Atmosphere/Atmospheres (Atmospheric Spaces)
This is a unique book on terrorism that openly, rationally and passionately delves into what underlies terrorism, what in some cases justifies it on ethical grounds, and how terrorism might be dealt with successfully. Rather than assuming from the start a particular point of view about terrorism, this book uniquely engages the reader in a series of critical discussions that unveil the ethical problems underlying terrorism. A must-read for everyone interested in understanding the depths of terror...
This book was written for people preparing to teach and for universities seeking to improve teacher education. Philosophy of education is the discipline that attempts to prove in depth the why, how, and what of the teaching/learning encounter. Most attempts explore these questions within the context of one of the popular philosophies such as Idealism, Pragmatism, Realism, or Naturalism. Philosophical Theories of Education is different in two respects. It identifies the three basic intellectual...
The Word's Body integrates depth psychology and linguistic philosophy to illuminate a metaphor of the creative process, specifically the performance of literature in public or private as "the word becoming flesh." This book expands the Johannine metaphor to describe the artist/performer/preacher's work of embodying the Word: Creation, Incarnation, and Transformation/Communion: The Words becomes flesh and dwells among us. It is an answer to Susan Sontag's call for an erotics of interpretation.
The Philosophical Computer
by Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, and St. Denis, Paul
Philosophical modeling is as old as philosophy itself; examples range from Plato's Cave and the Divided Line to Rawls's original position. What is new are the astounding computational resources now available for philosophical modeling. Although the computer cannot offer a substitute for philosophical research, it can offer an important new environment for philosophical research.The authors present a series of exploratory examples of computer modeling, using a range of computational techniques to...
A response to the Catholic Bishops' Pastoral on the U.S. economy, this book presents a lay point of view on Catholic social thought and the economy. Three fundamental principles of Catholic social thought are stated: the sacred dignity of the person, the social nature of human life, and the obligation to assign social decisions to the level of authority best suited to take them (subsidiarity). Within those principles, a sense of balance must be maintained. Co-published with the Lay Commission on...
Mountains, Mobilities and Movement
This book explores the moving qualities of mountains by utilising theories, ideas and processes which contribute to a larger understanding of these geological forms. In highlighting the fluid attributes of mountains the authors offer an alternative to the traditional approach of the sciences and the humanities, which address mountains as static geological or geographical features. The essays in this collection posit that movement impacts the relationship between society and mountains - travellin...
This is an original, idiosyncratic, genre-less work that deals with the 'space' created by the intersection of Philosophy, Religion and Psychoanalysis. McGinley is challenged by and challenges Derrideanesque deconstruction, post-Freudian Psychoanalysis, and the feminist critique/appropriation of the Freudian text. This account takes the degradation of our century to be the prophetic sign of signs which no longer permits discourse-philosophical or otherwise.
This self-contained treatise, originally published in 1947 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, examines fundamental features of nature in order to lay the groundwork for providing a solution to the major problems of ethics. The guiding thread of this examination is the idea of freedom. The acknowledgement that this universal freedom, which illustrates the integration of man and his problems in the rest of nature, demonstrates how nature provides a place for man, the being who is at once natural and r...
Life (Analecta Husserliana, #57)
In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life? If the latter, then culture is assimilated into nature and thus would lose its claim to autonomy: its criteria would be superseded by those of nature alone. Of course, nature and culture may both s...
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
by Sir Isaac Newton and Andrew Motte
French Feminists (Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory)
Although at times criticized for its philosophical density, French cultural theory remains a flourishing, if highly contested, area of academic study. Four feminist thinkers in this tradition continue to be especially prominent: Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Helene Cixous, and Luce Irigaray. This new collection from Routledge gathers together the very best secondary literature on these thinkers to provide an indispensable conspectus of their works. Each of the four thinkers is represented...
A marriage of ethical intuitionism and evolutionary ethics that explains the origin of morality in a previously value-free world.
A work regarding the concepts of chemistry and physics is presented here. Aristotle has presented his views on different physical phenomenon, their consequences and reasons behind them. The subject has been dwelled upon in an enlightening manner.
Das Buch nimmt die aktuelle Kritik am EGMR zum Anlass, die Grundsatzfrage zu stellen, welche Rolle dieser gegenuber dem demokratisch-rechtsstaatlichen Entscheidungsprozess seiner Vertragsstaaten einnehmen sollte. Denn die Kritik an der Legitimitat des Gerichtshofs, die momentan im Vereinigten Koenigreich am drastischsten formuliert wird, wirft berechtigte demokratietheoretische Frage auf und ist ernst zu nehmen. Neben einer detaillierten rechtstheoretischen und -methodischen Bewertung der Rechts...
Over the course of Zen's development in China and Japan, the sayings and episodes of the masters have formed a huge collection of literature. Designed to put these writings within easy reach of serious students for inspiration and understanding, this glossary provides 5,500 entries on Zen terms, names of persons, texts, idiomatic expressions, references to Chinese classics, general Buddhist terms, and even particles and other parts of speech considered important in grasping the original intent a...
Virtue, Narrative, and Self (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)
Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity. Chapters address several important issues and neglected themes at the intersection of these research areas. Specific examples include the role of narrative in the identification, differentiation, and cultivation of virtue, the nature of practical reasoning and moral competence, and the influence of life’s narrative structure on...
The Philosophy of Computer Games (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, #7)
Computer games have become a major cultural and economic force, and a subject of extensive academic interest. Up until now, however, computer games have received relatively little attention from philosophy. Seeking to remedy this, the present collection of newly written papers by philosophers and media researchers addresses a range of philosophical questions related to three issues of crucial importance for understanding the phenomenon of computer games: the nature of gameplay and player exper...
Origins of Mind (Biosemiotics, #8)
The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation. Biosemiotics provides a new conceptual space that attracts a multitude of thinkers in the biological and cognitive sciences and the humanities who recognize continuity in the biosphere from the simplest to the most complex organisms, and who are united in the project of trying to account for even language and human consciousness in this comprehensive picture of life. The young interdis...
The creation of intelligent robots is surely one of the most exciting and ch- lenginggoals of Arti?cial Intelligence. A robot is, ?rst of all, nothing but an inanimate machine with motors and sensors. In order to bring life to it, the machine needs to be programmed so as to make active use of its hardware c- ponents. This turns a machine into an autonomous robot. Since about the mid nineties of the past century, robot programming has made impressive progress. State-of-the-art robots are able to...
Experience, Reality, and Scientific Explanation (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, #61)
The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996. The aim of the meeting was to pay homage to these two American scholars, whose contact with Italian and European Universities and Institutes had a major influence on "Continental" thought in the field of epistemology and probability. In fact, Merrilee and Wes spent various periods lecturing at the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Rome, Trieste, Catania and P...
This book argues that within Germanic paganism, considered not as mere cult but as a system of beliefs, it is possible to identify a conceptually coherent understanding of fate which detaches that idea from time, and connects it instead with an implicit theses about the nature of truth as written. Germanic cosmogony, as represented in such precise images as a world-tree, provides a context for an analysis of specific metaphors for the workings of fate as woven or spun by such figures as the Norn...