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During the last two decades, applied ethics has not only developed
into one of the most important philosophical disciplines but has
also differentiated into so many subdisciplines that it is becoming
increasingly difficult to survey it. A much-needed overview is
provided by the eighteen contributions to this volume, in which
internationally renowned experts deal with central questions of
environmental ethics, bioethics and medical ethics, professional
and business ethics, social, political, and legal ethics as well as
with the aims and foundations of applied ethics in general. Thanks
to a philosophical introduction and selected bibliographical
references added to each chapter, the book is very well suited as a
basis for courses in applied ethics. It is directed not only to
philosophers and to ethicists from other disciplines but to
scientists in general and to all people who are interested in the
rational discussion of moral principles and their application to
concrete problems in the sciences and in everyday life.
Formal ontology combines two ideas, one originating with Husserl,
the other with Frege: that of ontology of the formal aspects of all
objects, irrespective of their particular nature, and ontology
pursued by employing the tools of modern formal disciplines,
notably logic and semantics. These two traditions have converged in
recent years and this is the first collection to encompass them as
a whole in a single volume. It assembles essays from authors around
the world already widely known for their work in formal ontology,
and illustrates that through the application of formal methods the
ancient discipline of ontology may be put on a firm methodological
basis. The essays not only illuminate the nature of ontology and
its relation to other areas, in language, logic and everyday life,
but also demonstrate that common issues from the analytical and
phenomenological traditions may be discussed without ideological
barriers. Audience: advanced students of and specialists in
philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, computer science,
database engineering.
ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past:
it did not exist at the turn of the century and only became clearly
apparent after the Second World War. I recently taught at an
American university on the his tory of philosophy from Balzano to
Husserl. The course title had to come from a fixed pool and gave
trouble. Was it philosophical logic, the nine teenth century, or
phenomenology? A logic title would connote over this period Frege,
Russell, Carnap, perhaps a mention of Boole: not continental
enough. The nineteenth century? The century of Kant's successors:
Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Feuer bach, Marx, Nietzsche? What have
they to do with Balzano, Lotze, Brentano, Meinong, Husserl and
Twardowski? Even tually 'Phenomenology' was chosen, misdescribing
more than half of the course. That illustrates the problems one
faces in trying to work against the picture of the period which is
ingrained in minds and syllabuses. This book arises from my efforts
to combat that picture. I backed into writing about the history of
recent philosophy rather than setting out to do so. The beginning
was chance. In Manchester in the early seventies, at a time when
most English philosophy departments breathed re cycled Oxford air,
the intellectual atmosphere derived from Cambridge and Warsaw,
spiced with a breath of Freiburg and Paris."
During the last two decades, applied ethics has not only developed
into one of the most important philosophical disciplines but has
also differentiated into so many subdisciplines that it is becoming
increasingly difficult to survey it. A much-needed overview is
provided by the eighteen contributions to this volume, in which
internationally renowned experts deal with central questions of
environmental ethics, bioethics and medical ethics, professional
and business ethics, social, political, and legal ethics as well as
with the aims and foundations of applied ethics in general. Thanks
to a philosophical introduction and selected bibliographical
references added to each chapter, the book is very well suited as a
basis for courses in applied ethics. It is directed not only to
philosophers and to ethicists from other disciplines but to
scientists in general and to all people who are interested in the
rational discussion of moral principles and their application to
concrete problems in the sciences and in everyday life.
Formal ontology combines two ideas, one originating with Husserl,
the other with Frege: that of ontology of the formal aspects of all
objects, irrespective of their particular nature, and ontology
pursued by employing the tools of modern formal disciplines,
notably logic and semantics. These two traditions have converged in
recent years and this is the first collection to encompass them as
a whole in a single volume. It assembles essays from authors around
the world already widely known for their work in formal ontology,
and illustrates that through the application of formal methods the
ancient discipline of ontology may be put on a firm methodological
basis. The essays not only illuminate the nature of ontology and
its relation to other areas, in language, logic and everyday life,
but also demonstrate that common issues from the analytical and
phenomenological traditions may be discussed without ideological
barriers. Audience: advanced students of and specialists in
philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, computer science,
database engineering.
ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past:
it did not exist at the turn of the century and only became clearly
apparent after the Second World War. I recently taught at an
American university on the his tory of philosophy from Balzano to
Husserl. The course title had to come from a fixed pool and gave
trouble. Was it philosophical logic, the nine teenth century, or
phenomenology? A logic title would connote over this period Frege,
Russell, Carnap, perhaps a mention of Boole: not continental
enough. The nineteenth century? The century of Kant's successors:
Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Feuer bach, Marx, Nietzsche? What have
they to do with Balzano, Lotze, Brentano, Meinong, Husserl and
Twardowski? Even tually 'Phenomenology' was chosen, misdescribing
more than half of the course. That illustrates the problems one
faces in trying to work against the picture of the period which is
ingrained in minds and syllabuses. This book arises from my efforts
to combat that picture. I backed into writing about the history of
recent philosophy rather than setting out to do so. The beginning
was chance. In Manchester in the early seventies, at a time when
most English philosophy departments breathed re cycled Oxford air,
the intellectual atmosphere derived from Cambridge and Warsaw,
spiced with a breath of Freiburg and Paris."
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