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Taylor & Francis Ltd Determinism Death and Meaning
This book offers new arguments for determinism. It draws novel and surprising consequences from determinism for our attitudes toward such things as death, regret, grief, and the meaning of life.The book argues that rationalism is the right attitude to take toward reality. It then shows that rationalism implies determinism and that determinism has surprising and far-reaching consequences. The author contends that the existence of all of humanity almost certainly depends on the precise time and manner of your death and mine; that purely retrospective regret, relief, gratitude, and grief are irrational for all but those who hold extreme values; and that everyone's life has an unending impact on the future and thereby achieves the strongest kind of meaning that it makes sense to desire. Written in a direct and accessible style, Determinism, Death, and Meaning will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of
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Taylor & Francis Caring Confrontations for Education and Democracy
Book SynopsisCaring Confrontations for Education and Democracy makes a compelling case for redirecting current practices of education to focus on being educated rather than having an education. The book offers a detailed analysis of how an education for democracy must encourage commitment to important ideals and strengthen the vulnerabilities of people which make them easily manipulated by politicians and the media. It addresses the need for education that focusses on peopleâs mode of being, so that in addition to becoming knowledgeable and skilful, people develop the disposition that is more appropriate for democratic living. Through embodying this approach of authentic spiritual growth through education, this book explores the idea of caring confrontations and critical reflection to enable personal change and growth. Providing a thoughtful analysis of the role of education in democracy, the book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and Table of Contents1. The Importance of the Individual for Democratic Society. 2. The having mode of Existence. 3. The being mode of Existence. 4. Educating through Confronting Oneself. 5. A Pedagogy of Caring Confrontation. 6. Confronting Society and Authorities. 7 Conclusion: Education of the demos as existential authenticity.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why Conscience Matters
Book SynopsisThe book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making.Exploring the role of conscience in healthcare practice, this book offers fresh counterpoints to recent calls to ban or severely restrict conscience objection. It provides a detailed philosophical account of the nature and moral import of conscience, and defends a prima facie right to conscientious objection for healthcare professionals. The book also has relevance to broader debates about religious liberty and civil rights, such as debates about the rights and duties of persons and institutions who refuse services to clients on the basis of a religious objection. The book concludes with a discussion of how to regulate individual and institutional conscientious objection, and presents general principles for the accommodation of individual conscientious objectors in the healthcare system.This bookTrade Review'Symons has made an important contribution to the debate on how to resolve disagreements regarding the provision of morally controversial but legally permissible medical interventions. This book is clear, careful, philosophically sound, insightful, and practical all at once. While it is unlikely to be persuasive to all, no one concerned about these issues will be able to ignore it.' Prof. Daniel Sulmasy, Director, Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown University, United States Table of Contents1. Introduction: Conscience Revisited 2. Conscience Under Fire: A Critical Analysis of the Case Against Conscientious Objection in Healthcare 3. A Theory of Conscience Part I: Conscience and the Moral Life 4. A Theory of Conscience Part II: Virtue, Character and Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice 5. Making Space for the Exercise of Conscience in Healthcare 6. The Permissibility of Institutional Conscientious Objection 7. The Role of Conscience in Medical Practice and Professional Life
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Taylor & Francis A Philosophical Theology of the Old Testament
Book SynopsisAre we able to identify and compare the philosophical perspectives and questions that must be postulated as having been somehow present in the language, ideas and worldviews of the Biblical authors? This book sets out an approach to something that has been generally considered impossible: a philosophical theology of the Old Testament. It demonstrates and addresses the neglect of a descriptive and comparative philosophical clarification of concepts in Old Testament theology, and in so doing treads new ground in Biblical studies and philosophical theology. Recognizing the obvious problems with, and objections to, any form of interdisciplinary research combining philosophical and Biblical theology, this study presents itself as introductory and experimental in nature. The methodology opted for is limited to a philosophical clarification of concepts already found in Old Testament theology, while the findings are presented via the popular thematic approach found in analyticTable of ContentsChapter 1. What OT scholars explicitly told us about philosophical theology Chapter 2. The complete OT scholar’s guide to the story of philosophical theology Chapter 3. When OT scholars behave philosophically-theologically Chapter 4. Paving the road to a philosophical theology of the OT with good intensions Chapter 5. How to make metaphysical restatements and alienate OT theologians Chapter 6. Philosophical theologies of the OT and the roads not taken
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Emergent Container in Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisDrawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores Absence' and Future' in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.Bringing together absence and future with Plato's concept of the receptacle' as described in the Timaeus and with Whitehead's handling of it, the author examines containment in psychoanalytic process. Here Jung's concept of container' (Tavistock Lectures, 1935) is in an ancient and continuing tradition of process thinking. The term emergent container' has been coined as the metaphorical and metaphysical space where the interplay between potentiality and actuality meet in the process of emergent reality. As absence emerges, experience consciousness develops, as well as the potential for symbolic thinking. In this sense, the experience of absence is considered as a potential container for and of creativity. If absence does not emeTrade Review'This book invites reflection on the nature of thought in relation to philosophical and analytic concepts of absence. Psychological practitioners have much to gain from this examination of thinking from the Greeks to the recent past.'Lesley Murdin, psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Cambridge and author of several books including How Much is Enough? and How Money Talks'This is a work of great reach and originality. The book will be invaluable to therapists wanting to deepen their understanding of psychic development. It will also be of real interest to those fascinated by the unconscious processes and roots of creativity — whether that is expressed through the arts or in a lived life. It explores the nature of containment that can lead to psychosis or to sublimation and inventiveness. The ideas put forward have implications for clinical practice and offer much food for imaginative thought.'Maggie Murray, psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice'A refreshingly new look at the foundations of psychoanalysis in relation to the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who turns out to be more than relevant. Deep thinking from a contemporary psychotherapist, practicing in a greatly changed world.'Jenny Pearson, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and dramatherapist and author of several books including Analyst of the Imagination, the Life and Work of Charles Rycroft and Discovering the Self through Drama and Movement, the Sesame Approach Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Absence and Future 2. Hallucination as Pathology and as Entrée into the Collective Unconscious 3. Bion's Theory of Thinking, Absence, Container/Contained. Projective Identification and Hallucination 4. Absence and Precursor to Pathological Organisation and Equally as Basic to Psychic Life 5. Negative Capability 6. Experience and Whitehead: "Philosophy is a lure for feeling" (Whitehead, 1929) 7. Whitehead and Heraclitus: Permanence, Flux and Novelty 8. Being, Becoming and Modes of Being 9. Quaternio 10. Formlessness 11. Interrelations Index
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Taylor & Francis Critical Realism Feminism and Gender A Reader
In assessing the current state of feminism and gender studies, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, it has become increasingly challenging to avoid the conclusion that these fields are in a state of disarray. Indeed, feminist and gender studies discussions are beset with persistent splits and disagreements. This reader suggests that returning to, and placing centre-stage, the role of philosophy, especially critical realist philosophy of science, is invaluable for efforts that seek to overcome or mitigate the uncertainty and acrimony that have resulted from this situation. In particular, it claims that the dialectical logic that runs through critical realist philosophy is ideally suited to advancing feminist and gender studies discussions about broad ontological and epistemological questions and considerations, intersectionality, and methodology, methods, and empirical research. By bringing together four new and eight existing writings this reader provi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Power of Networks
Book SynopsisThe Power of Networks describes a typology of network-based research practices in the historical disciplines, ranging from the use of quantitative network analysis in cultural, economic, social or political history or religious studies, to novel approaches in the Digital Humanities. Network data visualisations and calculations have proven to be useful tools for the analysis of mostly textual sources containing relational information, offering new perspectives on complex historical phenomena. Including case studies from antiquity to contemporary history, the book provides a clear demonstration of the opportunities historical network research (HNR) provides for historical studies. The examples presented within the pages of this volume are arranged in a way to highlight three central typological pillars of HNR: (re-)construction and analysis of historical networks; computational extraction of network data and infrastructures for data collection and exploration.Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I: (Re-)construction of historical networks and their analysis Networking the Res Publica. Social Network Analysis and the Republican Rome Community detection and structural balance: network analytical modelling of political structures and actions in the Middle Ages The Value of Network Analysis in Historical Sociology: Economic and Social Relations in Medieval in Medieval Lübeck 4. Flemish Merchant Networks in Early Modern Seville. Approaches, Comparisons, and Methodical Considerations5. Kinship Networks in Northwestern German Rural Society (18th/19th Centuries)6. Mobility and Movements in Intellectual History: a Social Network Approach3. Computational extraction of network data from large corpora Utilizing Historical Network Analysis on Meta-data to Model East German Foreign Intelligence Cycle in the Baltic Sea Region 1975-1989 Social and semantic network analysis in the study of religions 4. Infrastructures for data collection and exploration Deep Networks as Associative Interfaces to Historical Research Networks as Gateways. Gleanings from Applications for the Exploration of Historical Data 5. OutlookHistorical Network Research, Digital History, and Digital Humanities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Temporal Politics and Banal Culture
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the absence of a strong alignment with the future in contemporary social life and explores anomalous temporal experience as a way to expand political imaginations. In the aftermath of the modern myth of progress, it argues we have entered into a kind of dystopiabrutal or seemingly benignof the continual present that is resistant to systemic change but is nevertheless animated through cycles of novelty and obsolescence. Exploring a condition in which we are out of ideas and facing a non-future' of blind technical improvement and fear, the author examines the heterochronia of eerie atmospheres and temporal suspensions. Rather than a reinstatement of the great dream of The Future, a temporality of possibility is explored in strange dimensions of otherwise mundane sites: logistic spaces and ex-urban landscapes; boredom connected to digital media; and the material culture of a recently abandoned town. Drawing on contemporary social and cultural theory, as well as urbaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Into logistic grey zones 2. Obsolete wastes of time: Boredom by way of alien junk consciousness 3. The enigma of Kitsault
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Language of Symmetry
Book SynopsisThe Language of Symmetry is a re-assessment of the structure and reach of symmetry, by an interdisciplinary group of specialists from the arts, humanities, and sciences at Oxford University.It explores, amongst other topics: order and chaos in the formation of planetary systems entropy and symmetry in physics group theory, fractals, and self-similarity symmetrical structures in western classical music how biological systems harness disorder to create order This book aims to open up the scope of interdisciplinary work in the study of symmetry and is intended for scholars of any background - whether it be science, arts, or philosophy.Table of Contents1. Planetary Systems: From Symmetry to Chaos. 2. Entropy and Symmetry in the Universe. 3. Darkness, Light, and how Symmetry might relate Them. Self-Similar 4. Self-Similarity. 5 The Language of Symmetry in Music. 6. The Interdependence of Order and Disorder: How Complexity arises in the Living and the Inanimate Universe. 7. A Philosophers Perspective on the Harnessing of Stochasticity. 8. Postscript: A Dialogue between Denis Noble and Benedict Rattigan. 9. Appendix: A Response to Professor Nobles Paper: Ordered disorder to drive Physiology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship. It gives both the advanced scholar and the novice in the field an overview and also an in-depth exploration of the connections between friendship and the history of philosophy, morality, practical rationality, value theory, and interpersonal relationships more generally.The Handbook consists of 31 newly commissioned chapters by an international slate of contributors, and is divided into six sections:I. Historical PerspectivesII. Who Can Be Our Friends?III. Friendship and Other RelationshipsIV. The Value and Rationality of FriendshipV. Friendship, Morality, and VirtueVI. New Issues in Philosophy of FriendshipThis volume is essential reading not only for anyone interested in the philosophical questions involving friendship, but also for anyone inter
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Economy and Theology
Book SynopsisEconomy and Theology: Cusanus''s Theory of Value, a study from the field of the history of philosophy, responds to the present-day interest in what is referred to as economic theology. This study aims to show that value (valor), one of the fundamental concepts of contemporary philosophy and economics, has its genealogy in the thought of Nicholas of Cusa. Starting from the economic context (the concept of price/pretium), Cusanus proposes the theory of value that, on the one hand, is objectively rooted in the Divine act of creation (God as the Minter) and, on the other hand, requires reading by human beings (human mind as a banker). While this theory appears in Cusanus's late work The Bowling-Game, it is underpinned by his theory of knowledge, theory of human beings and human cognition against the background of his vision of the universe. Thus, the aim of the book is to try to answer the question about the role and tasks of human beings as a principal playe
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Taylor & Francis Hermeneutics History and Technology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading Rodl
Book SynopsisSebastian Rödl''s Self-Consciousness and Objectivity is one of the most original and thought-provoking books in analytic philosophy for the last several years. An ambitious defence of absolute idealism, Rödl rejects the idea that we as thinking beings can position ourselves within a given, mind-independent reality, and instead advances the position that the very idea of an objective reality' coincides with the self-consciousness of thought.In this outstanding collection, a roster of international contributors critically examine the significance of Rödl''s arguments and develop them in new directions. Their contributions are organised into the following six sections: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and naturalism Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and formal idealism Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and quietism Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and absolute idealism Self-Consciousness and OTable of ContentsIntroduction Jesse M. Mulder Part 1: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Naturalism 1. One Act of Mind Lucy O'Brien 2. How is Thinking Possible? Ram Neta 3. Rödl on Judgment, the First Person, and Perception Christopher Peacocke Part 2: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Formal Idealism 4. Idealism, Absolute and Formal Stephen Engstrom 5. Idealism, Subjects and Science Patricia Kitcher Part 3: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Quietism 6. Real Austerity Jocelyn Benoist 7. Knowledge, Persons, and the Fact of Reason Glenda Satne 8. The Possibility of Absolute Representations A.W. Moore 9. The Linguistic Turn Away from Absolute Idealism Irad Kimhi 10. Elective Affinities of a Guest from Elea J.M. van Ophuijsen Part 4: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Absolute Idealism 11. Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Nature, on the Speculative Character of Their Identity Thomas Khurana 12. Absolute Idealism, A Hegelian Critique of Sebastian Rödl’s Self-Consciousness and Objectivity Wolfram Gobsch Part 5: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and the Power of Judgment 13. The Explanation of Judgment Dawa Ometto 14. Not So Simple Powers Jesse M. Mulder 15. Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and Practical Knowledge Niels van Miltenburg Part 6: Self-Consciousness and Objectivity and the Determinacy of the Individual 16. Reflections on Self-Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness and Objectivity Adrian Haddock 17. Dotting the I Think Martijn Wallage Replies Sebastian Rödl. Index
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field. Firstly, the collection offers new insights on the fundamental question of how thinking happens: where, when, how and by whom philosophy is performed. Secondly, it provides a plurality of new accounts of performance and performativity â as the production of ideas, bodies and knowledges â in the arts and beyond. Comprising texts written by international artists, philosophers and scholars from multiple disciplines, the essays engage with questions of how performance thinks and how thought is performed in a wide range of philosophies and performances, from the ancient to the contemporary. Concepts and practices from diverse geographical regions and cultural traditions are analysed to draw conclusions about how
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Taylor & Francis A Philosophers Pilgrimage
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1961 A Philosopher's Pilgrimage is a plain-spoken autobiography of Alban G. Widgery. This is the record of the life of a philosopher who never allowed concern with ideas to distract him from the richness of experiences. He was a student, colleague and friend of some of the leading personalities of the last half century. Having lived in England, Scotland, Germany, France, India, Hawaii, and the United States, he formed definite impressions of their peoples. In India, on the personal staff of H.H. Sayaji Rao III, he greatly influenced him in his pioneer achievements. Associated with Hindus, Buddhists, Parsis, Muslims, and Jews, he came to appreciate essentials of their faiths. He critically considered the teachings of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Tolstoy, and Shaw. With a clarity of exposition and with humour he presents a philosophy of life worthy of serious consideration. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing
Book SynopsisThis book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and looks at phenomenological questions concerning respiratory methodology, ontological experience of respiration, respiratory spirituality and respiratory embodiment. Drawing on the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Luce Irigaray and David Kleinberg-Levin, the book argues for the ontological primacy of breathing and develops a new principle of philosophy that the author calls Silence of Breath, Abyss/Yawn of Air. It asserts that breathing is not a thing- or person-oriented relation but perpetual communication with the immense elemental atmosphere of open and free air. This new phenomenological method of breathing offers readers a chance to begin to wonder, rethink, re-experience and reimagine all questions of life in an innovative and creative way as aerial and respiratory questions of life.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity
Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity considers both the vast realm of sexual diversities emerging under capitalism and outlines what a psychoanalytic clinic that considers these diversities should be like. Ricardo Espinoza Lolas explores these themes hand in hand with the Marquis de Sade, exploring the monstrous side of our existence not as a negative aspect of humanity, but as a part of us that strives for a freer and more inclusive life. Espinoza Lolas explores aspects of psychoanalysis, feminism, critical theory, philosophy, history, politics and the arts in considering how human determination can be torn from ego and neurosis. The book concludes with a disarticulation of the categories of neurosis, psychosis and perversion of psychoanalysis and the suggestion of a new clinic and a new politics. Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, Lacanian clinicians and scholarsTable of ContentsIntroduction: why a new psychoanalytic clinic and philosophy for queer human times? 1. The roaring monster is hunting us down to disturb us 2. The wait: it drives us crazy 3. Major Tom ... but no Ground Control 4. Dionysus ... the queer Greek 5. WeOthers the Hegelian Dionysians ... those barbaric Slovenes 6. Lacan's the Real ... the Sadian-Kantian game 7. Žižek and Butler ... the peverse Siamese 8. The slaughterhouse bank ... the untold story Afterword by Jorge Nico Reitter
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Spinoza
Book SynopsisSpinoza (1929) offers an estimate' of Spinoza his life, philosophy and influences while retaining, as far as possible through translation, the very words Spinoza wrote'. Thereby the two essential things needed for a thorough appreciation of Spinoza are combined.Table of ContentsPart 1. The Man and His Work 1. Life and Character 2. Works 3. General Outlook Part 2. Spinoza’s Philosophy 4. ‘God or Nature’ 5. Nature as a System of Modes 6. Human Beings as Parts of Nature 7. The Grades of Knowledge and Conduct Part 3. Spinoza’s Place in History 8. Spinoza and the Criticism of his Contemporaries 9. Spinoza in European Thought from Leibniz to Hegel 10. Spinoza’s Sources and Significance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Depth Psychology Cult Survivors and the Role of
Book SynopsisThis book explores the possibilities that exist for navigating out of and away from multiple levels of oppression through memoir-based research. It considers how those raised in oppressive, high-demand communities, colloquially referred to as cults, can emancipate themselves from controls and expectations inculcated from early childhood and examines processes surrounding the psychological reclamation of self. Exploring and metaphorically tending to an orienting psychological dynamic that the ancient Greeks related to as the daimon and using the perspectives of Jungian and post-Jungian depth psychology, the author investigates how subjects can reclaim agency and avoid excessive control over their thoughts, attention, and life's intentions. They suggest that depth psychologically oriented modes can be used to this attunement and explore this notion through a study of memoirs of individuals who were raised in cults. Suggesting a more aligned
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Taylor & Francis Towards a Transformation of Philosophy
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1980 (English Translation) Towards a Transformation of Philosophy presents selected essays from Karl -Otto Apelâs two- volume German collection that was published in 1973 under the title Transformation der Philosophie. Karl -Otto Apelâs studies in philosophy and the social sciences can be said to have bridged the gap that had hitherto existed between the Anglo-Saxon traditions of analytical philosophy of language and pragmatism, and the philosophical traditions of the European continent of phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. Apel points to language as the crucial dimension in the constitution of historical meaning and therefore as the historical condition for the possibility of truth. In this context he discusses the hermeneutic dimension of Wittgensteinâs philosophy and that of his followers, together with the development of pragmatism and with recent trends in Chomskyâs linguistics.In arguing for the complementarity of technical and practical interests in acquiring knowledge for a critical theory of society Apel examines the preconditions for an emancipatory critique of ideology and the communication community as the predeterminate of both the social sciences and moral discourse. In all the essays, Apel sets out to counter the positivistic and scientistic restrictions placed upon a satisfactory understanding of the preconditions for the possibility and validity of human knowledge. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Educational Philosophy and PostApocalyptical
Book SynopsisThis collection concerns educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival. This 14th volume in the Editor''s Choice series provides insights into the philosophy of education as it relates to the concepts of civilizational collapse, discourses of decline, educating for survival amid climate emergency, cultural apocalypse and the pandemic. It is based on a series of editorials and articles published in the Educational Philosophy and Theory journal through its 55-year history. The articles, written by Editor Michael Peters and colleagues, explore the concept of global apocalypse from the educational philosophy lens. It will be of interest to scholars in philosophy of education and anyone who is working in the field of post-apocalyptic studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Global Apocalypse: Educational Philosophy and Post-apocalyptical Survival 1. Western civilization 101 2. Civilizational collapse, eschatological narratives and apocalyptic philosophy 3. ‘Declinism’ and discourses of decline - the end of the war in Afghanistan and the limits of American power 4. Russian apocalypse, Christian fascism and the dangers of a limited nuclear war 5. The threat of nuclear war: Peace studies in an apocalyptic age 6. Life and death in the Anthropocene: Educating for survival amid climate and ecosystem changes and potential civilisation collapse 7. Education for ecological democracy 8. Citizen science and post-normal science in a posttruth era: Democratising knowledge; socialising responsibility 9. Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘the End of the World’ 10. The coming pandemic era 11. The Armageddon Club: education for the future of humanity 12. Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptic survival 13. Postscript: Zombie Education and Culture in the Global Apocalypse: Pedagogies of the Walking Dead
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Taylor & Francis Modern AntiRealism and Manufactured Truth
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1988, Modern Anti-Realism and Manufactured Truth examines the forms of anti-realism which have sprouted in analytic philosophy and addresses more directly the grander culture of anti-realism. No attempt is made in these pages to demonstrate the existence of a mind independent world. Part one of the book is devoted to a clarification and defense of Correspondence. In chapter 2, Correspondence is refined by distinguishing what is critical to it from other tenets with which philosophical debate has burdened it. Next in chapter 3, author looks at some of the most common complaints against Correspondence, as well as a novel objection propounded by Hillary Putnam. Chapter 4 deals with the two most prominent alternative truth theories- Coherence and Pragmatism. Chapter 5 details a version of Correspondence. Part two of the book considers not standard theories of truth, but theories in which truth is epistemologized. Chapter 6 begins with an overview of certain generalized positions, including relativism about truth but most of the part two is devoted to the examination of three rather individualized attempts to epistemologize truth. The author concludes that once Correspondence is better understood and the genuine insights of these views are clarified, global realism survives intact. This is a must read for students of philosophy, political philosophy.
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Taylor & Francis From Divine Timemaker to Divine Watchmaker
Book SynopsisThis book offers the most extensive exploration of divine temporality to date. It focuses on five main questions. First, what is time? Second, how is God responsible for the existence of time? Third, what does it mean to say that God is temporal? Fourth, what kind of structure might God give to a time series? Fifth, what are the implications for theological doctrines such as the Trinity, creation, providence, and life after death? The author offers a deep, critical engagement with the Christian tradition but also goes beyond to build analytic bridges to Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Jainist philosophical theology. The book provides an up-to-date discussion of issues within analytic metaphysics, philosophy of time, and philosophy of religion and draws on the resources of contemporary systematic, historical, and biblical theology.
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Taylor & Francis 101 Philosophy Problems
Book SynopsisDoes Farmer Field really know his prize cow, Daisy, is in the field? When is an unexpected exam not wholly unexpected? Are all bachelors (really) unmarried? Martin Cohen's 101 Philosophy Problems, Fourth Edition introduces philosophy in an entertaining but informative and stimulating way. Using philosophical puzzles, conundrums and paradoxes he skilfully unwraps some of the mysteries of the subject, from what we know - or think we know - to brainteasing thought experiments about ethics, science and the nature of the mind. For the Fourth Edition there are many new problems, including Maxwell's Moving Magnets, Einstein Changes Train Times, and Zeno's Paradox of Place; as well as two brand new sections including puzzles such as Lorenz's Waterywheel, and the Battle for Fractal Farm, and perplexing ethical dilemmas. The book has been extensively revised to bring it up to date with new developments in philosophy and society.With an updated glossary of helpful terms and possible solutions to the problems at the end of the book, 101 Philosophy Problems is essential reading for anyone coming to philosophy for the first time.Table of ContentsForward! To the Fourth Edition How to Use This Book 1. The Cow in the Field 2. The Raven 3. Descartes’ Big One 4. The Hanging Judge 5. The Hairdresser 6. The Tuck Shop Dilemma 7. Protagoras’ Problem 8. The Unexpected Exam 9. Sorites 10. A Problem Arranging Ship Battles 11. Flight 999 12. The Plank of Carneades 13. The Dodgy Donor Clinic 14. The Famous Footbridge Dilemma 15. A not-very Classical Musical Dilemma 16. Whose Baby? 17. Potentially a Problem 18. Kidnapped! Part I 19. Kidnapped! Part II 20. The Tortoise 21. The Bent Coin Problem 22. The Infinite Hotel 23. Zeno's Paradox of Place 24. Poincaré’s Problem 25. The Mysterious Triangle 26. The Fern 27. Fakes and Forgeries 28. Flash Bagman 29. A Problem buying Stamps and Potatoes parts I and II 30. Problems with Standards 31. A bit of Exploitation 32. Swampy Things 33. The X-perience Machine 34. The Power of Partiality 35. Against Impartiality 36. The Superior Power of Self-interest 37. The Half-Brain problem 38. Only John King! 39. The Materialisation of Katie King 40. The Blobs 41. Cube/ Triangle 42. Figure/Ground reversal 43. False Leg 44. Mobius Strip 45-56. 12 Traditional Philosophy Problems No One Cares About Anyway 57. Potty Thought Experiments 58. What Happens After the Sun Goes Out 59. Galileo's (Gravitational ) Balls 60. Maxwell 's Moving Magnets 61. Einstein Changes the Train Times 62. Schrodinger’s Cat 63. Deep Thought 64. Deeper Thought 65. The Dog and the Professor 66. A Relative Problem 67. New Diktatia part I 68. New Diktatia part II 69. New Diktatia part III 70. The Dissonance of the $1 Volunteers 71. Devil’s Chemists 72. The Turtle 73.Daytime or Nighttime 74. But will the Waterfall? 75. The Architect’s Secret 76. Smaller and smaller 77. The Three Hares Illusion 78.The Evangelist 79. The Hate Preacher 80-89. The Vicar’s Tea Party (ten short problems) 90. The Battle for Fractal Farm 91. Lorenz’s Waterywheel 92. Statistics in the Firing Line 93. The Amazing Run of Luck 94. Mind’s Eye 95. Pain is Good 96. Greed is Good 97. Sleeping Problems 98. Sleeping Man 99. Simple Universe 100. Problem of How to Get to 101 101. Problem of Existence. Discussions Glossary Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophy Science and Religion for Everyone
Book SynopsisPhilosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other.Key topics and their areas of focus include: Foundational Issues why should anyone care about the science-and-religion debate? How do scientific claims relate to the truth? Is evolution compatible with design? Faith and Rationality can faith ever be rational? Are theism and atheism totally opposed? Is God hidden or does God simply not exist? Faith and Science - what provides a better explanation for the origin of the universescience or religion? Faith and physics: can they be reconciled? Does contemporary neuroscience debunk religious belief? Creationism and evolutionary biology - what constitutes science and what constitutes pseudo-science? Practical Implications is fundamentalism just a problem for religious people? What are the ethical implicationTrade Review"The chapters in this exciting book cover an impressive range of issues in the science and religion field in ways that are both very informative and encouragingly readable." Revd Professor Michael J Reiss, ISSR President, University College London, UK"This book asks all the right questions, and at a level accessible to the entry-level undergraduate, though also stretching the student into helpful areas of cutting-edge debate. It is well-introduced, and features usefully graded bibliographies and glossaries. I expect to use it extensively in my own teaching."Christopher Southgate, Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Theology, University of Exeter, UK"This notable volume provides a much-needed philosophical perspective on the academic study of science and religion. The authors pack a great deal into this concise and accessible book, which includes useful annotated bibliographies, for students approaching the topic for the first time".The Revd Dr Andrew Davison, Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Science, University of Cambridge, UK.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroduction (Mark Harris & Duncan Pritchard)1. How Do Scientific Claims Relate to the Truth? (Duncan Pritchard & S. Orestis Palermos)2. Faith and Physics: Can They Be Reconciled? (Mark Harris)3. Creationism and Evolutionary Biology—Science or Pseudo-Science? (Mark Harris & David De Pomerai)4. Is Evolution Compatible with Design? (Alasdair Richmond) 5. Is There a Fundamental Tension Between Faith and Rationality? (Duncan Pritchard) 6. Is God Hidden, Or Does God Simply Not Exist? (Ian Church) 7. Does Contemporary Neuroscience Debunk Religious Belief? (Sarah Lane Ritchie)8. Are Theism and Atheism Totally Opposed? Can They Learn From Each Other? (J. Adam Carter) 9. Is Fundamentalism Just a Problem For Religious People? (Emma Gordon)10. Why Should Anyone Care About the Science-and-Religion Debate? (Michael Fuller)11. What Provides a Better Explanation For the Origin of the Universe—Science or Religion? (David Fergusson & Katherine Snow)12. Do Logic and Religion Mix? (James Collin) 13. Does Science Show that we Lack Free Will? (Till Vierkant) 14. What Are the Ethical Implications of the Science-and-Religion Debate? (Jeremy Kidwell)Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Interpreting Statutes
Book SynopsisThis book is a work of outstanding importance for scholars of comparative law and jurisprudence and for lawyers engaged in EC law or other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and analyses the practice of interpretation in nine countries representing Europe as well as the US and Argentina in common and civil law; it also explores implications for general theories of interpretation and of justification. Its authors, who include Aulis Aarnio, Robert Alexy, Ralf Dreier, Enrique Zuleta-Puceiro, Michel Troper, Christophe Grzegorczyk, Jean-Louis Gardes, Enrico Pattaro, Michele Taruffo, Massimo La Torre, Jerry Wroblewski, Alexsander Peczenik, Gunnar Bergholtz and Zenon Bankowski, as well as editors Robert S. Summers and D. Neil MacCormick, constitute an international team of great distinction; they have worked on this project for over seven years.Trade Review’The book will be a storehouse of information about the legal cultures of the countries. The editors are to be congratulated on organising the transnational effort to impose order on a disorderly subject (or non-subject).’ The International and Comparative Law Quarterly ’The comparative methods used in the book both in structuring the national reports and in offering a comparative analysis, are highly praiseworthy.’ Professor Dr U Drobnig, Max-Planck-Institut, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Robert Summers; Ithaca on method and methodology, Zenon Bankowski, Neil MacCormick and Jerzy Wroblewski; Statutory Interpretation in Argentina, Enrique Zuleta-Puceiro; Statutory interpretation in the Federal Republic of Germany, Robert Alexy and Ralf Drier; Statutory interpretation in Finland, Aulis Aarnio; Statutory Interpretation In France, Michel Troper, Christophe Grzegorczyk and Jean Louis Gardes; Statutory Interpretation in Italy, Massimo La Torre, Enrico Pattaro and Michele Taruffo; Statutory Interpretation in Poland, Jerzy Wroblewski; Statutory Interpretation in Sweden, Alexsander Peczenik and Gunnar Bergholtz; Statutory Interpretation in the United Kingdom, Zenon Bankowski and Neil MacCormick; Statutory Interpretation in the United States, Robert S. Summers; Interpretation and Comparative Analysis, Robert S. Summers and Michele Taruffo; Interpretation and Justification, Neil MacCormick and Robert S. Summers; Appendix; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Encountering Affect
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the interrelationships between affective life and a range of contemporary political transformations. In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explores why understanding affect matters and offers one account of affective life that hones in on the different ways in which affects are ordered. Intervening in debates around non-representational theories, he argues that affective life is always-already 'mediated' - the never finished product of apparatuses, encounters and conditions. Through a wide range of examples including dread-debility-dependency in torture, ordinary hopes, and precariousness, Anderson shows the significance of affect for understanding life today.Trade Review’Everything touches everything else. This book deftly details why there is no such thing as affect itself. Affective life sings along the lines of imbrication and encounter. In following these lines through their particular tangle, crowd, or atmosphere, Ben Anderson shows how theories of affect are far from losing steam but, rather, just beginning to set the pot to boil!’ Gregory J. Seigworth, Millersville University, USA ’Ben Anderson offers a brilliant, multi-layered analysis of affective life. The book achieves fidelity to the complexity of affect as concept and practice: yes, affects are targets of commercial and governmental power; yes, they are surprising capacities of the (Spinozist) body; and yes, they are forces arranged into collective atmospheres. This is an important and wonderful book, an exemplar of affirmative critique - well worth reading across the disciplines.’ Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins University, USA 'not only a thematically and theoretically rich book; it is also eminently relevant to the concerns of the radical geography community. ... Encountering Affect is an agenda-setting and truly impressive piece of scholarship. ... its readers whether unfamiliar, unsure, or well versed in affect theories will find much in this book that can help advance and enhance their own research programs.' AntipodeTable of ContentsChapter 1 Affective Life; Chapter 2 Apparatuses; Chapter 3 Versions; Chapter 4 The Imbrication of Affect; Chapter 5 Structures of Feeling; Chapter 6 Affective Atmospheres; Chapter 7 Mediating Affective Life;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Radical Human Ecology
Book SynopsisHuman ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns. In the past seventy years most human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, sociology and biology. This volume pioneers radical new directions. In particular, it explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples'' epistemologies both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and postmodernity. Aimed at an international readership, its contributors show that an inter-cultural and transdisciplinary approach is required. The demands of our era require a scholarship of ontological depth: an approach that can not just debate issues, but also address questions of practice and meaning. Organized into three sections - Head, Heart and Hand - this volume covers the following key research areas: Theories of Human Ecology Indigenous and Wisdom Traditions Eco-spirituaTrade Review'Below the clamor of a bustling world, this volume imparts the seeds of a radical alternative for human ecology. They lie beneath the surface: amid the whispered voices at the margin, in the praxis of traditional spirituality, along the dusty road of post-modernism, and from the ivy halls of science. This is not the human ecology of a prehistoric fireside or an academic symposium. It is an unconventional and timely pedagogy of hope.' From the Foreword by Richard J. Borden, Rachel Carson Chair in Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic and Past-President/Executive Director, Society for Human Ecology 'There can be no doubt about the academic value of this book... It looks over the edge, and ventures outside established lines.' International Journal of Environment and Pollution 'This is indeed a book of scholarly and practical importance that deserves a wider audience. The key strengths of the book are its auto-biographical approach and activist orientation. Since about half of the contributors are Indigenous and an equal number are women, this anthology offers a rich diversity of voices and narratives, not readily found in conventional human ecology... Radical Human Ecology will make a good university course text as well as a useful activist manual. It is a book with lots to offer to anyone who is concerned about building a better future for humanity and the planet.' Global Change, Peace and Security 'Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches challenges prevailing orthodoxy in the field, arguing that current approaches to human ecology still fundamentally fail to see humans as an integral part of nature... The obvious care that has been taken by the editors to ensure balanced representation and contributions from around the world is also admirable.' Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 'Human Ecology is about the wellbeing of people and planet. That is indeed the mission of this remarkable Radical Human Ecology compendium.' The NetwoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Human Ecology: A Pedagogy of Hope?; 1: Head: Theories of Human Ecology; 1: The Attitude of Human Ecology; 2: The Challenge of Radical Human Ecology to the Academy; 3: Being From and Coming To: Outline of an Ethno-Ecological Framework; 4: Returning the Sacred: Indigenous Ontologies in Perilous Times; 2: Heart: Radical Epistemologies of Relationship; 5: The Human Ecologist as Alchemist: An Inquiry into Ng?i Te Rangi Cosmology, Human Agency, and Well-Being in a Time of Ecological Peril; 6: Exploring Identity, Belonging and Place-making as a Transition Activist; 7: Education for Life: Human Ecology Pedagogy as a Bridge to Indigenous Knowing; 8: Sufi Path: Possibilities of Transcending Limited and Limiting Identity; 9: The Promise of Orthodox Christianity for Sustainable Community Development; 10: North American Indians, Connectivity and Human Ecology; 11: Living in Respect: Traditional knowledge of the Woodland Cree in Northern Saskatchewan; 3: Hand: Human Ecology in Practice; 12: Teaching Radical Human Ecology in the Academy; 13: Human Ecology as Peacebuilding; 14: Migration, Aboriginality and Acculturation; 15: The Immigration Experience: Losses and Gains for Immigrant and Refugee Women; 16: Rebuilding China's Economy on Gendered Rural Family Labour: A Case Study of Generational Migration, Stasis and Ecological Degradation; 17: Human Ecology: From Conceptual Exercise to Militant Practice in Maranhão; 18: The Place of Creation: Transformation, Trauma and Re-rooting Creative Praxis; 19: Experiments in Action Research and Human Ecology: Developing a Community of Practice for Rural Resilience Pioneers; 20: He Whanaunga T?r?: The Politics and Practice of an Indigenous and Intercultural Approach to Ecological Well-Being; Editors' Afterword: A Research Agenda for Human Ecology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dark Cognition
Book Synopsis*Winner of the Parapsychological Association Book Award 2021*Outlining the scientific evidence behind psi research, Dark Cognition expertly reveals that such anomalous phenomena clearly exist, highlighting that the prevailing view of consciousness, purely as a phenomenon of the brain, fails to account for the empirical findings.David Vernon provides essential coverage of information and evidence for a variety of anomalous psi phenomena, calling for a paradigm shift in how we view consciousness: from seeing it as something solely reliant on the brain to something that is enigmatic, fundamental and all pervasive. The book examines the nature of psi research showing that, despite claims to the contrary, it is clearly a scientific endeavour. It explores evidence from telepathy and scopaesthesia, clairvoyance and remote viewing, precognition, psychokinesis, fields of consciousness, energy healing, out of body experiences, near-death experienceTrade Review"David Vernon’s book Dark Cognition is an impressive overview of research in parapsychology. There could be no better guide to the basic issues in this field and the scientific literature on these subjects. Not only does Vernon masterfully summarise and discuss what is known, but just as importantly, points out what is not known. The questions at the end of each chapter should lead to many thoughtful discussions. I strongly recommend this book."— Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, biologist and author of The Science Delusion."Dark Cognition is an accurate and comprehensive overview of the scientific evidence, scholarly debates, and implications of psychic phenomena. Anyone interested in this perennially fascinating and controversial topic will benefit by studying David Vernon's book."— Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences."Dark Cognition brings together some of the main research areas within the field of parapsychology. The book covers an interesting range of topics, addressing many issues with a seriousness and clarity that makes them accessible to the non-specialist. David Vernon makes a good job of showing how important these findings are for any theory of consciousness." —Renaud Evrard, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Lorraine and President of the Parapsychological Association."David Vernon’s book Dark Cognition is an impressive overview of research in parapsychology. There could be no better guide to the basic issues in this field and the scientific literature on these subjects. Not only does Vernon masterfully summarise and discuss what is known, but just as importantly, points out what is not known. The questions at the end of each chapter should lead to many thoughtful discussions. I strongly recommend this book."— Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, biologist and author of The Science Delusion."Dark Cognition is an accurate and comprehensive overview of the scientific evidence, scholarly debates, and implications of psychic phenomena. Anyone interested in this perennially fascinating and controversial topic will benefit by studying David Vernon's book."— Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences."Dark Cognition brings together some of the main research areas within the field of parapsychology. The book covers an interesting range of topics, addressing many issues with a seriousness and clarity that makes them accessible to the non-specialist. David Vernon makes a good job of showing how important these findings are for any theory of consciousness." —Renaud Evrard, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Lorraine and President of the Parapsychological Association."As a serious, thorough and fair-minded presentation of psi, Dark Cognition should prove a formidable resource in persuading a new generation of open-minded students to reject the old paradigm and adopt a new one." — Michael Prescott, reviewed in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 2021, 86(2)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Psi as science 3. Telepathy and scopaesthesia4. Clairvoyance and remote viewing5. Precognition6. Psychokinesis7. Fields of consciousness8. Energy healing9. Out of body experiences10. Near death experiences11. Post death phenomena12. Implications for consciousness
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Taylor & Francis Kantian Legacies in German Idealism
Book SynopsisScholarship on Immanuel Kant and the German Idealists often attends to the points of divergence. While differences are vital, this volume does the opposite, offering a close inspection of some of the key Kantian concepts that are embraced and retained by the Idealists. It does this by bringing together an original set of critical reflections on the role that the German Idealists ascribe to fundamental Kantian ideas and insights within their own systems. A central motivation for this volume is to resist reductive accounts of the complex relationship between German Idealism and Kantâs Idealism through a study of the inheritance of Kantâs legacy in German Idealism. As such, this volume contributes to new interpretations and rethinking of traditional accounts in light of these reflections on some of the significant components of German Idealism that can defensibly be called Kantian. The contributors to this volume are Dina Emundts, Eckart FÃrster, Gerad Gentry, Johannes Haag, Dean MoyarTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Legacy of Kant in German IdealismGerad GentryPart I. The Emergence of a New Logical Method2. From Transcendental Logic to Speculative Logic (with appendix: G.W.F. Hegel: C. The Science, translated by Martin Shuster)Eckart Förster3. Hegel’s Logic of PurposivenessGerad Gentry4. Kant and Hegel on the Drive of Reason: From Concept to Idea through InferenceDean Moyar 5.‘With What Must Transcendental Philosophy Begin?’ Kant and Hegel on Nothingness and IndeterminacyNicholas StangPart II. Time, Intuitive Understanding, and Practical Reason6. Kant and Hegel on TimeDina Emundts 7. Intuiting the Original Unity? – Modality and Intellectual Intuition in Hölderlin’s Urteil und SeinJohannes Haag 8. The Fate of Practical Reason: Kant and Schelling on Virtue, Happiness, and the Postulate of God’s ExistenceKarin NisenbaumPart III. The Organization of Matter and Aesthetic Freedom9. Kant, Schelling and the Organization of MatterDalia Nassar10. Aesthetics and the Experience of Freedom: A Kantian Legacy in Hegel’s Philosophy of ArtLydia Moland11. Aesthetic Conditions of Freedom: Friedrich Schiller as a Complicated KantianAnne Pollok
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Taylor & Francis Why Its OK to Want to Be Rich
Book SynopsisFinger-wagging moralizers say the love of money is the root of all evil. They assume that making a lot of money requires exploiting others, and that the best way to wash off the resulting stain is to give a lot of it away.In Why Itâs OK to Want to Be Rich, Jason Brennan shows that the moralizers have it backwards. He argues that, in general, the more money you make, the more you already do for others, and that even an average wage earner is productively âœgiving backâ to society just by doing her job. In addition, wealth liberates us to have the best chance of leading a life thatâs authentically our own.Brennan also demonstrates how money-based societies create nicer, more trustworthy, and more cooperative citizens. And in another chapter that takes on the new historians of capitalism, Brennan argues that wealthy nations became wealthy because of their healthy institutions, not from their horrific histories of slavery or colonialism.While writing that theTrade Review"Is it OK to want money? With his trademark blend of philosophical analysis, social scientific data-mining, and norm-busting verbal pyrotechnics, Jason Brennan argues that it’s more than just OK. Wanting to become rich is how we make our world a better place and, along the way, author lives that are genuinely our own."–John Tomasi, Brown University "Do you own a BMW? Are you already in business school? If so, then maybe put this book down and instead consider getting into something a bit less comfortable by Marx, Fanon, Foucault, or Elizabeth Anderson. But for the rest of us, Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich is an exhilarating, illuminating, mildly terrifying ride. Provocative and challenging at every beautifully-handled turn, drawing on a wealth of economics and psychology, this direct little book sets out the moral case for money—making it, spending it, even luxuriating in it, and not feeling bad about it. Many of us raised in the wealthiest, most capitalist, happiest societies in human history have been taught to react to such ideas with a complex mixture of rage and guilt. You might already want to throw this book across the room. Fine, fine. But read it first. You might learn something—about money, about markets, about economics, even about yourself. If nothing else, I know of no better, faster introduction to the moral case for capitalism. It is the kind of book that enriches all of us, even if—and perhaps especially if—we are inclined to disagree with it."—Alex Guerrero, Rutgers University"Is it OK to want money? With his trademark blend of philosophical analysis, social scientific data-mining, and norm-busting verbal pyrotechnics, Jason Brennan argues that it’s more than just OK. Wanting to become rich is how we make our world a better place and, along the way, author lives that are genuinely our own."John Tomasi, Brown University, USA "Do you own a BMW? Are you already in business school? If so, then maybe put this book down and instead consider getting into something a bit less comfortable by Marx, Fanon, Foucault, or Elizabeth Anderson. But for the rest of us, Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich is an exhilarating, illuminating, mildly terrifying ride. Provocative and challenging at every beautifully-handled turn, drawing on a wealth of economics and psychology, this direct little book sets out the moral case for money—making it, spending it, even luxuriating in it, and not feeling bad about it. Many of us raised in the wealthiest, most capitalist, happiest societies in human history have been taught to react to such ideas with a complex mixture of rage and guilt. You might already want to throw this book across the room. Fine, fine. But read it first. You might learn something—about money, about markets, about economics, even about yourself. If nothing else, I know of no better, faster introduction to the moral case for capitalism. It is the kind of book that enriches all of us, even if—and perhaps especially if—we are inclined to disagree with it."Alex Guerrero, Rutgers University, USATable of Contents1. The Root of All Evils 2. For the Love of Money 3.Is Money Dirty? Does Money Corrupt? 4. It’s OK to Make Money 5. Rich Country, Poor Country 6. Give it Away Now? 7. Riches, Repugnance, and Remaining Doubts
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Taylor & Francis Unjust Borders
Book SynopsisStates restrict immigration on a massive scale. Governments fortify their borders with walls and fences, authorize border patrols, imprison migrants in detention centers, and deport large numbers of foreigners. Unjust Borders: Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration argues that immigration restrictions are systematically unjust and examines how individual actors should respond to this injustice. Javier Hidalgo maintains that individuals can rightfully resist immigration restrictions and often have strong moral reasons to subvert these laws. This book makes the case that unauthorized migrants can permissibly evade, deceive, and use defensive force against immigration agents, that smugglers can aid migrants in crossing borders, and that citizens should disobey laws that compel them to harm immigrants. Unjust Borders is a meditation on how individuals should act in the midst of pervasive injustice.Trade Review"The book is persuasive and beautifully written, bringing forth a realistic and optimistic account of how humans can reorganize themselves to better govern in the emerging epoch. It is agenda setting, providing new ideas for progress on a variety of fronts— from the environmental, to the social, to the political—and giving us new ways to think about environmental governance in uncertain, unstable circumstances. Overall it stands as a novel and robust treatment of the Anthropocene and the core issues of global governance. Perhaps most importantly, the book offers hope that human reason and communication with one another and with the Earth system can rise to the challenges of theAnthropocene." - Jen Iris Allan, Ethics and International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Case Against Exclusion2. Challenges to Freedom of Movement3. Actual Immigration Restrictions Are Unjust4. Are More Open Borders Feasible? Does It Matter?5. Resistance at the Border6. People Smuggling7. Complicity and the Duty to Resist8. Promoting More Open Borders
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Taylor & Francis The Infinite
Book SynopsisWe are all captivated and puzzled by the infinite, in its many varied guises; by the endlessness of space and time; by the thought that between any two points in space, however close, there is always another; by the fact that numbers go on forever; and by the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful God. In this acclaimed introduction to the infinite, A. W. Moore takes us on a journey back to early Greek thought about the infinite, from its inception to Aristotle. He then examines medieval and early modern conceptions of the infinite, including a brief history of the calculus, before turning to Kant and post-Kantian ideas. He also gives an account of Cantorâs remarkable discovery that some infinities are bigger than others. In the second part of the book, Moore develops his own views, drawing on technical advances in the mathematics of the infinite, including the celebrated theorems of Skolem and GÃdel, and deriving inspiration from Wittgenstein. He concludes this part with a disTrade ReviewPraise for previous editions'Moore provides a splendid guide through the intellectual history of this powerful and far-reaching idea ... [He] offers a fascinating consideration of the mystical aspects of infinity and the issues of human finitude and death ... very highly recommended for all readers.' - CHOICE'Moore's book provides us with an instructive and authoritative overview of a topic of considerable philosophical importance.' - Roger Penrose, Times Literary Supplement'Moore's book points to deep and unresolved issues in the philosophy of mathematics, and even deeper issues in general philosophy ... It deserves serious study by both mathematicians and philosophers.' - Thomas Tymoczko, Philosophia Mathematica'Moore's treatment of] the problems with which the history of thought about the infinite confronts us today ... shows that questions concerning the nature and existence of the infinite are still very much alive. [A] highly stimulating account of the nature of infinity and its bold defence of finitism.' - W. L. Craig, International Philosophical Quarterly'In the last three thought-provoking chapters of his book Moore draws heavily, but creatively on Kant and Wittgenstein. Moore presents an analysis and proposed resolution of the issues that are both stimulating and accessible.' - Mary Tiles, Times Higher Education SupplementPraise for previous editions'Moore provides a splendid guide through the intellectual history of this powerful and far-reaching idea ... [He] offers a fascinating consideration of the mystical aspects of infinity and the issues of human finitude and death ... very highly recommended for all readers.' - CHOICE'Moore's book provides us with an instructive and authoritative overview of a topic of considerable philosophical importance.' - Roger Penrose, Times Literary Supplement'Moore's book points to deep and unresolved issues in the philosophy of mathematics, and even deeper issues in general philosophy ... It deserves serious study by both mathematicians and philosophers.' - Thomas Tymoczko, Philosophia Mathematica'[Moore's treatment of] the problems with which the history of thought about the infinite confronts us today ... shows that questions concerning the nature and existence of the infinite are still very much alive. [A] highly stimulating account of the nature of infinity and its bold defence of finitism.' - W. L. Craig, International Philosophical Quarterly'In the last three thought-provoking chapters of his book Moore draws heavily, but creatively, on Kant and Wittgenstein. Moore presents an analysis and proposed resolution of the issues that are both stimulating and accessible.' - Mary Tiles, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPart I: The History 1. Early Greek Thought 2. Aristotle 3. Medieval and Renaissance Thought 4. The Calculus 5. The Rationalists and the Empiricists 6. Kant 7. Post-Kantian Metaphysics of the Infinite 8. The Mathematics of the Infinite, and the Impact of Cantor 9. Reactions Part II: Infinity Assessed 10. Transfinite Mathematics 11. The Lowenheim–Skolem Theorem 12. Gödel’s Theorem 13. Saying and Showing 14. Infinity Assessed. The History Reassessed 15. Human Finitude Part III: Infinity Superseded 16. Infinity Reassessed. The History Reassessed Anew 17. Learning How to be Finite
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A General Drama of Pain
Book SynopsisThis motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy''s three most widely read novels--Tess of the d''Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure--highlights an often-overlooked aspect of his art. Bernard J. Paris shows Hardy''s genius in creating imagined human beings. He demonstrates that while Hardy tends to blame external conditions for his characters'' painful fates, their downfalls are due to a very complex combination of cosmic, social, and psychological factors. Hardy''s characters are usually discussed primarily in thematic terms. The characters are are so richly portrayed, Paris argues, that they can be better understood independent of Hardy''s interpretations, in motivational terms and he utilizes the psychologist Karen Horney''s theories to recover Hardy''s intuitions. The characters are full of inner conflicts that make them difficult to fathom, but the approach Paris employs explains their contradictions and illuminates thTable of ContentsAcknowledgments, Preface, 1 Initial Attraction, 2 “A Confusion of Many Standards”: Conflicting Value Systems in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 3 Tess the Woman, 4 Th e Mayor of Casterbridge, 5 Jude the Obscure : Jude, 6 Jude the Obscure : Jude and Sue, 7 Jude the Obscure : Th e Catastrophe, Conclusion, References , Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Cinematic Political
Book SynopsisIn this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research paper/essay by heeding the compositional strategies of films. The text's distinctiveness is its focus on the intermediation between two textual genres. It is aimed at providing both a conceptual introduction to the politics of aesthetics and a guide to writing strategies. In its illustrations of encounters between political theory and cinema, the book's critical edge is its emphasis on how to intervene in cinematic texts with innovative conceptual frames in ways that challenge dominant understandings of life worlds. The Cinematic Political is designed as a teaching resource that introduces students to the relationship between film form and political thinking. With diverse illustrative investigations, the book instructs students on how to watch films with an eyTrade Review"The book is an excellent continuum of Shapiro’s path breaking work on the relationship between political theory and film from his pivotal works, Cinematic Political Thought and Cinematic Geopolitics. Conceptually and methodologically this book is deepening and enhancing his approach of cinematic thinking in terms of advising the reader on, as he says, the ‘how to’ of relating political theory with cinema as epitomized in his cinematic writing style that problematizes the way we think about and view films." — Ian Fraser, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Loughborough University, UK "Thanks to digital social media, we are all movie-makers now with global audiences. In this book, Michael J. Shapiro links the grammar of moving images to theorizing about politics in an authoritative and accessible way." — Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol, UK"This superb new book insightfully reimagines cinema as a vehicle for 'doing critically oriented political theory.' Much as Hayden White famously helped us to understand how the story of history is narrated (when written or when filmed), here Shapiro brilliantly illuminates how films can compose political theory. In this masterful, mature work, drawing on all his experience, his remarkable intellectual prowess fully in evidence, Shapiro gives political theory a vibrant cinematic dimension. The diverse examples provide accessible entrances for all readers—from Adam Smith to Deleuze and Guattari, from Bertolucci’s The Conformist to The Cats of Mirikitani, Sleep Dealer and Miss Bala via Hoop Dreams. Most pertinently, the work’s exploration of fascism has a stark relevance, if not warning, for our time." — Professor David Martin-Jones, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, UKTable of Contents1 Extracting Political Theory From Lars von Trier: Conceptual Interferences With His The Element of Crime 2 Toward a Critical Assessment of "Now-Time": Contrasting Hoop Dreams With Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon 3 Resituating Hiroshima 4 "The Light of Reason" 5 "Borderline Justice" 6 A Bi-City Cinematic Experience 7 The Phenomenology of the Cinema Experience Afterword: The Phenomenology of Watching and Writing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd On Insignificance
Book SynopsisFocusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives. Seeking to explain the semiotic causes of feelings of meaninglessness, Leone posits that caring for the singularities of the world is the most viable way to resist the alienating effects of the digital bureaucratization of meaning. The book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, semiotics, aesthetics, communication studies, and social theory. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Significance of Insignificance 1. Framing Insignificance: A Semiotic Typology of Meaningless 2. Trolling Insignificance: Disrupting the Digital Public Discourse 3. Contrarian Insignificance: Wars of Position in the Digitial Arena 4. Picturing Insignificance: The Utopia of Digital Perfection 5. Shopping Insignificance: Post-Material Temples 6. Assembling Insignificance: Post-Material Crowds 7. Eating Insignificance: Post-Material Meals 8. Recovering Significance: The Value of Singularity 9. Negotiating Significance: The Value of Compromise 10. Sharing Significance: the Value of Common Sense 11. Courting Significance: The Value of Interpretation 12. Conclusions: the Clash of Semiotic Civilizations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Metaphysics
Book SynopsisMetaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and includes two new chapters on (1) Parts and Wholes, and (2) Metaphysical Indeterminacy or vagueness. This new edition also keeps the user-friendly format, the chapter overviews summarizing the main topics, concrete examples to clarify difficult concepts, annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, endnotes, and a full bibliography.Topics addressed include: the problem of universals the nature of abstract entities the problem of individuation the nature of modality identity through time the nature of time the nature of parts and wholes Trade Review"Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction more than merits its fourth edition. It is a valuable text for graduate students and advanced undergraduates . . . . After reading Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, I felt wistful for grand designs, for the majesty of an Aristotle or Spinoza. But I also felt excited by the modern effort to clear the conceptual debris that system builders leave behind. When a book of philosophy elicits such complex feelings, it is a testament to its value." --Dana Delibovi in Teaching Philosophy Table of ContentsPreface to First Edition, Preface to Second Edition, Preface to Third Edition, Preface to Fourth Edition, Introduction, 1 The Problem of Universals I: Metaphysical Realism, 2 The Problem of Universals II: Nominalism, 3 Concrete Particulars I: Substrata, Bundles, and Substances, 4 Propositions and Their Neighbors, 5 The Necessary and the Possible, 6 Causation, 7 The Nature of Time, 8 Concrete Particulars II: Persistence through Time, 9 Concrete Particulars III: Parts and Wholes, 10 Metaphysical Indeterminacy, 11 The Challenge of Anti-Realism, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished and emergent scholars in the social sciences and humanities to review the major theoretical traditions, trends and trajectories in the hugely popular field of identity studies. The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies set new standards for reference works when first published, such was the far-reaching sweep of topics discussed including identity studies reconfigured by feminism, post-structuralism and postmodernism, individualization theories, media and cultural studies, race and ethnicity, consumerism, environmentalism, post-colonialism, globalization and many more.This second edition of the handbook contains new contributions, including an updated general introduction from Anthony Elliott on the fast-changing conditions and contours of identity transformations in the global age. There are also new chapters on the emergeTable of ContentsPART 1: Theories of Identity 1. The Rise of Identity Studies: An Outline of Some Theoretical Accounts 2. A History of Identity: The Riddle at the Heart of the Mystery of Life 3. Feminism and Identity 4. Identity after Psychoanalysis 5. Foucauldian Approaches to the Self 6. The Fragmentation of Identity: Post-Structuralist and Postmodern Theories 7. Reflexive Identities 8. Individualization 9. Individualism, Identity, and Social Acceleration PART 2: The Analysis of Identity 10. Identity, Race and Ethnicity 11. Gendered Identities 12. Media and Identity 13. Virtual Identities: From Decentered to Distributed Selves 14. Consumer Identities 15. Identity, Mortality and Death 16. Digital Nomads and (Im)Mobile Identities 17. Posthuman Identities PART 3: Identity-Politics and its Consequences 18. Sexual Identity-Politics: Activism from Gay to Queer and Beyond 19. Environmentalism and Identity-Politics 20. Black Freedom Struggles and African American Identity 21. The Politics of Islamic Identities 22. Indigenous Identities: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism 23. (Anti-)Globalization and Resistance Identities 24. Identity-Politics in the Global Age
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thought and Knowledge
Book SynopsisThought and Knowledge applies theory and research from the learning sciences to teach students the critical thinking skills that they need to succeed in today's world. The text identifies, defines, discusses, and deconstructs contemporary challenges to critical thinking, from fake news, alternative facts, and deep fakes, to misinformation, disinformation, post-truth, and more. It guides students through the explosion of content on the internet and social media and enables them to become careful and critical evaluators as well as consumers.The text is grounded in psychological science, especially the cognitive sciences, and brought to life through humorous and engaging language and numerous practical and real-world examples and anecdotes. This edition has been streamlined with thoughtful consideration over what content to keep, what to cut, and how much new and current research to add. Critical thinking skills are presented in every chapter, empowering students to leaTrade Review"Thought and Knowledge is a superb introduction to logic, reasoning errors and analysis of evidence. The author is one of the world's most distinguished people studying how we think and how we can think more effectively."Richard E. Nisbett, Professor of Psychology Emeritus, University of Michigan"In the age of social media, all of us are victims of information warfare, and ordinary manipulation. For our own sanity and happiness, we must learn how our minds work and how they are hacked. Thought and Knowledge is a superb introduction to cognitive psychology with engaging writing about the world as it is today. The authors use psychology to teach psychology. This book will help you succeed in a complex informational landscape, and it will help all who read it to become better cognitive citizens."Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University—Stern School of Business, author of The Righteous Mind, Co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind"This is a book for our times. It drills deeply into the nature and application of critical thinking and provides compelling illustrations and explanations of its various facets. If you want to think critically about critical thinking, this book is for you." Stephen M. Kosslyn, Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, Harvard University."Halpern and Dunn have created a fascinating, scholarly (but accessible), and eminently useful book that not only introduces students to some of the best research on critical thinking, but does so in a delightful, engaging manner. This volume is full of attention-capturing exercises that students will resonate with and learn from. By the end of the book, students will have been exposed to the best of cognitive science, communicated by an extraordinarily talented team with the gravitas to definitively own and teach this topic."Wendy M. Williams, Professor and Director of the Cornell Institute for Women in Science, Department of Psychology, Cornell UniversityTable of Contents1. Thinking: An Introduction 2. Thinking Starts Here: Memory as the Mediator of Cognitive Processes 3. The Relationship Between Thought And Language 4. Reasoning: Drawing Deductively Valid Conclusions 5. Analyzing Arguments 6. Thinking as Hypothesis Testing 7. Likelihood and Uncertainty: Understanding Probabilities 8. Decision Making: It Is a Matter of Choice 9. Development of Problem Solving Skills 10. Creative Thinking 11. The Last Word Appendix: List of Critical Thinking Skills
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Linguistic Construction of Reality
Book SynopsisThis book, originally published in 1987, considers how the science of linguistics creates its own objects of study. It argues that language is the one essential tool in the social construction of reality' the way in which our environment as we perceive and respond to it is actually created by the cultural constructs we bring to bear on it and that it is also the means by which this reality, once constructed, is preserved and transmitted from person to person and from generation to generation. Hence it is entirely appropriate to refer to the linguistic construction of reality. Table of ContentsPart 1: Views of Language 1. The Mapping and Reality-Construction Views of Language 2. Subject-Matter Views Part 2: Saying Things: Conceptual Events 3. Saying Things 4. Conceptual Events and Real-World Situations 5. The Problem of Translation Part 3: Conceptual Worlds 6. Conceptual Elements 7. Ways of Talking About Things 8. Conceptual Worlds Part 4: Further Implications 9. The Question of the Relation Between Language and Thought 10. The Question of Individual Linguistic Competence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion Narcissism and Fanaticism
Book SynopsisReligion, Narcissism and Fanaticismtraces the historical and psychosocial development of religiosity and applies anthropological and psychoanalytic perspectives to the understanding of religions, particularly their fanatical and fundamentalist expressions.Religious ideology, practices and institutions satisfy many human needs, including those arising from our hysterical, obsessional, and narcissistic dispositions: the need to segregate the good and bad aspects of our personalities; to belong to an idealized group; and to feel secure and special by identifying with, or living in the orbit of, a supposedly omnipotent figure. But these needs and their modes of satisfaction are distorted by religions which may then nurture and accommodate malign characteristics, especially in the case of the monotheisms, narcissistic inflation or grandiosity. The book shows how interactions between religious ideology and personal development become intricated in the narcissistic pathol
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Justice Humanity and the New World Order
Book SynopsisThis title was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns regarding the new world order, by examining them in the intellectual context of the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment. After setting the historical context, the author investigates aspects of Enlightenment political culture as well as aspects of the new world order, including international relations, the European Union and human rights. In conclusion, the author introduces the concept of a new humanism, which he suggests, drawing on certain aspects of Enlightenment political philosophy, can complement the new world order.Trade Review'In these difficult times when wars are conducted in the name of justice and people are routinely killed in the pursuit of ’humanitarian’ goals, Ian Ward offers an erudite and passionate call for the priority of the just over the lawful. Ward argues for a return to a humanism of the future in which sense and sensibility, reason and passion, law and literature will no longer be enemies but allies in the struggle to bring equity back into the law and justice into the imperial world order under construction.' Professor Costas Douzinas, University of London, UK. 'Ian Ward makes a powerful case for a new legal humanism that judiciously balances sense and sensibility, reason and imagination, justice and legality. Rooted in broad interpretations of Kant and Adam Smith, this book may extend our juristic canon to include Godwin and Coleridge, Havel and Derrida, and even George Eliot and Walt Whitman. Clear, erudite, and readable.' Professor William Twining, University College, London, UK '...a most useful text...' Law and Politics Book Review 'His [Ward] professed aim is to put forward some constructive ideas as building blocks for a new approach to law and justice...The book is written with an appealing sense of passion and it is not difficult to certify that it has achieved its purpose.' Adelaide Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: before the law. Sense and sensibility; Prometheus unbound. A new world order; The peoples of Europe; The battle for humanity; Conclusion: towards a new humanism?; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Foundations of Information Systems
Book SynopsisWhy does information technology disappoint or enslave us? Why do so many information systems projects collapse? How can we do better? There are many technical, social, economic and other aspects to consider. How do we ensure we take all these into account as we research ITC or employ them? ICT affects our lives and world more profoundly than ever before. How may we understand it? This book employs philosophy to lay foundations for understanding the complexity of ICT, in five areas: The nature of information and computers, and artificial intelligence; The use of ICT at work and home, for serious and less-serious use; The ICT features that annoy or delight us; Societal issues, such as surveillance, e-government, ICT in developing countries, climate change, what technological progress is and what is the role of ICT as a whole and of the information systems field; ICT development - includinTable of ContentsPART 1 1. Introduction 2. Philosophies 3. Dooyeweerd's Philosophy 4. Foundations, Research and Practice PART 2 5. The Nature of Information and Communication Technology 6. Understanding ICT Use 7. Understanding ICT Features 8. Understanding ICT and Society 9. Understanding ICT Development PART 3 10. Overview and Reflection 11. Contributions and Limitations 12. Opportunities and Recommendations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd HumanAnimal Studies
Book SynopsisHuman-Animal Studies is a burgeoning multidisciplinary enterprise. Human-Animal Studies places the relationships humans have with other animals, and the relations other animals have with humans, at the centre of scholarly enquiry, artistic practice, and political critique. It draws from, and engages with, subjects across the social sciences, the humanities, and beyond, including anthropology, archaeology, art, biological sciences, cultural studies, environmental studies, ethology, geography, gender studies, history, literary studies, philosophy, religious studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and visual culture.As research in and around Human-Animal Studies blossoms as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge's Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by two leading scholars, the collection gat
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible language, with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for the first time. Scholars too will appreciate this clarity, along with the chance to read about the latest advances in the discipline. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is broken up into four parts. Historical and Philosophical Context Concepts Debates Individual Sciences Edited by two of the leading scholars in the discipline, this volume is essential reading for anTrade ReviewA state-of-the-art collection of original essays by the best writers in the field of history and philosophy of the social sciences.--Merrilee H. Salmon, University of PittsburghTable of Contents Part I. Historical and philosophical context Comte and the Positivist Vision Vincent Guillin Durkheim and the Methods of Scientific Sociology Warren Schmaus Verstehen and the Reaction Against Positivism Brian Fay The Development of Logical Empiricism Thomas Uebel Kuhn’s Influence on the Social Sciences K. Brad Wray Popper’s Influence on the Social Sciences Jeremy Shearmur Interpretation and Critical Theory Ken Baynes The Empirical Counter-Revolution Jaakko Kuorikoski Part II. Concepts Explanation David Henderson Reductionism Harold Kincaid Emergence Julie Zahle Methodological Individualism Petri Ylikoski Functionalism Alex Rosenberg Naturalism David Livingstone Smith Game Theory Cristina Bicchieri & Giacomo Sillari Situational Analysis Kevin D. Hoover Bias in Social Scientific Experimentation Sharon Crasnow Causal Inference and Modeling Tuukka Kaidesoja Collective Intentionality Kirk Ludwig & Marija Jankovic Microfoundations, Mechanism, and Causal Powers Dan Little Social Ontology Brian Epstein Realism and Anti-Realism Kareem Khalifa & Randall Harp Critical Realism Justin Cruickshank Objectivity Eleonora Montuschi Part III. Debates Are There Social Scientific Laws? Julian Reiss Behavioral Economics Conrad Heilmann Machine Epistemology and Big Data Greg Wheeler Evolutionary Psychology Stephen M. Downes Cognitive Science Stephen Turner and David Eck The Social Construction of Knowledge Steve Fuller Feminism in Social Research Marianne Janack Race in Social Research Michael Root Part IV. Individual Sciences Philosophy of Economics Don Ross Philosophy of History Paul A. Roth Philosophy of Psychology Nico Orlandi & Janette Dinishak Philosophy of Sociology & Anthropology Mark Risjord Why Is There No Philosophy of Political Science? Bruno Verbeek & Lee McIntyre
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International
Book SynopsisEthics and international Relations (IR), once considered along the margins of the IR field, has emerged as one of the most eclectic and interdisciplinary research areas today. Yet the same diversity that enriches this field also makes it a difficult one to characterize. Is it, or should it only be, the social-scientific pursuit of explaining and understanding how ethics influences the behaviours of actors in international relations? Or, should it be a field characterized by what the world should be like, based on philosophical, normative and policy-based arguments? This Handbook suggests that it can actually be both, as the contributions contained therein demonstrate how those two conceptions of ethics and international relations are inherently linked. Seeking to both provide an overview of the field and to drive debates forward, this Handbook is framed by an opening chapter providing a concise and accessible overview of the complex history of the field of ethics and IR, and Trade Review"This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging collection which without neglecting traditional subjects such as Just War and Global Justice also covers more recent concerns such as post-colonialism, the emotions and environmentalism. It will be an invaluable teaching resource." - Chris Brown, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science"Steele and Heinze have assembled an indispensable resource. Scholars, teachers, students, and general interest readers will find this to be the best one-stop reference for the field of ethics and international relations. Comprehensive in scope, rich in detail, and masterful in interpretation, the Handbook gives voice to a wide range of contributors, all of whom share their expertise with clarity and spirit." - Joel H. Rosenthal, President, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 A history of ethics in international relations Philosophical Foundations Philosophical Foundations 2 Kantian Themes in Ethics and International Relations 3 Global Egalitarianism 4 Collective Responsibility 5 Latin American Views on the Construction and Implementation of the International Norm Responsibility to Protect 6 Agency, Explanation and Ethics in International Relations IR theory IR theory 7 Hunting the state of nature: Race and ethics in postcolonial international relations 8 Social constructivism and international ethics 9 Truth and power, uncertainty and catastrophe: Ethics in IR realism 10 Ethics and feminist International Relations theory 11 Critical international ethics: Knowing/acting differently Security and the ethics of war Security and the ethics of war 12 Morgenthau and the ethics of realism 13 Ethics and critical security studies 14 Tradition-based approaches to the study of the ethics of war 15 How should just war theory be revised? Reductive versus relational individualism 16 Critical approaches to the ethics of war Ethics and institutions Ethics and institutions 17 Historical context 18 Justice: Constitution and critique 19 The ethical terrain of international human rights: From invoking dignity to practicing recognition 20 International law and ethics Intervention and sovereignty Intervention and sovereignty 21 Historical thinking about human protection: Insights from Vattel 22 The global ethics of humanitarian action 23 The responsibility to protect: The evolution of a hollow norm 24 Right intent on humanitarian intervention Vulnerability in international relations Vulnerability in international relations 25 Transnational migration and the construction of vulnerability 26 At a crossroads: Health and vulnerability in the era of AIDS 27 Climate change, sustainable development, and vulnerability 28 Climate change and island populations IPE and the ethics of global economy IPE and the ethics of global economy 29 The ethics of alternative finance: Governing, resisting and rethinking the limits of finance 30 Decolonial global justice: A critique of the ethics of the global economy 31 Gender, nature and the ethics of finance in a racialized global (political) economy 32 Biofuels and the ethics of global governance: experimentalism, disagreement, politics Religion and International Ethics Religion and International Ethics 33 Adam Smith’s Ambiguous Theodicy and the Ethics of IPE 34 Religion, Emotions and Conflict EscalationMona Kanwal Sheikh35 Solidarity beyond religious and secular: political ontology as an ethical framework 36 Ethics from the Underside 37 Ibn Khaldun and the Wealth of Civilizations 38 The Futures of Ethics and International Relations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent
Book Synopsis While the importance of consent has been discussed widely over the last few decades, interest in its study has received renewed attention in recent years, particularly regarding medical treatment, clinical research and sexual acts. The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five main parts: General questions Normative ethics Legal theory Medical ethics Political philosophy.Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including: the nature and normative importance of consent, paternalism, exploitation and coercion, privacy, sexual consent, consent and criminal law, informed consent, organ donation, clinical research, and consent theory of political obligation and authority.The RoutleTrade Review"Among the issues discussed are the nature and scope of consent, paternalism and autonomy, sexual consent, contracts, consent to pain, the volenti maxim, informed consent, consent in clinical research or organ donation, authority, and consent theory of political obligation. The editors of the handbook did a good job of creating a logical flow in each section. In addition, most of the sections begin with a history of the role of consent in the broad area to be discussed. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - J. Krause, CHOICE"This timely volume collects a range of distinguished scholars who examine every important question about consent. No moral, political, legal or medical issue is untouched." - Douglas Husak, Rutgers University, USA"This is the most complete and interesting treatment of Consent, in all its aspects, that we now have. It is essential reading for all those interested in this important topic." - Gerald Dworkin, University of California, Davis, USA"This book is a good introduction to the topics of consent, both for scholars interested in learning more and as an introduction for students. The breadth of coverage is vast and the discussions of these subjects are of high quality. Because of the variety of topics in the book, most readers will probably be able to find a few sections relevant to their interests." - Joseph Kranak, Wilbur Wright College, USA "Among the issues discussed are the nature and scope of consent, paternalism and autonomy, sexual consent, contracts, consent to pain, the volenti maxim, informed consent, consent in clinical research or organ donation, authority, and consent theory of political obligation. The editors of the handbook did a good job of creating a logical flow in each section. In addition, most of the sections begin with a history of the role of consent in the broad area to be discussed. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - J. Krause, CHOICE"This timely volume collects a range of distinguished scholars who examine every important question about consent. No moral, political, legal or medical issue is untouched." - Douglas Husak, Rutgers University, USA"This is the most complete and interesting treatment of Consent, in all its aspects, that we now have. It is essential reading for all those interested in this important topic." - Gerald Dworkin, University of California, Davis, USA"This book is a good introduction to the topics of consent, both for scholars interested in learning more and as an introduction for students. The breadth of coverage is vast and the discussions of these subjects are of high quality. Because of the variety of topics in the book, most readers will probably be able to find a few sections relevant to their interests." - Joseph Kranak, Wilbur Wright College, USA Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Andreas Müller & Peter Schaber: The ethics of consent: an introduction. Part I. General Questions. Daniel Lee: Historical Perspectives on the Ethics of Consent. Hubert Schnüriger: What is Consent? Felix Koch: Consent as a Normative Power. Heidi Hurd: The Normative Force of Consent. Peter Schaber: Consent and Wronging a Person. Neil C. Manson: The Scope of Consent. Terrance McConnell: When is Consent Required? Emma Bullock: Valid Consent. Gideon Yaffe: Hypothetical Consent. Anna Deplazes-Zemp: Group Consent. Part II. Normative Ethics. Andreas Müller: Moral Obligations and Consent. Tom Walker: Consent and Autonomy. John Kleinig: Paternalism and Consent. Matt Zwolinski: Exploitation and Consent. Tom Dougherty: Deception and Consent. Dave Archard: Sexual Consent. Part III. Legal Theory. Michelle Dempsey: The Volenti Maxim. Vera Bergelson: Consent to Pain. Thomas Gutmann: Voluntary Consent. Brian Bix: Consent and Contracts. Tatjana Hörnle: Rape as Non-Consensual Sex. Bart Custers et al.: Consent and Privacy. Part IV. Medical Ethics. Tom O’Shea: Historical Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Nir Eyal: Informed Consent. Johann Ach: Consent and Medical Treatment. Collin O’Neill: Consent in Clinical Research. Ben Saunders: Consent and Organ Donation. Anthony Wrigley: Consent for Others. Part V: Political Philosophy. Alex Tuckness: Historical Perspectives in Political Philosophy. George Klosko: Consent Theory of Political Obligation. David Estlund: Normative Consent and Authority. William A. Edmundson: Moral Education and the Ethics of Consent. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A History of Aesthetic
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2002. This is Volume I out of three on a series on Aesthetics. First published in 1892, this volume contributes to the history of modern philosophy. Aesthetic theory is a branch of philosophy which exists for the sake of knowledge and not as a guide to practice. The present work is, therefore, primarily addressed to those who may find a philosophical interest in understanding the place and value of beauty in the system of human life, as conceived by leading thinkers in different periods of the world''s history.
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