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This volume provides a framework for approaching and understanding
mental normativity. It presents cutting-edge research on the ethics
of belief as well as innovative research beyond the normativity of
belief-and towards an ethics of mind. By moving beyond traditional
issues of epistemology the contributors discuss the most current
ideas revolving around rationality, responsibility, and
normativity. The book's chapters are divided into two main parts.
Part I discusses contemporary issues surrounding the normativity of
belief. The essays here cover topics such as control over belief
and its implication for the ethics of belief, the role of the
epistemic community for the possibility of epistemic normativity,
responsibility for believing, doxastic partiality in friendship,
the structure and content of epistemic norms, and the norms for
suspension of judgment. In Part II the focus shifts from the
practical dimensions of belief to the normativity and rationality
of other mental states-especially blame, passing thoughts,
fantasies, decisions, and emotions. These essays illustrate how we
might approach an ethics of mind by focusing not only on belief,
but also more generally on debates about responsibility and
rationality, as well as on normative questions concerning other
mental states or attitudes. The Ethics of Belief and Beyond paves
the way towards an ethics of mind by building on and contributing
to recent philosophical discussions in the ethics of belief and the
normativity of other mental phenomena. It will be of interest to
upper-level students and researchers working in epistemology,
ethics, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and moral
psychology.
This volume provides a framework for approaching and understanding
mental normativity. It presents cutting-edge research on the ethics
of belief as well as innovative research beyond the normativity of
belief-and towards an ethics of mind. By moving beyond traditional
issues of epistemology the contributors discuss the most current
ideas revolving around rationality, responsibility, and
normativity. The book's chapters are divided into two main parts.
Part I discusses contemporary issues surrounding the normativity of
belief. The essays here cover topics such as control over belief
and its implication for the ethics of belief, the role of the
epistemic community for the possibility of epistemic normativity,
responsibility for believing, doxastic partiality in friendship,
the structure and content of epistemic norms, and the norms for
suspension of judgment. In Part II the focus shifts from the
practical dimensions of belief to the normativity and rationality
of other mental states-especially blame, passing thoughts,
fantasies, decisions, and emotions. These essays illustrate how we
might approach an ethics of mind by focusing not only on belief,
but also more generally on debates about responsibility and
rationality, as well as on normative questions concerning other
mental states or attitudes. The Ethics of Belief and Beyond paves
the way towards an ethics of mind by building on and contributing
to recent philosophical discussions in the ethics of belief and the
normativity of other mental phenomena. It will be of interest to
upper-level students and researchers working in epistemology,
ethics, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and moral
psychology.
Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the outstanding thinkers of
the 20th century. In a memorial note, Hilary Putnam considers him
to be "one of the two or three greatest analytic philosophers of
the post-World War II period." Goodman has left his mark in many
fields of philosophical investigation: Epistemology, Philosophy of
Science, Logic, Metaphysics, the General Theory of Symbols,
Philosophy of Languageand Philosophy of Art, all have been
challenged and enriched by the problems he has shown up, the
projects he developed from them and the solutions he has suggested.
In August 2006 a couple of Goodman aficionados met in Munich to
celebrate the Centennial. The proceedings of the ensuing
international conference are documented in this volume. The
contributions attest the fact that Goodman's thinking still holds
many treasures.
This volume explores the South Brazilian grasslands, a unique
complex of ecosystems in Brazil. Despite high biodiversity and many
important ecosystem services, their biodiversity and conservation
are neglected, both nationally, and globally. This book provides a
state-of-the-art synthesis of knowledge on the biodiversity and its
drivers in South Brazilian grasslands and associated ecosystems.
Further, the book discusses conservation challenges and options, as
well as management strategies that help to maintain the region’s
uniqueness. The chapters present information on biodiversity and
ecological features of the region, and put this information into
the context of historical and current human land uses, allowing for
links to global discussions of conservation and sustainable
development.  Altogether, the book contains 20
chapters organized in four sections. The book is directed at
researchers, students and professionals working with biodiversity
and sustainable development in southern Brazil, as well as to the
international scientific and conservation community interested in
grasslands and associated ecosystems, particularly in tropical and
subtropical regions.
The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral
discussions. The core idea, that all human beings have some
inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an eminently
practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and
calls for action in order to prevent them. On the other hand it is
unclear what exactly a human right is. Human rights lack a
convincing conceptual foundation that would be able to compel the
wrong-doer to accept human rights claims as well-founded. Hence the
practical function faces theoretical doubts. The present collection
takes up the tension between the wide political use of human rights
claims and the intellectual skepticism about them. In particular
two major issues are identified that call for conceptual
clarification in order to better understand human rights claims
both in theory and in practice: the question of how to justify
human rights and the tension between universal normative claims and
particular moralities.
This course is addressed to all those who, over and above the
simple requirements of tourist communication, need to acquire a
command of Italian for professional purposes in a brief space of
time. It provides the basic knowledge enabling, say, students of
Romance languages to follow classes and lectures on subjects to do
with Italy and Italian. The course is geared to adult learners in
search of swift learning success.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ Respublica Ubio-Agrippinensis Gerhard Ernst Hamm Fiction;
Classics; Fiction / Classics
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pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ Sacra Themidis Hispanae Arcana... Et Fori Hispani Praxi
Hodierna Gerhard Ernst Franck de Franckenau Francisco Cerda y Rico
apud Antonium Sancham, 1780 Law; General; Law / General; Law /
Legal History
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other
issues beyond our control.
This Book Is In Latin. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this
book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of
the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other
issues beyond our control.
Statistical mechanics attempts to explain the behaviour of
macroscopic physical systems in terms of the mechanical properties
of their constituents. Although it is one of the fundamental
theories of physics, it has received little attention from
philosophers of science. Nevertheless, it raises philosophical
questions of fundamental importance on the nature of time, chance
and reduction. Most philosophical issues in this domain relate to
the question of the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical
mechanics. This book addresses issues inherent in this reduction:
the time-asymmetry of thermodynamics and its absence in statistical
mechanics; the role and essential nature of chance and probability
in this reduction when thermodynamics is non-probabilistic; and
how, if at all, the reduction is possible. Compiling contributions
on current research by experts in the field, this is an invaluable
survey of the philosophy of statistical mechanics for academic
researchers and graduate students interested in the foundations of
physics.
This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE
is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general
linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific
languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have
developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold
forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic"
linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of
the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances
in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints,
while in the more recent branches of communication science the
handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation.
To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard
comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines,
and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical
explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and
up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the
individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed
to this aim. The language of publication is English. The main aim
of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of
the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication
science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no
inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each
volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of
further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with
the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be
prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set
time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is
a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the
handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is
determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors
of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual
volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he
or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors
and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the
others, being governed only by general formal principles. The
series editors only intervene where questions of delineation
between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this
(modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the
series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of
knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered
by each volume. To discuss your handbook idea or submit a proposal,
please contact Birgit Sievert.
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