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Transparency and Apperception: Exploring the Kantian Roots of a
Contemporary Debate explores the links between the idea that belief
is transparent and Kant's claims about apperception. Transparency
is the idea that a person can answer questions about whether she,
for instance, believes something by considering, not her own
psychological states, but the objects and properties the belief is
about. This marks a sharp contrast between a first-person and
third-person perspective on one's current mental states. This idea
has deep roots in Kant's doctrine of apperception, the claim that
the human mind is essentially self-conscious, and Kant held that it
underlies the responsibility that a person has for certain of their
own mental states. Nevertheless, the idea of transparency and its
roots in apperception remain obscure and give rise to difficult
methodological and exegetical questions. The contributions in this
work address these questions and will be required reading for
anyone working on this intersection of the philosophy of mind and
language, and epistemology. The chapters in this book were
originally published in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of
Philosophy.
How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our
understanding of the musician, the man and the icon? To evaluate
the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be
seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say?
This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, not only to
produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of
biography and dissemination by using Handel's life and lives as a
case study. By examining the images of Handel to be found in
biographies and music histories - the genius, the religious
profound, the master of musical styles, the distiller into music of
English sentiment, the glorifier of the Hanoverians, the hymner of
the middle class, the independent, the prodigious, the generous,
the sexless, the successful, the wealthy, the bankrupt, the pious,
the crude, the heroic, the devious, the battler of ill-fortune, the
moral exemplar - and by adding new factual information, David
Hunter shows how events are manipulated into stories and tropes.
Onesuch trope has been employed to portray numerous persons as
Handel's enemies regardless of whether Handel considered them as
such. Picking apart the writing of Handel's biographers and other
reporters, Hunter exposes the narrative underpinnings - the lies,
confusions, presumptions, and conclusions, whether direct and
inferred or assumed - to show how Handel's 'lives' in biographies
and histories have moulded our understanding of the musician, the
man andthe icon. DAVID HUNTER is Music Librarian at the University
of Texas at Austin.
In this issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest editor Dr.
David Hunter brings his considerable expertise to the topic of
Osteoarthritis. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as
obesity and nutrition influences in osteoarthritis, the genesis of
pain in osteoarthritis, overview of disease management, and more.
Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including overview
of disease management, concordance with guidelines, and strategies
to increase implementation of best evidence; obesity and nutrition
influences in osteoarthritis; pathogenesis of osteoarthritis;
behavior change barriers and facilitators in people with
osteoarthritis; suitable candidates and realistic expectations in
surgery for osteoarthritis; and more. Provides in-depth clinical
reviews on osteoarthritis, offering actionable insights for
clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely,
focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the
field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and
practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based
reviews.
These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about
propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new
approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have
been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and
attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in
philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility.
According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions
are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects
which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent
theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they
do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the
doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can
really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so
where does their structure come from? How does this structure form
a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and
structural properties of propositions really independent of those
of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object
occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up
these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract
object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches.
While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally
reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the
papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal
of Philosophy.
This treaty supplement is meant to complement the Sixth Edition of
International Environmental Law & Policy. It includes the major
hard and soft law instruments that embody the field of
international environmental law, as well as some excerpts from
important related treaties such as the Vienna Convention on the Law
of Treaties and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about
propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new
approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have
been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and
attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in
philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility.
According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions
are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects
which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent
theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they
do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the
doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can
really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so
where does their structure come from? How does this structure form
a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and
structural properties of propositions really independent of those
of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object
occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up
these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract
object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches.
While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally
reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the
papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal
of Philosophy.
An international collaboration between leading scholars showcases a
broad spectrum of observations on Handel and his music, covering
many aspects of modern interdisciplinary and traditional
philological musicology. As soon as Handel composed, rehearsed and
performed his music, it was already a subject of fascination for
the authors of reports, polemics and critical appraisals. The
continuous yet evolving culture of Handelian studies is represented
here in its current state by several generations of scholars who
are inspired by the research, publications and teaching of Donald
Burrows. This festschrift contains twenty essays that exemplify
aspects both of traditional philological enquiry and of modern
interdisciplinary musicology. Much like a baroque dramma per
musica, the narrative is divided into three parts. Act I, 'Handel's
Music and Creative Practices', is an exposition that sets the scene
and introduces the main characters: musical case studies stretch
from his first opera Almira (Hamburg, 1705) to his last English
oratorio The Triumph of Time and Truth (London, 1757). Act II, is
'Sources, Documents and Attributions', develops complications to
the plot: there is new information about the authenticity of
chamber cantatas and instrumental pieces, and reports on
manuscript, printed, and archival sources that demonstrate how
primary research may be interpreted and understood. Act III,
'Context and Reception', moves us towards the lieto fine: some
broad contexts of Handel in relation to his contemporaries and
colleagues are considered alongside reception studies of the
composer's music both within and after his lifetime. DAVID VICKERS
teaches Academic Studies at Royal Northern College of Music
(Manchester) and is a council member of The Handel Institute.
CONTIBUTORS: Graydon Beeks, Michael Burden, John Butt, Hans Dieter
Clausen, Matthew Gardner, Anthony Hicks, David Hunter, H. Diack
Johnstone, Andrew V. Jones, David Kimbell, Richard G. King, Annette
Landgraf, TrÃona O'Hanlon, Suzana OgrajenÅ¡ek, Leslie M. M.
Robarts, John H. Roberts, Ruth Smith, Colin Timms, David Vickers
and Silas Wollston.
Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response
to new threats to health, which include lifestyle diseases, risks
of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change. At the
same time, health inequalities continue to widen despite efforts to
halt and reverse them. Such developments have profound implications
for the future direction of public health policy and practice. This
book offers a wide-ranging, provocative, and accessible assessment
of challenges confronting a public health system in the UK,
exploring how its parameters have shifted over time and identifying
the origins of long-standing dilemmas in public health practice.
The book provides an overarching review of the state of public
health system, and it is based on an extensive literature review
and research. It includes historical policy and practice, and it
focuses on key issues facing UK public health services, such as
management, commissioning, workforce development, and public
engagement.
Developing original accounts of the many aspects of belief, On
Believing puts the believer at the heart of the story. Hunter
argues that to believe something is to be in position to do, think,
and feel things in light of a possibility whose obtaining would
make one right. The logical aspect is that being right depends only
on whether that possibility obtains. The psychological one concerns
how that possibility can rationalise what one does, thinks, and
feels. But, Hunter argues, beliefs are not causes, capacities, or
dispositions. Rather, believing rationalises because possibilities
are potential reasons. Hunter also denies that believing is a form
of representing. The objects of belief are possibilities, not
representations, and belief states are not themselves true or
false. Hunter defends this modal view against familiar objections
and explores how objective and subjective limits to belief generate
credal illusions and ground credal necessities. Developing a novel
account of the normativity of belief, he argues that voluntary acts
of inference make us responsible for our beliefs. While denying
that believing is intrinsically normative, Hunter grounds the
ethics of belief in attributive goodness. Believing something is to
our credit when it shows us to be good in some way, and what we
ought to believe depends on what we ought to know, and not on the
evidence we have. The ethics of belief, Hunter argues, concern how
a believer ought to be positioned in a world of possibilities.
Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of disability among older
adults affecting upward of 1 in 8 adults. This issue will cover
epidemiology, imaging, disease management and modification, and
many more topics.
This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, Guest Edited by David
Hunter, MD, will feature such article topics as: Epidemiology of
Osteoarthritis; Age-Related Changes in the Musculoskeletal System
and the Development of Osteoarthritis; The Contribution of
Osteoarthritis to Disability; Etiology and Assessment of Disability
in Older Adults; Quality of Osteoarthritis Care for
Community-Dwelling Older Adults; Contextualizing Osteoarthritis
Care and the Reasons for the Gap Between Evidence and Practice;
Transforming Osteoarthritis Care in an Era of Health Care Reform;
Strength Training in Older Adults: the Benefits for Osteoarthritis,
Diet and Exercise in Older Obese Adults with Osteoarthritis; Device
Use: Braces, Walking aids and orthotics; Pharmacologic Intervention
for Osteoarthritis in Older Adults; Surgery in Older Adults with
Osteoarthritis.
Almost 21 million people in the United States are afflicted by
osteoarthritis and it accounts for nearly 25% of all visits to
primary care physicians. Moreover, close to 50% of those 65 and
older will develop symptoms of this disorder This issue of Medical
Clinics examines the clinically important aspects of osteoarthritis
and features articles on the following topics: epidemiology;
etiopathogenesis; the role of bone and meniscus in disease genesis;
genetics; joint mechanics; symptoms, imaging; overview of
management; obesity and management of body weight; the role of
muscle in disease genesis; use of orthotic devices; the role of
analgesics and intra-articular injections in disease management;
potential pharmacologic treatments; and surgical interventions.
This Atlas provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the
historical and current perspectives on osteoarthritis, including
the pathophysiology and epidemiology of the disease. Written by
leading authors in the field of osteoarthritis, the book discusses
classification, etiology and risk factors for osteoarthritis, the
disease course and determinants of osteoarthritis progression,
clinical features and diagnosis as well as imaging methods to
assess joint damage. The Atlas of Osteoarthritis concludes with the
latest treatment updates including both nonpharmacological and
pharmacological treatments, as well as surgical recommendations for
patients with the disease. Osteoarthritis is the most common form
of joint disease causing joint pain, stiffness, and physical
disability among adults. It is an important issue for both the
individual and society with its impact on public health continuing
to grow as a result of the aging population, the rising prevalence
of obesity, and the lack of definitive treatments to prevent or
halt the progress of the disease.
The Dancing Savior"", by David Hunter, is a novel about the thin
line between madness and sanity. Readers are plunged headfirst into
a world where the bizarre is the daily norm. Hunter's story of one
cop's journey to redemption is both moving and haunting"", said
Steven Womack, Edgar-winning author of Chain of Fools.""
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