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This book focuses on logic and logical language. It examines
different types of words, terms and propositions in detail. While
discussing the nature of propositions, it illustrates the
procedures used to determine the truth and falsity of a
proposition, and the validity and invalidity of an argument. In
addition, the book provides a clear exposition of the pure and
mixed form of syllogism with suitable examples. The book
encompasses sentential logic, predicate logic, symbolic logic,
induction and set theory topics. The book is designed to serve all
those involved in teaching and learning courses on logic. It offers
a valuable resource for students and researchers in philosophy,
mathematics and computer science disciplines. Given its scope, it
is an essential read for everyone interested in logic, language,
formulation of the hypotheses for the scientific enquiries and
research studies, and judging valid and invalid arguments in the
natural language discourse.
As political discourse had been saturated with the ideas of
"post-truth", "fake news", "epistemic bubbles", and "truth decay",
it was no surprise that in 2017 The New Scientist declared:
"Philosophers of knowledge, your time has come." Political
epistemology has old roots, but is now one of the most rapidly
growing and important areas of philosophy. The Routledge Handbook
of Political Epistemology is an outstanding reference source to
this exciting field, and the first collection of its kind.
Comprising 41 chapters by an international team of contributors, it
is divided into seven parts: Politics and truth: historical and
contemporary perspectives Political disagreement and polarization
Fake news, propaganda, and misinformation Ignorance and
irrationality in politics Epistemic virtues and vices in politics
Democracy and epistemology Trust, expertise, and doubt. Within
these sections crucial issues and debates are examined, including:
post-truth, disagreement and relativism, epistemic networks, fake
news, echo chambers, propaganda, ignorance, irrationality,
political polarization, virtues and vices in public debate,
epistocracy, expertise, misinformation, trust, and digital
democracy, as well as the views of Plato, Aristotle, Mozi, medieval
Islamic philosophers, Mill, Arendt, and Rawls on truth and
politics. The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology is
essential reading for those studying political philosophy, applied
and social epistemology, and politics. It is also a valuable
resource for those in related disciplines such as international
relations, law, political psychology, political science,
communication studies, and journalism.
Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political
presents fourteen essays devoted to the interconnected topics of
religion, ethics, and politics, along with an introductory
interview with the author regarding his philosophical development
over the years. This volume serves two interconnected purposes: as
an introduction or reintroduction to Calvin O.Schrag s intellectual
contributions to a critical consideration of these three topics,
and as a critical companion and supplement to Schrag s published
work on these topics. The topics of religion, ethics, and politics
have served as pivot points throughout Schrag s career in the
academy, which spans half a century."
The variety of approaches to the concept of trust in philosophy
reflects the fact that our worries are diverse, from the Hobbesian
concern for the possibility of rational cooperation to
Wittgenstein's treatment of the place of trust in knowledge. To
speak of trust is not only to describe human action but also to
take a perspective on it and to engage with it. Olli Lagerspetz
breathes new life into the philosophical debate by showing how
questions about trust are at the centre of any in-depth analyses of
the nature of human agency and human rationality and that these
issues, in turn, lie at the heart of philosophical ethics. Ideal
for those grappling with these issues for the first time, Trust,
Ethics and Human Reason provides a thorough and impassioned
assessment of the concept of trust in moral philosophy.
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and
commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three
lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema
and theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou - one
concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide
ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It
also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by
established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of
history, Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original
essays by young and established scholars in Australia and New
Zealand addressing the key concerns of Badiou's 2015 visit to the
Antipodal region and the work he presented there. With new material
by Badiou previously unpublished in English this volume is a
valuable overview of his recent thinking. Critical responses by
distinguished and gifted Badiou scholars writing outside of the
European context make this text essential reading for anyone
interested in the development and contemporary reception of
Badiou's thought.
What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional
accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume
(prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of
resistance as primary. The author proposes a strategic analysis
that highlights how our efforts need to be redirected towards a
horizon of creation and change. Checchi first establishes a
genealogy of two main trajectories of the history of our present:
the liberal subject of rights and the neoliberal ideas of human
capital and bio-financialisation. The former emerges as a reactive
closure of Etienne de la Boetie's discourse on human nature and
natural companionship. The other forecloses the creative potential
of Autonomist Marxist conceptions of labour, first elaborated by
Mario Tronti. The focus of this text then shifts towards
contemporary openings. Initially, Checchi proposes an inverted
reading of Jacques Ranciere's concept of politics as interruption
that resonates with Antonio Negri's emphasis on Baruch Spinoza's
potential qua resistance. Finally, the author stages a virtual
encounter between Gilles Deleuze's ontology of matter and
Foucault's account of the primacy of resistance with which the text
begins. Through this series of explorations, The Primacy of
Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming traces a conceptual
trajectory with and beyond Foucault by affirming the affinity
between resistance and creation.
Politics as Radical Creation examines the meaning of democratic
practice through the critical social theory of the Frankfurt
School. It provides an understanding of democratic politics as a
potentially performative good-in-itself, undertaken not just to the
extent that it seeks to achieve a certain extrinsic goal, but also
in that it functions as a medium for the expression of creative
human impulses. Christopher Holman develops this potential model
through a critical examination of the political philosophies of
Herbert Marcuse and Hannah Arendt. Holman argues that, while Arendt
and Marcuse's respective theorizations each ultimately restrict the
potential scope of creative human expression, their juxtaposition -
which has not been previously explored - results in a more
comprehensive theory of democratic existence, one that is uniquely
able to affirm the creative capacities of the human being. Yielding
important theoretical results that will interest scholars of each
theorist and of theories of democracy more generally, Politics as
Radical Creation provides a valuable means for rethinking the
nature of contemporary democratic practice.
This book offers a new perspective on the motherhood experience.
Drawing on existential philosophy and recent phenomenological
research into motherhood, the book demonstrates how motherhood can
be understood as an existential crisis. It argues that an awareness
of the existential issues women face will enable mothers to gain a
deeper understanding of the multifaceted aspects of their
experience. The book is divided into four sections: Existential
Crisis, Maternal Mental Health Crisis, Social Crisis and Working
with Existential Crisis, where each section. Each chapter is based
on either experiential research or the author's extensive
therapeutic experience of working with mothers and reflects
different aspects of the motherhood journey, all through the lens
of a philosophical existential approach. The book is essential
reading for mental health practitioners and researchers working
with mothers, midwives and health visitors, but it is also written
for mothers, with the aim to offer new insights on this important
life transition.
Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The
nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly
of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.
Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds and
vegetarianism, but only around the last quarter of the twentieth
century did a significant philosophical literature begin to be
developed on both the scientific study of animals and the ethics of
human uses of animals. This literature had a primary focus on
discussion of animal psychology, the moral status of animals, the
nature and significance of species, and a number of practical
problems. This Oxford Handbook is designed to capture the nature of
the questions as they stand today and to propose solutions to many
of the major problems. Several chapters in this volume explore
matters that have never previously been examined by philosophers.
The authors of the thirty-five chapters come from a diverse set of
philosophical interests in the History of Philosophy, the
Philosophy of Mind, the Philosophy of Biology, the Philosophy of
Cognitive Science, the Philosophy of Language, Ethical Theory, and
Practical Ethics. They explore many theoretical issues about animal
minds and an array of practical concerns about animal products,
farm animals, hunting, circuses, zoos, the entertainment industry,
safety-testing on animals, the status and moral significance of
species, environmental ethics, the nature and significance of the
minds of animals, and so on. They also investigate what the future
may be expected to bring in the way of new scientific developments
and new moral problems.
This book of original essays is the most comprehensive single
volume ever published on animal minds and the ethics of our use of
animals.
This is a book about the body and its amazing contribution to the
moral mind. The author focuses on the important roles the body
plays in moral cognition. What happens to us when we observe moral
violations, make moral judgments and engage in moral actions? How
does the body affect our moral decisions and shape our moral
dispositions? Can embodied moral psychology be consistently pursued
as a viable alternative to disembodied traditions of moral
philosophy? Is there any school of philosophy where the body is
discussed as the underlying foundation of moral judgment and
action? To answer these questions, the author analyzes Confucian
philosophy as an intriguing and insightful example of embodied
moral psychology.
This is a concise introduction to the life and work of the Italian
militant and political thinker, Antonio Gramsci. As head of the
Italian Communist Party in the 1920s, Gramsci was arrested and
condemned to 20 years' imprisonment by Mussolini's fascist regime.
It was during this imprisonment that Gramsci wrote his famous
Prison Notebooks - over 2,000 pages of profound and influential
reflections on history, culture, politics, philosophy and
revolution. An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci retraces the
trajectory of Gramsci's life, before examining his conceptions of
culture, politics and philosophy. Gramsci's writings are then
interpreted through the lens of his most famous concept, that of
'hegemony'; Gramsci's thought is then extended and applied to
'think through' contemporary problems to illustrate his distinctive
historical methodology. The book concludes with a valuable
examination of Gramsci's legacy today and useful tips for further
reading. George Hoare and Nathan Sperber make Gramsci accessible
for students of history, politics and philosophy keen to understand
this seminal figure in 20th-century intellectual history.
This book is a unique attempt to systematize the latest research on
all that music connotes. Musicological reflections on musically
expressive content have been pursued for some decades now, in spite
of the formalist prejudices that can still hindermusicians and
music lovers. The author organizes this body of research so that
both professionals and everyday listeners can benefit from it - in
plain English, but without giving up the level of depth required by
the subject matter. Two criteria have guided his choice among the
many ways to speak about musical meaning: its relevance to
performance, and its suitability to the teaching context. The
legacy of the so-called art music, without an interpretive approach
that links ancient traditions to our present, runs the risk of
missing the link to the new generations of musicians and listeners.
Complementing the theoretical, systematic content, each chapter
includes a wealth of examples, including the so-called popular
music.
The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and
physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for
thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the
knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the
idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental
states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This
view has come under relentless criticism, but here Fumerton makes a
powerful case for its rehabilitation, demonstrating clearly the
importance of its interconnections with a wide range of other
controversies within philosophy. Fumerton analyzes philosophical
views about the nature of thought and the relation of those views
to arguments for dualism, and investigates the connection between a
traditional form of foundationalism about knowledge, and a
foundationalist view about thought that underlies traditional
arguments for dualism. His book will be of great interest to those
studying epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
In ""The Historian's Conscience"", Macintyre and thirteen other
Australian historians put history and the history profession under
the microscope. Eminent contributors include Alan Atkinson, Graeme
Davison, Greg Dening, John Hirst, Beverley Kingston, Marilyn Lake,
and Iain McCalman. They not only ask but answer the hard questions
about writing and researching history. How do historians choose
their histories? What sort of emotional investment do they make in
their subjects, and how do they control their sympathies? How do
they deal with unpalatable discoveries? To whom are historians
responsible? And for whom are they entitled to speak?
Intellectually provocative, often personally revealing, always
engaged, ""The Historian's Conscience"" is a 'must read'.
Are we oblivious to the wonders of human consciousness? Stephen
DeBerry suggests that we must reintegrate the concept of
consciousness into mainstream psychology. He develops, from a
general systems perspective, a model of consciousness which he uses
to explore the effects of technology - the accelerated and
pervasive television video universe - on the quality of our lives.
What role has modern technology played in the shifting of human
consciousness from intrapersonal and interpersonal dimensions to
the predominantly impersonal dimension where only the material
world matters? The intent of this volume is to provoke questions
and dialogue. A cross-disciplinary study of the relationship of
human consciousness and cultural pathology, it is intended for
anyone who critically thinks that life has more purpose than we
allow it. DeBerry's book presents a new model of human
consciousness. It also takes a penetrating look at one of the most
serious cultural changes of contemporary life: the relationship of
consciousness and technology. The first six chapters function as
building blocks that construct DeBerry's model by exploring the use
of scientific paradigms to study consciousness; by offering a
scientific and philosophic background; by introducing a general
systems theory; and by describing concepts of perspective and
focus, time and space, values and reality assumptions, and
language. Chapter seven demonstrates how concept distortions have
externalized consciousness. DeBerry's model is then related to
issues of contemporary culture and community. Technology's
contribution to distortions in consciousness is explored in chapter
nine. The volume concludes with a discussion of the contemporary
psychopathology of everyday life. Intended for courses in graduate
psychology, this volume's interdisciplinary perspective makes it
equally relevant for courses in sociology, anthropology, humanistic
philosophy, human studies, and social ecology.
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The Risk of Freedom presents an in-depth analysis of the philosophy
of Jan Patocka, one of the most influential Central European
thinkers of the twentieth century, examining both the
phenomenological and ethical-political aspects of his work. In
particular, Francesco Tava takes an original approach to the
problem of freedom, which represents a recurring theme in Patocka's
work, both in his early and later writings. Freedom is conceived of
as a difficult and dangerous experience. In his deep analysis of
this particular problem, Tava identifies the authentic ethical
content of Patocka's work and clarifies its connections with
phenomenology, history of philosophy, politics and dissidence. The
Risk of Freedom retraces Patocka's philosophical journey and
elucidates its more problematic and less evident traits, such as
his original ethical conception, his political ideals and his
direct commitment as a dissident.
This book argues that contemporary liberal democracy is reaching a
crisis. Brendan Sweetman contends that this crisis arises from a
contentious pluralism involving the rise of incommensurable
worldviews that emerge out of the absolutizing of freedom over time
in a democratic setting. This clash of worldviews is further
complicated by a loss of confidence in reason and by the practical
failure of public discourse. A contributory factor is the growing
worldview of secularism which needs to be distinguished from both
the process of secularization and the concept of the secular state.
After describing the crisis, and exploring these themes, and also
rejecting proposed solutions from recent liberal political theory,
Sweetman develops an approach to pluralist disagreement which
requires a re-envisioning of the relationship between religion,
secularism and politics, and which allows a limited place for all
worldviews in the state, including religious worldviews. Engaging
with the work of Philip Kitcher, Robert Audi, John Rawls, A.C.
Grayling, Martin Luther King, Cecile Laborde, John Stuart Mill,
John Locke, and Plato, Sweetman's approach is a formidable
innovation in the quest to maintain a free and fair society.
In A Theory of Environmental Leadership, Mark Manolopoulos draws on
his original model of leading outlined in his cutting-edge book
Following Reason to derive and develop the first properly
systematic model of eco-leadership. Suppose humanity's relation
with the Earth may be described in terms of leadership "stages" or
modalities: once upon a time, the Earth led or ruled humanity, and
now we humans rule or lead the Earth. When the Earth led, the Earth
flourished; now that humankind leads, the Earth flounders -
ecological crises multiply and intensify. However, there might be a
third stage or modality of leadership: humanity leading for the
Earth, leading in a way that allows the world, including humans, to
re-flourish. What would be the nature of this truly environmental
form of leadership? A Theory of Environmental Leadership identifies
and critically analyzes the two basic and incompatible positions
associated with the way we construe and interact with the
non-human: anthropocentrism (human supremacism) and ecocentrism
(ecological egalitarianism). By rigorously analyzing and leveraging
this polarity, this book outlines an innovative theory of
eco-leadership together with some of its confronting-but-necessary
measures. Expansive and incredibly timely, A Theory of
Environmental Leadership is ideal for a range of audiences, from
scholars and students of environmental leadership studies to
activists and policymakers. The book's remarkable clarity and
engaging character also makes it suitable for the general public.
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