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F. Allhoff, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, N. Bar-Am, Sapir College of the Negev, Israel D.K. Chan, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI, MI, USA (Ed.) USA (Ed.) Extensionalism Physicians at War The Revolution in Logic Moral Psychology Today: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge Essays on Values, Rational Choice, and the Will This vivid and thought-provoking book by the Recently, there has been a tremendous interest in Israeli logician Nimrod Bar-Am impels one to the ethical issues that confront physicians in times rethink the place of logic in Western thought. It This volume is an edited collection of original of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians shows that the history of logic from Aristotle to papers on the theme of “Values, Rational Choice, during wars. This book presents a theoretical Tarski is the history of the gradual undoing of the and the Will”. The editor is a Stanford-trained apparatus which undergirds those debates, namely classic conflation of logic and empirical science. moral philosopher, and the organizer of a confer- by casting physicians as being confronted with It sets tomorrow’s agenda for philosophers and ence held on April 1-3, 2004. The conference dual-loyalties during times of war. While this theo- historians of logic and scientific method by taking succeeded in bringing together a wide range of retical apparatus has already been developed in as its starting point the mere fact that, curiously, essays that dealt with most of the central questions other contexts, it has not been specifically brought ancient logic is not as formal as current literature of moral philosophy today, in both normative to bear on the ethical conflicts that attain in wars. presents it. Rather, as Bar-Am explains, modern ethics and meta-ethics, theoretical and applied Arguably, wars thrust physicians into ethical formal logic became possible only after a series ethics, and especially in moral psychology, a broad conflicts insofar as these wars create a tension of bold criticisms of the magnificent Aristotelian area at the intersection of moral philosophy and between a physician’s obligation to heal and an system. These criticisms begin with David Hume’s philosophy of mind and action. obligation to serve some other good (e.g., military declaration that logic does not sanction induction, chain of command, national security, the greater follow on with Kant’s view of logic as an extremely Features good, etc.). Alternatively, we can debate whether limited system, and culminating with Booles’ 7 Provides the most current and extensive update this conception is appropriate. introduction of logic as an extensional system, and on research in moral psychology 7 In contrast Russell’s solution to his own paradox. with most recent books in moral psychology, the Features original papers in this volume explore a wide 7 A topic that has thus far not been treated at Features range of topics in moral psychology, and is not just book length and nowhere nearly as comprehen- 7 Provides a broad, concise, accurate and up-to- narrowly focused on a single issue sively 7 Extremely timely and highly current date overview of the history of logic (up to and 7 Unique and broad basis for dealing with including the early modern period) 7 The first From the contents issues that not only impact on medical ethics, but history of logic that explains logical theories as Part I: Meta-ethics of Values. 1. Moral Realism, cut across various spheres of justice in a setting philosophical solutions to fundamental epistemo- Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism and Naturalism. defined by the multiple perspectives of medical, logical problems: it is the first extended treatment 2. Buck-Passing Personal Values.- Part II: Reason military and legal practice of the history of logic from the point of view of and Choice. 3. Volitions, Comparative Value Judg- critical rationalism 7 Challenges previous and ments, and Choice. 4. The Insignificance From the contents prevalent histories of logic of Choice.- Part III: Desire and Intention. 5. The Preface.- Introduction: Physicians at War: The Indeterminacy of Desire and Practical Reason. Dual-Loyalties Challenge.- Section 1: Physicians Contents 6. The Myth of Objectively Alien Desires. 7. On the and Dual-Loyalties.- Section 2: Physicians and Acknowledgments. Abstract. Introduction. In Intelligibility of Bad Acts. 8. After Anscombe.- Part Torture.- Section 3: Physicians and Weapons praise of shallowness: a methodological credo. IV: Practical Reason. 9. The Limits of Teleology. Development.- Section 4: Physicians on the Battle- Part 1: Preliminary notes. Part 2: Setting the 10. Motivation to the Means. 11. Thresholds, field.- Appendices: WMA Regulations in Time scene: some notes on the pre-history of logic. Vagueness and the Psychology of Small Improve- of Armed Conflict. WMA Statement on Torture, Part 3: Aristotle’s logic: the rise of essentialism. ments. Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment.- CEJA Part 4: Essentialism besieged. Part 5: The fall of Physician Participation in Interrogation. essentialism. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names. Fields of interest Index of Subjects. Ethics; Philosophy of Mind; Psychology, general Fields of interest Ethics; Philosophy Fields of interest Target groups Philosophy; Logic; History of Philosophy Professional philosophers and graduate students. It Target groups can be used as a text in graduate courses in moral Philosophers, (military) ethicists, (military) physi- Target groups philosophy or philosophy of action, as a research cians, (military) lawyers, human rights lawyers, Students and scholars, at all levels, interested in the tool by academics and graduate students, and medical practitioners, political scientists history of logic broadly conceived to include the as a significant contribution in ethics and moral history of science and epistemology psychology that sets the stage for future debates Type of publication Contributed volume Type of publication Type of publication Monograph Contributed volume
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M. Futch, University of Tulsa, USA M.G. Hansson, Uppsala University, Sweden E. Husserl, R. Sowa, Husserl-Archief, Leuven, Belgium (Hrsg.) Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Time The Private Sphere and Space An Emotional Territory and Its Agent Die Lebenswelt Auslegungen der vorgegebenen Welt und ihrer Konstitution. Leibniz’s metaphysics of space and time stands The non-interference perspective is common when Texte aus dem Nachlass (1916-1937) at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the theorizing about the protection of the private high-water marks in the history of the philosophy life of individuals and their families. However, of science. In this work, Futch provides the first this accepted way of looking at things, leads our In den im vorliegenden Band versammelten systematic and comprehensive examination of thoughts astray. It fails to do justice to the interests Forschungsmanuskripten erhält Husserls in der Leibniz’s thought on this subject. In addition to both in being left in peace but at the same time Krisis-Abhandlung skizziertes Projekt einer elucidating the nature of Leibniz’s relationalism, participating in a community together with other Wissenschaft von der Lebenswelt die Gestalt the book fills a lacunae in existing scholarship by people. New methods of communications intercep- ausführender Arbeit. In detaillierten deskrip- examining his views on the topological struc- tion, video and even satellite surveillance allow tiven Analysen werden wesentliche Dimensionen ture of space and time, including the unity and insight and an entry into personal matters, but und Strukturen der Lebenswelt zur Sprache unboundedness of space and time. It is shown they can also be used to satisfy people’s need for gebracht sowie die sinnbildenden aktiven und that, like many of his more recent counterparts, protection, safety and security in public places. A passiven Leistungen untersucht, in denen sich das Leibniz adopts a causal theory of time where theory about the respect for the individual’s right Sinngebilde einer jeweils geltenden Lebenswelt als temporal facts are grounded on causal facts, and to a private sphere and its protection ought there- Totalerwerb einzelsubjektiver und intersubjektiver that his approach to time represents a precursor fore to incorporate both these interests. Erfahrung und Praxis konstituiert. Schwerpunkte to non-tensed theories of time. Futch then goes von Husserls Analysen sind die Horizontstruktur on to situate Leibniz’s philosophy of space and Features der Welterfahrung, die Vorgegebenheit als primäre time within the broader context of his idealistic 7 An explanation of a concept often used but Gegebenheitsweise der Lebenswelt, ihre Orientie metaphysics and natural theology. seldom understood in political discussions rungsstruktur, die Lebenswelt als personale Welt 7 An integrated approach from evolutionary der Praxis, Struktur und Genesis der Weltapper- Features biology, psychology and philosophy to show how zeption, die eigentümliche Apodiktizität des Seins 7 Far-reaching examination of one of the central humans and social animals navigate between the der Welt, die Bedeutung der Normalität für die topics in early modern philosophy of science and private and the social 7 A well researched and Konstitution einer intersubjektiven Welt. natural philosophy 7 Places Leibniz’s views clear account about the meaning and importance within the context of the history of the philosophy of enjoying a private sphere Pluspunkte of space and time 7 Shows how Leibniz’s 7 Behandelt und entwickelt im Detail den philosophy of space and time continues to exert Contents Zentralbegriff der Spätphilosophie Husserls: an important influence on ongoing debates in the Foreword. Introduction. 1. The private sphere from den Begriff der Lebenswelt 7 Behandelt und philosophy of science a historical and cultural perspective. 2. Integrity entwickelt damit im Detail einen Begriff, der bis as an emotional territory – a psychological and heute eine große Wirkung auf die Geistes- und Contents evolutionary perspective. 3. Integrity as something Sozialwissenschaften hat 7 Weist die Haupt- 1: A Brief History of the Philosophy of Space and which is morally worth protecting. 4. Respect for dimensionen der Lebenswelt auf und ermöglicht Time. 2: Leibniz’s Reductionism. 3: The Unity of the individual as a person with moral and political so ein volles und konkretes Verständnis von Space and Time. 4: The Bounds of Space and Time. authority- integrity from a philosophical perspec- Husserls Konzeption der Lebenswelt 5: Causal and Temporal Asymmetry. 6: The Unre- tive. 5. Balancing seclusion and participation- ality of Temporal Becoming. 7: Space, Time and integrity from the perspective of moral philosophy. Fachgebiete Harmony. 8: Space, Time and God. Bibliography. 6. Legal protection – privacy and integrity from Philosophie; Phänomenologie; Ontologie the perspective of jurisprudence and the law. 7. Fields of interest Integrity as a quality worthy of esteem and respect. Zielgruppen Philosophy of Science; History of Philosophy; 8. Conclusions and applications. References. Philosophen, Soziologen, Psychologen, Modern Philosophy ForscherInnen im Bereich der Erkenntnistheorie, Fields of interest Anthropologen, Historiker Target groups Ethics; Philosophy of Law; Philosophy of Biology Academicians: professors and advanced students Kategorie working in the history of philosophy, early modern Target groups Monographie philosophy, history of science, philosophy of Philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, policy science, metaphysics, philosophy of space and time makers
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V. Launis, J. Räikkä, Turku, Finland (Eds.) S. P. Odintsov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, C. Tollefsen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Novosibirsk, Russia SC, USA (Ed.) Genetic Democracy Philosophical Perspectives Constructive Negations and Artificial Nutrition and Paraconsistency Hydration The New Catholic Debate “Genetic Democracy” involves an in-depth analysis of the ethical, social and philosophical This book presents the author’s recent investi- issues related to modern genetic research and gene gations of the two main concepts of negation Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical technology. The aim of the book is to introduce developed in the constructive logic: the negation world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement systematic research on the social and ethical as reduction to absurdity (L.E.J. Brouwer) and insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative impacts of the use and development of genetically the strong negation (D. Nelson) are studied in the state should be provided with nutrition and hydra- modified organisms (GMOs) as well as the acquisi- setting of paraconsistent logic. tion. While many Catholic bioethicists defended tion, use and storage of human genetic informa- The paraconsistent logics are those, which admit the Pope’s claim that the life of all human beings, tion (HGI). The book contributes to enhancing inconsistent but non-trivial theories, i.e., the logics even those in a persistent vegetative state or a public discussion and reaching fair and democratic which allow making inferences in non-trivial coma, was worth protecting, others argued that the decision-making practices in GMO and HGI use fashion from an inconsistent set of hypotheses. Pope’s position marked a shift from the traditional and development both on local and global level. Logics in which all inconsistent theories are trivial Catholic teaching on the withdrawal of medical There are currently few European texts which are called explosive. In the intuitionistic logic Li, treatment at the end of life. The debate among address the issues involved in a theoretical and the negation is defined as reduction to absurdity. Catholic bioethicists over the Pope’s statement systematical manner. “Genetic Democracy” has The concept of strong negation is realized in the only grew more intense during the controversy been written from the viewpoint of social and Nelson logic N3. Both logics are explosive and surrounding Terry Schiavo’s death in 2005, as political philosophy rather than that of traditional have paraconsistent analogs: Johansson’s logic bioethicists on both sides of the debate argued bioethics. There is a clear need for a throughout Lj and paraconsistent Nelson’s logic N4. It will about the legitimacy of removing her feeding and authoritative philosophical and ethical analysis be shown that refusing the explosion axiom tubes. of the issues involved in genetic research and gene “contradiction implies everything” does not lead to technology. decrease of the expressive power of a logic. Features 7 Includes voices from all sides of the Features Features Catholic discussion in dialogue with one another 7 Social philosophy approach to gene-ethics 7 The first book in the field of paraconsistent 7 Includes many of the top Catholic bioethicists 7 Introduces systematic research on the social logic devoted to the study of lattices of logics. in the English speaking world 7 Situates the and ethical impacts of the use and development of Studying not particular systems but classes of debate in the larger perspective of the Catholic genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as well as logics is one of the most important features of tradition of end of life care and the dignity of the acquisition, use and storage of human genetic modern non-classical logic 7 Studies two main human life information (HGI) concepts of constructive negation in the setting of paraconsistent logic Contents Contents Preface: Christopher Tollefsen. Part One: The “Genetic Democracy” Notes on Contributors. Contents Issue. Part Two: Philosophers Address the Issue. Foreword. Introduction: The Scope and Impor- 1. Introduction.- Part I. Reductio ad Absurdum.- Part Three: Symposium on the Views of Fr. Kevin tance of Genetic Democracy. 1. Prerequisites of 2. Minimal Logic. Preliminary Remarks.- 3. Logic O’Rourke, O.P. Part Four: Concluding Reflections. Genetic Democracy. 2. On Democracy, Expertise of Classical Refutability.- 4. The Class of Exten- and Publicity. 3. Towards Global Bioethics: The sions of Minimal Logic.- 5. Adequate Algebraic Fields of interest New UNESCO Declaration. 4. Autonomy and Semantics for Extensions of Minimal Logic.- 6. Ethics; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Philosophy Genetic Privacy. 5. Values, Rights, and GMO– Negatively Equivalent Logics.- 7. Absurdity as of Religion against Radicalism. 6. The Precautionary Principle Unary Operator.- Part II. Strong Negation.- 8. and the Risks of Modern Agri-Biotechnology. Semantical Study of Paraconsistent Nelson‘s Logic.- Target groups 9. N4-Lattices.- 10. The Class of N4-Extensions.- Professional bioethicists, especially, but not only Fields of interest References.- Subject Index. Catholic bioethicists, moral philosophers and Ethics; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Tech- theologians, healthcare professionals, the Catholic nology Fields of interest laity and clergy Logic; Mathematical Logic and Foundations Target groups Type of publication Students, ethical experts, policy makers, Target groups Contributed volume researchers Researchers
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A-T. Tymieniecka, The World Institute for Advanced Phemomenological Research and Learning, Hanover, NH, USA (Ed.) Education in Human Creative Existential Planning
Education is the transmission of knowledge and skill from one generation to another, and is vitally significant for the growth and unfolding of the living individual. It manifests the quintessential ability of the logos to differentiate life in self- individualization from within, and in its spread through inter-generative networks. Without reaching the evolutive phase of the human creative condition, the human being establishes a unique creative platform on which to conduct its co-exis- tence. On this platform the progress of life is being transformed from a natural ontopoietic accom- plishment into an autonomous achievement of the creative planning of the human mind. Specifically, human education focuses upon creative plan- ning moving like a pendulum between nature and freedom. The present collection of papers focuses on the underpinnings of the creative workings of the human strategies of reason.
Features 7 Brings to the fore the specific ability of the human achievement to be constantly prepared and adjusted through education 7 The dynamically interactive human platform of exsistence calls for direction, proportion and balance from education 7 The nature-transcending élan of the human person prompts the cultivation of spiritual aspira- tions (moral, aeshetic, intellective)
From the contents A Word Of Appreciation. Thematic Study. Educa- tion For Creative Planning.- Part I. Human Being As A Creative Differentiator Of The Logos Of Life.- Part II. Beyond Knowledge: Questioning The Episteme Through Art‘s Alterity.- Part III. Ethical View Upon The Human Situation Within The “Unity-Of-Everything-There-Is-Alive”.
Fields of interest Phenomenology; Philosophy of Man; Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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