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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy
Book SynopsisAs increasing numbers of people turn to alternative healing practices, this classic text on the science and art of homeopathic medicine remains ever relevant. Written at the turn of the twentieth century by a distinguished physician, its concepts of health and healing are still ahead of our time. Dr. Kent summarizes, interprets, and systematizes the traditions of homeopathy, offering insights into the essential characteristics of the healing process: how to take a case history, how to study the case, how to establish the hierarchy of symptoms in determining the appropriate remedy--and above all, how to decide what to do after the first prescription, how to interpret the many reactions to therapy, and how to achieve a scientific understanding of a cure. This informative volume is must reading for any student or practitioner of homeopathy as well as any individual seriously interested in understanding the fundamental laws of health and healing.
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Whitford Press,U.S. Origin and Destiny of Humanity
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Van Siclen Books The Egyptian Conception of Immortality
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Phanes Press,U.S. Porphyrys Letter to His Wife Marcella Concerning
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University of Chicago Press themetaphysicsofthehealing
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American Oriental Society A Muslim Philosopher on the Soul and Its Fate
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University of Chicago Press Virtue
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University of Chicago Press Virtue
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Keep it Simple Books,U.S. Be the Person You Want to Find
Book SynopsisA guide to self-discovery through intimate relationships, which offers a spiritual perspective on healing childhood wounds and destructive patterns that are learned early on and later cause relationship dysfunction in adulthood.
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Moment Point Press Inc,US Spiritual Universe One Physicists Vision of
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Quantum Institute, Inc Walden III In Search of a Utopian Nirvana
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The Catholic University of America Press Philosophical Psychology Psychology Emotions and
Book SynopsisOffers reflections on human embodiment and emotion, commitment and freedom, reason and moral theory. This book explores how metaphysics serves psychology, writes on confronting reductionist notions of biology, and discusses the historical context for understanding religious freedom.
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Shelter Harbor Press Philosophy
Book SynopsisHere is the essential guide to philosophy, an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered Volume XXXV
Book SynopsisEarly Modern Philosophy Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Paul Hoffman is an international collection of essays from both well-established and younger scholars. In keeping with the example of Hoffman's own work, the essays are written in the spirit of promoting serious philosophical engagement with the historical figures they discuss. Among the philosophers whose views are explored in the collection are Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Kant.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophical Perspectives 25 2011 Metaphysics
Book SynopsisPhilosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research.Table of ContentsBack to the Open Future Elizabeth Barnes Ross P. Cameron 1 By Our Bootstraps Karen Bennett 27 Life Without Essence: Man as a Force of Nature Mandel Cabrera Sarah Coolidge Joseph Almog 43 Ontological Superpluralism Ben Caplan 79 The Bare Necessities Shamir Dasgupta 115 An Abstract Characterization of the Determinable/Determinate Distinction Kit Fine 161 In Search of (Spacetime) Structuralism Hilary Greaves 189 What are Natural Kinds? Katherine Hawley Alexander Bird 205 A Metaphysical Mix: Morphing, Mai, and Mining Hud Hudson 223 Conspecific Coincidence and Mutual Incorporation Christopher Hughes 241 Multilocation and Mereology Shieva Kleinschmidt 253 Essence, Plenitude, and Paradox Sarah-Jane Leslie 277 Impure Reference: A Way Around the Concept Horse Paradox Fraser Macbride 297 The Extent of Metaphysical Necessity Daniel Nolan 313 Hylomorphism Reconsidered Michael C. Rea 341 Experience and the Passage of Time Bradford Skow 359 Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies Peter Van Inwagen 389 On Doing Ontology without Metaphysics Achille C. Varzi 407 Dispositions and Generics Ryan Wasserman 425
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd HappyPeoplePills For All
Book SynopsisHappy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing. Presents the first detailed exploration of the enhancement of happiness A controversial yet rigorous argument that demonstrates the moral imperative for the development and mass distribution of happy-pills', to promote the wellbeing of the individual and society Brings together the philosophy, psychology and biology of happiness Maps the development of the next generation of positive mood pharmacology Offers a corrective to contemporary accounts of happiness Trade Review“The philosophical portions of the book are good enough, and I recommend Happy-People-Pills for All if you are interested in a fun “what-if” discussion.” (PsycCRITIQUES, 10 February 2014) “Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. General readers.” (Choice, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 Introductory 1 2 What is Living and What is Dead in Brave New World 19 3 What DoWe Mean by ‘Happiness’? 41 4 The Elements of the Good Life: It is a Very Big List 72 5 Wellbeing and Virtue 100 6 Happiness Promotes Perfection 120 7 Happy Pharmacology 155 8 Arguments for Happy-People-Pills 187 9 Ethical Objections 206 10 Happy-People-Pills and Public Policy 233 Index 273
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to David Lewis
Book SynopsisIn A Companion to David Lewis, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer bring together top philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal work in original ways.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Part I Biography and New Work 1 1 Intellectual Biography of David Lewis (1941–2001): Early Influences 3 Stephanie R. Lewis 2 Counterparts of States of Affairs 15 David Lewis 3 Reply to Dana Scott, “Is There Life on Possible Worlds?” 18 David Lewis Part II Methodology and Context 23 4 Lewis’s Philosophical Method 25 Daniel Nolan 5 On Metaphysical Analysis 40 David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller 6 A Lewisian History of Philosophy 60 Robert Pasnau 7 David Lewis’s Place in Analytic Philosophy 80 Scott Soames Part III Metaphysics and Science 99 8 Humean Supervenience 101 Brian Weatherson 9 No Work for a Theory of Universals 116 M. Eddon and C.J.G. Meacham 10 Hume’s Dictum and Metaphysical Modality: Lewis’s Combinatorialism 138 Jessica Wilson 11 Truthmaking: With and Without Counterpart Theory 159 Phillip Bricker 12 How to Be Humean 188 Jenann Ismael 13 Where (in Logical Space) Is God? 206 Stephanie R. Lewis 14 De Re Modality, Essentialism, and Lewis’s Humeanism 220 Helen Beebee and Fraser MacBride 15 David Lewis on Persistence 237 Katherine Hawley 16 “Perfectly Understood, Unproblematic, and Certain”: Lewis on Mereology 250 Karen Bennett 17 Humean Reductionism about Laws of Nature 262 Ned Hall 18 Why Lewisians Should Love Deterministic Chance 278 Rachael Briggs 19 Lewis on Causation 295 Christopher Hitchcock Part IV Language and Logic 313 20 David Lewis on Convention 315 Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone 21 Asking What a Meaning Does: David Lewis’s Contributions to Semantics 328 Barbara H. Partee 22 Accommodation in a Language Game 345 Craige Roberts 23 Lewis on Reference and Eligibility 367 J.R.G. Williams 24 On the Nature of Certain Philosophical Entities: Set Theoretic Constructionalism in the Metaphysics of David Lewis 382 Gideon Rosen 25 Primitive Self-Ascription: Lewis on the De Se 399 Richard Holton 26 Counterfactuals and Humean Reduction 411 Robert Stalnaker 27 On the Plurality of Lewis’s Triviality Results 425 Alan Hájek 28 Decision Theory after Lewis 446 John Collins 29 Lewis on Mereology and Set Theory 459 John P. Burgess Part V Epistemology and Mind 471 30 Lewis on Knowledge Ascriptions 473 Jonathan Schaffer 31 Humility and Coexistence in Kant and Lewis: Two Modal Themes, with Variations 491 Rae Langton 32 Analytic Functionalism 504 Wolfgang Schwarz 33 Lewis on Materialism and Experience 519 Daniel Stoljar Part VI Ethics and Politics 533 34 Lewis on Value and Valuing 535 Peter Railton 35 David Lewis’s Social and Political Philosophy 549 Simon Keller Bibliography of the Work of David Lewis 562 Index 572
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Action Theory
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of papers on action theory, very broadly conceived. It contains cutting-edge work by some of the most important contributors in the field.Table of ContentsBasic Causal Deviance, Action Repertoires, and Reliability JESUS H. AGUILAR Self-Defeating Self-Governance CHRISOULA ANDREOU Conclusive Reasons, Knowledge, and Action JOHN A. BARKER ANDFRED ADAMS Exercising Control in Practical Reasoning: Problems for Naturalism about Agency JOHN BISHOP Time, Rationality, and Self-Governance MICHAEL E. BRATMAN An Action Theoretic Problem for Intralevel Mental Causation ANDREI A. BUCKAREFF Are Hard Choices Cases of Incomparability? RUTH CHANG What is an Omission? RANDOLPH CLARKE Diachronic Constraints of Practical Rationality LUCA FERRERO Responsibility and Autonomy: The Problem of Mission Creep JOHN MARTIN FISCHER Free Will and Rational Coherency PATRICIA GREENSPAN Modest Libertarianism and Practical Reason ISHTIYAQUE HAJI Accountability and Some Social Dimensions of Human Agency BENNETT W. HELM Actions and Activity JENNIFER HORNSBY Making Decisions HUGH J. MCCANN Defending Nonhistorical Compatibilism: A Reply to Haji and Cuypers MICHAEL MCKENNA Folk Conceptions of Intentional Action ALFRED R. MELE Frankfurt Examples, Derivative Responsibility, and the Timing Objection DERK PEREBOOM The Norms of Acceptance JOELLE PROUST On the Relation Between Wanting and Willing TAMAR SCHAPIRO Action Explanation and the Free Will Debate: How Incompatibilist Arguments Go Wrong SCOTT SEHON Using Moral Principles to Guide Decisions HOLLY SMITH Four Objections to the Standard Story of Action (and Four Replies) MICHAEL SMITH Group Reasons RAIMO TUOMELA Why the Luck Problem Isn’t MANUEL VARGAS
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy of Mind Volume 26
Book SynopsisPhilosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of philosophical research.Table of ContentsThe Uses and Abuses of the Personal/Subpersonal Distinction ZOE DRAYSON Perception Without Propositions CHRISTOPHER GAUKER Understanding the Internalism-Externalism Debate: What Is the Boundary of the Thinker? BRIE GERTLER Why and How not to be a Sortalist about Thought RACHEL GOODMAN Concepts, Analysis, Generics and the Canberra Plan MARK JOHNSTON and SARAH-JANE LESLIE What Should the Naýve Realist Say about Total Hallucinations? HEATHER LOGUE Desire Considered as a Propositional Attitude WILLIAM G. LYCAN Are There Mental Indexicals and Demonstratives? RUTH GARRETT MILLIKAN Perceptual Phenomenology BENCE NANAY First Person Illusions: Are They Descartes’, or Kant’s? CHRISTOPHER PEACOCKE Attention to the Passage of Time IAN PHILLIPS Indiscriminability and Phenomenal Continua DIANA RAFFMAN Don’t Panic: Self-Authorship Without Obscure Metaphysics ADINA L. ROSKIES The Mental Lives of Zombies DECLAN SMITHIES Actions as Processes HELEN STEWARD Introspective Knowledge of Negative Facts DANIEL STOLJAR Defining and Defending Nonconceptual Contents and States JAMES VAN CLEVE Belief, Information and Reasoning BRUNO WHITTLE
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy of Religion
Book SynopsisPhilosophy of Religion: The Basics offers a concise introduction to philosophy of religion, distilling key discussions and concepts of the subject to their succinct essence, providing a truly accessible entry into the subject. A truly accessible introduction to philosophy of religion for beginners Takes a topical approach, starting with the nature of religion and moving the reader through the major concepts, explaining how topics connect and point to one another Offers a thorough and full treatment of diverse conceptions of God, the ontological argument, and divine attributes and dilemmas A genuinely concise introduction, this text can be used alongside other resources without overtaxing students Represents 30 years of experience teaching to undergraduates Includes a free downloadable file with key excerpts and additions to help students study Table of ContentsPreface for Teachers xi Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 1 What Is Religion? 6 1.1 Creed 6 1.2 Code 7 1.3 Cult 8 1.4 Community 9 1.5 Toward a Definition of Religion 11 1.6 Ze, Zer, Mer 13 2 Six Conceptions of God 17 2.1 Experiential Sources of Concepts of God 17 2.2 Six Conceptions of God 21 2.3 Religious Naturalism 21 2.4 Pantheism 23 2.5 Panentheism (Process Theism) 25 2.6 Deism 28 2.7 Classical Biblical Theism is based on divine revelation 29 2.8 Classical Philosophical Theism 31 3 Divine Attributes and Dilemmas 34 3.1 What Is a Dilemma? 39 3.2 Ways to Respond to a Dilemma 40 3.3 Divine Attribute Dilemmas 41 3.4 Proposed Solutions to the Preceding Dilemmas 45 3.4.1 Unsurpassability 45 3.4.2 Omnipotence 46 3.4.3 Are Omnipotence and Omnibenevolence Incompatible? 47 3.4.4 Immutability and Personhood 48 3.4.5 Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom 49 3.5 Open Theism 53 4 Human Language and Talk about God 57 5 Arguments about the Existence of God 72 6 The Ontological Argument 77 6.1 Is Anselm’s Argument Decisive? 82 6.2 A Version of Duns Scotus’ Ontological Argument 83 7 The Cosmological Arguments 88 7.1 The First Three of “The Five Ways” of Thomas Aquinas 89 7.2 Paul Edwards’ Infinite Regress Argument against the Cosmological Argument 92 7.2.1 Two Criticisms of Edwards 93 7.3 The Oscillatory Theory 93 7.3.1 Criticism of the Oscillatory Theory 94 7.4 The Kalam Cosmological Argument 95 8 The Teleological or Design Arguments 101 8.1 The Anthropic Principle 108 8.2 The Multiverse 109 9 God and Morality 118 9.1 Two Arguments from Morality for Belief in the Existence of God 118 9.2 The Relation of Morality to God 119 9.2.1 The Divine Command Theory 119 9.2.2 Theocentric Ethics 120 9.2.3 Natural Law Ethics 121 10 Religious Experience and Belief in God 128 10.1 The Principle of Credulity and the Rationality of Belief in God 128 10.2 Religious Experience as Evidence for the Existence of God 132 10.3 Toward a Cumulative Argument for God 134 11 Arguments against Belief in the Existence of God 137 11.1 Evidentialism and the Burden of Proof 137 11.2 Conceptual Arguments: Analysis of the Concept of God 138 11.2.1 The Argument from Meaninglessness 138 11.2.2 The Arguments from Incoherence and Self-Contradiction 138 11.3 Arguments from Science 139 11.3.1 The Natural Sciences: The Adequacy of Science 139 11.3.2 Criticisms of Naturalism 141 11.3.3 The Social Sciences: Religion and Emotion 142 11.4 The Problem of Divine Hiddenness 145 11.5 The Problem of Many Religions 147 12 The Problem of Evil 152 12.1 G.W. Leibniz (1646–1716) 153 12.2 The Logical Argument from Evil: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) 153 12.3 The Evidential Argument from Evil: Edward Madden, Peter Hare, William Rowe 153 12.3.1 Criticisms of Arguments from Evil against the Existence of God 154 12.4 Charles Hartshorne’s Panentheist or Process Theodicy 156 13 God and Life after Death 164 13.1 Cessationism 165 13.2 Immortalism 167 13.3 Resurrectionism 170 13.4 Personal Identity and Continuity 173 14 Miracles, Revelation, and Prayer 179 14.1 Miracles 179 14.2 Revelation 182 14.3 Prayer 183 15 Rationality without Evidence 185 15.1 Pascal’s Wager 185 15.2 Evidentialism vs. the Right to Believe 187 15.3 Fideism 188 15.3.1 Faith as Action or Leap 188 15.3.2 Faith as Passion or Gift 189 15.4 Agathism, Agatheism, and Religious Hope 190 Glossary 194 Biographical Notes 203 Index 209
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Mill
Book SynopsisThis Companion offers a state-of-the-art survey of the work of John Stuart Mill one which covers the historical influences on Mill, his theoretical, moral and social philosophy, as well as his relation to contemporary movements. Its contributors include both senior scholars with established expertise in Mill's thought and new emerging interpreters. Each essay acts as a go-to resource for those seeking to understand an aspect of Mill's thought or to familiarise themselves with the contours of a debate within the scholarship. The Companion is a key reference on Mill's theory of liberty and utilitarianism, but also provides a valuable resource on lesser-known aspects of his work, including his epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. The volume is divided into six sections. Part I covers Mill's life, his immediate posthumous reputation, and his own telling of his life-story. Part II brings together an accessible and comprehensive summary of the various influences on MillTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Preface xvi Note on Citations xix Part I Mill’s Autobiography and Biography 1 1 Mill’s Mind: A Biographical Sketch 3Richard V. Reeves 2 Mill’s Epiphanies 12Elijah Millgram 3 The Afterlife of John Stuart Mill, 1874–1879 30David Stack 4 Mill’s Autobiography as Literature 45Samuel Clark Part II Influences on Mill’s Thought 59 5 Mill and the Classics 61Robert Devigne 6 Roots of Mill’s Radicalism 79Peter Niesen 7 British Critics of Utilitarianism 95Bruce Kinzer 8 Harriet Taylor Mill 112Helen McCabe 9 The French Influence 126Vincent Guillin Part III Foundations of Mill’s Thought 143 10 Psychology, Associationism, and Ethology 145Terence Ball 11 Mill on Race and Gender 160C.L. Ten 12 Mill on Logic 175David Godden 13 Mill’s Epistemology 192Richard Fumerton 14 Mill’s Philosophy of Language 207Frederick Kroon 15 Mill on Metaphysics 222Nicholas Capaldi 16 Mill’s Philosophy of Science 234Aaron D. Cobb 17 Mill’s Aesthetics 250Antis Loizides 18 Mill on History 266Christopher Macleod 19 Mill’s Philosophy of Religion 279Lou J. Matz Part IV Mill’s Moral Philosophy 295 20 Mill’s Art of Life 297Guy Fletcher 21 Mill’s Conception of Happiness 313Ben Saunders 22 The Proof 328Henry R. West 23 Mill on Utilitarian Sanctions 342Jonathan Riley 24 Mill’s Moral Standard 358Ben Eggleston 25 Mill on Justice and Rights 374David O. Brink 26 Mill and Virtue 390Brian McElwee Part V Mill’s Social Philosophy 407 27 The Harm Principle 409D.G. Brown 28 Mill on Individuality 425Wendy Donner 29 Mill on Freedom of Speech 440Daniel Jacobson 30 Mill on Democracy Revisited 454Georgios Varouxakis 31 Mill on the Family 472Dale E. Miller 32 Mill’s Normative Economics 488Gerald Gaus 33 Mill on Education and Schooling 504Graham Finlay 34 Mill on Colonialism 518Don A. Habibi Part VI Mill and Later Movements in Philosophy 533 35 Mill, German Idealism, and the Analytic/Continental Divide 535John Skorupski 36 Mill and Modern Utilitarianism 551William H. Shaw 37 Mill and Modern Liberalism 567Piers Norris Turner Index 583
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd European and Chinese Traditions of Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe Journal of Chinese Philosophy initiates this volume on the origins of philosophy and their relations in philosophical languages, be it Chinese or Greek or European as not merely derived from the Greek.Table of ContentsPreface: Origins and Relations of Philosophy: European and Chinese CHUNG-YING CHENG Introduction: Intersections between Chinese and Western Philosophies ERIC S. NELSON Heidegger, Misch, and the Origins of Philosophy ERIC S. NELSON Deconstruction and Différance: Onto-Return and Emergence in a Daoist Interpretation of Derrida CHUNG-YING CHENG Zhenzhi and Acknowledgment in Wang Yangming and Stanley Cavell WILLIAM DAY Isaiah Berlin’s Challenge to the Zhuangzian Freedom TAO JIANG Lao-Zhuang and Heidegger on Nature and Technology GRAHAM PARKES World Philosophy and Climate Change: A Sino-German Way to Civil Evolution MARTIN SCHÖNFELD Levinas and the Daodejing on the Feminine: Intercultural Reflections LIN MA “Waiting for Godot”? Contemporaneity, Feminism, and Creativity LINYU GU Mapping Kant’s Architectonic onto the Yijing via the Geometry of Logic STEPHEN R. PALMQUIST
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The New Atheism and Its Critics
Book SynopsisThis volume of the classic series is devoted to the claims, arguments, and perspectives of the New Atheists. The volume collects original work on these topics of leading thinkers in the philosophy of religion, epistemology, and metaphysics, and philosophy of science. These studies are punctuated by an original short story by a leading novelist.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Philosophy of Language Volume 27 Philosophical
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Philosophy of Luck
Book SynopsisProvides a curated collection of scholarship on the philosophy of luck. This book offers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical study. It includes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Introductory Note 1DUNCAN PRITCHARD AND LEE JOHN WHITTINGTON 1 Luck as Risk and the Lack of Control Account of Luck 3FERNANDO BRONCANO-BERROCAL 2 Strokes of Luck 27E. J. COFFMAN 3 Luck Attributions and Cognitive Bias 59STEVEN D. HALES AND JENNIFER ADRIENNE JOHNSON 4 Frankfurt in Fake Barn Country 79NEIL LEVY 5 Luck and Free Will 93ALFRED R. MELE 6 You Make Your Own Luck 107RACHEL MCKINNON 7 Subject-Involving Luck 127JOE MILBURN 8 The Modal Account of Luck 143DUNCAN PRITCHARD 9 The Machinations of Luck 169NICHOLAS RESCHER 10 Luck, Knowledge, and “Mere” Coincidence 177WAYNE D. RIGGS 11 The Unbearable Uncertainty Paradox 191SABINE ROESER 12 Getting Moral Luck Right 205LEE JOHN WHITTINGTON Index 219
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd ForwardLooking Collective Responsibility Volume
Book SynopsisExplores various aspects of the concept of forward-looking collective responsibility and its application Presents fifteen articles written by leading philosophers from around the world Extends the philosophical discussion of collective responsibility and collective morality towards future collective actionTable of ContentsFuture-Looking Collective Responsibility: A Preliminary Analysis Marion Smiley 1 Forward-Looking Collective Responsibility: A Metaphysical Reframing of the Issue Carol Rovane 12 Historical Memory as Forward- and Backward-Looking Collective Responsibility Linda Radzik 26 Collective Responsibility and Collective Obligation Tracy Isaacs 40 Joint Moral Duties Anne Schwenkenbecher 58 Small Impacts and Imperceptible Effects: Causing Harm with Others Kai Spiekermann 75 A Plural Subject Approach to the Responsibilities of Groups and Institutions Ludger Jansen 91 Essentially Shared Obligations Gunnar Björnsson 103 Beyond the Sins of the Fathers: Responsibility for Inequality Derrick Darby and Nyla R. Branscombe 121 War “In Our Name” and the Responsibility to Protest: Ordinary Citizens, Civil Society, and Prospective Moral Responsibility Neta C. Crawford 138 From Global Collective Obligations to Institutional Obligations Bill Wringe 171 What We Together Can (Be Required to) Do Felix Pinkert 187 Because They Can: The Basis for the Moral Obligations of (Certain) Collectives Kendy M. Hess 203 The Impact of Corporate Task Responsibilities: A Comparison of Two Models Avia Pasternak 222 Structural Injustice and the Distribution of Forward-Looking Responsibility Christian Neuhäuser 232
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to European Union Law and
Book SynopsisFeaturing contributions from renowned scholars, A Companion to European Union Law and International Law presents a comprehensive and authoritative collection of essays that addresses all of the most important topics on European Union and international law. Integrates the fields of European Union law and international law, revealing both the similarities and differencesFeatures contributions from renowned scholars in the fields of EU law and international lawCovers a broad range of topical issues, including trade, institutional decision-making, the European Court of Justice, democracy, human rights, criminal law, the EMU, and many othersTable of ContentsContributors viii Preface x Abbreviations xii Part I International Law and EU Law 1 1 Sui Generis? The European Union as an International Organization 3Jan Klabbers 2 The Nature of International Law 16Anna Södersten and Dennis Patterson 3 The Development of European Integration and EU Constitutional Reform 26Michael Dougan 4 The Relationship between EU Law and International Law 42Katja S. Ziegler 5 The Effect of EU Law 62Anthony Arnull Part II EU Political Institutions and Decision Making 81 6 EU Competences 83Paul Craig 7 The Decision‐Making Process 95Bruno de Witte 8 The European Union and Executive Power 109Deirdre Curtin 9 New Modes of Governance 119Mark Dawson 10 The European Union and Democracy 136John Erik Fossum Part III The Court 153 11 EU Procedural Law 155Andrea Biondi and Ravi Mehta 12 The Court of Justice of the European Union as a Self‐Made Statesman 166Loïc Azoulai and Zane Rasnača 13 The Preliminary Rulings Procedure 179Allan Rosas Part IV Economic Dimensions of the European Union 193 14 The Construction of the Internal Market 195Catherine Barnard 15 The Free Movement of Goods 205Miguel Poiares Maduro and Pedro Caro de Sousa 16 Freedom of Establishment 217Frank S. Benyon 17 Free Movement of Capital 229Sideek M. Seyad 18 The European Economic Constitution and its Transformation Through the Financial Crisis 242Christian Joerges 19 European Private Law 262Hans‐Wolfgang Micklitz 20 Consumer Protection 285Stephen Weatherill 21 The Economic and Monetary Union 296Roland Bieber 22 EU Competition Law in a Global Context 315Giorgio Monti 23 EU State Aids Law 334Piet Jan Slot 24 Statecraft, States, and the Regulation of Commerce 357Ari Afilalo Part V The European Union and the External World 371 25 EU External Relations and the Law 373Marise Cremona 26 Common Foreign, Security, and Defense Policy 394Ramses A. Wessel 27 EU Law and International Humanitarian Law 413Marco Sassòli and Djemila Carron 28 Emergence of EU Maritime Law 427Barış Soyer Part VI Human Rights, Social Issues, and the Environment 439 29 International Human Rights Law 441Martin Scheinin 30 The European Union and Human Rights 458Sionaidh Douglas‐Scott 31 The European Union and Social Policy 479Silvana Sciarra 32 EU Citizenship 491Elspeth Guild 33 The International Law of Economic Migration 506Joel P. Trachtman 34 EU Immigration and Asylum Law 519Steve Peers 35 International Criminal Law 534Roger S. Clark 36 EU Criminal Law 547Valsamis Mitsilegas 37 EU Environmental Law 568Maria Lee Index 588 Table of Cases Alphabetical 598 Table of Cases Numerical 608
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophies of the Sciences
Book SynopsisA collection of essays discussing a wide range of sciences and the central philosophical issues associated with them, presenting the sciences collectively to encourage a greater understanding of their associative theoretical foundations, as well as their relationships to each other. Offers a new and unique approach to studying and comparing the philosophies of a variety of scientific disciplines Explores a wide variety of individual sciences, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology and economics The essays are written by leading scholars in a highly accessible style for the student audience Complements more traditional studies of philosophy of science Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii List of Figures xii Unit 1: Introduction 1 1 Philosophies of the Sciences 3Fritz Allhoff 2 Philosophy of Science 9Richard DeWitt Unit 2: Philosophy of the Exact Sciences 39 3 Philosophy of Logic 41Otávio Bueno 4 Philosophy of Mathematics 68Otávio Bueno 5 Philosophy of Probability 92Aidan Lyon Unit 3: Philosophy of the Natural Sciences 127 6 Philosophy of Physics 129Richard DeWitt 7 Philosophy of Chemistry 163Joachim Schummer 8 Philosophy of Biology 184Matthew H. Haber, Andrew Hamilton, Samir Okasha, and Jay Odenbaugh 9 Philosophy of Earth Science 213Maarten G. Kleinhans, Chris J.J. Buskes, and Henk W. de Regt Unit 4: Philosophy of the Behavioral and Social Sciences 237 10 Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences 239William Bechtel and Mitchell Herschbach 11 Philosophy of Psychology 262Edouard Machery 12 Philosophy of Sociology 293Daniel Little 13 Philosophy of Economics 324Daniel M. Hausman Index 356
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Adorno
Book SynopsisA definitive contribution to scholarship on Adorno, bringing together the foremost experts in the field As one of the leading continental philosophers of the last century, and one of the pioneering members of the Frankfurt School, Theodor W. Adorno is the author of numerous influentialand at times quite radicalworks on diverse topics in aesthetics, social theory, moral philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy, all of which concern the contradictions of modern society and its relation to human suffering and the human condition. Having authored substantial contributions to critical theory which contain searching critiques of the culture industry' and the identity thinking' of modern Western society, Adorno helped establish an interdisciplinary but philosophically rigorous study of culture and provided some of the most startling and revolutionary critiques of Western society to date. The Blackwell Companion to Adorno is the largest collection of essays by Adorno specialists ever gTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Editors’ Introduction xv About the Editors xix Part I Intellectual Foundations 1 1 Adorno: A Biographical Sketch 3Peter E. Gordon 2 Adorno’s Inaugural Lecture: The Actuality of Philosophy in the Age of Mass Production 21Roger Foster 3 Reading Kierkegaard 35Marcia Morgan 4 Guilt and Mourning: Adorno’s Debt to and Critique of Benjamin 51Alexander Stern 5 Adorno and the Second Viennese School 67Sherry D. Lee Part II Cultural Analysis 85 6 The Culture Industry 87Fred Rush 7 Adorno and Horkheimer on Anti-Semitism 103Fabian Freyenhagen 8 Adorno and Jazz 123Andrew Bowie 9 Adorno’s Democratic Modernism in America: Leaders and Educators as Political Artists 139Shannon Mariotti 10 Inhuman Methods for an Inhumane World: Adorno’s Empirical Social Research, 1938–1950 153Charles Clavey Part III History and Domination 173 11 Adorno and Blumenberg: Nonconceptuality and the Bilderverbot 175Martin Jay 12 Philosophy of History 193Iain Macdonald 13 The Anthropology in Dialectic of Enlightenment 207Pierre-François Noppen 14 Adorno’s Reception of Weber and Lukács 221Michael J. Thompson 15 Adorno’s Aesthetic Model of Social Critique 237Andrew Huddleston 16 The Critique of the Enlightenment 251Martin Shuster Part IV Social Theory and Empirical Inquiry 271 17 “Nothing is True Except the Exaggerations:” The Legacy of the Authoritarian Personality 273David Jenemann 18 Exposing Antagonisms: Adorno on the Possibilities of Sociology 287Matthias Benzer and Juljan Krause 19 Adorno and Marx 303Peter Osborne 20 Adorno’s Three Contributions to a Theory of Mass Psychology and Why They Matter 321Eli Zaretsky 21 Adorno and Postwar German Society 335Jakob Norberg Part V Aesthetics 349 22 Aesthetic Autonomy 351Owen Hulatt 23 Adorno and Literary Criticism 365Henry W. Pickford 24 Adorno as a Modernist Writer 383Richard Eldridge 25 Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory 397Eva Geulen 26 Aesthetic Theory as Social Theory 413Peter Uwe Hohendahl 27 Adorno, Music, and the Ineffable 427Michael Gallope 28 Adorno and Opera 443Richard Leppert Part VI Negative Dialectics 457 29 What is Negative Dialectics?: Adorno’s Reevaluation of Hegel 459Terry Pinkard 30 Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger 473Espen Hammer 31 Concept and Object: Adorno’s Critique of Kant 487J. M. Bernstein 32 Critique and Disappointment: Negative Dialectics as Late Philosophy 503Max Pensky 33 Negative Dialectics and Philosophical Truth 519Brian O’Connor 34 Adorno and Scholem: The Heretical Redemption of Metaphysics 531Asaf Angermann 35 Adorno’s Concept of Metaphysical Experience 549Peter E. Gordon Part VII Ethics and Politics 565 36 After Auschwitz 567Christian Skirke 37 Forever Resistant? Adorno and Radical Transformation of Society 583Maeve Cooke 38 Adorno’s Materialist Ethic of Love 601Kathy J. Kiloh 39 Adorno’s Metaphysics of Moral Solidarity in the Moment of its Fall 615James Gordon Finlayson Index 631
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Transcending Subjects
Book SynopsisTranscending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel and Theology engages the seminal figures of Hegel and Augustine around the theme of subjectivity, with consideration toward the theology and politics of freedom.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Citations and Abbreviations x Introduction 1 Part I Hegel—Self-Transcending Immanence 15 1 Hegel in Contemporary Political Philosophy 17 Introduction 17 Evolutionary Social Practices: Autonomy through Sociality 19 Revolutionary Radical Act: Autonomy against Sociality 27 Conclusion 38 2 Consciousness and Freedom: Logic and Phenomenology of Spirit 43 Introduction 43 Nothing Is Infinite: Science of Logic 45 Infinite Self]Consciousness: Phenomenology of Spirit 62 Beyond Nothing and the Unfathomable 89 Conclusion 93 3 Society and Freedom: Philosophy of Right 103 Introduction 103 The Subject and Substance of Politics 104 The Institutions of Ethical Life: Family, Civil Society, and State 115 The Limits of Self-Transcending Immanence 118 Conclusion 124 Part II Augustine—Self-Immanenting Transcendence 129 4 Augustine in Contemporary Political Theology 131 Introduction 131 Ontological Peace: Transcendence against Liberalism 133 Ordered Love: Transcendence for Liberalism 144 Conclusion 151 5 Conversion and Freedom: Confessions 155 Introduction 155 Conversion of the Will: Conflict and Intervention 160 Conversion of the Will: Community and Intervention 169 Conversion of Creation: Christ as Intervention 178 Conclusion 185 6 Society and Freedom: City of God 192 Introduction 192 Earthly City and the Lust for Domination 198 Justice and Res Publica 205 Justice, Love, and Sacrifice 208 Love and the World 215 Conclusion 222 Conclusion 230 Index 239
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to NineteenthCentury Philosophy
Book SynopsisInvestigate the challenging and nuanced philosophy of the long nineteenth century from Kant to Bergson Philosophy in the nineteenth century was characterized by new ways of thinking, a desperate searching for new truths. As science, art, and religion were transformed by social pressures and changing worldviews, old certainties fell away, leaving many with a terrifying sense of loss and a realization that our view of things needed to be profoundly rethought. The Blackwell Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy covers the developments, setbacks, upsets, and evolutions in the varied philosophy of the nineteenth century, beginning with an examination of Kant's Transcendental Idealism, instrumental in the fundamental philosophical shifts that marked the beginning of this new and radical age in the history of philosophy. Guiding readers chronologically and thematically through the progression of nineteenth-century thinking, this guide emphasizes clear explaTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Preface xiii Chronology of Nineteenth-Century Philosophers xv Timeline of Philosophers xvi Introduction 1John Shand 1 Transcendental Idealism: Kant 20John J. Callanan 2 Theory of Science: Fichte, Schelling 55Gabriel Gottlieb 3 Absolute Idealism: Hegel 83Sebastian Stein 4 The World as Will and Representation: Schopenhauer 117Mary S. Troxell 5 Historicizing Naturalism: Mill, Comte 140Christopher Macleod 6 The Single Individual is Higher than the Universal: Kierkegaard 160Karl Aho and C. Stephen Evans 7 The Rise of Liberal Utilitarianism: Bentham, Mill 185Piers Norris Turner 8 Critique of Religion: Strauss, Feuerbach, Marx 212Todd Gooch 9 Historical Materialism: Marx 236Jan Kandiyali 10 Philosophy and Historical Meaning: Schleiermacher, Dilthey 261Benjamin D. Crowe 11 Late Utilitarian Moral Theory and Its Development: Sidgwick, Moore 281Anthony Skelton 12 American Pragmatism: Peirce, James 311Douglas McDermid 13 The Value of Our Values: Nietzsche 339Andrew Huddleston 14 British Idealism: Green, Bradley, McTaggart 365James Connelly and Giuseppina D’Oro 15 Neo‐Kantianism: Marburg, Southwest Schools 389Evan Clarke 16 The Origins of Phenomenology in Austro‐German Philosophy: Brentano, Husserl 418Guillaume Fréchette 17 New Logic and the Seeds of Analytic Philosophy: Boole, Frege 454Kevin C. Klement 18 Time, Memory and Creativity: Bergson 480Michael R. Kelly Index 506
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Aquinas Among the Protestants
Book SynopsisAQUINAS AMONG THE PROTESTANTS This major new book provides an introduction to Thomas Aquinas's influence on Protestantism. The editors, both noted commentators on Aquinas, bring together a group of influential scholars to demonstrate the ways that Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed thinkers have analyzed and used Thomas through the centuries. Later chapters also explore how today's Protestants might appropriate the work of Aquinas to address a number of contemporary theological and philosophical issues. The authors set the record straight and disavow the widespread impression that Aquinas is an irrelevant figure for the history of Protestant thought. This assumption has dominated not only Protestant historiography but also Roman Catholic accounts of the Reformation and Protestant intellectual life. The book opens the possibility for contemporary reception, engagement, and critique and even intra-Protestant relations and includes: Information on the fruitful appropriation of Aquinas in Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments xiIntroduction: The Reception, Critique, and Use of Aquinas in Protestant Thought 1Manfred Svensson and David VanDrunenPart I The Protestant Reception of Aquinas 251 Deformation and Reformation: Thomas Aquinas and the Rise of Protestant Scholasticism 27Jordan J. Ballor2 Thomas Aquinas and Reformed Biblical Interpretation: The Contribution of William Whitaker 49David S. Sytsma3 Jerome Zanchi’s Use of Thomas Aquinas 75Stefan Lindholm4 Richard Hooker and Thomas Aquinas on Defining Law 91Torrance Kirby5 Johann Gerhard’s Reception of Thomas Aquinas’s Analogia Entis 109Jack Kilcrease6 Doubting Reformational Anti]Thomism 129John Bolt7 The Understanding and Critique of Thomas Aquinas in Contemporary German Protestant Theology 149Sven GrossePart II Constructive Engagement 1678 Philosophy Explored 169Sebastian Rehnman9 The Active and Contemplative Life: The Practice of Theology 189Michael Allen10 On Divine Naming 207Scott R. Swain11 Nature and Grace 229Paul Helm12 Aquinas’s Doctrine of Justification and Infused Habits in Reformed Soteriology 249J. V. Fesko13 The Influence of Aquinas on Protestant Ethics 267Daniel Westberg14 “Justice,” the “Common Good,” and the Scope of State Authority: Pointers to Protestant]Thomist Convergence 287Jonathan ChaplinIndex 307
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Handbook of Social Control
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Social Control offers a comprehensive review of the concepts of social control in today's environment and focuses on the most relevant theories associated with social control. With contributions from noted experts in the field across 32 chapters, the depth and scope of the Handbook reflects the theoretical and methodological diversity that exists within the study of social control. Chapters explore various topics including: theoretical perspectives; institutions and organizations; law enforcement; criminal justice agencies; punishment and incarceration; surveillance; and global developments. This Handbook explores a variety of issues and themes on social control as being a central theme of criminological reflection. The text clearly demonstrates the rich heritage of the major relevant perspectives of social control and provides an overview of the most important theories and dimensions of social control today. Written for academics, undergraduate, and graduate studTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Introduction: Social Control Today 1Mathieu Deflem Part I Theories and Perspectives 7 1 Social Control: History of the Concept 9James J. Chriss 2 Deviance, Social Control, and Criminalization 23Robert F. Meier 3 Law as Social Control 36A. Javier Treviño 4 Social Geometry and Social Control 50Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning 5 Discipline and Governmentality 63Steven Hutchinson and Pat O’Malley Part II Institutions and Organizations 77 6 Social Control in Organizations 79Calvin Morrill and Brittany Arsiniega 7 Psychiatric Control 93Bruce A. Arrigo and Heather Y. Bersot 8 Juvenile Justice 107Shelly S. Schaefer 9 Social Movements and Social Control 121Sherry Cable Part III Criminal Justice 137 10 Race and the Criminal Justice System 139April D. Fernandes and Robert D. Crutchfield 11 Gun Control 153Gary Kleck 12 Restorative Justice 167Rachel Rogers and Holly Ventura Miller 13 Crime Prevention 181Kristie R. Blevins 14 Actuarial Justice 194Gil Rothschild‐Elyassi, Johann Koehler, and Jonathan Simon Part IV Law Enforcement and Policing 207 15 History of Policing 209Massimiliano Mulone 16 Police Technology 221James J. Willis 17 Policing Terrorism 235Mathieu Deflem and Stephen Chicoine 18 Police and Radicalization 249Derek M. D. Silva 19 Police Accountability and Ethics 263Toycia Collins and Charles F. Klahm IV Part V Punishment and Prison 277 20 History of the Prison 279Ashley T. Rubin 21 Prison Culture 293Laura McKendy and Rose Ricciardelli 22 Mass Incarceration 306Roy F. Janisch 23 Abolitionism and Decarceration 319Nicolas Carrier, Justin Piché, and Kevin Walby 24 The Death Penalty 333Paul Kaplan Part VI Surveillance 347 25 Technologies of Surveillance 349Stéphane Leman‐Langlois 26 Surveillance and Public Space 361Kiyoshi Abe 27 Countersurveillance 374James P. Walsh 28 Surveillance in Popular Culture 389Anna S. Rogers Part VII Globalization 401 29 Border Control as a Technology of Social Control 403Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen 30 Immigration Policies 416Samantha Hauptman 31 International Policing and Peacekeeping 428Michael J. Jenkins and John Casey 32 Human Rights and Social Control 442Joachim J. Savelsberg and Brooke B. Chambers Index 456
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Contemporary Epistemology
Book SynopsisA rigorous, authoritative new anthology which brings together some of the most significant contemporary scholarship on the theory of knowledge Carefully-calibrated and judiciously-curated, this strong and contemporary new anthology builds upon Epistemology: An Anthology, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) by drawing a concise and well-balanced selection of higher-level readings from a large, diverse, and evolving body of research. Includes 17 readings that represent a broad and vital part of contemporary epistemology, including articles by female philosophers and emerging thought leaders Organized into seven thoughtful and distinct sections, including virtue epistemology, practical reasons for belief, and epistemic dysfunctions among others Designed to sit alongside the highly-successful anthology of canonical essays, Epistemology: An Anthology, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) Edited by a distinguished edTable of ContentsPreface vii Part I The Ethics of Belief 1 1 Deontological Desiderata 3William Alston 2 Voluntary Belief and Epistemic Evaluation 17Richard Feldman Part II Practical Reasons for Belief ? 29 3 The Wrong Kind of Reason 31Pamela Hieronymi 4 No Exception for Belief 44Susanna Rinard 5 Promising Against the Evidence 58Berislav Marušic Part III Reliance 75 6 Evidentialism and Pragmatic Constraints on Outright Belief 77Dorit Ganson 7 Alief and Belief 91Tamar Gendler 8 Can It Be Rational to Have Faith? 110Lara Buchak 9 Assertion and Practical Reasoning: Common or Divergent Epistemic Standards? 126Jessica Brown Part IV Epistemic Dysfunctions 147 10 Testimonial Injustice 149Miranda Fricker 11 Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification 164Susanna Siegel Part V Virtue Epistemology 179 12 The Search for the Source of Epistemic Good 181Linda Zagzebski 13 Why We Don’t Deserve Credit for Everything We Know 192Jennifer Lackey 14 A (Different) Virtue Epistemology 205John Greco 15 Knowledge and Justification 220Ernest Sosa Part VI Disagreement 229 16 Epistemology of Disagreement: The Good News 231David Christensen 17 The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement 249Thomas Kelly Part VII Permissivism About Belief ? 265 18 Epistemic Permissiveness 267Roger White 19 Permission to Believe: Why Permissivism Is True and What It Tells Us About Irrelevant Influences on Belief 277Miriam Schoenfield Index 296
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Phenomenology of Affective Life Volume XLI
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together new analytic and continental philosophic work on the nature of affectivity. Areas represented include philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language. But such traditional designations fail to do justice to the new ground broken here. Topics include the nature of moods and emotions, the character of images, the relations between affective states and representational content/intentional states. Particular affective phenomena explored include shame, guilt, regret, grief, and alienation.Table of ContentsMIDWEST STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY Volume XLI Phenomenology of Affective Life More than a Feeling: Affect as Radical Situatedness. . . . . . . . . . Jan Slaby 7 Emotional Phenomenology: Toward a Nonreductive Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arnaud Dewalque 27 Reductive Representationalism and Emotional Phenomenology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Uriah Kriegel 41 Not in the Mood for Intentionalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davide Bordini 60 The Epistemic Import of Affectivity: A Husserlian Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jacob Martin Rump 82 Enactivism and the Perception of Others� Emotions . . . . . . . . . . Søren Overgaard 105 Image Consciousness and the Horizonal Structure of Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walter Hopp 130 Grief and the Unity of Emotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Ratcliffe 154 Hope, Powerlessness, and Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Béatrice Han-Pile 175 Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Hacker 202 Revelatory Regret and the Standpoint of the Agent . . . . . . . . . . . Justin F. White 225 Emotions in Early Sartre: The Primacy of Frustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andreas Elpidorou 241 Emotional Self-Alienation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Szanto 260
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology
Book SynopsisWhile the scientific study of vision is well-advanced, a universal theory of qualitative visual appearances (texture, shape, colour and so on) is still lacking. This interdisciplinary handbook presents the work of leading researchers around the world who have taken up the challenge of defining and formalizing the field of experimental phenomenology''. Presents and discusses a new perspective in vision science, and formalizes a field of study that will become increasingly significant to researchers in visual science and beyond The contributors are outstanding scholars in their fields with impeccable academic credentials, including Jan J. Koenderink, Irving Biederman, Donald Hoffmann, Steven Zucker and Nikos Logothetis Divided into five parts: Linking Psychophysics and Qualities; Qualities in Space, Time and Motion; Appearances; Measurement and Qualities; Science and Aesthetics of Appearances Each chapter will have the same strTable of ContentsAbout the Editor vii About the Contributors ix Preface xiii Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction 1 Liliana Albertazzi Part I Linking Psychophysics and Qualities 37 1 Inferential and Ecological Theories of Visual Perception 39 Joseph S. Lappin 2 Public Objects and Private Qualia: The Scope and Limits of Psychophysics 71 Donald D. Hoffman 3 The Attribute of Realness and the Internal Organization of Perceptual Reality 91 Rainer Mausfeld 4 Multistable Visual Perception as a Gateway to the Neuronal Correlates of Phenomenal Consciousness: The Scope and Limits of Neuroscientifi c Analysis 119 Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos and Nikos K. Logothetis 5 Phenomenal Qualities and the Development of Perceptual Integration 145 Mariann Hudák, Zoltan Jakab, and Ilona Kovács Part II Qualities in Space, Time, and Motion 163 6 Surface Shape, the Science and the Looks 165 Jan J. Koenderink 7 Experimental Phenomenology of Visual 3D Space: Considerations from Evolution, Perception, and Philosophy 181 Dhanraj Vishwanath 8 Spatial and Form-Giving Qualities of Light 205 Sylvia C. Pont 9 Image Motion and the Appearance of Objects 223 Katja Dörschner 10 The Role of Stimulus Properties and Cognitive Processes in the Quality of the Multisensory Perception of Synchrony 243 Argiro Vatakis Part III Appearances 265 11 Appearances From a Radical Standpoint 267 Liliana Albertazzi 12 How Attention Can Alter Appearances 291 Peter U. Tse, Eric A. Reavis, Peter J. Kohler, Gideon P. Caplovitz, and Thalia Wheatley 13 Illusion and Illusoriness: New Perceptual Issues and New Phenomena 317 Baingio Pinna 14 Qualitative Inference Rules for Perceptual Transparency 343 Osvaldo Da Pos and Luigi Burigana 15 The Perceptual Quality of Color 369 Anya Hurlbert 16 The Aesthetic Appeal of Visual Qualities 395 Gert van Tonder and Branka Spehar Part IV Measurement and Qualities 415 17 Psychophysical and Neural Correlates of the Phenomenology of Shape 417 Irving Biederman 18 What Are Intermediate-Level Visual Features? 437 Steven W. Zucker 19 Basic Colors and Image Features: The Case for an Analogy 449 Lewis D. Griffin 20 Measuring the Immeasurable: Quantitative Analyses of Perceptual Experiments 477 Luisa Canal and Rocco Micciolo 21 The Non-Accidentalness Principle for Visual Perception 499 Agnès Desolneux, Lionel Moisan, and Jean-Michel Morel Name Index 515 Subject Index 529
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Cengage Learning, Inc Contemporary Issues in Bioethics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Critical Thinking An Empirically Informed
Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills? Traditional textbooks focus almost exclusively on logic and fallacious reasoning, ignoring two crucial problems. As psychologists have demonstrated recently, many of our mistakes are not caused by formal reasoning gone awry, but by our bypassing it completely. We instead favor more comfortable, but often unreliable, intuitive methods. Second, the evaluation of premises is of fundamental importance, especially in this era of fake news and politicized science.This highly innovative text is psychologically informed, both in its diagnosis of inferential errors, and in teaching students how to watch out for and work around their natural intellectual blind spots. It also incorporates insights from epistemology and philosophy of science that are indispensable for learning how to evaluate premises. The result is a hands-on primer for real world critical thinking. The authors bring over four combined decades of classroom expeTrade Review"This is among the very best critical thinking textbooks I've ever seen. What distinguishes it from others, besides its clarity and accessibility, is that it doesn't simply explain the norms of good reasoning and the common ways in which people flout those norms; it also explains the mechanisms that cause us to flout those norms more or less predictably, and thereby helps us to refute the voice of the primitive cave dweller who lives in our brain." --Ram Neta, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"Critical thinking is all too often taught as basic deductive logic with a passing reference to inductive logic. Lyons and Ward’s empirical approach to critical thinking draws upon the vast literature in cognitive psychology on heuristics and biases. They expertly blend traditional coverage of deductive logic, inductive logic, causal inference, and probability theory with important psychological results. The final product is a refreshing and promising method to train people how to critically evaluate pressing claims."--Ted Poston, University of South Alabama "Logicians have developed accurate methods of testing reasoning for such desirable properties as deductive validity and inductive strength. Recent work in cognitive science has shown, however, that in everyday life we tend to evaluate reasoning on the basis of heuristics that fail to track these properties reliably. Lyons and Ward's brilliant book is the first to acknowledge this gap between theory and practice and to develop effective strategies for overcoming it. Bravo!"--Christopher Hill, Brown University"The New Critical Thinking is perfect for introductory students. The approach is original in its being psychologically-informed, and it's practical. It will actually help students become sharper thinkers outside the classroom." --Aaron R. Champene, St. Louis Community College, MeramecTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface to Instructors Introduction To Critical Thinking 1. The Aims and Causes of Belief2. Reasoning and Dual Systems Theory3. Reasoning, Evidence, and Arguments4. Why Reason (Properly)?5. Plan for the BookSummaryPart I: DeductionChapter 1: Validity: Why it Matters 1. Distinguishing the Good From the Bad2. Validity and Impossibility3. More on Logical Impossibility Logical Terms Equivocation4. Logic and the Belief Bias5. Why it Matters: Missing Premises and Insisting on Validity SummaryChapter 2 : Proving Invalidity and Proving Validity 1. Proving Invalidity by Counterexample2. Proving Validity3. Negations, Indicative Conditionals, and Two Important Valid Argument Forms Conditionals and the Wason Test4. Two Important Fallacies: Denying the Antecedent and Affirming the Consequent An Important Note about Fallacious Argument Forms5. More Valid Argument Forms and More About Conditionals 6. Equivalent Sentences and Disguised Conditionals7. Even More Valid Argument Forms: Aristotelian Syllogisms in One Bite Using Euler Diagrams:8. Summation: Evaluating Arguments SummaryChapter 3. Reconstructing and Identifying Deductive Arguments 1. Identifying by Evaluating2. Mapping Complex Arguments3. Reconstructing by Connecting the Dots4. Extra Help: Premise and Conclusion Indicators5. Putting All This TogetherSummaryPart II: InductionChapter 4: Inductive Arguments 1. Statistical Syllogism Conditional Support Comes in Degrees Undermining By Additional Information and the Requirement of Total Evidence2. Defeaters and Mapping Inductive Arguments3. Inductive Generalization Defeaters for Inductive Generalizations The Availability Heuristic4. Argument from Analogy Defeaters for Analogical Inference Deductive Arguments with Analogical Premises5. Inference to the Best Explanation6. Balance of Features7. Confirmation BiasSummaryChapter 5: Causal Inference 1. The Nature of Causation One More Thing about Causation2. "The" Cause? Singling out Causes in a Complex World3. Identifying Causes4. Causation, Correlation, and Confounds Some Varieties of Causal Investigations Better and Worse5. Causal Narratives6. Singular Causes RevisitedSummaryChapter 6: Probability and Frequency 1. Introduction to Probability Probabilities and System 12. Frequencies and Frequency Trees3. The Probability Calculus4. Bayes’s Theorem The Theorem Frequency Trees and Bayes5. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics "Averages" How to Live Effect Size and Effect SignificanceSummaryChapter 7: Reconstructing and Identifying Arguments, Revisited 1. Reconstructing and Identifying2. Mapping More Complex ArgumentsPart III: Truth: Evaluating PremisesChapter 8: Testimony1. The Need for Testimony2. How Can you Spot the Experts if You’re Not an Expert? Sincerity, Competence, Trustworthiness Mapping Arguments from Authority Testimony and Ad Hominem3. Epistemological Perils of the Internet News, Unreliable News, and Fake News4. Wikipedia5. Fair and Balanced?SummaryChapter 9: Science 1. Disagreeing with Science: The Earth is Flat and Star Trek is Real2. Why Trust Science?3. How Does Science Work? Provability Falsifiability4. Hypotheses, Theories, and Conjectures5. Extended Example: Evolution and Historical Explanation6. Science in the Non-Science Press P-hacking7. Applying What We’ve Learned: Crowds, Self-selection, and Causal Fallacies Democracy and Scientific FactSummaryPart IV: ArgumentationChapter 10: Rhetoric 1. Emotion and Belief2. Influencing and Bypassing Reasoning Apt Feelings3. Abuses of Emotive Rhetoric Ad hominem Ad Populum and Peer Pressure Appeals to Force, Pity and Consequences Other Uses of Emotive Language 4. Rhetorical Tricks with Language5. Enthymemes, again6. Rhetoric and Cognitive IllusionSummaryChapter 11: Dialectic 1. The Dynamics of Argumentation The First Golden Rule of Constructive Argumentation: Respond to the Argument The Second Golden Rule: Track the Burden of Proof The Third Golden Rule: Demand Overall Consistency The Fourth Golden Rule: Be Charitable2. Ultimate Premises Depriving the Claimant of Premises3. Analogy, Parity of Reasoning, and Tu QuoqueSummaryAppendix of Fallacies Index
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St Martin's Press What Are Children For
Book SynopsisA modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek self-fulfillment; we want to liberate women to find meaning and self-worth outside the home; and we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change. Weighing the pros and cons of having children, Millennials and Zoomers are finding it increasingly difficult to judge in its favor. With lucid argument and passionate prose, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer the guidance necessary to move beyond uncertainty. The decision whether or not to have children, they argue, is not just a women's issue but a basic human one. And at a time when climate change worries threaten the very legitimacy of human reproduction, Berg and Wiseman conclude that neither our personal n
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Picador The Weil Conjectures
Book SynopsisA New York Times Editors'' Pick and Paris Review Staff PickA wonderful book. --Patti SmithI was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge. --Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesAn eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspirationKaren Olsson's stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblingsSimone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematicianwhile also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it's the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures
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Picador USA The Antidote
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the New York Times-bestselling Four Thousand Weeks, a totally original approach to self-help: success through failure, calm through embracing anxiety.Self-help books don''t seem to work. Few of the many advantages of modern life seem capable of lifting our collective mood. Wealtheven if you can get itdoesn''t necessarily lead to happiness. Romance, family life, and work often bring as much stress as joy. We can''t even agree on what happiness means. So are we engaged in a futile pursuit? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? Looking both east and west, in bulletins from the past and from far afield, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. Whether experimental psychologists, terrorism experts, Buddhists, hardheaded business consultants, Greek philosophers, or modern-day gurus, they argue that in our personal lives, and in society at large, it''
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