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Imaginative cases, or what might be called puzzles and other
thought experiments, play a central role in philosophy of mind. The
real world also furnishes philosophers with an ample supply of such
puzzles. This volume collects fifty of the most important
historical and contemporary cases in philosophy of mind and
describes their significance. The authors divide them into five
sections: consciousness and dualism; physicalist theories and the
metaphysics of mind; content, intentionality, and representation;
perception, imagination, and attention; and persons, personal
identity, and the self. Each chapter provides background, describes
a central case or cases, discusses the relevant literature, and
suggests further readings. Philosophy of Mind: Fifty Puzzles,
Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments promises to be a useful teaching
tool as well as a handy resource for anyone interested in the area.
Key Features: Offers stand-alone chapters, each presented in an
identical format: - Topics - Background - The Case - Discussion -
Recommended Reading Each chapter is self-contained, allowing
students to quickly understand an issue and giving instructors
flexibility in assigning readings to match the themes of the
course. Additional pedagogical features include a general volume
introduction as well as smaller introductions to each of the five
sections and a glossary at the end of the book.
Imaginative cases, or what might be called puzzles and other
thought experiments, play a central role in philosophy of mind. The
real world also furnishes philosophers with an ample supply of such
puzzles. This volume collects fifty of the most important
historical and contemporary cases in philosophy of mind and
describes their significance. The authors divide them into five
sections: consciousness and dualism; physicalist theories and the
metaphysics of mind; content, intentionality, and representation;
perception, imagination, and attention; and persons, personal
identity, and the self. Each chapter provides background, describes
a central case or cases, discusses the relevant literature, and
suggests further readings. Philosophy of Mind: Fifty Puzzles,
Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments promises to be a useful teaching
tool as well as a handy resource for anyone interested in the area.
Key Features: Offers stand-alone chapters, each presented in an
identical format: - Topics - Background - The Case - Discussion -
Recommended Reading Each chapter is self-contained, allowing
students to quickly understand an issue and giving instructors
flexibility in assigning readings to match the themes of the
course. Additional pedagogical features include a general volume
introduction as well as smaller introductions to each of the five
sections and a glossary at the end of the book.
Three experienced biblical language professors inspire readers to
learn, retain, and use Hebrew for ministry, setting them on a
lifelong journey of reading and loving the Hebrew Bible. This
companion volume to the successful Greek for Life offers practical
guidance, inspiration, and motivation; incorporates research-tested
strategies for learning; presents methods not usually covered in
other textbooks; and surveys helpful resources for recovering
Hebrew after a long period of disuse. It will benefit anyone who is
taking (or has taken) a year of Hebrew. Foreword by Miles van Pelt.
This Brief integrates the literature and research on other-oriented
hope. It discusses the position of other-oriented hope as one
manifestation of the broader attribute of other-interest and argues
the importance of other-interest in well-being. The Brief examines
definitions and attributes of other-oriented hope, based upon
theoretical and empirical understandings of hope more generally.
Thereafter it reviews both qualitative and quantitative research
findings concerning the occurrence of other-oriented hope in
several domains, including other-oriented hope among parents of ill
children, other-oriented hope among caregivers and other-oriented
hope among the elderly. Several theoretical frameworks for
understanding the phenomenon of other-oriented hope are considered,
as are the functions of and elements comprising, other-oriented
hope. The differentiation of other-oriented hope and related
concepts, such as compassion and love, is considered. Finally, the
brief examines the application of other-oriented hope to practical
work in counselling and caregiving and outlines several directions
for future work on other-oriented hope.
The Arab Spring put non-governmental public action centre-stage in
the drive for greater social justice. Governments, politicians and
international institutions increasingly court non-governmental
public actors, engaging them in policy dialogue, inviting them to
participate in the delivery of social services, and looking to them
to re-invigorate democratic politics. This unique collection
explores the different organizational forms, strategies and tactics
that activists adopt to pursue social justice goals and analyses
how histories of resistance impinge on contemporary activism in
both positive and negative ways. The authors examine how
established corporatist trades unions struggle to reform as new
forms of labour resistance challenge their legitimacy and proximity
to government. They analyse how non-governmental public actors
negotiate various 'civil society dilemmas' that emerge in the new
spaces for collaboration opened up by government, focusing
particularly on threats to their values, autonomy and legitimacy.
They also explore the efforts of non-governmental public actors to
secure greater justice in the sphere of production and
distribution, be that through co-operatives or through consumer
rights activism around access to essential drugs.
This unique collection explores the different organizational forms,
strategies and tactics that activists adopt. The authors examine
how established trades unions struggle to reform, how
non-governmental public actors negotiate various dilemmas, and the
efforts of non-governmental public actors to secure justice.
Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics
of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed
empirical research around the themes of environmentalism, security,
children's rights and more, the contributors explore the complex
politics amongst non-governmental public actors acting
transnationally.
The book critically examines the effects of the War on Terror on
the relationships between civil society, security and aid. It
argues that the War on Terror regime has greatly reshaped the field
of development and it highlights the longer-lasting impacts of
post-9/11 counter-terrorism responses on aid policy and practice on
civil society.
Economic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of
savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest
rates. Their sweeping destructive powers are expressed through
Global Liquidity, a $130 trillion pool of footloose cash. Global
Liquidity describes the gross flows of credit and international
capital feeding through the world's banking systems and wholesale
money markets. The huge jump in the volume of international
financial markets since the mid-1980s has been boosted by
deregulation, innovation and easy money, with financial
globalisation now surpassing the peaks of integration reached
before the First World War. Global Liquidity drives these markets:
it is often determinant, frequently disruptive and always
fast-moving. Barely one fifth of Wall Street's huge gains over
recent decades have come from earnings: rising liquidity and
investors' appetite for riskier financial assets have propelled
stock prices higher. Similar experiences are shared worldwide and
even in emerging markets, such as India, flat earnings have not
deterred waves of foreign money and domestic mutual funds from
driving-up stock prices. Now with central banks actively pursuing
quantitative easing policies, industrial corporations flush with
cash and rising wealth levels among emerging market investors, the
liquidity theory of investment has never been more important.
International spill-overs of these rapacious cross-border flows
sets off capital wars and exposes the unattractive face of
liquidity called 'risk.' As the world grows bigger, it becomes ever
more volatile. From the early 1960s onwards, the world economy and
its financial markets have suffered from three broad types of
shocks - labour costs, oil and commodities, and global liquidity.
Financial markets spin on fragile axes and the absence of liquidity
often provides a warning of upcoming troubles. Global Liquidity is
a much-discussed, but narrowly-researched and vaguely-defined
topic. This book deeply explores the subject by clearly defining
and measuring liquidity worldwide and by showing its importance for
investors. The roles of central banks, shadow banking, the rise of
Repo and growth of wholesale money are discussed. Additionally,
covering the latest developments in China's increasingly dominant
financial economy, this book will appeal to practitioners,
policy-makers, economists and academics, as well as those with a
general interest in how financial markets work.
Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics
of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed
empirical research around the themes of environmentalism, security,
children's rights and more, the contributors explore the complex
politics amongst non-governmental public actors acting
transnationally.
The book critically examines the effects of the War on Terror on
the relationships between civil society, security and aid. It
argues that the War on Terror regime has greatly reshaped the field
of development and it highlights the longer-lasting impacts of
post-9/11 counter-terrorism responses on aid policy and practice on
civil society.
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