Natural Relations

Author : Ted Benton
Publisher : Verso
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0860913937

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Natural Relations by Ted Benton Pdf

In this challenging book, Ted Benton takes recent debates about the moral status of animals as a basis for reviewing the discourse of "human rights." Liberal-individualist views of human rights and advocates of animal rights tend to think of individuals, whether human or animals, in isolation from their social position. This makes them vulnerable to criticisms from the left which emphasize the importance of social relationships to individual well-being. Benton's argument supports the important assumption, underpinning the cause for human rights, that humans and other species of animal have much in common, both in the conditions for their well-being and their vulnerability to harm. Both liberal rights theory and its socialist critique fail adequately to theorize these aspects of human vulnerability. Nevertheless, it is argued that, enriched by feminist and ecological insights, a socialist view of rights has much to offer. Lucid and wide-ranging in its argument, Natural Relations enables the outline of an ecological socialist view of rights and justice to begin to take shape.

Author : Benjamin Wills Newton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Providence and government of God
ISBN : BL:A0017149152

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On the Natural Relations of Men and Governments to God. Extracted from the third series of Aids to Prophetic Enquiry by Benjamin Wills Newton Pdf

Author : Franklin Hiram King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Soils
ISBN : UOM:39015058434005

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The Soil, Its Nature, Relations, and Fundamental Principles of Management by Franklin Hiram King Pdf

Author : H. Sankey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401592291

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Causation and Laws of Nature by H. Sankey Pdf

Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature, mostly by authors working in or active in the Australasian region. The book provides an overview of current work on the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist, nomological and causal process approaches. It also covers work on the nature of laws of nature, with special emphasis on the scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base, the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of things. Because the book represents a good cross-section of authors currently working on these themes in the Australasian region, it conveys something of the interest and excitement of an active philosophical debate between advocates of several different research programmes in the area.

Author : John Obadiah Westwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106197031

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Observations Upon the Relationships Existing Amongst Natural Objects, Resulting from More Or Less Perfect Resemblance, Usually Termed Affinity and Analogy by John Obadiah Westwood Pdf

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198871002

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Perception: First Form of Mind by Tyler Burge Pdf

"In Perception: First Form of Mind, Tyler Burge develops an understanding of the most primitive type of representational mind: perception. Focusing on its form, function, and underlying capacities, as indicated in the sciences of perception, Burge provides an account of the representational content and formal representational structure of perceptual states, and develops a formal semantics for them. The account is elaborated by an explanation of how the representational form is embedded in an iconic format. These structures are then situated in current theoretical accounts of the processing of perceptual representations, with an emphasis on the formation of perceptual categorizations. An exploration of the relationship between perception and other primitive capacities-conation, attention, memory, anticipation, affect, learning, and imagining-clarifies the distinction between perceiving, with its associated capacities, and thinking, with its associated capacities. Drawing on a broad range of historical and contemporary research, rather than relying on introspection or ordinary talk about perception, Perception: First Form of Mind is a scientifically rigorous and agenda-setting work in the philosophy of perception and the philosophy of science"--

Author : Becky Mansfield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444306767

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Privatization by Becky Mansfield Pdf

Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property andtransforms people’s relationships to themselves, each other,and the natural world. This groundbreaking collection provides thefirst systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization. Rich casestudies of privatization in the making reveal both the pivotal rolethat privatization plays in neoliberalism and new opportunities forchallenging neo-liberal hegemony. Rich case studies linked to broader questions onneoliberalism Illustrates the importance of property relation and thecomplexities existing in the meaning and practice of property Extends current geographical scholarship on neoliberalism–including neoliberalism and nature Each essay touches on the disciplinary, regulatory dimensionsof privatization Highlights the importance of privatization, both broadly andspecifically

Author : Giuseppe T. Cirella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811530483

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Sustainable Human–Nature Relations by Giuseppe T. Cirella Pdf

This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago. Evidence from the literature illustrates a number of key concepts and techniques that have been tested and continue to be tested, within various multi-disciplinary fields, on societal functionality. Research into sustainable societies needs to be sound, ethical, and creative. A cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary examination of challenges and strategies is used to interlink sustainability thinking and human-nature relations. With an ever-growing number of people now concentrated within urban areas, providing not only environmental quality and livable space, but also security and resilient urban systems, is becoming increasingly important. This urbanization trend has overlapped with environmental degradation, consumption of natural resources, habitat loss, and overall ecosystem change. Consequently, the goal is for cleaner, safer societies – with higher standards of living – to excel in support of current and future generational communities. The book tackles these challenges by integrating environmental scholarship, economic evaluation, and urban strategies under one umbrella of thought. The relational paradigms presented include examples that correlate developed and developing countries, socioeconomics and community development, and governance of knowledge and education. As such, the book argues, furthering of knowhow should be accessible and shared in order to achieve maximum innovation and benefit. Sustainability thinking, after all, is a metric for intrinsic human-nature relations in terms of past performance, present development, and future goals. This book discusses this metric and offers novel approaches to growing societies and what we can do next.

Author : Tito Magri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192679116

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Hume's Imagination by Tito Magri Pdf

This book proposes a new and systematic interpretation of the mental nature, function and structure, and importance of the imagination in Book 1, 'Of the Understanding', of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. The proposed interpretation has deeply revisionary implications for Hume's philosophy of mind and for his naturalism, epistemology, and stance to scepticism. The book remedies a surprising blindspot in Hume scholarship and contributes to the current, lively philosophical debate on imagination. Hume's philosophy, if rightly understood, gives suggestions about how to treat imagination as a mental natural kind, its cognitive complexity and variety of functions notwithstanding. Hume's imagination is a faculty of inference and the source of a distinctive kind of idea, which complements our sensible representations of objects. Our cognitive nature, if restricted to the representation of objects and of their relations, would leave ordinary and philosophical cognition seriously underdetermined and expose us to scepticism. Only the non-representational, inferential faculty of the imagination can put in place and vindicate ideas like causation, body, and self, which support our cognitive practices. The book reconstructs how Hume's naturalist inferentialism about the imagination develops this fundamental insight. Its five parts deal with the dualism of representation and inference; the explanation of generality and modality; the production of causal ideas; the production of spatial and temporal content, and the distinction of an external world of bodies and an internal one of selves; and the replacement of the understanding with imagination in the analysis of cognition and in epistemology.

Author : Helen Beebee,A. R. J. Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9780192845443

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Perspectives on the Philosophy of David K. Lewis by Helen Beebee,A. R. J. Fisher Pdf

David K. Lewis (1941-2001) was unquestionably one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, writing papers and books, largely but not exclusively in metaphysics, that set the intellectual agenda across a huge variety of topics in the last three decades. Some twenty years after his death, this collection of essays reflects the historical importance of Lewis's work by bringing together a range of scholarly reflections on his work. The essays consider a range of topics including the nature of metaphysics, the epistemology of necessary truths, possibility, naturalness, supervenience, time travel, causation, semantics, and ethics. Several of them draw on an exciting new body of material in the Lewisian corpus, his extensive correspondence, recently published in two volumes (OUP, 2020). The wide-ranging topics of these essays illustrate the impressive extent of Lewis's thought and his reach across most areas of analytic philosophy. The chapters collected in this volume adds to the increasing literature on the philosophy of David K. Lewis and will be an important book for those examining his role in the history of analytic philosophy.

Author : Matthew Harrison-Trainor
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Angles (Geometry)
ISBN : 9781470428396

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Degree Spectra of Relations on a Cone by Matthew Harrison-Trainor Pdf

Author : David Fate Norton,Mary J. Norton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191569098

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David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature by David Fate Norton,Mary J. Norton Pdf

David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This second volume begins with their 'Historical Account' of the Treatise, an account that runs from the beginnings of the work to the period immediately following Hume's death in 1776, followed by an account of the Nortons' editorial procedures and policies and a record of the differences between the first-edition text of the Treatise and the critical text that follows. The volume continues with an extensive set of 'Editors' Annotations', intended to illuminate (though not intepret) Hume's texts; a four-part bibliography of materials cited in both volumes; and a comprehensive index.

Author : Wayne Waxman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198039433

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Kant and the Empiricists by Wayne Waxman Pdf

Wayne Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers of what are known as the British Empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--to the philosophy of German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers, who are among the most influential figures in the Western tradition. Waxman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Kant is actually the culmination of the British empiricist program and that he shares their methodological assumptions and basic convictions about human thought and knowledge.

Author : Nikk Effingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198842507

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Time Travel by Nikk Effingham Pdf

There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends that no such argument is sound and that time travel is metaphysically possible. His main focus is on the Grandfather Paradox: the position that time travel is impossible because someone could not go back in time and kill their own grandfather before he met their grandmother. In such a case, Effingham argues that the time traveller would have the ability to do the impossible (so they could kill their grandfather) even though those impossibilities will never come about (so they won't kill their grandfather). He then explores the ramifications of this view, discussing issues in probability and decision theory. The book ends by laying out the dangers of time travel and why, even though no time machines currently exist, we should pay extra special care ensuring that nothing, no matter how small or microscopic, ever travels in time.

Author : Various
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 4692 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429643347

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Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy by Various Pdf

This collection reissues 17 titles that provide an excellent overview of 18th century philosophy – as well as the debates that surround the topic. Featuring works on Berkeley, Hume, Kant and Rousseau, among others, the collection examines a host of philosophical arguments by the leading thinkers of the time. It is an essential reference collection.