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This book provides a reasoned, comprehensive understanding of what
religion is as well as a clear and critical assessment of whether,
in the light of modern developments in philosophy, contemporary
thinking people can responsibly maintain religious belief in God.
The book is divided into three major sections: the first deals with
what all religions may be said to have in common; the second
discusses theistic religion and the issue of intellectually
responsible belief in God; the third examines current developments
within a particular theistic religion, Christianity. Originally
published in 1968, the book is basic, both in the nature of the
issues it discusses and in the clarity and comprehensiveness of its
presentation; it is varied in the arguments and perspectives dealt
with; it provides an introduction to philosophical thinking through
the problems of philosophy of religion; and it deals seriously with
controversial movements in theology.
This book provides a reasoned, comprehensive understanding of what
religion is as well as a clear and critical assessment of whether,
in the light of modern developments in philosophy, contemporary
thinking people can responsibly maintain religious belief in God.
The book is divided into three major sections: the first deals with
what all religions may be said to have in common; the second
discusses theistic religion and the issue of intellectually
responsible belief in God; the third examines current developments
within a particular theistic religion, Christianity. Originally
published in 1968, the book is basic, both in the nature of the
issues it discusses and in the clarity and comprehensiveness of its
presentation; it is varied in the arguments and perspectives dealt
with; it provides an introduction to philosophical thinking through
the problems of philosophy of religion; and it deals seriously with
controversial movements in theology.
Contents include an introduction, selected bibliography with works
by Comte in English and works about Comte in English, Comte: The
Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy, Comte: The
Classification of the Positive Sciences, and an index.
In this collection of essays, leading environmentalists and
philosophers explore the relationship between environmental ethics
and policy, both in theory and practice. The first section of the
book focuses on four approaches to change in ethical theory:
ecological science, feminist metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, and
holistic postmodern technology. In subsequent sections the
contributors emphasize the need for nontraditional solutions and
attempt to expand awareness of the most pressing practical
problems. Among the topics discussed are the possibilities of real
international cooperation, the inequitable but economically
intractable issue of global gasses, the political and ethical
challenges of city planning, and the growing evidence of
fundamental inappropriateness in treating land as legal private
property. This volume is based on essays presented in 1992 at the
Second International Conference on Ethics and Environmental Policy.
The conference was held in response to the increasing need for a
new ethics that would counter the traditional human-centered,
dominantly individualistic approach of the industrial world toward
the environment.
Edited by the inventor of PCR and two prominent experts in PCR
techniques, this first comprehensive handbook on the Polymerase
Chain Reaction has the most up to date methodological protocols
from the world's leading laboratories. Included are exciting new
techniques and enhanced methods, previously unavailable in book
form, that show the novice and experienced PCR user exactly how
they can optimize their results. The applications chapters are
quite unique, with the foremost researchers providing not only
protocols, but explaining why PCR has revolutionized their
particular field. Future enhancements of PCR as well as new
potential uses are discussed. Readers will learn how PCR has
changed the face of diagnostic testing, cancer research, genetics,
forensics, plant biology, DNA sequencing, gene therapy, and much
more! Nearly forty chapters have been extensively reviewed and
checked for accuracy and breadth of subject matter.
In this widely taught introductory survey, Frederick Ferre explains
the fundamental concerns and methods of philosophy and then guides
readers through a philosophical inquiry into some of the major
issues surrounding technology's impact on our lives. The first half
of the book concentrates on key definitions and epistemological
issues, including an overview of philosophy as applied to
technology, a definition of technology, and an examination of
technology as it relates to practical and theoretical
intelligence--especially how high technology relates to modern
science and how science depends on technical craft. The second half
addresses the problems of living with technology. Ferre contrasts
Karl Marx's and Buckminster Fuller's "bright" visions of technology
and modern existence with the "somber" visions of Martin Heidegger
and Herbert Marcuse. Next, in offering direction for an ethical
assessment of technology, Ferre poses questions about workplace
automation, computers, nuclear energy, Third World development, and
genetic engineering. Finally, the book considers debates about the
mutual influences between technology and religion, and technology
and metaphysics. A glossary and a list of suggested further
readings are included. Providing a philosophical framework that
will remain timely in the face of rapid technological change,
Philosophy of Technology will help students in both the sciences
and liberal arts to examine comprehensively their own and society's
fundamental beliefs and attitudes about technology.
In this collection of essays, leading environmentalists and
philosophers explore the relationship between environmental ethics
and policy, both in theory and practice. The first section of the
book focuses on four approaches to change in ethical theory:
ecological science, feminist metaphysics, Chinese philosophy, and
holistic postmodern technology. In subsequent sections the
contributors emphasise the need for nontraditional solutions and
attempt to expand awareness of the most pressing practical
problems. Among the topics discussed are the possibilities of real
international cooperation; the inequitable but economically
intractable issue of global gases; the political and ethical
challenges of city planning; and the growing evidence of
fundamental inappropriateness in treating land as legal private
property. This volume is based on essays presented in 1992 at the
Second International Conference on Ethics and Environmental Policy.
The conference was held in response to the increasing need for a
new ethics that would counter the traditional human-centred,
dominantly individualistic approach of the industrial world toward
the environment. Contributors include: J. Baird Callicott, Victoria
Davion, Frederick Ferre, Frank B. Golley, Elizabeth Dodson Gray,
Alastair S. Gunn, Eugene Hargrove, Peter Hartel, Erazim Kohak,
Yu-shi Mao, Ignazio Musu, Bryan Norton, Corrado Poli, Holmes
Rolston III, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Udo E. Simonis and Gary E.
Varner.
Modern thought, finally free from premodern excesses of belief,
immediately fell prey to excesses of doubt. This book points toward
a postmodern approach to knowing that moves beyond the tired choice
between dogma and skepticism. Its key deconstructive aim is to help
contemporary philosophers see that their paralyzing modern
"epistemological gap" is a myth. Its positive outcome, however,
reverses the identification of "postmodern" with deconstruction
rather than construction, with the "end of philosophy" rather than
renewal in philosophy.
Knowing and Value begins by tracing how we got here, and argues
that much of our modern dilemma rests on choices that might have
gone otherwise. Key value judgments underlying Plato's and
Aristotle's epistemological norms, which still tend to govern our
theories of knowledge, are clarified. Next the value-laden sources
of premodern attitudes toward knowing are exposed by showing how
the Christian synthesis of faith and reason was at first built by
medieval Platonists and Aristotelians, then razed by premodern
nominalists. This diagnostic account concludes with a close look at
how modernity, from Hobbes and Descartes to Kant, designed its own
epistemological trap by rejecting some premodern values, while
accepting others.
The book also examines the principal ways moderns (positivists,
idealists, existentialists, and pragmatists) have tried to cope
with the supposed epistemological gap -- each without success, but
with every failure leaving resources for rebuilding.
In a constructive climax, the book shows how an ecological
worldview, emphasizing real relations (the view proposed in its
predecessor volume, Being and Value) can heal the needlessruptures
on which modern epistemic maladies depend. A reformed account of
human experience confronts modern skepticism head-on; a fresh
"process" approach to language and thinking is proposed; and
finally, a postmodern, pluralist view of theories and truth is
offered under a guiding aesthetic metaphor: "Knowing is the music
of thought".
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