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9<HTUELA=Hfaecf> Philosophy springer.com/NEWSonline A. Akasoy, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; D. Cairns A. Dunan-Page, Université de Provence, Aix-en- G. Giglioni, Warburg Institute, London, UK (Eds) L. Embree, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL, Provence, France; C. Prunier, Université Paris, Renaissance Averroism and its USA (Ed) Nanterre Cedex, France (Eds) Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in The Philosophy of Edmund Debating the Faith: Religion Early Modern Europe Husserl and Letter Writing in Great Features Britain, 1550-1800 Contents 7 Unique insight into the philosophy of Edmund Preface.- Introduction, A. Akasoy and G. Contents Husserl 7 Required reading for students of Giglioni.- Middle Ages and Renaissance.- Aver- Introduction.- Religion and letter writing, 1550- phenomenology 7 Informed editing by one of roes’ Criticisms of Avicenna’s Philosophy in Latin 1800, G. Schneider.- Part I Protestant Identities.- Cairns’s own students Philosophy and Historiograph, A.Bertolacci.- The Scribal Networks and sustainers in Protestant Giuntine Aristotle-Averroes Edition (1550-1552) Contents martyrology, M. Greengrass.- Thomas Browne, the Revisited, C. Burnett.- Super-Commentaries: The 1. The Transcendental Phenomenological Reduc- Quakers, and a Letter from a Judicious Friend, R. Renaissance Resurgence of Commentaries on tion: Husserl‘s concept of the Idea of Philosophy.- Barbour.- Writing authority in the Interregnum: Averroes, C. Martin.- Marsilio Ficino, the Platonic a. Appendix to Chapter 1.- 2. General Nature of The pastoral letters of Richard Baxter, A. Searle.- Mind and the Monster of Averroes, M. J.B. Al- Intentionality.- 3. General Structure of the Act- Letters and records of the dissenting congrega- len.- The ‘Transmutations’ of a Young Averroist: Correlate.- 4. Thetic Quality.- 5. Act-Horizon.- 6. tions: David Crosley,Cripplegate and Baptist The Account of Celestial Influences in Agostino Founded Structures.- 7. Direct and Indirect, Im- Church life, A. Dunan-Page.- Part II Representa- Nifo’s Commentary on Averroes’ Destructio pressional and Reproductive, Consciousness.- 8. tions of British Catholicism.- ‘For the Greater destructionum, N. Holland.- Intellectual Beatitude Evidence.- 9. Fulfilment.- 10. Pure Possibility.- 11. Glory’: Irish Jesuit letters and the Irish Counter- in the Averroist Tradition: The Case of Agostino Recapitulation and Program. 12. The Egological Reformation,1598-1626, D. Finnegan.- James ‘III Nifo, L. Spruit.- Averroistic Themes in Girolamo Reduction.- 13. Primordial Sense-Perception.- 14. and VIII’ and Catholic Kingship, 1702-1718, D. Cardano’s De immortalitate animorum, J.M.G. Primordial Sense-Perception (Continued).- 15. Szechi.- Every time I receive a Letter from you Valverde.- Phantasms of Reason and Shadows of The Founding Strata of Primordial Sense-Percep- it gives me new vigour’: The correspondence Matter: Averroes’s Notion of the Imagination and tion.- 16. The Constitution of Immanent Objects, of Scalan masters, 1762-1783, C. Prunier.- Part Its Renaissance Interpreters, G. Giglioni.- The and the General Nature of Association.- 17. III Religion, Science and Philosophy.- Debat- early modern period.- Cambridge Platonists and Spontaneity in General Attention.- 18. Doxic ing the faith: Damaris Masham (1658-1708) and Averroism, S. Hutton.- Reconsidering the Case Explication.- 19. The Ego-Aspect of Evidence and religious controversy, S. Hutton.- Dining out in of Elijah Delmedigo’s Averroism and its Impact the Evidence of Reflection.- 20. Syntactical Acts the Republic of Letters: The rhetoric of scientific on Spinoza, C. Fraenkel.- Averroes and Arabic and Syntactical Objects.- 21. The Eidos and the correspondence, C. Preston.- Evangelical Calvin- Philosophy in the Modern Historia philosophica Apriori.- 22. Value Objects and Practical Objects.- ists versus the Hutcheson Circle: Debating the (17th-18th Centuries), G. Piaia.- Immanuel 23. Conceptualization and Expression.- 24. The faith in Scotland, 1738-1739, J. Moore.- Question- Kant, Universal Understanding, and the Mean- Transcendental Ego.- 25. The Transcendental ing church doctrine in private correspondence ing of Averroism in the German Enlightenment, Monad.- 26. The Other Mind and the Intersubjec- in the eighteenth century: Jean Bouhier’s doubts M. Sgarbi.- Averroism and modernity.- Latin tive World.- 27. Conclusion. concerning the soul, A. Thomson.- Index. Averroism: From Myth to History to Fiction, J. Marenbon.- Leo Strauss and the Alethiometer, J. Fields of interests Fields of interests Montgomery.- Was Ibn Rushd an Averroist? The Phenomenology; Epistemology; Modern Philoso- History of Philosophy; Religious Studies; History Problem, the Debate and its Philosophical Impli- phy of Science cations, A. Akasoy. Target groups Target groups Fields of interests Research Research History of Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Discount group Political Theory Discount group Professional Non-Medical Professional Non-Medical Target groups Research Discount group Professional Non-Medical Due October 2012 Due October 2012 Due October 2012 2013. Approx. 270 p. (International Archives of the 2013. X, 222 p. (International Archives of the History History of Ideas Archives internationales d‘histoire 2013. XV, 305 p. 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Díaz Álvarez.- Reading and Rereading This searching examination of the life and philoso- Contents phy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Ideen in Japan, T. Tani.- Edith Stein and Autism, Introduction.- 1. Jeremy R. Garrett, Fabrice Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his K.M. Haney.- Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss and Jotterand, and D. Christopher Ralston – “The engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Racialization, R. Bernasconi.- The Ideen and Neo- Development of Bioethics in the United States: An Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It Kantianism, A. Staiti.- The Distinctive Structure Introduction”.- Part I: The Birth of Bioethics: His- shows how Mehta’s sense of cross-cultural philoso- of the Emotions, A.J. Steinbock.- From Natural torical Analysis.- 2. Eric J. Cassell – “The Begin- phy and religious thought were affected by these Attitude to Life-World, D. Moran.- Husserl on nings of Bioethics”.- 3. Howard Brody – “Teaching engagements, and maps the two key contributions the Human Sciences in Ideen II, T.M. Seebohm.- at the University of Texas Medical Branch, 1971- Mehta made to the sum of human ideas. First, AFTER WORLD WAR I.- The Spanish Speaking 74: Humanities, Ethics, or Both?”.- 4. John Collins Mehta outlined what the author dubs a ‘postcolo- World and José Vasconcelos, A. Zirión.- The Harvey – “André Hellegers, the Kennedy Institute, nial hermeneutics’ that uses the ‘ethnotrope’ of the Ideen and Italy, R.Sacconghi.- Martin Heidegger and the Development of Bioethics: The American- pilgrim to challenge the philosophical hermeneu- and the Grounding of Action, T.J. Nenon.- Aron European Connection”.- 5. H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. tic emphasis on supplementation and augmen- Gurwitsch and the Transcendence of the Physical, – “Bioethics as a Liberal Catholic Heresy: Critical tation. For Mehta, the hermeneutic encounter W. McKenna.- Ludwig Landgrebe and Marginal Reflections on the Founding of Bioethics”.- Part II: ruptures, rather than supplements, the self. Consciousness, D. Marcelle.- Dorion Cairns, The Nature of Bioethics: Cultural and Philosophi- Empirical Types, and Field of Consciousness, L. cal Analysis.- 6. Warren T. Reich – “A Corrective Features Embree.- Ideen I and Eugen Fink, R. Bruzina.- for Bioethical Malaise: Revisiting The Cultural 7 The only full-length study of this important Emmanuel Levinas and a Soliloquy of Light and Influences That Shaped the Identity of Bioethics”.- Hindu philosopher 7 Identifies the ethical Reason, N. de Warren.- Jan Patočka and Built 7. George J. Annas – “American Biopolitics”.- 8. pitfalls of deconstructivism’s employment of the Space, J. Dodd.- The Ideen in the Portuguese Carson Strong – “Medicine and Philosophy: The messianic and its implicit ties to ontotheology’s Speaking World, P.M.S. Alves.- Alfred Schutz Coming Together of an Odd Couple”.- 9. Loretta metaphysics of presence 7 Extrapolates for the and the Problem of Empathy, M. Barber.- Jean- M. Kopelman – “The Growth of Bioethics as a first time Mehta’s alternative to the philosophical Paul Sartre and Phenomenological Ontology, M. Second-Order Discipline”.- Part III: The Practice hermeneutic emphasis on return and edification C. Eshleman.- Simone de Beauvoir and Life, U. of Bioethics: Professional Dimensions.- 10. Rob- Björk.- Merleau-Ponty and Lifeworldly Natural- Contents ert M. Veatch – “The Development of Bioethics:
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