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9<HTUELA=Hdjcie> News 3/2012 Philosophy R. Creath, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA D. Dieks, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; G. Y. Kohler, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,Beer (Ed.) W. J. Gonzalez, University of A Coruña, Ferrol, Spain; Sheva, Israel S. Hartmann, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy M. Stöltzner, University of South Carolina, Reading Maimonides‘ of Logical Empiricism Columbia, SC USA; M. Weber, Université de Genève, Philosophy in 19th Century Switzerland (Eds.) Germany Contents Probabilities, Laws, and Editorial MICHAEL FRIEDMAN, Scientific The Guide to Religious Reform Philosophy from Helmholtz to Carnap and Quine Structures .- GEORG SCHIEMER, Carnap’s Untersuchun- This book investigates the re-discovery of Maimo- gen: Logicism, Formal Semantics,and Metatheory Contents nides’ Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft .- MATTHIAS NEUBER, Realism as a Problem 1 Analysis and Interpretation in the Philosophy of des Judentums movement in Germany of the nine- of Language – From Carnap to Reichenbach and Modern Physics Robert DiSalle.- Part I Percepti- teenth and beginning twentieth Germany. Kaila .- RICHARD CREATH, Analyticity in the on, Language, and Realism.- 2 Seeing Things Move Theoretical Language: Is a Different Account Real- Michael Dummett.- 3 A Critical Examination of Features ly Necessary– .- CHRISTIAN DAMBÖCK, Rudolf Sellars’s Theory of Perception Anil Gupta.- 4 Long 7 First ever study of reception history in modern Carnap and Wilhelm Dilthey: “German” Empi- Ago, in a Context Far Away Mark Wilson.- 5 Va- times of Maimonides' famous "Guide of the ricism in the Aufbau.- CHRISTOPH LIMBECK- gueness, Ambiguity, and the “Sound” of Meaning Perplexed" 7 Original daring claims and theories LILIENAU, Carnap’s Encounter with Pragmatism Sylvain Bromberger.- 6 Carnap’s Philosophical concerning the relation between religious reforms .- THOMAS MORMANN, Toward a Theory of Neutrality Between Realism and Instrumenta- in Judaism and civic emancipation in Western Eu- the Pragmatic A Priori:From Carnap to Lewis and lism Michael Friedman.- Part II Foundations of rope 7 Presents and discusses material written Beyond .- THOMAS UEBEL, Carnap, Philosophy, Mathematics 7 Frege and Benacerraf’s Problem on Maimonides in nineteenth century Germany and “Politics in its Broadest Sense” .- GENERAL Crispin Wright.- 8 More on Frege and Hilbert Serves as an intellectual history of the Reform and PART.- REVIEW ESSAYS.- THOMAS MOR- Michael Hallett.- 9 The Axiom of Choice in an Conservative Movement in Judaism MANN, A Virtual Debate in Exile: Cassirer and Elementary Theory of Operations and Sets John L. Contents the Vienna Circle after 1933.- JOHN MICHAEL, Bell.- Part III Foundations of Physics.- 10 Quan- Emergence – still trendy after all these years .- tum Mechanics and Ontology Hilary Putnam.- 11 Introduction.- Part I: Maimonides - the Guide REVIEWS.- Anne Siegetsleitner (Ed.), Logischer Betting on the Outcomes of Measurements: A for the Reform Movement in Germany.- 1: The Empirismus, Werte und Moral, Wien–New York: Bayesian Theory of Quantum Probability Itamar Beginnings.- 2: The First Reform rabbis.- 3: The Springer, 2010 (Massimo Ferrari).- Matthew Pitowsky.- 12 Is Information the Key? Jeffrey Rabbinical Seminaries.- 4: The Return to Philoso- Eve and Christopher Burke (Eds.), Otto Neurath: Bub.- 13 Correlations and Counterfactuals: The phy.- Part II: Specific Problems in the Reception From hieroglyphics to Isotype. A Visual Autobio- EPR Illusion Allen Stairs.- 14 A Remark About the of Maimonides‘ Philosophy in Nineteenth-and graphy. London: Hyphen Press 2011. (Günther “Geodesic Principle” in General Relativity David Early Twentieth-Century Germany.- 5: Divine Sandner).- Giovanni Vailati. Logic and Pragma- B. Malament.- Bibliography of the Publications of Attributes.- 6: The Law.- 7: Maimonides and tism. Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati. Edited William Demopoulos to 2011 .- Doctoral Theses Kant.- 8: „Rambam or Maimonides“ - Orthodox by Claudia Arrighi, Paola Cantù, Mauro de Zan, to 2011 .- Index . Reactions to the Liberal Maimonides Renaissance and Patrick Suppes. Stanford: CSLI, 2010. (Paolo (1836-1936).- Appendix.- Conclusions.- Primary Palmieri) The Significance of the Hypothetical in Fields of interests German Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century the Natural Sciences. Ed. by Michael Heidelberger Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of the Social Sources on Maimonides‘ Guide.- Biblography. Sciences; Philosophy of Biology and Gregor Schiemann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. Fields of interests (Miles MacLeod) Karl von Meyenn (ed. [...] Target groups History of Philosophy; History; Philosophy of Fields of interests Research Religion Philosophy of Science; History of Philosophy; Product category Target groups Logic Contributed volume Research Target groups Product category Research Monograph Product category Contributed volume Due April 2012 Available Due May 2012 2012. X, 206 p. (Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 2012. XI, 512 p. 15 illus. (The Philosophy of Science in 2012. VI, 324 p. (Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Volume 16) Hardcover a European Perspective, Volume 3) Hardcover Philosophy, Volume 15) Hardcover 7 $139.00 7 $189.00 7 $129.00 ISBN 978-94-007-3928-4 ISBN 978-94-007-3029-8 ISBN 978-94-007-4034-1 9<HTUELA=hdjcie> 9<HTUELA=hdacji> 9<HTUELA=headeb> 73 Philosophy springer.com/NEWSonline P. Kroes, Delft University of Technology, The J. Reid, King‘s College London, UK Netherlands The Metaphysics of Henry More Technical Artefacts: Creations Contents of Mind and Matter 1. Introduction.- 1.1. The Place of Henry More in A Philosophy of Engineering Design Seventeenth-Century Thought.- 1.2. More’s Goals, Targets and Influences.- 1.3. Epistemology and This book presents an attempt to understand the Rhetoric.- 2. Atoms and Void.- 2.1. Background.- nature of technical artefacts and the way they 2.2. Henry More on Atoms.- 2.3. The Void.- 2.4. come into being. Its primary focus is the kind of The Extension of the Universe, and Extramundane technical artefacts designed and produced by mo- Void.- 2.5. Impenetrability.- 2.6. Atomic Shape. 3. dern engineering. In spite of their pervasive influ- Hyle, Atoms and Space.- 3.1. Background.- 3.2. ence on human thinking and doing, and therefore Hyle, Atoms and Space in More’s Philosophical on the modern human condition, a philosophical Poems.- 3.3. More’s Equivocation on the Nature of analysis of technical artefacts and engineering Hyle, 1653–1662.- 3.4. More’s Mature Conception design is lacking. Among the questions addressed of Hyle.- 4. Real Space.- 4.1. Background.- 4.2. are: How do technical artefacts fit into the furnitu- The Immobility of the Parts of Space I: More’s re of the universe? In what sense are they different Cylinder.- 4.3. The Immobility of the Parts of from objects from the natural world, or from the Space II: The Reciprocity of Motion.- 4.4. What social world? What kind of activity is engineering Space Could Not Be.- 4.5. The Reception of More’s design and what does it mean to say that technical Theories of Space.- 5. Spiritual Presence.- 5.1. artefacts are the embodiment of a design? Does it Background: Holenmerianism and Nullibism.- make sense to consider technical artefacts to be 5.2. More’s Refutation of Nullibism.- 5.3. More morally good or bad by themselves because of the and Holenmerianism.- 5.4. Time and Eternity.- 6. way they influence human life? Spiritual Extension.- 6.1. Introduction.- 6.2. Indiscerpibility.- 6.3. Penetrability.- 6.4. Self- Features penetration, Essential Spissitude, and Hylopathia.- 7 Comprehensive overview of the dual nature of 6.5. Divine Real Space.- 6.6. Divine Space before technical artifacts 7 Opens up the black box of and after Henry More.- 7. Living Matter.- 7.1. the design and making of technology 7 Com- Life and Soul.- 7.2. Gradual Monism in More’s bines a theory of technical functions with a theory Philosophical Poems.- 7.3. Life and Causation in of technical artefact kinds 7 Clear discussion the More-Descartes Correspondence.- 7.4. More’s of the philosophical problems of the design of Subsequent Reversal: the Case of Francis Glisson.- technical artefacts 7.5. Anne Conway and Francis Mercury van Helmont.- 7.6. The Eagle-Boy-Bee.- 7.7. More– Contents Conway–van Helmont–Leibniz.- 8. Mechanism Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Technical artefacts.- 2. and its Limits.- 8.1. Introduction.- 8.2. Mechanism Theories of technical functions.- 3. Proper func- in More’s Early Works.- 8.3. The Limits of Mecha- tions and technical artefact kinds.- 4. Engineering nism: Some Case Studies.- 8.4. ‘Mixed Mechanics’. design.- 5. The moral significance of technical [...] artefacts.- Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Index. Fields of interests Fields of interests History of Philosophy; History of Science; Reli- Philosophy of Technology; Engineering Design gious Studies Target groups Target groups Research Research Product category Product category Monograph Monograph Due May 2012 Due June 2012 2012. 310 p. (International Archives of the History of 2012. Approx. 200 p. 10 illus. (Philosophy of Ideas Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées, Engineering and Technology, Volume 6) Hardcover Volume 207) Hardcover 7 $129.00 7 $179.00 ISBN 978-94-007-3939-0 ISBN 978-94-007-3987-1 9<HTUELA=hdjdja> 9<HTUELA=hdjihb> 74.
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