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  • 1
    ISBN: 9783319076836
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 233 p. 19 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 21
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Old World and New World perspectives in environmental philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Landscape ecology ; Nature Conservation ; Human Geography ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Landscape ecology ; Nature Conservation ; Human Geography ; Ethics ; Human Geography ; Landscape ecology ; Nature Conservation ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Konferenzschrift 2011 ; Umweltethik ; Naturphilosophie
    Abstract: This is the first collection of essays in which European and American philosophers explicitly think out their respective contributions and identities as environmental thinkers in the analytic and continental traditions. The American/European, as well as Analytic/Continental collaboration here bears fruit helpful for further theorizing and research. The essays group around three well-defined areas of questioning all focusing on the amelioration/management of environmentally, historically and traditionally diminished landscapes. The first part deals with differences between New World and the Old World perspectives on nature and landscape restoration in general, the second focuses on the meaning of ecological restoration of cultural landscapes, and the third on the meaning of the wolf and of wildness. It does so in a way that the strengths of each philosophical school-continental and analytic-comes to the fore in order to supplement the other’s approach. This text is open to educated readers across all disciplines, particularly those interested in restoration/adaptation ecology, the cultural construction of place and landscape, the ongoing conversation about wilderness, the challenges posed to global environmental change. The text may also be a gold mine for doctoral students looking for dissertation projects in environmental philosophy that are inclusive of continental and analytic traditions. This text is rich in innovative approaches to the questions they raise that are reasonably well thought out. The fact that the essays in each section really do resonate with one another directly is also intellectually exciting and very helpful in working out the full dimensions of each question raised in the volume
    Description / Table of Contents: ContributorsPreface -- 1. Introduction; Martin Drenthen & Jozef Keulartz: Introduction -- Part One: Wilderness and Cultural Landscapes -- 2. Extracting Culture or Injecting Nature? Rewilding in Transatlantic Perspective; Marcus Hall -- 3. Restoration and Authenticity Revisited; Marion Hourdequin & David Havlick -- 4. Conceiving the Earth itself as our Garden; W.S.K. Cameron 5. Wilderness Recognized. Environments Free From Human Control; Robert Scotney -- Part Two: Restoration of Value and Meaning to Cultural Ecosystems -- 6. Cultural Landscapes, Ecological Restoration and the Intergenerational Narrative; Paul Knights -- 7. Enduring Nature; Glenn Deliège 8. Seeking Nature's Permission; Alan Holland -- 9. Green Managerialism And The Erosion Of Meaning; Simon P. James -- Part Three: Wolves and Wildness -- 10. The wolf is coming! Emplacing a predator that is not (yet) there; Martin Drenthen -- 11. Eating Wolves; Thomas Thorp -- 12. Blurring Boundaries: Freedom, Enclosure, and Death; Brian Seitz -- 13. The Hero, the Wolf, and the Hybrid. Overcoming the Overcoming of Uncultured Landscapes; Nathan Kowalsky -- Index.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789400769731
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 331 p. 46 illus., 18 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Theories of information, communication and knowledge
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Information ; Kommunikation ; Wissen ; Informations- und Dokumentationswissenschaft ; Online-Ressource ; Information ; Kommunikation ; Wissen
    Abstract: This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we construct meaning from the perceptions of things? Although no consensus exists on a common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few can reject the hypothesis that information - whether perceived as « object » or as « process » - is a pre-condition for knowledge. Epistemology is the study of how we know things (anglophone meaning) or the study of how scientific knowledge is arrived at and validated (francophone conception). To adopt an epistemological stance is to commit oneself to render an account of what constitutes knowledge or in procedural terms, to render an account of when one can claim to know something. An epistemological theory imposes constraints on the interpretation of human cognitive interaction with the world. It goes without saying that different epistemological theories will have more or less restrictive criteria to distinguish what constitutes knowledge from what is not. If information is a pre-condition for knowledge acquisition, giving an account of how knowledge is acquired should impact our comprehension of information and communication as concepts. While a lot has been written on the definition of these concepts, less research has attempted to establish explicit links between differing theoretical conceptions of these concepts and the underlying epistemological stances. This is what this volume attempts to do. It offers a multidisciplinary exploration of information and communication as perceived in different disciplines and how those perceptions affect theories of knowledge
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Thomas DousaChapter 1: Cybersemiotics: A new foundation for transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition, meaning, communication and consciousness; Søren Brier -- Chapter 2: Epistemology and the Study of Social Information within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information;Wolfgang Hofkirchner.- Chapter 3: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers; Luciano Floridi -- Chapter 4: Human communication from the semiotic perspective; Winfried Nöth --   Chapter 5: Mind the gap: transitions between concepts of information in varied domains; Lyn Robinson and David Bawden -- Chapter 6:  Information and the disciplines: A conceptual meta-analysis; Jonathan Furner -- Chapter 7: Epistemological Challenges for Information Science; Ian Cornelius -- Chapter 8: The nature of information science and its core concepts; Birger Hjørland -- Chapter 9: Sylvie Leleu-Merviel. Coalescence in the informational process. Application to visual sense-making. Chapter 10: Understanding users’ informational constructs through the affordances of cinematographic images; Michel Labour -- Chapter 11: Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information Units in Textual Information: A Case Study; Thomas Dousa -- Index.
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  • 3
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing
    ISBN: 9783319046600
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 482 p. 7 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Agazzi, Evandro, 1934 - Scientific objectivity and its contexts
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Objektivität ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents). In both cases it relies upon the adoption of operational criteria designed within the particular perspective under which any single science considers reality. The “object” so attained has a proper ontological status, dependent on the specific character of the criteria of reference (regional ontologies). This justifies a form of scientific realism. Such perspectives are also the result of a complex cultural-historical situation. The awareness of such a “historical determinacy” of science justifies including in the philosophy of science the problems of ethics of science, relations of science with metaphysics, and social dimensions of science that overstep the traditional restriction of the philosophy of science to an epistemology of science. It is to this “context” that the second part of the book is devoted
    Description / Table of Contents: Historical and Philosophical BackgroundThe Characterisation of Objectivity -- First Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science -- The Ontological Commitment of Science -- Scientific Realism -- The Contexts of Objectivity -- Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science -- Scientific Truth Revisited -- The Context of Making Science -- Science and Metaphysics -- Appendix -- References -- Indexes.
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  • 4
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401788168
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 273 p. 8 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Ethics and the arts
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Künste ; Ethik ; Ästhetik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book proposes that the highest expression of ethics is an aesthetic. It suggests that the quintessential performance of any field of practice is an art that captures an ethic beyond any literal statement of values. This is toadvocate for a shift in emphasis,away from current juridical approaches to ethics (ethicalcodes or regulation), toward ethics as an aesthetic practice-away from ethics as a minimal requirement, toward ethics as an aspiration. The book explores the relationship between art and ethics: a subject that has fascinated philosophers from ancient Greece to the present. It explores this relationship in all the arts: literature, the visual arts, film, the performing arts, and music. It also examines current issues raised by ‘hybrid’ artists who are working at the ambiguous intersections between art, bioart and bioethics and challenging ethical limits in working with living materials. In considering these issues the book investigates the potential for art and ethics to be mutually challenged and changed in this meeting. The book is aimed at artists and students of the arts, who may be interested in approaching ethics and the arts in a new way. It is also aimed at students and teachers of ethics and philosophy, as well as those working in bioethics and the health professions. It will have appeal to the ‘general educated reader’ as being current, of considerable interest, and offering a perspective on ethics that goes beyond a professional context to include questions about how one approaches ethics in one’s own life and practices
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; References; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction : Ethics and the Arts; Reference; Part I: The Arts and Ethics; Chapter 2: Literature and Ethics: Learning to Read with Emma Bovary; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Historical Background; 2.3 The Work; 2.4 Conclusion: The Ethics of Reading; References; Chapter 3: Music and Morality; 3.1 Music, Morality, and Philosophy ; 3.2 The Deep Diversity of Musical Practices; 3.3 Musical Resources and Morality; 3.4 Music, Ethos, and Education; References; Chapter 4: Modern Painting and Morality; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Morality in 'Early Modern' Painting
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1 The Moral Universe: Gathering of the Ashes4.2.2 Two Bathshebas; 4.3 Modern Painting to 1980; 4.3.1 The Beginnings of Modern Painting; 4.3.2 Rothko; 4.3.3 Andy Warhol; 4.4 Modern Painting from a Moral Perspective; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: The Photograph Not as Proof but as Limit; 5.1 Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida; 5.2 Josh Azzarella and Trevor Paglen; 5.3 Unknowability, Mystery, and Ethical Viewing; References; Chapter 6: Of Redemption: The Good of Film Experience; 6.1 Encountering Cinema; 6.2 Intersecting Ethics; 6.3 Redeeming Cinema and Ethics; 6.4 Risking Redemption
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 7: Movies and Medical Ethics; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Film as a Starting Point for Studying Medical Ethics; 7.3 Engaging Viewers and Delivering Messages Cinematographically; 7.4 Extracted Sequences Illustrate Memorable Moments of a Film's Narrative; 7.5 The Value of Informed Awareness; 7.6 Aesthetics; A Valuable Addition to the Message; 7.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: The House of the Dead-The Ethics and Aesthetics of Documentary; 8.1 The Poem; 8.2 Three Characters-Jaime, Antonio and Almerindo; 8.2.1 Almerindo Act 1: 'The bells'; 8.2.2 Jaime Act 2: 'The deaths'
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2.3 Antonio Act 3: 'The forgotten'8.3 Activist Documentary Making; References; Chapter 9: Embracing the Unknown, Ethics and Dance; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Spinoza's Ethics; 9.3 Training and Technique; 9.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 10: Burning Daylight : Contemporary Indigenous Dance, Loss and Cultural Intuition; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Marrugeku; 10.3 Burning Daylight Production Outline; 10.4 Contemporary Dance in a Context of Loss and Forced Removal; 10.4.1 Case Study: Researching Burning Daylight ; 10.5 Negotiating the Contemporary in the Native Title Era; 10.5.1 Case Study: Rubibi
    Description / Table of Contents: 10.5.2 Case Study: Memory of Tradition10.6 The Art of Listening; References; Chapter 11: Toward an Intersubjective Ethics of Acting and Actor Training; 11.1 Considering the Intersubjective Space 'Between' in One Performance; 11.1.1 Phenomenological Perspectives on Intersubjectivity; 11.2 Theatre and Ethics: A Brief Overview; 11.3 The Postmodern Condition and Ethics; 11.3.1 Levinas' Ethics of Ethics ; References; Chapter 12: Politics and Ethics in Applied Theatre: Face-to-­Face and Disturbing the Fabric of the Sensible; 12.1 Facing the Other; 12.2 Political Affects
    Description / Table of Contents: 12.3 Sensitising Through Participatory Theatre
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9784431546139
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 174 p. 70 illus., 59 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Ishida, Emile H. Nature technology
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Architectural design ; Life sciences ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Architectural design ; Life sciences ; Humanities ; Natur ; Lebensstil ; Sozialer Wandel ; Technischer Fortschritt
    Abstract: The Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011, reminded us that we were just one species within the great cycle of life on earth, that we were allowed to survive only because of nature, and that the idea that we were somehow able to conquer nature was simply an illusion. Now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from the "underground resources" type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sense of nature. To do so, we must learn from nature, the only sustainable society on earth, and create technology that embraces such a view of nature. We call such technology, which cleverly revives nature's greatness, Nature Technology. Taking a casual glance at nature, a nest of termites in the savanna region can be observed to maintain a steady temperature of 30°C despite the fact that the outside air temperature ranges from 50°C during the day to nearly 0°C at night. There are countless numbers of open pores just several billionths of a meter (nanometer) wide in the "earth" of the nest, which serve to regulate the temperature and humidity. In fact, all kinds of "earth" have these pores (clay mineral with aggregated structures) and air conditioners that require no electricity have been created by hardening this earth while preserving its structure; a cooling floor or wall becomes the alternative to a conventional air conditioner. This book provides many such examples of how Nature Technology can support a new lifestyle that is both environmentally sound and spiritually uplifting
    Description / Table of Contents: Where Are We HeadingThe Eco-Dilemma -- The True Nature of the Global Environmental Problem -- A New Way of Manufacturing and Living -- Thinking Based on Forecasting, Thinking Based on Backcasting -- Lifestyles Envisioned with Backcasting -- Pre-war Living in Co-existence with Nature -- The Pursuit of Nature and Enjoyment - The Contours of a                  Wholesome, Fulfilling Lifestyle -- The Transition to New Lifestyles - Transitional Technology -- Manufacturing That Takes Nature into Account - The Shape of Nature Technology -- The Japanese Industrial Revolution Which Did Not Part with Nature -- The New World Created with Nature Technology.
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  • 6
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    Heidelberg : Springer
    ISBN: 9783319000503
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 61 p, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Ethics 6
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    Parallel Title: Print version The American Experience in Environmental Protection
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Newton, Lisa The American Experience in Environmental Protection
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Environmental law ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Environmental law
    Abstract: This book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and conservation in the United States through the major trends of the 20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection of the environment. It records a major cultural shift in the thinking of this nation, and provides guidelines for its continuation.​
    Description / Table of Contents: Author’s Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Environmental Background -- Chapter 2:  Business Hears the Call -- Chapter 3: Coming to Value Nature.
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  • 7
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    Dordrecht : Springer Science
    ISBN: 9789400764460
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 93 p. 1 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Dialektik ; Denken
    Abstract: When scientist investigate why things happen, they aim at giving an explanation. But what does a scientific explanation look like? In the first chapter (Theories of Scientific Explanation) of this book, the milestones in the debate on how to characterize scientific explanations are exposed. The second chapter (How to Study Scientific Explanation?) scrutinizes the working-method of three important philosophers of explanation, Carl Hempel, Philip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon and shows what went wrong. Next, it is the responsibility of current philosophers of explanation to go on where Hempel, Kitcher and Salmon failed. However, we should go on in a clever way. We call this clever way the pragmatic approach to scientific explanation and clarify briefly what this approach consists in. The third chapter (A Toolbox for Describing and Evaluating Explanatory Practices) elaborates the pragmatic approach by presenting a toolbox for analysing scientific explanation. In the last chapter (Examples of Descriptions and Evaluations of Explanatory Practices) the approach is illustrated with real-life examples of scientists aiming at explaining. This book can be used as a textbook for intermediate philosophy of science courses and is also valuable as “suggested reading” for introductory courses in philosophy of science. The way the book is set up makes it an excellent study and research guide for advanced (MA and PhD) students that work on the topic of scientific explanation. Finally, it is a handy source and reference book for senior researchers in the field of scientific explanations and - more generally - for all philosophers of science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction; 1 Theories of Scientific Explanation; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Hempel's Models; 1.2.1 The DN Model; 1.2.2 The Value of Explanations; 1.2.3 The IS Model; 1.3 Problems for Hempel's Models; 1.3.1 Accidental Generalisations; 1.3.2 Irrelevant Premises; 1.3.3 Asymmetry; 1.4 Strategies for Solving the Problems; 1.4.1 Causal Derivations; 1.4.2 Positive Causal Factors; 1.4.3 Positive and Negative Causal Factors; 1.4.4 Unificationism; 1.4.5 The Causal-Mechanical Model; 1.4.6 Overview; 1.5 Philip Kitcher's Unification Account of Explanation; 1.5.1 The Idea of Unification
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.5.2 Argument Patterns1.5.3 Four Factors of Unifying Power; 1.5.4 Explanations Versus Non-Explanatory Arguments; 1.6 Wesley Salmon's Causal-Mechanical Model of Explanation; 1.6.1 Etiological and Constitutive Explanations; 1.6.2 Causal Interactions; 1.6.3 Causal Processes; 1.6.4 Examples of Causal-Mechanical Explanations; 1.7 Summary and Preview; References; 2 How to Study Scientific Explanation?; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Rudolf Carnap on Explication; 2.3 Carl Hempel's Working-Method; 2.3.1 The First Stage: Explication; 2.3.2 Descriptive and Normative Claims; 2.3.3 Hempel's Failures
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Philip Kitcher's Working-Method2.4.1 Kitcher Versus Hempel; 2.4.2 Kitcher's Positive Descriptive Claim; 2.4.3 Kitcher's Normative Claim; 2.5 Wesley Salmon's Working Method; 2.6 A Pragmatic Approach to Studying Scientific Explanations; 2.6.1 Context-Dependent Normative Claims; 2.6.2 Context-Dependent Descriptive Claims; 2.6.3 Epistemic Interests; 2.6.4 Methodological Neutrality Versus Methodological Commitment; 2.6.5 Pragmatic Approach Versus Pragmatic Theory; 2.7 Conclusion; References; 3 A Toolbox for Describing and Evaluating Explanatory Practices; 3.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2 Types of Explanation-Seeking Questions3.2.1 Explanations of Particular Facts Versus Explanations of Regularities; 3.2.2 Questions About Particular Facts; 3.2.2.1 Questions About Plain Facts; 3.2.2.2 Contrastive Questions; 3.2.2.3 Resemblance Questions; 3.2.3 Questions About Regularities; 3.2.3.1 Examples and Types of Regularities; 3.2.3.2 Types of Questions; 3.3 Possible Formats of Answers to Why-Questions About Plain Facts; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 The CDN Format; 3.3.2.1 Structure; 3.3.2.2 Examples; 3.3.3 The PCR Format; 3.3.4 The PNC Format; 3.3.5 The Etiological Format
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.6 Variations on Previously Described Formats3.4 Possible Formats of Answers to Contrastive Why-Questions; 3.4.1 Introduction: Woodward's Desideratum; 3.4.2 From Reality to Alternative Scenarios; 3.4.3 From an Ideal Scenario to Reality; 3.4.4 Real Contrasts; 3.5 Possible Formats of Answers to Resemblance Why-Questions; 3.5.1 Introduction; 3.5.2 Top-Down Unification; 3.5.3 Bottom-Up Unification; 3.5.3.1 Social Revolutions; 3.5.3.2 Discussion; 3.6 Possible Formats of Explanations of Regularities; 3.6.1 Introduction; 3.6.2 Covering Law Explanations of Regularities
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.6.3 Mechanistic Explanations of Capacities
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  • 8
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400742499
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 284 p. 5 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 7
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The philosophy of computer games
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Computer vision ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Computer vision ; Computer games--Philosophy. ; Computerspiel ; Philosophie ; Computerspiel ; Ethik ; Computerspiel ; Computerspiel ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Computer games have become a major cultural and economic force, and a subject of extensive academic interest. Up until now, however, computer games have received relatively little attention from philosophy. Seeking to remedy this, the present collection of newly written papers by philosophers and media researchers addresses a range of philosophical questions related to three issues of crucial importance for understanding the phenomenon of computer games: the nature of gameplay and player experience, the moral evaluability of player and avatar actions, and the reality status of the gaming environment. By doing so, the book aims to establish the philosophy of computer games as an important strand of computer games research, and as a separate field of philosophical inquiry. The book is required reading for anyone with an academic or professional interest in computer games, and will also be of value to readers curious about the philosophical issues raised by contemporary digital culture.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Philosophy of Computer Games; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: General Introduction; Games; References; Part I: Players and Play; Chapter 2: Introduction to Part I: Players and Play; References; Suggestions for Further Reading; Chapter 3: Enter the Avatar: The Phenomenology of Prosthetic Telepresence in Computer Games; 3.1 Agency: The Cursor Analogy; 3.2 Prosthetic Agency and the Camera-Body; 3.3 The Paradox of the Prosthetic Avatar; 3.4 The ``I Can´´; 3.5 Body Intentionality and Body Image; 3.6 The Bodily Extension; 3.7 The Extending Touch; 3.8 The Prosthetic Marionette
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.9 Proxy Embodiment3.10 Telepresence and the Camera-Body; 3.11 Third Person; 3.12 Corporeality; 3.13 Proxy VR; Bibliography; Games; Chapter 4: Computer Games and Emotions; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Goals and Emotions; 4.2.1 Goals; 4.2.2 Basic Emotions; 4.3 Presentations and Emotions; 4.3.1 Empathy; 4.3.2 Beauty; 4.3.3 Sounds; 4.4 Conclusions; Bibliography; Games; Chapter 5: Untangling Gameplay: An Account of Experience, Activity and Materiality Within Computer Game Play; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Game and Play in the Concept of Gameplay: A Curious Coupling
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 Gameplay as an Activity and an Attitude5.4 From Metaphor to Materiality; 5.5 Computer Game as a Technological Artefact; 5.6 Co-Shaped Intentionality in Gameplay; 5.7 Conclusive Remarks; References; Chapter 6: Erasing the Magic Circle; 6.1 The Magic Circle in Play; 6.2 The Magic Circle and Digital Games; 6.3 A Separation in Space; 6.4 The Experiential Dimension; 6.5 Contexts; 6.6 Conclusion; Endnote; Endnote; References; Part II: Ethics and Play; Chapter 7: Introduction to Part II: Ethics and Play; References; Suggestions for Further Reading
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 8: Digital Games as Ethical Technologies8.1 Introduction; 8.2 A Brief Design Vocabulary; 8.3 What I Talk About When I Talk About Ethics; 8.4 (Post)Phenomenology and Computer Games; 8.5 Computer Games and the Philosophy of Information; 8.6 Playing Values: Bioshock and Grand Theft Auto IV; 8.7 Ethics by Ludic Means; 8.8 Games Are a Matter of Information (Ethics); 8.9 Conclusions; References - Literature; References - Games; Chapter 9: Virtual Rape, Real Dignity: Meta-Ethics for Virtual Worlds; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Overall Argument of the Paper in Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: 9.3 The Meta-ethical Framework Informing the Argument9.3.1 The Rights of Agents: Alan Gewirth´s Argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency; 9.3.2 The Absolute Right to Dignity; 9.3.2.1 A Reconstruction of Gewirth´s Argument for the PGC; 9.3.2.2 The Agent´s Double Standpoint; 9.3.2.3 The Concept of Absolute Rights; 9.3.3 Role Morality and Universal Public Morality; 9.4 The Meta-ethical Framework Applied to the Ethics of Virtual Worlds; 9.4.1 The Rights of Virtual Agents; 9.4.1.1 Objection 1: Only Real Agents Can Have Rights; 9.4.1.2 Response to Objection 1: Room for Rights
    Description / Table of Contents: 9.4.1.3 Objection 2: How Does the Opacity Argument Establish Rights for Avatars?
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    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
    ISBN: 9789400712881
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 19
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General)
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781402056307
    Language: English
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    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Archimedes 17
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    Keywords: Philosophy of nature ; Physics History ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Helmholtz, Hermann von 1821-1894 ; Naturwissenschaften ; Mechanismus ; Rezeption
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402045547
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 7
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Lebensmittelüberwachung
    Abstract: The field of ethics must be extended to cover responsibility for the production and choice of foodstuffs. This book shows how the focus of ethics can be expanded from its concern for the good life with and for others to cover the good life in fair food production practices
    Description / Table of Contents: Eating, Society and Ethics; Food to Science: On the Intellectualization of Food; The Storylessness of Food; Tracing the Production History; Food Ethics as the Ethics of the Trace; Traceability and Food Ethics
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    ISBN: 9781402039751
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: 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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  • 13
    ISBN: 9789053569238
    Language: Dutch
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 S.)
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Political science ; Culture and institutions ; Anthropology ; Filosofie ; Politicologie ; Culture and instituten ; Anthropologie ; Sociology (General) ; Social sciences (General) ; Political institutions and public administration (General) ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophie ; Politische Wissenschaft
    Abstract: Philosophy; Political science; Culture and institutions; Anthropology
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