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'I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and
never can observe any thing but the perception.' These famous words
of David Hume, on his inability to perceive the self, set the stage
for JeeLoo Liu and John Perry's collection of essays on
self-awareness and self-knowledge. This volume connects recent
scientific studies on consciousness with the traditional issues
about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and Hume. Experts in
the field offer contrasting perspectives on matters such as the
relation between consciousness and self-awareness, the notion of
personhood and the epistemic access to one's own thoughts, desires
or attitudes. The volume will be of interest to philosophers,
psychologists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists and others
working on the central topics of consciousness and the self.
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in
peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the
synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple
approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a
creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed
view of peace on earth, containing breadth as well as depth.
Library and bookstore shelves are filled with critiques of the
negative impacts of religion in conflict scenarios. Peace on Earth:
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies offers an
alternate view that suggests religious organizations play a more
complex role in conflict than a simply negative one. Faith-based
organizations, and their workers, are often found on the frontlines
of conflict throughout the world, conducting conflict management
and resolution activities as well as advancing peacebuilding
initiatives.
American cities are a basic part of the fabric of our democratic
traditions. Many of these cities are served by professional city
managers and administrators. Cities that succeed at an outstanding
level often employ professionals. Yet the average American knows
little about the role of these professionals. City managers have
seldom written about their experiences. Blueprint for Building
Community is a rare look at the career of a city manager. This
career portrait is set in two Illinois communities --Park Forest
and Woodridge--communities which hold high aspirations for their
residents. City managers, partnering with elected leaders and
citizens in these communities, have worked to fulfill those
aspirations. This book highlights the values and relationships that
must be cultivated by the city manager to successfully build
community. Although the focus is on the role of the city manager,
other key participants such as elected officials, citizens, and
employees can gain from the insights. Community building requires
connecting the key groups in the community to the mission and
"sacred things" dear to residents. Harnessing the energy of all the
players produces tremendous results. For the many people who worked
to build Park Forest and Woodridge, and so many communities across
this country, this book is a tribute to their efforts. This book is
written to encourage the next generation of city managers to pursue
the challenge of building communities. The author chronicles the
lessons and principles that add to success as a city manager. He
conveys the inspiration, passion and excitement to those who
consider public service.
Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson
Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of
the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests.
But all, through their relationships, struggles, prayers, and
desires, uniquely illuminate our shared experience.
A generation of 20th-century Americans knew him as a gentle,
stoop-shouldered old black man who loved plants and discovered more
than a hundred uses for the humble peanut. "George Washington
Carver" goes beyond the public image to chronicle the adventures of
one of history's most inspiring and remarkable men.
George Washington Carver was born a slave. After his mother was
kidnapped during the Civil War, his former owners raised him as
their own child. He was the first black graduate of Iowa State, and
turned down a salary from Thomas Edison higher than the U.S.
President to stay at the struggling Tuskegee Institute, where he
taught and encouraged poor black students for nearly half a
century.
Carver was an award-winning painter and acclaimed botanist who
saw God the Creator in all of nature. The more he learned about the
world, the more convinced he was that everything in it was a gift
from the Almighty, that all people were equal in His sight, and
that the way to gain respect from his fellow man was not to demand
it, but to earn it.
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Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally
renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic
New Year's conversion convinced him that killing was against God's
will, and yet this shy, big-boned mountaineer singlehandedly
dispatched two dozen Germans and captured 132 in the closing days
of World War I. He earned the Medal of Honor and a ticker tape
parade but refused to cash in on his fame, insisting "Uncle Sam's
uniform ain't for sale."
This succinct and gripping new account of Sgt. York's remarkable
life includes details from exclusive interviews with the sergeant's
three surviving children and information drawn from battlefield
eyewitness reports and original film studio archives: fresh
reminders of the legacy of one of America's great Christian
patriots.
We learn about life through the lives of others. Their
experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our
chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of
biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important
lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as
accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are
familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. Whether the person is
D.L. Moody, Sergeant York, Saint Nicholas, John Bunyan, or William
F. Buckley, we are now living in the world that they created and
understand both it and ourselves better in the light of their
lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires
uniquely illuminate our shared experience.
In Nuclear Weapons and the Environment, John Perry highlights the
environmental damage caused by nuclear device testing. The failure
of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and the continued proliferation
of nuclear weapons is a grave risk to not only human life but to
the environment. Pointing to the unstable political situation
between a variety of state and non-state actors, the remediation of
nuclear test sites, and the risks involved in the production of
nuclear weapons, Perry makes a clear case for the dire importance
of non-proliferation.
Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of
doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of
utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language
combines with other factors to allow humans to achieve
communicative goals. In this book, Kepa Korta and John Perry
explain why critical pragmatics provides a coherent picture of how
parts of language study fit together within the broader picture of
human thought and action. They focus on issues about singular
reference, that is, talk about particular things, places or people,
which have played a central role in the philosophy of language for
more than a century. They argue that attention to the 'reflexive'
or 'utterance-bound' contents of utterances sheds new light on
these old problems. Their important study proposes a new approach
to pragmatics and should be of wide interest to philosophers of
language and linguists.
Is ethics about happiness? Aristotle thought so and for centuries
Christians agreed, until utilitarianism raised worries about where
this would lead. In this volume, Peter Singer, leading utilitarian
philosopher and controversial defender of infanticide and
euthanasia, addresses this question in conversation with Christian
ethicists and secular utilitarians. Their engagement reveals
surprising points of agreement and difference on questions of moral
theory, the history of ethics, and current issues such as climate
change, abortion, poverty and animal rights. The volume explores
the advantages and pitfalls of basing morality on happiness; if
ethics is teleological, is its proper aim the subjective
satisfaction of preferences? Or is human flourishing found in
objective goods: friendship, intellectual curiosity, meaningful
labour? This volume provides a timely review of how utilitarians
and Christians conceive of the good, and will be of great interest
to those studying religious ethics, philosophy of religion and
applied ethics.
African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice examines the
functioning of truth commissions in Africa, outlining the lessons
learned, the best practices, and the successes and failures of
seven African truth commissions. Its introduction and conclusion
then work further to place truth commissions within the growing
academic field of transitional justice. The first African truth
commission was convened by the despot Idi Amin for reasons
unrelated to the defense of human rights, but despite this
ambiguous beginning, other African truth commissions have done
important work. The South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of 1996 has become the 'gold standard' for future truth
commissions not only in Africa, but throughout the world: it
unearthed much truth about the Apartheid era abuse of human rights
and took vital first steps towards restorative justice in the
Republic. Each truth commission is distinctive. However, although
much has been written about South Africa's truth commissions, much
less is known about the other six studied in this book-and an
attentive reader will notice the suggestive patterns which emerge.
The Ebola virus disease represented a grave crisis for Liberia.
After many years of civil conflict its health system had been
weakened and there were too few physicians and health care workers
who were willing and able to deal effectively with the disease
which spread far beyond Africa to Europe and the United States of
America. The book offers a convenient summary of the background of
the EVD crisis, and the ways it was defeated by the public who were
energized by the gravity of the situation. It discusses the lessons
learned, the effect of the disease on children, and the way forward
for the international health care system to prepare itself better
for possible future epidemics of the same scale and gravity.
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First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
A collection of twelve essays by John Perry and two essays he
co-authored, this book deals with various problems related to
"self-locating beliefs": the sorts of beliefs one expresses with
indexicals and demonstratives, like "I" and "this." Postscripts
have been added to a number of the essays discussing criticisms by
authors such as Gareth Evans and Robert Stalnaker. Included with
such well-known essays as "Frege on Demonstratives," "The Problem
of the Essential Indexical," "From Worlds to Situations," and "The
Prince and the Phone Booth" are a number of important essays that
have been less accessible and that discuss important aspects of
Perry's views, referred to as "Critical Referentialism," on the
philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind.
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in
peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the
synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple
approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a
creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed
view of peace on earth, containing breadth as well as depth.
Library and bookstore shelves are filled with critiques of the
negative impacts of religion in conflict scenarios. Peace on Earth:
The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies offers an
alternate view that suggests religious organizations play a more
complex role in conflict than a simply negative one. Faith-based
organizations, and their workers, are often found on the frontlines
of conflict throughout the world, conducting conflict management
and resolution activities as well as advancing peacebuilding
initiatives.
African Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice examines the
functioning of truth commissions in Africa, outlining the lessons
learned, the best practices, and the successes and failures of
seven African truth commissions. Its introduction and conclusion
then work further to place truth commissions within the growing
academic field of transitional justice. The first African truth
commission was convened by the despot Idi Amin for reasons
unrelated to the defense of human rights, but despite this
ambiguous beginning, other African truth commissions have done
important work. The South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of 1996 has become the 'gold standard' for future truth
commissions not only in Africa, but throughout the world: it
unearthed much truth about the Apartheid era abuse of human rights
and took vital first steps towards restorative justice in the
Republic. Each truth commission is distinctive. However, although
much has been written about South Africa's truth commissions, much
less is known about the other six studied in this book-and an
attentive reader will notice the suggestive patterns which emerge.
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