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Book SynopsisThis work - the first full-length account of its theme in English - identifies Kant's doctrine of inner sense as a central, and problematic, element within the 'architectonic of pure reason' of the first Critique. Its exegesis exposes two, variant construals of the character and capacities of inner sense: the first, 'positive' construal functions in Kant's account of the nature of knowledge in the Transcendental Analytic, while the second, 'negative' construal functions in Kant's account of the limits of knowledge in the Transcendental Dialectic. Green shows how this variance underlies, and destabilizes, the basic intention of Kant's theoretical philosophy, to give an account of both the nature, and the limits, of cognition. The work complements detailed analysis with an exhaustive review of English, French, and German scholarship on the doctrine. An Appendix on Kant's recently discovered 'Vom inneren Sinne' fragment evinces Kant's continued concern with this doctrine, and a Conclusion intimates the importance of Fichte's and Schelling's identification of the 'aporia of inner sense' to the subsequent development of transcendental idealism.Trade Review"The thesis - very profound, very learned, and detailed -- of Professor Green recommends itself. It is obvious that we are introduced to an authentically speculative temperament, and to an extremely well-trained philosopher and scholar, who manifests exceptional gifts of both reflection and analysis. His work attests to an exhaustive knowledge of Kant (and, elsewhere, of Fichte, and therefore of German idealism). The author does not spare his reader; he is analytical, elaborate, and remains constantly in close proximity to the text, indeed with a remarkable mastery. The analytical attitude chosen by Professor Green ensures the solidity of his exposition." Xavier Tilliette (review of Garth Green's thesis as member examining committee, 2002)

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Book SynopsisIn Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo presents a general overview of the reception of Copernicus’s astronomical proposal from the years immediately preceding the publication of De revolutionibus (1543) to the Roman prohibition of heliocentric hypotheses in 1616. Relying on a detailed investigation of early modern sources, the author systematically examines a series of issues ranging from computation to epistemology, natural philosophy, theology and ethics. In addition to offering a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective on post-Copernican astronomy, the study goes beyond purely cosmological and geometrical issues and engages in a wide-ranging discussion of how Copernicus’s legacy interacted with European culture and how his image and theories evolved as a result.     Trade Review'Wer an der Astronomiegeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit interessiert ist, wird dieses Opus gerne zur Hand nehmen.' Günther Oestmann, in: Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, 13, p. 321-322. Massimo Bucciantini, in Il Sole 24 Ore, 4 Ottobre 2015: 'Pietro Daniel Omodeo indaga settant'anni di cosmologia e astronomia a cavallo di due secoli decisivi per le sorti dell'umanità, dove quei saperi sono inseparabili dalle filosofie e dalle teologie del loro tempo. E procede con passo spedito, ma ben equipaggiato e ben allenato ai lunghi viaggi, facendoci conoscere non solo gli attori principali ma anche i tanti personaggi spesso a torto considerati minori, alcuni dei quali pochissimo noti in Italia.' (Pietro Daniel Omodeo investigates 70 years of cosmology and astronomy between two centuries that were crucial for the fate of humanity, years when those sciences were inseparable from philosophy and theology. He proceeds fluently, ‘well equipped’ and ‘well used’ to long journeys by getting us acquainted to the main and to the less known characters, some of them not enough known in Italy.) 'Cliò che subito colpisce è l'attenzione alla pluralità che scaturisce dai tanti modi in cui venne letto Copernico. Sono le molteplici interpretazioni a rendere peculiare questo lavoro.' (What’s remarkable is the attention to a pluralistic perspective emerging from all the different ways in which Copernicus was read. The multiple interpretations make this work special.) 'Attraverso l'esame di un numero impressionante di testi Omodeo ci restituisce la fotografia di un'epoca animata da un susseguirsi interminabile di discussioni filosofiche e controversie scientifiche.' (By examining an impressive number of texts, Omodeo gives us a picture of an age animated by a succession of never-ending philosophical discussions and scientific disputes.) 'Trai capitoli più interessanti del libro ci sono quelli dedicati ai matematici luterani allievi di Filippo Melantone.' (The chapters devoted to the Lutheran mathematicians, alumni of Filippo Melantone are among the most interesting ones.) 'Siamo di fronte a un libro per lettori esigenti che, non accontentandosi delle troppo lineari ricostruzioni manualistiche, sono disposti a inoltrarsi - e con gusto a perdersi - nell'intricata selva dei molteplici e immaginifici universi che popolano la seconda metà del Cinquecento e i primi decenni del Seicento.' (This is a book for demanding readers, who are not satisfied by the too simple/linear reconstructions of usual handbooks, and instead are willing to dive in – and be happily lost in – the intricate wood of the multiplex imaginative universes of the second half of the sixteenth century and early seventeenth century.)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix List of Illustrations xi List of Abbreviations of Journals and Reference Books xii Introduction 1 1 Copernicus between 1514 and 1616: An Overview 11 1 Copernicus’s Connection 11 2 Platonizing Humanists 15 3 Rheticus and the Printing of De revolutionibus 19 4 The Network of German Mathematicians 23 5 Italy 25 6 France 31 7 Spain and Flanders 35 8 England and Scotland 37 9 Central European Circles and Courts 43 10 The Physical-Cosmological Turn 48 11 Heliocentrism between Two Centuries: Kepler and Galileo 51 12 Geo-Heliocentrism and Copernican Hypotheses 53 13 The Difficult Reconciliation between Copernicus and the Sacred Scripture 56 14 Copernicus before and after 1616 59 15 Summary of the Main Lines of the Early Reception of Copernicus 63 2 Astronomy at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Epistemology 66 1 A Split Reception of Copernicus 66 2 Copernicus Presents Himself as a Mathematician 70 3 Cosmology and Mathematics in Copernicus’s Commentariolus 71 4 A Clash of Authorities: Averroist Criticism of Mathematical Astronomy 76 5 Fracastoro’s Homocentrism 79 6 Amico on Celestial Motions 82 7 Osiander’s Theological Instructions 85 8 Melanchthon’s Approach to Nature 87 9 Rheticus’s Early “Realism” 92 10 The Elder Rheticus and Pierre de la Ramée against the Astronomical Axiom 94 11 Facts and Reasons in Astronomy according to Melanchthon and Reinhold 97 12 Reinhold’s Astronomy and Copernicus 100 13 Epistemological Remarks on Reinhold’s Terminology 104 14 Peucer’s Continuation of Reinhold’s Program 107 15 Wittich’s Combinatory Games 112 16 Brahe as the Culmination of the Wittenberg School 116 17 Beyond Selective Reading 120 3 Beyond Computation: Copernican Ephemerists on Hypotheses, Astrology and Natural Philosophy 124 1 A Premise: Gemma Frisius as a Reader of Copernicus 124 2 Frisius’s Cosmological Commitment in Stadius’s Ephemerides 127 3 Stadius and Copernicus 130 4 Ephemerides and Astrology 132 5 Some Remarks on Rheticus’s Challenge to Pico 134 6 Giuntini’s Post-Copernican Astrology 136 7 Magini: Copernican Ephemerides, Astrology and Planetary Hypotheses 139 8 A Dispute on the Reliability of Ephemerides in Turin 142 9 Benedetti’s Defense of Post-Copernican Ephemerides and Astrology 145 10 Origanus’s Planetary System 149 11 Origanus’s Arguments in Favor of Terrestrial Motion 151 12 Conclusions 156 4 A Finite and Infinite Sphere: Reinventing Cosmological Space 158 1 The Finite Infinity of the World Revised 159 2 Cusanus’s Two Infinities 161 3 Cusanus’s Role in the Copernican Debate 164 4 The Invention of the Pythagorean Cosmology 167 5 Pythagoreanism and Cosmological Infinity according to Digges 170 6 The Infinity of Space and Worldly Finiteness as a Restoration of the Stoic Outlook 173 7 Benedetti’s Approach to the Copernican System 175 8 Stoicism in Germany: Pegel’s Cosmology 179 9 Bruno’s Pythagorean Correction of Copernicus’s Planetary Model 183 10 Bruno’s Defense of Cosmological Infinity 186 11 Homogeneity, Aether and Vicissitude according to Bruno 188 12 Kepler’s Anti-Brunian Pythagoreanism 191 13 Conclusions: Eclectic Concepts of Cosmological Space in the Renaissance 195 5 A Ship-Like Earth: Reconceptualizing Motion 197 1 The Connection between Cosmology and Physics in Aristotle and Ptolemy 199 2 Copernicus’s Physical Considerations 203 3 Nominalist Sources on Terrestrial Motion 205 4 Calcagnini 209 5 Renaissance Variations on the Ship Metaphor 213 6 Bruno’s Vitalist Conception of Terrestrial Motion 216 7 Benedetti’s Archimedean Dynamics 219 8 Benedetti’s Post-Aristotelian Physics and Post-Copernican Astronomy 220 9 A New Alliance between Mechanics and Astronomy 223 10 Brahe’s Physical Considerations 225 11 Concluding Remarks 230 6 A priori and a posteriori: Two Approaches to Heliocentrism 234 1 Mästlin’s a posteriori Astronomy 235 2 The Young Kepler and the Secret Order of the Cosmos 238 3 Kepler Defends and Expounds the Hypotheses of Copernicus 242 4 The Distances of the Planets: Mästlin’s Contribution 243 5 Mästlin: Finally We Have an a priori Astronomy 245 6 The Sun as the Universal Motive Force 248 7 The New Astronomy 250 8 Natural Arguments in Astronomy 251 9 Gravitas and vis animalis 254 10 Celestial Messages 257 11 First Reactions to the Celestial Novelties 263 12 Kepler’s Discourses with Galilei 266 7 The Bible versus Pythagoras: The End of an Epoch 271 1 Condemnation 271 2 First Scriptural Reservations in the Protestant World 272 3 Rheticus and the Scriptures 274 4 Spina and Tolosani 278 5 Rothmann’s Opinion on the Scriptural Issue 281 6 Censorship in Tübingen 284 7 Scriptural Defense of Terrestrial Motion by Origanus 286 8 In Iob Commentaria 287 9 Bruno, Copernicus and the Bible 290 10 The Galileo Affaire 293 11 Foscarini pro Copernico 297 12 Galilei to Christina of Lorraine 303 13 Foscarini to Bellarmino 304 14 Bellarminian Zeal 307 15 Campanellan Libertas 309 16 Campanella’s Cosmologia 311 17 Apologia pro Galilaeo 314 18 Conclusions: Accommodation and Convention 318 8 Laughing at Phaeton’s Fall: A New Man 322 1 Holistic Views in the Astronomical-Astrological Culture of the Renaissance 323 2 The Ethical Question in Bruno: Philosophical Freedom and the Criticism of Religion 332 3 The Reformation of the Stars: a Metaphor for the Correction of Vices 335 4 A Copernican Sunrise 339 5 Beyond the Ethics of Balance 342 6 Heroic Frenzy 344 7 Actaeon: The Unity of Man and Nature 347 8 Bruno’s Polemics, Banishments and Excommunications 350 9 Cosmological and Anti-Epicurean Disputations at Helmstedt 352 10 Mencius against Epicurean Cosmology 354 11 Bruno’s Support of Atomistic Views 356 12 “New Astronomy” at Helmstedt 358 13 Liddel’s Teaching of Astronomy and Copernican Hypotheses 360 14 Hofmann’s Quarrel over Faith and Natural Knowledge 363 15 Franckenberg and the Spiritualist Reception of Bruno and Copernicus 365 16 Hill and the Epicurean Reception of Bruno and Copernicus 372 17 A New Imagery: Phaeton’s Fall 378 18 Conclusions: The New Humanity 382 Bibliography 387 Index of Names 425 Index of Places 432

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Book SynopsisIn Self-Identity and Powerlessness, Alice Koubová proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. The author shows that the philosophical stress on human identity fails to grasp essential aspects of human existence. By emphasizing the moments of Dasein’s powerlessness in Heidegger’s fundamental ontology, she develops — in her analysis of various philosophers, literary examples, and social psychology —an original phenomenology of alternation of existence and affair. How necessary is identity for thinking? Are we capable of philosophical thought even when we have neither ourselves, nor the world under our full control? Is it possible to relax, become powerless, and yet think precisely? These questions are to be answered in this book.

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Book SynopsisHistorical research in previous decades has done a great deal to explore the social and political context of early modern natural and moral inquiries. Particularly since the publication of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer’s Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985) several studies have attributed epistemological stances and debates to clashes of political and theological ideologies. The present volume suggests that with an awareness of this context, it is now worth turning back to questions of the epistemic content itself. The contributors to the present collection were invited to explore how certain non-epistemic values had been turned into epistemic ones, how they had an effect on epistemic content, and eventually how they became ideologies of knowledge playing various roles in inquiry and application throughout early modern Europe.Trade Review“this book is indispensable not only for those who want to know the intellectual panorama of the time, but also for those who want to understand the basis of rationality and historicity that constitutes epistemological thinking associated with ethical-moral development at the dawn of modernity." Luiz C. Bombassaro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Winter 2016), pp. 1470-1471.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Notes on Editors and Contributors Acknowledgements Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction Tamás Demeter Reason and Common Culture in Early-Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme Peter Dear Devices and Epistemic Values Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism Matteo Valleriani Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera Obscura Daniel Schmal The Epistemology of Testimony Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth John Henry Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles Falk Wunderlich Religion and Inquiry Kepler’s Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World Giora Hon Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry Tamás Demeter The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Eighteenth-Century Hungary János Tanács Values in Controversy Newton’s Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours and Diagrams: A Radical Historical Interpretation Gábor Áron Zemplén The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry Axel Gelfert The Methods and Epistemic Virtues of a ‘Science of Man’ Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed Thomas Sturm The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions Eric Schliesser Ethics in Epistemology Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge Sorana Corneanu Spinoza’s Ethics: A Dominion within a Dominion Ruth Lorand What was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical of? Catherine Wilson Index

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to highlight Carl Stumpf’s contributions to philosophy and to assess some of the aspects of his work. This book is divided into four sections, and also includes a general introduction on Stumpf’s philosophy. The first section examines the historical sources of his philosophy, the second examines some of the central themes of his work and the third examines his relationship to other philosophers. The fourth section consists of notes taken by Husserl during Stumpf’s lectures on metaphysics in Halle, Stumpf’s introduction to the edition of his correspondence with Brentano, which he prepared in 1929, and some important letters pertaining to this correspondence. This book also provides a comprehensive bibliography of the works of Stumpf.Trade Review"Considering the many issues addressed in the papers of the book and the important unpublished materials yield now accessible, the project edited by Denis Fisette and Riccardo Martinelli is an essential instrument of research in this field. ... In the wake of the book Carl Stumpf – From Philosophical Reflection to Interdisciplinary Scientific Investigation (Krammer 2011), this book represents a further and decisive step in recognising the significance of Stumpf in the philosophical-psychological thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century." Gemmo Iocco, in Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 69 (issue 4), 2016. "Denis Fisette and Riccardo Martinelli have put together the most comprehensive, ambitious, and engaging collection of essays on the philosophy of Carl Stumpf (1848–1936) to date. The volume is impressive in both scope and depth. ... Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint is a landmark publication. It will have a long-lasting impact on the history of early twentieth century European philosophy and its ramifications up to our present.” Andrea Staiti, in The Philosophical Quarterly "Bien plus qu’une hypothétique reconstruction synthétique de l’oeuvre de Stumpf, Philosophy from an Empirical Standpoint: Essays on Carl Stumpf offre au lecteur un approfondissement des thèmes centraux de sa philosophie qui permet de penser la place de cette figure emblématique dans la philosophie allemande du xxe siècle." Maxime Julien, in Philosophiques, 42, (issue 2), 2015. "The general picture that emerges from this successful volume is that Stumpf was indeed a philosopher, not “just” an experimental psychologist treating of “matter of facts” in acoustics. ... Thanks to Denis Fisette and Riccardo Martinelli’s precious book, Stumpf’s position in the “scientific classifications” (Einteilung der Wissenschaften) will be considered anew." Hamid Taieb, in Brentano Studien, Internationales Jahrbuch der Franz Brentano Forschung 14 (2016)Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE THE RECEPTION AND ACTUALITY OF CARL STUMPF. AN INTRODUCTION Denis Fisette I. HISTORICAL SOURCES Introduction Riccardo Martinelli The young Carl Stumpf. His spiritual, intellectual, and professional development Wilhelm Baumgartner Practical Epistemology: Stumpf’s Halle Logic (1887) Robin D. Rollinger Carl Stumpf’s Debt to Hermann Lotze Nikolay Milkov Stumpf und die Monadologie der Herbartianer Stefano Poggi II. THEMES Introduction Riccardo Martinelli Carl Stumpf’s Philosophy of Mathematics Carlo Ierna Carl Stumpf über Sachverhalte Arkadiusz Chrudzimski Stumpf on Categories Riccardo Martinelli The Autonomy of the Sensible and the De-subjectification of the a priori by Stumpf Dominique Pradelle Stumpf on Abstraction Guillaume Fréchette Ästhetik als praktische Philosophie: Zur impliziten Ästhetik von Carl Stumpf Christian G. Allesch III. INFLUENCES Introduction Riccardo Martinelli A Phenomenology without Phenomena? Carl Stumpf’s Critical Remarks on Husserl’s Phenomenology Denis Fisette Stumpf’s (Early) Insights and Marty’s Way to His (Later) Sprachphilosophie Laurent Cesalli On Stumpf and Schlick Fiorenza Toccafondi Love, Emotions and Passion in Musil’s Novellas “Unions” in the light of Stumpf’s Theory of Feelings Silvia Bonacchi IV. ARCHIVALIA Introduction Denis Fisette Introduction to Stumpf’s Lecture on Metaphysics Denis Fisette Metaphysik. Vorlesung, Carl Stumpf Edited by Robin Rollinger Introduction to Carl Stumpf’s Correspondence with Franz Brentano Denis Fisette Stumpf’s “Einleitung zu Brentanos Briefen an mich,” followed by selected letters from Brentano and Stumpf Carl Stumpf and Franz Brentano Edited by Guillaume Fréchette Bibliography of Carl Stumpf’s Publications / Bibliographie der Schriften von Carl Stumpf Denis Fisette INDEX OF NAMES

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Book SynopsisCognitive existentialism is a version of hermeneutic philosophy. The volume provides a summation of the critical approaches to this version. All essays are engaged in probing the value of universal hermeneutics. Drawing on various conceptions developed in analytical and Continental traditions, the authors explore the interpretative dimensions of scientific inquiry. They try to place the projects of their investigations in historical, socio-cultural, and political contexts. The task of extending hermeneutics to the natural sciences is an initiative of much relevance to the dialogue between the scientific and humanistic culture. A special aspect of this dialogue, addressed by all authors, is the promotion of interpretive reflexivity in both kinds of academic culture.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The Road to Cognitive Existentialism, EMIL LENSKY ONE On the Status of Theoretical Objects in Science according to Cognitive Existentialism, ARVIN VOS TWO Theory and Theoretical Objects in an Existential/Hermeneutic Conception of Science, ROBERT CREASE THREE Practice Theories: Scientific Charms, Divine Spells, EVALDAS JUOZELIS FOUR Rejecting Cartesian Cuts: Choosing Sellars over Ginev’s Heidegger, FABIO GIRONI FIVE Scientific Practice and Modes of Epistemic Existence, JEFF KOCHAN SIX The Unfinished Project of Cognitive Existentialism, DIMITRI GINEV ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisIntegrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science relates an existential phenomenology to modal reasoning. By this reasoning, rooted in a consciousness of phenomena in themselves, a Thomistic realism is advanced wherein scientific inquiry yields objective truth and presupposes a causal principle. This principle, as an inferably true modality, strictly implies a first cause. And this cause as a supreme norm, causally created human nature as it ought to be. So with no naturalistic fallacy, a naturalistic ethics is inferred from our psycho-biological nature that also informs art and politics. Politics, as the institutionalization of ethics, is inferable from ethical prescriptions that are as certifiably true as the descriptions of science that inform it.Table of ContentsEDITORIAL FOREWORD KENNETH A. BRYSON xvii Foreword by Peter A. Redpath xiii Preface xxi ONE Existential Phenomenology and Truth in Science 1. Dilemmas of Truth that Afflict Realism 2. A Weak Realism Despite the Dilemmas? 3. A Robust Realism for Mature Theories 4. Theory-Dependence Vs. a Consciousness-Rooted Realism TWO Realism Rooted in Observational Consciousness 1. Consciousness and Reality 2. Reality of a Paradox to a Paradoxical Consciousness 3. Existential Phenomenology: An Antidote to Neuroscience Sophistry and Other Substitutes for Philosophy 4. The Recurring Seductions of Self-Refuting Reductionisms 5. Should Neuroscience Study the Phenomena of Neuroscience and Disbelief in God? 6. Anti-Phenomenological Footings of Neuroscience Philosophy 7. How Philosophy was Previously Skewed by Aping Science 8. Contra Kant: Consciousness of a Thereness Apart From Thought 9. Consciousness of Aspects of Phenomena 10. Seeing Non-Epistemologically in the Analytic Tradition 11. In This Tradition, Seeing Epistemologically THREE From Cultural Relativism as a Species of Realism to Realism in Science 1. A Common-Sense Inference of True Theories Versus an Everyday Contextual Relativism 2. Realism as Opposed to a Politically-Correct Cultural Relativism 3. Phenomenological and Logical Support of Realism 4. Scientific Significance of Aspects of Phenomena 5. An Anti-Realist K-K Thesis Surmounted by Common Sense 6. A Phenomenological Explanation of Historical Developments 7. The Developments Include Free Will and Causal Determinism FOUR Scientific Realism and Problems of Observation 1. Theory Vs. Theory-Neutral Observation 2. Observation-Theoretical Distinctions Or Differences in Degree? 3. Theory-Laden Observation and Observational Consciousness 4. Observational Footing is Not a Physics-Friendly Metaphysics 5. Metaphysics Vs. Modal Logic and a Phenomenology of Observation 6. Observation-Laden Theory: Are Theoretical Entities Observed? 7. Observation via Existential Phenomenology is Not a Theory FIVE The Turn From Realism Roused by a Self-Avowed Realist 1. Covert Influence of Popper’s Anti-Realism 2. A Preamble to Popper’s Problems in the Philosophy of Science 3. The Overlooked Origin of Observation Statements as Falsifiers 4. How Falsificationism is Ungrounded by Observation 5. An Anti-Realism of Kuhn’s Radical Relativism 6. From Relativism to Post-Modern Reinventions of Self and Theories 7. The Relation of Science to Sophists and Super Scientists 8. A Peculiar Case of Missing the Profound Point about Popper 9. Radical Empiricism Fueling Feyerabend’s Anarchy 10. Feyerabend’s Anti-Establishment Think-Tank-Like Conjectures 11. Conjectures Vs. Sartre’s Strange Support of Aristotle and Thomas SIX A Return to Scientific Realism 1. Commensurability: A Presupposition of Scientific Progress 2. Truth Upheld by De Re and De Dicto Impossibilities? 3. The Impossibilities are not Undercut by Meaning Variances 4. Verisimilitude: Increasing Truth, Not Truth-likeness 5. Problem of Ascribing Truth to Theories as Conjunctive Propositions 6. Propositional Logic Vs. What It Makes Sense to Say 7. Is it Senseless to Say that Superseded Theories are Still True? 8. Truth is an Attainable Aim of Methodology 9. A Methodology Tolerating New Phenomena Not Being Duplicated 10. From Eventual Duplication to Novelty and New Research 11. From Research and Success to the Issue of Internal Inconsistency SEVEN Scientific Truth Informs Truths of Ethics, Art and Politics 1. Integrated Truth with Its Starting Point in Real Existence 2. Existence Subject to Causes Understood Methodologically 3. Modalities in Science Presuppose the Causal Principle 4. Preamble: the Causal Principle Strictly Implies a First Cause 5. Does Evolution Exclude a First-Cause Creator? Is this Creator Inferred Invalidly? 6. A Soundly Inferred God Averts Kierkegaard’s “Leap of Faith” DIAGRAM: KIERKEGAARD’S “LEAP OF FAITH”…IS AVERTED BY THE BRIDGE OF NATURAL THEOLOGY 7. A “Leap of Faith” Avoided by Sound Modal Reasoning 8. Inferring a First Cause and Its Integration of Truth in Science, Ethics, Art and Politics 9. The Sound Inference of a First Cause and the Conditional 10. Denying a First Cause and Rise of the Naturalistic Fallacy 11. A First Cause and Our Psychobiological Nature Being as it Ought to Be 12. Ethical Truth Favoring the Family is Inferable from Science 13. Scientific Truth Informs Truth in Art, Architecture and Music 14. Political Truth is Informed by Truths of Ethics and Science INFERENCES IN THIS ESSAY: INTEGRATING TRUTHS IN SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, ETHICS, ART AND POLITICS Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe topics addressed by Richard J. Bernstein in his extensive and illuminating work span the stream of contemporary thought in several directions: ethics, politics, epistemology, philosophy of history, and social theory. In reflecting on them Bernstein has played an intermediary role between the most recognizable product of American philosophical tradition, i.e. Pragmatism, and such central trends in European 20th century thought as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and Hermeneutics. In this volume a host of prominent scholars from the United States, Europe, and Latin America pays tribute to Bernstein’s lifelong reflection on such present human problems as: the achievements and the dilemmas of modern societies, the legitimation crisis of democracy, the uses and abuses of public space, the role of scientific knowledge and technology in shaping the modern life, the ethical and political interplay between identity and community, and the preconditions and limits of understanding in multicultural contexts. The fifteen essays in this book, accompanied by separate replies by Bernstein, are organized in four sections: “Bernstein, Rorty and American Pragmatism,” “Epistemology and Hermeneutics,” “Good, Evil and Judgment,” and “Democratic Vistas.” As Prof. Bernstein declares in his Preface, these “contributions are expressions of my own commitment to engaged fallibilistic pluralism.”Table of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION Ramón del Castillo, Ángel M. Faerna and Larry A. Hickman PREFACE Richard J. Bernstein Part One: BERNSTEIN, RORTY AND AMERICAN PRAGMATISM ONE A Tale of Two Dicks Robert Westbrook TWO A Conversation between Friends: The Ironist and the Pragmatic Fallibilist Santiago Rey A Reply to Robert Westbrook and Santiago Rey Richard J. Bernstein THREE Two Tales about Pragmatism and European Philosophy (With an Introductory Family Tale) Carlos Thiebaut A Reply to Carlos Thiebaut Richard J. Bernstein FOUR Bernstein on the Narrative and Identity of Pragmatism in America Gregory Fernando Pappas A Reply to Gregory Fernando Pappas Richard J. Bernstein Part Two: EPISTEMOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS FIVE Beyond Objectivism and Relativism (Again) John Ryder A Reply to John Ryder Richard J. Bernstein SIX Relativism, Good and Bad. Bernstein on the Pragmatic Conception of Objectivity Ángel M. Faerna A Reply to Ángel M. Faerna Richard J. Bernstein SEVEN An “Engaged Fallibilistic Pluralism” Juan Carlos Mougán EIGHT Hermeneutics, Practical Philosophy and the Ontology of Community: Witt¬genstein, Gadamer and Bernstein Núria Sara Miras Boronat A Reply to Juan Carlos Mougán and Núria Saras Miras Boronat Richard J. Bernstein Part Three: GOOD, EVIL AND JUDGMENT NINE Pragmatism, Westerns and Evil. Remarks on Richard J. Bernstein and Forgiveness Federico Penelas A Reply to Federico Penelas Richard J. Bernstein TEN Critical Common Sense, Exemplary Doubting, and Reflective Judgment Heidi Salaverría A Reply to Heidi Salaverría Richard J. Bernstein ELEVEN Enlightenment, Utility and Terror Antonio Gómez Ramos A Reply to Antonio Gómez Ramos Richard J. Bernstein Part Four DEMOCRATIC VISTAS TWELVE Bernstein on Deweyan Democracy James Campbell A Reply to James Campbell Richard J. Bernstein THIRTEEN Reconstruction of Democratic Experience Alicia García Ruiz A Reply to Alicia García Ruiz Richard J. Bernstein FOURTEEN Bernstein between Habermas and Rorty: A Deweyan Reconstruction Larry A. Hickman A Reply to Larry A. Hickman Richard J. Bernstein FIFTEEN Listening Without Banisters. Bernstein and Habermas on Democratic Ethos Ramón Del Castillo A Reply to Ramón del Castillo Richard J. Bernstein

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Book SynopsisOrdering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 investigates how emotions were conceptualised and practised in the medieval and early modern period, as they ordered systems of thought and practice—from philosophy and theology, music and literature, to science and medicine. Analysing discursive, psychic and bodily dimensions of emotions as they were experienced, performed and narrated, authors explore how emotions were understood to interact with more abstract intellectual capacities in producing systems of thought, and how these key frameworks of the medieval and early modern period were enacted by individuals as social and emotional practices, acts and experiences of everyday life. Contributors are: Han Baltussen, Susan Broomhall, Louis C. Charland, Louise D’Arcens, Raphaële Garrod, Yasmin Haskell, Danijela Kambaskovic, Clare Monagle, Juanita Feros Ruys, François Soyer, Robert Weston, Carol J. Williams, R.S. White, and Spencer E. Young.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Hearts and Minds: Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100–1800 Susan Broomhall 1. Nine Angry Angels: Order, Emotion, and the Angelic and Demonic Hierarchies in the High Middle Ages Juanita Feros Ruys 2. Christ’s Masculinity: Homo and Vir in Peter Lombard’s Sentences Clare Monagle 3. Modes and Manipulation: Music, the State, and Emotion Carol J. Williams 4. Avarice, Emotions, and the Family in Thirteenth-Century Moral Discourse Spencer E. Young 5. Affective Memory Across Time: The Emotive City of Christine de Pizan Louise D’Arcens 6. Nicholas of Modruš’s De consolatione (1465–1466): A New Approach to Grief Management Han Baltussen 7. Hearts on Fire: Compassion and Love in Nicolas Houel’s Traité de la Charité chréstienne Susan Broomhall 8. Living Anxiously: The Senses, Society and Morality in Pre-Modern England Danijela Kambaskovic 9. Conceptual Eclecticism and Ethical Prescription in Early Modern Jesuit Discourses about Affects: Suárez and Caussin on Maternal Love Raphaële Garrod 10. Anatomy of a Passion: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale as Case Study Louis C. Charland and R.S. White 11. Arts and Games of Love: Genre, Gender and Special Friendships in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Poetry Yasmin Haskell 12. Androgyny and the Fear of Demonic Intervention in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula: Ecclesiastical and Popular Responses François Soyer 13. Medical Effects and Affects: The Expression of Emotions in Early Modern Patient–Physician Correspondence Robert Weston Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology of Perception: Theories and Experimental Evidence reconstructs and reviews the phenomenological research of the Brentano School, Edgar Rubin, David Katz, Albert Michotte and Gestalt psychology. Phenomenology is commonly considered a philosophy of subjective experience, but this book presents it instead as a set of commitments for philosophy and science to discover the immanent grammar underlying the objective meaning of perception. Pioneering experimental results on the qualitative and quantitative structures of the perceptual world are collected to show that, contrary to the received assumption, phenomenology can be embedded in standard science. This book will therefore be of interest not only to phenomenologists but also to anyone concerned with epistemological and empirical issues in contemporary psychology and the cognitive sciences.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Nature and Science of Perception 1.1 Perceptual Properties: Sensory Effects and the Representational Structure of Perception 1.2 Sensory Aggregates and the Projection of Knowledge 1.3 Normal Conditions and Experimental Observation 1.4 Perceptual Properties at Face Value: the Phenomenal Basis of Science 1.5 Appearances, Meaning and Relations 1.6 Observing Phenomena “from the Outside”: Series and Order of Appearances 2. Phenomenology in Philosophy and Science of Perception 2.1 The Empirical Grammar of Perception in Brentano 2.1.1 The Elements of Phenomena 2.2 The Neutral Science of Appearances in Stumpf 2.2.1 The Immanent Structural Laws of Appearances 2.3 Husserl and the Form of the Theories of Perception 2.4 Phenomenal Reality and Psychology of Perception in Metzger 2.5 Koffka on the Phenomenological Questions of Perception Science 2.6 Experience, Science and Philosophy in Köhler 3. The Variety of the Phenomenology of Perception 3.1 Meinong on Color Manifold 3.2 At the Borders of Conceptual and Experimental Issues: Brentano and Rubin 3.2.1 The Phenomenal Array of Experience: Boundaries and Continua in Brentano 3.2.2 Meaning in the Perceptual Field: Figure–Ground and Contour in Rubin 3.3 Katz: The Phenomenological Method and Color and Touch Modes of Appearances 3.4 Phenomenological Questions and Evidence 3.4.1 Wertheimer: the Perception of Movement and the “Natural” Organization 3.4.2 Goldmeier: the Phenomenal Content of Similarity and the Structure of Visual Objects 3.5 Experimental Phenomenology 3.5.1 Kanizsa: the Independence of Perception and the Autonomy of Vision Science 3.5.2 Bozzi: the Epistemological Foundation of Experimental Phenomenology 4. Physics and Geometry of Stimuli and Phenomenology. 4.1 The Stimulus Error. Unobservable Posits and the Variety of Data 4.1.1 Phenomenal Structures and Comparative Judgements 4.2 Perceptual and Geometrical Properties of Visual Figures 4.3 The Variety of Stimulus Errors 4.4 The Concomitant Variation of Stimuli and the Phenomenal Structures in Michotte 4.4.1 Phenomenal Mechanical Properties: Perception of Causality 4.5 Velocity and Time in the Perception of Movement 4.6 Perceptual Forms of Movement and Naive Physics 4.7 The Logic of Experimental Phenomenology 5. Phenomenal Structures of Space 5.1 The Phenomenal Space Continuum 5.2 The Self as Spatial Part: Meaning and Relations in Space 5.3 Forms of Visual Space 5.4 The Ordered Manifold of Depth 5.5 The Kinematics of Visual Things in Space 5.6 The Intrinsic Geometry of Phenomena 5.6.1 The Elements of the Geometry of Phenomena 5.7 The Coordinate Systems of Movements and Spatial Appearances 5.8 A Model of Perceptual Geometry 6. Phenomenal Structures of Time 6.1 Temporal Displacement and the Nature of Temporal Intervals 6.2 The Qualitative Order of Time 6.3 Temporal Grouping 6.4 The Structure of Phenomenal Permanence 7. Criticisms and Appraisal 7.1 The Phenomenological Meaning of Normal Illumination 7.2 Meta-theory and Empirical Science 7.3 Perceiving the Difference and the Phenomenal Basis of Judgements 7.3.1 Absolute Properties of Appearances 7.4 Phenomenological Commitments Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics offers various perspectives on the relation and mutual influence between modern physical theories and analytic metaphysics. The authors of the contributions are philosophers of science, physicists and metaphysicians of international renown, and their work represents the cutting edge in modern metaphysics of physical sciences.Table of ContentsTomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich: Introduction. Steven French and Kerry McKenzie: Rethinking Outside the Toolbox: Reflecting Again on the Relationship between Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics. Douglas Kutach: Ontology: An Empirical Fundamentalist Approach. Vincent Lam: Quantum Structure and Spacetime. Dean Rickles and Jessica Bloom: Things Ain’t What They Used to Be. Physics Without Objects . Olimpia Lombardi and Dennis Dieks: Particles in a Quantum Ontology of Properties. Tomasz Bigaj: Essentialism and Modern Physics . Thomas Møller-Nielsen: Symmetry and Qualitativity. Matteo Morganti: Relational Time. Antonio Vassallo: General Covariance, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and Background Independence in 5 Dimensions. Ioan Muntean: A Metaphysics from String Dualities: Pluralism, Fundamentalism, Modality. Adam Caulton: Is Mereology Empirical? Composition for Fermions. Andreas Hüttemann: Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation. Jessica Wilson: Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong. Mauro Dorato and Michael Esfeld: The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism. Marek Kuś: Classical and Quantum Sources of Randomness. Jeremy Butterfield and Nazim Bouatta: Renormalization for Philosophers.

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Book SynopsisIn Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers how ability and its correlative, disability, come into existence. Besides being articulated as physical, social, aesthetic, political, and specifically human, ability signifies and is signified such that signification itself is always in question. Thus the language of ability and the ability of language constitute discourse that undermines foundations, including any foundation for discourse or ability. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s theory of primary differentiation and Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of ethical relationality, Encountering Ability finds implications of music, theology, and cursing in the signification of ability, and also examines various literary texts, including works by Amiri Baraka and Marguerite Duras.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Signification of Ability 1. Metaphysics of Ability: The Nature of Performance 2. On the Origin of (Human) Ability: Language, Possibility, and Ethics 3. The Nightmare of Health: Approaching Disability 4. Dis/ability in Black and White: The Relationality of Political Ability 5. Ability as Response and Irresponsibility: Dialogue and Struggle 6. Denatured Criticism: Ethics, Violence, Improvisation between Levinas and Baraka 7. Encountering Dis/ability in the Work of Marguerite Duras Notes Works Cited About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisHow can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance within financial administrations, of conceiving the docta ignorantia as well as the silence of the illiterate are combined with contributions regarding knowledge gaps within identification procedures and political decision-making, with the emergence of consciously delimited blanks on geographical maps, with ignorance as a factor embedded in iconographic programs, in translation processes and the semantic potentials of reading. Based on thorough archival analysis, these selected contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris are tightly framed by new theoretical elaborations that have implications beyond these cases and epochal focus. Contributors: Giovanni Ceccarelli, Taylor Cowdery, Lucile Haguet, John T. Hamilton, Lucian Hölscher, Moritz Isenmann, Adam J. Kosto, Marie-Laure Legay, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Fabrice Micallef, William T. O´Reilly, Eleonora Rohland, Mathias Schmoeckel, Daniel L. Smail, Govind P. Sreenivasan, and Cornel Zwierlein.Trade Review"Our ignorance, [Zwierlein] notes, can take different forms. “Nescience” or “unspecified ignorance” names a condition in which we are unaware of what we don’t know; we are, in other words, ignorant of our ignorance. Unspecified ignorance transforms into “specified ignorance” as we become aware of things we don’t know. Ignorance can be willful or accidental, the product of censorship or planned political coercion. However it exists, Zwierlein contends that attention to the existence and role of ignorance in bureaucratic, economic, scientific, and artistic settings will deepen our understanding of knowledge production in the early modern world." - Dallas Denery, Bowdoin College, in: Renaissance Quarterly LXX.4 "Mehr Wissen erzeugt immer zugleich mehr Nichtwissen. Absolutes Nichtwissen – „unknown unknowns“, also das, wovon man nicht weiß, dass man es nicht weiß – lässt sich nicht thematisieren. Spezifisches Nichtwissen – „known unknowns“, also das, wovon man weiß, dass man es nicht weiß – hingegen schon. Nichtwissen lässt sich nur identifizieren, insofern es sich auf ein Wissen bezieht: das Allwissen Gottes, das Wissen der anderen, das zukünftige oder das vergangene Wissen, das verbotene, das unterdrückte, das verdrängte, das verlorene Wissen usw. Jedes Wissen definiert ja zugleich seine Grenzen und zeigt an, was noch nicht oder nicht mehr zugänglich ist." - Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Münster / Berlin, in: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 46.3Table of ContentsNotes on the Editor and the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Towards a History of Ignorance Cornel Zwierlein PART 1: LAW 1 Law and the Uncertainty of Value in Late Medieval Marseille and Lucca Daniel L. Smail 2 Nescience and the Conscience of Judges. An example of Religion’s influence on Legal procedure Mathias Schmoeckel 3 Speaking Nothing to Power in early modern Germany: Making Sense of Peasant Silence in the Ius Commune Govind P. Sreenivasan PART 2: ECONOMY 4 Coping with unkown Risks in Renaissance Florence: Insurance, Friars and Abacus Teachers Giovanni Ceccarelli 5 (Non-)Knowledge, Political Economy and Trade Policy in Seventeenth-Century France: The Problem of Trade Balances Moritz Isenmann 6 Ignorance in Europe’s State Financial Culture (Eighteenth Century) Marie-Laure Legay PART 3: SEMANTICS 7 Voluptas carnis. Allegory and Non-Knowledge in Pieter Aertsen’s Still-Life Paintings John T. Hamilton 8 Humanist Styles of Reading in the Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton Taylor Cowdery 9 Coexistence and Ignorance: What Europeans in the Levant did not read (ca. 1620 to 1750) Cornel Zwierlein PART 4: POLITICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION 10 Ignorance about the Traveler: Documenting Safe Conduct in the European Middle Ages Adam J. Kosto 11 International Crises as Experience of Non-Knowledge: European Powers and the ‘Affairs of Provence’ (1589-1598) Fabrice Micallef 12 Dealing with Hurricanes and Mississippi Floods in Early French New Orleans. Environmental (Non-) Knowledge in a Colonial Context Eleonora Rohland 13 ‘Unknown Sciences’ and Unknown Superiors. The Problem of Non-Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Secret Societies Andrew McKenzie-McHarg 14 Specifying Ignorance in Eighteenth-Century Cartography, a powerful way to promote the Geographer’s Work: The example of Jean-Baptiste d’Anville Lucile Haguet PART 5: THEORY 15 Semantics of the Void Empty Spaces in Eighteenth-Century German Historiography – A First Sketch of a Semiotic Theory Lucian Hölscher 16 Non-Knowledge and Decision Making: The Challenge for the Historian William O’Reilly Index nominum Index rerum

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Book SynopsisIn Hinge Epistemology, eminent epistemologists investigate Wittgenstein's concept of basic certainty or 'hinge certainty'. The volume begins by examining the salient features of 'hinges': Are they propositions that enjoy a special kind of non-evidential justification? Are they objects of knowledge or ways of acting mistaken for known propositions? Various attempts are then made to integrate hinges in the development of a viable epistemology: Can they shed light on the conditions of satisfaction for knowledge and justification? Do they offer a solution to scepticism? Finally, the application of hinges is explored in such areas as common knowledge and intellectual loyalty. The volume attests to the importance of hinge certainty and Wittgenstein's On Certainty for mainstream epistemology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hinge Epistemology, Annalisa Coliva and Danièle Moyal-Sharrock Which Hinge Epistemology?, Annalisa Coliva The Animal in Epistemology, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock Wittgenstein on Mathematics and Certainties, Martin Kusch Miracles, Hinges, and Grammar in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, Luigi Perissinotto ‘Hinge Propositions’ and the ‘Logical’ Exclusion of Doubt, Genia Schönbaumsfeld In Defense of a Critical Commonsensist Conception of Knowledge, Claudine Tiercelin The Sources of Scepticism, Duncan Pritchard Epistemic Norms and the Limits of Epistemology, Pascal Engel After the Spade Turns: Disagreement, First Principles and Epistemic Contractarianism, Michael P. Lynch Wittgenstein and Dretske on Knowledge and Certainty, Yves Bouchard Philosophy Rehinged?, Hans-Johann Glock Common Knowledge, John Greco Intellectual Loyalty, Allan Hazlett

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Book SynopsisHow to Make Our Signs Clear is the result of an international cooperation between European and Brazilian Peircean scholars (I. A. Ibri, E. Višňovský, C. Paolucci and others) and strives to dispel simplifications of Peirce´s semiotic as well as to collect various insights into it and into its consequences for philosophy, especially philosophy of language, pragmatism and epistemology. The central theme of this book is the notion of the sign as a specific triadic relational unit, treated from various perspectives and applied to various fields of philosophy: semeiotic knowledge grows up from the discussions, common interests and possible conflicts between the readers of Peirce´s works. This book does not offer a general overview of Peirce´s theory of signs, but rather various analyses of consequences of some capacities of his semiotic.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Švantner 2 On the Interconnection between Peirce’s Pragmatism and Semiotics  Emil Višňovský 3 Habits, Purposes and Pragmatism  Henrik Rydenfelt 4 Logic of Relatives and Semiotics in Peirce. From the “Subject-Predicate” Inferential Structure to the Synechistic Topology of Interpretation  Claudio Paolucci 5 Reflections on the Presence of Peirce’s Category of Firstness in Schelling’ and Schopenhauer’s Philosophy  Ivo Assad Ibri 6 Charybdis of Semiotics and Scylla of Rhetoric. Peirce and Gorgias of Leontini on the Rhetoric of Being  Martin Švantner 7 “When You Find a Crossroad, Take it”, Or, How to Do the Right Thing, Although Not for the Right Reasons  Emanuele Fadda 8 Jakobson and Peirce: Deep Misunderstanding, or Creative Innovation?  Vít Gvoždiak 9 Hopes of Derrida’s Reading? On Emergence of Peirce’s Texts in the Poststructuralist Context  Michaela Fišerová 10 Gilles Deleuzeʼs Theory of Sign and Its Reflection of Peircean Semiotics  Martin Charvát and Michal Karľa 11 Charles Peirce and the Theory of Disembodiment  Stephanie Schneider Index

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Book SynopsisGrounds of Pragmatic Realism argues that Hegel’s philosophy from the 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit through his last Berlin lectures on philosophical psychology demonstates how Kant’s critique of rational judgment across his Critical corpus can be disentangled from Kant’s failed Transcendental Idealism and developed into a cogent, pragmatic realism, within which the social and historical aspects of rational inquiry and justification are shown to justify realism about the objects of empirical knowledge. Hegel’s demonstration reveals how deeply contemporary epistemology remains beholden to pre-Critical options, none of which are adequate to the natural sciences, nor to commonsense. Hegel recognised and justified (independently) Kant’s semantics of singular cognitive reference to particulars within space and time. Hegel’s analysis of mutual recognition develops Kant’s insights into the self-critical and inter-subjective aspects of rational judgment and justification, to show that none of us can be properly rational judges, nor can we properly justify our judgments rationally, without constructive self-criticism and without acknowledging and benefitting from constructive critical assessment by others.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Sources and Citations 1 Introduction Part I: HEGEL’S CRITICAL RECONSIDERATIONS OF METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY 2 Henry Harris and the Spirit of Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology 3 Idealism: Transcendental or Absolute? 4 Hegel’s Early Critique of Kant’s Critical Foundations of Physics 5 The Transcendental, Formal and Material Conditions of the ‘I Think’ 6 The Fate of ‘the’ Intuitive Intellect in Hegel’s Philosophy 7 Hegel’s Post-Kantian Epistemological Reorientation PART II: HEGEL’S CRITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT 8 Hegel’s Manifold Response to Scepticism in the 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit 9 Hegel’s Pragmatic Critique and Reconstruction of Kant’s System of Principles I: The 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit 10 Hegel’s Solution to the Pyrrhonian Dilemma of the Criterion 11 Hegel’s Transcendental Proof of Mental Content Externalism 12 Mutual Recognition and Rational Justification in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 13 Mutual Recognition and Rational Justification in Substantive Domains PART III: HEGEL’S SYSTEMATIC CRITICAL PRAGMATIC REALISM 14 Hegel’s Critique of Intuitionism: Encyclopaedia §§61–78 15 Analytic Philosophy and the Long Tail of Scientia: Hegel and the Historicity of Philosophy 16 Hegel’s Pragmatic Critique and Reconstruction of Kant’s System of Principles II: the Science of Logic and Encyclopaedia 17 Science and the Philosophers 18 Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: Its Aims, Scope and Significance 19 Cognitive Psychology, Intelligence and the Realisation of the Concept in Hegel’s Encyclopaedic Epistemology 20 Robust Pragmatic Realism in Hegel’s Critical Epistemology: Synthetic Necessary Truths 21 Autonomy, Freedom and Embodiment: Hegel’s Critique of Contemporary Biologism 22 Appendix Analytical Contents Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Mikhail Epstein offers a systematic theory of modalities (the actual, possible, and necessary), as applied to the discourse of philosophy in its post-Kantian and especially post-Derridean perspectives. He relies on his own experience of living in the USSR and the US, dominated respectively by imperative and possibilist modalities. Possibilism assumes that a thing or event acquires meaning only in the context of its multiple possibilities, inviting counterfactual and conditional modes of description. The author focuses on the creative potentials of possibilistic thinking and its heuristic value. The book demonstrates the range of modal approaches to society, culture, ethics, and language, and outlines potentiology as a new philosophical discipline interacting with ontology and epistemology.Table of Contents Preface  Introduction: Fundamental Concepts of the Theory of the Possible  1 The Problem of Modalities in Contemporary Thought  2 A Preliminary Definition of the Modality of the Possible  3 The Ontological Status of Possible Worlds. Nominalism and Realism  4 The Principle of “Fullness” and the Problem of Realization of Possibilities  5 Duality and “Demonism” of the Possible  6 A Possibilistic Approach to the Possible  7 The Plan of the Book Part 1: The Possible in Philosophy 1 Criticism and Activism 2 Philosophy and Reality 3 Change of Modalities in the History of Philosophy 4 Philosophy as Possibilistic Thinking 5 The Area of the Thinkable: the Value of Thinking in Itself 6 Theory, Utopia, and Hypothesis 7 Catharsis of Thinking 8 Personified Thinking 9 Possible and Impossible: Aporia of Thinking 10 Language, Thinking, and Signifiability 11 Universals as Potentials: Conceptualism 12 From the General to the Concrete and Universal 13 Multiplication of Entities 14 Philosophy as Parody and Grotesque Part 2: The Fate of Metaphysics: from Deconstruction to Possibilization  Introduction to Part 2 Section 2.1: Reverse Metaphysics: Critique and Deconstruction 15 Beyond Being and Nothingness: the Feeling of the Possible 16 A World View, Not a Point of View: “A Net with No Knots” 17 The Possible in Jean Derrida 18 The Metaphysics of Deconstruction: the Main Terms 19 The Radical Nature of Difference: Profit and Transcendence 20 Center and Structure 21 Reverse Metaphysics: the Other, the Play, and the Writing 22 Différance and the Tao Section 2.2: Construction and Possibilization 23 From Deconstruction to Construction 24 Construction and Creativity 25 De- and Con- 26 Potentiation as Method: Eros of Thinking 27 What is “The Interesting”? Proposed Criteria 28 Small Metaphysics: the Unique Part 3: The Worlds of the Possible  Introduction to Part 3 29 Society 30 Culture 31 Ethics 32 Psychology 33 Religion  Conclusion Appendix  To be Able, to be, and to Know. A System of Modalities  1Definitions of Modality  A Typical Definitions  B The Specific Definition  2Оntic Modalities (Modalities of Being)  A “To Be” and “To Be Able” in the Ontological and Modal Perspectives  B Existence and Non-existence  C The Possible and the Contingent  D The Impossible and the Necessary  E Strong and Weak Modalities  F The General Scheme of Ontic Modalities  G Supermodalities: The Due and the Miraculous  3Еpistemic Modalities (Modalities of Knowledge)  4Pure (Potentialistic) Modalities  A Active Voice (Capacity, Need)  B Passive Voice (Permission, Coercion)  C Second-order Modalities  (1)Will and Power  (2)Desire and Love  5The Final Tables of Modalities  6Modal Categories in Various Disciplines  A Be Able – Possess – Have Value. Modality in Economics  B Necessity and Immortality: Modality in Eschatology  7Potentiology: Prospects for the New Discipline  Index of Names  Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn our daily lives, we are surrounded by all sorts of things – such as trees, cars, persons, or madeleines – and perception allows us access to them. But what does ‘to perceive’ actually mean? What is it that we perceive? How do we perceive? Do we perceive the same way animals do? Does reason play a role in perception? Such questions occur naturally today. But was it the same in the past, centuries ago? The collected volume tackles this issue by turning to the Latin philosophy of the 13th and 14th centuries. Did medieval thinkers raise the same, or similar, questions as we do with respect to perception? What answers did they provide? What arguments did they make for raising the questions they did, and for the answers they gave to them? The philosophers taken into consideration are, among others, Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, John Pecham, Richard Rufus, Peter Olivi, Robert Kilwardby, John Buridan, and Jean of Jandun. Contributors are Elena Băltuță, Daniel De Haan, Martin Klein, Andrew LaZella, Lukáš Lička, Mattia Mantovani, André Martin, Dominik Perler, Paolo Rubini, José Filipe Silva, Juhana Toivanen, and Rega Wood.Trade Review"The present volume continues many current lines of research in an innovative manner. [...] The contributions in the volume exemplify well the position of these discussions in the history of philosophy. They call for refined historical analysis but, in the hands of able scholars, provide innovative impulses even to contemporary discussions on the philosophy of perception". Pekka Kärkkäinen, in Speculum 96/1 (January 2021). "L’ouvrage forme un beau recueil d’articles mettant en lumière des auteurs ou des oeuvres moins connus, ou renouvelant par leur approche des thèses plus répandues dans l’historiographie. Dans l’ensemble et dans le détail, les contributions, de par leur excellente qualité, apportent une contribution importante à l’état de la recherche sur la perception sensible au Moyen ge." Véronique Decaix, in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale XXII, 84,3 (2021)Table of Contents Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction  2 Perceiving As: Non-conceptual Forms of Perception in Medieval Philosophy  Juhana Toivanen  3 The Chameleonic Mind: The Activity versus the Actuality of Perception  José Filipe Silva  4 The Visual Process: Immediate or Successive? Approaches to the Extramission Postulate in 13th Century Theories of Vision  Lukáš Lička  5 Visio per sillogismum: Sensation and Cognition in 13th Century Theories of Vision  Mattia Mantovani  6 Spirituality and Perception in Medieval Aristotelian Natural Philosophy  Rega Wood  7 The Escape Artist: Robert Kilwardby on Objects as sine qua non Causes  Elena Băltuță  8 Rational Seeing: Thomas Aquinas on Human Perception  Dominik Perler  9 Aquinas on Perceiving, Thinking, Understanding, and Cognizing Individuals  Daniel De Haan  10 “Accidental Perception” and “Cogitative Power” in Thomas Aquinas and John of Jandun  Paolo Rubini  11 Peter John Olivi on Perception, Attention, and the Soul’s Orientation towards the Body  André Martin  12 Caesar in Bronze: Duns Scotus on the Sensation of Singular Accidents  Andrew LaZella  13 John Buridan on the Singularity of Sense Perception  Martin Klein  Index of Names  Index of Concepts

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Book SynopsisQuakerism (the Religious Society of Friends) emerged in the seventeenth century, during a time when philosophical debates about the nature of knowledge led to the emergence of modern science. The Quakers, in conversation with early modern philosophers, developed a distinctive epistemology rooted in their concept of the Light Within: a special internal sense giving access to divine insight. The Light Within provided illumination both to properly understand the Bible and to ‘read’ the Book of Nature. In Quaker Epistemology, L. Rediehs argues that Quaker epistemology can be thought of as an expanded experiential empiricism, integrating ethical and religious knowledge with scientific knowledge. This epistemology has carried through in Quaker thought to the present day and can help address today’s epistemological crisis. This work will be of great interest to both philosophers interested in the epistemological implications of Quaker thought, and scholars of Quaker Studies interested in connecting Quaker thought to philosophical historical epistemology.

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Book SynopsisEmotions (pathè) such as anger, fear, shame, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship have long been underestimated in Plato’s philosophy. The aim of Emotions in Plato is to provide a consistent account of the role of emotions in Plato’s psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory. The volume focuses on three main issues: taxonomy of emotions, their epistemic status, and their relevance for the ethical and political theory and practice. This volume, which is the first edited volume entirely dedicated to emotions in Plato’s philosophy, shows how Plato, in many aspects, was positively interested in these affective states in order to support the rule of reason. "Emotions in Plato is a rich and illuminating book, which will probably make not a few readers change their view of Plato’s attitude to emotions." -Margalit Finkelberg, Tel Aviv University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.10.16Trade Review"Summing Up: Essential." - P. W. Wakefield, Emory University, in: Choice Connect, vol. 58 (8/2021).Table of Contents Introduction: Why Plato Comes First   Laura Candiotto and Olivier Renaut Part 1: For a Taxonomy of Plato’s Emotions 1 Epistemic Wonder and the Beginning of the Enquiry: Plato’s Theaetetus (155d2-4) and Its Wider Significance  Laura Candiotto and Vasilis Politis 2 The Feel of the Real: Perceptual Encounters in Plato’s Critique of Poetry  Pia Campeggiani 3 Why Do Itches Itch? Bodily Pain in the Socratic Theory of Motivation  Freya Möbus 4 Emotions in Context: “Risk” as Condition for Emotion  Stefano Maso Part 2: Plato’s Emotions between Rationality and Irrationality 5 Emotions and Rationality in theTimaeus(Ti. 42a–b, 69c–72e)  Olivier Renaut 6 On the Desire for Drink in Plato and the Platonist Tradition  Lidia Palumbo and Anna Motta 7 Plato’s Seasick Steersman: On (Not) Being Overwhelmed by Fear in Plato’s Laws  Myrthe L. Bartels 8 The Dialogue between the Emotions in the Platonic Corpus  Karine Tordo-Rombaut 9 Love, Speech and Charm in Plato's Charmides: Reading the Dialogue through Emotions  Carla Francalanci Part 3: The Ethical and Political Value of Plato’s Emotions 10 The Notion of Φθόνος in Plato  Luc Brisson 11 On Mild Envy and Self-deceit (Phlb. 47d–50e)  Beatriz Bossi 12 Αἰσχύνη and the Λογιστικόν in Plato’s Republic  Chiara Militello 13 Shame and Virtue in Plato’s Laws: Two Kinds of Fear and the Drunken Puppet  Julia Pfefferkorn 14 Loving and Living Well: the Importance of Shame in Plato’s Phaedrus  Simon Scott 15 Plato on the Role of Anger in Our Intellectual and Moral Development  Marta Jimenez 16 Platonic Pity, or Why Compassion Is Not a Platonic Virtue  Rachana Kamtekar 17 Love and the City: Eros and Philia in Plato’s Laws  Frisbee C.C. Sheffield  Afterword: The Invention of Emotion?   David Konstan  Index of Modern Authors  Index of Relevant Passages  Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisDescartes and the ‘Ingenium’ tracks the significance of embodied thought (ingenium) in the philosophical trajectory of the founding father of dualism. The first part of the book defines the notion of ingenium in relation to core concepts of Descartes's philosophy, such as memory and enumeration. It focuses on Descartes’s uses of this notion in methodical thinking, mathematics, and medicine. The studies in the second part place the Cartesian ingenium within preceding scholastic and humanist pedagogical and natural-philosophical traditions, and highlight its hitherto ignored social and political significance for Descartes himself as a member of the Republic of Letters. By embedding Descartes' notion of ingenium in contemporaneous medical, pedagogical, but also social and literary discourses, this volume outlines the fundamentally anthropological and ethical underpinnings of Descartes's revolutionary epistemology. Contributors: Igor Agostini, Roger Ariew, Harold J. Cook, Raphaële Garrod, Denis Kambouchner, Alexander Marr, Richard Oosterhoff, David Rabouin, Dennis L. Sepper, and Theo Verbeek.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations and Diagrams Abbreviations and Note on the Text Notes on Contributors Introduction: Descartes Re-imagined: Ingenuity before and beyond Dualism  Raphaële Garrod Part 1: Rethinking the Ingenium in the Cartesian Corpus. Method, Mathematics, Medicine 1 Methodical Invention: The Cartesian Ingenium at Work  Denis Kambouchner 2 Descartes and Logic: Perfecting the Ingenium  Roger Ariew 3 Enumeratio in Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii and Beyond  Theo Verbeek 4 Ingenium, Phantasia and Mathematics in Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii  David Rabouin 5 The Post-Regulae Direction of Ingenium in Descartes: Toward a Pragmatic Psychological Anthropology  Denis L. Sepper 6 Augustinian Souls and Epicurean Bodies? Descartes’s Corporeal Mind in Motion  Harold J. Cook Part 2: The Cartesian Ingenium in Context: Predecessors, Contemporaries, Successors 7 Ingenium between Descartes and the Scholastics  Igor Agostini 8 Methods of Ingenuity: The Renaissance Tradition behind Descartes’s Regulae  Richard J. Oosterhoff 9 La Politesse de L’esprit: Cartesian Pedagogy and the Ethics of Scholarly Exchanges  Raphaële Garrod 10 Postface: The Face of Ingenium: Simon Vouet’s Portrait of Descartes  Alexander Marr Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisThis volume, originating from the centennial Second International Conference Graz 1977–2017 on Franz Brentano’s philosophy, collects eighteen essays written by nineteen distinguished specialists covering the main areas of Brentano’s philosophy: his epistemology, ontology, ethics, and logic, and his contributions to psychology and philosophy of mind. Its goal is to explore the significance and impact of Brentano’s thought, to promote a deepening of the ongoing renaissance of interest in Brentano, and to advance the project of understanding Brentano’s actual philosophical positions and correcting entrenched misunderstandings.Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction  Mauro Antonelli and Thomas Binder In Memory of Rudolf Haller (1929–2014)  Mauro Antonelli Part 1 Brentano’s Philosophical Program Was Brentano a Systematic Philosopher?  Wolfgang Huemer Remarks on the Architecture of Brentano’s Philosophical Program  Denis Fisette Brentano on Kant’s Transcendental Idealism  Susan Krantz Gabriel Part 2 Ontology Beobachtungen zur Deduktion der Kategorien in Brentanos Dissertation  Werner Sauer Medieval and Austro-German Realisms: Universals and States of Affairs  Laurent Cesalli Part 3 Psychology Psychology First!  Denis Seron ‘Disentangling Judgement from Its Linguistic Clothing’: Brentano’s View of Judgement and Its Linguistic Guises  Johannes L. Brandl and Mark Textor Franz Brentano and Anton Marty: Two Versions of Descriptive Psychology?  Ion Tănăsescu Brentano on the Characteristics of Sensation  Hamid Taieb Der Einfluss Franz Brentanos auf Sigmund Freud: Der Versuch eines umfassenden ideengeschichtlichen Arguments  Bernhard M. Geißler Part 4 Philosophy of Mind Selbst-Repräsentation und Phänomenale Intentionalität bei Brentano: Eine kritische Stellungnahme  Mauro Antonelli Was versteht Brentano in der Intentionalitätspassage unter einem Objekt eines psychischen Phänomens?  Christiane Schreiber Brentano und Meinong: Versuch einer dokumentarischen Gegenüberstellung  Johann C. Marek Part 5 Logic, Ethics, Religion, and Politics Brentano as a Logicist  Carlo Ierna Brentano and von Ehrenfels on Emotion, Desire, and Absolute Value: An Extreme Contrast in Austrian Phenomenology  Robin D. Rollinger Die Transformation des Glaubens beim frühen Brentano  Klaus Hedwig Zum psychologischen Gottesbeweis bei Franz Brentano  Adrian Maître Eine politische Wissenschaft gibt es noch nicht: Einige Bemerkungen zu Franz Brentanos Verhältnis zur Politik  Thomas Binder Index of names

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Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the ‘School of Salamanca’ for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global scale. According to this influential account, American and Asian actors usually appear as passive recipients of normative knowledge produced in Europe. This book proposes a different perspective and shows, through a knowledge historical approach and several case studies, that the School of Salamanca has to be considered both an epistemic community and a community of practice that cannot be fixed to any individual place. Instead, the School of Salamanca encompassed a variety of different sites and actors throughout the world and thus represents a case of global knowledge production. Contributors are: Adriana Álvarez, Virginia Aspe, Marya Camacho, Natalie Cobo, Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, Dolors Folch, Enrique González González, Lidia Lanza, Esteban Llamosas, Osvaldo R. Moutin, and Marco Toste.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 The School of Salamanca  A Case of Global Knowledge Production   Thomas Duve 2 Salamanca in the New World  University Regulation or Social Imperatives?   Enrique González González 3 Observance against Ambition  The Struggle for the Chancellor’s Office at the Real Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala (1686–1696)   Adriana Álvarez Sánchez 4 The Influence of Salamanca in the Iberian Peninsula  The Case of the Faculties of Theology of Coimbra and Évora   Lidia Lanza and Marco Toste 5 From Fray Alonso de la Vera Cruz to Fray Martín de Rada  The School of Salamanca in Asia   Dolors Folch 6 Creating Authority and Promoting Normative Behaviour  Confession, Restitution, and Moral Theology in the Synod of Manila (1582–1586)   Natalie Cobo 7 “Sepamos, Señores, en que ley vivimos y si emos de tener por nuestra regla al Consejo de Indias”. Salamanca in the Philippine Islands   Osvaldo R. Moutin 8 “Mirando las cosas de cerca”: Indigenous Marriage in the Philippines in the Light of Law and Legal Opinions (17th – 18th Centuries)   Marya Camacho 9 The Influence of the School of Salamanca in Alonso de la Vera Cruz’s De Dominio Infidelium Et Iusto Bello  First Relectio in America   Virginia Aspe 10 Producing Normative Knowledge between Salamanca and Michoacán  Alonso de la Vera Cruz and the Bumpy Road of Marriage   José Luis Egío 11 Legal Education at the University of Córdoba (1767–1821). From the Colony to the Homeland  A Reinterpretation of the Salamanca Tradition from a New Context   Esteban Llamosas Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting new critical perspectives on J.G. Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre, this volume of English articles by an international group of scholars addresses the topic of first principles in Fichte’s writings. Especially discussed are the central text of his Jena period, the 1794/95 Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre, as well as later versions like the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo (1796-99) and the presentations of 1804 and 1805. Also included are new studies on the first principles of the particular sub-disciplines of Fichte’s system, such as the doctrines of aesthetics, nature, right, ethics, and history.Table of ContentsVorwort / Preface: Fichte’s First Principles and the Total System of the Wissenschaftslehre Beiträgerverzeichnis / Notes on Contributors Teil 1 / Part 1 Fichte’s Earliest Reflections on First Principles 1 Fichte’s First First Principles, in the Aphorisms on Religion and Deism (1790) and Prior  Jason Yonover 2 General Logic and the Foundational Demonstration of the First Principle in Fichte’s Eigene Meditationen and Early Wissenschaftslehre  David Sommer 3 The First Principle of Philosophy in Fichte’s 1794 Aenesidemus Review  Elise Frketich Teil 2 / Part 2 The First Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre 4 Why Is the First Principle of the Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre Foundational for Fichte’s Entire Wissenschaftslehre?  Alexander Schnell 5 Difference within Identity? Fichte’s Reevaluation of the First Principle of Philosophy in § 5 of the Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre  Philipp Schwab 6 “The Subsequent Delivery of the Deduction” – Fichte’s Transformation of Kant’s Deduction of the Categories  Gesa Wellmann 7 From Being Reflexive to Absolute Reflection – Fichte’s Original Insight Reconsidered  Stefan Schick 8 The First Principle of the Wissenschaftslehre and the Logical Principle of Identity  Esma Kayar 9 Facticity and Genesis: Tracking Fichte’s Method in the Berlin Wissenschaftslehre  G. Anthony Bruno 10 “Knowledge Is Existence” – Ascent to the First Principle in Fichte’s 1805 Erlangen Wissenschaftslehre  Robert G. Seymour Teil 3 / Part 3 The First Principles of the Sub-Disciplines of the Wissenschaftslehre 11 The Monogram of the “Sweet Songstress of the Night”: The Hovering of the Imagination as the First Principle of Fichte’s Aesthetics  Laure Cahen-Maurel 12 Fichte’s First Principle of Right  Michael Nance 13 On I-Hood as the Speculative Ground of Fichte’s Real Ethics  Kienhow Goh 14 The Role of First Principles in Fichte’s Philosophy of History  Pavel Reichl 15 Circumvolutions of the Mind: Fichte on First Principles and Transcendental Circuits  Carlos Zorrilla Piña Teil 4 / Part 4 Freie Beiträge 16 ‘Transcendental’ in Kant and Fichte: A Conceptual Shift and Its Philosophical Meaning  Elena Ficara 17 Fichtes Kolleg „Moral für Gelehrte“ – Jena 1794–1795: Zur Geschichte von „Über Geist und Buchstaben“  Ricardo Barbosa 18 Die gelehrte Bildung nach der göttlichen Idee in Über das Wesen des Gelehrten  Quentin Landenne 19 Fichte’s Original Insight Reviewed  Roberto Horácio Sá Pereira 20 Images de l’ absolu : Phénoménologie matérielle et phénoménologie fichtéenne  Frédéric Seyler Teil 5 / Part 5 Rezensionen Luis Fellipe Garcia, La philosophie comme Wissenschaftslehre. Le projet fichtéen d’ une nouvelle pratique du savoir  Antonella Carbone Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Die späten wissenschaftlichen Vorlesungen IV, 1: Transzendentale Logik 1 (1812). Neu herausgegeben von Hans Georg von Manz und Ives Radrizzani. Unter Mitarbeit von Erich Fuchs  Zhu Lei Thomas Sören Hoffmann (Hrsg.), Fichtes Geschlossener Handelsstaat. Beiträge zur Erschließung eines Anti-Klassikers  Konstantinos Masmanidis Register / Index

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Book SynopsisRecent research has established the continued importance of engagement with the classical tradition to the formation of scholarly, philosophical, theological, and scientific knowledge well into the eighteenth century. The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age is the first attempt to adopt a comparative approach to this phenomenon. An international team of scholars explores the differences and similarities – across time and place – in how the study and use of ancient texts and ideas shaped a wide range of fields: nascent classics, sexuality, chronology, metrology, the study of the soul, medicine, the history of Judaeo-Christian interaction, and biblical criticism. By adopting a comparative approach, this volume brings out some of the most important factors in explaining the contours of early modern intellectual life. Contributors: Karen Hollewand, Dmitri Levitin, Jan Machielsen, Ian Maclean, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Cesare Pastorino, Michelle Pfeffer, Jetze Touber, Timothy Twining, and Floris Verhaart.Table of ContentsList of Figures  Introduction   Dmitri Levitin PART 1 Secular Classical Scholarship 1  National Traditions in Scholarship  The French and Dutch Schools of Classical Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century   Floris Verhaart 2 Sex and the Classics  The Approaches of Early Modern Humanists to Ancient Sexuality   Karen Hollewand PART 2 The Arts 3 “Three Days and Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth”  Chronological Debates over the Period of Christ’s Rest in the Tomb in the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries   C. Philipp E. Nothaft 4 The Early Modern Study of Ancient Measures in Comparative Perspective  A Preliminary Investigation   Cesare Pastorino 5 The Pentateuch and the Immortality of the Soul in England and the Dutch Republic  The Confessionalisation of a Claim   Michelle Pfeffer PART 3 Medicine 6 Sacred Medicine in Early Modern Europe   Jetze Touber 7 The Reception of Hippocrates by Physicians at the End of the Seventeenth Century  A Comparative Study   Ian Maclean PART 4 Theology 8 What’s in a Name? Essenes, Therapeutae, and Monks in the Christian Imagination, c.1500–1700   Jan Machielsen 9 Publishing a Prohibited Criticism  Richard Simon, Pierre Bayle, and Erudition in Late Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Culture   Timothy Twining 10 European Scholarship on the Formation of the New Testament Canon, c.1700  Polemic, Erudition, Emulation   Dmitri Levitin Index

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Book SynopsisThe articles collected in "Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics focus on the significance of Franz Rosenzweig's work far beyond the realms of theology and philosophy of religion. They engage with a wide range of issues in philosophy and offer new insights, both by presenting an array of unpublished and underestimated sources and by bringing Rosenzweig's thought into dialogue with new approaches and interlocutors, such as Stanley Cavell, William Alston, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The result is a refreshing and original perspective on the work of one of the most significant thinkers of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction   Antonios Kalatzis and Enrico Lucca PART 1 Epistemologybr/> 1 Translating, Interpreting the Bible, Fighting Satan  Rosenzweig, Scholem, and the End of Their Correspondence (with Three Unpublished Letters from Scholem to Rosenzweig)   Enrico Lucca 2 From Jena to Jerusalem — Judaism as a Method   Gesine Palmer 3 Content, Form and Method in the Star of Redemption’s “New Theological Rationalism”   Roy Amir 4 The Ins and Outs of Rosenzweig’s Religious Epistemology from the Perspective of 21st Century Theological Reflection   Cass Fisher PART 2 Aesthetics 5 Episodic Genius  Autonomous Artistic Agency in the Star of Redemption   Antonios Kalatzis 6 “Art Must Become Pious or End”  Franz Rosenzweig’s Aesthetic Theory of Heteronomy   Christoph Kasten 7 To Affirm the World  Realist Ontology and Aesthetics in Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption and Stanley Cavell’s the World Viewed   Bruce Rosenstock part 3 Politics 8 Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig on Individuality and Moral Agency   Beate Ulrike La Sala 9 Franz Rosenzweig’s Writings on War Politics, History, and the Globalization of the World   Roberto Navarrete Alonso 10 From State to Star Contemporary Reflections on Franz Rosenzweig’s Journey from History to Identity   Eveline Goodman-Thau 11 Nomadism, Homelessness, and the Homecoming of the Poet Rosenzweig and Heidegger in Conversation   Elliot R. Wolfson Index of Names

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an analysis of the social aspects of Carl Gustav Jung's thought and its followers, the interpretation of the phenomena of contemporary social life (social imagery) from the perspective of the main categories of this thought (archetype, unconscious, collectivity, mass society, mass man). It also contains an attempt of their application for understanding contemporary social and political phenomena (e.g. Brazilian sebastianism, Balkan conflicts, virtual-imagery sphere of communication, figures of imagery in popular culture, and others). The authors examine the relationship between Jung’s and Jungians' (E. Neumann, J. Hillman, J. L. Henderson) conceptions and many accompanying them (e.g. Frankfurt school, Bachelard’s philosophy, American cultural psychoanalysis) and the background of contemporary social psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Archetypes and Imagination  Ilona Blocian, Robert Segal, and Andrew Kuzmicki Part 1: Collective Structures of the Unconscious 1 What Is Real?  John Beebe 2 Jung and Social Thought  Ilona Blocian 3 Interpretation Dilemmas Relating to Carl Gustav Jung's Concept in the Context of the Sociological-Anthropological Tradition  Ewa Kwiatkowska Part 2: Social Imaginarium 4 The Lost Art of Personalization  Vicky Jo Varner 5 The Wall: Object, Image, and Processes in the Individual and Collective Psyche  Monica Luci 6 An Unconscious Source of Images: about how Bachelard Read Jung  Kamila Morawska 7 In the Quest for Temenos: Metaphors for the Origins of Serbian Cultural Complexes  Bojana Stamenkovic Rudic 8 Therapy of Shadow in Film and Literature Introductory Remarks  Maria Kostyszak 9 Archetypal Feminine in Kaxinawá's Stories: A Decolonizing Option to Jungian Approach  Hannah Hennebert 10 The Hero as a Dominant Mythical Motif in Western Culture and Its Relevance Nowadays: The Postulates of Jung and his Followers  Patrycja Neumann 11 What Only They Could See: A Comparative Analysis of Hilma af Klint's Swan Paintings and C. G. Jung's Mandala Sketches  Kathrin Schaeppi 12 Traces of Psychological Impact Found in the Drawings by Cancer Patients  Norifumi Kishimoto 13 Return to Indigenous Art Forms: Potential for Healing  Josepha Bayes-King 14 Erich Neumann's Great Mother, André Green's Dead Mother, and Ecopsychology  Lidar Shany 15 Wotan and Cocks: Reframing Jungian Sociology for the Early 21st Century  Johann Graaff Part 3: Psychological Significance in Social Processes 16 Thinking of a Social Hierarchy as an Instinctual and Archetypal Phenomenon  Andrew Kuzmicki 17 Cultural Complex, Death Anxiety, and Individuation During the Times of Populism: A Dialogue between Jungian Psychology and Social Psychology  Helge Michael Osterhold 18 Portuguese Sebastianism as an Intersection Field between the Right and Left Political Forces in Brazilian 2018 Presidential Elections  Gustavo Orlandeli Marques 19 From Compensation to Purpose. A Neo-Jungian Critique of Horkheimer and Marcuse  Stefano Carpani 20 Mania of Contemporary Capitalism-A Polish Perspective  Michaó Wróblewski Index

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights the legacy of the Lvov-Warsaw School in broadly understood contemporary philosophy of language. Fundamental methodological issues, important topics in syntax, semantics and pragmatics (such as modern Categorial Grammar, theories of truth, game-theoretical semantics, and argumentation theory) are tracked down to their origins in the Lvov-Warsaw School, and – the other way round – modern renderings of the ideas expressed by Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Stanisław Leśniewski, Jan Łukasiewicz, Alfred Tarski, Kazimierz Twardowski, and other members of the School are presented. Among contributors there are philosophers, logicians, formal linguists and other specialists from France, Italy, Poland, and Spain.Table of Contents List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Introduction  The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy of Language   Piotr Stalmaszczyk and Mieszko Tałasiewicz 1 Good Work in Philosophy   Jacek Jadacki 2 Truth and Proofs. From Tarski’s Convention T to Game Theory 35  Christian Bassac and Joan Busquets 3 On Tarski’s Theory of Truth   Luis Fernández Moreno 4 Relation between Logic and Linguistics according to the Lvov-Warsaw School   Anna Brożek 5 An Unorthodox Viewpoint on Natural Language Syntax and Its Relations to the Lvov-Warsaw School   Giovanni Gobber 6 On the Difficulty of Using Philosophical Theories to Develop a Semantics   The Case of Ajdukiewicz    Béatrice Godart-Wendling 7 Strawson’s Philosophy of Language and Ajdukiewicz’s Categorial Grammar   Mieszko Tałasiewicz 8 Normativity in the Directival Theory of Meaning   Paweł Grabarczyk 9 Verbal Issue or Deep Flaw?  On Categories of Meaning, Content, and Connotation in the Lvov-Warsaw School   Marcin Będkowski 10 Polish Roots of Some Solutions to the Sorites Paradox   Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska 11 Meaning and Mimicking  Parataxis in Kotarbiński and Davidson   Janusz Maciaszek 12 The Classifications of Reasoning of Łukasiewicz and Ajdukiewicz as a Foundation for Systematising Argument Patterns   Michał Araszkiewicz and Marcin Koszowy Subject Index Name Index

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This first volume focuses on sense perception and discusses philosophical questions concerning the external senses, their classification, and their functioning, from Aristotle to Brentano.Table of ContentsContents Preface Abbreviations General Introduction  Sten Ebbesen Introduction: Sense Perception in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition  Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink 1 Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Individuation and Hierarchy of the Senses  Katerina Ierodiakonou 2 Aristotle on Incidental Perception  Mika Perälä 3 Sense Perception in the Arabic Tradition: The Controversy Concerning Causality  David Bennett 4 Avicenna on Perception, Cognition, and Mental Disorders: The Case of Hallucination  Ahmed Alwishah 5 Perceiving Many Things Simultaneously: Medieval Reception of an Aristotelian Problem  Juhana Toivanen 6 Affected by the Matter: The Question of Plant Perception in the Medieval Latin Tradition on De somno et vigilia  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist 7 Autoscopy in Meteorologica 3.4: Following Some Strands in the Greek, Arabic, and Latin Commentary Traditions  Filip Radovic and David Bennett 8 Brentano’s Aristotelian Account of the Classification of the Senses  Hamid Taieb Bibliography Indices

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This second volume focuses on dreaming and analyses some of the most prominent problems connected to dreams as representations. The contributions in this volume address the core Aristotelian texts and their reception, up to and including contemporary scientific discourse on dreaming.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction: Sleeping and Dreaming in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition  Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink 1 Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the Deceptive Character of Dreams  Pavel Gregoric 2 Aristotle on Signs in Sleep: Natural Signification and Dream Interpretation  Filip Radovic 3 Avicenna’s Dreaming in Context  David Bennett 4 Averroes on Divinatory Dreaming  Rotraud Hansberger 5 How Dreams Are Made: Some Latin Medieval Commentators on Dream Formation in Aristotle’s De insomniis  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist 6 What Does a Scholastic Philosopher Do When He Disagrees with Aristotle? Commentaries on Aristotle’s Divination in Sleep  Sten Ebbesen 7 The Ghost of Aristotle in Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Accounts of Delusional Dreaming  Filip Radovic Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This final volume focuses on intellectual operations and analyses some of the most exciting issues pertaining to the conceptual representation of the external world. The contributions cover the historical traditions and their impact on contemporary philosophy of mind.Table of ContentsPreface  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist and Juhana Toivanen Abbreviations Introduction: Cognition and Conceptualisation in the Aristotelian Tradition  Sten Ebbesen and Pavel Gregoric 1 Aristotle’s Light Analogy in the Greek Tradition  Börje Bydén 2 Introducing the Maʿānī  David Bennett 3 Avicenna on the Semantics of Maʿnā  Seyed N. Mousavian 4 Avicenna on Talking about Nothing  Seyed N. Mousavian 5 Abstraction and Intellection of Essences in the Latin Tradition  Ana María Mora-Márquez 6 John of Jandun on How to Understand Many Things at the Same Time  Michael Stenskjær Christensen 7 Concept Empiricisms, Ancient and Modern  Alexander Greenberg Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJohn Sallis has been at the cutting edge of the Continental philosophical tradition for almost half a century, and it is largely due to his contributions that we have come to understand “Continental” as designating an original philosophical, not a geographical, tradition. His work, with its uncommon scholarly rigor, has come to define the best of that tradition and to expand its horizons in creative ways through a genuine philosophical imagination. The essays gathered here are dedicated to assessing Sallis’ contribution and to indicating some of the ways in which his works might shape the future of philosophy.Table of ContentsForeword On Leaving Footprints: Some Remarks on the Legacy of John Sallis   Dennis J. Schmidt List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction   James Risser and Walter Brogan part 1 Directions within Greek Philosophy 1 “Beneath the Earth and in the Heavens” John Sallis in His Elements   Michael Naas 2 Philosophy and Monstrosity, an Ode to Artemis   Sara Brill 3 Boundless Images John Sallis and the Ancient Gods   Claudia Baracchi 4 “Shaggy, Lustful, Partly Animal” John Sallis on Plato’s Symposium   S. Montgomery Ewegen 5 The Stretch between Limitless Flow and Absolute Stasis Figuring the Flow of Nature and the Determinacy of Being   Walter Brogan part 2 On Art and Translation 6 Freeing the Eye   Alejandro A. Vallega 7 Interpreting the “Sense” of Art   James Risser 8 To Speak of Art … at the Limit   Jeffrey Powell 9 On Translating John Sallis   Drew A. Hyland part 3 Concerns of Philosophy 10 On the Way to the Sensible Disrupting Simple Directions   Peg Birmingham 11 John Sallis’ Liminal Phenomenology   Daniela Vallega-Neu 12 Elemental Ecology Reading John Sallis in an Age of Earth Crisis   Jason M. Wirth 13 Force of Imagination as Critical Turning Point Sallis and the Future of Philosophy   Bernard Freydberg   Response   John Sallis Index

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Book SynopsisGustav Landauer was an unconventional anarchist who aspired to a return to a communal life. His antipolitical rejection of authoritarian assumptions is based on a radical linguistic scepticism that could be considered the theoretical premise of his anarchism. The present volume aims to add to the existing scholarship on Landauer by shedding new light on his work, focussing on the two interrelated notions of skepsis and antipolitics. In a time marked by a deep doubt concerning modern politics, Landauer’s alternative can help us to more seriously address the struggle for a different articulation of our communitarian and ecological needs.Trade Review“There is no doubt about it: The anthology Skepticism and Antipolitics. The Alternative of Gustav Landauer, edited by Libera Pisano and Cedric Cohen-Skalli, is a milestone in modern reception history. Those who believed that Landauer was merely a well-read anarchist are taught better here. The seventeen studies prove that the history of Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century was significantly influenced by him.” – Prof. Dr. Thomas Meyer, lmu Munich “A century after Landauer’s murder, this groundbreaking collection of remarkably rich essays sheds new light on his revolutionary radicalism, his spiritual longing for a renewal of human communities, his linguistic skepticism inseparable from his anarchist antipolitics, and his identities as a German and as a Jew. By brilliantly putting Landauer in dialogue with Simone Weil, Margarete Susman, Leo Baeck, Martin Buber—and above all with our own troubled times—the volume is as indispensable as it is illuminating.” – Vivian Liska, Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies, Professor of German Literature, Dept. Literature and Philosophy, University of Antwerp

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Book SynopsisThis book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of Newman’s works, it may also be of wider interest to students of history, philosophy, theology and spirituality. More generally, its unusual focus on Newman’s epistemology and philosophical deductions, and how these relate to present-day dilemmas, should also attract interest from his many non-academic followers and devotees. “The main value of this work lies in its original approach to Newman from a Polish Personalist perspective, and this (rather than as another amorphous study of Newman) could give it novelty value and attract real interest from Newman scholars and experts.” -Jonathan Luxmoore, Oxford-based writer and Church historian "How do we evaluate a human life, our own life? Beginning with John Henry Newman’s defence of his life, Jan Kłos in this volume sensitively explores from a personalist perspective how all our lives involve struggle with commitment, responsibility, and truth. In its emphasis on the narrative structure of human lives, the book makes a valuable contribution not just to the philosophy of personalism but to social theory overall." -Douglas Porpora, Professor of Sociology, Drexel UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations of John Henry Newman’s Texts Introduction Part 1 The Main Components of Newman’s Personalist System of Cognition  Introduction to Part 1 1 Probability as the Guide of Life 2 Real and Unreal Words 3 Egotism Is True Modesty 4 Certitude or I Know that I Know 5 The Guidance of Conscience Part 2 Historical Studies  Introduction to Part 2 6 The Church of England and the Church of Rome 7 The Church Fathers 8 Tract xc and the Articles 9 The Logic of Dogmas 10 The Individual Journey Has Reached Its Destination—1845 and Thereafter  Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book is focused on distorted research and university education in recent decades, and on alternatives for a new research era. It deals with the critique, explanation and normativity of bureaucratically, commercially and ideologically shaped humanities and social sciences. The authors analyse it in a ground-breaking way, putting the West in a global comparison with the non-Western world. Particularly, they pay special attention to Central Europe and the major countries and macro-regions: Latin America, China, Russia, Africa and India. This is an illuminating book for readers interested in philosophy, sociology, global studies, education studies and related disciplines.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores a radically integrative phenomenology of nature through the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. By revisiting novel empirical findings in the sciences and advances in scientific methods and concepts, Merleau-Ponty leads us to rediscover a first nature right at the heart of the subject. Alessio Rotundo traces and documents the presence of a double meaning of nature affecting Merleau-Ponty’s analyses across foundational aspects of human experience: sense perception, organic development and behavior, cognition, language, and history. Physical, biological, and psychological processes in nature are not merely scientific data; they provide the evidence for another, more primordial sense of nature.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Stating the Problem  1 Preliminary Remarks  2 Historical Contextualization  3 Renewed Setting of the Problem 1 Natura Sub Specie Structurae  1 Science between Technocracy and Aesthetics  2 The Disinterested and the Interested Onlooker  3 Naturizing and Naturized Consciousness  4 Phenomenology between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty 2 Pathway to First Nature  Operative Intentionality from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty  1 Introduction  2 Phenomenology as Redoing of Transcendental Philosophy  3 Cartesian “Realism”  4 The Genetic Turn in Phenomenology  5 Operative Intentionality  6 Brief Methodic Reflection on the “Idea of Being” in Phenomenology  7 The Prejudice of the World  8 Operative Intentionality as Temporalizing  9 The Project of the Phenomenology of Perception as Enquiry into Operative Intentionality  10 The Discovery of Contingency and Transcendental Philosophy: Descartes and Kant  11 The Body Schema: Phenomenology of Perception I  12 The Notion of Spatial Level: Phenomenology of Perception II  13 Merleau-Ponty and Kant on Space 3 Orders of Experience  1 Introduction: The Eidetic of Experience and Language  2 Approaches to Language  3 The Act of Speech  4 Language as Ontological Experience  5 Speaking of Fundamentals: The Promise of Language  6 Language and the Lifeworld: General Points from Phenomenology  7 The Problem of Einströmen  8 The Modal Ontology of the World  9 History in Lifeworld Phenomenology 4 Mundus Sensibilis  Structural Ontology between Merleau-Ponty and the New Philosophy of Science  1 Introduction  2 Ontic Structural Realism  3 Syntactic and Semantic Views  4 Invariance between Physics and Phenomenology  5 Physics Deformalized  6 Observation and Objectivation  7 The Passage of Nature  8 Natural Dynamis between Physics and Perception  9 The Praxis of Nature, or What the Things Do 5 Nature and Logos  1 Introduction: Animal Nature  2 Biology and Ontology  3 Organic Totality  4 The Ontology of the Umwelt: Uexküll’s Notion of Umwelt  5 Behavior, Consciousness, and World  6 The Bivalent Ontology of the Umwelt  7 The Sphere of Life as Sphere of Intercorporeity  8 Towards a Philosophy in Double Dimensionality: Merleau-Ponty’s Esthesiology 6 The Institution of Nature  1 Introduction: Phenomenological Ontology and the Institution of Nature  2 Nature as Empirical and Transcendental Genesis  3 Towards Totality: Perceptual Faith and the Flesh  4 Tying It All Together: Nature as Leaf of Being Bibliographical References and Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this edited collection is to address the complex realities and values expressed through the research process. This critically reflexive piece aims to bring forth ethical dilemmas that continue to pervade research process, by unearthing how left out marginalized realties and value in research also leads communities to disappear physically and psychically.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Dawn Onishenko, Nob Doran, Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga Part 1 Critical Review of Qualitative Research Approaches 1 Making Research Black and Strange Why History Matters in the Current Disappearing World   Dionisio Nyaga 2 Grounded Theory: Effects of covid-19 on Homeless Youth Methodological Reflections   Dionisio Nyaga, Dawn Onishenko and Rose Ann Torres 3 Reflexivity, Recursion and Re-evaluation Some Reflections On ‘Institutional Ethnography’   Nob Doran Part 2 Overview of Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies 4 Resisting through Research Developing a Qualitative “Mixed Methods” Approach in Research with Sex Workers   Laura Winters 5 Beyond Codified Logics of Ethics Jungle and the Ethics of Non-violence   Dionisio Nyaga 6 Africa beyond Africa Afro-pessimism as an Ethical Demand   Waywaya Nyaga and Dionisio Nyaga 7 Markets Logics in Research Process and the Denigration of Black Bodies   Dionisio Nyaga Part 3 Critical Reflexive Research Methods 8 Teaching to the Tensions Pushing the Boundaries of Qualitative Social Work Research   Susan Preston, Susan Silver and Purnima George 9 Qualitative Research as Resistance The Use of Vignettes to Support Situated Knowledge and the Deconstruction of Colonial Policies   Laura Wyper 10 Remembering in Research Doing Research in Asian Communities   Rose Ann Torres 11 Application of Research to Africa’s Peace and Security Conundrum The Ethical and Moral Divide between the Ideal and the Real   Michael Sitawa Part 4 Reflexivity and Ethics 12 Ethics of Doing Research in the Indigenous Community   Rose Ann Torres 13 A Reflexive Gaze on Qualitative Policy Research Deconstructing Traditional Policy Research with the Interface of Youth-Voice and Arts-Based Focus Groups   Dawn Onishenko and Julie Erbland 14 A Co-constructed Critical Autoethnographical Conversation with Social Work Students Regarding Reflexive Research Engagement   Marco Giuliani, Michelle Brochu, Albina Magomedova, Michelle Boehm and Dawn Onishenko 15 Arendtian Phenomenology of Politics   Lawrence Ofunja Kangei Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the production of knowledge of normativity in the age of early modern globalisation by looking at an extraordinarily pragmatic and normative book: Manual de Confessores, by the Spanish canon law professor Martín de Azpilcueta (1492-1586). Intertwining expertise, methods, and questions of legal history and book history, this book follows the actors and analyses the factors involved in the production, circulation, and use of the Manual, both in printed and manuscript forms, in the territories of the early modern Iberian Empires and of the Catholic Church. It convincingly illustrates the different dynamics related to the materiality of this object that contributed to “glocal” knowledge production. Contributors are: Samuel Barbosa, Manuela Bragagnolo, Christiane Birr, Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, Idalia García Aguilar, Pedro Guibovich Pérez, Natalia Maillard Álvarez, César Manrique Figueroa, Stuart M. McManus, Yoshimi Orii, David Rex Galindo, Airton Ribeiro, and Pedro Rueda Ramírez.Table of ContentsPreface: Coordinates of an Experiment List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Books and the Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Early Modern Period: The Case of Martín de Azpilcueta’s Manual de Confessores  Manuela Bragagnolo Part 1 Book Production and the Production of Knowledge of Normativity 2 Legal Authorship in the Age of the Printing Press: Manual De Confessores by Martín de Azpilcueta (1492–1586)  Manuela Bragagnolo 3 The Flemish Reeditions of Martín de Azpilcueta’s Works: A Paratextual Study  César Manrique Figueroa 4 Professional Book Trade Networks and Azpilcueta’s Manual in 16th-Century Europe  Natalia Maillard Álvarez 5 Translating Normative Knowledge: Martín de Azpilcueta and Jesuits in Portuguese America (16th Century)  Samuel Barbosa 6 Sed talentum commissum non abscondere: Moral Obligations of an Author  Christiane Birr Part 2 Circulation and Presence of Azpilcueta’s Manual on the Globe 7 Martín de Azpilcueta Navarro in the Andes (16th–17th Centuries)  Pedro Guibovich Perez 8 Azpilcueta in the Atlantic Book Trade of the Early Modern Period (1583–1700)  Pedro Rueda Ramírez 9 The Path of Doctor Navarro in Colonial Mexico: The Circulation of Martín Azpilcueta’s Works  Idalia García Aguilar 10 The Presence of Azpilcueta’s Manual de Confessores in Portuguese America (16th to 18th Centuries)  Airton Ribeiro Part 3 Production, Circulation, and Use of Azpilcueta’s Manual across the Globe 11 Reading Azpilcueta in the Valley of Mexico  Byron Ellsworth Hamann 12 Doctor Navarro in the Americas: The Circulation and Use of Martín de Azpilcueta’s Work in Early-Modern Mexico  David Rex Galindo 13 Martín de Azpilcueta on Trade and Slavery in Jesuit Legal Manuscripts from Iberian Asia  Stuart M. McManus 14 Pietro Alagona’s Compendium Manualis Navarri Published by the Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan  Yoshimi Orii 15 Making Women Sinners: Guilt and Repentance of Converted Japanese Women in the Application of Alagona’s Compendium Manualis Navarri in Japan (16th Century)  Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in Explorations of Value are drawn from work first presented at the 20th Conference of Value Inquiry. They are not mere records of conference presentations. The authors have reflected on their initial presentations. They have re-thought arguments in light of discussions at the conference. They have revised their work. All of this has combined to bring fresh ideas on important issues into carefully considered discussions. The nineteen authors of the essays do not share a common viewpoint on all problems of value inquiry. They are certainly not in agreement in their conclusions. Their concerns, however, cluster around a recognizable body of questions. Several of the authors raise fundamental questions on the nature of values and the possibility of giving them an objective status. Some of the authors raise questions about where value inquiry becomes value advocacy. They are also ready to ask whether or not advocacy is in the legitimate purview of philosophers. A number of authors set out to examine conditions of moral practice and of harming or benefiting people in general. Other authors show a concern for juxtaposing moral values and aesthetic values, in some cases to observe similarities, in some, differences. Finally, a few authors focus on particular notions such as forgiveness, intimacy, and love that are central to our lives.Trade Review”a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of values.” - in: Ethics, January 1999Table of ContentsThomas MAGNELL: Introduction. Thomas MAGNELL: The Value of Value Inquiry for Moral Philosophy. Joseph MARGOLIS: Moral Philosophy in Four Tiers. Don E. MARIETTA JR.: Objectivity: Wrong Concept for Value Inquiry. James B. WILBUR III: Towards a Metaphysics of Practice. Carlo FILICE: On Intrinsic and Quasi-Intrinsic Value. James S. KELLY: The Postmodern Turn: Plurality of Voice or Cacophony? Tom REGAN: The Business of the Ethical Philosopher. William AIKEN: The Risks of Advocacy. Robert K. FULLINWIDER: Philosophers and Advocates. Roger PADEN: The Lost Childhood of Homo Economicus. Jonathan JACOBS: Elements of a Naturalistic Realism in Ethics. Joram GRAF HABER: The Value of Human Life: An Absolutist Strategy for Attacking Consequentialism. Julian LAMONT: On Benefiting People by Creating Them. Uma NARAYAN: Forgiveness, Moral Reassessment, and Reconciliation. Robert GINSBERG: The Photograph on My Mind. Sander LEE: The Screaming of the Lambs: Philosophical Themes in Demme's Silence of the Lambs. H.P.P. (HENNIE) LÖTTER: Let's Dance with Wolves! Joseph KUPFER: What Is Wrong with Prostitution? Predrag CICOVACKI: Can Love Resolve the Problem of Marriage? Index.

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Book SynopsisDans quelle mesure les changements politiques ont-ils des effets sur la place qu’occupe une langue étrangère dans les pratiques sociales, culturelles et éducatives ? Le contexte socio-culturel dans lequel s’inscrit une langue étrangère est déterminant, tant en ce qui concerne la société cible que la société source. L’étude de l’influence de ces contextes respectifs sur l’image et les pratiques de cette langue forme le cadre de la problématique de ce recueil : “Changements politiques et statut des langues”. L’usage de la langue comme pratique culturelle, la pédagogie de l’apprentissage qui apparaît dans les manuels de langue étrangère et la réflexion savante sur la langue et la didactique sont trois paramètres qui se retrouvent au fil des contributions présentées lors du colloque de la S.I.H.F.L.E.S. (Société Internationale pour l’Histoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde) qui s’est tenu à l’Université d’Utrecht en décembre 1999. Les effets du politique et des idéologies politiques sur le statut d’une langue étrangère et sur la perception de sa fonction sont étudiés dans cet ouvrage sur une large période allant du XVIIIe au XXe siècles et dans divers pays du Bassin méditerranéen et de l’Europe du Nord, mais aussi dans le contexte de la Francophonie.Table of ContentsMarie-Christine KOK ESCALLE, Francine MELKA: Introduction Gerda HASSLER: La discussion sur l’universalité de la langue française et la comparaison des langues : une rupture épistémologique Madeleine VAN STRIEN-CHARDONNEAU: Le statut du français, langue seconde selon Isabelle de Charrière : langue de culture, langue utilitaire? Noël CARUANA-DINGLI: La langue française à l’époque des Chevaliers et pendant la domination napoléonienne : les années 1780-1800 Filomena VITALE: Le rayonnement du français dans le Royaume de Naples de 1799 à 1860 Juan GARCÍA-BASCUÑANA: Politique linguistique et enseignement des langues étrangères en Espagne pendant le Triennat libéral (1820-1823) : à propos de l’Academia Civica de Barcelone Valérie SPAËTH: La création de l’Alliance Israélite Universelle ou la diffusion de la langue française dans le Bassin méditerranéen André REBOULLET: Jean Marx (1884-1972) entre-deux-guerres Jean-Claude CHEVALIER: Diffusion du français en Europe de l’Est : 1920-1939 Elisabet HAMMAR: L’essor et le déclin du français, de l’allemand et de l’anglais en Suède 1807-1946 Bernard ESMEIN: La moitié perdue: changements politiques et francophonie au Luxembourg, 1780-1945 Denise EGÉA-KUEHNE: La langue de l’autre au croisement des cultures : Derrida et Le monolinguisme de l’autre Carmen ROIG: Le discours idéologique véhiculé par les manuels de français en Espagne au XIXe siècle : quelques repères Rosalia BIVONA: “L’Italie est faite, il faut faire les Italiens” : la construction de l’identité nationale dans les manuels scolaires Michel BERRÉ: Le français à l’école primaire en Flandre vers 1880-1890 : identités nationales et techniques d’enseignement Maria José SALEMA: De la monarchie à la Première République, l’évolution dans la continuité : l’enseignement du français au Portugal de 1894 à 1926 Brigitte LÉPINETTE: Contexte administratif et scientifique d’une grammaire pour l’enseignement du français en Espagne (1907) Maria Hermínia AMADO LAUREL: L’enseignement de la langue et de la littérature françaises au Portugal entre 1910 et 1936 : aspects idéologiques et institutionnels Manuel BRUÑA CUEVAS: L’enseignement du français mis au service du régime de Franco (1936-1940) Pierre SWIGGERS: L’antagonisme linguistique en Belgique 1830-1850 : tensions et conflits politico-linguistiques Willem FRIJHOFF: Questions ouvertes

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the nature of values, and the status of value studies, at the turn of the millennium. The contributors, nineteen philosophers from fourteen countries, introduce and defend an enriching variety of views regarding the present state and future prospects of value inquiry.Trade Review"students, teachers and researchers will find this new volume very useful." - in: Educational Book Review (May-June 2002)Table of ContentsONE Robert GINSBERG: Value Inquiry as the Future of Philosophy TWO Amihud GILEAD: What Does Value Inquiry Really Need for the Future? THREE André MINEAU: Value Inquiry and Nazism: Some Considerations on Relativism and Ordinary Morality FOUR C.L. SHENG: On the Transfer of Economic Value as Legacy or Gift FIVE Dane GORDON: Value Inquiry, Not a Straightforward Business SIX Frederick KRAENZEL: Natural Value and Artificial Immortality SEVEN GERHOLD K. BECKER: In Search of Humanity. Human Dignity as a Basic Moral Attitude EIGHT Jiang CHANG: Axiology and Ethics: Past, Present and Future NINE John R. WELCH: Two Types of Moral Dilemma TEN Jon MILLS: Homo homini lupus. Hegel and Freud on the Future of Humanity ELEVEN Józef NIONIK: Arbitrariness and Sense TWELVE L.D. KEITA: Value in Neoclassical Economic Theory: On Efficiency, Equity, and Human Welfare THIRTEEN Matti HÄYRY: Happiness and the Friction of Moral Revolutions FOURTEEN Minoru KITAMURA: Multiculturalism and Universal Values FIFTEEN Mona ABOUSENNA: The problematic of Values in the Next Millennium SIXTEEN Pio COLONELLO: Nihilism, Melancholy and Values: A Theoretical Approach. SEVENTEEN Samantha BRENNAN: The Future and Value of Rights: Rights versus Responsibilities EIGHTEEN William M. ROBB: Can Value Inquiry Be More Effective with Greater Philosophical Discipline? NINETEEN William SWEET: Value Inquiry, Cultural Diversity, and Ecumenism

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Table of ContentsEinleitung. I Husserls Verständnis von Philosophie und Wissenschaft und die Kritik der neuzeitlichen Naturwissenschaft. 1 Die Phänomenologie als Wiederaufnahme der antiken Idee von der Philosophie. 2 Objektivismus und natürliche Einstellung. 3 Kritik der neuzeitlichen Naturwissenschaft. II Phänomenologische Wissenschaftlichkeit und Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt. 1 Idee und Aufgabe einer phänomenologischen Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt. 2 Phänomenologische Wissenschaftlichkeit und Methode. 3 Normalität als Grundlage phänomenologischer Wissenschaftlichkeit. III Die Systematik der Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. 1 Die Bedeutung der Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt im Übergang zur transzendentalen Phänomenologie. 2 Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Thematisierung der Lebenswelt in der transzendentalen Phänomenologie. IV Ein neuer methodischer Zugang zur Systematik der Lebensweltwissenschaft. 1 Das Programm einer Lebensweltwissenschaft und ihre Grundprobleme. 2 Zur Methodik einer Thematisierung der Lebenswelt. 3 Horizont und lebensweltliches Apriori. 4 Das lebensweltliche Apriori im Zusammenspiel von Natur und Kultur.

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Book SynopsisIn his writings on the foundations of logic, Gottlob Frege, the father of modern logic, sketched a conception of truth that focuses on the following questions: What is the sense of the word “true”? Is truth a definable concept or a primitive one? What are the kinds of things of which truth is predicated? What is the role of the concept of truth in judgment, assertion and recognition? What is the logical category of truth? What is the significance of the concept of truth for science in general and for logic in particular? The present volume is dedicated to the interpretation, reconstruction and critical assessment of Frege’s conception of truth. It is of interest to all those working on Frege, the history of logic and semantics, or theories of truth. The volume brings together nine original papers whose authors are all widely known to Frege scholars. The main topics are: the role of the concept of truth in Frege’s system, the nature of the truth-values, the logical category of truth, the relationship between truth and judgment, and the conception of the truth-bearers.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Truth in Frege’s Formal System Hans SLUGA: Truth and the Imperfection of Language Richard G. HECK, Jr.: Frege and Semantics Danielle MACBETH: Striving for Truth in the Practice of Mathematics: Kant and Frege Part II. Truth and the Truth-Values Michael BEANEY: Frege’s Use of Function-Argument Analysis and his Introduction of Truth-Values as Objects Dirk GREIMANN: Did Frege Really Consider Truth as an Object? Part III. Truth and Judgment Erich H. RECK: Frege on Truth, Judgment, and Objectivity Verena MAYER: Evidence, Judgment and Truth Part IV. The Nature of the Truth-Bearers Oswaldo CHATEAUBRIAND: The Truth of Thoughts: Variations on Fregean Themes Marco RUFFINO: Fregean Propositions, Belief Preservation and Cognitive Value

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Book SynopsisThis book examines philosophical and scientific implications of Neodarwinism relative to recent empirical data. It develops explanations of social behavior and cognition through analysis of mental capabilities and consideration of ethical issues. It includes debate within cognitive science among explanations of social and moral phenomena from philosophy, evolutionary and cognitive psychology, neurobiology, linguistics, and computer science. The series Cognitive Science provides an original corpus of scholarly work that makes explicit the import of cognitive-science research for philosophical analysis. Topics include the nature, structure, and justification of knowledge, cognitive architectures and development, brain-mind theories, and consciousness.Table of ContentsMirera BELIL: Foreword Francisco TOMÁS VERT: Foreword Oscar VILARROYA, Antoni BULBENA, Joaquim COLL, and Adolf TOBEÑA: Foreword: From Dialogue to “The Social Brain” Chair Acknowledgments Francesc FORN I ARGIMON: Introduction Part One: Learning Processes of Social Values Núria SEBASTIÁN GALLÉS: Learning: A Brief Introduction from the Neurosciences Daniel C. DENNETT: Can Unselfishness Be Taught? Katherine NELSON: Learning from a Bio-cultural Developmental Perspective Eric BREDO: When is Ethical Learning? Emily A. PARKER and Lawrence W. BARSALOU: Perspectiveless Certainty in Socio-Cultural-Political Beliefs Stevan HARNAD: Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the “We/They” Category Boundary Part Two: The Neurobiology and/or Psychology of Moral Thought Adolf TOBEÑA: Benumbing and Moral Exaltation in Deadly Martyrs: A View from Neuroscience Scott ATRAN: Religion, Suicide, Terrorism, and the Moral Foundation of the World Shaun NICHOLS: On the Psychological Diversity of Moral Insensitivity William A. ROTTSCHAEFER: The Benumbing Moral Indifference of the Wealthy: What Does it Take to Motivate the Fulfillment of a Minimal Norm of Economic Justice? Félix OVEJERO: Naturalistic Perspectives on Morality, Limits, and Possibilities Antoni GOMILA: Suicide Terrorists, Neuroscience, and Morality: Taking Complexities into Account David PREMACK: Foundations of Morality in the Infant Part Three: Evolutionary Roots of Social Behavior Arcadi NAVARRO: Conflict and Cooperation in Human Affairs Sandro NANNINI: A Comment on “Conflict and Cooperation in Human Affairs” by Arcadi Navarro F. John ODLING-SMEE: Cultural Niche Construction and Human Evolution Camilo JOSÉ CELA CONDE, Miguel ÁNGEL CAPÓ, Marcos NADAL, and Carlos RAMOS: What Do We Know of the Social Brain? Merlin DONALD: Evolutionary Origins of the Social Brain Luc STEELS: Language Originated in Social Brains Derek BICKERTON: The Ape in the Anthill Robert GINSBERG: Human Cognition and the Recognition of Humanity About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel’s unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on Marcel.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword by Kenneth A. Bryson Foreword by Kathleen Rose Hanley Acknowledgement List of Abbreviations Introduction ONE: Marcel’s Critique of Cartesianism TWO: Human Being as a Being-in-a-Situation THREE: The Objectivity of Knowledge FOUR: Secondary Reflection, Ethics, and the Transcendent FIVE: Religious Experience, and the Affirmation of God SIX: A Marcelian Critique of the Problem of Skepticism SEVEN: Marcel and Traditional Philosophical Problems EIGHT: Non-Conceptual Knowledge: Marcel and Maritain NINE: From an Epistemological Point of View: Buber and Marcel Notes Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisEpistemology had to come to terms with “the social” on two different occasions. The first was represented by the dispute about the epistemological status of the “social” sciences, and in this case the already well established epistemology of the natural sciences seemed to have the right to dictate the conditions for a discipline to be a science. But the social sciences could successfully vindicate the legitimacy of their specific criteria for scientificity. More recently, the impact of social factors on the construction of our knowledge (including scientific knowledge) has reversed, in a certain sense, the old position and promoted social inquiry to the role of a criterion for evaluating the purport of cognitive (including scientific) statements. But this has undermined the traditional characteristics of objectivity and rigor that seem constitutive of science. Moreover, in order to establish the real extent to which social conditionings have an impact on scientific knowledge one must credit sociology with a sound ground of reliability, and this is not possible without a preliminary “epistemological” assessment. These are some of the topics discussed in this book, both theoretically and with reference to concrete cases.Table of ContentsEvandro AGAZZI, Javier ECHEVERRIA, Amparo GÓMEZ RODRÍGUEZ: Introduction: Epistemology and the Social Part 1. General Perspectives Evandro AGAZZI: Epistemology and the Social: A Feedback Loop Hervé BARREAU: Historical and Transcendental Factors in the Construction of the Sciences Juan URRUTIA ELEJALDE: Puzzles and Problems Jesús P. ZAMORA BONILLA: Normativity and Self-Interest in Scientific Research Part 2. Values in the Structure of Science Wenceslao J. GONZÁLEZ: Economic Values in the Configuration of Science Ramón QUERALTÓ: The Philosophical Impact of Technoscience or the Development of a Pragmatic Philosophy of Science Part 3. Social Impact on Particular Science Alberto CORDERO: Epistemology and “the Social” in Contemporary Natural Science Jesús MOSTERÍN: Social Factors in the Development of Genetics and the Lysenko Affair Valentín A. BAZHANOV: Social Milieu and Evolution of Logic, Epistemology, and the History of Science: The Case of Marxism Part 4. Epistemology of the Social Sciences Juan Fco. ÁLVAREZ, Javier ECHEVERRÍA: Bounded Rationality in Social Sciences Amparo Gómez RODRÍGUEZ: Rational Choice Theory and Economic Laws: The Role of Shared Values Brigitte FALKENBURG: The Invisible Hand: What Do We Know? Peter KEMP: The Cosmopolitan Vision

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