On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy. On the other hand, mathematical logicians have developed sophisticated logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. Recent developments in logical theories of the semantical paradoxes are highly relevant for philosophical research on the notion of truth. And conversely, philosophical guidance is necessary for the development of logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. From this perspective, this volume intends to reflect and promote deeper interaction and collaboration between philosophers and logicians investigating the concept of truth than has existed so far.Aside from an extended introductory overview of recent work in the theory of truth, the volume consists of articles by leading philosophers and logicians on subjects and debates that are situated on the interface between logical and philosophical theories of truth. The volume is intended for graduate students in philosophy and in logic who want an introduction to contemporary research in this area, as well as for professional philosophers and logicians

This book describes a new approach to teaching foreign languages for primary and secondary school that shifts the attention from learning the language to communicate skillfully in the foreign language. The approach focuses on developing students' literacy skills as a way to discover language and make it meaningful. In the first four chapters the rationale for the approach is explained and illustrated with examples from different units of work in different languages (French, English and Spanish). Chapter 5 talks the reader through a complete unit of work based on a YouTube video, while chapter 6 looks at how this approach can be integrated into an existing curriculum. The book ends by looking at teachers and their difficulties in implementing this approach, and finally sets the Literacy Approach against recent developments in education. This volume will be of interest to academics, students and teachers in fields including foreign language education, literacy development, and CLIL.

This reference provides detailed coverage of dendritic spines, the fascinating neuronal components that modulate synaptic transmission, development, strength, and plasticity and are involved in the function of multiple areas of the nervous system. The density, shape, and function of spines may indicate the cellular connectivity and synaptic plasticity in normal and pathological conditions. This field has undergone dramatic advances in terms of techniques and experimental findings from in vitro to in vivo data, from animal models to human neurons, and computational models using artificial intelligence. To address these cutting-edge findings, the book provides state-of-the-art, comprehensive coverage with chapters written by the leading international researchers in the field. The authors consider the multiple implications for the study of dendritic spines with broad implications in the neurosciences and related areas.  

It remained for Nazi Germany to design the most satanic psychological experi ment of all time, the independent variables consisting of brutality, bestiality, physical and mental torture on an unprecedented scale. What were the effects of this massive assault on the human spirit, on man's ability to assimilate such experiences, if he survived physically? While the terror of the Nazi concentration camps has been indelibly engraved in the history of Western civilization as its most shameful chapter, little systematic study has been addressed to the subsequent lives of that minority of inmates who were fortunate enough to escape physical annihilation and lived to tell about their nightmare. Dr. PAUL MATUSSEK, a respected German psychiatrist, aided by a small group of collaborators, performed the task of identifying a group of victims (mostly Jews but also political prisoners), who, following their liberation, had settled in Germany, Israel, and the United States. By careful interviews, questionnaires, and psychological tests he brought to bear the methods of sensitive clinical inquiry on the experiences of those who dared to reminisce and who were sufficiently trusting to share their feelings and memories with clinical investigators. It is a telling commentary that many people, even after the passage of years, refused to respond."

This book has an objective and a focus. It provides the reader with: * an in-depth acquaintance with the theory of the firm developed by Erich Gutenberg * an insight into a coherent body of current German research in the theory of the firm. The book is divided into two parts. The first part lays the foundations. It presents Gutenberg's theory of the firm to the English speaking reader. Considering the great importance that Erich Gutenberg has had in Germany and taking into consideration the impact that the translations of his path-breaking three volumes "Principles of Management" have had in France, the Spanish speaking countries, and in Japan, it was felt that it was necessary, on the occasion of his tOOth anniversary, to present a concise summary of his contributions to the theory of the firm to an English speaking scientific community. Six papers present Gutenberg's theory in the light of the theoretical advances that he stimulated as well as in the framework of other theoretical developments like capital market theory, transaction cost theory, principal agent theory, and contract theory. The papers show that Gutenberg's theory is highly relevant for theory and highly influential in the practice of management.

The Logic Manual is a clear and concise introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students. It offers a complete introductory course, guiding the reader carefully through the topics in logic that are most important for the study of philosophy. It covers propositional and predicate logic with and without identity. It includes an account of the semantics of these languages including definitions of truth and satisfaction. Natural deduction is used as a proof system. Volker Halbach introduces the essential concepts through examples and informal explanations as well as through abstract definitions.
The Logic Manual provides the best entry to the general abstract way of thinking about language, logic, and semantics which is characteristic of contemporary philosophy. Exercises, examples, and sample examination papers are provided on an accompanying website.

Since 1973, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels has organized regular workshops in the area of management science. The aim of these workshops is to organize a European network of research in the area in order to improve the jOint research on an international basis. Some of these workshops were directed towards the development of certain specialities. The meeting in November 1974 was arranged around the theme "Production Theory and its Applications." It was divided into two sub-sections. One sub-section concerned "Industrial Production Problems" while the other was on "Production Problems in Universities." All presentations were supposed to present applied research in the area of production. The workshop was a great success. The papers were well developed and discussed. Most of the discussion was spent not so much on the analysis but on the assumptions behind the utilized analysis. However, the re actions presented by the audience of the workshop were a good base for the final outlay of the written material. The proceedings presented here contain the collection of papers in their final versions. By putting them together into one format we think we can present a document of high interest to people doing research in the area of production and to operations researchers solving practical production problems."

Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of empire and traditional war have been replaced by cyber warfare but the subtle, lethal methods of agents and spies remain the same, and so has the power of great writing, with stories here to chill and intrigue every reader. Classic authors include Arnold Bennett, Ernest Bramah, John Buchan, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Rudyard Kipling, Maurice Leblanc, Arthur B. Reeve, Sapper, Ellen Wood.

At the centre of the traditional discussion of truth is the question of how truth is defined. Recent research, especially with the development of deflationist accounts of truth, has tended to take truth as an undefined primitive notion governed by axioms, while the liar paradox and cognate paradoxes pose problems for certain seemingly natural axioms for truth. In this book, Volker Halbach examines the most important axiomatizations of truth, explores their properties and shows how the logical results impinge on the philosophical topics related to truth. In particular, he shows that the discussion on topics such as deflationism about truth depends on the solution of the paradoxes. His book is an invaluable survey of the logical background to the philosophical discussion of truth, and will be indispensable reading for any graduate or professional philosopher in theories of truth.

An exceptionally clear, concise, and affordable introduction to logic, The Logic Manual carefully walks beginning philosophy students through the fundamentals, offering them a real understanding of how and why logic works. Author Volker Halbach presents essential concepts through examples, informal explanations, and abstract definitions. Topics covered include propositional and predicate logic (with and without identity) and an account of the semantics of these languages, including definitions of truth and satisfaction. In addition, natural deduction is used as a proof system.
Extensively class-tested, The Logic Manual provides the best introduction available to the general, abstract approach to thinking about language, logic, and semantics that is characteristic of contemporary philosophy. A Companion Website provides exercises, examples, and sample examination papers.

Wie ein Mensch den Terror der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagerhaft uberstehen konnte, beschaftigte seit Kriegsende die Wissenschaft. Die Medizin inter- essierte sich vor allen Dingen fur die Frage nach den vorubergehenden oder bleiben- den Gesundheitsschaden der uberlebenden. Deren Erforschung fuhrte aber zu keinem einheitlichen Ergebnis. Das lag nicht zuletzt an der durch arztliche Gesichtspunkte bedingten Auswahl der Falle. Entweder sah der Arzt den Kranken wegen der Be- handlung irgend eines Leidens oder, was bei den in der Literatur veroeffentlichten Fallen haufiger war, wegen einer gutachterlichen Untersuchung. Um die mit dieser Vorauswahl gegebenen Fehlerquellen zu vermeiden, bemuhten wir uns um die Zusammenstellung einer weitgehend auslesefreien Gruppe von ehe- maligen KZ-Haftlingen. Es dauerte Jahre, bis wir eine ausreichende Anzahl solcher Personen interviewt hatten. Die psychiatrische Literatur uber die Spatschaden ist nicht nur durch das arztlich- gutachterliche Auswahlprinzip, sondern auch durch die Beschrankung auf klinisch relevante Tatbestande gekennzeichnet. Das fuhrte zu einer Vernachlassigung klinisch schwerer fassbarer Randerscheinungen". Gerade die letzten aber werden in den schriftstellerischen Eigenberichten ehemaliger KZ-Haftlinge besonders stark hervor- gehoben. Diese Personen fuhlen sich von einer Psychiatrie nicht verstanden, die in einem langjahrigen Berentungsverfahren die verschiedensten diagnostischen Etiketten verteilt, ohne auf die aktuellen Schwierigkeiten des Betreffenden eingehen zu koennen. Wir haben uns daher bemuht, die Auswirkung der Haft auf bestimmte Daseins- bereiche wie Kontakt, Ehe, Beruf und Weltanschauung eigens und unabhangig von der psychiatrischen Diagnose zu untersuchen.

Anlasslich des 65. Geburtstages von Hans Paul Kunzi haben sich Weggefahrten, Mitarbeiter und Schuler aus den Jahren seines Wirkens als Hochschullehrer zusammengetan, um wenigstens punktuell aufzu zeigen, wie und wohin in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten verschiedene theoretische und empirische Entwicklungen verlaufen sind, die der Jubilar zumindest in der Schweiz und zu einem guten Teil auch daruber hinaus mitaufgebaut und in den Anfangen beeinflusst hat. Zu diesem Vorhaben fanden die Herausgeber vielseitige Unterstutzung. Zunachst von den beteiligten Autoren, die mit spontanen Zusagen und in vorbildlicher Weise ihre Beitrage termingerecht fertiggestellt haben. Daruber hinaus hat ein groesserer Kreis von Persoenlichkeiten mit Rat und Tat die Entstehung der Schrift gefoerdert, wobei besonders auch auf ein grosses Entgegenkommen des Springer-Verlages zu verweisen ist. Allen moechten wir fur die Hilfe aufrichtig danken. Angesichts der Tatsache, dass Hans Paul Kunzi bereits vor fast zwei Jahrzehnten seine wissenschaftliche Laufbahn zugunsten einer anderen Verpflichtung aufgegeben hat, liegt die Frage nahe, warum wir -nach wie vor der akademischen Welt verbunden -heute noch von der Persoenlichkeit Kunzi beeindruckt sind. Dazu sei kurz auf sein damaliges Wirken als Professor an der Universitat Zurich und an der ETH Zurich zuruckgeblendet.

Wirtschaftswachstum und Strukturwandel kennzeichnen hochentwickel te Volkswirtschaften. Der Wettbewerb steuert die Evolution, er fuhrt die Produktionsfaktoren einer effizienten Verwendung zu, gestaltet den Ak kumulationsprozess und organisiert das gesellschaftliche Suchverfahren, das Invention, Innovation und Imitation und damit den technischen Fort schritt generiert. Dies ist das zentrale Thema des wissenschaftlichen Werkes von Ernst Helmstadter: Erforschung der Bedingungen wirtschaftlicher Evolution (im weitesten Sinne). Zu Beginn seiner wissenschaftlichen Laufbahn war es die Allokation und der Akkumulationsprozess, die ihn besonders interessiert haben. Heu te ist es vor allem der dynamische Wettbewerb als Determinante des techni schen Fortschritts. Ernst Helmstadter zahlt zu denjenigen Okonomen, die Wirtschafts theorie, empirische Wirtschaftsforschung und die Anwendung der For schungsergebnisse in der Wirtschaftspolitik als Einheit sehen. Ausgangs punkt und in den verschiedenen Stadien der Erkenntnisgewinnung immer wieder anzuleuchtender Fixpunkt ist die okonomische Fragestellung. Die abstrakte theoretische Analyse ist Vorstufe zur konkretisierenden empiri schen Forschung und diese Vorstufe zur wirtschaftspolitischen Anwen dung. Nur eine Personlichkeit wie Ernst Helmstadter vermag ein so weites Feld wissenschaftlicher Aktivitat auch auszufullen. Das wissenschaftliche Werk Ernst Helmstadters um fasst 14 Monogra phien und uber 100 Aufsatze. Die Beitrage aus der Feder des Jubilars beste chen durch Originalitat, sprachliche Brillanz und eine unubertroffene Technik der graphischen Analyse bei der Darstellung okonomischer Pro bleme, die hochsten asthetischen Anspruchen genugt. In inhaltlicher Hin sicht konnen wir nur einen Uberblick uber die Fulle der Beitrage geben, wobei aber die Dissertation und die Habilitationsschrift als Meilensteine im Werdegang des Jubilars besonders gewurdigt werden sollen."

Collected volume of studies on the stage representation of Jews in European theatre between 1830 and 1940. The way in which Jews are represented on the stage stretches between the poles of anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism on the one side and Jewish renaissance and Zionism on the other. The individual studies all consider the boundary conditions given by cultural and mental history. This volume is the first attempt to view both the spoken word and musical theatre from this point of view.

Es besteht kein consensus omnium, ob der nie zuvor gekannte Wohlstand der westlichen Industrienationen durch oder trotz Keynesianischer Wirtschaftspolitik entstanden ist. Ein Kon- sens scheint eher in der Auffassung zu liegen, daB die Wirt- schaftspolitik, so wie sie in den vergangenen zehn Jahren in den meisten Industrielandern betrieben wurde, kaum Erfolge fUr die Zukunft verspricht. Allein die Verneinung des Keynesianismus bringt jedoch noch keine theoretische Grund- lage fUr kUnftige Wirtschaftspolitik hervor. Der Vorteil der Keynesianischen Wirtschaftstheorie fUr die Konzeption einer Wirtschaftspolitik lag nicht zuletzt in der Simplizitat der ihr im Kern zugrunde liegenden makrookonomi- schen Verhaltensannahmen. Die Keynesianische Theorie hat je- doch den Nachteil, eine im Ursprung statische Theorie zu sein, deren Dynamisierung nur formal Uberzeugen kann. Der Keynesia- nismus hatte und konnte seine BlUte wohl auch nur zu einer Zeit relativ stabiler Makroverhaltensfunktionen erreichen. Mit der Renaissance der Gedanken von Max Weber und Joseph A. Schumpeter ist in den letzten Jahren wieder die Frage ge- stellt worden, was Menschen letztlich zur Arbeit, zum Produ- zieren veranlaBt. In Koinzidenz entstand in der Wirtschafts- theorie eine neue Problemsicht, in der der Markt als System von incentives aufgefaBt, und die Anreiz-Kompatibilitat wirtschaftspolitischer Eingriffe etwa auf moral hazard- Verhalten und Arbeits/Freizeit-Entscheidungen untersucht wird. Vielleicht ist es wichtiger, statt nach der Grenz- leistungsfahigkeit des Kapitals nach der Grenzleistungs- willigkeit des Menschen zu fragen.

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On the one hand, the concept of truth is a major research subject in analytic philosophy. On the other hand, mathematical logicians have developed sophisticated logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. Recent developments in logical theories of the semantical paradoxes are highly relevant for philosophical research on the notion of truth. And conversely, philosophical guidance is necessary for the development of logical theories of truth and the paradoxes. From this perspective, this volume intends to reflect and promote deeper interaction and collaboration between philosophers and logicians investigating the concept of truth than has existed so far.Aside from an extended introductory overview of recent work in the theory of truth, the volume consists of articles by leading philosophers and logicians on subjects and debates that are situated on the interface between logical and philosophical theories of truth. The volume is intended for graduate students in philosophy and in logic who want an introduction to contemporary research in this area, as well as for professional philosophers and logicians