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This is an indispensable and practical overview of the functions
and liabilities of the insolvency practitioner (IP), bringing
together the expertise of insolvency practitioners and specialist
lawyers. It considers the circumstances in which IPs are appointed,
their duties and their powers, before offering a detailed
investigation into their potential professional liabilities, as
well as in-depth guidance to practitioners and advisers as to how
claims might be framed and defended. Utilising knowledge drawn from
decades of practice, Insolvency Practitioners examines both
reported case law and unreported cases from the authors' own
experiences to provide unparalleled insight and information. It
also discusses unresolved and tendentious matters such as aspects
of remuneration, the end of personal IP licensing, and recent
changes introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act
2020, and provides clarity on the latitude given to IPs in
exercising their commercial judgement. This book provides unique
and comprehensive coverage of the significant body of case law in
this area, and will prove essential reading for all IPs, insolvency
and restructuring lawyers, as well as those dealing with matters
relating to professional negligence. Its exploration of contentious
issues in the field will also be of interest to academics and
postgraduate researchers with a focus on insolvency law.
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Self-Control (Paperback)
Marcela Herdova, Stephen Kearns, Neil Levy
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R1,151
Discovery Miles 11 510
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The first comprehensive philosophical introduction and assessment
to the problem of self-control, an increasingly popular topic in
philosophy Self-control is one of the most fascinating problems in
philosophy, studied in core subjects such as free will and ethics,
yet there is no book available explaining in clear language what it
is Plenty of examples from psychology and philosophy including
self-deception in mental disorder, addiction and everyday examples
such as loss of willpower and even mind-wandering Includes helpful
additional features such as chapter summaries, annotated further
reading and glossary Very strong author team led by Neil Levy,
well-known for his work on addiction, consciousness and free will.
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Self-Control (Hardcover)
Marcela Herdova, Stephen Kearns, Neil Levy
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R3,847
Discovery Miles 38 470
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The first comprehensive philosophical introduction and assessment
to the problem of self-control, an increasingly popular topic in
philosophy Self-control is one of the most fascinating problems in
philosophy, studied in core subjects such as free will and ethics,
yet there is no book available explaining in clear language what it
is Plenty of examples from psychology and philosophy including
self-deception in mental disorder, addiction and everyday examples
such as loss of willpower and even mind-wandering Includes helpful
additional features such as chapter summaries, annotated further
reading and glossary Very strong author team led by Neil Levy,
well-known for his work on addiction, consciousness and free will.
Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in
almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of
mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in
different areas of science (principally physics, neuroscience and
social psychology). Free will is also a perennial concern of
serious thinkers in theology and in non-western traditions. Because
free will can be approached from so many different perspectives and
has implications for so many debates, a comprehensive survey needs
to encompass an enormous range of approaches. This book is the
first to draw together leading experts on every aspect of free
will, from those who are central to the current philosophical
debates, to non-western perspectives, to scientific contributions
and to those who know the rich history of the subject. Chapter 37
of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138795815_oachapter37.pdf
Might human morality be a product of evolution? An increasing
number of philosophers and scientists believe that moral judgment
and behaviour emerged because it enhanced the fitness of our
distant ancestors. This volume collects some recent explorations of
the evidence for this claim, as well as papers examining its
implications. Is an evolved morality a genuine morality? Does an
evolutionary origin deflate the pretensions of morality, or strip
it of its force in guiding behaviour? Is an evolutionary approach
compatible with realism about morality? All sides of these debates
are represented in this volume.
Might human morality be a product of evolution? An increasing
number of philosophers and scientists believe that moral judgment
and behaviour emerged because it enhanced the fitness of our
distant ancestors. This volume collects some recent explorations of
the evidence for this claim, as well as papers examining its
implications. Is an evolved morality a genuine morality? Does an
evolutionary origin deflate the pretensions of morality, or strip
it of its force in guiding behaviour? Is an evolutionary approach
compatible with realism about morality? All sides of these debates
are represented in this volume.
Evolutionary approaches to the study of human beings have been able
to explain the origin and maintenance of many of the features of
our bodies. Many thinkers believe that an evolutionary approach
will be equally fruitful when it comes to explaining the features
of our minds. Since our behaviour is driven by our minds, our
cognitive dispositions and processes are likely to have been a
target of selection and adaptation. This volume collects recent
prominent explorations of this theme, as well as the voices of
dissenters who argue that our minds are far more significantly the
product of culture than of evolution.
Questions concerning free will are intertwined with issues in
almost every area of philosophy, from metaphysics to philosophy of
mind to moral philosophy, and are also informed by work in
different areas of science (principally physics, neuroscience and
social psychology). Free will is also a perennial concern of
serious thinkers in theology and in non-western traditions. Because
free will can be approached from so many different perspectives and
has implications for so many debates, a comprehensive survey needs
to encompass an enormous range of approaches. This book is the
first to draw together leading experts on every aspect of free
will, from those who are central to the current philosophical
debates, to non-western perspectives, to scientific contributions
and to those who know the rich history of the subject. Chapter 37
of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138795815_oachapter37.pdf
In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically
questionable situations that have arisen in response to
institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns
analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and
of donating, an increased willingness of institutions to cater to
the demands of donors, creation of dual roles for faculty, students
and staff when they are fundraisers and donors in addition to
playing their primary roles in higher education,
business-university research partnerships that put business values
in conflict of academic values and mission, commercialization of
student athletics, and endowment use and investment. Supplemented
by a series of carefully selected articles, The Kindness of
Strangers needs to be read by anyone who is concerned by higher
education's increasing dependency on corporate and individual
donors.
The very name Alzheimer is sure to bring a shudder. Thirty to
forty million people are now afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, a
degenerative brain disorder that strips its victims of their
identity and leaves families bereft and social services strained.
Despite considerable research, the underlying causes of Alzheimer's
disease remain shrouded in mystery. So, too, does the man after
whom it was named. Alois Alzheimer (1864--1915) was practicing
medicine at the Frankfurt Asylum in 1901 when he met a patient, who
would become known as "Auguste D.," whose condition perplexed and
intrigued him. "Alzheimer" is more than a biography; it is a story
of scientific discovery at a crucial stage in the history of
medical psychiatry.
Why were modernist works of art, literature, and music that were
neither by nor about Jews nevertheless interpreted as Jewish? In
this book, Neil Levi explores how the antisemitic fantasy of a
mobile, dangerous, contagious Jewish spirit unfolds in the
antimodernist polemics of Richard Wagner, Max Nordau, Wyndham
Lewis, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, reaching its apotheosis in the
notorious 1937 Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art." Levi then turns to
James Joyce, Theodor W. Adorno, and Samuel Beckett, offering
radical new interpretations of these modernist authors to show how
each presents his own poetics as a self-conscious departure from
the modern antisemitic imaginary.
Levi claims that, just as antisemites once feared their own
contamination by a mobile, polluting Jewish spirit, so too much of
postwar thought remains governed by the fear that it might be
contaminated by the spirit of antisemitism. Thus he argues for the
need to confront and work through our own fantasies and projections
not only about the figure of the Jew but also about that of the
antisemite.
Based on the study of neuroscientific developments and innovations,
examined from different angles, this Handbook provides a
comprehensive overview of the international neuroethical debate,
and offers unprecedented insights into the impact of
neuroscientific research, diagnosis, and therapy. Neuroethics - as
a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary endeavor - examines the
implications of the neurosciences for human beings in general and
for their self-understanding and their social interactions in
particular. The range of approaches adopted in neuroethics and thus
in this handbook includes but is not limited to historical,
anthropological, ethical, philosophical, theological, sociological
and legal approaches. The Handbook deals with a plethora of topics,
divided into in three parts: the first part contains discussions of
theories of neuroethics and how neuroscience impacts on our
understanding of personal identity, free will, and other
philosophical concepts. The second part is dedicated to issues
involved in current and future clinical applications of
neurosciences, such as brain stimulation, brain imaging,
prosthetics, addiction, and psychiatric ethics. The final part
deals with neuroethics and society and includes chapters on
neurolaw, neurotheology, neuromarketing, and enhancement.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. Bad beliefs - beliefs that
blatantly conflict with easily available evidence - are common.
Large minorities of people hold that vaccines are dangerous or
accept bizarre conspiracy theories, for instance. The prevalence of
bad beliefs may be politically and socially important, for instance
blocking effective action on climate change. Explaining why people
accept bad beliefs and what can be done to make them more
responsive to evidence is therefore an important project. A common
view is that bad beliefs are largely explained by widespread
irrationality. This book argues that ordinary people are rational
agents, and their beliefs are the result of their rational response
to the evidence they're presented with. We thought they were
responding badly to evidence, because we focused on the first-order
evidence alone: the evidence that directly bears on the truth of
claims. We neglected the higher-order evidence, in particular
evidence about who can be trusted and what sources are reliable.
Once we recognize how ubiquitous higher-order evidence is, we can
see that belief formation is by and large rational. The book argues
that we should tackle bad belief by focusing as much on the
higher-order evidence as the first-order evidence. The epistemic
environment gives us higher-order evidence for beliefs, and we need
to carefully manage that environment. The book argues that such
management need not be paternalistic: once we recognize that
managing the epistemic environment consists in management of
evidence, we should recognize that such management is respectful of
epistemic autonomy.
Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
investigates the philosophical and scientific arguments for free
will skepticism and their implications. Skepticism about free will
and moral responsibility has been on the rise in recent years. In
fact, a significant number of philosophers, psychologists, and
neuroscientists now either doubt or outright deny the existence of
free will and/or moral responsibility-and the list of prominent
skeptics appears to grow by the day. Given the profound importance
that the concepts of free will and moral responsibility hold in our
lives-in understanding ourselves, society, and the law-it is
important that we explore what is behind this new wave of
skepticism. It is also important that we explore the potential
consequences of skepticism for ourselves and society. Edited by
Gregg D. Caruso, this collection of new essays brings together an
internationally recognized line-up of contributors, most of whom
hold skeptical positions of some sort, to display and explore the
leading arguments for free will skepticism and to debate their
implications.
Neil Levy presents an original theory of freedom and
responsibility. Cognitive neuroscience and psychology provide a
great deal of evidence that our actions are often shaped by
information of which we are not conscious; some psychologists have
concluded that we are actually conscious of very few of the facts
we respond to. But most people seem to assume that we need to be
conscious of the facts we respond to in order to be responsible for
what we do. Some thinkers have argued that this naive assumption is
wrong, and we need not be conscious of these facts to be
responsible, while others think it is correct and therefore we are
never responsible. Levy argues that both views are wrong. He sets
out and defends a particular account of consciousness-the global
workspace view-and argues this account entails that consciousness
plays an especially important role in action. We exercise
sufficient control over the moral significance of our acts to be
responsible for them only when we are conscious of the facts that
give to our actions their moral character. Further, our actions are
expressive of who we are as moral agents only when we are conscious
of these same facts. There are therefore good reasons to think that
the naive assumption, that consciousness is needed for moral
responsibility, is in fact true. Levy suggests that this entails
that people are responsible less often than we might have thought,
but the consciousness condition does not entail that we are never
morally responsible.
Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
investigates the philosophical and scientific arguments for free
will skepticism and their implications. Skepticism about free will
and moral responsibility has been on the rise in recent years. In
fact, a significant number of philosophers, psychologists, and
neuroscientists now either doubt or outright deny the existence of
free will and/or moral responsibility-and the list of prominent
skeptics appears to grow by the day. Given the profound importance
that the concepts of free will and moral responsibility hold in our
lives-in understanding ourselves, society, and the law-it is
important that we explore what is behind this new wave of
skepticism. It is also important that we explore the potential
consequences of skepticism for ourselves and society. Edited by
Gregg D. Caruso, this collection of new essays brings together an
internationally recognized line-up of contributors, most of whom
hold skeptical positions of some sort, to display and explore the
leading arguments for free will skepticism and to debate their
implications.
Neuroscience has dramatically increased understanding of how mental
states and processes are realized by the brain, thus opening doors
for treating the multitude of ways in which minds become
dysfunctional. This book explores questions such as when is it
permissible to alter a person's memories, influence personality
traits or read minds? What can neuroscience tell us about free
will, self-control, self-deception and the foundations of morality?
The view of neuroethics offered here argues that many of our new
powers to read, alter and control minds are not entirely
unparalleled with older ones. They have, however, expanded to
include almost all our social, political and ethical decisions.
Written primarily for graduate students, this book will appeal to
anyone with an interest in the more philosophical and ethical
aspects of the neurosciences.
The first anthology to address the relationship between the events
of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary
literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable
volume. This agenda-setting reader brings together both classic and
new theoretical writings. Wide in its thematic scope, it covers
such vital questions as: * Authenticity and experience * Memory and
trauma * Historiography and the philosophy of history * Fascism and
Nazi antisemitism * Representation and identity formation * Race,
gender and genocide * The implications of the Holocaust for
theories of the unconscious, ethics, politics and aesthetics The
readings, which are fully contextualised by a general introduction,
section introductions and bibliographical notes, represent the work
of many influential writers and theorists, including Primo Levi,
Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Cathy Caruth, Saul Friedlander,
Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Theodor Adorno, Zygmunt
Bauman, Paul Gilroy, Jacques Derrida, Hayden White and Shoshana
Felman.
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