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De Gruyter Analytische Einführung in die Erkenntnistheorie
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De Gruyter Immanuel Kant: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Was ist Wirklichkeit?: Neuer Realismus und
Book SynopsisWas ist Wirklichkeit? Welchen Zugang haben wir zu ihr in einer zunehmend medialen und digitalisierten Gesellschaft? Oder befinden wir uns mit diesen Fragen vielleicht selbst schon in einem illusionären oder imaginären Zusammenhang, weil die Realität jedem Verstehen zuvorkommt? Und: Was heißt es, mit diesen Fragen philosophisch und theologisch im gegenwärtigen Realismus-Streit angemessen umzugehen? Diesen Problemen wenden sich Markus Gabriel und Malte Dominik Krüger zu, die jeweils aus der Sicht des Neuen Realismus und der (Bild-) Hermeneutischen Theologie argumentieren und auch aufeinander Bezug nehmen. Dabei werden alte Grundfragen des philosophischen und theologischen Wirklichkeitsverständnisses neu verhandelt und in aktuellen Konzepten greifbar. Dokumentiert werden damit - einschließlich der Grußworte - die Vorträge der 1. Internationalen Bultmann-Lecture 2017 in Marburg.
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Fundamentaltheologische Rationalität
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Uber Die Klarheit Unserer Gedanken / How to Make
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Die 25 Jahre Der Philosophie
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Was Ist Phanomenologie?
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Theorien Der Intentionalitat Im Mittelalter
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Das Wahre Selbst: Studien Zu Plotins Begriff Des
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Zeit, Einbildung, Ich: Phanomenologische
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Springer VS NachGedachtes
Book Synopsis1. Rethinking GWL. 2. Anmerkungen zu „Biophilia“ oder Zwei Begriffe suchen einen Inhalt.- 3. Das Missverständnis.- 4. Eine Säge ist eine Säge. Ist eine Säge?.- 5. Descartes, die Lehrbuchbiologie und unser Kater.- 6. Das Ende eines Denkmusters (Die Biogenetische Grundregel).- 7. Die Natur als Vorbild? oder Nachhaltigkeit als Konstrukt.- 8. „Das hervorragend gelungene Experiment“ oder Was wurde eigentlich aus dem Huhn?.- Über den Autor.
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Brill Fink Das Sichtbare Und Das Unsichtbare: Gefolgt Von
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Brill I Fink Dialektik Des Glucks in Texten Von Franz Kafka
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S. Hirzel Verlag Evolutionare Erkenntnistheorie
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Schwabe Verlag Basel Erinnerungsethik
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Universitätsverlag Winter GadamerPreis 2025
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religionsphilosophie
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Mentis Verlag GmbH Ebenen Des Verstehens
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Brill Deutschland Was Ist Digitale Philosophie
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Mentis Verlag GmbH Der Epistemische Wert Von Wissen Aus Zweiter Hand
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Mentis Verlag GmbH Willensfreiheit Wissenschaft Und Diskursive
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Areteco AB Cracks in the Machine
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British Academy Evidence Inference and Enquiry
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The University of Chicago Press On Symbols and Society Heritage of Sociology
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The University of Chicago Press In Quest of the Ordinary Lines of Skepticism and
Book SynopsisA collection of lectures that examine such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge to show that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1: The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) 2: Emerson, Coleridge, Kant (Terms as Conditions) 3: Texts of Recovery (Coleridge, Wordsworth, Heidegger...) 4: Recounting Gains, Showing Losses (A Reading of The Winter's Tale) 5: Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) Postscript A. Skepticism and a Word concerning Deconstruction Postscript B. Poe's Perversity and the Imp(ulse) of Skepticism Postscript C. The Skeptical and the Metaphorical 6: The Uncanniness of the Ordinary 7: The Fantastic of Philosophy Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Questions of Evidence Proof Practice and
Book SynopsisA collection of essays and rejoinders about what constitutes evidence in research and scholarship. They examine not only the constitution and "blurring" of disciplinary boundaries, but also the configuration of the fact-evidence distinctions made in different disciplines and historical moments.
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The University of Chicago Press Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics Emersion
Book SynopsisProvides an approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. The author shows that a crucial task of hermeneutical critique is to establish priorities among the contexts that may be brought to bear on the interpretation of history and culture.Trade Review"Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics is a momentous and significant book, not only for the philosophical discipline of hermeneutics but also, because of its impeccable clarity, a much larger audience. It is, above all, a synthetic work, Makkreel's own original contribution to hermeneutics in the global world of the twenty-first century." (Rodolphe Gasche, University at Buffalo, State University of New York)
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The University of Chicago Press Platos Theaetetus
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The University of Chicago Press Meaning
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The University of Chicago Press When Maps Become the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"When Maps Become the World deservedly takes its place alongside some of the great philosophical reflections on the unique alchemy of maps. This immensely rich and deeply learned book is about the power and limitations of maps and ‘map thinking’ as a way of understanding cartography as well as scientific theory and practice. Moving beyond the established critique of maps, Winther provides a dazzling route for new ‘map thinking’ in our bewildering digital age. A superb achievement." -- Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps"A tour de force. Philosophers of science have increasingly resorted to analogies with maps and mapping in thinking about the relation of scientific theories and models to the world(s) they are about. Winther interrogates this usage in multiple ways: a historical overview of map-making in the West, a philosophical examination of the assumptions and commitments of map language, and in-depth studies of mapping practices in sciences from cosmology to neuroscience to genetics. Wonderfully enhanced by reproductions of maps from the many domains in which they are used, this book gives welcome philosophical substance to a widely used and increasingly central concept in studies of science." -- Helen Longino, Stanford University"It's only three-hundred pages but When Maps Become the World is a lot of book with a lot of thought-provoking propositions about life and how to live it. Masquerading as a book about maps and science, it's a manual on how to be in the world, a manual on how to live." * Denis Wood, Making Maps: DIY Cartography *"A sound contribution to the transdisciplinary field of map studies. . . . This book succeeds in bringing new theoretical insights into past cartographic materials and processes, encompassing diverse epochs, practices, and key ideas in map thinking. . . . The inclusive stance of this extremely well-written book is genuine, and the effort to bring together a huge amount of writings about cartography is valuable. From the specific angle of map theory, this book is a particularly welcome contribution that endorses a pluralistic style of thinking within the lively arena of map studies. From the point of view of science, it offers a sophisticated reflection on the generative powers of cartographic theorization." * The Holocene *"Convincingly links cartography and philosophy of science. . . . Winther relies on a careful archaeology of the basic or foundational assumptions lying behind every representation, and on 'counter-mappings': mappings that illustrate a minority or outsider point of view and thus show the contextuality of other maps. He illustrates his approach with examples of mapping in cosmology, brain research, and genetics. In doing so, he impressively shows the limitations the mapping of genes and brain functions have, and in which way 'counter maps' can open up new perspectives. . . . [The] book is an unorthodox and passionate plea for a diversity of perspectives—of structures, orders, and summaries—in cartography, science, and the philosophy of science. And at the same time, a convincing treatment of the tendency to confuse maps with the reality they describe." * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *"A valuable contribution to the philosophy of scientific representation. . . . Winther's writing and reasoning is clear and engaging. For the most part, this book is widely accessible to non-expert readers. . . . [An] excellent book." * History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences *"[Winther] blends wide-ranging, multidisciplinary perspectives to demonstrate the power of maps, mapping, and the philosophical 'map thinking' that helps explain complex information and relationships through scientific theories and models. Winther's text evaluates the promises, consequences, and perils of map thinking. . . . Winther's provocative, thoughtful treatise expands familiar concepts of cartography. GIS specialists could benefit from his reflections. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice, 2020 Outstanding Academic Title *"An engaging and informative work. . . . I recommend this book to graduate students taking a history and philosophy of geography class, along with anyone else interested in this field." * Cartographic Perspectives *"[Winther] has engaged fundamentally with mapping and cartography in order to show what significance maps play in all areas of science, how the clarification of spatial relationships helps in the formation of theory and representation of ideas in both the natural sciences and the humanities. . . . He never tires of giving hints to the danger of 'pernicious reification', the always erroneous equalization of a model with reality, regardless of whether it is the Mercator projection, the pictorial flattening of Earth in the atlas, gene-driven evolution or a model of Homo sapiens: The theory is never the Living." * Süddeutsche Zeitung *"Winther writes from a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary perspective to show the power of the map, mapping, and ‘map thinking’ to organize and understand complex information. In very clear prose, citing a rich literature, he explores the possibilities of mapping, as well as its limitations and hazards. Professionals in geographic information systems who read this book will expand their conception of mapping and see their work as integral to the entire human enterprise; they will reflect more deeply on what they are doing, how they do it, and why; and be encouraged to look further into the philosophical underpinnings of mapping and GIS." -- Jack Dangermond, founder and president, Esri"An intriguing and often brilliant book, When Maps Become the World raises profound, even fundamental philosophical questions about ‘map thinking.’ The map is considered here as more than simply a scientific model or abstraction but as a kind of ‘metaperspective’ through which the world has been understood scientifically. This is an important book on how the map can be considered philosophically as a heuristic device that has enabled and constrained the development of scientific rationality." -- Michael Heffernan, University of Nottingham"A valuable contribution to the philosophy of scientific representation." * Springer Nature *"Defining what a map is and how it works is a centuries-old exercise. Winther boldly goes where many have gone before and, after settling on a definition that allows for new directions, he explores how ‘map thinking’ operates to organize scientific knowledge and guide social change. Not only do maps represent the world we live in, but they also suggest multiple ways to remake it and, hopefully, improve it." * Imago Mundi *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Why Maps? A History and Philosophy of Map Thinking The Nature of Map Thinking—Elements of Map Thinking—Deep Mapping—Five Hundred Years of Western Mapping Maps Today Cartography Meets GIS—A Definition Based on Representation—Characterizations Based on Process and Function Three Maps Waldseemüller’s Map—Guaman Poma’s Countermap—Van Sant’s Ultimate Map? Conclusion Part 1: Philosophy 2. Theory Is to World as Map Is to Territory Analogy Three Types of Analogy—Critical Cautions The Map Analogy A Typology of Map Analogies—Uses of the Map Analogy in Humanistic Inquiry Assumption Archaeology Conclusion 3. From Abstraction to Ontologizing The Abstraction-Ontologizing Account Abstraction Abstraction Stage I: Calibration of Units and Coordinates—Abstraction Stage II: Data Collection and Management—Abstraction Stage III: Generalization OntologizingOntologizing 0: Representation Testing—Ontologizing I: Changing the World—Ontologizing II: Understanding the World—Ontologizing III: Classroom Communication Conclusion 4. Long Live Contextual Objectivity! Pernicious Reification Contextual Objectivity Conformation—The Essential Indexical A History of the Mercator Projection I: Gerardus Mercator Mercator’s Critique of Earlier Projections—Mercator’s New Purpose: Navigation—Mercator’s Clear Presentation of Latitude and Longitude—Mercator’s Awareness of Alternative Projections A History of the Mercator Projection II: Post Mercator Integration Platforms A Beyond-Mercator Integration Platform: Blocking Pernicious Reification and Seeking Contextual Objectivity—Philosophical Aspects of Integration Platforms Conclusion 5. Projecting Maps into Our Worlds Two Canonical Philosophical Accounts of Representation: Isomorphism and Similarity The Isomorphism Account—The Similarity Account The Multiple Representations Account Ontologizing—Merely-Seeing-As—Pluralistic Ontologizing—Climate Change and Multiple Representations Conclusion Part 2: Science 6. Mapping Space Extreme-Scale Maps in Cosmology The Universe’s Baby Portrait—The Universe Growing Up (and Outward)—Cosmic-Scale Maps and the Abstraction-Ontologizing Account Literal Cartographic Maps in Geology State-Space Maps in Physics and Physical Chemistry Analogous Maps in Mathematics Conclusion 7. Mapping Ourselves Migration Maps Arrowized Assumptions—Arrowized Maps—Countermapping Migration Brain Maps Decompositional Assumptions—Phrenological Maps—The Somatosensory and Motor Homunculi—Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)—Countermapping the Brain Statistical Causal Maps Linear Model Assumptions—Correlation and Causation—“Genetic” and “Environmental” Diseases—Path Diagrams as Statistical Causal Maps—When Causal Maps Become the World Conclusion 8. Mapping Genetics Building a Mapping-Genetics Integration Platform Assumptions—Terminology—Map Types The Linear Genetic Map Linear Genetic Maps of Phenotypic Linkage—Linear Genetic Maps of Nucleotides—Assumptions of the Linear Genetic Map The Gene Expression Map The Genotype-Phenotype Map The Literal Cartographic Genetic Map The Comparative Genetic Map The Adaptive Landscape Map An Analogous Genetic Map: The Tree of LifeDarwin’s Hypothesis—Contemporary Phylogenies Future Extensions: Mapping Genetics as a Paradigmatic Integration Platform 9. Map Thinking Science and Philosophy Existence, World Making, and Responsibility Map Thinking Scientific Methodology Map Thinking Philosophical Methodology Assumption Archaeology—Tracking Ethics and Power—Imagining “What If . . . ?” An Invitation to Dream Appendix: Cognitive Map Exercise References Index
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The University of Chicago Press A History of the Modern Fact Problems of
Book SynopsisShowing the epistemological conditions that have made modern, social and economic knowledge possible, this text explores questions such as, "how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?".Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Modern Fact, the Problem of Induction, and Questions of Method 2: Accommodating Merchants: Double-Entry Bookkeeping, Mercantile Expertise, and the Effect of Accuracy 3: The Political Anatomy of the Economy: English Science and Irish Land 4: Experimental Moral Philosophy and the Problems of Liberal Governmentality 5: From Conjectural History to Political Economy 6: Reconfiguring Facts and Theory: Vestiges of Providentialism in the New Science of Wealth 7: Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Problem of Induction in the 1830s Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press A History of the Modern Fact
Book SynopsisShowing the epistemological conditions that have made modern, social and economic knowledge possible, this text explores questions such as, how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?.
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The University of Chicago Press Truth and Existence
Book SynopsisTruth and Existence, written in response to Martin Heidegger's Essence of Truth, is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging text not only presents Sartre's ontology of truth but also addresses the key moral questions of freedom, action, and bad faith. Truth and Existence is introduced by an extended biographical, historical, and analytical essay by Ronald Aronson. Truth and Existence is another important element in the recently published links between Sartre's existentialist ontology and his later ethical, political, and literary concerns...The excellent introduction by Aronson will help readers not experienced in reading Sartre.--Choice Accompanied by an excellent introduction, this dense, lucidly translated treatise reveals Sartre as a characteristically 20th-century figure.--Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Ethics of Truth Ronald Aronson Contexts Arlette Elkaim-Sartre Note to the Reader Untitled Pages Truth and Existence Appendix: New Outline Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Heart of Science
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The University of Chicago Press The Genesis of Kants Critique of Judgment
Book SynopsisIn this philosophically sophisticated and historically significant work, John H. Zammito reconstructs Kant's composition of The Critique of Judgment and reveals that it underwent three major transformations before publication. He shows that Kant not only made his cognitive turn, expanding the project from a Critique of Taste to a Critique of Judgment but he also made an ethical turn. This ethical turn was provoked by controversies in German philosophical and religious culture, in particular the writings of Johann Herder and the Sturm und Drang movement in art and science, as well as the related pantheism controversy. Such topicality made the Third Critique pivotal in creating a Kantian movement in the 1790s, leading directly to German Idealism and Romanticism. The austerity and grandeur of Kant's philosophical writings sometimes make it hard to recognize them as the products of a historical individual situated in the particular constellation of his time and society. Here Kant emerges a
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McGill-Queen's University Press Once upon a Time in the West Essays on the
Book SynopsisWestern civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky’s trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left us blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of that shuttered vision are now unfolding.Trade Review“Zwicky's distinctive voice – warm, wise, sometimes colloquial or cutting – brings together these essays on diverse topics. Her sensibility is of course poetic, but also critical in the best sense: rigorous, probing, and committed. This is an engaging and enlightening portrait of a fine thinker in action.” Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto and author of Singular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism“Lyric philosophy of the highest calibre. Jan Zwicky addresses the dilemmas we as a species are faced with today with great lucidity, seamlessly weaving together a wide variety of themes from philosophy, poetry, and ecology. Anyone interested in understanding the more-than-human world and our place in it is bound to find food for thought in these beautifully written and provoking philosophical essays.” Leonor María Martínez Serrano, University of Córdoba and author of Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst
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Columbia University Press The Range of Interpretation The Wellek Library
Book SynopsisIn this work philosopher Wolfgang Iser offers a fresh perspective on questions such as why do human beings need fictions? And why do human beings need to interpret, despite the fact that complete interpretation is unattainable?Trade Review[Range of Interpretation] leaves the reader with a greatly expanded understanding of the nature of interpretation, of the various roles it assumes in our culture, and it is difficult to imagine a scholar who would not profit from such a book. Philosophy in ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction The Marketplace of Interpretation Interpretation as Translatability 2. The Authority of the Canon Canonization and Midrash The Literary Canon: Dr. Johnson on Shakespeare 3. The Hermeneutic Circle Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher: Self-reflective Circularity Johann Gustav Droysen: The Nesting of Circles Paul Ricoeur: Transactional Loops 4. The Recursive Loop Recursion in Ethnographic Discourse Systemic Recursion 5. The Traveling Differential: Franz Rosenzweig, "The Star of Redemption" "The Birth of the Elements Out of the Somber Foundations of Nought" Proliferating Translatability 6. Configurations of Interpretation: An Epilogue
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University of Illinois Press Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition
Book Synopsis In recent years, both analytic thinkers and postmodern theorists have looked at Friedrich Nietzsche''s epistemology from the perspectives of their philosophical traditions. Michael Steven Green''s penetrating study tries instead to do justice to Nietzsche''s views on truth and knowledge by looking at them from the perspective of his contemporaries, particularly the Neo-Kantian philosopher Afrikan Spir, whose ideas exerted a tremendous influence on Nietzsche''s thought. Despite his generally naturalist outlook, Nietzsche was committed to an antinaturalist theory of cognition inherited from Kant and Spir. Green shows how this fundamental tension in Nietzsche''s thought led him to present not only the antirealism that has commonly been attributed to him in the past, but two other epistemological positions. These are a denial of the possibility of human thought entirely, and an error theory–-the argument that all of our judgments are false–-that has strong parallelsTrade Review"A very powerful and philosophically sophisticated presentation of a position in the interpretation that has never to my knowledge had such an able advocate. . . . [Green] shows that there is more than one might think to the version of Nietzsche that has been popularized by the post-structuralists." –- Richard Schacht, author of Nietzsche and Making Sense of Nietzsche"Green's book makes an important contribution to Nietzsche scholarship by offering the first account in English of Afrikan Spir's philosophy and demonstrating its influence on Nietzsche's thinking about truth." –- Maudemarie Clark, author of Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy
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University of Illinois Press Making Truth
Book SynopsisA stimulating perspective on how scientists interpret the world and communicate among themselves and with othersTrade Review"An interesting and important book . . . filled with insight about the way scientists think and work, a book that will generate an important dialogue about science and science education.”--Journal of Chemical Education"Making Truth is an engaging and well-written book about the importance of metaphor in science, intended for a wide audience."--Philosophy of Science"Brown has a fluid and accessible writing style, and whether or not you find his thesis convincing, Making Truth makes for thought-provoking and worthwhile reading."--The Nucleus“For anyone interested in the philosophy of science. Highly recommended.”--Choice"To sum up: Theodore L. Brown's book is excellent."--HYLE--International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry"Anyone with a serious interest in science must read this book. In it, Brown demonstrates that metaphorical thought is central in all branches of science, just as it is in everyday life and mathematics. Particles as waves, time as a spatial dimension, gravity as the curvature of space-time, ion channels, protein folding. All these crucial scientific metaphors--and many more--allow us to understand science in terms of our embodied experience, build comprehensible models, make predictions, and perform precise calculations."--George Lakoff, coauthor of Metaphors We Live By, Philosophy in the Flesh, and Where Mathematics Comes From“This is an important book. Scientists will find it thought-provoking, and science teachers will find it a gold mine. Indeed, this book could be transforming for science education at the elementary, high school, and introductory college level.”--Linda S. Wilson, president emerita of Radcliffe College and coauthor of Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender DimensionTable of ContentsPreface ix 1. Scientific Thought and Practice 1 2. Introduction to Metaphor 14 3. The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor 31 4. The Classical Atom 53 5. The Modern Atom 74 6. Molecular Models in Chemistry and Biology 100 7. Protein Folding 122 8. Cellular-Level Metaphors 146 9. Global Warming 160 10. Science's Metaphorical Foundations: The Social in Science 183 Notes 197 Index 211
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Indiana University Press Cinema and CounterHistory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTime, memory, and representation are the key themes of Landy's volume, which is at once accessible, theoretical, and playful, dealing with cinema in all its forms. This dazzling display of virtuosity is a major work in Landy's long career. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Crisis of the Movement-Image and Counter-history2. History Growling at the Door: Horror and Naturalism3. Comedy, Theatricality, and Counter-history4. Minoritarian Cinematic Forms as Counter-history5. Memory, the Powers of the False, and BecomingEpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Cinema and CounterHistory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTime, memory, and representation are the key themes of Landy's volume, which is at once accessible, theoretical, and playful, dealing with cinema in all its forms. This dazzling display of virtuosity is a major work in Landy's long career. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Crisis of the Movement-Image and Counter-history2. History Growling at the Door: Horror and Naturalism3. Comedy, Theatricality, and Counter-history4. Minoritarian Cinematic Forms as Counter-history5. Memory, the Powers of the False, and BecomingEpilogueBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The World at a Glance
Book SynopsisWhat happens when we glance around a room? How do we trust what we see in fleeting moments? Glancing counts for more of human perception than previously imagined. An entire universe is perceived in a glance, but our quick and uncommitted attention prevents examination of these rapid acts and processes.Trade ReviewElegantly written, this book, its erudition formidable, offers the reader an encyclopedic glance into a treasure-trove of information and knowledge bearing on vision: material in cinema studies, architecture, art criticism, world history, anthropology, urban studies, psychology, psychoanalysis, literature, and the natural sciences, as well as philosophy. To venture into its beckoning pages of stories is to undertake a richly rewarding journey, glancing at the world through configurations of time and space.Vol. IV.1 April 2009 -- David Kleinberg-Levin * Hyperion *. . . Notable for its breadth and depth, the present title examines the range of information that one absorbs in rapid glances, i.e., 'blink of an eye' experiences that characterize visual interaction with the world. Looking at familiar, everyday events as well as examples from ancient history, linguistics, literature, art, photography, and ethics, Casey develops a narrative that will fascinate anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, and their interaction in the construction of the perceptual world. Even neuroscientists will appreciate the notion that enduring emotional and cognitive experiences are built from momentary visual impressions. . . . Essential. * Choice *The World at a Glance is . . . a challenging book, in every positive sense of the word. . . . The book's analyses are simultaneously wide-ranging and incredibly detailed, reflecting, no doubt intentionally, the very diversity and singularity of its subject matter. . . . Casey's work is effortlessly interdisciplinary, drawing on and responding to ideas from psychology, ecology, and art history. Yet while Casey's thinking is always informed by that of others, he develops a truly original line of inquiry. * Continental Philosophy Review *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Regaining the GlanceIntroduction: Taking in the World at a GlancePart One: Approximating to the Glance1. Getting into the Glance2. Coming Closer to the Glance3. Becoming and Being Oriented by the Glance4. The Hegemony of the GazePart Two: Glancing Earlier and Farther Afield5. The Glance in Ancient Athens6. The Sudden, the Surprising, and the Wondrous: With Walter Benjamin on the Streets of ParisCodaPart Three: Getting Inside the Glance7. The Singularity of the Glance8. Glancing Time9. Attending and GlancingPart Four: Praxis of the Glance10. The Ethics of the Glance11. The Natural Environment in a Glance12. Glancing at the Image in Photography and PaintingConcluding Thoughts: Catching Sight of SurpriseAfterword: Families of the Glance and the GazeIndex
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Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame Du Lac Degrees of Knowledge Collected Works Jacques Maritain V7 Collected Works of Jacques Maritain
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University of Notre Dame Press Degrees of Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis work is Maritain's masterpiece. Published as ""Distinguer pour unir, ou Les degres du savoir"" in 1932, the book proposes a hierarchy of forms of knowledge that culminates in mystical experience and that wisdom which is a gift of the Holy Ghost. His inspiration is St Thomas Aquinas.Trade Review"One can open The Degrees of Knowledge to almost any page and discover there something worth thinking about." —Pastoral Life * Perspectives on Political Science *"The Degrees of Knowledge represents one of the most complete articulations of Maritain's incorporation of the thinking of Saint Thomas Aquinas into his work." —The Library Quarterly * Choice *“The Degrees of Knowledge remains interesting and valuable because it deals with a theme that is characteristic of, but antedates, much of postmodern thought—i.e., the critique of ‘modern epistemology.’ —Études maritainiennes * Commentary *
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University of Notre Dame Press Human Knowing
Book SynopsisHuman Knowing is a clearly written, brief introduction that guides the reader through an exploration of sense perception, ordinary knowing, scientific knowing, and philosophic knowing. This journey culminates in a justification of philosophy as a genuine form of knowing and thus a natural prelude to metaphysics. Though Felt manages to avoid technical language, the development of his argument is a genuine exercise in philosophic thinking. The outcome is a contemporary expression of a position similar to that of Thomas Aquinas, significantly enriched by insights from Bergson, Whitehead, and phenomenology. This book is accessible, smart, and refreshing. Any interested general reader or student will profit from reading it.Trade Review“This fine book is ideal for introductory courses in philosophy, and it is executed and backed up by careful, sophisticated philosophical analysis and insight.” —W. Norris Clarke, S.J., Fordham University“A strong case for relational realism is presented with a carefully outlined argument and discussion of classic examples from many major philosophers, including Locke, Hume, Kant, Searle, Merleau-Ponty, Kuhn, Whitehead, and Aquinas. Numerous analogies from common experience and chapter review questions are provided (plus a dab of humor and poetry). Felt successfully proves with his relational realism that we are not, as some philosophers might call us, merely meat-robots.” —Dialogue“. . . [T]his is an engaging work--bright, readable, and tightly argued. It should serve as a fine undergraduate introduction to epistemology.” —The Review of Metaphysics
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University of Notre Dame Press No Religion without Idolatry
Book SynopsisNo Religion without Idolatry offers an interpretation of Mendelssohn’s general philosophy and discusses for the first time his semiotic interpretation of idolatry in his commentaries.Trade Review"In this lucid and provocative study, Gideon Freudenthal offers an original and compelling reading of Mendelssohn as well as a defense of the possibility of religious rationalism more generally. This book is not only an excellent contribution to a growing body of scholarship on Mendelssohn and early modern philosophy, but it also significantly sharpens and advances contemporary conversations about the relations between religion and reason." —Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University"In this masterful study, Gideon Freudenthal demonstrates how Mendelssohn’s philosophy, including his philosophy of religion, is grounded in semiotics. The result is a landmark work that not only successfully challenges standard interpretations of Mendelssohn’s 'enlightened Judaism' and its alleged inconsistency but also effectively invites reconsideration of the very possibility of 'religion without idolatry.'" —Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University"In focusing on Mendelssohn's 'semiotics of idolatry,' Gideon Freudenthal writes as a philosopher fully at home in multiple traditions: contemporary philosophy, eighteenth-century philosophy, Jewish biblical exegesis, and comparative religion. The result is a systematic and penetrating study, based on the Hebrew as well as the German texts, that engages Mendelssohn on perhaps the most critical issue of his understanding of religion with unprecedented philosophical rigor and imagination." —David Sorkin, City University of New York Graduate Center“This is an innovative study of the views of the ‘father’ of modern Jewish philosophy, Moses Mendelssohn. It emphasizes correctly that Mendelssohn’s philosophy of Judaism was thoroughly rational in the Enlightenment’s sense of the notion of rationality, and concentrated not on metaphysical arguments and disputations about matters of faith but, rather, on the role and significance of religious practices. . . . As a result, this is a valuable, provocative, unconventional interpretation of Mendelssohn that is sure to stir scholarly debate” —Choice“Freudenthal’s book introduces us to a Mendelssohn who is a serious, consistent, and careful philosopher, an independent thinker whose true philosophical position has gone underappreciated for too long. . . . We are indebted to Freudenthal’s book for challenging us to rethink Mendelssohn’s philosophical project and thereby to rethink the relevance Enlightenment philosophers may still have today.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews“Freudenthal’s book is highly to be recommended. Its scholarship is impressive, the writing lucid and engaging. It represents an important and original contribution to our understanding of Mendelssohn, complementing the work of Altmann, Allan Arkush, and others.” —H-Judaic“Freudenthal expands the notion of idolatry beyond its common restriction to false objects of devotion and renders it a heuristic principle to examine not only Judaism but all religions as semiotic systems.” —Theological Studies“In all, Freudenthal’s book is highly to be recommended. Its scholarship is impressive, the writing lucid and engaging. It represents an important and original contribution to our understanding of Mendelssohn, complementing the work of Altmann, Allan Arkush, and others.” —H-Net“This book offers a thorough and robust defense of Moses Mendelssohn’s (1729–86) philosophical and religious project. Freudenthal’s familiarity not only with Mendelssohn’s philosophical, but also with his theological works—including scriptural commentaries in Hebrew—allow him to offer a more complete and consistent view of Mendelssohn’s project.” —The Review of Metaphysics
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Adventures in Unfashionable Philosophy
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University of Notre Dame Press View from Within
Book SynopsisThe View from Within examines the character of reason and the ability of an individual to effectively distance himself from the normative framework in which he functions in order to be self-critical and innovative. To accomplish this task, Menachem Fisch and Yitzhak Benbaji critically employ or reject the recent writings of Brandom, Friedman, Frankfurt, Walzer, Davidson, Williams, Habermas, Rorty, and McDowell to offer a fundamental analysis of the character of reason and the problem of relativism. This ambitious book forcefully raises the problem of rational normative change and makes the unique and insightful claim that although we cannot be convinced by normative criticism to modify or replace our norms, we can be rationally motivated to do so by the effect of exposure to trusted critics. Its unprecedented analysis, with its solution to the problem of normative self-criticism that has baffled philosophers for the past sixty years, will be welcomed by both students aTrade Review"This is a bold and wide-ranging book that offers a novel solution to a central problem of philosophy: if there is no normatively neutral language in which to compare normatively distinct vocabularies, how can transitions from one vocabulary to another ever be rational? Combining great analytic subtlety with deep knowledge of the history of science, Fisch and Benbaji argue that a central role is played by the ambivalence induced in insiders when they engage external critics within the 'trading zones' of discourse. A tour de force, this book sheds new light on many areas of philosophy. Indeed, by examining the role of familiar phenomena that philosophers often neglect, such as ambivalence and indecision, The View from Within illuminates the destabilizing as well as the creative potential of reason throughout human life." —Paul Franks, University of Toronto and Yale University“The View from Within is a thorough evaluation of the arguments made by contemporary philosophers about the normative character of reason and the derivative problem of relativism. Fisch and Benbaji have admirably compared and contrasted competing positions, and with a balanced critique, they have made a sustained effort to ‘save’ rationality and provide new guideposts for its philosophical evaluation. A timely and important contribution.” —Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University"How can one change one’s mind about the very standards one applies as a critical thinker without losing a grip on one's reasons? Fisch and Benbaji assess the state of the question in a remarkably wide range of fields: Kuhnian philosophy of science, interpretive social theory, pragmatism from Rorty to Brandom, and Frankfurt's philosophy of personal identity. Then they offer an answer of their own, which integrates a social account of rationality as a trait agents exhibit when exchanging reasons with one another and a subject-centered account of rationality as a trait agents exhibit when criticizing their own commitments from within. The result is a fresh and illuminating approach to the nature of rationality and normativity." —Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University“. . . this thought-provoking study is important for anyone interested in rationality and the normativity of rational standards.” —Choice“Fisch and Benbaji frame their critique in dialogue with the recent writings of leading contemporary philosophers in a detailed analysis of the character of reason, the problem of relativism, and how to comprehend scientific change more generally. Firmly placed within the context of current debate, the authors provide a thorough evaluation of recent arguments as well as offering an important critique of normative reason in scientific discourse.” —Philosophy in Review“. . . there is a lot to admire here and the book is likely to find a cross-disciplinary audience among those interested in broad questions about facts and norms, cultural diversity and the plurality of values.” —The Philosophical Quarterly
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