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Michele Friedman
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While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to
solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is
impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2
with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician
Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct
a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was
completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s). This comes as no
surprise, since with few exceptions paper folding was seldom
considered as a mathematical practice, let alone as a mathematical
procedure of inference or proof that could prompt novel
mathematical discoveries. A few questions immediately arise: Why
did paper folding become a non-instrument? What caused the
marginalisation of this technique? And how was the mathematical
knowledge, which was nevertheless transmitted and prompted by paper
folding, later treated and conceptualised? Aiming to answer these
questions, this volume provides, for the first time, an extensive
historical study on the history of folding in mathematics, spanning
from the 16th century to the 20th century, and offers a general
study on the ways mathematical knowledge is marginalised,
disappears, is ignored or becomes obsolete. In doing so, it makes a
valuable contribution to the field of history and philosophy of
science, particularly the history and philosophy of mathematics and
is highly recommended for anyone interested in these topics.
One little girl who plays, learns, and has fun is just the same as
all her friends-except that she cannot see. As she invites her
friends and readers to close their eyes and see what she sees, the
girl builds blocks, makes puppets with her socks, climbs a tree,
rides a bike, and plays tag. She is having so much fun growing up.
She teaches everyone around her that even though she is blind, she
still has abilities, hopes, and dreams-even if she may have to do
things in a different way. Close Your Eyes shares delightful rhymes
and engaging illustrations to foster an understanding of what is
possible for disabled children while encouraging acceptance of
differences. "It is a hard concept for a young child to grasp that
another child can't see, but your focus on the humanness and
similarity between children keeps a balance." -Audra Kaplan, PsyD,
clinical psychologist
This open access book collects the historical and medial
perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the
complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and
mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical
models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling
of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the
status of the mathematical model between abstraction and
realization, presentation and representation, what is modeled and
what models. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Michael D. Friedman's second edition of this stage history of
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major
theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years
1989-2009. Friedman identifies four lines of descent in the recent
performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly
comic, and political approaches, which culminate in Julie Taymor's
harrowing film Titus (1999). Aspects of Taymor's eclectic vision of
ancient Rome under the grip of modern fascism were copied by
several subsequent productions, making Titus the most
characteristic, as well as the most influential, contemporary
performance of the play. Friedman's work extends Alan Dessen's
original study to include Taymor's film, along with chapters
devoted to the efforts of international directors including Gregory
Doran, Silviu Purcarete, and Yukio Ninagawa. -- .
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical
guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and
illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective
pastoral counseling. The material is drawn from Jewish life and
rabbinic pastoral counseling, but the fundamental principles in
these pages apply to all faith traditions and to a wide variety of
counselling relationships. Drawing on relational psychodynamic
ideas but writing in a very accessible style, Friedman and Yehuda
cover when, how and why counseling may be sought, how to set up
sessions, conduct the work in those sessions and deal with
difficult situations, maintain confidentiality, conduct groupwork
and approach traumatic and emotive subjects. They guide the reader
through the foundational principles and topics of pastoral
counseling and illustrate the journey with accessible and lively
vignettes. By using real life examples accompanied by guided
questions, the authors help readers to learn practical techniques
as well as gain greater self-awareness of their own strengths and
vulnerabilities. With a host of examples from pastoral and clinical
experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone offering
counselling to both the Jewish community and those of other faiths.
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling will appeal to
psychoanalysts, particularly those working with Jewish clients,
counselors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and rabbis offering
pastoral counseling, as well as clergy of other faiths such as
ministers, priests, imams and lay chaplains.
This comprehensive treatment of Neo-Kantianism discusses the
main topics and key figures of the movement and their intersection
with other 20th-century philosophers. With the advent of
phenomenology, existentialism, and the Frankfurt School,
Neo-Kantianism was deemed too narrowly academic and
science-oriented to compete with new directions in philosophy.
These essays bring Neo-Kantianism back into contemporary
philosophical discourse. They expand current views of the
Neo-Kantians and reassess the movement and the philosophical
traditions emerging from it. This groundbreaking volume provides
new and important insights into the history of philosophy, the
scope of transcendental thought, and Neo-Kantian influence on the
sciences and intellectual culture.
Since the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the
analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the
continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent.
A Parting of the Ways looks at the origins of this split through
the lens of one defining episode: the disputation in Davos,
Switerzland, in 1929, between the two most eminent German
philosophers, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger. This watershed
debate was attended by Rudolf Carnap, a representative of the
Vienna Circle of logical positivists. Michael Friedman shows how
philosophical differences interacted with political events. Both
Carnap and Heidegger viewed their philosophical efforts as tied to
their radical social outlooks, with Carnap on the left and
Heidegger on the right, while Cassirer was in the conciliatory
classical tradition of liberal republicanism. The rise of Hitler
led to the emigration from Europpe of most leading philosophers,
including Carnap and Cassirer, leaving Heidegger alone on the
continent
Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is one of the
most difficult but also most important of Kant's works. Published
in 1786 between the first (1781) and second (1787) editions of the
Critique of Pure Reason, the Metaphysical Foundations occupies a
central place in the development of Kant's philosophy, but has so
far attracted relatively little attention compared with other works
of Kant's critical period. Michael Friedman's book develops a new
and complete reading of this work and reconstructs Kant's main
argument clearly and in great detail, explaining its relationship
to both Newton's Principia and eighteenth-century scientific
thinkers such as Euler and Lambert. By situating Kant's text
relative to his pre-critical writings on metaphysics and natural
philosophy and, in particular, to the changes Kant made in the
second edition of the Critique, Friedman articulates a radically
new perspective on the meaning and development of the critical
philosophy as a whole.
A renowned philosopher's final work, illuminating how the logical
empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual
experiments in forming its philosophy of science. The logical
empiricist treatment of physics dominated twentieth-century
philosophy of science. But the logical empiricist tradition, for
all it accomplished, does not do justice to the way in which
empirical evidence functions in modern physics. In his final work,
the late philosopher of science William Demopoulos contends that
philosophers have failed to provide an adequate epistemology of
science because they have failed to appreciate the tightly woven
character of theory and evidence. As a consequence, theory comes
apart from evidence. This trouble is nowhere more evident than in
theorizing about particle and quantum physics. Arguing that we must
consider actual experiments as they have unfolded across history,
Demopoulos provides a new epistemology of theories and evidence,
albeit one that stands on the shoulders of giants. On Theories
finds clarity in Isaac Newton's suspicion of mere "hypotheses."
Newton's methodology lies in the background of Jean Perrin's
experimental investigations of molecular reality and of the
subatomic investigations of J. J. Thomson and Robert Millikan.
Demopoulos extends this account to offer novel insights into the
distinctive nature of quantum reality, where a logico-mathematical
reconstruction of Bohrian complementarity meets John Stewart Bell's
empirical analysis of Einstein's "local realism." On Theories
ultimately provides a new interpretation of quantum probabilities
as themselves objectively representing empirical reality.
Do human beings have free will? Are they genuinely responsible for
their actions? These questions have persisted all through the
history of philosophy, but in the 21st century they have become
defined more sharply and clearly than ever. Indeed, a vivid and
mighty tension underlies today's intellectual struggles over free
will. On the one hand, the rapid advances of several empirical
disciplines, notably neuropsychology and genetics, threaten our
instinctive affirmation that free will and moral responsibility
exist. On the other hand, the depth and force of our instincts-our
powerful intuition that there is free will, that there is moral
responsibility-present, for most people, an almost impenetrable
barrier against the sweeping denial of free will suggested by
empirical research. The papers in this volume address this tension
from a dual vantage point. While drawing heavily upon traditional
Jewish texts and teachings, they also offer a blend of scientific,
philosophical, psychological, and social insights into this most
mystifying of topics. In addition, they illuminate the concept of
repentance, a transformation of character that ranks in much of
Jewish literature as the highest expression of free will.
Do human beings have free will? Are they genuinely responsible for
their actions? These questions have persisted all through the
history of philosophy, but in the 21st century they have become
defined more sharply and clearly than ever. Indeed, a vivid and
mighty tension underlies today's intellectual struggles over free
will. On the one hand, the rapid advances of several empirical
disciplines, notably neuropsychology and genetics, threaten our
instinctive affirmation that free will and moral responsibility
exist. On the other hand, the depth and force of our instincts-our
powerful intuition that there is free will, that there is moral
responsibility-present, for most people, an almost impenetrable
barrier against the sweeping denial of free will suggested by
empirical research. The papers in this volume address this tension
from a dual vantage point. While drawing heavily upon traditional
Jewish texts and teachings, they also offer a blend of scientific,
philosophical, psychological, and social insights into this most
mystifying of topics. In addition, they illuminate the concept of
repentance, a transformation of character that ranks in much of
Jewish literature as the highest expression of free will.
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical
guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and
illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective
pastoral counseling. The material is drawn from Jewish life and
rabbinic pastoral counseling, but the fundamental principles in
these pages apply to all faith traditions and to a wide variety of
counselling relationships. Drawing on relational psychodynamic
ideas but writing in a very accessible style, Friedman and Yehuda
cover when, how and why counseling may be sought, how to set up
sessions, conduct the work in those sessions and deal with
difficult situations, maintain confidentiality, conduct groupwork
and approach traumatic and emotive subjects. They guide the reader
through the foundational principles and topics of pastoral
counseling and illustrate the journey with accessible and lively
vignettes. By using real life examples accompanied by guided
questions, the authors help readers to learn practical techniques
as well as gain greater self-awareness of their own strengths and
vulnerabilities. With a host of examples from pastoral and clinical
experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone offering
counselling to both the Jewish community and those of other faiths.
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling will appeal to
psychoanalysts, particularly those working with Jewish clients,
counselors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and rabbis offering
pastoral counseling, as well as clergy of other faiths such as
ministers, priests, imams and lay chaplains.
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Active Materials (Paperback)
Peter Fratzl, Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen, Wolfgang Schaffner
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What are active materials? This book aims to introduce and redefine
conceptions of matter by considering materials as entities that
'sense' and respond to their environment. By examining the modeling
of, the experiments on, and the construction of these materials,
and by developing a theory of their structure, their collective
activity, and their functionality, this volume identifies and
develops a novel scientific approach to active materials. Moreover,
essays on the history and philosophy of metallurgy, chemistry,
biology, and materials science provide these various approaches to
active materials with a historical and cultural context. The
interviews with experts from the natural sciences included in this
volume develop new understandings of 'active matter' and active
materials in relation to a range of research objects and from the
perspective of different scientific disciplines, including biology,
physics, chemistry, and materials science. These insights are
complemented by contributions on the activity of matter and
materials from the humanities and the design field. Discusses the
mechanisms of active materials and their various conceptualizations
in materials science. Redefines conceptions of active materials
through interviews with experts from the natural sciences.
Contextualizes, historizes, and reflects on different notions of
matter/materials and activity through contributions from the
humanities. A highly interdisciplinary approach to a cutting-edge
research topic, with contributions from both the sciences and the
humanities.
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the
most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of
the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated
with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the analytic
tradition more generally. He made major contributions to philosophy
of science and philosophy of logic, and, perhaps most importantly,
to our understanding of the nature of philosophy as a discipline.
In this volume a team of contributors explores the major themes of
his philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna
Circle and with philosophers such as Frege, Husserl, Russell, and
Quine. New readers will find this the most convenient and
accessible guide to Carnap currently available. Advanced students
and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in
the interpretation of Carnap.
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to
solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is
impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2
with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician
Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct
a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was
completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s). This comes as no
surprise, since with few exceptions paper folding was seldom
considered as a mathematical practice, let alone as a mathematical
procedure of inference or proof that could prompt novel
mathematical discoveries. A few questions immediately arise: Why
did paper folding become a non-instrument? What caused the
marginalisation of this technique? And how was the mathematical
knowledge, which was nevertheless transmitted and prompted by paper
folding, later treated and conceptualised? Aiming to answer these
questions, this volume provides, for the first time, an extensive
historical study on the history of folding in mathematics, spanning
from the 16th century to the 20th century, and offers a general
study on the ways mathematical knowledge is marginalised,
disappears, is ignored or becomes obsolete. In doing so, it makes a
valuable contribution to the field of history and philosophy of
science, particularly the history and philosophy of mathematics and
is highly recommended for anyone interested in these topics.
This open access book collects the historical and medial
perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the
complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and
mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical
models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling
of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the
status of the mathematical model between abstraction and
realization, presentation and representation, what is modeled and
what models. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
The book offers an extensive study on the convoluted history of the
research of algebraic surfaces, focusing for the first time on one
of its characterizing curves: the branch curve. Starting with
separate beginnings during the 19th century with descriptive
geometry as well as knot theory, the book focuses on the 20th
century, covering the rise of the Italian school of algebraic
geometry between the 1900s till the 1930s (with Federigo Enriques,
Oscar Zariski and Beniamino Segre, among others), the decline of
its classical approach during the 1940s and the 1950s (with Oscar
Chisini and his students), and the emergence of new approaches with
Boris Moishezon's program of braid monodromy factorization. By
focusing on how the research on one specific curve changed during
the 20th century, the author provides insights concerning the
dynamics of epistemic objects and configurations of mathematical
research. It is in this sense that the book offers to take the
branch curve as a cross-section through the history of algebraic
geometry of the 20th century, considering this curve as an
intersection of several research approaches and methods.
Researchers in the history of science and of mathematics as well as
mathematicians will certainly find this book interesting and
appealing, contributing to the growing research on the history of
algebraic geometry and its changing images.
Der Band ist mehr als eine Aufsatzsammlung, die Beitrage sind
aufeinander aufgebaut und dicht miteinander vernetzt.
Zusammengenommen wird damit ein neues Paradigma der Erklarung
geschaffen. Grossere Vorkenntnisse sind nicht erforderlich. Die
Beitrage dieses Bandes folgen zwei miteinander zusammenhangenden
Leitlinien: Zum einen handelt es sich um pragmatisch-epistemische
Erklarungsmodelle und zum zweiten wird der Begriff des Verstehens
als zentrales Moment von Erklarung wissenschaftstheoretisch
etabliert."
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is generally acknowledged to have been
one of the central figures of twentieth-century philosophy. He was
the leading philosopher of the Vienna Circle, a group that was
central to the international movement known as logical empiricism,
which pursued the goal of making philosophy scientific and
eliminating metaphysics that went beyond the limits of what humans
can coherently comprehend. Carnap was not only well-versed in this
area of thought but also contrary ideas; he interacted
philosophically with Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, and in his
formative years he was influenced by the positivists Mach and
Ostwald, neo-Kantians such as Cassirer and Natorp, and Husserl's
phenomenology. Interest in logical empiricism waned in the decades
following Carnap's death but was revived towards the end of the
twentieth century; the wave of new scholarship that resulted
identified Carnap as far more subtle and interesting than was
previously understood. The complete fourteen-volume edition of
Carnap's published writings builds upon these more recent
interpretations of his philosophy. This first book contains
Carnap's early publications up until 1928, none of which have
previously been translated from their original German. The
introduction and notes place the text in the relevant scientific
and historical contexts, in addition to explaining obscure
references or outdated notation and terminology. Carnap's
neo-Kantian origins are more obvious in these works than in his
later writings, and the overall figure which emerges from this
volume is a very different Carnap to the caricature that many
philosophers will know.
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the
most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of
the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated
with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the analytic
tradition more generally. He made major contributions to philosophy
of science and philosophy of logic, and, perhaps most importantly,
to our understanding of the nature of philosophy as a discipline.
In this volume a team of contributors explores the major themes of
his philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna
Circle and with philosophers such as Frege, Husserl, Russell, and
Quine. New readers will find this the most convenient and
accessible guide to Carnap currently available. Advanced students
and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in
the interpretation of Carnap.
Kant was centrally concerned with issues in the philosophy of
natural science throughout his career. The Metaphysical Foundations
of Natural Science presents his most mature reflections on these
themes in the context of both his 'critical' philosophy, presented
in the Critique of Pure Reason, and the natural science of his
time. This volume presents a new translation, by Michael Friedman,
which is especially clear and accurate. There are explanatory notes
indicating some of the main connections between the argument of the
Metaphysical Foundations and the first Critique - as well as
parallel connections to Newton's Principia. The volume is completed
by an historical and philosophical introduction and a guide to
further reading.
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