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In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on
the history, consolidation, and socio-political dimensions of
Argentina's empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores
(worker-recuperated enterprises), a worker-led company occupation
movement that has surged since the turn-of-the-millennium and the
country's neo-liberal crisis.
Self-reflection is fundamental for human thinking on many levels.
Philosophy has described the mind's capacity to observe itself as a
core element of human existence. Political and social sciences have
shown how modern democracies depend on society's ability to
critically reflect on their own values and practices. And
literature of all ages has proven self-reflexivity to be a crucial
trait of cultural production. This volume provides the first
diachronic panorama of genres, forms, and functions of literary
self-reflection and their connections with social, political and
philosophical discourses from the 17th century to the present. Far
beyond the usual focus on postmodernist opacity, these
contributions present a rich tradition of critical transparency:
Literary texts that show us what is behind and beyond them.
Ibn Wasil (d. 1298), perhaps better known today as a historian and
an emissary to the court of King Manfred in southern Italy, was
also an eminent logician. The present work is a critical edition of
his main work in the field, a commentary on his teacher Khunaji's
(d. 1248) handbook al-Jumal. The work helped consolidate the logic
of the "later scholars" (such as Khunaji). It also shows that
commentators did much more than merely explain the original work
and instead regularly discussed and assessed received views. Ibn
Wasil's work was an influential contribution to a particularly
dynamic chapter in the history of Arabic logic.
What does it mean to be an expert? What sort of authority do
experts really have? And what role should they play in today's
society? Addressing why ever larger segments of society are
skeptical of what experts say, Expertise: A Philosophical
Introduction reviews contemporary philosophical debates and
introduces what an account of expertise needs to accomplish in
order to be believed. Drawing on research from philosophers and
sociologists, chapters explore widely held accounts of expertise
and uncover their limitations, outlining a set of conceptual
criteria a successful account of expertise should meet. By
providing suggestions for how a philosophy of expertise can inform
practical disciplines such as politics, religion, and applied
ethics, this timely introduction to a topic of pressing importance
reveals what philosophical thinking about expertise can contribute
to growing concerns about experts in the 21st century.
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