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Paranoid science : the Christian Right's war on reality
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ISBN: 9781479827138 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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The teleology of action in Plato's Republic
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ISBN: 9780198799023 0198799020 0191846678 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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In many discussions of ancient philosophy, teleology is acknowledged as an important theme. How do we act for a particular end or purpose? One common answer describes humans as acting with the intention of achieving a goal. A person selects particular actions with the thought that these actions will lead to that goal. Andrew Payne accepts that this is one good answer to our question but proposes that it is not the only one. In Plato's Republic, Socrates appeals to a different understanding of how humans act for the sake of ends as they live together in political communities and pursue knowledge. As they carry out activities that are necessary for human flourishing, their actions can produce unintended results that signal the full completion of human capacities. For example, performing the actions of a just individual can help promote the establishment of a just society as an unintended result. Such unintended results qualify as ends or purposes of human action. This volume fully explores this functional teleology of action in Plato's Republic.


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Kant on the frontier : philosophy, politics, and the ends of the earth
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ISBN: 0823276015 0823277194 0823276007 082327599X Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, New York : Fordham University Press,

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Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are being—often violently—challenged, erased, or reinforced, we must rethink the concept of frontier itself. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading of Kant, Geoffrey Bennington casts doubt upon the conceptual coherence of borders.The frontier is the very element of Kant’s thought yet the permanent frustration of his conceptuality. Bennington brings out the frontier’s complex, abyssal, fractal structure that leaves a residue of violence in every frontier and complicates Kant’s most rational arguments in the direction of cosmopolitanism and perpetual peace.Neither a critique of Kant nor a return to Kant, this book proposes a new reflection on philosophical reading, for which thinking the frontier is both essential and a recurrent, fruitful, interruption.


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La causalité dans les sciences biologiques et médicales : Faut-il connaître les causes pour comprendre et intervenir?
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ISBN: 2759820467 Year: 2017 Publisher: Les Ulis, France : EDP Sciences,

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Le mot « cause » est fréquemment employé dans des publications scientifiques, parfois sans conscience claire de ce qu’il implique. Ce terme a une histoire philosophique au cours de laquelle sa signification et son usage dans les sciences ont été tantôt défendus, tantôt critiqués. D’une part la recherche de causes naturelles est bien constitutive du projet scientifique, d’autre part le terme de cause peut facilement véhiculer des conceptions naïves de la relation entre causes et effets, dont les conséquences peuvent être de retarder ou de mal orienter la recherche de facteurs de causalité. Les sciences biologiques et médicales sont riches d’exemples de ce type. Plusieurs questions peuvent être posées. Quelle est l’utilisation présente de la causalité dans les sciences biologiques et médicales ? Quelles sont les difficultés particulières liées à l’établissement des relations de causalité ? Comment ces difficultés peuvent-elles être surmontées ? L’identification de conditions causales permet-elle de prédire la succession de phénomènes physiologiques ? Est-il souhaitable de conserver le langage causaliste pour décrire des situations où règne le multifactoriel ? Comment mieux décrire ces situations par d’autres langages, et est-ce toujours possible ? Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage sont pour la plupart issus du colloque « Faut-il connaître les causes pour comprendre et intervenir ? Questions sur la causalité dans les sciences biologiques et médicales », organisé le 31 mai 2016 par l’Académie des sciences, sur l’initiative de sa section de biologie humaine et sciences médicales.


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Teleology in the ancient world : philosophical and medical approaches
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ISBN: 1108234437 1108234518 1108234712 1139567853 1108234550 1107036631 1108227996 110823447X Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The ancient origins of teleological concepts are sometimes either conveniently forgotten or given a distorted appearance. On the one hand, ancient teleology has been obscured by the theological cloak of creationism. On the other, Darwinists have sometimes failed to give due consideration to the variety and subtlety of teleology's intellectual antecedents. The purpose of this book is to restore the balance by looking at the manifold ways in which teleology in antiquity was viewed. The volume, consisting of twelve essays by leading authorities in their fields, examines the ways in which teleological arguments were used in antiquity and how these discussions inform and influence current debates on evolution, creationism and intelligent design. As well as examining philosophical contributions to the subject, a specific aim is to examine ancient medical thinking on this topic and its relationship to ancient philosophical ideas.


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Kants Theorie der Biologie : ein Kommentar, eine Lesart, eine historische Einordnung
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ISSN: 03406059 ISBN: 9783110471106 9783110473230 9783110472264 3110471108 Year: 2017 Volume: 190 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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Ein textnaher, fortlaufender Kommentar zu Kants Lehre von organisierten Wesen in der „Kritik der Urteilskraft“ ist ein Desiderat sowohl der Kantforschung als auch der Philosophie und Geschichte der Lebenswissenschaften. Auch gibt es bisher nur wenige Lesarten, die Kants Philosophie der Biologie im Ganzen erschließen und versuchen, sie in die vielschichtigen historischen Kontexte der frühneuzeitlichen Naturforschung einzuordnen. Das vorliegende Buch schließt diese Lücken. Es verteidigt die Thesen, dass Kant organisierte Wesen durch drei Arten von Kräften und Gesetzen charakterisiert – durch mechanische, physisch teleologische und moralteleologische Krätfe und Gesetze – deren Vereinbarkeit im Bewusstsein des Menschen, und in der Erfahrungswelt, so, wie sie dem Menschen erscheint, auf der regulativen Idee ihrer Einheit im schöpferischen, theoretisch praktischen Bewusstsein Gottes beruht. Kants Lehre von organisierten Wesen kann als Verbindung einer gemäßigten, weder animalkulistisch noch ovistisch vereinseitigten, Präformationslehre mit einer vitalistischen Spielart der Epigenesislehre verstanden werden. – Weiterführende und provokative Einsichten für eine der bewegtesten Debatten der gegenwärtigen Kantforschung.


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The Oxford handbook of causal reasoning
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ISBN: 9780199399550 9780190662745 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies, enabling us to adapt to our world. Causal knowledge allows us to predict future events, or diagnose the causes of observed facts. We plan actions and solve problems using knowledge about cause-effect relations. Although causal reasoning is a component of most of our cognitive functions, it has been neglected in cognitive psychology for many decades. The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning offers a state-of-the-art review of the growing field, and its contribution to the world of cognitive science. The Handbook begins with an introduction of competing theories of causal learning and reasoning. In the next section, it presents research about basic cognitive functions involved in causal cognition, such as perception, categorization, argumentation, decision-making, and induction. The following section examines research on domains that embody causal relations, including intuitive physics, legal and moral reasoning, psychopathology, language, social cognition, and the roles of space and time.0The final section presents research from neighboring fields that study developmental, phylogenetic, and cultural differences in causal cognition. The chapters, each written by renowned researchers in their field, fill in the gaps of many cognitive psychology textbooks, emphasizing the crucial role of causal structures in our everyday lives. This Handbook is an essential read for students and researchers of the cognitive sciences, including cognitive, developmental, social, comparative, and cross-cultural psychology; philosophy; methodology; statistics; artificial intelligence; and machine learning.


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Teleology in the ancient world : philosophical and medical approaches
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ISBN: 9781107036635 9781139567855 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The contingency of necessity : reason and God as matters of fact
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ISBN: 1474428223 1474438644 9781474428224 9781474428194 1474428193 Year: 2017 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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Rethinks cinematic journeys through history, globalisation, form and genre.


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Political philosophy
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ISBN: 1628942878 9781628942873 9781628942859 9781628942866 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York

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