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F. Allhoff, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA (Ed.) F. Allhoff, Western Michigan University; P. Lin, Western Michigan P.S. Anderson, Oxford University, UK (Ed.) University (Eds.) Physicians at War New Topics in Feminist Philosophy Nanotechnology and Society The Dual-Loyalties Challenge of Religion: Resistance and Spiritual Current and Emerging Ethical Issues Practices

In recent years, there has been a tremendous inter- Nanotechnology and Society is a collection of est in the ethical issues that confront physicians in Having enjoyed about a decade of lively critique and twelve essays regarding the ethical implications of times of war, as well as the sometimes instrumen- creativity, feminist philosophy of religion still needs emerging nanotechnologies. The book is divided in- tal use made of physician during wars. This book to be kept alive as a vital field of inquiry with new in- to four unites, which capture the four "hottest" topics presents a theoretical apparatus which undergirds put and new voices from women and men informed in nanoethics: envisioning the future; nonomedicine; those debates, namely by casting physicians as being by, but also critically engaged with, the rich tradi- human enhancement; and privacy. The design of this confronted with dual-loyalties during times of war. tions of philosophy of religion. This twenty- book is to engender debates on these topics rather While this theoretical apparatus has already been de- first century volume on feminist topics in philoso- than merely to present unrelated articles. On each of veloped in other contexts, it has not been specifical- phy of religion seeks to maintain such vitality. The these topics, there will be three papers. In most cas- ly brought to bear on the ethical conflicts that attain basic premise is that old models of God, of rela- es, there is one paper that "sets the stage" for the de- in wars. Arguably, wars do cast physicians into ethi- tions between human and divine, and between gen- bate by talking about the status of the sciences and cal conflicts insofar as these wars create a tension be- dered subjects, will no longer ‘simply do’ for femi- the effects that those sciences will have on society, tween a physician’s obligation to heal and an obliga- nist philosophers. The volume will sketch possibili- and then this paper is followed by two articles which tion to serve some other good (e.g., national security, ties for feminist philosophy of religion in relation to take contrary positions on the moral significance of the general public, the greater good, etc.). Whether the creation of sacred space, including the divine in those developments. this dual-loyalty framework is appropriate is debat- everyday life and the sacred as vocation.Contributors able. Certainly some people think that it is, but oth- to this volume critically engage with a range of west- ers have argued that it is not. For example, Michael Features All authors are among the leaders in the fields, and ern philosophers including Immanuel Kant, Søren Walzer holds that non-medical duties cannot attach Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, Iris Mur- to physicians (due [..] are all highly-regarded academics who play significant roles in the developments of these debates. doch, Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Levinas, Luce [..] Features 1. Looking at a topic that has thus far not been treat- Contents Foreword;Introduction; 1. Foundational Issues; 2. Features ed at book length and nowhere nearly as comprehen- Reflects the vital field of feminist philosophy of reli- sively, it is extremely timely and highly current. 2. Risk & Regulation; 3. Industry & Policy; 4. The Human Condition; 5. Global Issues. gion with new input and new voices from scholars The book offers a unique and broad basis for dealing critically engaged with the rich traditions of the field with issues that not only impact on medical ethics, Fields of interest Addresses the feminist struggle with and beyond op- but cut across various spheres of justice in a setting Philosophy pressive aspects of God, especially gender specific defined by the multiple perspectives of medical, mili- conceptions of the divine Goes into the question of tary and legal practice. 2. This volume is [..] Target groups how ethnic, racial, sexual, social and material differ- Researchers in nanoethics, libraries, course adop- ences can lead to more just configurations [..] Contents tions 1. Matthew Wynia, Preface 2. Fritz Allhoff, "Physi- Contents cians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge" I. Type of publication Introduction; Pamela Sue Anderson.- Section I The Dual-Loyalties Challenge 3. Len Rubenstein, Contributed volume – Transcendence Incarnate.- 1. Widowed "The Dual-Loyalties Challenge" 4. Michael Walz- Women in Jewish Stories; Alicia Suskin Ostrik- er, "Spheres of Justice" (reprint) 5. Fritz Allhoff, Due June 2008 er.- 2. Widowed Women in Hindu Sto- "Are They Physicians?" II. The Torture Debate 6. ries; Parita Mukta.- 3. Transcendence and Steve Milles, "Abu Ghraib: Its Legacy for Military Dynamic Stasis in Emmanuel Levinas; Kathryn Be- Medicine" (reprint) 7. Jonathan Marks and Gregg 2008. Approx. 210 p. Geb. vis.- 4. The Le Doeuffian Model of Rad- Bloche, TBD (trying to get new contribution!) 8. ical Friendship: Against Subjection and the Aban- 90,90 € Richard Matthews, "Indecent Medicine: In Defense doned Fiancee; Daniel Whistler.- 5. Is ISBN 978-1-4020-6208-7 of the Absolute Prohibition against Physician Partici- Literature Any Help in Dealing with Eve and Mary?; pation in Torture" (reprint) 9. John Lunstroth, [..] Dorota Filipczak.- 6. Feminist Imagin- ings and the Body in Pain: Revisiting the Philosophi- Fields of interest cal Imaginary; Marije [..] Ethics; Philosophy Fields of interest Target groups Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy Philosophers, (military) ethicists, (military) physicians, (military) lawyers, human rights Type of publication lawyers, medical practitioners, political scientists. Contributed volume Type of publication Contributed volume Due May 2009

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M. Barbieri, University of Ferrara, Italy (Ed.) D. Birnbacher, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany; Th. Bonk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München E. Dahl, University of Giessen, Germany (Eds.) The Codes of Life Underdetermination. Giving Death a Helping Hand The Rules of Macroevolution An essay on evidence and the limits of knowledge Physician-assisted suicide and public policy. An international perspective.

Building on a range of disciplines – from biology and Underdetermination. An Essay on Evidence and the anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – this Limits of Knowledge is a wide-ranging study of the book draws on the expertise of leading names in the From the perspective of patients, physician-assist- thesis that scientific theories are systematically "un- study of organic, mental and cultural codes brought ed suicide is a more unambiguous expression of the derdetermined" by the data they account for. This together by the emerging discipline of biosemiotics. patient's autonomous will. From the legislator's per- much-debated thesis is a thorn in the side of scien- The book’s 18 chapters present a range of experi- spective it seems less liable to misuse and abuse. And tific realists and methodologists of science alike and mental evidence which suggests that the genetic code often the availability of assisted suicide, instead of of late has been vigorously attacked. After analyzing was only the first in a long series of organic codes, shortening the life of a patient, has proved to pro- the epistemological and ontological ascpects of the and that it has been the appearance of new codes – long it. Public policy has begun to respond to this controversy in detail, and reviewing pertinent logical organic, mental and cultural – that paved the way for prospect. Notably in Switzerland and Germany, the facts and selected scientific cases, Bonk carefully ex- the major transitions in the history of life. While the attitudes of public bodies towards physician-assisted amines the merits of arguments for and against the existence of many organic codes has been proposed suicide are in a process of change, partly motivated thesis. Along the way, he investigates methodolog- since the 1980s, this volume represents the first mul- by the wish to take the edge off the pressure for legal- ical proposals and recent theories of confirmation, ti-authored attempt to deal with the range of codes isation of active euthanasia. The present volume fo- which promise to discriminate among observational- relevant to life, and to reveal the ubiquitous role of cuses on public policy issues related to physician-as- ly equivalent theories on evidential grounds. He ex- coding mechanisms in both organic and mental evo- sisted suicide. It offers a detailed analysis of the cur- plores sympathetically but critically W.V.Quine and lution. This creates the conditions for a synthesis of rent legal standing and practice of physician-assisted H.Putnam’s arguments for the thesis, the relation- biology and linguistics that finally overcomes the old suicide in various countries and discusses the ethical ship between indeterminacy and underdetermina- divide between nature and culture. The book will ap- principles underlying its legal and professional regu- tion, and possibilities for a conventionalist solution. peal to all [..] lation. In addition, it contains a number of personal This book is of interest to anyone [..] narratives by professionals who have for many years Features been [..] Features First multi-authored book on organic codes Genetic READABLE INTRODUCTION TO THE CONTRO- code was only first of a long series of organic codes Features VERSY BALANCED ANALYSIS IMPORTANT Finally the rules of macroevolution looked for by Up-to-date overview of legislation on physician-as- TOPIC IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE UP-TO – generations of biologists Organic codes are the key sisted suicide all over the world Critical appraisals of DATE, TIMELY to understanding the major transitions of life histo- the views taken by professional codes toward physi- ry Evolution took place by natural selection, conven- cian-assisted suicide Practice reports of some of the Contents tions Mental, cultural codes came after a three-bil- leading figures in the practice of physician-assisted 1 A Humean Predica- lion-year history of organic codes suicide in Switzerland and in the Netherlands ment?1.1. Aspects of Underdetermination 1.2. Significance Contents Contents of the Thesis 1.3. Quine, Realism, and Editorial.- 1. Codes of biosequences.- 2. The mecha- Preface; I. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Underdetermination 1.4. No quick nisms of evolution.- 3. Catalytic propensity of amino Public Policy;II. Physician-Assisted Suicide – An In- solutions 1.5. Three responses and acids and the origins of the genetic code and pro- ternational Perspective ;III. Physician-Assisted strategies 2 Underdetermination Is- teins.- 4. Why the genetic code originated.- 5. Self- Suicide – Narratives from Professional and Personal sues in the Exact Sciences2.1. Logical Equivalence, referential formation of the genetic system.- 6. The Experience Interdefinability, and Isomorphism 2.2. Theo- mathematical structure of the genetic code.- 7. The rems of Ramsey and Craig 2.3. From Denota- Fields of interest arithmetical origin of the genetic code.- 8. Protein tional Vagueness to Ontological Relativity 2.4. Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Ethics linguistics and the modular code of the cytoskele- Semantic Arguments 2.5. Physical ton.- 9. A lipid-based code in nuclear signalling.- 10. Target groups Equivalence 2.6. Underdetermination of [..] Biological information transfer beyond the genet- Medical ethicists, medical sociologists, medical Fields of interest ic code: the sugar code.- 11. The immune self code: lawyers from correspondence to [..] Philosophy of Science Type of publication Target groups Fields of interest Contributed volume Evolutionary Biology; Philosophy of Biology; Coding PHILOSOPHERS OF SCIENCE WITH AN IN- and Information Theory; Interdisciplinary Studies; TEREST IN METHODOLOGY, CONFIRMATION Semantics Due June 2008 THEORY, AND REALISM; ANYONE INTEREST- ED IN QUINE’S PHILOSOPHY Target groups 2008. Approx. 185 p. (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the Biologists of all fields, ecologists, anthropologists, New Medicine, Band 38) Geb. 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S.-V. Brakman, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA; D. Fozard W. Carnielli, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil; M. D.K. Chan, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI, USA. (Ed.) Weaver, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA (Eds.) Coniglio, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil; D.M. Gabbay, King's College, London, United Kingdom; P. Gouveia, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal; C. Sernadas, Instituto Superi- Moral Psychology Today: Essays on The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and or Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal Values, Rational Choice, and the the Catholic Tradition Analysis and Synthesis of Logics Will

How to Cut and Paste Reasoning Systems The book’s strength is its careful consideration, from This volume is an edited collection of original papers a variety of perspectives within the Catholic tra- on the theme of "Values, Rational Choice, and the dition, of the practice of embryo adoption. It ap- Will". The editor is a Stanford-trained moral philoso- proaches the question in an open and reasonable way Starting with simple examples showing the relevance pher, and the organizer of a conference held on April by allowing proponents of diverse positions within of cutting and pasting logics, the monograph devel- 1-3, 2004. The conference succeeded in bring- the tradition. This method both sheds a great deal of ops a mathematical theory of combining and decom- ing together a wide range of essays that dealt with light on the particular question and at the same time posing logics, ranging from propositional and first- most of the central questions of moral philosophy to- introduces the reader to the relevant general princi- order based logics to higher-order based logics as day, in both normative ethics and meta-ethics, the- ples that guide Catholic moral thought. well as to non-truth functional logics. The theory covers mechanisms for combining semantic struc- oretical and applied ethics, and especially in moral Features tures and deductive systems either of the same or dif- psychology, a broad area at the intersection of moral One of the first two collections on the Catholic Tra- ferent nature (for instance, two Hilbert calculi or a philosophy and philosophy of mind and action. dition and Embryo Adoption The first Interdisci- Hilbert calculus and a tableau calculus). The impor- Features plinary contribution to Catholic scholarship on Em- tant issue of preservation of properties is extensive- This book provides the most current and extensive bryo Adoption, with contributions from a medical ly addressed. For instance, sufficient conditions are update on research in moral psychology In contrast practitioner and a couple who have embryo adopted, provided for a combined logic to be sound and com- with most recent books in moral psychology, the in addition to those from philosophers and theolo- plete when the original component logics are known original papers in this volume explore a wide range gians Argues for new approaches to moral analysis of to be sound and complete. The book brings the read- of topics in moral psychology, and is not just nar- embryo adoption, while working within the Catholic er to the front line of current research in the field by rowly focused on a single issue This collection brings [..] showing both recent achievements and directions of future investigations (in particular, multiple open together the work of established philosophers and Contents problems). It also provides examples of potential ap- up-and-coming philosophers, writing from several From the contents Part One: The Morality of Em- plications in emergent fields like [..] [..] bryo Adoption. Arguments against. Arguments for.- Contents Part Two: The Debate Engaged.- Part Three: Morali- Features Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Introduction; ty in the Practice. Notes on Contributors. Index. First book addressing both composition and decom- position of logics Tool box for combining and de- David K. Chan.- Part I: Meta-ethics of Values.- 1. Fields of interest composing logics in different guises Mathematical Moral Realism, Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism and Nat- Ethics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Reproductive approach Several examples in diverse areas such as uralism; Drew Khlentzos.- 2. Buck-Passing Per- Medicine; Philosophy of Religion; Religion; Philoso- software specification, knowledge representation, sonal Values; Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen.- Part II: phy of Medicine argumentation theory, networks, security protocols Reason and Choice.- 3. Volitions, Comparative and quantum computing Written by internationally Value Judgments, and Choice; Joseph Boyle.- 4. Target groups leading researchers in the field of pure and applied The Insignificance of Choice; Joseph S. Biehl.- Part Scholars and graduate students in the fields of phi- logic and philosophy III: Desire and Intention.- 5. The Indetermi- losophy, theology, bioethics, women’s studies, nacy of Desire and Practical Reason; Patrick Flem- Catholic studies, law/political science, sociology; Contents ing.- 6. The Myth of Objectively Alien Desires; James professionals who work on issues of sex, marriage, Preface.- 1. Introductory Overview.- 2. Splicing Log- Stacey Taylor.- 7. On the Intelligibility of Bad Acts; and family; clinicians, practitioners of traditional ics: Syntactic Fibring.- 3. Splicing Logics: Semantic [..] forms of adoption Fibring.- 4. Heterogenous Fibring.- 5. Fibring Non- Truth Functional Logics.- 6. Fibring First-Order Fields of interest Type of publication Logics.- 7. Fibring Higher-Order Logics.- 8. Modu- Ethics; Philosophy of Mind; Psychology, general; Contributed volume lated Fibring.- 9. Splitting Logics.- 10. New Trends: Philosophy Network Fibring.- 11. Summing-up and Outlook.- Target groups Due April 2008 Bibliography.- Subject Index.- Table of Symbols.- This book is designed with both professional List of Figures. philosophers and graduate students in mind as po- 2007. Approx. 318 p. (Catholic Studies in Bioethics, Band 95) Geb. Fields of interest tential readers. 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R.T. Cook, Villanova University, PA, USA (Ed.) C. Dilworth, University of Uppsala, Sweden G. Dueck, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Mannheim, Germany

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This volume collects together a number of impor- Since many years, all the managers are frantically tant papers concerning both the method of abstrac- The Metaphysics of Science provides a clear, well- cost cutting to save their souls. What can be saved tion generally and the use of particular abstraction founded conception of modern science, according additionally? This book provides a new gold mine: principles to reconstruct central areas of mathemat- to which its core consists of particular metaphysical Save intelligence! Don’t pay high salaries to white ics along logicist lines. Gottlob Frege's original logi- principles. On this view, both the empirical and the collar academics anymore. Start to organize all your cist project was, in effect, refuted by Russell's para- theoretical aspects of science are the result of the at- enterprise work flow in the manner of no-brainers. dox. Crispin Wright has recently revived Frege’s en- tempt to apply these metaphysical principles to reali- If all the work is utmost stupidified and simplified, terprise, however, providing a philosophical and ty. There is a flexibility in the application of the prin- the modern enterprise can even try to educate its technical framework within which a reconstruction ciples, however, so that, in their scientific guise, they customers to do all the necessary work themselves of arithmetic is possible. While the Neo-Fregean may come to be reformed over time through scien- – for the honor of a platinum status, say. The lean project has received extensive attention and discus- tific revolutions. This approach to modern science brain enterprise delivers lean brain quality without sion, the present volume is unique in presenting a provides a unified conception of the enterprise, ex- any compromise. 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Minimal intelligence in reconstruction of real analysis from various cut- or more, it provides a resolution of the long-standing politics, universities, schools, economics, and every- cauchy-sequence-related abstraction principles and debate between empiricism and realism. In this re- where! 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M. Düwell, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands; C. Rehmann- M. Ferrari, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; G. Potworowski, M. Foreman, State University of California; A. Kanamori, Boston Sutter, Universität Basel, Switzerland; D. Mieth, Universität University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (Eds.) University (Eds.) Tübingen, Germany (Eds.) Teaching for Wisdom Handbook of Set Theory The Contingent Nature of Life Cross-cultural perspectives on Fostering Wisdom Bioethics and Limits of Human Existence This handbook is the definitive compendium of the methods, results, and current initiatives in modern Wisdom is valued as an ideal aim of personal devel- set theory in all its research directions. Set theory has This volume explores the different dimensions of opment around the world. But we rarely see how entered its prime as an advanced and autonomous how the contingency of life, and especially human wisdom is understood in different religious and field of mathematics with foundational significance, life, is relevant for ethical discussions and the nor- philosophical traditions and different scientific disci- and the expanse and variety of this handbook attests mative frameworks in bioethics. It explores the rel- plines, and more particularly how wisdom is taught. to the richness and sophistication of the subject. The evance of the notion contingency, needs and de- The emphasis of the book is on whether wisdom can chapters are written by acknowledged experts, major sires for moral argumentation and bioethics. The be taught, not on what wisdom is, making it both research figures in their areas, and they each bring volume discusses those notions in a philo- more practical and more personally engaging. More to bear their experience and insights in carefully sophical perspective, but pays special attention to the specifically, it considers how people at different wrought, self-contained expositions. There is histor- impact of life sciences for people with disabilities and times and places have engaged the age-old question ical depth, elegant development, probing to the fron- intercultural perspectives on the bioethical debates. of how (or whether) we can learn to live a good life, tiers, and prospects for the future. This handbook is Additionally, the volume is a contribution to a deep- and what that life is like. The chapters in this book essential reading for the aspiring researcher, a pivotal er reflection on basic philosophical assumptions of area welcome introduction to this vast field from a focus for the veteran set theorist, and a massive ref- bioethics. variety of different perspectives. Chapters consider erence for all those who want to gain a larger sense Greek and Confucian philosophy, Christian, Islam- of the tremendous advances that have been made in Features ic and Buddhist religion, African tradition, as well as the subject, one which first appeared as a foundation Examines the basic ethical notions such as desire, contemporary scientific approaches to the study of of mathematics but in the last several decades has ex- needs and rights in a substantial philosophical man- wisdom. Authors of each chapter are leading scholars panded [..] ner and elaborates the relevance of these notions to in their respective fields, and representing a range of recent bioethical discussions Studies the relation- disciplines including philosophy, [..] Features ships between the ‘contingency’ of life and the cur- Definitive compendium of all of modern set theory. rent developments in the life sciences Discusses the Features Chapters written by the leading experts in their ar- impact of the life sciences on disabilities in a broader Emphasis of the book is on whether wisdom can be eas. Carefully crafted, self-contained expositions for philosophical perspective Studies the [..] taught, not on what wisdom is Practical and person- all the subfields of set theory. No other up-to-date ally engaging look at how people at different times single source available for all the subfields of set the- Contents and places have engaged the question of how we can ory. Introduction; Contingency of Life and the Eth- learn to live a good life Gathers together a range of ical. Ethical Theories and the Limits of perspectives never before assembled within a single Fields of interest Life Sciences. Cases of Limits. .Abilities volume Includes scientific, philosophical, and reli- Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Logic; Philos- and Disabilities. Others’ Views: Intercultural gious perspectives on wisdom usually considered [..] ophy of Science Perspectives. Fields of interest Target groups Fields of interest Education & Society; Philosophy of Education; Com- Graduate students, researchers, and all mathemati- Ethics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Philosophy of parative Education; Pedagogic Psychology; Philoso- cians interested in set theory. 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B. Gordijn, Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; H. Grasswick, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A. (Ed.) J. Hansel, Th Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (Ed.) A.M. Cutter, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK (Eds.) Feminist Epistemology and Levinas in Jerusalem: In Pursuit of Nanoethics Philosophy of Science: Power in Phenomenology, Ethics, Politics, Transatlantic Reflections on Nanotechnology Knowledge Aesthetics

Features Having enjoyed more than twenty years of develop- A disciple of Husserl and Heidegger, a contempo- Global governance focus (including authors from ment, feminist epistemology and philosophy of sci- rary of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, Levinas entirely a number of global organisations) Exploration of ence are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering cur- renewed the way of thinking ethics in our times. In the nanotechnology-biotechnology convergence rent scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. contrast to the whole tradition of Western philoso- Transatlantic perspective (deliberate inclusion of In addition to a recognition of the power of knowl- phy, he considered ethics neither as an aspiration to global perspectives from US, Europe and developing edge itself and its effects on women’s lives, a cen- individual perfection, nor as the highest branch in world). Interdisciplinary approach to issues drawing tral feature of feminist epistemology and philoso- the Cartesian tree of knowledge, but as “first philos- on authors from across the natural sciences and so- phy of science has been the attention they draw to ophy”. By putting into question the priority of Be- cial sciences Balanced framing of nanoethics as an the role of power dynamics within knowledge-seeking, by seeing responsibility for the other person as [..] ing practices and the implications of these dynam- the very structure of subjectivity, Levinas initiated ics for our understandings of knowledge, science, a new understanding of time, freedom or language. Contents and epistemology.Feminist Epistemology and Philos- This book is a collection of papers given at the Inter- Introduction: Conceptions of Nanoethics; Part I: ophy of Science: Power in Knowledge collects new national Conference “Levinas in Jerusalem” held at Nanotechnology, Innovation and Industry. 1: Intel- works that address today’s key challenges for a pow- the Hebrew University in May 2002. 2006 marks the lectual Property Issues in Nanotechnology; 2: Com- er-sensitive feminist approach to questions of knowl- Centennial of Levinas’s birth. At this occasion, this mercialisation and global access to nanotechnol- edge and scientific practice. The essays build upon book gives an overview of the most fecund areas of ogy; 3: Nanotechnology and the Biotech Market; established work in feminist epistemology and phi- research in Levinas scholarship. By bringing together Part II: Nanotechnology and Society. 4: Risk percep- losophy of science, offering new developments in the historians of philosophy, phenomenologists, special- tions in NanoTechnology; 5: Communicating Nan- fields, and representing the broad array of the fem- ists in Jewish thought and Talmud, as well as in poli- otechnology; 6: Nanotechnology as the new GMO?; inist work now being done and the many ways in tics and aesthetics, it [..] Part III: Nanotechnology and Health. 7: The case for which [..] NanoMedicine ; 8: The perils of NanoMedicine; 9: Features Nanotechnology & Genomics; Part IV: Nan- Features In contrast with other studies which separate otechnology and the Environment. 10: The [..] Third generation feminist work on today's key chal- Levinas’s philosophical writings from his Jewish lenges for a power-sensitive feminist approach to ones, the book focuses on their many interactions Fields of interest questions of knowledge and scientific practice Ad- Numerous studies focus on the relationship between Ethics; Law, general; Nanotechnology; Social Sci- dressing the many ways in which feminists incorpo- Levinas’ ethics and his politics, a field that evokes a ences; R & D/Technology Policy rate power dynamics into their analyses Goes beyond growing interest in academic circles as well as in the the classic divisions of feminist empiricism, feminist larger audience Presents papers writen by worldwide Target groups standpoint theory, and feminist postmodernism, of- renowned Levinas scholars as well as by young [..] Academics: Those involved in the academic devel- fering new interpretations and new applications of opment or assessment of nanotechnology within the these [..] Contents natural or social sciencies. Industry: Those involved Part One: Phenomenology. Leaving the Climate of in the commercial development of nanotechnology Contents Heidegger’s Thinking. The Presence of Being and projects Policy Makers: Those involved in develop- Introduction; Heidi E. Grasswick I Intersections: Time in Totality and Infinity.-The Theoretical to the ing nanotechnology policy (at the national, regional Feminism, Epistemology, and Science Studies Epis- Rescue of Levinas.- Part Two: Ethics, Politics and or global level) temology in the Twenty-First Century: Why Femi- Justice. Judaism, the Jewish People and the State. A nist Epistemology Can Claim a Central Place; Phyl- Reading of Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic Commen- Type of publication lis Rooney Contextualism in Feminist Epistemolo- tary "Judaism and Revolution". Necessity and Legiti- Contributed volume gy and Philosophy of Science; Kristina Rolin Post- macy of the State. Political Reason and Prophetism: colonial Philosophies of Science: Gender Issues; San- How is the Other Ordered to Me? Levinas and Berg- Due October 2008 dra Harding Up to two of the following five essays: son on Justice and Infinity. In Defense of Violence: Third Wave Materialism: Feminist Epistemology Af- Levinas and the Problem of Justice.- Part Three: Eros ter Feminist Postmodernism; Iris van der Tuin Infor- and the Feminine. The Language of [..] 2008. Approx. 200 p. (The International Library of Ethics, Law and mation, Interference, and Interdisciplinarity in Fem- Technology , Band 2) Geb. inist Technoscience; Ellen Moll A [..] Fields of interest Philosophy 99,51 € Fields of interest ISBN 978-1-4020-6816-4 Epistemology; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy Target groups Academics in phenomenology and history of philos- Type of publication ophy; readers with an interest in ethics and politics, Contributed volume religion and Judaism

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M.G. Hansson, Uppsala University, Sweden J. Hoffmeyer, Department of Molecular Biology, University of E. Husserl Copenhagen, Denmark (Ed.) The Private Sphere Introduction to Logic and Theory of A Legacy for Living Systems Emotional Territory and Its Agent Knowledge. Lectures 1906/07 Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics

The non-interference perspective is common when theorizing about the protection of the private life Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century Features of individuals and their families. However, this ac- thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range * Husserl is one of the most seminal thinkers of the cepted way of looking at things, leads our thoughts of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects 20th century and his full contribution to philosophy, astray. It fails to do justice to the interests both in of communication and epistemology. A number of in this case philosophy of logic and mathematics, has being left in peace but at the same time participat- his insights were taken up and developed further in yet to be realized * His ideas are presented here in an ing in a community together with other people. New anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and incomparably clearer, livelier, more easily readable methods of communications interception, video communication theory. But the large, trans-disci- and assimilable manner than in other works translat- and even satellite surveillance allow insight and an plinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his ma- ed into English. * Can serve as an introduction to his entry into personal matters, but they can also be jor contribution to science received little attention thought and to his phenomenology in [..] used to satisfy people's need for protection, safety from the mainstream scientific communities. This Fields of interest and security in public places. A theory about the re- book represents a major attempt to revise this defi- Phenomenology; Logic spect for the individual's right to a private sphere ciency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and and its protection ought therefore to incorporate Target groups philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might both these interests. In The Private Sphere it is sug- Teachers, scholars, students of German or Continen- lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in gested that an emotional territory, which forms the tal philosophy; twentieth century philosophy; the modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's individual's own sphere of action and experience, has history and philosophy of logic; phenomenology; bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in de- developed in the course of evolution in pace with the theory of knowledge. individual's conditions of life, brought about by chal- veloping the set of ideas explored in the new field of lenges in the natural and [..] biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed Type of publication basically semiotic or communicative lies at [..] Collected works Features an explanation of a concept often used but seldom Features understood in political discussions an integrated ap- No competing titles Long overdue Reframing of cen- Due November 2007 proach from evolutionary biology, psychology and tral problems in modern science philosophy to show how humans and social animals 2008. Approx. 550 p. (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected navigate between the private and the social a well re- Contents Works , Band 13) Softcover searched and clear account about the meaning and 1. Angels fear revisited. Gregory Bateson's cyber- importance of enjoying a private sphere netic theory of mind applied to religion-science de- 26,75 € bates; M.C. Bateson.- 2. From thing to relation. On ISBN 978-1-4020-6726-6 Contents Bateson's bioanthropology; J. Hoffmeyer.- 3. What Foreword.Introduction.1.The private sphere from connects the map to the territory?; T. Cashman.- 4. a historical and cultural perspective.2. Integrity as The pattern which connects pleroma to creatura; T. an emotional territory – a psychological and evolu- Deacon, J. Sherman.- 5. Bateson’s method: double tionary perspective3. Integrity as something which description; J. Hui et al.- 6. Gregory Bateson's is morally worth protecting.4. Respect for the indi- relevance to current molecular biology; L. Bruni.- vidual as a person with moral and political authori- 7. Process ecology: creatura at large in an open unity- integrity from a philosophical perspective.5. Bal- verse; R.E. Ulanowicz.- 8. Connections in action – ancing seclusion and participation-integrity from the bridging implicit and explicit [..] perspective of moral philosophy.6. Legal protection – privacy and integrity from the perspective of ju- Fields of interest risprudence and the law.7. 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E. Husserl E. Husserl, R.D. Rollinger, Husserl Archief, Leuven, Belgium (Ed.) E. Husserl, R. Sowa, Husserl-Archief, Leuven, Belgium (Ed.)

Introduction to Logic and Theory of Edmund Husserl. Untersuchungen Die Lebenswelt

Knowledge. Lectures 1906/07 zur Urteilstheorie Auslegungen der vorgegebenen Welt und ihrer Konstitution. Texte aus dem Nachlass (1916-1937) Texte aus dem Nachlass (1893-1918)

This course on logic and theory of knowledge fell ex- actly midway between the publication of the Logical Der Begriff der Lebenswelt wird gewöhnlich nur mit Die im vorliegenden Band herausgebenen Investigations in 1900-01 and Ideas I in 1913. It con- dem Spätwerk Husserls und insbesondere mit seiner Forschungsmanuskripten basieren auf den so- stitutes a summation and consolidation of Husserl’s letzten, zu Lebzeiten nur teilweise veröffentlichten genannten U-Blättern, einer von Edith Stein logico-scientific, epistemological, and epistemo-phe- Schrift Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften im Auftrag Husserls 1917 zusammengestellten nomenological investigations of the preceding years und die transzendentale Phänomenologie in Manuskriptsammlung zur "Urteilstheorie". Für and an important step in the journey from descrip- Verbindung gebracht; in Wirklichkeit handelt es sich Husserl war die Urteilstheorie das Kernstück der tivo-psychological elucidation of pure logic in the dabei um einen Begriff, der schon recht früh ein zen- phänomenologischen Theorie der Vernunft, da in Logical Investigations to the transcendental phe- trales Anliegen der phänomenologischen Philoso- ihr die Probleme der Logik, der Ausdrucks- und Be- nomenology of the absolute consciousness of the ob- phie Husserls zum Ausdruck bringt: die Rehabili- deutungslehre sowie der Erkenntnistheorie in ihrer jective correlates constituting themselves in its acts tierung der vorwissenschaftlichen anschaulichen wechselseitigen Verbundenheit zum Austrag kom- in Ideas I. In it Husserl began developing his tran- Welt gegenüber den Naturwissenschaften und den men. Die im ersten Teil des Bandes veröffentlichten scendental phenomenology as the genuine realiza- naturalistischen Philosophien. Diese überspringen Texte aus dem Zeitraum 1893 bis 1899 zeigen, wie tion of what had only been realized in fragmentary nämlich mit ihrem Objektivismus die subjektiv-rel- Husserls urteilstheoretische Forschungen ihren Aus- form in the Logical Investigations. Husserl consid- ative Welt der Anschauung und entwerten sie als gang von der intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit ered that in the courses that he gave at the University etwas bloß Subjektives und Irrelevantes. Husserls der Urteilstheorie seines Lehrers Franz Brentano of Göttingen he had progressed well beyond the in- Projekt einer "Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt" di- nehmen. Diese Texte bieten einen wichtigen Ein- sights of the Logical Investigations. Once he exposed ente vor allem der Rehabilitierung dieser subjek- blick in die Entwicklung und Vorgeschichte von the objective theoretical scaffolding needed to keep tiv-relativen Welt. Als Ontologie und konstitutive Husserls Bedeutungs- und Erkenntnislehre in den philosophers from falling into the [..] Phänomenologie der Lebenswelt, sollte sie die invari- Logischen Untersuchungen; behandelt werden ins- anten Strukturen der vorgegebenen Erfahrungswelt besondere die Scheidung von subjektiv-psychologis- Features aufweisen, die der [..] Husserl is one of the most seminal thinkers of the cher und objektiv-logischer Forschungsrichtung, die 20th century and his full contribution to philosophy, Erfüllungslehre, die [..] Contents in this case philosophy of logic and mathematics, has 1. DIE VORGEGEBENHEIT DER WELT Fields of interest yet to be realized His ideas are presented here in an UND VORGEGEBENER WELTBESTÄNDE. Philosophy incomparably clearer, livelier, more easily readable 2. DIE HORIZONTSTRUKTUR and assimilable manner than in other works translat- Type of publication DER WELTERFAHRUNG UND DER ER- ed into English Can serve as an introduction to his Monograph FAHRUNG VON REALEM IN DER WELT. thought and to his phenomenology in [..] 3. ORIENTIERUNGSSTRUKTUREN DER LEBENSWELT UND DIE GRUNDSTRUKTUREN Fields of interest Due December 2007 LEBENSWELTLICHER SITUATIVITÄT. 4. Phenomenology; Logic DIE APODIKTIZITÄT DER WELT UND DIE 2008. Etwa 580 S. (Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Gesammelte APODIKTISCHEN WELTBESTÄNDE "MEIN Target groups Werke, Band 40) Schutzumschlag LEIB" UND "ICH DIESER MENSCH". 5. DIE Teachers, scholars, students of German or Continen- REALITÄTENSTRUKTUR DER LEBENSWELT tal philosophy; twentieth century philosophy; the 248,24 € – NATUR ALS ABSTRAKTE KERNSCHICHT history and philosophy of logic; phenomenology; ISBN 978-1-4020-6896-6 DER WELT. 6. DIE LEBENSWELT ALS PER- theory of knowledge SONALE WELT DER PRAXIS UND WELT DER ENDLICHEN ERKENNTNISINTERESSEN. Type of publication 7. DIE WELT ALS ERWERB. STRUKTUR Collected works UND GENESIS DER [..]

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S. Hutton, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK; D. Hedley, Uni- P.M. Jenlink, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, S. Knuuttila, University of Helsinki, Finland; P. Kärkkäinen, Univer- versity of Cambridge, UK (Eds.) TX, USA; B.H. Banathy, Late of Saybrook Graduate School, San sity of Helsinki, Finland (Eds.) Francisco, CA, USA (Eds.) Platonism at the Origins of Theories of Perception in Medieval Modernity Dialogue as a Collective Means of and Early Modern Philosophy Design Conversation Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy Volume II

Features This collection of essays offers an overview of the is the first extensive account of philosophical psy- range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversa- chology of perception from ancient to early mod- early modern period, examining both the philoso- tion is the second volume edited by Patrick M. Jen- ern times includes contributions from several lead- phers of Platonic tradition (e.g. Cusanus, Ficino, link and Bela H. Banathy to offer a cross-disciplinary ing scholars in the field of history of philosophy is and Cudworth), and the impact of Platonism on ma- approach to examining dialogue as a communica- suitable as a textbook on the history of philosophical jor philosophers of the period (especially Descartes, tive medium. In this Compendium, the contributing psychology Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley). By authors set forth their ideas, experiences, and per- demonstrating the vitality of the Platonic tradition spectives as the path of a learning journey—a jour- Contents in the period this collection challenges the received ney of new meaning, of new understanding, and of Preface.- Aristotle’s Theory of Perception view that Platonism made little or no contribution in becoming self-aware of design conversation as future and Medieval Aristotelianism; Simo Knuutti- the emergence of modern philosophy. creating and consciousness evolving. In particular, la.- Plotinus on Sense Perception; Eyjólfur K. this volume comes at a time when we as a global so- Emilsson.- The Stoics on Sense Perception; Features ciety are faced with the question of how we shape our Håvard Løkke.- Degrees of Abstraction in Avi- The first wide-ranging exporation of Platonism and actions and in turn shape our future, through con- cenna. How to Combine Aristotle’s De Anima and early modern philosophy Challenges the received versation that is focused on resolving global conflict the Enneads; Cristina d’Ancona.- The Onto- picture of modern philosophy as a rejection of the and fostering world peace. The volume evokes in the logical Entailments of Averroes’ Understanding of medieval Platonic-Aristotelian synthesis Profices reader a realization that our greatest potential rests, Perception; Alfred Ivry.- Robert Kilwardby on a nuanced re-reading of the sources of modern in no small measure, with our collective capacity for Sense Perception; José Filipe Silva.- Perceiving thought cultural creativity and in our capacity to achieve new One’s Own Body; Mikko Yrjönsuuri.- Pietro levels of consciousness through dialogue and design d’Abano and the Anatomy of Perception; Henrik [..] Contents conversation. Introduction, S. Hutton; Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64): Fields of interest Platonism at the Dawn of Modernity, D. Moran; Features Philosophy of Mind; History of Philosophy; Me- At Variance: Marsilio Ficino Platonism And Focuses on and explores different modes of conver- dieval Philosophy; Classical Philosophy; History of Heresy, M.J.B. Allen; Going Naked into the sation and the application of design conversation Psychology Shrine:Herbert, Plotinus and the Consructive within and across various types of design settings Metaphor, S.R.L.Clark; Commenius, Light and human experiences Examines design conversa- Target groups Metaphysics and Educational Reform, J. Rohls tion from philosophical, cultural, spiritual, and his- Advanced students and scholars of the history of phi- (Translated by A. Wörn and D. Leech); Robert torical perspectives, exploring the philosophical and losophy and philosophical psychology Fludd’s Kabbalistic Cosmos, W. Schmidt- theoretical perspectives as well as methodological Biggeman; Reconciling Theory and Fact:The ideas related to conversation Outlines the next steps Type of publication Problem of ‘Other Faiths’ in Lord Herbert and the in [..] Contributed volume Cambridge Platonists, D. Pailin; Trinity, Com- munity and Love: Cudworth’s Platonism [..] Contents Due February 2008 Introduction.- Design Conversation: Future Build- Fields of interest ing and Consciousness Evolving.- The Conversa- Philosophy tion Movement.- Design Communication: Systems, 2008. Approx. 250 p. (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, Band 6) Geb. Service, Conspiracy, and Leadership.- The Power of Target groups Dialogue In Social Systems Design.- Searching To- 101,60 € Academics, postgraduates, historians of philosophy, gether: Approaches, Methods, and Tools.- Conver- ISBN 978-1-4020-6124-0 ideas, and religious thought sation: Creating A Living Metaphor.- Appreciative Inquiry as Conversation.- Rights and Responsibili- Type of publication ties in Conversation Practice.- Transcultural Com- Contributed volume munications: Theory and Practice.- The Critical Role of Dialogue in Emancipatory Systems Design.- Di- Due October 2007 alogue and Designing our Future: Conversation as Culture [..] 2007. Approx. 330 p. (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, Band 196) Fields of interest Geb. Sociology; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Qual- ity of Life Research; Philosophy of Technology; 128,35 € Business/Management Science, general; Organiza- ISBN 978-1-4020-6406-7 tion/Planning

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M. La Torre, "Magna Graecia" University of Catanzaro, Italy; Uni- W.R. Laird, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada; S. Roux, Uni- V. Launis, Turku, Finland; J. Räikkä, Turku, Finland (Eds.) versity of Hull, Law School, Hull, United Kingdom versité Grenoble II, Grenoble, France (Eds.) Genetic Democracy Law as Institution Mechanics and Natural Philosophy Philosophical Perspectives Normative Language between Power and Values before the Scientific Revolution

GENETIC DEMOCRACY involves an in-depth anal- Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth ysis of the ethical, social and philosophical issues re- Features century from materials inherited from Antiquity lated to modern genetic research and gene technol- it is a general account of the concept of law from an and transformed in the period from the Middle Ages ogy. The aim of the book is to introduce systemat- analytically and sociologically oriented philosophical through to the sixteenth century. These materials ic research on the social and ethical impacts of the perspective a fresh and comprehensive restatement were transmitted through a number of textual tra- use and development of genetically modified organ- of an institutional theory of law an attempt of recon- ditions and within several disciplines and practices, isms (GMOs) as well as the acquisition, use and stor- necting political theory, legal theory, and moral phi- including ancient and medieval natural philosophy, age of human genetic information (HGI). The book losophy within the framework of a general theory of statics, the theory and design of machines, and math- contributes into enhancing public discussion and meaning a reconstruction of the concepts of political ematics. This volume deals with a variety of mo- reaching fair and democratic decision-making prac- power by the use of post-positivist [..] ments in the history of mechanics when conflicts tices in GMO and HGI use and development both arose within one textual tradition, between differ- on local and global level. There are currently few Eu- Fields of interest ent traditions, or between textual traditions and the ropean texts which address the issues involved in Philosophy of Law; Political Philosophy wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how a theoretical and systematical manner. GENETIC the accommodations sometimes made in the course DEMOCRACY have been written from the view- Target groups of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emer- Scholars of philosophy and sociology of law , stu- point of social and political philosophy rather than gence of modern mechanics. The first part of the vol- that of traditional bioethics. There is a clear need for dents of law, philosophy, and political science, ume is concerned with ancient mechanics and its lawyers, and legal practitioners in general a throughout and authoritative philosophical and transformations in the Middle Ages; the second part ethical analysis of the issues involved in genetic re- with the reappropriation of ancient mechanics and Type of publication search and gene technology. The book will appeal to especially with the reception of the [..] Monograph philosophers, [..] Features Features Due November 2007 The emergence of the modern science of mechanics Social philosophy approach to gene-ethics. Intro- in the Renaissance The conflicts between Aristotelian duces systematic research on the social and ethical 2007. Approx. 275 p. (Law and Philosophy Library, Band 84) Geb. natural philosophy and mechanics Science before the impacts of the use and development of genetically Scientific Revolution The appropriation and trans- modified organisms (GMOs) as well as the acquisi- 95,23 € formation of ancient learning in the Renaissance tion, use and storage of human genetic information ISBN 978-1-4020-6606-1 (HGI). Contents From the contents Roy Laird and Sophie Roux: In- Contents troduction.- 1. Ancient and Medieval Mechanics.- 2. Notes on Contributors.Foreword.Juha Räikkä The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient and Veikko Launis.Introduction: The Scope Mechanics.- 3. Mechanics in New Contexts. and Importance of Genetic Democracy.Veikko Launis (Finland)1. Prerequisities of Genetic Fields of interest Democracy.Helena Siipi (Finland)2. On Democracy, Philosophy of Science; History of Physics; History of Expertise and Publicity.Eerik Lagerspetz (Finland).3. Mathematics; Medieval Philosophy; Classical Philos- Towards Global Bioethics:The New UNESCO ophy Declaration.Henk ten Have (The Netherlands)4. Target groups Autonomy and Genetic Privacy Juha Räikkä Historians of science working on Ancient, Medieval, (Finland)5. Values, Rights, and GMO– against Renaissance and Early Modern Science; a wider au- Radicalism.Niklas Juth (Sweden)6. The Precaution- dience concerned with the medieval heritage and the ary Principle and the Risks of Modern Agri- reappropriation of Ancient sources in the Renais- Biotechnology Marko Ahteensuu [..] sance Fields of interest Type of publication Ethics; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Technolo- Contributed volume gy; Philosophy; Biotechnology Target groups Due October 2007 Students Ethical Experts Policy Makers Researchers

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Th.M. Lennon, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Cana- D. Lohmar B.A. Lustig, Davidson College; G.P. McKenny, University of Notre da; R.J. Stainton, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Dame; B.A. Brody, Baylor College of Medicine (Eds.) Canada (Eds.) Phänomenologie der schwachen Altering Nature The Achilles of Rationalist Phantasie Volume I: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnol- Psychology Untersuchungen der Psychologie, Cognitive Science, Neurolo- ogy Debates gie und Phänomenologie zur Funktion der Phantasie in der Wahrnehmung

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure This volume analyzes concepts of nature and ‘the Reason, Kant described what he called the "Achilles natural’ in discussions of biotechnology with four This book is an effort to bring genetic-phenomeno- of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the broad concerns in mind. First, it surveys the recent logical analyses in contact with empirical psychology, soul." This argument, which he took to be powerful history of biotechnology debates and identifies char- neurology, cognitive science and research in primate yet fatally flawed, purports to establish the simplicity acteristic reactions and approaches to new biotech- cognition. The first part adresses the role of weak but of the human mind, or soul, on the basis of the uni- nological developments that invoke appeals to na- not arbitrary phantasy in perception, and argues that ty of consciousness. In Kant’s illustration, the unity ture. Second, it analyzes concepts of nature and ‘the it has a transcendental function with several different had by our perception of a verse cannot be account- natural’ as they are invoked and interpreted in five aspects. Weak phantasma can be found in all fields of ed for if the words of the verse are distributed among characteristic modes of discourse; viz., spirituality sensibility and at all levels of constitution. Relevant parts thought to compose the mind. The argument, and religion, philosophy, science and medicine, law aspects of Charles-Bonnet Syndrome are analyzed in or at least the unity of consciousness that underpins and economics, and aesthetics. Third, it identifies a addition to the contributions of empirical psycholo- it, has a history extending from Plato to the present. core cluster of ontological, epistemological, moral, gy to our understanding of hallucinations in normal Moreover, many philosophers have extended the ar- and aesthetic questions that arise in conversations subjects. The second part is dedicated to the process gument, some of them using to argue such views as about nature as normative. Fourth, it highlights the of self-organization in human and animal perception immortality.It is the aim of this volume to treat the findings of each of the five chapters, identifies areas from the point of view of genetic phenomenology, major figures who have advanced the argument, or of contrast and commonality, and identifies areas for concentrating on the formation, change and use of who have held views importantly bearing on it. Orig- further research. the so-called "types" (Typus). The third part investi- inal essays by scholars with expertise on the relevant gates whether cognition, thinking and other higher authors treat Plato, Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, the Features order performances of the mind - both human and medievals, [..] A rich interdisciplinary exploration of the mean- animal - can be understood by taking into account ings of ‘nature’ and ‘the natural’ as religious, philo- Features the contributions [..] sophical and moral norms. An extensive critical re- Presents the only in-depth analysis of the view of recent ethical discussions of developments in Features argument as found throughout history Covers biotechnology. An analysis of the implications of dif- Introspective phenomenological analyses are the main line in the history of the Achilles argu- ferent interpretations of nature as a norm for policy brought into discussion with cognitive science, neu- ment in the Western philosophical traditionDi- discussions on specific topics in biotechnology. roscience and animal cognition research. The book cusses variations on the Achilles argument and its provides a consistent argumentation for the central criticism in ancient, medieval and early modern Contents transcendental function of weak phantasma in per- philosophyMakes a valuable and original con- Introduction . ‘Altering Nature: Concepts of ception, cognition and thinking. Central arguments tribution to the history of philosophy of mind Is rela- "Nature" and "The Natural" in Biotechnology De- for the possibility and factual functioning of non- tively non-technical and [..] bates, by B. Andrew Lustig and Baruch Brody;1. language cognition and thinking in humans and pri- "Spiritual and religious concepts of nature," by Aaron Contents mates are provided. Mackler, Ebrahim Moosa, Allen Verhey, Anne Klein, Introduction; Thomas M. Lennon and Robert and Kurt Peters;2. "Philosophical Approaches to Na- Fields of interest J. Stainton.- 1. Did Plato Articulate the Achilles Ar- ture", by John H. Zammito, Philip J. Ivanhoe, Helen Phenomenology; Philosophy of Nature; Philosophy gument?; Karen Margrethe Nielsen.- 2. Aristotle Longino, Phillip R. Sloan;3. "Scientific and Medical of Mind and the Achilles Argument; John Thorp.- 3. The Concepts of Nature in the Modern Period in Europe Achilles Argument in Neoplatonism; Devin Henry.- Target groups and North America, by Laurence B. McCullough, 4. The Unity of the Soul and Contrary Appetites in Phenomenologists, Philosophers, Cognitive Scien- John Caskey, Thomas R. Cole, and Andrew Wear;4. Medieval Philosophy; Henrik Lagerlund.- 5. 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S. Maasen, University of Basel, Switzerland; P. Weingart, Universi- J. Malpas, University of Tasmania, Australia; N. Lickiss, University J.A. Marcum, Baylor University, TX, USA ty of Bielefeld, Germany (Eds.) of Tasmania, Australia (Eds.) Humanizing Modern Medicine Democratization of Expertise? The Idea of Human Dignity An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Deci- A Conversation sion-Making

In this book the author explores the shifting philo- The idea of human dignity is central to any reflection sophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge ‘Scientific advice to politics’, the ‘nature of expertise’, on the nature of human worth, and has become a key and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of- and the ‘relation between experts, policy makers, and concept in international and national law, in medical care, especially in terms of the various humanistic the public’ are variations of a topic that currently at- ethics, and in much philosophical and political theo- adjustments to the biomedical model. To that end tracts the attention of social scientists, philosophers ry. However, the idea is a complex one that also takes he examines the metaphysical, epistemological, and of science as well as practitioners in the public sphere on many different forms. This collection explores ethical boundaries of these medical models. He be- and the media. This renewed interest in a persistent the idea of human dignity as it arises within these gins with their metaphysics, analyzing the metaphys- theme is initiated by the call for a democratization many different domains, opening up the possibility ical positions and presuppositions and ontological of expertise that has become the order of the day in of a multidisciplinary conversation that illuminates commitments upon which medical knowledge and the legitimation of research funding. The new sig- the concept itself, as well as the idea of the human to practice is founded. Next, he considers the epistemo- nificance of ‘participation’ and ‘accountability’ has which it stands in an essential relation. The book is logical issues that face these medical models, particu- motivated scholars to take a new look at the science not only an intriguing and stimulating exploration of larly those driven by methodological procedures un- – politics interface and to probe questions such as human dignity from a range of perspectives, but also dertaken by epistemic agents to constitute medical "What is new in the arrangement of scientific exper- provides an important resource for those who wish knowledge and practice. Finally, he examines the ax- tise and political decision-making?", "How can reli- to take the exploration further. iological boundaries and the ethical implications of able knowledge be made useful for politics and soci- each model, especially in terms of the physician-pa- ety at large, and how can epistemically and ethical- Features tient relationship. In a concluding Epilogue, he dis- ly sound decisions be achieved without losing demo- Only volume that takes up the breadth of issues con- cusses how the philosophical analysis of the human- cratic legitimacy?", "How can the objective of democ- cerning the idea of human dignity Offers a multi-dis- ization of modern medicine helps to address the [..] ratization of expertise be achieved without compro- ciplinary approach encompassing law, philosophy, mising [..] history, medicine and the arts Includes essays by Features leading Australian and international figures from a A comprehensive coverage of the various top- Features range of fields Offers a range of viewpoints, is writ- ics in the philosophy of medicine that have emerged Research at the frontier at the science/politics inter- ten in a way that will be accessible to a wide reader- over the past several decades. A philosophical face Combination of conceptual and empirical stud- ship, and provides an important resource for think- context for embedding bioethical discussions. A ies Includes major scholars in the field Textbook ing [..] unique analysis of the quality-of-care crisis in mod- quality ern medicine and the efforts to resolve it. A philo- Contents sophical proposal for resolving the crisis-of-care. Contents Foreword – The Honourable William Cox AC What’s New in Scientific Advice to Politics? Intro- RFD ED, Governor of Tasmania.Introduction to a Contents ductory Essay 1.- Bioethical Controversies and Policy Conversation. I. The Concept of Hu- Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: A philos- Advice: The Production of Ethical Expertise and its man Dignity. II. Human Dignity in Context. ophy of medicine? Part I. Metaphysics Chapter 1. Role in the Substantiation of Political Decision-Mak- Bibliography.Index. Medical worldviews Chapter 2. Medical causation ing, Alexander Bogner and Wolfgang Menz.- Advi- and realism Chapter 3. Patient as body or person sory Systems in Pluralistic Knowledge Societies: A Fields of interest Chapter 4. Disease or illness and health or wellbeing Criteria-Based Typology to Assess and Optimize En- Ethics; Philosophy of Man; Humanities, general; Law Chapter 5. Diagnosis and therapeutics Part II. Episte- vironmental Policy Advice.- Institutional Design for Theory/Law Philosophy; Medicine, general mology Chapter 6. Medical thinking Chapter 7. Clin- Socially Robust Knowledge: The National Toxicolo- ical judging and decision making Chapter 8. Medi- Target groups gy Program’s Report on Carcinogens.- Representa- cal explanations Chapter 9. Diagnostic knowledge General audience as well as specialist and profes- tion, Expertise, and the German Parliament: A Com- Chapter 10. Therapeutic knowledge Part III. Ethics sional audiences, including both researchers and stu- parison of Three Advisory Institutions.- [..] Chapter 11. Medical axiology and values Chapter 12. dents, in: health and medicine (esp. end of life care), Origins of bioethics and normative [..] Fields of interest philosophy (esp moral philosophy), humanitarian Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Political Philoso- law, and those interested in issues concerning the na- Fields of interest phy; Political Science; Sociology ture and significance of the human Philosophy of Medicine; Biomedicine general; Epis- temology; Ethics; Metaphysics Target groups Type of publication Scientists, philosophers, and practitioners in tech- Contributed volume Target groups nology studies, political sciences and policy research; Undergraduate and graduate students Healthcare policy makers Due February 2008 professionals Professional philosophers Medical humanists Type of publication 2008. Approx. 220 p. Geb. 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B. Maxwell, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany D. McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Cana- L.R. Musgrave, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA (Ed.) da; M. Kieran, University of Leeds, UK (Eds.) Professional Ethics Education Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy Knowing Art Studies in Compassionate Empathy of Art: The Power of Critical Visions Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology and Creative Engagement

Why is some practical ethics training a now require- Artworks potentially convey two kinds of knowledge. ment of nearly all professional training programmes? While much feminist philosophy is enjoying third- They obviously afford knowledge of art itself, and The short answer is that it is thought to be conducive and fourth-wave developments and can build on its they also afford general empirical knowledge, espe- to ethical decision-making and ethical behaviour. scholarly roots forged in the 1960’s and 1970’s, fem- cially knowledge of human psychology and value. In recent years, the received idea that competency inist contributions have taken what seems an excep- “Knowing Art” collects ten original essays written by in moral reasoning implies moral responsibility has tionally long time to break into the stubborn areas leading philosophers who distill and build upon re- been the subject of much critical attention. Today, of aesthetics and philosophy of art. Some feminist cent work at the intersection of aesthetics and epis- researchers in moral education widely regard moral scholars might reasonably consider aesthetics to be a temology. Specific topics addressed include the ob- reasoning as but one among at least 4 dimensions back-burner issue: if we take feminism mainly to be a jectivity of critical knowledge, the quality of critical of moral development alongside moral motivation, movement seeking equality and strategies to address testimony, the roles of principles and perception in moral character and moral sensitivity. Reflecting social, economic, and political inequities, views on critical reasoning, phenomenal knowledge of what these developments, educationalists in the diverse art practices or values have tended to seem less im- a work of art is like, the acquisition of factual infor- fields of medicine, education, business, philosophy portant than work in the sister area of feminist social mation and psychological understanding from fic- and nursing now openly question how to take pro- and political theory. The truth is, however, that ar- tions, and the limits of images as sources of historical fessional ethics education beyond the development eas of aesthetic value, political value, ethical value— evidence. In addressing these topics, the volume al- of skills in moral reasoning. Frequently topping the even scientific value and religious value—intersect in so explores the challenges that art poses for theories list of suggested improvements is to provide support meaningful and complex ways, both in practices of of knowledge as well as the challenges that artistic for empathic capacities of response. This work gives oppression and liberatory strategies. The authors in knowledge poses to traditional views about art. this proposal the sustained attention that it deserves this volume explore the connections between these but which it has until now lacked. Features value spheres that are too often separated. Feminist Aesthetics and [..] Features The first volume dedicated to topics in aesthetics and epistemology Original contributions by well-known Provides sustained, critical and multi-disciplinary Features philosophers of art and epistemologists Written in treatment of the important and much-discussed Gives insight in how gender matters to creative mak- jargon-free prose, accessible to non-specialists question of addressing emotional aspects of moral ing and appreciation practices Addresses the ques- functioning in professional ethics education De- Contents tion whether there is such a thing as feminist art A signed to be accessible and engaging to instructors of volume on third generation feminist aesthetics gath- professional and practical ethics in a wide variety of Editors’ Acknowledgments. Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; M. Kieran and D. McIver Lopes.- Part ering work from scholars who have been able to both fields Offers practical evidence-based suggestions for build on previous groundwork Includes both West- how to incorporate the promotion of empathic [..] I Knowing Through Art. 1 Knowing Content in the Visual Arts; K. Lehrer. 2 Pictures, Knowledge, and ern non-Western feminist aesthetics and philosophy of art Contents Power: The Case of T.J. Clark; D. Matravers. 3 Nar- rating the Truth (More or Less); S. Friend. 4 Fiction 1: Introduction,- 2: The Disambiguation of "Em- Contents and Psychological Insight; K. Stock. 5 Art and Modal pathy": Affective and Cognitive Conceptions,- 3: A Tentative:Introduction; L. Ryan Musgrave Section Knowledge; D. Stokes. 6 Charley’s World: Narratives Conceptual and Empirical Sketch of Compassion- I Turning this Century: Frameworks in Feminist of Aesthetic Experience; P. Goldie.- Part II Knowing ate Empathy,- 4: The Paradox of Compassionate Aesthetics Today The End of Feminist Aesthetics?; about Art. 7 Really Bad Taste; J. Prinz. 8 Solving the Empathy’s Moral Worth,- 5: Compassionate Empa- Joanne Waugh and Jennifer Ingle What Is/Isn’t Fem- Puzzle of Aesthetic Testimony; A. Meskin. 9 Critical thy, Moral Perception and Moral Conscience,- 6: In- inist Art?; Sheila Lintott The Feminist Art Project: Compatibilism; J. [..] termezzo on Moral Emotion Education: Imagina- its Significance for Feminist Aesthetics; Peg Brand tion, Imitation and Re-appraisal,- 7: Compassionate Restyling the Museum in Feminist Theory; Hilde Empathy in Professional and Practical Ethics Educa- Fields of interest Aesthetics; Epistemology; Ethics; ARTS Hein Section II: Feminist Aesthetics and Epistemol- tion,- List of references. ogy: Judgments, Interests, Knowledge and Know- ers Who’s Afraid of Aesthetic Universalism?; A.W. Fields of interest Target groups Eaton A Feminist Critique of Disinterestedness; Katy Educational Philosophy; Philosophy of Education; Researchers in philosophy, especially the philosophy Deepwell The Aesthetics of Ignorance: [..] Ethics; Higher Education of art and epistemology, graduate students; scholars of the arts, especially in literary studies, film studies, Fields of interest Target groups and art history Aesthetics; Philosophy; ARTS Professional educators in practical ethics, scholars in medicine, business,teaching nursing and philosophy, Type of publication Contributed volume Type of publication philosophers of education, psychologists in moral Contributed volume education Due October 2007 Type of publication Due May 2009 Monograph 2008. XXIV, 162 p. (Philosophical Studies Series, Band 107) Soft- cover 2009. Approx. 290 p. 20 illus. Geb. Due February 2008 26,70 € 128,35 € ISBN 978-1-4020-6785-3 ISBN 978-1-4020-6836-2 2008. Approx. 340 p. Geb.

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E. O'Neill, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.; M.P. S.P. Odintsov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, V. Petkov, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada (Ed.) Lascano, California State University, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A. (Eds.) Russia Relativity and the Dimensionality of Feminist History of Philosophy: Constructive Negations and the World The Recovery and Evaluation of Paraconsistency Women's Philosophical Thought All physicists would agree that one of the most fundamental problems of the 21st century physics is the Features Over the course of the past twenty-five years, femi- dimensionality of the world. In the four-dimensional Is the first book in the field of paraconsistent logic world of Minkowski (or Minkowski spacetime) the nist theory has had a forceful impact upon the histo- devoted to the study of lattices of logics. Studying ry of Western philosophy. The present collection of most challenging problem is the nature of the tem- not particlar systems but classes of logics is one of poral dimension. In Minkowski spacetime it is mere- essays has as its primary aim to evaluate the most important features of modern non-classi- past women’s published philosophical work, and ly one of the four dimensions, which means that it is cal logic Studies two main concepts of constructive entirely given like the other three spacial dimensions. to introduce readers to newly recovered fe- negation in the setting of paraconsistent logic Is the male figures; the collection will also make contri- If the temporal dimension were not given in its en- first book containing systematic and transparent pre- tirety and only one constantly changing moment of butions to the history of the philosophy of gen- sentation of algebraic semantics for logics [..] der, and to the history of feminist social and polit- it existed, Minkowski spacetime would be reduced to the ordinary three-dimensional space.But if the ical philosophy, insofar as the collection will dis- Contents physical world, represented by Minkowski space- cuss women’s views on these issues.The volume 1. Introduction.- Part I. Reductio ad Absur- time, is indeed four-dimensional with time being the contains contributions by an international dum.- 2. Minimal Logic. Preliminary Re- fourth dimension, then such a world is drastically group of leading historians of philosophy and polit- marks.- 3. Logic of Classical Refutabili- different from its image based on our perceptions. ical thought, whose scholarship represents some of ty.- 4. The Class of Extensions of Minimal Minkowski four-dimensional world is a block Uni- the very best work being done in North and Central Logic.- 5. Adequate Algebraic Semantics for verse, a frozen world in which nothing happens since America, Canada, Europe and Australia. Extensions of Minimal Logic.- 6. Negatively all moments of time are given ‘at once', which means Equivalent Logics.- 7. Absurdity as Unary Op- that physical bodies are four-dimensional [..] Features erator.- Part II. Strong Negation.- 8. Semanti- Makes a significant contribution to the creation of a cal Study of Paraconsistent Nelson's Logic.- 9. critical history of the philosophy of gender Gives an Features N4-Lattices.- 10. The Class of N4-Extensions.- A physical approach to understanding the dimen- account the recovery and re-evaluation of women's References.- Subject Index. philosophical writing since Christine de Pizan Intro- sionality of the world and the nature of spacetime duces newly recovered female figures in history of Fields of interest Fields of interest philosophy of gender, and history of feminist social Logic; Mathematical Logic and Foundations History of Physics; Philosophy of Science; Relativity and political philosophy Brings together the work of and Cosmology an international group of leading historians [..] Target groups Researchers Target groups Contents Physicists and philosophers About the Contributors.- Introduction; Eileen Type of publication O'Neill.- I. The History of Metaphysics, Epistemolo- Monograph Type of publication gy and Natural Philosophy.- 1. The Methodological Contributed volume Principles Behind Anne Conway's Principles; Chris- Due March 2008 tia Mercer.- 2. Sensible and rational knowledge in the epistemological thought of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Due October 2007 Laura Benítez Grobet.- 3. Emilie du Châtelet on 2008. Approx. 240 p. (Trends in Logic, Band 26) Geb. the Use of Hypothesis and Metaphysics in Science; 2008. XVI, 276 p. (Fundamental Theories of Physics, Band 153) 123,00 € Karen Detlefsen.- 4. Lady Mary Shepherd on Causal- Geb. ISBN 978-1-4020-6866-9 ity and Causal Reasoning; Martha Brandt Bolton.- II. The History of Moral Philosophy and Moral Psy- 128,35 € chology, and Philosophy of Mind.- 5. [..] ISBN 978-1-4020-6317-6

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G. Primiero, Ghent University, Belgium A. Rasche, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany D.A. Reidy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; W.J. Riker, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA (Eds.) Information and Knowledge The Paradoxical Foundation of Coercion and the State A Constructive Type-theoretical Approach Strategic Management

A signal feature of legal and political institutions is This book offers a systematic critique of the scien- This book develops a philosophical and logical in- that they exercise coercive power. The essays in this tific discourse of strategic management. It uncovers terpretation of the concept of information within volume examine institutional coercion with the aim scholars' unquestioned assumptions and shows that the formal structure of Constructive Type Theory of trying to understand its nature, justification and by upholding these assumptions reseachers obscure (CTT), in a manner concurrent with a diverse range limits. Included are essays that take a fresh look at the paradoxical nature of strategic reasoning. To un- of contemporary perspectives on the philosophy of perennial questions – what, if anything, can legiti- cover the paradoxes of strategic management the information. On the basis of this conceptual frame- mate state exercises of coercive force? What is co- author refers to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. work, the problem of analyticity for logical deriva- ercion in politics and law? – and essays that take a He exposes the paradoxes that inevitably oc- tions is faced and a solution is proposed. The text be- first or nearly first look at newer questions – may the cur when theorizing about corporate strategy along gins with a presentation of the formal structure of state coercively hold certain terrorists indefinitely? the dimensions strategy context, process, and con- CTT, paying particular attention to some topics that Does the state coerce those seeking to join in same- tent and shows how these paradoxes can enrich fu- have been neglected by current researchers in Type sex marriage when it refuses to extend legal recogni- ture thinking about strategic problems. The analy- Theory. The treatment is especially formulated for tion to same-sex marriage? Can there be a just inter- sis is completed by a discussion of theoretical and logicians with a philosophical background, but with- national order without some agency possessed of the practical implications which highlight the need to out neglecting a complete formulation of all the tech- final and rightful authority to coerce states? Leading research strategy not as something an organization nicalities and formal properties. The problem of ana- scholars from philosophy, political science and law has, but as something an organization does. Such a lyticity is then introduced via an historically and the- examine these and related questions shedding new 'practice perspective' gives reference to the paradox- oretically oriented formulation, beginning with Kant light on an apparently inescapable feature of political ical ground that strategic management rests on and and Bolzano and following its development up to the and legal life: Coercion. introduction of the notion of information, extending enriches scholars' ability to reflect on practitioners' some lines of research introduced [..] tasks while 'doing' strategy in organizations. Contents From the contents I. What is Coercion? II. Coercion Contents Features and the Liberal Democratic State. III. Coercion and Introduction to the Study.- Strategic Management Contains a complete (and updated) logical and Secondary or Power-Conferring Laws. IV. Coercion as a Field of Study.- The Dominant Logics of Strat- philosophical introduction to Constructive Type and National Security. V. Coercion and the Interna- egy Research.- Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Theory Presents a newly formulated and conceptual- tional Order. ly developed presentation of the Problem of Analyt- '(N)either/(N)or'.- Creating Strategic Realities - The icity Introduces a complete epistemic constructive Role of Paradox.- The Deconstruction of Strategic Fields of interest interpretation for the notion of Information Provides Realities.- 'After Derrida' - Strategy-as-Practice.- Fi- Political Philosophy; Law Theory/Law Philosophy; a framework which extends the constructive episte- nal Reflections - Retrospect and Prospect. Ethics; Political Science; Philosophy of Law mology Represents the basis for developing a type- theoretical Dynamics Fields of interest Target groups Business/Management Science, general; Philosophy Advanced students and faculty from philosophy, po- Contents of the Social Sciences; Management litical theory, political science, international rela- From the contents Introduction.- 1. Constructive tions, and law; policy-makers Type Theory: Foundation and Formalization.- 2. An- Target groups alyticity and Information.- 3. Formal Representation Researcher and scholars in all fields of management, Type of publication of the Notion of Information.- 4. Constructive Phi- strategy, and business administration Contributed volume losophy of Information.- Bibliography.- Index. Type of publication Due December 2007 Fields of interest Monograph Logic; Philosophy; Epistemology; Mathematical Log- ic and Formal Languages; Mathematical Logic and Due October 2007 2008. Approx. 245 p. 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M.A. Roberts, College of New Jersey, USA; D.T. Wasserman, Uni- M. Schemmel, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science G. Schiemann, Universität Wuppertal, Germany versity of Maryland, USA (Eds.) The English Galileo The Loss of Certainty Harming Future Persons Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassi- Herman von Helmholtz's Mechanism at the Dawn of Moderni- Ethics, Genetics and the Non-identity Problem cal Mechanics ty. A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philoso- phy of Nature

Features Fields of interest Two seemingly contradictory tendencies have ac- Examines what we owe future persons from both Philosophy of Science; History of Science companied the development of the natural sciences moral and legal perspectives Deeply probes partic- in the past 150 years. On the one hand, the natural ular concerns in areas ranging from the new repro- Type of publication sciences have been instrumental in effecting a thor- ductive technologies to the structure of morality Monograph oughgoing transformation of social structures and Ranges from the practical (is it wrong to bring have made a permanent impact on the conceptual an impaired child into existence?) to the theoretical Due December 2007 world of human beings. This historical period has, (can "bad" acts be "bad for" no one?) Is written by the on the other hand, also brought to light the merely most noted scholars and theorists amongst those [..] hypothetical validity of scientific knowledge. As late 2007. Approx. 735 p. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Sci- ence, Band 249) Geb. as the middle of the 19th century the truth-pathos Contents in the natural sciences was still unbroken. Yet in Not available yet 160,50 € the succeeding years these claims to certain knowl- ISBN 978-1-4020-5498-3 edge underwent a fundamental crisis. For scientists Fields of interest today, of course, the fact that their knowledge can Ethics; Human Genetics; Constitutional Law; Medi- possess only relative validity is a matter of self-ev- cal Law; Law Theory/Law Philosophy idence. The present analysis investigates the early phase of this fundamental change in the concept of Target groups science through an examination of Hermann von Philosophers who teach and do research in ap- Helmholtz's conception of science and his mechanis- plied or theoretical (normative) ethics (including tic interpretation of nature. Helmholtz [..] population policy, choice theory, and corrective justice); Public health specialists concerned with Features the consequences of reproductive practices and first English comprehensive contribution to one of decisions; Physicians, other health care profes- the leading German physicist in the 19th century an sionals, and biomedical researchers who teach and informative account of a highly important part of the do research in bioethics; Physicians and other health history of science and a reconstruction of a concep- care professionals who teach and do research in ge- tion of science that is greatly widespread to this day netics, infertility, obstetrics and [..] profound analysis of the interaction between classical physics and philosophy of nature new insights into Type of publication the impact of Immanuel Kant’s [..] Contributed volume Contents Due April 2008 Introduction I. The Concept of Mech- anism ; II. Mechanism as a Classical Philosophy 2008. (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New of Nature; III. The Three Lines of Traditions of Medicine, Band 35) Geb. Mechanism ;IV. Contours of a Modern Philoso- phy of Nature ;I. Helmholtz as Educator, Natural 112,35 € Scientist, and Research Strategist ; II. Helmholtz's ISBN 978-1-4020-5696-3 Classical Mechanism ;III. The Hypothesization of Helmholtz's Mechanism ;IV. Conditions and Causes of the Change in Helmholtz's Conception of Nature and Science ;Bibliography ;Index

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M. Schlick, F.O. Engler, Universität Rostock (Ed.) M. Schlick, J. Friedl, Forschungsstelle öster. Philosophie, Graz; H. M. Schlick, H. König, Universität Wien; E. Glassner, Universität Rutte (Eds.) Wien (Eds.) Zürich, Berlin, Rostock Die Wiener Zeit Rostock, Kiel, Wien - Aufsätze, Aufsätze, Beiträge, Rezensionen Aufsätze, Beiträge, Rezensionen 1926–1936 Beiträge, Rezensionen 1919-1925

Der Band enthält Aufsätze, Rezensionen und Beiträge Moritz Schlicks aus den Jahren von 1907 bis Mit dem Wechsel nach Wien begann für Schlick eine Fields of interest 1916, die textkritisch ediert und mit Kommentaren Phase der Neuorientierung, die erstmals 1926 pub- Philosophy of Science versehen sind. Die Texte behandeln erkenntnistheo- lizierten Niederschlag fand. Neuen Einflüssen (hier ist vor allem Wittgenstein zu nennen) stehen die retische, ethisch-ästhetische und naturphilosophis- Target groups Kontroversen gegenüber, die Schlick bei der Aus- che Problemstellungen. Neben Schlicks Rostocker Naturwissenschafter, Philosophen, an Philosophie gestaltung eines konsequent empiristischen Stand- Habilitationsschrift über das Wesen der Wahrheit interessierte Personen und Institutionen nach der modernen Logik (1910) beinhaltet der punktes mit anderen nahestehenden Denkern führte. Band u.a. seine Aufsätze Die Philosophischen Bedeu- Gegenüber dem lange vorherrschenden Zerrbild des Type of publication tung des Relativitätsprinzips (1915) und Idealität des Wiener Kreises als einheitlicher und philosophisch Monograph Raumes, Introjektion und psychophysisches Problem naiver Schule werden hier durch Erhellung des Kon- (1916), eine kritische Studie zum Positivismus und textes der einzelnen Arbeiten und das Aufzeigen Due October 2008 Kritizismus. Die zudem aufgenommenen Rezensio- von internen wie externen Beziehungen sowohl die nen Schlicks, die ursprünglich in der Vierteljahrss- Eigentümlichkeit als auch die kontinuierliche Weit- chrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie und Soziolo- erentwicklung von Schlicks Denken deutlich. 2007. Etwa 300 S. (Moritz Schlick. Gesamtausgabe, Band 5) Geb. gie erschienen sind, spiegeln sein Interesse an einer an der Mathematik und den empirischen Wis- Features 62,00 € senschaften orientierten Philosophie wieder. Der - Neuauflage und wissenschaftliche Edition der ISBN 978-3-211-32769-2 Band enthält eine Einleitung, Editorische Berichte Schriften von Moritz Schlick - Entstehungs- sowie ein Sach- und ein Personenregister. geschichte sowie wissenschaftshistorisches Umfeld - richtungweisender Beitrag zur Erforschung früher Fields of interest Werke Schlicks Philosophy of Science Fields of interest Type of publication Philosophy of Science Monograph Type of publication Monograph Due October 2008

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M. Schlick, H.J. Wendel, F.O. Engler (Eds.) L. Soler, Archives Henri Poincaré, IUFM de Lorraine, Nancy, W. Spohn, Universität Konstanz, Germany France; H. Sankey, University of Melbourne, Australia; P. Hoynin- gen-Huene, University of Hannover, Germany (Eds.) Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre Causation, Coherence and Concepts

Rethinking Scientific Change and A Collection of Essays Theory Comparison: Die Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre gilt als das Hauptwerk von Moritz Schlick. Hierin entwickelt Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities? Wolfgang Spohn, born 1950, is one of the most dis- Schlick in Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgenössischen tinguished analytic philosophers and philosophers of Positionen seine einflussreichen Gedanken zum science of Germany, editor-in-chief of Erkenntnis for Wesen der Erkenntnis, zum Verhältnis zwischen more than 13 years, author of two books and more Psychologie und Logik, zum Leib-Seele-Problem The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the than 60 papers covering a wide range: epistemolo- und zum erkenntnistheoretischen Realismusstre- analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores gy, metaphysics, and philosophy of science, philo- it. Der Text wurde während der frühen Rostocker the balance and tension that exist between commen- sophical logic, philosophy of language and mind, Jahre Schlicks, von 1911 bis 1916, verfasst. Die All- surability and continuity on the one hand, and in- and the theory of practical rationality. This collection gemeine Erkenntnislehre ist ein Meilenstein der wis- commensurability and discontinuity on the other. presents 15 of his most important essays on theoret- senschaftlichen Philosophie und grundlegend für die Moreover, it discusses some central epistemologi- ical philosophy. The centre piece is his uniquely suc- spätere Entwicklung des Wiener Kreises des Logis- cal consequences regarding the nature of scientific cessful theory of the dynamics of belief, tantamount chen Empirismus. progress, rationality and realism. In relation to these topics, it investigates a number of new avenues, and to an account of induction and nowadays widely ac- Features revisits some familiar issues, with a focus on the his- knowledged as ‘ranking theory’. Like any account Neuauflage und textkritische Edition der Schriften tory and philosophy of physics, and an emphasis of induction, this theory has deep implications inge- von Moritz Schlick Entstehungsgeschichte und on developments in cognitive sciences as well as on niously elaborated in the papers included. They cov- wissenschaftshistorischer Hintergrund Rich- the claims of “new experimentalists”. The book con- er an account of deterministic and also probabilistic tungsweisender Beitrag zur Erforschung des Werkes stitutes fully revised versions of papers which were causation, initially subjectively relativized, but then Moritz Schlicks originally presented at the international colloqui- objectivized in a projectivistic sense, and an account um held at the University of Nancy, France, in June of explanation and of strict, of ceteris paribus, and of Fields of interest 2004. Each paper is followed by a critical commen- chance laws. They advance [..] Philosophy of Science tary. The conference was a striking example of the sort of genuine dialogue that can take place between Features Target groups philosophers of science, historians [..] Gives an excellent overview over the thoughts of Naturwissenschafter, Philosophen, an Philosophie a distinguished analytic philosopher Unfolds the interessierte Personen und Institutionen Features philosophical significance of ranking theory which Represents the most recent thinking on the topic of equals that of probability theory Offers valuable in- Type of publication incommensurability and scientific theory change sights on the nature of causation, laws, coherence, Monograph Each individual chapter appears with a critical com- and concepts mentary that typically represents an opposing view- Due April 2008 point Reflects and promotes interaction between Contents French philosophy of science and philosophers of Preface. Introduction.- Belief: 1: Ordinal Condi- science from English-language philosophy of science tional Functions. A Dynamic Theory of Epistemic 2007. Etwa 800 S. (Moritz Schlick. Gesamtausgabe, Band 1) Geb. States.- Causation: 2: Direct and Indirect Causes. 3: Bayesian Nets Are All There Is To Causal Depen- 129,95 € Contents dence. 4: Causation: An Alternative. 5: Causal Laws ISBN 978-3-211-32768-5 1. Incommensurability, as Differences in Quasi-In- tuitive Cognitive Capacities: a task for psychology? are Objectifications of Inductive Schemes.- Laws: 6: 2. Incommensurability in a Wittgensteinian Perspec- Laws, Ceteris Paribus Conditions, and the Dynam- tive: How to Make Sense of Nonsense? 3. Intra-The- ics of Belief. 7: Enumerative Induction and Lawlike- oretical Change, as a Subjective Creative Elucidation ness. 8: Chance and Necessity: From Humean Super- of an Objective Formerly Present Content. 4. Inves- venience to Humean Projection.- Coherence: 9: A tigating the Continuities of Scientific Theorizing: A Reason for Explanation: Explanations Provide Stable Task for the Bayesian? 5. From the Cumulativity of Reasons.10: Two Coherence Principles. 11: How [..] Physical Predictions to the Cumulativity of Physics. 6. From Denotational continuity to Entity Realism. Fields of interest 7. Is a Realist Interpretation of Quantum Physics Philosophy of Science; Epistemology; Philosophy of Possible? 8. Ontological [..] Language; Philosophy of Mind; Metaphysics

Fields of interest Target groups Philosophy of Science; Epistemology All academic philosophers from the graduate student level upwards, in particular epistemologists, philoso- Target groups phers of science, and philosophers of mind and lan- Philosophers of science, sociologists of science, prac- guage, possibly also theoretical linguists, cognitive titioners of science studies, historians of science and scientists, statisticians, and AI researchers insofar ‘open-minded’ scientists; all cultivated people with they are interested in foundational issues. an interest in science Type of publication Type of publication Monograph Contributed volume Due October 2007 Due November 2007 2007. Approx. 410 p. Geb. 2007. Approx. 445 p. 10 illus. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Band 255) Geb. 128,40 € ISBN 978-1-4020-5473-0 139,05 € ISBN 978-1-4020-6274-2 springer.com/booksellers Philosophie 19

J.J. Stachel, Boston University, Center for Einstein Studies and F. Stadler, H.J. Wendel (Eds.) J. Tao Po-wah Lai, City University of Hong Kong, China (Ed.) Dept. of Physics, MA, USA Schlick Studien China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Going Critical Challenge of the Market Volume One: The Challenge of Practice Die in den Schlick Studien vereinten Texte sind Ergebnisse der rezenten internationalen Forschung This volume provides a unique perspective on the zu Leben und Werk Moritz Schlicks. Ein Schwer- Rather than defining himself by an occupation, John market reforms currently taking place in Chinese punkt besteht in der Dokumentation und Aufar- Stachel follows the Emersonsonian tradition and de- health care. The authors come to grips with the beitung des Nachlasses. Die Schlick Studien sind fines himself as "a man doing political organizing, changes taking place in Chinese health care and its als Ergänzung und Vertiefung der Arbeit an der union organizing, theoretical physics, history of sci- effect on the traditional doctor-patient relationship, Moritz Schlick Gesamtausgabe gedacht und als Rei- ence, philosophy of science, and Einstein editing", to but also its positive effects on the availability and he auf mehrere Bände hin konzipiert. Beiträge wer- name some of the things he has done in the course quality of health care particularly in urban areas. den sowohl von den Mitarbeitern des Moritz Schlick of his life. Academically, his goal has been to take In doing so the various authors wrestle with moral, Projekts wie auch von externen Forschern a problem that puzzles him and follow this prob- political and social issues deeply ingrained in Chi- beigesteuert. Der erste Band enthält elf Artikel zu lem wherever it leads him, regardless of disciplinary nese culture as well as the perceived practical and den Themen Naturphilosophie und Physik einerseits boundaries. This two-volume collection of published moral difficulties associated with the change to a (Relativitätstheorie, Quantenphysik) sowie allgemein and unpublished papers span an academic career of market oriented economy especially in area of health zu Leben und Werk Schlicks andererseits (Schlick als over forty years. An introductory essay explains his care. This volume should be of particular interest Pädagoge, Schlick und Wittgenstein, Schlick und Ja- credo and in particular the unity behind the apparent to bioethicists, those interested in contemporary coby, Schlicks Berufung nach Wien etc.). Die Bände diversity of his interests. The first volume includes Chinese philosophy, and of course those working der Reihe richten sich an all jene, die rund um die discussions of topics in: the methodology of science, in health care policy, Chinese policy, comparative Moritz Schlick Gesamtausgabe weiterführende Liter- such as the role of scientific practice, the nature of health care policy, or any combination thereof. atur zur Moritz-Schlick-Forschung suchen. creativity, and scientific theories as historical arti- Features facts; quantum mechanics, such as the significance of Features 1. Volume provides a unique set of perspectives on quantum logic and the role of Feynman's approach; Hintergrundinformatinen rund um die Moritz health care reform in China. 2. Volume provides Marxism, such [..] Schlick Gesamtausgabe Sekundärliteratur zu den contemporary Confucian, other Chinese, and West- Schlicks Schriften Historische und wissenschaftliche Fields of interest ern perspectives on the perceived difficulties of mar- Zusammenhänge Philosophy of Science; Quantum Physics; History; ket reforms in health care. 3. Volume provides an Political Philosophy Contents important overview of the health care system in Chi- Tobias Fox Die letzte Gesetzlichkeit - Schlicks Kom- na prior to the market reforms of the 1980s and 90s Type of publication mentare zur Quantentheorie Massimo Ferrari 1922: from Chinese scholars who are familiar with the full Contributed volume Moritz Schlick in Wien Heidi König The Reception range of [..] of the Theory of Relativity, as Reflected in Schlick’s Fields of interest Due December 2007 Early Correspondence Edwin Glassner Was heißt Philosophy of Medicine; Medicine, general; Political Koinzidenz bei Schlick? Mathias Iven Wittgenstein Philosophy; Philosophy 2008. Approx. 407 p. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Sci- und Schlick. Zur Geschichte eines Diktats Ole En- ence, Band 201) Geb. gler Schlicks System - Zum Verhältnis zwischen Type of publication Allgemeiner Erkenntnislehre und Raum und Zeit Contributed volume ISBN 978-1-4020-1308-9 in der gegenwärtigen Physik Ole Engler Über das Raumproblem bei Moritz Schlick und Wilhelm Due March 2008 Wundt Ole Engler Schlicks Wettbewerbsbeitrag zum [..] 2008. Approx. 190 p. (Asian Studies in Bioethics and the Philoso- Fields of interest phy of Medicine, Band 96) Geb. History of Philosophy; Philosophy of Nature; Philos- ophy of Science 93,04 € ISBN 978-1-4020-6756-3 Target groups Naturwissenschafter, Philosophen, an Philosophie interessierte Personen und Institutionen

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L. Tessman, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A. (Ed.) J. Thompson, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia C. Tollefsen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA (Ed.)

Feminist Ethics and Social and The Transgenerational Policy Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

Political Philosophy: Theorizing the The New Catholic Debate Non-Ideal Fields of interest Philosophy; Ontology; Philosophy of Law; Political Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Philosophy world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement Theorizing the Non-Ideal will collect feminist es- insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state says that self-consciously develop non-idealizing ap- Type of publication should be provided with nutrition and hydration. proaches to either ethics or social and political phi- Monograph While many Catholic bioethicists defended the losophy (or both). Characterizing feminist ethics Pope’s claim that the life of all human beings, even and social and political philosophy as marked by a Due September 2008 those in a persistent vegetative state or a coma, was tendency to be non-idealizing serves to thematize worth protecting, others argued that the Pope’s po- the volume while still allowing the essays to be di- sition marked a shift from the traditional Catholic 2007. (Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, Band 14) teaching on the withdrawal of medical treatment at verse enough to adequately constitute a representa- Geb. tion of current work in the fields of feminist ethics the end of life. The debate among Catholic bioethi- and social and political philosophy. Each of the es- 95,23 € cists over the Pope’s statement only grew more in- says collected in this volume will do at least one of ISBN 978-1-4020-5211-8 tense during the controversy surrounding Terry two things, namely either a) serve as an instance of Schiavo’s death in 2005, as bioethicists on both sides work that is rooted in actual, non-ideal conditions, of the debate argued about the legitimacy of remov- and that, as such, is able to consider any of the many ing her feeding tubes. This collection of essays by questions relevant to subordinated people; or b) re- some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists flect theoretically on the significance of non-idealiz- addresses the Pope’s statements, the moral issues ing as an approach to feminist ethics or social and surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the re- political philosophy. fusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for [..]

Features Features An up to date account of current work in the fields Includes voices from all sides of the Catholic discus- of feminist ethics and social and political philoso- sion in dialogue with one another; Includes many of phy Reflects on the significance of non-idealizing as the top Catholic bioethicists in the English speaking an approach to feminist ethics or social and politi- world; Situates the debate in the larger perspective of cal philosophy Challenges traditional ethical frame- the Catholic tradition of end of life care and the dig- works by positing a moral subject who is affected by nity of human life; Situates the debate in the larger systems of oppression Addresses feminist issues in perspective of the social/communal norms governing current global justice theories the care of the dependent, and [..]

Contents Contents Introduction; Lisa Tessman Section I: Theoretical Preface: Christopher Tollefsen;Part One: The Issue. Reflections on the Production of Non-Idealized Part Two: Philosophers Address the Issue.Part Three: Moral Knowledge and the Use of Feminist Ethical Symposium on the Views of Fr. Kevin O’Rourke, Frameworks Ethics for Politics; Bat Ami Bar On O.P.Part Four: Concluding Reflections. Having and Knowing Our Obligations of Justice: A Fields of interest Wittgensteinian Approach; Peg O’Connor Feminist Ethics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Philosophy of Eudaimonism: Eudaimonism as Non-Ideal Theory; Religion; Religion; Philosophy of Medicine Lisa Tessman No more than one of the following two possible chapters: How Do We Get Moral Knowl- Target groups edge That Matters?; Theresa Weynand Tobin Fem- Professional bioethicists, especially, but not only, inist Social Philosophy and Ethics in the Real-Not- Catholic bioethicists Moral philosophers and theolo- Ideal: An Enslaved Woman’s Identity Construction gians Healthcare professionals The Catholic laity and and [..] clergy

Fields of interest Type of publication Ethics; Political Philosophy; Philosophy Contributed volume Type of publication Contributed volume Due October 2007

Due May 2009 2008. Approx. 180 p. (Catholic Studies in Bioethics, Band 93) Geb.

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A.-T. Tymieniecka, The World Institute for Advanced Phemo- A.-T. Tymieniecka, The World Institute for Advanced Phemo- A.-T. Tymieniecka, The World Institute for Advanced Phemo- menological Research and Learning, Hanover, NH, USA (Ed.) menological Research and Learning, Hanover, NH, USA (Ed.) menological Research and Learning, Hanover, NH, USA (Ed.)

Virtues and Passions in Literature Beauty's Appeal Education in Human Creative

Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment Measure and Excess Existential Planning

Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our Features aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature’s en- Features This book explains how the emergence of Human chantment around us and our inward experience lift- * Brings to the fore the specific ability of the human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual ing our soul toward moral elevation. Carried by cre- achievement to be constantly prepared and adjust- to the level of excellence This book explains how nat- ative imagination (Imaginatio Creatrix), beauty par- ed through education. * The dynamically interac- ural forces and promptings of life transmute through ticipates in the moulding of the forms of the intellective human platform of exsistence calls for direction, creative Human Condition subliminal passions of tive constitution of the mind in tandem with praxis proportion and balance from education. * The na- the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual sig- and seeks deeper enigmas of the real in the labyrinth ture-transcending élan of the human person prompts nificance This book explains how virtues streaming of the cosmos. Yet with the evolution of human de- the cultivation of spiritual aspirations (moral, aeshet- from individual forces maintain bedrocks of the soci- velopment and in technological inventions, beauty, ic, intellective). * Striving to orchestrate the [..] etal links while suffusing all modalities of experience, seems to Fields of interest undergo transformations and expansion. Are there Phenomenology; Philosophy of Man; Philosophy of Contents perduring norms and modalities of beauty or are the Social Sciences; Educational Philosophy; Educa- From the contents Thematic Study: Literature And we carried along blindly by human development? Is tion & Society The Passion Of Virtue. Part I. Historical And Con- there a measure intrinsic to our human ontopoietic temporary Virtues As Reflected In Chinese Litera- unfolding and the growth of human life that we may ture. Part II. Virtues Of The Heart: Feodor Dosto- Type of publication follow instead of the whim of fancy and excess? The Collected works evsky And The Ethic Of Love. Part III. Inherent And present collection of art-explorations seeks the ele- Intentional Inquiries On Virtues. Part IV. Enlight- mental ties of Human Condition. Together, the au- enment, Humanization And Beauty In The Light Of thors aim to answer the questions posed above. Due October 2007 Schiller’s “Letters On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”. Part V. Art And Awareness. Features 2007. Approx. 380 p. (Analecta Husserliana, Band 95) Schutzum- Explains the relation of beauty and human existence schlag Fields of interest Explores the various aspects of beauty:Beauty as ful- Metaphysics; Ethics; Phenomenology; History of filment of humanness Beauty uplifting the experi- 123,00 € Philosophy ence of life Beauty as the existential force of human ISBN 978-1-4020-6301-5 condition Target groups Educators, social scientists, anthropological re- Contents searchers From the contents Acknowledgements. Thematic Study. Beauty, Truth, Alterity: Beyond Cause And Type of publication Effect. Part I. Eros / Kalon / Agathos: Love, The Contributed volume Beautiful And The Good. Part II. The Aesthetics Of Possibility. Part III. Measure Or Excess: The Uni- Due November 2007 ty Of The Aesthetic, The Ethical, And The Political In Dante, Marlowe, And Molière. Part IV. The The- 2008. Approx. 380 p. (Analecta Husserliana, Band 96) Geb. ater Absurd And Reality. Part V. The Re-Emergence Of Beauty In Contemporary Technology. Index of 149,75 € Names. ISBN 978-1-4020-6421-0 Fields of interest Phenomenology; Metaphysics; Ethics; Philosophy of Man; Aesthetics

Target groups Fine arts appreciation, history of art, phenomenology’s investigations, the creative mind, aesthetics and nature, etc.

Type of publication Contributed volume

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A.-T. Tymieniecka, World Institute for Advanced Phenomenologi- P.E. Vermaas, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Nether- D.N. Weisstub, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada; G. Diaz Pin- cal Research and Learning, Hanover, NH, USA (Ed.) lands; P. Kroes, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Nether- tos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain (Eds.) lands; A. Light, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; S.A. Moore, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA (Eds.) Timing and Temporality in Islamic Autonomy and Human Rights in Philosophy and Phenomenology of Philosophy and Design Health Care Life From Engineering to Architecture An International Perspective

From time immemorial, concern with timing of life This volume provides the reader with an integrated Autonomy and Human Rights in Healthcare: An In- has been crucial for the regulation of human praxis overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy ternational Perspective is a group of essays published as well as for the philosophical quest to understand and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading existence by seeking its meaning. The two used to It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineer- humanists in the field of bioethics during the twen- inform each other, until modernity, when they part- ing designing in its traditional sense, on designing tieth century. A pioneer in the field of multidisci- ed. In spite of the extensive progress in manipulating in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genet- plinary research, having integrated major theological change and motion, and of the abundance of meta- ics, and nanotechnology, designing of socio-techni- and philosophical traditions in the west with modern physical attempts to enlighten human beings about cal systems, and on architectural and environmen- science, Thomasma was a role model to the authors their fate, the puzzling nature of temporality and tal designing. These essays are preceded by an intro- who have devoted essays to his major avenues of in- timing of reality remains controversial. The present ductory text structuring the field of philosophy and quiry. The authors represent many different coun- collection of studies seeks a new answer by initiat- ethics of design in engineering and architecture as tries and disciplines throughout the globe. The vol- ing a novel investigation informed by the ancient one in which a series of similar philosophical, soci- ume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground wisdom of the Greaco-Arabic-Islamic sources and etal and ethical questions are asked. This volume en- a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted inheritance, on the one side, and the contemporary ables the reader to overcome the traditional separa- world of combative cultures and perspectives. discernment of Occidental phenomenology of life, tion between engineering designing and architectural on the other, in a common dialogical effort to un- Features designing. The emerging discipline of designing so- ravel this great enigma of existence. Papers by: An- Adresses the challenge of creating universal bioethics cio-technical systems is shown to form an intermedi- na-Teresa Tymieniecka, William C. Chittick, Reza in the faces of valued conflicts and the concentration ate between engineering and architecture to which Akbarian, Daniela Verducci, Michael F. Andrews, of world views Looks at the main topics in current the philosophical and ethical analyses of both do- Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei, Nader El-Bizri, Meh- Bioethics that have a serious human rights compo- mains apply. This volume thus [..] di [..] nent Explores the human right to health and the var- Features ious sub rights that are part of ongoing crises relating Features Provides an overview of state of the art research on to claims made in the health system Bringing out the phenomenon of change in our ex- philosophy and ethics of designing in both engineer- perience of the temporal unfolding of reality brings Contents ing and architecture Provides an integrated account a challenge to the ancient classic and contemporary From the contents Contributors. Acknowledge- of designing in engineering and architecture Presents conception of temporality of life tied to some meta- ments. Preface: E. Pellegrino. Contributors. Intro- a cross-fertilization between philosophical, ethical physical conceptions of time and being. Consequent- duction.- Part I: Health Care, Human Rights, And and societal analyses of engineering and architecture ly, the temporality of the real calls for an essential re- Social Policy.- Part II: The Centrality And Limits Of in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genet- vision The classic conception of temporality refer- Autonomy.- Part III: Pluralism, Race And Health.- ics, and nanotechnology, designing of [..] ring to an absolute primacy of time in reality [..] Part IV: Future Legal Ordering And Social Plan- Contents ning.- Part V: Individual Integrity, Research Ethics Contents From the contents Introduction. Part I: Engineering And Human Rights.- Index. From the contents Acknowledgements. Preface.- Design. Part II: Emerging Engineering Design. Part Section I. The View from Nowhere.- Section II. Ed- Fields of interest III: Architectural Design. Index. mund Husserl on Time and Temporality.- Section Ethics; Philosophy of Medicine; Medical Law III. Mir Damad on Time and Temporality.- Sec- Fields of interest Target groups tion IV. Time and the Formation of the Human Per- Philosophy of Technology; Architecture, general; En- Physicians, philosophers, theologists, lawyers, hu- son.- Section V. The Phenomenology of Wujud in gineering Design; Ethics the Thought of Ibn Al-Arabi.- Index of Names; Ap- man rights workers, health professionals, lay people pendix: Program of the Symposium. Target groups Type of publication Faculty, PhD and Master’s students in philosophy Contributed volume Fields of interest and ethics of technology, philosophy and ethics of Phenomenology; Non-Western Philosophy; Me- architecture, management of technology, manage- dieval Philosophy; Metaphysics; History of Philoso- ment of architecture Due October 2007 phy Type of publication Target groups 2007. VI, 414 p. (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Contributed volume Medicine, Band 36) Geb. Philosophers, historians interested in phenomenology and Islamic metaphysics Due October 2007 144,40 € ISBN 978-1-4020-5840-0 Type of publication Contributed volume 2007. Approx. 355 p. Geb.

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M. Zamboni, Stockholm University, Sweden H. Zwart, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands H. van Ditmarsch, University of Otago, New Zealand; W. van der Hoek, University of Liverpool, UK; B. Kooi, University of Gronin- gen, The Netherlands Law and Politics Understanding Nature

A Dilemma for Contemporary Legal Theory Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology Dynamic Epistemic Logic

Politics and the political discourse occupy a central This book starts from the conviction that there are Dynamic Epistemic Logic is the logic of knowledge position in the modern legal theoretical discussion. other ways of knowing about nature besides science. change. This is not about one logical system, but The goal of this book is to reconstruct and to classify, Notably, literary documents (novels, plays, poems) about a whole family of logics that allows us to spec- according to ideal-typical models, the different posi- on nature and the natural entities (landscapes, ani- ify static and dynamic aspects of multi-agent sys- tions taken by the major contemporary legal theories mals, plant forms) may be based on careful observa- tems. This book provides various logics to support as to whether and how law relates to politics. In par- tions, quite elaborate and true to life. Comparative such formal specifications, including proof systems. ticular, attention is focused on Kelsen, Hart, Finnis, epistemology is the discipline that tries to assess, in Concrete examples and epistemic puzzles enliven Critical Legal Studies, Law and Economics and le- a critical manner, the relative validity and value of the exposition. The book also contains exercises in- gal realisms. Though reaching different conclusions, various knowledge forms. This volume presents a se- cluding answers and is eminently suitable for grad- these major legal theories have some common points ries of case studies in comparative epistemology, crit- uate courses in logic. A sweeping chapter-wise out- of departure as to the "law and politics" issue: law ically comparing the works of prominent representa- line of the content of this book is the following. The and politics tend to keep the features of being two tives of the life sciences (such as Aristotle, Darwin, chapter 'Introduction' informs the reader about the different phenomena as well as of presenting regions Mendel and many others) with the writings of their history of the subject, and its relation to other dis- of interaction, although with differences as to extent literary counterparts (Andersen, Melville, Verne, Ib- ciplines. 'Epistemic Logic' is an overview of mul- and intensity. Finally, a possible explanation is pre- sen, and many others). It constitutes a major contri- ti-agent epistemic logic - the logic of knowledge - sented as to why such different legal theories, though bution to the expanding field of Science and Liter- including modal operators for groups, such as gen- often reaching diametric results, somehow must still ature Studies, allowing basic insights from the sci- eral and common knowledge. 'Belief Revision' is an begin from these common basic points. The explana- ences and the humanities to mutually challenge and overview on how to model belief revision, both in the tion for this is found in the specific character of law enlighten one another. 'traditional' way and in a dynamic epistemic setting. in [..] 'Public Announcements' is a detailed [..] Features Features Highly original contribution to science and literature Features Clear picture of how contemporary legal theory have studies and philosophy of science Broad scope and The first accessible reference to public announce- described the relations between law and politics their vision Bringing together fields of inquiry that tend to ment logic Eminently suitable textbook for a grad- differences and similarities and a possible explana- be seen as completely separate from one another uate audience Companion webpage with slides for tion lecturers, exams for further practice, etc. Everything Contents you always wanted to know about the muddy chil- Contents Part I: Introduction. 1: Comparative epistemology. dren problem Many examples, exercises, and thor- Introduction.- A Methodology of Analysis and Cer- 2: Antecedents – comparative epistemology as an ough completeness proofs and expressivity results tain Key-concepts.- The Autonomous Model.- The outcome.- Part II: Animal epistemology. 3: What is Embedded Model.- The Intersecting Model.- Con- an animal? A comparative epistemology of animals. Contents temporary Legal Theory and the Dilemma of Law.- 4: What is a whale? Moby Dick, marine science and Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Epistemic Logic.- 3. Be- Bibliography. the sublime. 5: Animal experiments and the novel. lief Revision.- 4. Public Announcements.- 5. Epis- 6: The birth of a research animal. Ibsen’s Wild Duck temic Actions.- 6. Action Models.- 7. Completeness.- Fields of interest and the origin of a new animal science.- Part III. 8. Expressivity.- A. Selected Answers to Exercises.- Law Theory/Law Philosophy; Philosophy of Law; Po- Plants, landscapes & environments. 7: Aqua- References.- Index. litical Science phobia, tulipmania, biophilia. 8: Environmental Pol- lution and professional responsibility: Ibsen’s A pub- Fields of interest Target groups lic enemy as a seminar on science [..] Logic; Artificial Intelligence (incl. 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