclaimed experts. This lay adoption of ICT and the subsequent digital ‘literacy’ is not least noticeable among Muslim communities. According to some global estimates, one in ten internet users is a Muslim. This volume offers an ethnography of ICT in Muslim communities. The contributors to this volume also demonstrate a new kind of moderation with regard to more sweeping and avant-gardistic claims, which have characterized the study of ICT previously. This moderation has been combined with a keen attention to the empirical material but also deliberations on new quantitative and qualitative approaches to ICT, Muslims and Islam, for instance the digital challenges and changes wrought on the Qur’an, Islam’s sacred scripture. As such this volume will also be relevant for people interested in the study of ICT and the blooming field of digital humanities. Scholars of Islam and the Islamic world have always be engaged and entangled in their object of study. The developments within ICT have also affected how scholars take part in and influence public Islamic and academic discussions. This complicated issue provides basis for a number of meta-reflexive studies in this volume. It will be essential for students and scholars within Islamic studies but will also be of interest for anthropologists, sociologists and others with a humanistic interest in ICT, religion and Islam
    Description / Table of Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION. - Muslims and the New Information and Communication Technologies: Notes from an Emerging and Infinite Field - An Introduction -- 3. - Thomas Hoffmann and Goran Larsson. - PART II EVERYDAY MEANINGS AND 'LAY' USERS. - Muslims on StudiVZ.de: An Empirical Perspective on Religious Affiliation and National Belonging in Times of Web 2.0 -- 15. - Daniela Schlicht. - A "Virtual Club" of Lithuanian Converts to Islam -- 31. - Egdunas Racius. - Islam Online Guides Spouses Towards Marital Bliss: Arabic vs. English Counselling Perspectives on Marital Communication -- 49. - Mona Abdel-Fadil. - Pop Culture and Class Distinction in Lebanon -- 73. - Sune Haugbolle. - PART III QUALITATIVE RESEARCH TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES. - ITZ BIDAH BRO!!!!! GT ME?? - YouTube Mawlid and Voices of Praise and Blame -- 89. - Jonas Svensson. - The Qur'an on the Internet: Implications and Future Possibilities -- 113. - Andrew Rippin. - PART IV NARRATIVES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION. - "Little Mosque on the
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  • 12
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    ISBN: 9789400743182 , 1283633736 , 9781283633734
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 288 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Political science Philosophy ; History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Political science Philosophy ; History ; Han, Fei
    Abstract: Han Fei, who died in 233 BC, was one of the primary philosophers of Chinas classical era, a reputation still intact despite recent neglect. This edited volume on the thinker, his views on politics and philosophy, and the tensions of his relations with Confucianism (which he derided) is the first of its kind in English.Featuring contributions from specialists in various disciplines including religious studies and literature, this new addition to the Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy series includes the latest research. It breaks new ground with studies of Han Feis intellectual antecedents, and his relationship as a historical figure with Han Feizi, the text attributed to him, as well as surveying the full panoply of his thought. It also includes a chapter length survey of relevant scholarship, both in Chinese and Japanese.
    Description / Table of Contents: Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei; Editor's Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Han Fei and the Han Feizi; Works Cited; Part I: Han Fei's Predecessors; From Historical Evolution to the End of History: Past, Present and Future from Shang Yang to the First Emperor; Change and Stability in Warring States Thought; The Book of Lord Shang; Past, Present and Future in Han Fei; Qin's "End of History" and Its Aftermath; Works Cited; Shen Dao's Theory of fa and His In fl uence on Han Fei; Introduction; The Main Idea of the Shenzi Fragments: fa 法
    Description / Table of Contents: The Source of Law in Shen Dao's TheoryShen Dao's In fl uence on Han Fei; Works Cited; Part II: The Philosophy of Han Fei; Submerged by Absolute Power: The Ruler's Predicament in the Han Feizi; Foundations of the Ruler's Authority; Safeguarding the Ruler's Power; The Invisible Ruler; Back to Ministerial Power?; Conclusion; Works Cited; Beyond the Rule of Rules: The Foundations of Sovereign Power in the Han Feizi; Legitimating a Repressive Order: The Quest for an Artificial Paradise; From the Spontaneous to the Automatic; A Paradise with No Aberrations? The Paradox of the Norm and the Exception
    Description / Table of Contents: Inborn Human Nature: Changeable vs. UnchangeableHuman Qualities: Same vs. Different; The Source of Han Fei's View That Human Beings Focus on Pursuing Their Own Profit; Conclusion; Works Cited; Part IV: Studies of Specific Chapters; The Difficulty with "The Dif fi culties of Persuasion" ("Shuinan" 說難); Shui 說 in the Han Feizi; The Contradictions of "The Difficulties of Persuasion"; Early Authors on the Morality of shui 說; "Solitary Frustration" and the Morality of "The Dif fi culties of Persuasion"; The Legacy of Han Fei; Works Cited
    Description / Table of Contents: Han Feizi and the Old Master: A Comparative Analysis and Translation of Han Feizi Chapter 20, "Jie Lao," and Chapter 21, "Yu Lao"Introduction; Exegetical Strategies: Philosophical Principles Versus Illustrative Anecdotes; Passages Cited; Citation Styles; Citation Content: The Whole vs. The Part?; The Han Feizi and the Wang Bi Laozi Texts; Markers of Date; Bang Versus Guo to Denote the Concept of the State; The Historical Anecdotes of "Yu Lao"; Viewpoint and Vocabulary; "Yu Lao"; "Jie Lao"; Harmonizing Inner Potency, Humaneness, Righteousness, and Ritual ( de 德, ren 仁, yi 義, li 禮)
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultivating the Compassion of the Mother
    Description / Table of Contents: Works CitedHan Fei on the Problem of Morality; What Is Order?; On Morality and Order; A Possible Role for Morality in Governance?; On the Notion of Desert; Works Cited; Part III: Han Fei and Confucianism; Han Fei and Confucianism: Toward a Synthesis; Works Cited; Did Xunzi's Theory of Human Nature Provide the Foundation for the Political Thought of Han Fei?; Introduction; Modern Scholars' Views of the Relationship Between Xunzi and Han Fei; The Concept of xing in the Xunzi and the Han Feizi; Minxing 民性; Tianxing 天性; Qingxing 情性; The Concept of ren 人 (Mankind) in the Xunzi and the Han Feizi
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  • 13
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    ISBN: 9789400743458
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 338 p. 9 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 282
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The mechanization of natural philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 17th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturphilosophie ; Mechanismus ; Ideengeschichte 1550-1720
    Abstract: The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254).
    Description / Table of Contents: The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Construction of Historical Categories; Chapter 1: Remarks on the Pre-history of the Mechanical Philosophy; 1.1 What Was the Mechanical Philosophy?; 1.2 The Mechanical Philosophy Before Boyle; 1.3 Bacon; 1.4 Galileo; 1.5 Mersenne; 1.6 Descartes/Gassendi/Hobbes: Mechanical Philosophers?; 1.7 Novatores, Latitudinarians, and the Construction of the Mechanical Philosophy; 1.8 A Broader Conception of Mechanism?; Chapter 2: How Bacon Became Baconian
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 The Meaning of Mechanical Operation in Bacon's Oeuvre2.2 Mechanical and Vital Readings of Bacon's Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England; 2.3 Conclusion; Chapter 3: An Empire Divided: French Natural Philosophy (1670-1690); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A Debate on Natural Philosophy; 3.3 On the Side of the New Philosophers; 3.3.1 The Methodology of Ontology: Beings Should Not Be Multiplied Without Necessity; 3.3.2 The Way of Physics: Physics Should Explain Phenomena, Namely, Give Efficient Causes; 3.3.3 Ontological Categories: The Bipartition Between Body and Soul Should Be Respected
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.4 The Social Twist3.4 On the Side of the Old Philosophers; 3.4.1 The Methodology of Ontology: The Multiplication of Corpuscles and the Missing Metaphysical Supplement; 3.4.2 The Way of Physics: One Should Not Indulge in Hypotheses, Ignore Experiments and Use Empty Words; 3.4.3 The Ontological Categories and the Controversy Over Animal Souls; 3.4.4 Another Social Twist; 3.5 Conclusions; Part II: Matter, Motion, Physics and Mathematics; Chapter 4: Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Corpuscular Theories of the Physician d'Olesa
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1 Elements, Minima and Qualities4.2.2 The Problem of Mixture; 4.2.3 A Corpuscular Theory of Light and Vision; 4.3 The Absence of a Tradition; 4.3.1 The Hypothesis of Menéndez Pelayo; 4.3.2 The Salamacan Physician Gomez Pereira; 4.3.3 The Salamacan Physician Francisco Valles; 4.4 Conclusion; Chapter 5: The Composition of Space, Time and Matter According to Isaac Newton and John Keill; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Early Modern Natural Philosophy; 5.3 The Evolution of Newton's Views on the Composition of Space, Time and Matter
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4 The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter According to John Keill5.5 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Beeckman, Descartes and Physico-Mathematics; 6.1 Beeckman; 6.1.1 Persistence of Motion; 6.1.2 Persistence of the Form of a Motion; 6.1.3 Conservation in the Exchange of Motion; 6.1.4 Isoperimetric Figures; 6.2 Descartes; 6.2.1 Persistence of Motion; 6.2.2 Communication of Motion; 6.2.3 Persistence and Direction; 6.3 Physico-Mathematics; Chapter 7: Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy: Hydrostatics in Scotland About 1700; 7.1 Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2 The Mathematical Hydrostatics of Wallis, Gregorie, and Newton
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9789400763500
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 290 p. 15 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 10
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Education Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Education Philosophy ; Humanities ; Ingenieurstudium ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Technikphilosophie
    Abstract: Hoping to help transform engineering into a more socially just field of practice, this book offers various perspectives and strategies while highlighting key concepts and themes that help readers understand the complex relationship between engineering education and social justice. This volume tackles topics and scopes ranging from the role of Buddhism in socially just engineering to the blinding effects of ideologies in engineering to case studies on the implications of engineered systems for social justice. This book aims to serve as a framework for interventions or strategies to make social justice more visible in engineering education and enhance scholarship in the emerging field of Engineering and Social Justice (ESJ). This creates a ‘toolbox’ for engineering educators and students to make social justice a central theme in engineering education
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Part I: Introduction to Engineering Education and Engineering for Social Justice (ESJ); Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Who Is This Book For?; 1.2 Motivations for Putting This Book Together; 1.3 Historic Convergence of Circumstances; 1.3.1 Calls for Change; 1.3.2 An (In)Visible History; 1.4 Defining Social Justice; 1.5 How This Book Approaches ESJ: Autobiographical, Historical, Philosophical, Pedagogical, Practical and Beyond; References; Part II: Where Have We Been? Where Can We Go?; Chapter 2: Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace: Strategies for Educational and Professional Reform
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 Introduction2.2 Background: A Short History of ESJP; 2.3 Methods and Scope; 2.4 Educational Reform Strategies; 2.4.1 Pedagogical Initiatives; 2.4.1.1 Liberal-Education Courses; 2.4.1.2 Technical Course Modules; 2.4.1.3 Critical Learning Thresholds; 2.4.1.4 Experiential Learning; 2.4.1.5 Liberative Pedagogies; 2.4.2 Curricular Initiatives; 2.4.2.1 Structuring General Education Content; 2.4.2.2 Social and Technical Integration in Engineering Design; 2.4.3 Institutional Initiatives; 2.5 Professional Reform Strategies; 2.5.1 Networking; 2.5.2 Re-conceptualizing "Engineering"; 2.6 Conclusions
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 3: Power. Systems. Engineering. Traveling Lines of Resistance in Academic Institutions; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Thermo as Usual; 3.2.1 Thermo and Gnosticism: A Tale of Two Esoteric Subjects; 3.2.2 Learning to Stay and Fight: Lessons from Social Justice; 3.3 Transformative Processes; 3.3.1 First Attempts; 3.3.2 Teaching About Power; 3.3.3 Epistemology: Teaching Material and Its Critique; 3.3.4 Book Project; 3.4 Institutional Obstacles; 3.4.1 Obstacles; 3.4.2 Students and Faculty; 3.5 How I Got Away with It (So Far); 3.6 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: Conceptual Contributions to ESJChapter 4: The (Mis)Framing of Social Justice: Why Ideologies of Depoliticization and Meritocracy Hinder Engineers' Ability to Think About Social Injustices; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Cultural Ideologies in Engineering; 4.3 Depoliticization of Engineering; 4.4 The Ideology of Meritocracy; 4.5 Misframing Social Justice Issues; 4.5.1 Non-dominant and Dominant Groups Adopt These Ideologies; 4.6 The Insufficiency of One Lecture or One Essay: The Task of Reframing; 4.7 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: What Can Buddhism Offer to a Socially Just Engineering Education?5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Practice of the Six Virtues of the Bodhisattva Path; 5.2.1 Generosity; 5.2.2 Ethics; 5.2.3 Patience; 5.2.4 Perseverance; 5.2.5 Mindfulness; 5.2.6 Wisdom; 5.3 The Practice of the Six Virtues and Leadership Theory; 5.4 Three-Level Model of Leadership Based on Buddhism 12; 5.4.1 First Level: Actions to Benefit Oneself; 5.4.2 Second Level: Actions to Benefit Others; 5.4.3 Third Level: Interrelated Benefits; 5.5 Implementing the Framework in a Pre-college Engineering Case Scenario
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5.1 Description of the Scenario
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    ISBN: 9789400754850
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 332 p. 15 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 273
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The Berlin Group and the philosophy of logical empiricism
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Dubislav, Walter, 1895- ; Oppenheim, Paul, 1885- ; Grelling, Kurt ; Fries, Jakob Friedrich, 1773-1843 ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Reichenbach, Hans 1891-1953 ; Neopositivismus ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was not only close relatedness but also significant difference. Above all, while the Berlin Group explored philosophical problems of the actual practice of science, the Vienna Circle, closely following Wittgenstein, was more interested in problems of the language of science. The book includes first discussion ever (in three chapters) on Walter Dubislav’s logic and philosophy. Two chapters are devoted to another author scarcely explored in English, Kurt Grelling, and another one to Paul Oppenheim who became an important figure in the philosophy of science in the USA in the 1940s-1960s. Finally, the book discusses the precursor of the Nord-German tradition of scientific philosophy, Jacob Friedrich Fries
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Milkov, Peckhaus.- Part I. Introductory Chapters -- Part II. Historical-Theoretical Context -- Part III. Hans Reichenbach -- Part IV. Walter Dubislav -- Part V. Kurt Grelling and  Alexander Herzberg -- Part VI. Carl Hempel und Paul Oppenheim.
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    ISBN: 9789400753075
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 196 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Muslims in Global Societies Series 5
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Religion and education ; History ; Migration ; Education ; Education ; Religion and education ; History ; Migration ; Judenvernichtung ; Muslim ; Einstellung ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: The way people think about the Holocaust is changing. The particular nature of the transformation depends on people's historical perspectives and how they position themselves and their nation or community vis-à-vis the tragedy. Understandably, European Muslims perceive the Holocaust as less central to their history than do other Europeans. Yet while the acknowledgement and commemoration of the horrors of the Holocaust are increasingly important in Europe, Holocaust denial and biased views on the Holocaust are widespread in European Muslims' countries of origin. In this book, a number of distinguished scholars and educators of various backgrounds discuss views of the Holocaust. Problematic views are often influenced by a persistent attitude of Holocaust denial which is derived, in part, from discourses in the Muslim communities in their countries of origin. The essays collected here explore the backgrounds of these perceptions and highlight positive approaches and developments. Many of the contributions were written by people working in the field and reflecting on their experiences. This collection also reveals that problematic views of the Holocaust are not limited to Muslim communities
    Abstract: The way people think about the Holocaust is changing. The particular nature of the transformation depends on people’s historical perspectives and how they position themselves and their nation or community vis-à-vis the tragedy. Understandably, European Muslims perceive the Holocaust as less central to their history than do other Europeans. Yet while the acknowledgement and commemoration of the horrors of the Holocaust are increasingly important in Europe, Holocaust denial and biased views on the Holocaust are widespread in European Muslims’ countries of origin.In this book, a number of distinguished scholars and educators of various backgrounds discuss views of the Holocaust. Problematic views are often influenced by a persistent attitude of Holocaust denial which is derived, in part, from discourses in the Muslim communities in their countries of origin. The essays collected here explore the backgrounds of these perceptions and highlight positive approaches and developments. Many of the contributions were written by people working in the field and reflecting on their experiences. This collection also reveals that problematic views of the Holocaust are not limited to Muslim communities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; References; History Aside?; Antisemitism and Holocaust Remembrance; References; Participation of European Muslim Organisations in Holocaust Commemorations; Introduction; International Commemoration; Muslim Reactions to Holocaust Commemoration; Muslim Leaders Address the Holocaust; Teaching the Holocaust; Assessment; References; The Evolution of Arab Perceptions of the Holocaust; From the End of WWII to the Establishment of Israel
    Description / Table of Contents: The Evolution of the Major Themes of Holocaust RepresentationCritical Voices in a Promising Era of a Peace Process; The Counter Reaction to the New Discourse; Conclusions; References; Perceptions of the Holocaust in Turkey; 'Positive' Perceptions of the Holocaust; The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust; The 'Turkish Diplomats Who Saved Turkish Jews'; Negative Perceptions; "The Palestine Question and Genocide"; Holocaust Denial; Hollywood and Films Dealing with the Holocaust; The American Media and Holocaust; Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Antisemitism and the Politics of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK and ItalyIntroduction; Survivors, Perpetrators, Bystanders; Universalism and Particularism; Responses from Muslim Organisations; Criticising Holocaust Memorial Day; On Holocaust Memorial Day; Rearticulating Antisemitism; References; ' Hamas, Hamas, All Jews to the Gas.' The History and Significance of an Antisemitic Slogan in the Netherlands, 1945-2010; Introduction; Globalisation of the Israeli-Palestinian Con fl ict; Antisemitism in the Netherlands After the Liberation; Secondary Antisemitism
    Description / Table of Contents: Philosemitism, Anti-Antisemitism and Red (Jews) NosesFootball Hooliganism; Jews as Nazis; New Dutch and the Shoah; Conclusion; References; Perceptions of the Holocaust Among Young Muslims in Berlin, Paris and London; Introduction; Shared Basic Knowledge of the Holocaust; Sources of Knowledge; Doubts, Denial and Conspiracies About the Holocaust; Comparing the Holocaust to Other Atrocities; Equating the Sufferings of Palestinians with the Holocaust; The Topos of Jews Taking Revenge for the Holocaust with the Palestinians
    Description / Table of Contents: Analogies Between the Holocaust and the War in Iraq and Equations of the US-President with HitlerAnalogies Between the Holocaust and Persecution of Muslims; Explicitly Rejecting Antisemitic Equations; The Holocaust and the Creation of the State of Israel; German Guilt and Compensation Payments; Moral Judgements and Emotional Reactions to the Holocaust; Condemnations of the Holocaust; Condemning the Holocaust with Restrictions: Accusations of Exploitation and Emotional Distance; Empathy; Approval of the Holocaust and Common Ground with Nazis; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: History and Memory of the Other: An Experimental Encounter-Programme with Israeli Jews and Palestinians from Israel 1
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction, J. Allouche-Benayoun, G. Jikeli -- History aside?- Juliane Wetzel: Antisemitism and Holocaust Remembrance, G. Bensoussan -- Participation of European Muslim Organisations in Holocaust Commemorations, M. Whine -- The Evolution of Arab Perceptions of the Holocaust, E. Webman -- Perceptions of the Holocaust in Turkey, R.N. Bali -- Anti-Semitism and the Politics of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK and Italy, P. Spencer, S.V. di Palma -- ‘Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the Gas.’ The History and Significance of an Antisemitic Slogan in the Netherlands, 1945-2010, E. Gans -- Perceptions of the Holocaust among young Muslims in Berlin, Paris and London, G. Jikeli -- History and Memory of the Other: An Experimental Encounter-Program with Israeli Jews and Palestinians from Israel, M. Eckmann -- Speach Acts. Observing Antisemitism and Holocaust Education in the Netherlandsm R. Ensel, A. Stremmelaar -- Challenges and Opportunities of Educational Concepts concerning National Socialist Crimes in German Immigration Society, M. Can, K. Georg and R. Hatlapa.
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    ISBN: 9789400745605
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 483 p. 62 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 11
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Dunér, David, 1970 - The natural philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Philosophy of mind ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Philosophy of mind ; Humanities ; Swedenborg, Emanuel 1688-1772 ; Naturphilosophie ; Swedenborg, Emanuel 1688-1772 ; Naturphilosophie
    Abstract: Although Emanuel Swedenborg (16881772) is commonly known for his spiritual philosophy, his early career was focused unnatural science. During this period, Swedenborg thought of the world was like a gigantic machine, following the laws of mechanics and geometry. This volume analyzes this mechanistic worldview from the cognitive perspective, by means of a study of the metaphors in Swedenborgs texts. The author argues that these conceptual metaphors are vital skills of the creative mind and scientific thinking, used to create visual analogies and abstract ideas. This means that Swedenborgs mechanistic and geometrical worldview, allowed him to perceive the world as mechanical and geometrical. Swedenborg thought with books and pens. The reading gave him associations and clues, forced him to interpret, and gave him material for his intellectual development.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Natural Philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Prologue on a Grain of Sand; Biographical Guide; Literature About a Phenomenon; A Theory of Swedenborg's Brain; Space and Thought; Metaphorical Thought; Seeing with the Inner Eye; Thinking with Books; Overview-The World Machine Seen from Above; The Space; A Blue Camera Obscura; The Society of the Curious; Armed Eyes; Attempts to Find East and West Longitude; We Are Educated by Studying, Experiencing, and Thinking; Unrest Disturbs My Work; From Barbarism to Culture; The Immutable World; The Sign
    Description / Table of Contents: Everything Is Silent, No One Knows Yet the DestinationLearned Games with the Number Sixty-Four; The Geometrical Number Eight; The Useful Number Eight; The Lord Is Wrathful; A Peripeteia on the Decimal; A Million Million; Rhetorical Arithmetic; Trees, Boxes, and Universal Mathematics; To Think Is to Count; The Wave; The Water Waves in Leiden; The Surging of the Sea; Sound in the Mountains of Lapland; In the Baroque Echo Temple; Thunder and Organ Peals; Fire and Colours; One Membrane Trembles from the Other's Trembling; The Beautiful Geometry of Tremulation; To Live Is to Tremble
    Description / Table of Contents: The Circles of the BodyHearing the Music from Within; Vision Extends into the Invisible; The Sphere; Hell Upon Earth; Flying in the Air; The Geometry of War; Nature-A Composite Analogy; The World Machine and the Little Machine; Peas and Cannonballs; A Sea of Bubbles; The Power of the Water Bubble; The Vapours Rising Over the Mountain; The Geometry of Heat; A Mineral Cabinet Without Stones; The Fruits of the Volcano; In the Bride-Chamber of the Mineral Kingdom; Vanitas Bubbles of Soap and Water; The Point; The Spider in the Polygonal Web; The Point That Delineates the World
    Description / Table of Contents: A Grain of Dust at the EquatorNature's Labyrinth; The Janus Face of the Mathematical Point; The Spiral; Helical Lines; The Circle of Time; The Force of the Moon; Whirls and Voids; On the Eternal Spring in the Age of Winter Cold; From Centre to Circumference and Back; Impossible Figures; The Microcosmic Spiral Motion; Magnetic Effluvia; The Magnetic Sphere and the Sidereal Heaven; The Macrocosmic Vortex; The Declination of the Magnetic Needle; The Membrane Between Body and Soul; The Infinite; A World That Is Not Even a Point; The Limits of the Unknowable
    Description / Table of Contents: The Infinite Is the Ultimate Cause of the FiniteThe Fantastic Order of the Brain Machine; The Limits of the Universe; The Nexus Between Infinite and Finite; The Last Effect of Creation; The Degree of Perfection; Escape to the Oracle of Reason; The Soul Machine; The Philosopher, the Happiest or the Unhappiest of Mortals; Conclusion; The Convolutions of the Brain; From Angular to Perpetuo-Spiritual Form; A Blind Man Who Can See, and the Form of Ideas; Swedenborg's Euphoria; Spiral Dances in Paradise; The Primary Metaphors of Correspondences; Memorabilia from Earthly Life
    Description / Table of Contents: The Geometry of the Spiritual World
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    ISBN: 9789400752108
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 181 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Humanities / Arts ; Religiöser Pluralismus ; Interreligiosität ; Soziale Bewegung ; Friedenskonsolidierung
    Abstract: This book documents the ultramodern rise of the multifaith movement, as mulitfaith initiatives have been increasingly deployed as cosmopolitan solutions to counter global risks such as terrorism and climate change at the turn of the 21st century. These projects aim to enhance common security, particularly in Western societies following the events of September 11, 2001 and the July 2005 London bombings, where multifaith engagement has been promoted as a strategy to counter violent extremism. The author draws on interviews with 56 leading figures in the field of multifaith relations, including Paul Knitter, Eboo Patel, Marcus Braybrooke, Katherine Marshall, John Voll and Krista Tippett.Identifying the principle aims of the multifaith movement, the analysis explores the benefits-and challenges-of multifaith engagement, as well as the effectiveness of multifaith initiatives in countering the process of radicalization. Building on notions of cosmopolitanism, the work proposes a new theoretical framework termed ‘Netpeace’, which recognizes the interconnectedness of global problems and their solutions. In doing so, it acknowledges the capacity of multi-actor peacebuilding networks, including religious and state actors, to address the pressing dilemmas of our times. The primary intention of the book is to assist in the formation of new models of activism and governance, founded on a ‘politics of understanding’ modeled by the multifaith movement.
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    ISBN: 9789400752191
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 1041 p. 8 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Humanities ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: The envisioned volume is a collection of recent essays about the philosophical exploration, critique and comparison of (a) the major philosophical models of God, gods and other ultimate realities implicit in the worlds philosophical schools and religions, and of (b) the ideas of such models and doing such modeling per se. The aim is to identify exactly what a model of ultimate reality is; create a comprehensive and accessible collection of extant models; and determine how best, philosophically, to model ultimate reality, if possible and desirable.
    Abstract: Dedicated to exploring the enormous variety of ultimate realities at the center of the world’s great religions and philosophical traditions, this volume is a richly varied collection of essays on how we conceive this central notion, whether expressed as God, or as an ultimate reality of another kind. Years in the making, the collection examines the guiding principles of 15 major philosophical traditions and 6 living religions. A publication of monumental scale and detail, it features an innovative thematic structure that aggregates traditions according to their core models, allowing the reader to grasp the common features of ultimate realities as understood in diverse traditions such as Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and in some non-religious discussions. Borne out of proceedings at both the American Philosophical Association and the American Academy of Religion, the volume also examines foundational questions related to the human propensity for creating and using such models, including the issue of whether we are capable of acquiring knowledge of ultimate reality. It features a sustained analysis of the concept that modeling such an ultimate reality is a fruitless endeavor doomed to failure since the ultimate might well be beyond human conception, as well as reflections on the staggering diversity of these models and their application to concepts such as spirituality, gender equality, war, and global warming. Accessible and authoritative, the collection combines section primers for those new to the field, deeper treatment in dedicated essays, and a wealth of references for further reading and study
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    ISBN: 9789400753518 , 1283936070 , 9781283936071
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 315 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 298
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Agassi, Joseph, 1927 - 2023 The very idea of modern science
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 17th century ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science
    Abstract: This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of science and why it gave way to professional science in stages. In particular the book studies the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon and of the Hon. Robert Boyle to the rise of modern science. The philosophy of induction is notoriously problematic, yet its great asset is that it expressed the view of the Enlightenment Movement about science. This explains the ambivalence that we still exhibit towards Sir Francis Bacon whose radicalism and vision of pure and applied science still a major aspect of the fabric of society. Finally, the book discusses Boyle’s philosophy, his agreement with and dissent from Bacon and the way he single-handedly trained a crowd of poorly educated English aristocrats and rendered them into an army of able amateur researchers.​
    Description / Table of Contents: The Very Idea of ModernScience; Abstract; Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; Part I: Bacons Doctrine of Prejudice (A Study in a Renaissance Religion); Introductory Note; Chapter 1: The Riddle of Bacon; 1.1 The Problem of Methodology; 1.2 The Criticism of Bacon's Writings; 1.3 The Past Suggested Solutions; Chapter 2: Bacon's Philosophy of Discovery; 2.1 Bacon's Utopianism; 2.2 Bacon's Metaphysics; 2.3 Bacon's Induction; 2.4 Bacon's Inductive Machine; Chapter 3: Ellis' Major Difficulty; Chapter 4: The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice; 4.1 Radicalism; 4.2 Radicalism Invented
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Radical MethodologyChapter 5: Bacon on the Origin of Error and Prejudice; Chapter 6: Prejudices of the Senses; 6.1 The Problem of Observation; 6.2 Prejudices of the Senses; 6.3 Bacon's Theory of Discovery; 6.4 Whewell's Theory of Discovery; 6.5 Popper's Theory of Discovery; 6.6 Bacon's "Mark" of Science; Chapter 7: Prejudices of Opinions; 7.1 Suspension of Judgment; 7.2 What Is a Prejudice?; 7.3 Bacon and the Logical Empiricists; 7.4 Bacon's Double Game; 7.5 The Origin of Scientific Theories; 7.6 Science and Imagination; Chapter 8: Bacon's Influence; 8.1 Influence on Immediate Posterity
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 Permission to Propose a Hypothesis and to Assert Metaphysics8.3 Permission De Jure and de Facto; 8.4 Legitimation Versus Criticism; 8.5 Bacon's Influence; Chapter 9: Conclusion : The Rise of the Riddle of Bacon; Part II: The Religion of Inductivism as a Living Force; Quasi-Terminological Notes; "The Inductive Style"; "Speculation" and "Hypothesis"; "Hypothesis" and "Fact"; On the Recent Literature; Homage to Robert Boyle; Chapter 10: Philosophical Background; 10.1 Inductivism Classical and Modern; 10.2 Metaphysical Views, Classical and Modern; 10.3 The Doctrine of Prejudice
    Description / Table of Contents: 10.4 The Moral Code of the Fraternity10.5 Conclusion; Chapter 11: The Social Background of Classical Science; 11.1 Researchers as Amateurs; 11.2 Researchers as Experts; 11.3 Researchers as Inventors; 11.4 Researchers as Dilettantes; Chapter 12: The Missing Link Between Bacon and the Royal Society; 12.1 The Rise of the Royal Society; 12.2 Boyle's Spirit; 12.3 Boyle's Views on the Spread of Science; Chapter 13: Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity; 13.1 The Eighteenth Century; 13.2 Herschel's Unfair Comment; 13.3 Who Discovered Boyle's Law?; 13.4 Modern Views on Boyle; 13.5 Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 14: The Inductive Style14.1 The Discussion of Style; 14.2 The Inductive Style Versus the Argumentative Style; 14.3 Reporting on Experiments and Writing Systems; 14.4 Boyle on some Systems; 14.5 Thinking and Experimenting; 14.6 The Inductive Style; 14.7 Encyclopedia of Facts or a Just History of Nature; 14.8 Boyle's Promiscuous Experiments; 14.9 Boyle on Attempts to Create some Theories; 14.10 Methodological Tolerance; 14.11 The Usefulness of Hypotheses; 14.12 Civilized Argument; 14.13 Boyle on the Method of Quoting; 14.14 Circumstantial Descriptions A: The Problem
    Description / Table of Contents: 14.15 Circumstantial Descriptions B: Recent Solutions
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgement -- PART I: BACONS DOCTRINE OF PREJUDICE -- (A study in a Renaissance Religion) Introductory Note -- I The Riddle of Bacon -- (1)  The Problem of Methodology -- (2)    II Bacon’s Philosophy of Discovery -- III Ellis’ Major Difficulty -- IV The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice -- V Bacon on the origin of error and prejudice -- VI Prejudices of the Senses -- VII Prejudices of Opinions -- VIII Bacon’s Influence -- IX Conclusion: The rise of the commonwealth of learning -- PART II: A RELIGION OF INDUCTIVISM AS A LIVING FORCE -- A Quasi-Terminological Note -- On the recent literature -- Homage to Robert Boyle -- I Background Material -- II The social background of classical science -- III The Missing Link between Bacon and the Royal Society of London -- IV Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity -- V The Inductive Style -- VI Mechanism -- VII The new doctrine of prejudice -- Appendices. ​.
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    ISBN: 9789400757219
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 258 p. 135 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 31
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Meskens, Ad, 1962 - Practical mathematics in a commercial metropolis
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    Keywords: Science History ; Architecture ; Science, general ; Science History ; Architecture ; Coignet, Michel, 1549-1623 ; Heyns, Peeter, 1537-1598 ; Mathematics ; Belgium ; Antwerp ; History ; 16th century ; Angewandte Mathematik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Describes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. Against the background of the violent history of the Religious Wars the story of the practice of mathematics in Antwerp is told through the lives of two protagonists Michiel Coignet and Peeter Heyns. The book touches on all aspects of practical mathematics from teaching and instrument making to the practice of building fortifications of the practice of navigation.?
    Abstract: This volumedescribes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. Against the background of the violent history of the Religious Wars the story of the practice of mathematics in Antwerp is told through the lives of two protagonists Michiel Coignet and Peeter Heyns. The book touches on all aspects of practical mathematics from teaching and instrument making to the practice of building fortifications of the practice of navigation.​
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Preface -- 2 Introduction -- 3 The Family Coignet -- 4 Peeter Heyns and the Nymphs of the Laurel Tree -- 5 The Arithmetic Teacher and his School -- 6 The Antwerp arithmetic books -- 7 Winegauging -- 8 Instrumentmakers -- 9 The Art of Navigation -- 10 Mapping the World -- 11 Looking towards the Stars -- 12 Ballistics and fortifications -- 13 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index.​.
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9789400761070
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 382 p. 29 illus., 4 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: MARE Publication Series 7
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Fischerei ; Governance
    Abstract: Following in the footsteps of the book Fish for Life - Interactive Governance for Fisheries (Kooiman et al., 2005), and the interdisciplinary approach it presents, this volume illustrates the contribution of interactive governance theory to understanding core fisheries and aquaculture challenges. These challenges are invariably linked to broader concerns such as ecosystem health, social justice, sustainable livelihoods and food security. The central concept in this perspective is governability - the varied capacity to govern fisheries and aquaculture systems sustainably. Many of these systems are characterized by problems that are inherently 'wicked' and therefore difficult to address. The authors of this edited volume argue that responses to such problems must consider context; specifically the character of the fisheries and aquaculture systems themselves, their institutional conditions, and the internal and external interactions that affect them. Drawing on a diverse set of international experiences, the volume offers a new lens and systematic approach to analysing the nature of governance problems and opportunities in fisheries and aquaculture, exploring pressing challenges and identifying potential solutions. ”It now seems clear that the crisis in the world’s fisheries [is] a much larger and more complex problem than many had imagined. Yet, examining it through the lens of governability may offer the best hope for alleviating it--as well as alleviating similar crises in other social systems.” James R. McGoodwin (Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado)
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9789400763142
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 202 p. 2 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice 25
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Human law and computer law
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    Keywords: Philosophy of law ; Computers Law and legislation ; Humanities ; Law ; Law ; Philosophy of law ; Computers Law and legislation ; Humanities ; Datenverarbeitung ; Internet ; Recht ; Datenverarbeitung ; Internet ; Recht
    Abstract: The focus of this book is on the epistemological and hermeneutic implications of data science and artificial intelligence for democracy and the Rule of Law. How do the normative effects of automated decision systems or the interventions of robotic fellow ‘beings’ compare to the legal effect of written and unwritten law? To investigate these questions the book brings together two disciplinary perspectives rarely combined within the framework of one volume. One starts from the perspective of ‘code and law’ and the other develops from the domain of ‘law and literature’. Integrating original analyses of relevant novels or films, the authors discuss how computational technologies challenge traditional forms of legal thought and affect the regulation of human behavior. Thus, pertinent questions are raised about the theoretical assumptions underlying both scientific and legal practice.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 0: Prefatory Remarks on Human Law and Computer Law; 0.1 Comparative Law; 0.2 Computer Law?; 0.3 Comparing Human Law and Computer Law; 0.4 Human Language and Computer Language: Law, Code and Literature; References; Part I: Law and Code; Chapter 1: Prefatory Remarks on Part I: Law and Code; 1.1 Law and Language; 1.2 Language and Computer Code; 1.3 Law as Code: Two Strands of Research; 1.3.1 Artificial Intelligence and Legal Subjectivity; 1.3.2 Legal and Technological Normativity; References; Chapter 2: From Galatea 2.2 to Watson - And Back?
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 Introduction 12.1.1 Mythical Beginnings; 2.1.2 Beyond Snow's Two Cultures; 2.2 Eliza and the Turing Test: A Human Machine?; 2.3 IBM's Heros: Deep Blue and Watson; 2.3.1 Deep Blue; 2.3.2 Watson; 2.4 Searle's Chinese Room Argument: Syntax and Meaning; 2.5 Back to 'My Fair Lady'; 2.6 The Legal Status of Smart Contraptions: Tools, Rivals or Companions?; 2.6.1 Embodiment, Emotion and Cognition; 2.6.2 Legal Implications of Smart Agents; 2.6.2.1 Artificial Legal Subjects: The Agency of Corporations; 2.6.2.2 Artificial Legal Subjects: The Agency of Other 'Intelligent Machines'
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.7 Concluding RemarksReferences; Chapter 3: What Robots Want: Autonomous Machines, Codes and New Frontiers of Legal Responsibility; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The No New Responsibility Thesis; 3.3 The New Weak Responsibility Thesis; 3.3.1 New Crimes, New Punishments; 3.3.2 New Agents, New Contracts; 3.4 The New Strong Responsibility Thesis; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Abort, Retry, Fail: Scoping Techno-Regulation and Other Techno-Effects; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 What Is Techno-Regulation?; 4.3 The Limits of the Debate on Techno-Regulation
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Beyond the Limits of Techno-Regulation, Part 1: Persuasion, Nudging and Affordances4.5 Beyond the Limits of Techno-Regulation, Part 2: Unintentional and Implicit Influences of Technology; 4.6 The Full Scope of Techno-Effects; 4.7 Abort, Retry, Fail. Or: Liberating the Boxed-in Concept of Techno-Regulation; References; Chapter 5: A Bump in the Road. Ruling Out Law from Technology; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Law Is Dead, Long Live Techno-Regulation?; 5.3 Incorporeal Rules or Brute Matter? Two Inescapable Truisms; 5.4 The Practice of Law and the Price of the Practice Turn; 5.5 The Medium of Law
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.6 Hart - The Concept of Law5.6.1 A Practice Theory of Rules; 5.6.2 Demarcating Law as a Practice: Law as a System of Rules; 5.7 Latour - The Passage of Law; 5.7.1 How to Study Law as a Practice? An Ethnography of the Council of State; 5.7.2 Demarcating Law as a Practice: Law as a Regime of Reattachment; 5.7.2.1 The Transfer of Value Objects; 5.7.2.2 Acts of Attachment; 5.7.2.3 Clef de Lecture; 5.8 Beyond Incorporeal Rules and Material Media?; 5.8.1 Institution - Regime of Enunciation; 5.8.2 The Legal Trajectory of Enunciation; 5.9 Law and Technology; 5.9.1 A Bump in the Road
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.9.2 Law as Tracing Through Reattachments
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    ISBN: 9789048190720 , 1283633604 , 9781283633604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 247 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Quality of Life in Asia 1
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Inoguchi, Takashi, 1944 - The quality of life in Asia
    DDC: 306.095090511
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    Keywords: Lebensqualität ; Zufriedenheit ; Lebensstil ; Vergleich ; Asien ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Regional economics ; Social policy ; Quality of Life Research ; Quality of life ; United States ; History ; 21st century ; Asien ; Lebensqualität ; Asien ; Lebensqualität
    Abstract: This book studies and compares quality of life in 29 countries/societies in Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea(South), Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. We utilize the AsiaBarometer Surveys conducted annually from 2003 through 2008. We focus on the notion of subjective quality of life and conceptualize it as two levels, global and domain. After we explain about the AsiaBarometer Survey Project, we explore current country profile, demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, specific life domain assessment and overall quality of life. We then estimate the independent effects of demographics, lifestyles, value priorities, life domain assessment on the overall quality of life within each society. As well as comparing the results between nations, we look for key generalized characteristics of life quality for the entire and sub-regions of Asia.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Quality of Life in Asia; Synoptic Outline; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Asia: Enormous Diversity; 1.2 Asia: Why Is Quality of Life in Asia Important to Examine?; 1.3 The Notion of Quality of Life and Research Design; 1.4 Organization; References; Chapter 2: The AsiaBarometer Survey Project; 2.1 Its Aim and Trust; 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 Rationale and Promises of the AsiaBarometer; 2.1.2.1 Knowledge Begets Prosperity; 2.1.2.2 Knowledge Engenders Stability; 2.1.2.3 Contribution to Scholarship; 2.1.3 Principles of Questionnaire Formulation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1.3.1 Minimum Unobtrusiveness2.1.3.2 Minimum Oddness; 2.1.3.3 Most Similar and Most Dissimilar Systems Comparisons; 2.1.4 Four Distinctive Clusters of Questions; 2.1.4.1 Daily Lives of Ordinary People; 2.1.4.2 Perceptions and Assessments of Their Lives; 2.1.4.3 From Relationships of Their Lives to Larger Social Entities; 2.1.4.4 Norms, Beliefs, Value Preferences, and Actions; 2.1.5 Harvesting the AsiaBarometer Survey; 2.1.6 Gauging Developmental, Democratic, and Regionalizing Potentials; 2.2 Methodology; 2.2.1 Countries/Societies; 2.2.2 Sampling Methods of the AsiaBarometer Survey
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 3: Overall Quality of Life in Asia; 3.1 Levels of Happiness; 3.2 Levels of Enjoyment; 3.3 Levels of Achievement; Reference; Chapter 4: Satisfaction Levels with Specific Life Domains; 4.1 Materialist Life Sphere; 4.1.1 Housing; 4.1.2 Standard of Living; 4.1.3 Household Income; 4.1.4 Health; 4.1.5 Education; 4.1.6 Job; 4.2 Post-materialist Life Sphere; 4.2.1 Friendships; 4.2.2 Marriage; 4.2.3 Neighbors; 4.2.4 Family Life; 4.2.5 Leisure; 4.2.6 Spiritual Life; 4.3 Public Sphere of Life; 4.3.1 Public Safety; 4.3.2 The Condition of the Environment; 4.3.3 Social Welfare System
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.4 The Democratic System4.4 Patterns of Life Domain Satisfactions by Society; 4.5 Distinguishing Life Sphere of Domain Satisfactions in Each Country and Society; 4.5.1 East Asia; 4.5.1.1 China; 4.5.1.2 Hong Kong; 4.5.1.3 Japan; 4.5.1.4 South Korea; 4.5.1.5 Taiwan; 4.5.2 Southeast Asia; 4.5.2.1 Brunei; 4.5.2.2 Cambodia; 4.5.2.3 Indonesia; 4.5.2.4 Laos; 4.5.2.5 Malaysia; 4.5.2.6 Myanmar; 4.5.2.7 The Philippines; 4.5.2.8 Singapore; 4.5.2.9 Thailand; 4.5.2.10 Vietnam; 4.5.3 South Asia; 4.5.3.1 Bangladesh; 4.5.3.2 Bhutan; 4.5.3.3 India; 4.5.3.4 The Maldives; 4.5.3.5 Nepal; 4.5.3.6 Pakistan
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5.3.7 Sri Lanka4.5.4 Central Asia; 4.5.4.1 Afghanistan; 4.5.4.2 Kazakhstan; 4.5.4.3 Kyrgyzstan; 4.5.4.4 Mongolia; 4.5.4.5 Tajikistan; 4.5.4.6 Uzbekistan; 4.5.5 Types of Countries (Societies) Based on Factor Analyses; References; Chapter 5: Lifestyles; 5.1 Modern Life; 5.2 Digital Life; 5.3 Religious Life; 5.4 Global Life; 5.5 Political Life; 5.6 Family Life; 5.7 Self-Assessments of Relative Standard of Living; References; Chapter 6: Value Priorities; Chapter 7: Determinants of Overall Quality of Life; 7.1 Dependent Variables; 7.1.1 Happiness; 7.1.2 Enjoyment; 7.1.3 Achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2 Independent Variables
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    ISBN: 9789400748071
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 313 p. 30 illus., 5 illus. in color) , digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 208
    DDC: 180-190
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations they share, such as the foundations of order, the power and peril of mediation and the conflation of the natural and the artificial. The essays also take on the historiographical issues involved: the characterization of culture in general and culture of knowledge in particular; the use of generalizations like ‘Baroque’ and the status of such categories; and the role of these in untangling the historical complexities of the tumultuous 17th century. The canonical protagonists of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ are considered, and so are some obscure and suppressed figures: Galileo side by side with Scheiner;Torricelli together with Kircher; Newton as well as Scilla.   The coupling of Baroque and Science defies both the still-triumphalist historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and the slight embarrassment that the Baroque represents for most cultural-national histories of Western Europe. It signals a methodological interest in tensions and dilemmas rather than self-affirming narratives of success and failure, and provides an opportunity for reflective critique of our historical categories which is valuable in its own right.
    Description / Table of Contents: Science in the Age of Baroque; Contents; Chapter 1: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge; Introduction: The Great Opposition; The Papers 2 : Shades of Baroque; Conclusion: Dilemmas and Anxieties; Notes; References; Part I: Order; Chapter 2: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy?; Introduction: Thinking About "Baroque Science"; Constructing the Category of Natural Philosophy-Natural Philosophising as Culture and Process
    Description / Table of Contents: Phases and Stages in the 'Scientific Revolution' Seen as an Unfolding Process in the Field of Natural PhilosophisingThe Dynamics and Rules of Natural Philosophical Contestation During the 'Crisis Within a Crisis' Phase; Articulation on Subordinate Disciplines: Grammar and Specific Utterance; Find or Steal Discoveries, Novelties or Facts, Including Experimental Ones; Bend or Brake Aristotle's Rules About Mathematics and Natural Philosophy: The Gambit of 'Physico-mathematics'; "Hot Spots" of Articulation Contest: Additional Causes and Effects of a Field in Crisis
    Description / Table of Contents: The Mechanics of Responding to 'Outside' Challenges and OpportunitiesRecruitment of Baroque Behaviours, Norms and Identities?; An Additional, Surprising, Conjectural Finding; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: "Bent and Directed Towards Him": A Stylistic Analysis of Kircher's Sunflower Clock; Kircher's Sunflower Clock Reassessed; The Baroque Style; The Problem of Style; The Baroque Problem; A Stylistic Analysis; Clocks; Magnetism; Sunflowers; A Baroque Instrument; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science; Kepler and Newton
    Description / Table of Contents: Kepler and PerfectionNewton and the Moving Aphelia; Kepler's ISL; The ISL After Kepler; Newton's ISL; Conclusion; References; Part II: Vision; Chapter 5: "The Quality of Nothing:" Shakespearean Mirrors and Kepler's Visual Economy of Science; Introduction; Shakespearean Mirrors and the End of Renaissance Science; Kepler's Astronomical Speculations, Aristotelian Metabasis and Renaissance Imagination; Keplerian Shadows on a Wall; Towards Baroque Modes of Observation; References; Chapter 6: Agostino Scilla: A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science; Introduction; The Making of a Learned Painter
    Description / Table of Contents: From Messina to RomeThe Genesis of a Scientific Conversation; Seeing Fossils Like a Painter; References; Chapter 7: What Exactly Was Torricelli's "Barometer?"; Introduction; "Torricelli's Barometer:" The Extant Sources; Rethinking Torricelli's Esperienza of 1644; Torricelli's Mercury Esperienza as Baroque Performance; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan; Introduction; Harvey's Way of Inquiry; The Problem of Inquiry; The Priority of Experience; The Way of the Artisan; The Particular; Apprenticeship and Experience; Artisans and Trust
    Description / Table of Contents: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Ofer Gal and Raz Chen Morris: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge -- A. Order -- 2. John Schuster: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy? -- 3. Koen Vermeir: “Bent And Directed Towards Him:” A Baroque Perspective on Kircher’s Sunflower Clock -- 4. Ofer Gal: From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science -- B. Vision -- 5. Raz Chen-Morris: “The Quality of Nothing,” Or Kepler's Visual Economy of Science -- 6. Paula Findlen: Agostino Scilla:  A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science -- 7. J.B. Shank: What Exactly Was “Torricelli’s Barometer?” -- 8. Alan Salter: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan -- C. Excess -- 9. John Gascoigne: Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World -- 10. Nicholas Dew: The Hive and the Pendulum: Universal Metrology and Baroque Science.-11. Victor Boantza: Chymical Philosophy and Boyle’s Incongruous Philosophical Chymistry.-12 Rivka Feldhay: The Simulation of Nature and the Dissimulation of the Law on a Baroque Stage: Galileo and the Church Revisited​.
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400767546
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 264 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Anthropology ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Politische Psychologie ; Kritische Theorie
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  • 27
    ISBN: 9789400746701
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 233 p. 7 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 102
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    Parallel Title: Druck-Ausgabe Legal argumentation theory
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Legal argumentation theory
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    Keywords: Philosophy of law ; Computers Law and legislation ; Semantics ; Humanities ; Law ; Law ; Philosophy of law ; Computers Law and legislation ; Semantics ; Humanities ; Forensic orations ; Law ; Methodology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Rechtsphilosophie ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung
    Abstract: This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation theory, philosophy of law, logic and artificial intelligence. It presents an overview of contributions representative of different academic and legal cultures, and different continents and countries. The book contains contributions on strategic maneuvering, argumentum ad absurdum, argumentum ad hominem, consequentialist argumentation, weighing and balancing, the relation between legal argumentation and truth, the distinction between the context of discovery and context of justification, and the role of constitutive and regulative rules in legal argumentation. It is based on a selection of papers that were presented in the special workshop on Legal Argumentation organized at the 25th IVR World Congress for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy held 15-20 August 2011 in Frankfurt, Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives; Introduction; Contents; Chapter 1: Reasoning by Consequences: Applying Different Argumentation Structures to the Analysis of Consequentialist Reasoning in Judicial Decisions; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Theories on Consequentialist Reasoning; 1.2.1 MacCormick's Theory; 1.2.2 Wróblewski's Theory; 1.2.3 Feteris' Pragma-Dialectical Proposal; 1.3 Judges on Consequences; 1.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2: On the Argumentum ad Absurdum in Statutory Interpretation: Its Uses and Normative Significance; 2.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 The Strictly Logical Sense of the Argumentum ad Absurdum2.3 The Argumentum ad Absurdum as a Special Case of Pragmatic Argument; 2.3.1 The Problem of the Indeterminacy of Pragmatic Arguments and the Distinctive Feature of the ad Absurdum Argument; 2.3.2 The Difference Between the Argumentum ad Absurdum and the Generic Consequentialist Arguments; 2.3.3 The Context of the ad Absurdum Argument; 2.3.4 The Foundation of the Argumentum ad Absurdum; 2.3.4.1 The Nature of the Assumption of the Rational Legislator
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.4.2 A Second Thought on the Nature of the ad Absurdum Argument: Absurdity as Unreasonableness2.3.4.3 On the Foundations of the ad Absurdum Argument and the Assumption of the Rational Legislator; 2.3.5 The Practical Requirements of the Pragmatic Version of the ad Absurdum Argument; 2.4 Final Considerations; References; Chapter 3: Why Precedent in Law (and Elsewhere) Is Not Totally (or Even Substantially) About Analogy; 3.1 Analogy as a Friend; 3.2 Precedent as a Foe; 3.3 On the Differences Between Analogy and Precedent; 3.4 Does Precedential Constraint Make Sense?
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 Towards a Research Program on PrecedentReferences; Chapter 4: Fallacies in Ad Hominem Arguments; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Definition of Argument Ad Hominem; 4.3 Ad Hominem Fallacies; 4.4 Talking About Errors as Fallacies; 4.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: The Rule of Law and the Ideal of a Critical Discussion; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Pragma-Dialectical Approach to Legal Argumentation; 5.2.1 Methodological Starting-Points; 5.2.2 Reasonableness and the Ideal Model of a Critical Discussion; 5.3 The Ideal of the Rule of Law; 5.4 Reconstructing Judicial Standpoints in Legal Decisions
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4.1 Houtlosser Defines the Speech Act `Advancing a Standpoint' with the following conditions5.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Strategic Maneuvering with the Argumentative Role of Legal Principles in the Case of the "Unworthy Spouse"; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Case of the `Unworthy Spouse'; 6.3 Dialectical Analysis of the Argumentation of the Supreme Court; 6.4 Dialectical Analysis of the Contributions to the Discussion of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court; 6.4.1 Dialectical Analysis of the Contributions of the Court of Appeal
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.4.2 Dialectical Analysis of the Contributions of the Supreme Court
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    ISBN: 9789400750678 , 1299198147 , 9781299198142
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 179 p. 4 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 296
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The structural links between ecology, evolution and ethics
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Biology Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Evolution (Biology) ; History ; Congresses ; Ecology ; History ; Congresses ; Environmental ethics ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Ökologie ; Evolution ; Ethik ; Bioethik ; Ökologie ; Evolutionsbiologie
    Abstract: Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the emerging need for environmental policy management has gradually but radically changed the relationship between these disciplines. Over the last decades in particular, there has emerged a need for an interconnecting meta-paradigm that integrates more strictly evolutionary studies, biodiversity studies and the ethical frameworks that are most appropriate for allowing a lasting co-evolution between natural and social systems. Today such a need is more than a mere luxury, it is an epistemological and practical necessity.In short, the authors of this volume address some of the foundational themes that interconnect evolutionary studies, ecology and ethics. Here they have chosen to analyze a topic using one of these specific disciplines as a kind of epistemological platform with specific links to topics from one or both of the remaining disciplines
    Description / Table of Contents: The Structural Linksbetween Ecology, Evolution and Ethics; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Ecology, Evolution, Ethics: In Search of a Meta-paradigm - An Introduction; 1.1 Some Landmarks of an Interweaved History of Ecology, Evolution and Ethics; 1.2 Looking for an Epistemic and Practical Meta-paradigm: The Transactional Framework; 1.3 Evolution between Ethics and Creationism; 1.4 Chance and Time between Evolution and Ecology; 1.5 Ethics between Ecology and Evolution; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Evolution Versus Creation: A Sibling Rivalry?
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 Before The Origin2.2 Charles Darwin; 2.3 The Darwinian Evangelist; 2.4 The Twenty-first Century; References; Chapter 3: Evolution and Chance; 3.1 Three Meanings of the Concept of Chance; 3.1.1 Luck; 3.1.2 Random Events; 3.1.3 Contingency with Respect to a Theoretical System; 3.2 Modalities of Chance in the Biology of Evolution; 3.2.1 Mutation; 3.2.2 Random Genetic Drift; 3.2.3 Genetic Revolution; 3.2.4 The Ecosystem Level; 3.2.5 The Macroevolutionary Level (Paleobiology); 3.2.6 Other Cases; 3.3 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Some Conceptions of Time in Ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Scales of Time4.2 The Chronological Issue; 4.3 Crop Rotation; 4.4 Succession and Equilibrium; 4.5 Irreversibility and Unpredictability; 4.6 Persistence and Anticipation; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Facts, Values, and Analogies: A Darwinian Approach to Environmental Choice; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Naturalism: The Method of Experience; 5.3 An Empirical Hypothesis; 5.4 Scaling and Environmental Problem Formulation; 5.5 Darwin and Environmental Ethics; Note; References; Chapter 6: Towards EcoEvoEthics; 6.1 An Equilibrium World and the Ecosystem Paradigm
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Protection of Nature: The Path to Ecology6.3 Ecocentrism, the Ethical Counterpart of the Ecosystem Paradigm; 6.4 Ecology Meets Evolution: The Co-change Paradigm; 6.5 An Eco-evolutionary Ethics Is Needed; 6.6 Uniqueness, Diversity, and Evolutionary Values; 6.7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Ecology and Moral Ontology; 7.1 The Superorganism Paradigm in Ecology; 7.2 The Ecosystem Paradigm in Ecology; 7.3 The Rise and Fall of Ecosystems as Superorganisms; 7.4 Organisms as Superecosystems; 7.5 Classical and Recent Expressions of the Organism as Superecosystem Concept
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.6 From a Modern to a Post-modern Moral Ontology7.7 Post-modern Ecological Moral Ontology: Toward an Erotic Ethic; References; Chapter 8: Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics; 8.1 Defining Characteristics of Moral Rights; 8.1.1 ``No Trespassing´´; 8.1.2 Equality; 8.1.3 Trump; 8.1.4 Respect; 8.2 Who Has Moral Rights?; 8.2.1 Subjects-of-a-Life; 8.2.2 Animal Rights; 8.3 A Number of Environmentally-based Objections Have Been Raised Against the Rights View2; 8.3.1 The Rights View and Predator-Prey Relations; 8.3.2 The Rights View and Endangered Species; Notes; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9: Reconciling Individualist and Deeper Environmentalist Theories? An Exploration
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    ISBN: 9789400727892 , 1283935856 , 9781283935852
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 488p. 25 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: CERC Studies in Comparative Education 30
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Portraits of 21st century Chinese universities
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    Keywords: History ; Humanities ; Education ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; History ; Humanities ; Universities and colleges ; China ; Education, Higher ; China ; College students ; China ; Attitudes ; College teachers ; China ; Attitudes ; College administrators ; China ; Attitudes ; China ; Universität
    Abstract: This book examines the ways in which China’s universities have changed in the dramatic move to a mass stage which has unfolded since the late 1990s. Twelve universities in different regions of the country are portrayed through the eyes of their students, faculty and leaders. The book begins with the national level policy process around the move to mass higher education. This is followed by an analysis of the views of 2,300 students on the 12 campuses about how the changes have affected their learning experiences and civil society involvement. The 12 portraits in the next section are of three comprehensive universities, three education-related universities, three science and technology universities, and three newly emerging private universities. The final chapter sketches the contours of an emerging Chinese model of the university, and explores its connections to China’s longstanding scholarly traditions.
    Description / Table of Contents: Portraits of 21st CenturyChinese Universities:; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Photos; Foreword; Introduction and Acknowledgements; Research Design; Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities; Part I: Overview and Main Themes; 1 Understanding China's Move to Mass Higher Education from a Policy Perspective; The Expansion and Massification of the Chinese System; The Changing Landscape of the Chinese System; A Decentralized Structure to Support the World's Largest System; Issues of Regional Disparity, Quality & Equality, and Employment
    Description / Table of Contents: Attaching High Value to EducationPursuing Optimal Efficiency and Curricular Integration as the Goal; Scholars Involvement in Strategic Planning and Public Communication; Government Policy Papers Having Legislative Power; Adoption of an Enrollment-Based Financing Mechanism and a FeeCharging Policy; A Systematic Decentralization Pushing the Institutions to Strategically Plan for Their Future; Discussion & Conclusion: Theorizing Patterns of Policy Makingin China; Embracing the Market Economy: An Efficiency-Driven Rationale Emerging
    Description / Table of Contents: "Walking on Two Legs": Quality and Equality Issues Coming to the CenterA Shift in the Policy Formation Model?64 What More Can Scholars Do?; 2 Equity, Institutional Change and Civil Society - The Student Experience in China's Move to Mass Higher Education; Introduction; Higher Education and Civil Society; Universities as Civic Actors; Citizenship and Civil Society; Analytical Frameworks; Methods; Limitations; Results of the Survey; Experiences of Access and Success in Higher Education Access; Affordability; Success
    Description / Table of Contents: Perceptions and Experiences of Institutional Change Feelings toward the changesViews on the role of the expansion in socioeconomic development; Flexibility in the selection of courses or programs; Teaching quality; Institutional internationalization; Political Socialization toward Citizenship and Civil Society Civic knowing and wisdom; Associational life as civic action; The interplay among civic knowing, wisdom and action; Discussion of Findings; Martin Trow's Framework Revisited; Reflections on Equal Opportunity in China's Move to Mass Higher Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Reflections on the Role of Mass Higher Education in Nurturing a Civil SocietyConclusions; Part II: Portraits of Three Public Comprehensive Universities; 3 Peking University - Icon of Cultural Leadership; History and Context; The Imperial University and the Early Republic; Cai Yuanpei and the Spirit of Peking University; Peking University in War-time Circumstances; Ma Yinchu and the Spirit of Peking University; Peking University's Move to Mass Higher Education:An Empirical Overview; Growth in Student Enrollments; Beida's Changing Financial Profile; Curricular Evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Vision and Strategic Direction
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Photos -- Foreword; Robert F. ARNOVE -- Introduction and Acknowledgements; Ruth HAYHOE -- PART I: Overview and Main Themes -- 1. Understanding China’s Move to Mass Higher Education from a Policy Perspective; Qiang ZHA -- 2. Equity, Institutional Change and Civil Society - The Student Experience in China’s Move to Mass Higher Education; Jun LI -- PART II: Portraits of Three Public Comprehensive Universities.- 3. Peking University - Icon of Cultural Leadership; Ruth HAYHOE and Qiang ZHA, with YAN Fengqiao -- 4. Nanjing University - Redeeming the Past by Academic Merit; Jun LI and Jing LIN, with GONG Fang -- 5. Xiamen University - A Southeastern Outlook; Ruth HAYHOE and Qiang ZHA, with XIE Zuxu -- PART III: Portraits of Three Education-Related Universities.- 6. East China Normal University - Education in the Lead; Ruth HAYHOE and Qiang ZHA, with LI Mei -- 7. Southwest University - An Unusual Merger and New Challenges; Jun LI and Jing LIN, with LIU Yibin -- 8. Yanbian University - Building a Niche through a Multicultural Identity; Jing LIN and Jun LI, with PIAO Taizhu -- PART IV: Portraits of Three Science and Technology Universities.- 9. The University of Science and Technology of China - Can the Caltech Model take Root in Chinese Soil?; Qiang ZHA and Jun LI, with CHENG Xiaofang -- 10. Huazhong University of Science and Technology - A Microcosm of New China’s Higher Education; Ruth HAYHOE and Jun LI, with CHEN Min and ZHOU Guangli -- 11. Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University - An Agricultural Multiversity?; Qiang ZHA and Ruth HAYHOE, with NIU Hongtai -- PART V: Portraits of Three Private Universities -- 12. Yellow River University of Science and Technology - Pioneer of Private Higher Education; Ruth HAYHOE and Jing LIN, with TANG Baomei -- 13. Xi’an International University - Transforming Fish into Dragons; Jun LI and Jing LIN, with WANG Guan -- 14. Blue Sky - A University for the Socially Marginalized; Jing LIN and Qiang ZHA -- PART VI: Conclusion and Future Directions.- 15. Is There an Emerging Chinese Model of the University?; Qiang ZHA -- Notes on the Authors -- Index..
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    ISBN: 9789400746619
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 265 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 2
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Paranjape, Makarand R., 1960 - Making India
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    Abstract: Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, today's India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious population, it is an economic powerhouse and the world's largest democracy. It can boast of robust legal institutions and a dizzying plurality of cultures, in addition to a lively and unrestricted print and electronic media. The question is how did it get to where it is now? Covering the period from 1800 to 1950, this study of about a dozen makers of modern India is a valuable addition to India's cultural and intellectua
    Abstract: Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, todays India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious population, it is an economic powerhouse and the worlds largest democracy. It can boast of robust legal institutions and a dizzying plurality of cultures, in addition to a lively and unrestricted print and electronic media. The question is how did it get to where it is now? Covering the period from 1800 to 1950, this study of about a dozen makers of modern India is a valuable addition to Indias cultural and intellectual history. More specifically, it shows how through the very act of writing, often in English, these thought leaders reconfigured Indian society. The very act of writing itself became endowed with almost a charismatic authority, which continued to influence generations that came after the exit of the authors from the national stage. By examining the lives and works of key players in the making of contemporary India, this study assesses their relationships with British colonialism and Indian traditions. Moreover, it analyzes how their use of the English language helped shape Indian modernity, thus giving rise to a uniquely Indian version of liberalism. The period was the fiery crucible from which an almost impossibly diverse and pluralistic new nation emerged through debate, dialogue, conflict, confrontation, and reconciliation. The author shows how the struggle for India was not only with British colonialism and imperialism, but also with itself and its past. He traces the religious and social reforms that laid the groundwork for the modern sub-continental state, proposed and advocated in English by the native voices that influenced the formation Indias society. Merging culture, politics, language, and literature, this is a path breaking volume that adds much to our understanding of a nation that looks set to achieve much in the coming century.
    Description / Table of Contents: Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority; Author Biography; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Works Cited; Chapter 2: "Usable Pasts": Rammohun Roy's Occidentalism; 2.1 Usable Pasts, Occidentalisms, Disciplinary Boundaries; 2.2 Ten Theses on Rammohun Roy; 2.3 India, Britain, and Svaraj; 2.4 The Middle Ground Between Reductive Oppositions; 2.5 Rammohun and the Christian Missionaries; 2.6 Rammohun and English Education; 2.7 Conclusion; Works Cited
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: "East Indian" Cosmopolitanism: Henry Derozio's Fakeer of Jungheera and the Birth of Indian Modernity3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Fakeer of Jungheera; 3.3 The Plot or Action; 3.4 The Prefatory Sonnet and Derozio's "Orientalism"; 3.5 Canto I; 3.6 Canto II; 3.7 Critical Reception and Contemporary Readings; 3.8 Derozio and Indian Modernity; 3.9 East Indian Cosmopolitanism; 3.10 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 4: Michael Madhusudan Dutt: The Prodigal's Progress; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Colonizers and the Colonized; 4.3 The Loss and Recovery of Madhusudan Datta
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 A Prodigal's Progress?4.5 Conclusion: Colonizer, Colonized-or Neither; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Colonialism and National Consciousness in Rajmohan's Wife; 5.1 Introduction: The Paradox of Representation; 5.2 Asia's "First" English Novel?; 5.3 National Culture and Colonialism; 5.4 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6: Subjects to Change: Gender Trouble and Women's "Authority"; 6.1 Introduction: The "Women's Question" and Textuality; 6.2 Anandabai, Tarabai, Pandita Ramabai; 6.3 Krupabai and Shevantibai; 6.4 Ramabai Ranade, Clarinda, and Laxmibai
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.5 Conclusion: Masters of Change?Works Cited; Chapter 7: Re presenting Swami Vivekananda; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Life; 7.3 Re presentations; 7.4 Spiritual vs. Historical "Facts"; 7.5 Impact and Significance; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Sarojini Naidu: Reclaiming a Kinship; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Life; 8.3 Poetic Reputation; 8.4 Works; 8.5 Re-interpretation; 8.6 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 9: "Home and the World": Colonialism and Alter nativity in Tagore's India; 9.1 Reworlding Homes; 9.2 Colonialism and Consciousness; 9.3 Some Nineteenth Century Types; 9.4 Rereading Tagore
    Description / Table of Contents: 9.5 Dominant/Subaltern Alter nativityWorks Cited; Chapter 10: Sri Aurobindo and the Renaissance in India; 10.1 The Orientalist Predicament; 10.2 A Semiology of Gravestones; 10.3 The Renaissance in India?; 10.4 "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo; 10.5 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 11: The "Persistent" Mahatma: Rereading Gandhi Post-Hindutva; 11.1 Remembering Sanatana Dharma; 11.2 The Irrelevance of Gandhi; 11.3 Recuperating Gandhi: A Sanatani Essay; 11.4 Still Searching for Svaraj? Gandhi and a New Global Order; Works Cited; Chapter 12: Conclusion: Usable Pasts, Possible Futures
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 291
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Murphey, Murray G., 1928 - The development of Quine's philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy ; Quine, W. V ; (Willard Van Orman) ; Science ; Philosophy ; Quine, W. V. 1908-2000 ; Philosophie
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    ISBN: 9789048138258 , 9048138256
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    Pages: XXIV, 401 S. , Ill. , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Pearce, Charles E.M. Oceanic Migration
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    Keywords: Prehistoric peoples ; Human beings Migrations ; Human beings Migrations ; Culture diffusion ; Culture diffusion ; Climatic changes Social aspects ; History ; Oceania Civilization ; Polynesia Civilization ; Prehistoric peoples ; Pacific Area ; Human beings ; Pacific Area ; Migrations ; Culture diffusion ; Polynesia ; Civilization ; Pazifischer Ozean ; Indischer Ozean ; Meereskunde ; Indischer Ozean Region ; Klimaänderung ; Migration ; Pazifischer Raum ; Siedlung ; Pazifischer Raum ; Seehandel
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    ISBN: 9789048125371 , 9789048125388
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    Pages: XIV, 347 S. , 24cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Bilimoria, Purushottama Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bilimoria, Purushottama Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
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    Keywords: Religion Philosophy ; History ; East and West Philosophy ; Great Britain Colonies ; Religious life and customs ; Konferenzschrift 1996 ; Konferenzschrift 1996 ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus ; Indien ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus ; Amerika ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus
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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.
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    ISBN: 9789048126149
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    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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    ISBN: 9781402063879
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    Series Statement: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 11
    DDC: 370.95
    Keywords: Education ; Arts ; Performing arts ; Humanities
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    Abstract: Written by leaders in a wide range of creative fields and from all corners of the Asian region, this collection of essays presents arts and education programs which reflect traditional and contemporary practices. The volume brings together researchers, practitioners, educators, children and young people with shared interests in the arts and activities that cross disciplinary divisions and aims to encourage the use of the arts in developing international understanding, celebrating cultural diversity, building cultural bridges and creating cross-cultural dialogue throughout the Asian region. Thi
    Description / Table of Contents: The Arts - Unifying Principles in Education; Masters and Pupils; Art for Education; Arts Education in Iran; The Arts-in-Education Programme; Arts Education in Cambodia; Representation of Japanese Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia); Mountains in the Evolution of Visual Arts in Kyrgyzstan; Development of Contemporary Art in Thailand; Information Technology, Art Education and Creativity in Singapore; The Power of Creation and Expression in Digital-Age Children; Art Education in Uzbekistan; To Strive, to Seek, to Find and not to Yield
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Education for Sustaining CommunitiesNew and Varied Initiatives in Arts Education for Cultural Development in Philippine Society; Crossroads for Cultural Education Through Music; Symphony and Sa Re Ga; A Paradigm Shift in Teaching Music in Schools; Layers of Thought on Korean Music, Music Education and the Value of Music and Arts in the Context of Education and Human Development; Rasa - A Life Skill; Tertiary Dance Education in Malaysia; Theatre and Education; The Black Box Exercise; Conclusion
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    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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    Series Statement: CERC Studies in Comparative Education 17
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    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Education and state ; Education Philosophy ; History ; Humanities ; China ; Pädagogik
    Abstract: This book conveys an understanding of China s educational development from within. It does so through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. These eleven educators are portrayed in the context of their cultural heritage, families, communities and schools, offering their own deeply reflective interpretations of Chinese education. The book provides glimpses into the educational context of China s recent move onto the world stage.
    Abstract: This book conveys an understanding of China??'s educational development from within. It does so through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. These eleven educators are portrayed in the context of their cultural heritage, families, communities and schools, offering their own deeply reflective interpretations of Chinese education. The book provides glimpses into the educational context of China??'s recent move onto the world stage
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Creating the Portraits - An Interpretive Framework; Wang Chengxu - A Leading Figure in Comparative Education; Li Bingde - Pioneer of Learning Theory and Educational Experimentation; Zhu Jiusi - A Visionary University Leader; Pan Maoyuan - Founder of Higher Education Studies in China; Xie Xide - An Outstanding Scientist and Educator; Wang Fengxian - A Leading Philosopher of Education; Wang Yongquan - Higher Education Thinker and Leader; Gu Mingyuan - Comparative Educator and Modernization Theorist; Lu Jie - A Woman Educator of Standing
    Description / Table of Contents: Liu Fonian and Ye Lan - Influential Educators of Two GenerationsComparative Reflections on the Portraits; Back Matter;
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    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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    ISBN: 9781402051456
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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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    Series Statement: Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey 9
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Architecture ; Music ; Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ästhetik
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    ISBN: 9781402062445
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    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 12
    DDC: 400
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Language and languages ; Englisch ; Konversationsanalyse ; Argumentation ; Diskursmarker
    Abstract: This volume identifies and analyses English words and expressions that are crucial for an adequate reconstruction of argumentative discourse. It provides a systematic set of instruments for giving a well founded analysis that results in an analytic overview of the elements that are relevant for the evaluation of the argumentation. By starting from everyday examples, the study immediately connects with the practice of argumentative discourse.
    Abstract: Argumentative Indicators: A Pragma-Dialectical Study identifies and analyses English words and expressions that are crucial for an adequate reconstruction of argumentative discourse. It provides the analyst of argumentative discussions and texts with a systematic set of instruments for giving a well founded analysis which results in an analytic overview of the elements that are relevant for the evaluation of the argumentation. In the book a systematic connection is made between linguistic insights into the characteristics of argumentative discourse and insights from argumentation theory into the resolution of differences of opinion by means of argumentation.
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    Series Statement: Springer International Handbook of Research in Arts Education 16
    DDC: 700.71
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    Keywords: Education ; Arts ; Humanities ; Music ; Performing arts ; Ästhetische Erziehung
    Abstract: Providing a distillation of knowledge in the various disciplines of arts education (dance, drama, music, literature and poetry and visual arts), the Handbook synthesizes existing research literature, helps define the past, and contributes to shaping the substantive and methodological future of the respective and integrated disciplines of arts education. While research can at times seem distant from practice, the Handbook aims to maintain connection with the lived practice of art and of education, capturing the vibrancy and best thinking in the field of theory and practice. The Handbook is organized into 13 sections, each centering on a major area or issue in arts education research. These areas include: History of arts education, curriculum, evaluation, cultural centers, appreciation, composition, informal learning, child culture, creativity, the body, spirituality, and technology. The individual chapters address cross-cultural research related to the central theme of the section from the perspectives of the particular arts discipline. Interludes provide reflective thoughts on the theme.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction; List of Reviewers; Section 1 History; 1 Prelude: History of Education and Arts Education; 2 Capitalizing Art Education: Mapping International Histories; 3 Interlude: Arts Education, the Aesthetic and Cultural Studies; 4 A History of Drama Education: A Search for Substance; 5 The Teaching and Learning of Music in the Settings of Family, Church, and School: Some Historical Perspectives; 6 Interlude: History Looking Forward; 7 Social History and Dance as Education; 8 The Teaching of English Language Arts as Poetic Language: An Institutionalist View; Section 2 Curriculum
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Prelude: Making Sense of Curriculum Research in Arts Education10 Currents of Change in the Music Curriculum; 11 Experiencing the Visual and Visualizing Experiences; 12 Interlude: On Learning to Draw and Paint as an Adult; 13 Proteus, the Giant at the Door: Drama and Theater in the Curriculum; 14 Narrative as Artful Curriculum Making; 15 Interlude: Imagining Ms. Eddy Alive; or, the Return of the Arts Teacher and her Personalized Curriculum; 16 Dance Curriculum Research; 17 Music (and Arts) Education from the Point of View of Didaktik and Bildung
    Description / Table of Contents: 18 Arts Integration in the Curriculum: A Review of Research and Implications for Teaching and Learning19 Artists in the Academy: Curriculum and Instruction; Section 3 Assessment and Evaluation; 20 Prelude: Making Connections in Assessment and Evaluation in Arts Education; 21 To See and to Share: Evaluating the Dance Experience in Education; 22 Harmonizing Assessment and Music in the Classroom; 23 Interlude: Reflections on a Line from Dewey; 24 Assessing English within the Arts; 25 Wrestling with Assessment in Drama Education; 26 Interlude: Assessment and Evaluation in Education and the Arts
    Description / Table of Contents: 27 Evaluation Research in Visual Arts EducationSection 4 Composition; 28 Prelude: The Composition Section Composing as Metaphor and Process; 29 Compositional Process in Music; 30 Four Metaphors of the Composing Process; 31 Interlude: Metaphor and the Mission of the Arts; 32 Composition in Theater: Writing and Devising Performance; 33 Research in Choreography; 34 Interlude: Art and Metaphor, Body and Mind; 35 Composing in Visual Arts; Section 5 Appreciation; 36 Prelude: Locating the Heart of Experience; 37 Moving into Dance: Dance Appreciation as Dance Literacy
    Description / Table of Contents: 38 Appreciation: The Weakest Link in Drama/Theater Education39 Music Appreciation: Exploring Similarity and Difference; 40 Later "In the Early World": The Changing Role of Poetry and Creative Writing in the K-12 Classroom; 41 Teaching Toward Appreciation in the Visual Arts; 42 Interlude: The Arches of Experience; 43 Interlude: On Reading Maxine's Interlude; 44 Postcards from "A World Made Possible": Excerpts from Virtual Conversations; Section 6 Musuems and Cultural Centers; 45 Prelude: Museums, Cultural Centers, and What We Don't Know
    Description / Table of Contents: 46 The Role of Theater in Museums and Historic Sites: Visitors, Audiences, and Learners
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    ISBN: 9781402062568
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 82
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Coskun, Deniz Law as symbolic form
    DDC: 340
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    Keywords: Law Philosophy ; Philosophy of law ; Law ; Political science ; Humanities ; Cassirer, Ernst 1874-1945 ; Rechtsphilosophie
    Abstract: This book describes the rule of law as the reign of persuasion rather than the reign of force, and democracy as the reign by persuasion rather than the reign by force. It synthesizes a vast amount of current Cassirer-literature and makes a contribution to jurisprudence. The book is the first systematic elaboration on law as a symbolic form and it sheds new light on a still dark area of intellectual and jurisprudential thought.
    Abstract: Jurisprudence, according to Cassirer, is not merely the systematic, conceptual pursuance of ethics. They are separate domains for Cassirer, and both direct their claims differently on the individual. Whereas ethics concerns the motives of the individual, law ultimately achieves a cosmos for our world of outward actions. However, they are not separated by a neutral line or a vacuum. For law to have effect as a symbolic form it is necessary that it reflects the law in the mind of people i.e., that one could and ought to have assented to it out of ethical principles and maxims. The conceptual analysis of law goes hand to hand with its genetic account. Both ethics and law are products of, spring forth from the formative or symbolic powers of man, and although, as any other symbolism, they might confront us as something objective, i.e., as part of reality that is beyond our immediate reach, ultimately we must always bring them to account to their very source: our independent and individual moral judgment. In this book we describe the rule of law as the reign of persuasion rather than the reign of force, and democracy as the reign by persuasion rather than the reign by force.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Cassirer's Public Engagement with Weimar; Cassirer And Heidegger. An Intermezzo on Magic Mountain; Cassirer In Exile An Essay On The Recovery Of Individual Moral Judgement; The Politics Of Myth. Cassirer's Pathology Of The Totalitarian State; The Philosophy Of Symbolic Forms; Cassirer's Position In Relation To Neo-Kantianism?; Law As A Symbolic Form; The Linguistic Turn Of Social Contract Theory; Cassirer's Position In Relation To Neo-Kantian Jurisprudence; Back Matter
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    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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    ISBN: 9781402062469
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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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    ISBN: 9781402049897
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 5
    DDC: 306.3/4
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    Keywords: Education ; Humanities ; Personnel management ; Social sciences ; Industriesoziologie ; Identität ; Selbst ; Arbeitsplatz ; Psychologie
    Abstract: This book examines continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labor market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organizational management, and vocational education and training, it connects the debates of skills formation, human resources development, and careers with individual's work commitment and professional orientations.
    Abstract: This edited volume on Identities at Work brings together international theory and empirical research that deals with continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labour market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organisational management and vocational education and training the contributions in this volume connect the debates of skills formation, human resources development and careers with individual s work commitment and professional orientations in various ways. With this focus the volume presents a new research perspective based on an interdisciplinary and international approach. We argue that in times of globalisation and rapidly changing work realities such an approach is needed to better understand and analyse what is required to equip and prepare the workforce to meet international labour market demands. In this sense the publication shall serve as a useful resource to researchers and policy makers working in the fields of skills formation, human resources development and organisational management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Series Scope; Introduction by the Series Editors; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Introduction and Overview; Part One: Vocational Identity in Theory and Empirical Research; 1 Decomposing and Recomposing Occupational Identities-A Survey of Theoretical Concepts; 2 Tensions in the Vocational Identity of Danish Bankers; 3 The Role of Developing a Vocational Identity for Women- The Example of Young Single German Mothers; 4 The 'Double' Vocational Identity of the Working Population in the Greek Tourist Industry; 5 Vocational Education and Training-A European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Part Two: Work and Personal Identity6 Career Changes and Identity Continuities-A Contradiction?; 7 Exercising Self Through Working Life: Learning, Work and Identity; 8 The Much Vaunted 'Flexible Employee'-What Does it Take?; Part Three: Work and Commitment; 9 The Dynamics Between Organisational Commitment and Professional Identity Formation at Work; 10 Apprentices' Experiences of Occupational and Organisational Commitment: An Empirical Investigation in a German Automobile Company; 11 The Individualisation of Identification with Work in a European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Work Identity in the Japanese Context: Stereotype and RealityPart Four: Modern Work and the Creation of New Professional Identities; 13 The Construction of a New Professional Self: A Critical Reading of the Curricula for Nurses and Computer Engineers in Norway; 14 US Efforts to Create a New Professional Identity for the Bioscience Industry; Concluding Chapter; Index
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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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    ISBN: 1402039743 , 1402039751 , 9781402039744 , 9781402039751
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 309 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: Archimedes 12
    Series Statement: Archimedes
    DDC: 507.114
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Geschichte ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science Congresses Study and teaching (Higher) ; History ; Science Congresses History ; Universities and colleges Congresses History ; Naturwissenschaften ; Universität ; Europa ; Europa ; Konferenzschrift 1999 ; Konferenzschrift 1999 ; Konferenzschrift 1999 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Universität ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1500-1800
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    ISBN: 9781402046612
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries 31
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    DDC: 010.42
    Keywords: Humanities ; Publishers and publishing ; Humanities / Arts ; Humanities ; Publishers and publishing
    Abstract: Aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description
    Description / Table of Contents: General Works about the History of the Printed Book and Libraries; Paper, Inks, Printing Materials; Calligraphy, Type Design, Typefounding; Layout, Composing, Printing, Presses, Printed Books (incl. incunabula, etc.); Book Illustration; Bookbinding; Book Trade, Publishing; Bibliophily, Book Collecting; Libraries, Librarianship, Scholarship, Institutions; Legal, Economic, Social Aspects; Newspapers, Periodicals, and Journalism; Relation to Secondary Subjects (mainly in order of DC);
    Description / Table of Contents: General Works about the History of the Printed Book and Libraries; Paper, Inks, Printing Materials; Calligraphy, Type Design, Typefounding; Layout, Composing, Printing, Presses, Printed Books (incl. incunabula, etc.); Book Illustration; Bookbinding; Book Trade, Publishing; Bibliophily, Book Collecting; Libraries, Librarianship, Scholarship, Institutions; Legal, Economic, Social Aspects; Newspapers, Periodicals, and Journalism; Relation to Secondary Subjects (mainly in order of DC);
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    ISBN: 9781402042126
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 59
    DDC: 323/.09
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    Keywords: History ; Political Science ; Law History ; Humanities ; Law Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Recht ; Geschichte 1200-1500 ; Recht ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Rechtsphilosophie ; Geschichte 1300-1800
    Abstract: Rights language is a fundamental feature of the modern world. Virtually all significant social and political struggles are waged, and have been waged for over a century now, in terms of rights claims. In some ways, it is precisely the birth of modern rights language that ushers in modernity in terms of moral and political thought, and the struggle for a modern way of life seems for many synonymous with the fight for a universal recognition of equal, individual human rights. Where did modern rights language come from? What kinds of rights discourses is it rooted in? What is the specific nature of modern rights discourse, when and where were medieval and ancient notions of rights transformed into it? Can one in fact find any single such transformation of medieval into modern rights discourse? This book brings together some of the most central scholars in the history of medieval and early-modern rights discourse. Through the different angles taken by its authors, the volume brings to light the multifaceted nature of rights languages in the medieval and early modern world.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; 1. Are There Any Individual Rights or Only Duties?; 2. Rights and Duties in Late Scholastic Discussion on Extreme Necessity; 3. Right(s) in Ockham: A Reasonable Vision of Politics; 4. Politics, Right(s) and Human Freedom in Marsilius of Padua; 5. Summenhart's Theory of Rights; 6. Moral Self-Ownership and Ius Possessionis in Late Scholastics; 7. Dominion of Self and Natural Rights Before Locke and After; 8. Natural Law and Practical Reasoning in Late Medieval Scholasticism; 9. Liberty and Natural Rights in Pufendorf's Natural Law Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: 10. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness11. The Lockean Rightholders; Index Of Names
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    ISBN: 9781402039751
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 12
    DDC: 507.1104
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    Keywords: History ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Medicine ; Science Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Universität ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1450-1800
    Abstract: "The present volume offers the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the fecundity of early modern universities, their receptivity to novel scientific ideas, and their contribution to the critical dialogue that vitalized the emergent European scientific community. The ""soul"" of the early modern university was its well-rounded, humanistically informed curriculum and the culture of erudition it inculcated. The authors of this volume offer a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers, from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia, from Italy to Scotland, even as it was increasingly modified to accommodate the new science. The fresh evidence gathered here emphasizes just how rigorously science was pursued by academics, notwithstanding institutional constraints. Individually, each paper illustrates the nexus of complexities specific locales made on the reception and transmission of scientific ideas, collectively, the papers offer a comparative framework that should prove invaluable in our evaluating the profound changes undergone by early modern universities during the era of Scientific Revolution."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , "Mathematics for astronomy" at universities in Copernicus' time , The University of Salamanca and the renaissance of astronomy during the second half of the 15th century , Medical science and medical teachings at the University of Salamanca in the 15th century , The faculty of medicine of Valencia , The cultivation of astronomy in Spanish universities in the latter half of the 16th century , The Sphere of Jacques du Chevreul: astronomy at the University of Paris in the 1620s , Lectures and practices: the variety of mathematical and mechanical teaching at the University of Uppsala in the 17th century , Mathematical research in Italian universities in the modern era , Universities, academies, and sciences in the modern age , Natural philosophy and mathematics in Portuguese universities, 1550-1650 , Venetian policy toward the University of Padua and scientific progress during the 18th century , Candide in Caledonia: the culture of science in the Scottish universities, 1690-1805 , The sciences at the University of Rome in the 18th century , Enlightenment and renovation in the Spanish university , Spanish chemistry textbooks during late 18th century , Botany in University studies in the late 18th century : the case of Valencia University , Scientific education and the crisis of the university in 18th century Barcelona , The theories of Copernicus and Newton in the Viceroyship of Nueva Granada and the Audiencia de Caracas during the 18th century , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9781402039843
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    Series Statement: LEAF 6
    DDC: 382.41
    Keywords: Political Science ; Sociology ; Humanities ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Landwirtschaftsgenossenschaft ; Landwirtschaft
    Abstract: Food and agricultural standards have recently risen to the top of both national and international agendas. Popular concerns about the power of the World Trade Organization focus on the intertwined relationships between environmental protection, labor and human rights, and the standards used to produce and supply our food and fiber globally. In the developing world, agricultural grades and standards are an important part of the reconfiguration of roles and responsibilities between various public and private actors in market reform. This original and informative collection of studies of agri-food standards in the modern economy addresses these and helps to define the scope of the emerging study of the politics of standards setting. Following an overview essay dealing with the multiple ways of thinking about, approaching and defining food and agricultural standards, eleven case studies offer a rich body of evidence that assesses the processes, dynamics and potential consequences of global agri-food standards. For all interested in the strategic use of food and agricultural standards - from those in national and international governmental agencies, researchers and others in the academic and private sector to those in the private business sector - this volume offers a broader perspective on and will serve as an important resource.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: A New World of Standards; The World Trade Organization: Ultimate Arbiter of International Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards?; Circulations of Insecurity: Globalizing Food Standards In Historical Perspective; The International Office of Vine and wine (OIV) and the World Trade Organization (WTO): Standardization Issues In The Wine Sector; Negotiating Standards for Animal Products: A Procedural Appoach Applied to Raw Milk; The Indivisibility of Science, Policy and Ethics: Starlink™ Corn and the Making of Standards
    Description / Table of Contents: Standards and State-Building: The Construction of Soybean Standards in BrazilParadoxes of Innovation: Standards and Technical Change in the Transformation of the US Soybean Industry; Defining a Good Steak: Global Constructions of What is Considered the Best Red Meat; Improving The Access of Small Farmers in Africa to Global Markets through the Development of Quality Standards for Pigeonpeas; China and Global Organic Food Standards: Sovereignity Bargains and Domestic Politics; Cotton in West Africa: A Question of Quality; Shaping a Policy and Research Agenda
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    ISBN: 9781402040894
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 13
    DDC: 509.2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Physics History ; Science (General) ; Humanities ; Biografie ; Morley, Edward William 1838-1923 ; USA ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1860-1910 ; USA ; Naturwissenschaften ; Chemie ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Morley, Edward William 1838-1923
    Abstract: "An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. In part, it is the long-overdue story of a man who lent his name to the Michelson and Morley Ether-Drift Experiment, and who conclusively established the atomic weight of oxygen. It is also the untold story of science in provincial America: what Hamerla presents as science on the ""American research frontier"". This important examination of Morley's struggle for personal and professional legitimacy extends and transforms our understanding of science during a foundational period, and leads to a number of unique conclusions that are vital to the literature and historiography of science. By revealing important aspects of the scientific culture of the American heartland, An American Scientist on the Research Frontier deepens our understanding of an individual scientist and of American science more broadly. In so doing, Hamerla changes the way we approach and understand the creation of scientific knowledge, scientific communities, and the history of science itself."
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Morleys; Edward Morley: Education, Civil War, and the Western Reserve; Making a Place; Kindred Spirits: The Ether Drift; Intellectual Heritage, Prout's Hypothesis; Oxygen
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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
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    ISBN: 9781402042935
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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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    ISBN: 9781402049439
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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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    ISBN: 9781402045882
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 15
    DDC: 370.1
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    Keywords: Education ; Education Philosophy ; Education, Higher ; Humanities ; Körper ; Erziehung
    Abstract: Discursive accounts of the body have been prominent recently. While acknowledging the usefulness of these, the author, drawing upon specific philosophers of the body and a wide range of other theorists, focuses attention on the experiencing body - which she refers to as 'creatural existence'. Thinking in terms of the creatural, she argues, can better situate human beings in their environment, thus emphasizing a kind of 'ecological notion of subjectivity', in which place-based existence is understood anew. The educational implications of focusing on what bodies 'do' and not so much in terms of how they are socially inscribed, presents them as practico-sensory totalities which should perhaps be seen as systems rather than an as a mere organism or entity. Such an articulation of creatural existence emphasizes animality, and in so doing reminds us of the centrality of the senses in all knowing and doing, including crucially, in relation to those practices which we have understood as 'work'. Multi-sensorial education is a major sub-theme of the book and the author argues persuasively for this by means of a critical analysis of the ocular centrism that is characteristic of contemporary culture. With its strong philosophical anchoring and its judicial use of interdisciplinary sources this book will appeal to both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers not only in the field of philosophy of education but those from many others disciplines. It will also interest primary and secondary school teachers, curriculum designers and education policy makers. 'Marjorie O'Loughlin shows in this book that embodiment ought to be central to human hopes to be whole persons, who are not merely productive but who are also expressive of our potentiality. Her 'creatural existence' grounds this in our fleshly selves, and she explores it through the emotions, through work, and through citizenship. Her achievement here is profound: in one book, we find an interdisciplinary account of the evidence for creatural existence, presented accessibly in first-person philosophical narrative, based mainly on Merleau-Ponty. If bodies matter more than ever in everyday life, educators should start with our fleshly selves and move creatively forward. O'Loughlin points out the direction...and pushes us persuasively: you can feel the nudge!' David Beckett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
    Description / Table of Contents: The Scopic Regime and the Ordering of the World; Creatural Embodiment; Working Bodies; Emotion, Sociality and Embodiment; Embodied Citizenship
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    ISBN: 9781402050565
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Slotemaker, John T. [Rezension von: Balserak, Jon, Divinity Compromised: A Study of Divine Accommodation in the Thought of John Calvin] 2008
    Series Statement: Studies in early modern religious reforms 5
    DDC: 200
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Calvin, Jean 1509-1564 ; Gottesvorstellung
    Abstract: This is the first monograph devoted to divine accommodation in the writings of John Calvin. The text offers careful analysis of the topic along several different lines: it analyzes the character of Calvin's thinking on accommodation; it reveals the ways in which accommodation expresses itself in his writings; it probes the question of the penetration of accommodation into Calvin's theology and particularly its implications for his doctrine of God.
    Abstract: This book is the first monograph devoted to the theme of divine accommodation in the writings of John Calvin to appear in any language. The work offers careful analysis of the topic along several different lines: it analyzes the character of Calvin's thinking on accommodation. It gives an account of the ways in which accommodation expresses itself in his writings. It probes the question of the penetration of accommodation into Calvin's theology and particularly its implications for his doctrine of God. And it compares Calvin's handling of accommodation with that of other exegetes in order to set his thinking in context. In pursuing these matters, Dr Balserak provides a rigorous consideration of many of the individual places in Calvin's corpus where he discusses accommodation. This enables him to set out a summary of the basic qualities which characterize Calvin's handling of the motif. The addition of chapters on the relationship of Calvin's thought on accommodation to his use of the potentia absoluta/ordinata distinction and on the influence of accommodation on his views on the truth and applicability of Scripture allows this study to examine its topic from different angles. This, coupled with the thoroughness of the author's analysis, results in a work which offers a substantial reassessment of Calvin's thinking on divine accommodation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Divine accommodation in the tradition and calvin; Human captus; God's accommodating responses to human captus; God's reasons for accommodating-images of god in calvin's handling of accommodation; Accommodation and calvin'ng on the power of god; The volatility of accommodation; Concluding reflections
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    ISBN: 9781402053405
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    Series Statement: Information Science and Knowledge Management 11
    DDC: 501.4
    Keywords: Library Science ; Humanities ; Information systems ; Publishers and publishing ; Social sciences ; Elektronische Zeitschrift ; Geschichte 1987-2004 ; Kommunikation ; Wissenschaft ; Auswirkung ; Digitalisierung ; Zeitschriftenaufsatz ; Digitalisierung ; Wissenschaftliche Literatur
    Abstract: Outlines the consequences of digitization for peer-reviewed research articles published in electronic journals. This book provides a study of electronic journals over the period 1987-2004 and offers an approach that questions ideas about the 'revolutionary' impact of digitization on scientific communication and the role of publishers and academia
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION; THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; THE DIGITIZATION OF INFORMATION RESOURCES; THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL 1987-2004; DIGITIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION;
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    ISBN: 9781402041945
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Gunnoe, Charles D. [Rezension von: Bruening, Michael W., Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559] 2007
    Series Statement: Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 4
    DDC: 284.2494
    Keywords: History ; Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Waadt ; Reformation ; Calvinismus ; Geschichte 1528-1559
    Abstract: Talks about Calvinism's first battleground
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY IN VAUD; ZWINGLIANISM AND LUTHERANISM IN BERN; THE CLASH OF THE OLD AND NEW FAITHS; FROM SACRAMENTARIANS TO CALVINISTS; FROM POLITICAL CALVINISM TO THE REFORMATION OF THE REFUGEES; FROM THE PAYS DE VAUD TO FRANCE; CONCLUSION;
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    ISBN: 9781402040542
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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 69
    DDC: 160
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    Keywords: Logic ; Metaphysics ; Humanities ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematische Logik ; Philosophie ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Philosophie der Logik ; Axiomatische Mengenlehre ; Logik
    Abstract: The papers in this collection are united by an approach to philosophy. They illustrate the manifold contributions that logic makes to philosophical progress, both by the application of formal methods to traditional philosophical problems and by opening up new avenues of inquiry as philosophers sort out the implications of new and often surprising technical results. Contributions include new technical results rich with philosophical significance for contemporary metaphysics, attempts to diagnose the philosophical significance of some recent technical results, philosophically motivated proposals for new approaches to negation, investigations in the history and philosophy of logic, and contributions to epistemology and philosophy of science that make essential use of logical techniques and results. Where the work is formal, the motives are obviously philosophical, not merely mathematical. Where the work is less formal, it is deeply informed by the relevant formal material. The volume includes contributions from some of the most interesting philosophers now working in philosophical logic, philosophy of logic, epistemology and metaphysics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Externalism, Anti-Realism, and the KK-Thesis; Choice Principles in Intuitionistic Set Theory; Assertion, Proof, and the Axiom of Choice; Montague's Modal Completeness Theorem of 1955; On the Rational Reconstruction of Our Theoretical Knowledge; Do We have the Right Limitative Theorems?; Empirical Negation in Intuitionistic Logic; Negation's Holiday: Aspectival Dialetheism; Monism: The One True Logic
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    ISBN: 9781402051906
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    DDC: 200
    Keywords: History ; Sociology ; Demography ; Religion (General) ; Westliche Welt ; Geburtenrückgang ; Religion
    Abstract: "The impact of religion on family and reproduction is one of the most fascinating and complex topics open to scholarly research. The linkage between family and religion has received no systematic treatment on a comparative basis, either in the social sciences or in historical studies. This book provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Apart from providing a wealth of descriptive information on family life and fertility in different national and religious settings, the major strength of the book lies in its conceptual insights. The book will attract and stimulate readers at the advanced undergraduate or at the graduate level in history, religious studies, women's studies, family studies, social demography, sociology, and anthropology due to its subject matter (moral issues related to fertility decline and family change played an important role in processes like secularisation, and religious secessions in the19th and 20th century), its analytical approach (all chapters make use of micro-level data on family and family size and use comparable statistical methods specifically suited for these kinds of data), and its theoretical orientation (the chapters explicitly focus on the variety of mechanisms via which religions had an effect on family life and fertility). The book is truly cross-cultural, showing the similarities as well as the differences in the positions of the various churches on matters important for reproduction in Western Europe, the US and Canada in the period 1850-1950. The consideration of the causes of variations in family size in the past provides a refreshing perspective on contemporary effects of religion on reproductive behaviour and the family. ""This volume successfully promotes an agenda for research on the complex and diverse historical relationships between fertility, identity, community and religion."" Simon Szreter, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge ""These well-researched and lucidly argued papers will provide important reading for all those interested in the religious history of the nineteenth century."" Hugh McLeod is Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham ""This is a very valuable new resource for scholars, both established and new, to understand the role of religious institutions in family and demographic behavior and the ways in which those behaviors change across long periods of time."" Arland Thornton, Director, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan ""This book shows also that modern demographic and social history is able to revive the past in ways unthinkable only a generation ago."" Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography, University of Florence, and honorary president of the ""International Union for the Scientific Study of Population""."
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Frans van Poppel and Renzo DerosasTheoretical and analytical approaches to religious beliefs, values, and identities during the modern fertility transition / Katherine A. Lynch -- Religion, family, and fertility : what do we know historically and comparatively? / Calvin Goldscheider -- Religious differentials in marital fertility in The Hague (Netherlands), 1860-1909 / John Schellekens and Frans van Poppel -- Stemming the tide. Denomination and religiousness in the Dutch fertility transition, 1845-1945 / Jan Kok and Jan Van Bavel -- Family limitation among political Catholics in Baden in 1869 / Ernest Benz -- The evolution of religious differences in fertility : Lutherans and Catholics in Alsace, 1750-1860 / Kevin McQuillan -- State institutions as mediators between religion and fertility : a comparison of two Swiss regions, 1860-1930 / Anne-Françoise Praz -- Between identity and assimilation : Jewish fertility in nineteenth-century Venice / Renzo Derosas -- The religious claim on babies in nineteenth-century Montreal / Patricia Thornton and Sherry Olson -- Religious diversity and the onset of the fertility transition : Canada, 1870-1900 / Danielle Gauvreau -- Religion and the decline of fertility : Conclusions / David I Kertzer.
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    ISBN: 9781402029943
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 68
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    Keywords: Philosophy of Law ; Humanities ; Law Philosophy ; Macht ; Einfluss
    Abstract: "This book will be of interest to legal, political and other social theorists/philosophers. Unique in its topics as well as in its approach, the book takes substantial steps towards answering essential questions about political influence. It analyses the concepts of social, political and legal power with a view towards arriving at an adequate and theoretically relevant distinction between power and influence. This volume contains an extensive overview and critical assessment, explores the conceptual relationship between freedom and power, assesses the distinctions made in existing scholarship between power and influence, presents the author's own proposal for a definition of influence as opposed to power, combines insights from political theory, legal philosophy and the general theory of norms, is densely argued, yet accessible to all interested readers without any prerequisite of special prior knowledge, is transparently structured, written in a clear style, avoiding social-scientific jargon and using ordinary language. ""Exact but not exacting, this is a fine work of overview and analysis, it makes an excellent contribution to the literature on power and freedom."" Philip Pettit, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University ""In this work, the author assumes the task of a 'logical clean-up' - an extremely valuable contribution to the promotion of scientific rigour and clarity in political scholarship."" [This book] ""gives the reader orientation in a conceptual jungle."" [It is] ""an excellent analysis of the relationships between normative and social power."" Ernesto Garzón Valdés, Prof. em. of Legal Philosophy, President of The Tampere Club ""A genuinely pioneering contribution insofar as the author - to my knowledge: for the first time ever - succeeds in giving a conceptually rather clear profile to a descriptive-analytic and normative understanding of the phenomenon of influence and in elucidating - again, by way of thorough and profound analysis - that this is much more than an academic glass-bead game, because our understanding of such essential normative foundations of political theory as freedom and equality is inextricably linked to the concepts of power and influence, and because this is the only way how we can come to see the fundamental obstacles to a coherent interpretation and institutional realization of the idea of the democratic Rechtsstaat."" Rainer Schmalz-Bruns, Prof. of Political Theory, Darmstadt University of Technology"
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Concept of Power; The Concept of Influence; Power and Freedom; Social Power and Legal Power; Influence and Power: A Mess Transformed?
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    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 19
    DDC: 530.01
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    Keywords: History ; Humanities ; Science Philosophy ; Physics History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturphilosophie ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Wissenschaftliche Revolution ; Physik ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1600-1700
    Abstract: " The seventeenth century marked a critical phase in the emergence of modern science. But we misunderstand this process, if we assume that seventeenth-century modes of natural inquiry were identical to the highly specialised, professionalised and ever proliferating family of modern sciences practised today. In early modern Europe the central category for the study of nature was ""natural philosophy"", or as Robert Hooke called it in his Micrographia, the Science of Nature. In this discipline general theories of matter, cause, cosmology and method were devised, debated and positioned in relation to superior disciplines, such as theology, cognate disciplines, such as mathematics and ethics, and subordinate disciplines, such as the ""mixed mathematical sciences"" of astronomy, optics and mechanics. Thus, the ""Scientific Revolution"" of the Seventeenth Century did not witness the sudden birth of 'modern science' but rather conflict and change in the field of natural philosophy: Aristotelian natural philosophy was challenged and displaced, as thinkers competed to redefine natural philosophy and its relations to the superior, cognate and subordinate disciplines. From this process the more modern looking disciplines of natural science emerged, and the idea of a general Science of Nature suffered a slow demise. The papers in this collection focus on patterns of change in natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, aiming to encourage the use and articulation of this category in the historiography of science. The volume is intended for scholars and advanced students of early modern history of science, history of philosophy and intellectual history. Philosophers of science and sociologists of scientific knowledge concerned with historical issues will also find the volume of relevance. Above all, the volume is addressed to anyone interested in current debates about the origin and nature of modern science. "
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Onset of the Scientific Revolution; 'Waterworld': Descartes' Vortical Celestial Mechanics; Circular Argument; From Mechanics to Mechanism; The Autonomy of Natural Philosophy; Physico-Theology and the Mixed Sciences; The Saturn Problem; Experimental Versus Speculative Natural Philosophy
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 70
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    Keywords: Logic ; Humanities ; Genetic epistemology ; Law Philosophy ; Lehrbuch ; Juristische Logik ; Juristische Logik
    Abstract: Studies in Legal Logic is a collection of nine interrelated papers about the logic, epistemology and ontology of law. All of the papers were written after the publication of the author's Reasoning with Rules and supplement the issues addressed therein. Some of the papers are new, others have been revised substantially after the publication of their original versions. The emphasis is on analysis, not on logical technicalities.Studies in Legal Logic contains chapters about the nature of norms, the role of coherence in the law, the nature of defeasibility, the role of dialectics in law and artificial intelligence, the statics and dynamics of the law, and the consistency of rules. Moreover, it contains a new, simplified and yet more powerful version of Reason-based Logic and extensive examples of how it can be used for the analysis of legal reasoning. The examples deal with legal theory construction, case-based reasoning, and judicial proof.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Law and Defeasibility; Law and Coherence; Reason-Based Logic; Comparing Alternatives; Rule Consistency; What is a Norm?; Legal Statics and Legal Dynamics; Dialectical Models in Artificial Intelligence and Law; Legal Reasoning and Legal Integration
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    ISBN: 9781402035098
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 245
    DDC: 501
    Keywords: Darwin, Charles ; Humanities ; Science History ; Genetic epistemology ; Psychology ; Science History ; Creativity ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 ; Kreativität ; Wissenschaft
    Abstract: Creativity, Psychology, and the History of Science offers for the first time a comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Howard E. Gruber, who is noted for his contributions both to the psychology of creativity and to the history of science. The present book includes papers from a wide range of topics. In the contributions to creativity research, Gruber proposes his key ideas for studying creative work. Gruber focuses on how the thinking, motivation and affect of extraordinarily creative individuals evolve and how they interact over long periods of time. Gruber's approach bridges many disciplines and subdisciplines in psychology and beyond, several of which are represented in the present volume: cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, history of science, aesthetics, and politics. The volume thus presents a unique and comprehensive contribution to our understanding of the creative process. Many of Gruber's papers have not previously been easily accessible, they are presented here in thoroughly revised form.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Introduction: A Life with a Purpose; The Creative Person as a Whole; The Case Study That Started It All: Charles Darwin; Facets of the Creative Process: Insight, Point of View and Repetition; Modalities; Tracking The Ordinary Course of Development; Coping with the Extraordinary; Creativity in the Moral Domain; Peace and Further Conditions for Human Welfare
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    ISBN: 9781402039096
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 192
    DDC: 914.045
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    Keywords: History ; Humanities ; Linguistics ; Regional planning ; Russland ; Reisebericht ; Westeuropabild
    Abstract: Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Piotr Tolstoi: a travel diary; Fonvizin: letters from foreign journeys; Karamzin: The Letters of a Russian Traveller; Pogodin: A Year in Foreign Lands; Botkin: Letters on Spain; Herzen: Letters from France and Italy; Dostoevskii: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions; Saltykov-Shchedrin: Across the Border
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Bibliografie ; Sikh
    Abstract: Gerald Barrier, Hakam Singh, Jaginder Singh Ramdev, Jasmer Singh, Rajwant Singh, Man Singh Deora, Priya Muhar Rai, Darshan Singh Tatla, and others.
    Abstract: The International Bibliography of Sikh Studies brings together all books, composite works, journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, project reports, and electronic resources produced in the field of Sikh Studies until June 2004, making it the most complete and up-to-date reference work in the field today. One of the youngest religions of the world, Sikhism has progressively attracted attention on a global scale in recent decades. An increasing number of scholars is exploring the culture, history, politics, and religion of the Sikhs. The growing interest in Sikh Studies has resulted in an avalanche of literature, which is now for the first time brought together in the International Bibliography of Sikh Studies. This monumental work lists over 10,000 English-language publications under almost 30 subheadings, each representing a subfield in Sikh Studies. The Bibliography contains sections on a wide variety of subjects, such as Sikh gurus, Sikh philosophy, Sikh politics and Sikh religion. Furthermore the encyclopedia presents an annotated survey of all major scholarly work on Sikhism, and a selective listing of electronic and web-based resources in the field. Author and subject indices are appended for the reader's convenience. The online version of the International Bibliography of Sikh Studies includes hyperlinks and offers the possibility to search on author, title, key word or subject, making this huge reference work easily accessible and user-friendly.
    Description / Table of Contents: Printed and Electronic Reference Resources; Sikh Gurus; Sikh Scriptures & Gurbani; Bhagats and Saints; Sikh Philosophy; Sikh History; Sikh Politics; Sikh Leaders; Sikh Art & Architecture; Sikh Coins (Numismatics); Sikh Culture & Traditions; Sikhs as Khalsa; Sikh Code of Conduct, Institutions & Ceremonies; Sikh Symbols & Identity; Sikh Education & Research; Sikh Scholars & Personalities; Sikh Castes & Casteism; Sikh Sects; Gurdwaras (Sikh Shrines); Sikh Warriors & Martyrs; Sikh Music (Gurbani Kirtan); Sikhs in Military; Sikh Women; Sikh Youths & Apostasy; Sikhism & Other Religions
    Description / Table of Contents: Sikh DiasporaFuture of Sikhs & Sikhism; Miscellaneous Works
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    ISBN: 9781402030079
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    DDC: 347.47/035
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Law Philosophy ; Comparative law ; Public law ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit ; Ostmitteleuropa ; Verfassungspolitik
    Abstract: Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to most other analysts and scholars he does not take for granted that they are a 'force for the good', but rather subjects them to critical scrutiny.
    Abstract: Challenging the conventional wisdom that constitutional courts are the best device that democratic systems have for the protection of individual rights, Wojciech Sadurski examines carefully the most recent wave of activist constitutional courts: those that have emerged after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to most other analysts and scholars he does not take for granted that they are a "force for the good", but rather subjects them to critical scrutiny against the background of a wide-ranging comparative and theoretical analysis of constitutional judicial review in the modern world. He shows that, in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, their record in protecting constitutional rights has been mixed, and their impact upon the vibrancy of democratic participation and public discourse about controversial issues often negative. Sadurski urges us to reconsider the frequently unthinking enthusiasm for the imposition of judicial limits upon constitutional democracy. In the end, his reflections go to the very heart of the fundamental dilemma of constitutionalism and political theory: how best to find the balance between constitutionalism and democracy? The lively, if imperfect, democracies in Central and Eastern Europe provide a fascinating terrain for raising this question, and testing traditional answers. This innovative, wide-ranging and thought-provoking book will become essential reading for scholars and students alike in the fields of comparative constitutionalism and political theory, particularly for those with an interest in legal and political developments in the postcommunist world.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; 1. THE MODEL OF CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: AN OVERVIEW; 2. CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS IN SEARCH OF LEGITIMACY; 3. THE MODEL OF JUDICIAL REVIEW AND ITS IMPLICATIONS; 4. CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS AND LEGISLATION; 5. JUDICIAL REVIEW AND PROTECTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS; 6. PERSONAL, CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES; 7. SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS; 8. EQUALITY AND MINORITY RIGHTS; 9. "DECOMMUNISATION", "LUSTRATION", AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY; 10. RESTRICTIONS OF RIGHTS; CONCLUSIONS; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402030376
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 69
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    Keywords: Law ; Artificial intelligence ; Law Philosophy ; Humanities ; Datenbank ; Urheberrecht ; Gesetzgebung ; Datenbank ; Urheberrecht ; Gesetzgebung
    Abstract: Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases is the first text to describe data mining techniques as they apply to law. Law students, legal academics and applied information technology specialists are guided thorough all phases of the knowledge discovery from databases process with clear explanations of numerous data mining algorithms including rule induction, neural networks and association rules. Throughout the text, assumptions that make data mining in law quite different to mining other data are made explicit. Issues such as the selection of commonplace cases, the use of discretion as a form
    Abstract: "Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases" is the first text to describe data mining techniques as they apply to law. Law students, legal academics and applied information technology specialists are guided thorough all phases of the knowledge discovery from databases process with clear explanations of numerous data mining algorithms including rule induction, neural networks and association rules. Throughout the text, assumptions that make data mining in law quite different to mining other data are made explicit. Issues such as the selection of commonplace cases, the use of discretion as a form of open texture, transformation using argumentation concepts and evaluation and deployment approaches are discussed at length.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Legal Issues in the Data Selection Phase; Legal Issues in the Data Pre-Processing Phase; Legal Issues in the Data Transformation Phase; Data Mining with Rule Induction; Uncertain and Statistical Data Mining; Data Mining Using Neural Networks; Information Retrieval and Text Mining; Evaluation, Deployment and Related Issues; Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781402024559
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 287 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 239
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 239
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Physics. ; History ; Physics—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This book collects contributions by some of the leading scholars working on seventeenth-century mechanics and the mechanical philosophy. Together, the articles provide a broad and accurate picture of the fortune of Galileo's theory of motion in Europe and of the various physical, mathematical, and ontological arguments that were used in favour and against it. Were Galileo's contemporaries really aware of what Westfall has described as "the incompatibility between the demands of mathematical mechanics and the needs of mechanical philosophy"? To what extent did Galileo's silence concerning the cause of free fall impede the acceptance of his theory of motion? Which methods were used, before the invention of the infinitesimal calculus, to check the validity of Galileo's laws of free fall and of parabolic motion? And what sort of experiments were invoked in favour or against these laws? These and related questions are addressed in this volume
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    ISBN: 9789400710368
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 415 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 54
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy. ; Linguistics Philosophy ; History ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: This book gives a clear and thorough description of three fascinating linguistic projects that were carried out in the seventeenth century: the philosophical languages of George Dalgarno (1661) and John Wilkins (1668), as well as the work of Leibniz in this area. These projects combined practical purposes, such as improving communication, with profound theoretical insights concerning the representation of knowledge and the nature of language. Rich in detail, this book provides all the material for a proper understanding of the workings of these schemes, while illuminating the intellectual context in which they took shape. It will be welcomed by anyone interested in the history of linguistics and philosophy of language
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    ISBN: 9789401701754
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    Series Statement: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 68
    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 68
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy and science. ; History ; Philosophy—History. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Ernst Mach (1838-1916) was a seminal philosopher-scientist and a deserving member of the canon of major twentieth-century thinkers. Yet, despite a healthy resurgence in Mach studies, he is still widely thought to represent a simplistic positivist, even sensationalist, position that does not at all reflect the depth of Mach's interests and subtlety as a philosopher. By exploring Mach's views on science as well as philosophy, this book attempts to wrest him free from his customary association with logical positivism and to reinterpret him on his own terms as a natural philosopher and naturalist about human knowledge. Mach's development and his influences from 19th century German philosophy and science are probed in great conceptual and historical detail, and attention is paid to his unpublished Nachlaß as well as to the affinities between Mach's thought and that of other major philosopher-scientists such as Einstein, Bertrand Russell, William James, Helmholtz, Riemann, Herbart and Kant. In particular, the book strives to set forth the true nature of Mach's sensation-elements, the motivations for his critique of the concepts of space and time in physics, and the real meaning of his famous critique of metaphysics. The author's work has appeared in Synthese, Kant-Studien, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, but here these inquiries are gathered into a unified historico-critical treatment that follows Mach's conceptual development and the culmination of his work in a unique and intriguing natural philosophy. Physicists, psychologists, philosophers of science, historians of twentieth-century thought and culture, and educators will find this volume a valuable help in interpreting Mach's ideas in a context that includes philosophy and science and the bridge between them
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    ISBN: 9789401703611
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 6
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Religion. ; Mathematics.
    Abstract: Until recently, the contribution of the Society of Jesus to the Scientific Revolution remained sketchy at best, as the perception of the Jesuits as plodding pedagogues and obscurantists sanctioned the disregard of their activities. The present volume makes an important contribution toward a more nuanced appreciation of the Jesuits' interaction with "modernity", and a far greater recognition of their contribution to the two poles of modern science: the mathematization of natural philosophy and experimental science. The six essays provide a cross-section of the complex Jesuit encounter with the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century, as well as a factor in the quandary faced by practitioners in their pursuit of science and in their ability to make their research public
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    ISBN: 9789401701877
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 249 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 182
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 182
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    Keywords: Humanities ; History ; Anthropology ; Plant science. ; Botany. ; Plant systematics. ; Plant taxonomy.
    Abstract: This volume completes a trilogy meant to be a commentary on the botanophilia that captured the literate public in 18th-century France. Enthusiastic public support for any governmental initiative likely to expand botanical knowledge was an expression of immense curiosity about the natural world beyond Europe, which extended into a curiosity about primitive people and cultures little known. It amounted to a quest for universal knowledge that could benefit all mankind: useful knowledge that could improve the human condition in this life. That was the spirit of the Enlightenment, the sciences believed to be the key to humanity's advancement. The botanists exploring abroad brought back exciting quantities of new species and genera, but also a message about the condition of primitive people that undercut the fashionable image of noble savagery. No matter how dispiriting were some of the conditions they observed abroad, they retained a faith that ignorance and superstition could be vanquished
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    ISBN: 9789401703192
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    Series Statement: Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 2
    Series Statement: Studies in Early Modern Religious Tradition, Culture and Society 2
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy. ; History ; Religion. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: This collection of seventeen essays addresses the substance of Richard Hooker's achievement as a theologian and philosopher in the context of principal themes of English Reformation thought. Hooker has been variously described as a Protestant scholastic, Renaissance Aristotelian, Erasmian humanist, Thomist, moderate Calvinist, and founder of a distinctive new theological method. The main thrust of these essays is to weigh such protean claims against careful readings of his oeuvre. Five principal loci of Reformation discourse are addressed: 1) the relation between the "orders" of Grace and Nature; 2) the doctrines of Providence and Predestination; 3) the Church and the liturgy; 4) sacramental theology; and 5) the polemical cut-and-thrust of the late-Elizabethan context. Scholars, seminarians, and students alike will find that this volume offers a fresh, critical illumination of Hooker's distinctive contribution to sixteenth-century religious reform
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    ISBN: 9789401701310
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 495 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 184
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 184
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Religion. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: The theme of scepticism has been central in the study of the history of ideas in modern times since Richard Popkin's and Charles Schmitt's works. After them, the assumption connected with the philosophical notion of scepticism was broadened so as to define the critical use of reason and doubt concerning the truth of religion, the function of politics, the aims of science, thus becoming a central intellectual issue in the making of modernity. In this collection of articles (in fact the proceedings of an international conference held in Vercelli) special care is dedicated to placing the theme of scepticism within its philosophical tradition. Moreover, in comparison with other historical studies, the English philosophical thinkers appear here in the foreground, with a number of contributions on Hobbes, Locke, Cambridge Platonists and the Latitude-Men. The French Context also, ranging from Descartes to Malebranche, from Arnauld and Port-Royal to Huet, Bayle and his followers, is explored in depth. Some articles deal with Italian major figures (Vico and Galilei above all) and Spanish culture. Special care is dedicated to the relationships between history of philosophical ideas and the problems rising from the history of sciences (medicine, physics, linguistics, historical scholarship) in the 17th and the 18th centuries. Level of readership or target groups: University Courses, University Libraries, Specialized scholars
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    ISBN: 9789401701853
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 243 p) , digital
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Atmospheric sciences. ; Cultural heritage. ; Fine arts. ; Environmental management ; Biotechnology ; Environmental engineering. ; Bioremediation. ; Atmospheric science. ; Cultural property. ; Arts.
    Abstract: This book is the first to give a general overview of the application of aerobiology (the science that studies the biological components of the atmosphere) to the conservation of our cultural heritage. Aerobiological monitoring makes it possible to estimate the risks of degradation of artefacts of historical or artistic importance by airborne microorganisms (airborne spores and vegetative structures) according to the types of materials forming the artefacts, to the conditions of the microclimate and to the type of environmental pollution, thus enabling the planning of preventive or reparative intervention
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    ISBN: 9789401002899
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 559 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 230
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 230
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy and science. ; Epistemology. ; Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"? Or does it result from interplay of relations of power - the view of Michel Foucault? Or does our knowledge arise from "the will to power" - the view of Nietzsche? This volume sets out to critically examine the theses of those who would debunk the idea of rational explanation. The book is wide-ranging. The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny
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  • 81
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    ISBN: 9789400708228
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 237 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 319
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Humanities ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Philosophy.
    Abstract: (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy. It will intrigue readers interested in issues of interpretation and cultural studies. This book tells the story - as yet untold - of Wittgenstein interpretation during the past eighty years. It provides different interpretations, chronologies, developments, and controversies. It aims to discover the (socio-cultural rather than psychological) motives and motivations behind the philosophical community's project of interpreting Wittgenstein. As a cultural history of ideas, it traces the parallelism between Wittgenstein interpretation and the move from metaphysics, to language, to postmodernism effected in the twentieth century
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  • 82
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    ISBN: 9789401702171
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 278 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées 185
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 185
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; History ; Religion. ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy, Modern.
    Abstract: Henry More (1614-1687), the Cambridge Platonist, is often presented as an elusive and contradictory figure. An early apologist for the new natural philosophy and its rational support for Christian doctrine, More also defended the existence of witchcraft and wrote extensively on the nature of the soul and the world of spirits. A vigorous and prolific controversialist against many varieties of contemporary `atheism' and `enthusiasm', More was himself a spiritual perfectionist and illuminist, believing that the goal of the religious life was a conscious union with God. Until now, most biographies of More have ignored these, his own, preoccupations, and have made of him a rather eccentric but important illustrative figure in one of several larger narratives dominated by canonical figures like Descartes, Boyle, Spinoza or Newton. This is the first modern biography to place his own religious and philosophical preoccupations centre-stage, and to provide a coherent interpretation of his work from a consideration of his own writings, their contexts and aims. It is also the first study of More to exploit the full range of his prolific writings and a number of unknown manuscripts relating to his life. In addition, it contains an annotated handlist of his extant correspondence
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    ISBN: 9789401715027
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 212 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences 37
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science 37
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Law. ; Logic ; History ; Philosophy. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Comparative law. ; International law. ; Law—History.
    Abstract: Evolution and Constitution for the first time brings together case law and law based on norms. It offers the reader a survey and a new explanation of evolutionary emergence of social contracts and constitutions in the European history, and -after all - should help to build a bridge between 'two cultures', science and humanities. Evolutionary approach to law had been advocated already at the time of Darwin by English ethnologists of law like Sumner Maine and American anthropologists like Morgan. The present work is an attempt to apply evolutionary thought to the continental legal philosophy and juristic methodology. Although in the 19th century the idea of an evolution of law was present also on the continent it was burdened with reproaches of social Darwinism (proved nowadays as unreasonable). Grounds for the negotiability of evolutionary approach to complex social systems are provided by the latest research in evolutionary theory of cognition and evolutionary ethics as well as by the theory of complex systems in the sense of Friedrich von Hayek. This book provides a profounder (conformable to the biological theory of evolution) explanatory basis not only for anthropology and history of law but also for juristic methodology. In addition it offers a practical model of juristic argumentation processes, illustrated by many examples
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9789401701457
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 278 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Language Policy 2
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; South Asian Languages ; Language and languages ; Language and education. ; Languages. ; Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; History ; Asia—Languages. ; Language and languages—Study and teaching.
    Abstract: Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin examines and reviews the ecological context (including, e.g., the historical, political and educational issues) of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The planning goals pursued in these states are then examined in terms of an overarching view of language planning. The book provides the only up-to-date overview and review of language policy in the region and challenges those interested in language policy and planning to think about how such goals might be achieved in the context of language ecology. In a world where languages and their uses and users are changing rapidly, and where governments and other political bodies are driving planned language change, there is a need to understand and consider how and why language planning is done. The book will be of interest to specialists interested in language and education, and to more general readers wishing to understand the dynamics of history and politics and its impact on language and language-in-education policy decisions
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  • 85
    ISBN: 9789401703918
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (364 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas 186
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 186
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy. ; Ontology ; History ; Political science. ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: The study of natural law theories is presently one of the most fruitful areas of research in the studies of early modern intellectual history, and moral and political theory. Likewise the historical significance of the Enlightenment for the development of `modernisation' in many different forms continues to be the subject of controversy. This collection therefore offers a timely opportunity to re-examine both the coherence of the concept of an `early Enlightenment', and the specific contribution of natural law theories to its formation. The works of major thinkers such as Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Malebranche, Pufendorf and Thomasius are reassessed, and the appeal and importance of the discourse of natural jurisprudence both to those working inside conventional educational and political structures and to those outside - such as in the Huguenot diaspora - is evaluated. This volume will therefore be of importance to all those readers concerned to study the character of the debates in the period 1650-1750 surrounding moral and political agency, sovereignty and obligation, and the legitimation of religious toleration in the divergent states and patriotic contexts of Europe
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  • 86
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    ISBN: 9789401729468
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXII, 416 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 231
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 231
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Humanities ; Epistemology. ; History ; Political science. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. According to Agassi, science is an integral part of culture, and both scientism and relativism ignore the cultural value of science. This work helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting popular science and reasonable history of science. Agassi provides examples of the value of science to culture at large, discussions of items of the general culture and their interactions with science, and practical strategies and tools. He offers a wide variety of case studies to exemplify these. In this book Agassi puts significant topics such as autonomy, tolerance, reason, philosophy and responsibility on the agenda of democratic philosophy today
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9789401701136
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 259 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées 187
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 187
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy—History.
    Abstract: This book is intended not only for scholars and students in humanities, history (esp. the history of ideas), Jewish studies, philosophy (esp. the history of philosophy), and Christian theology, but also for those concerned with the roots of anti-Semitism and with the need for toleration and intercultural pluralism. Modernity and the Final Aim of History: * Combines the development of German philosophy from the Enlightenment to Idealism, and from Idealism to the revolutionary turning-point of the mid-nineteenth century with the Jewish question; * Shows the close entwining of anti-Jewish prejudices with awareness of the importance of Judaism in the formation of modern thought; * Points out the hopes, obstacles, compromises, and disappointments of Jewish emancipation right up to the appearance of racial anti-Semitism; * Traces the changes in the debate over Judaism from the theological perspective to the philosophical and from the philosophical to that of the economic and naturalistic; * Underlines the dangers to toleration that arise from seeing human history as directed towards a single aim; *Can be used in university courses and seminars, as well as in research groups
    Description / Table of Contents: From the contents: Acknowledgments. Introduction -- One: Reason, Humanity and Religions -- Two: Christianity, People and Nations -- Three: Atheism, Progress and Revolution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of subjects -- Index of names.
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9789401701495
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 482 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science 4
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    Keywords: Environmental sciences ; Regional planning ; Philosophy of nature ; Ecology ; History ; Environment. ; Culture—Study and teaching.
    Abstract: Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups
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  • 89
    ISBN: 9789401701792
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 349 p) , digital
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Zorn, Hans [Rezension von: Friedman, Russell L., The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400-1700] 2006
    Series Statement: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy 53
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Medieval philosophy. ; Cultural studies. ; Philosophy, medieval ; Logic ; Metaphysics ; History ; Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching.
    Abstract: The thirteen articles brought together in this volume explore key aspects of the transmission of learning and the transformation of thought from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period. Focusing on important topics in early modern metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory, the contributions gathered here view developments in the early modern period against the backdrop of late-medieval scholasticism. This approach not only reveals the continuity of Western intellectual life in a period of profound change, but also makes it possible to identify with precision what is original in early modern thought. The topics dealt with include metaphysics as a science, the rise of probabilistic modality, freedom of the human will, as well as the role and validity of logical reasoning in speculative theology. The volume will be of interest to scholars who work on medieval and early modern philosophy, theology, and intellectual history
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Via Antiqua and Via Moderna in the Fifteenth Century: Doctrinal, Institutional, and Church Political Factors in the Wegestreit -- 3. Ockham and Locke on Mental Language- 4. Metaphysics as a Discipline: From the "Transcendental Philosophy of the Ancients" to Kant's Notion of Transcendental Philosophy -- 5. God as First Principle and Metaphysics as a Science -- 6. Gabriel Biel and Later-Medieval Trinitarian Theology.-7. The Question of the Validity of Logic in Late Medieval Thought -- 8. Uses of Philosophy in Reformation Thought: Melanchthon, Schegk, and Crellius -- 9. Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: Auriol, Pomponazzi, and Luther on "Scholastic Subtleties" -- 10. The Ontological Source of Logical Possibility in Catholic Second Scholasticism -- 11. The Renaissance of Statistical Modalities in Early Modern Scholasticism -- 12. Modal Logic in Germany at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Christoph Scheibler's Opus Logicum -- 13. Leibniz on Compossibility: Some Scholastic Sources -- Index of Names.
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9789401141420
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (LXI, 267 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 200
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 200
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Science Philosophy ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy and science. ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: The most outstanding feature of this book is that here, for the first time, is made available in a single volume all the important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the emergence of modern science. This edition also contains one previously unpublished essay and an extended version of an essay published earlier. In these essays, Zilsel developed the now famous thesis, named after him, that science came into being when, in the late Middle Ages, the social barriers between the intellectuals and the artisans were eroded, due to the fact that the rapidly expanding commercial classes of that period had a keen interest in improvements in technology. This class was city-based and stimulated a social environment in which men of learning came to regard the craftsmen and technicians with a new respect, in which they no longer felt any contempt for manual work and in which theory and practice were eventually combined to produce modern science. This critical edition also carries a long introduction in which much new material about Zilsel's life and work is presented. It suggests that a radical new look at Zilsel's project needs to be taken. Zilsel's essays on the history of science look like a standard case study to substantiate a particular position on the origins of modern science, but they were also an attempt to show that lawlike explanation in history and social theory is possible. It is claimed that Zilsel's historical essays were a part of another project he was working on which focused on the idea that social phenomena were open to causal explanation as much as physical phenomena. Hence the volume also contains the essays Zilsel wrote in relation to this other project. Previously there have been published a German and an Italian edition of the Zilsel essays. This edition is the first in English; compared to the other two editions this one is the first that includes unpublished material and the first to undertake a serious effort to research Zilsel's life and work. What is special about this volume is the well-articulated social perspective it takes on the origins of modern science
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9789401000437
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (254p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education 2
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Fine arts. ; Cultural heritage. ; Art education. ; Teaching. ; Arts. ; Cultural property. ; Art—Study and teaching. ; Teachers—Training of.
    Abstract: Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries brings together case studies from Europe, Asia and North America, in a way that will lay a foundation for international co-operation in the future development and communication of practice-based research. The research in each of the cases directly stems from educational practice in very particular contexts, indicating at once the variety and detail of practitioners' concerns and their common interests
    Description / Table of Contents: From the Contents: Introduction -- Section A: Museums and Lifelong Learning -- Section B: Museums and Formal Education -- Section C: Museums and Personal Discovery -- Section D: Landscaping The Future -- Index.
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9789401001854
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 306 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences 23
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 23
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology. ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: This volume brings together contributions that resemble spotlights thrown on the past twenty-five years of science and technology studies. The contributions cover a broad range: history of science; science and politics; science and contemporary democracy; science and the public; science and the constitution; science and metaphors; and science and modernity. The contributors provide a critical overview of how the field of science and technology studies has emerged and developed. While assessing major achievements and potential, they also cast a critical view on deficiencies; provide a diagnosis of where we stand at present and articulate thoughtful concerns about where to go from here. The 2002 Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook provides ideal teaching material for discussion in class. Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead is for practising professionals and students in social studies of science and technology. It is also relevant to social scientists who realize the importance of science and technology in contemporary society and to natural scientists who want to find out what this field has to offer
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface: Yet Another Turn -- 1. The Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook: A Personal Retrospective -- I: STS and Society -- 2. Sciences, Science Studies and their Publics: Speculating on Future Relations -- 3. Is That Politics?- 4.Science and the Postmodern Shift in Contemporary Democracies -- II: STS and The Social Sciences. 5. History of Social Science: Understanding Modernity and Rethinking Social Studies of Science. 6. The `Triple Helix' and `New Production of Knowledge' as Socio-Cognitive Fields. 7. The Conundrum of Consciousness: Changing Landscapes of Knowledge at the Turn of the Millennium. 8. In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium -- III: STS - Emergence of a Field. 9. Growth, Differentiation, Expansion and Change of Identity - The Future of Science. 10. Institutionalizing Science & Technology Studies in the Academy. 11. Prolepsis: Considerations for Histories of Science After 2000. 12. Joy in Repetition Makes the Future Disappear: a Critical Assessment of the Present State of STS. 13. Reflections on the Millennium, Calendars, and the Gregorian Hegemony -- List of Contributors -- Biographical Notes -- Author Index.
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9789401735841
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (365 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 233
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 233
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Regional planning ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Chemistry ; History ; Culture. ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: Travels have without doubt been a perennial source of attraction to scholars in different fields. Yet historians of science have seldom looked at travels within the European space. Travels of Learning will help to fill this gap. It offers a reappraisal of the topic of scientific and technological travelling and takes the viewpoint of the European peripheries, including case studies of Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. The book covers different periods of time and different local settings, and uses a variety of methodological approaches. It contributes to the clarification of mechanisms of appropriation of scientific ideas, instruments, practices and of technological expertise. This book is of interest to scholars and students of history and philosophy of science and technology, to cultural and social historians and to scholars and students of science, technology and society studies. It will also appeal to high school teachers
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    Series Statement: A Discourse of the World Religions 5
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Genetic epistemology ; Religion (General) ; History ; Epistemology. ; Religion.
    Abstract: Religions are the largest communities of the global society and claim, at least in the cases of Islam and Christianity, to be universal interpretations of life and orders of existence. With the globalization of the world economy and the unity of the global society in the Internet, they gain unprecedented access to the entire human race through modern means of communication. At the same time, this globalization brings religions into conflict with one another in their claims to universal validity. How can the conflict of religions be defused? The speculative, philosophical method of dealing with a religion is a way to present one's own religious convictions in the medium of philosophy and rational discourse. The philosophical approach to religion can serve as the basis of the conversation of the world religions, without dissolving their truth claims. It can reduce dogmatic claims and contribute to overcoming fundamentalism. Philosophy builds bridges between religions. The series A Discourse of the World Religions presents with this volume the fifth and last of the EXPO-Discourses of the World Religions, which took place near the end of the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany. The five EXPO-Discourses were held before and during the World Exposition EXPO 2000 in Hannover with the objective of a philosophical-theological dialogue of religions about central themes of their teachings. The series aims at a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their theological and philosophical propositions. It sees in philosophy a bridge between the religions and a means to overcome religious hostility and fundamentalism and to further the dialogue of the religions
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    Series Statement: Studies in Brain and Mind 2
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Science Philosophy ; Psychology, clinical ; Philosophy and science. ; Philosophy of mind ; Neuropsychology. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account is the first book-length treatment of philosophical issues and implications in current cellular and molecular neuroscience. John Bickle articulates a philosophical justification for investigating "lower level" neuroscientific research and describes a set of experimental details that have recently yielded the reduction of memory consolidation to the molecular mechanisms of long-term potentiation (LTP). These empirical details suggest answers to recent philosophical disputes over the nature and possibility of psycho-neural scientific reduction, including the multiple realization challenge, mental causation, and relations across explanatory levels. Bickle concludes by examining recent work in cellular neuroscience pertaining to features of conscious experience, including the cellular basis of working memory, the effects of explicit selective attention on single-cell activity in visual cortex, and sensory experiences induced by cortical microstimulation.
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  • 96
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    ISBN: 9789401702133
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 341 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 8
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    Keywords: Physics ; Romance languages ; History ; Astronomy—Observations. ; Observations, Astronomical.
    Abstract: The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is for historians working in the fields of astronomy, science, the Middle Ages, Spanish and other Romance languages. It is also of interest to scholars interested in the history of Castile, in Castilian-French relations in the Middle Ages and in the history of patronage. It explores the Castilian canons of the Alfonsine Tables and offers a study of their context, language, astronomical content, and diffusion. The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is unique in that it: includes an edition of a crucial text in history of science; provides an explanation of astronomy as it was practiced in the Middle Ages; presents abundant material on early scientific language in Castilian; presents new material on the diffusion of Alfonsine astronomy in Europe; describes the role of royal patronage of science in a medieval context
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    ISBN: 9789401712255
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 496 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 237
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 237
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy and science. ; Mathematics ; History ; Philosophy—History. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensively and originally in a global perspective including the history of early modern China and Japan. Especially, it shows what the concept of "mathesis universalis" meant before and during the period of Descartes and how it influenced the young Descartes. In fact, it was the most fundamental mathematical discipline during the seventeenth century, and for Descartes a key notion which may have led to his novel mathematics of algebraic analysis
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    ISBN: 9789401598545
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 193 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 9
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Political philosophy. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy, modern ; Logic ; History ; Political science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: This is a work of historical critical exegesis. It aims to establish the influence of the Science of Logic (SL) of G.W.F. Hegel on the Grundrisse of Karl Marx. It is the first work in the history of Marx Studies to demonstrate that the Hegelian logic guided Marx's doctrinal development, and that the ordering of the logical categories in the SL is reflected in the ordering of economic categories in the Grundrisse. The Grundrisse are both a critique of political economy, and a critical appropriation of Hegel's SL. Thus, the work establishes that Marx was cognizant of, and respected, the necessity of the development of Hegel's exposition of logical categories of scientific method. The Grundrisse can therefore be divided into three sections. Each is distinguished from the others based upon the peculiar logic that is used in the exposition of the particular subject matter that is treated in that section. This work uses a particular form of historical critical exegesis that relies on "concept exegesis" (Begriffsexegese). It attempts to establish that the ideas that are found in one text are related to ideas in another; and, to be more specific, that the logical form of one work is indebted to the logical form of another. The method that is used in concept exegesis is empirical. The text under scrutiny is first broken down into component parts, and further subdivided. The logical form of the argumentation in each part is isolated. It is then compared to the logical form of another text, for purposes of establishing an indebtedness
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    ISBN: 9789401598903
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVII, 300 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 5
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Education Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Epistemology. ; Chemistry ; Education—Philosophy. ; Knowledge, Theory of.
    Abstract: Many Sides is the first full-length study of Protagorean antilogic, an argumentative practice with deep roots in rhetorical history and renewed relevance for contemporary culture. Founded on the philosophical relativism of Protagoras, antilogic is a dynamic rather than a formal approach to argument, focused principally on the dialogical interaction of opposing positions (anti-logoi) in controversy. In ancient Athens, antilogic was the cardinal feature of Sophistic rhetoric. In Rome, Cicero redefined Sophistic argument in a concrete set of dialogical procedures. In turn, Quintilian inherited this dialogical tradition and made it the centrepiece of his own rhetorical practice and pedagogy. Many Sides explores the history, theory, and pedagogy of this neglected rhetorical tradition and, by appeal to recent rhetorical and philosophical theory, reconceives the enduring features of antilogical practice in a dialogical approach to argumentation especially suited to the pluralism of our own age and the diversity of modern classrooms
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    ISBN: 9789401700856
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 223 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Origins, Studies in the sources of scientific creativity 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy and science. ; Logic ; History ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: For centuries, inconsistencies were seen as a hindrance to good reasoning, and their role in the sciences was ignored. In recent years, however, logicians as well as philosophers and historians have showed a growing interest in the matter. Central to this change were the advent of paraconsistent logics, the shift in attention from finished theories to construction processes, and the recognition that most scientific theories were at some point either internally inconsistent or incompatible with other accepted findings. The new interest gave rise to important questions. How is `logical anarchy' avoided? Is it ever rational to accept an inconsistent theory? In what sense, if any, can inconsistent theories be considered as true? The present collection of papers is the first to deal with this kind of questions. It contains case studies as well as philosophical analyses, and presents an excellent overview of the different approaches in the domain
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