Philosophical Analysis And Human Welfare

Author : Dickinson S. Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401017923

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Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare by Dickinson S. Miller Pdf

When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to "analysis, the method of philosophy at work" as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on "analysis at work" did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on "the principles of practical intelligence", the application of intelligence in a "morality of results" for human welfare.

Author : Dickinson Sergeant Miller,Loyd David Easton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1975-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 940101793X

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Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare by Dickinson Sergeant Miller,Loyd David Easton Pdf

Author : Lennart Nordenfelt
Publisher : CABI
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781845930608

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Animal and Human Health and Welfare by Lennart Nordenfelt Pdf

For many years scientists within human and animal science have extensively discussed the philosophy of medicine, but never have both sides communicated on their concepts of health, quality of life and welfare, with each other. This book helps clarify the difficult but central notions of health and welfare by comparing the human and animal variants of these concepts. Split into three parts this book starts by presenting a background of some of the major theories of human health and welfare, among these are the bio-statistical theory, classical theories such as Aristotle and Bentham, as well as objectivist and subjectivist contemporary theories. This is followed by a detailed discussion of theories on animal welfare and health; these include coping, feeling and preference theories. The final part of the book tests a comprehensive conceptual framework of a holistic kind, which focuses on the individual's ability to achieve it's vital goals.

Author : Stephen L. Darwall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691092524

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Welfare and Rational Care by Stephen L. Darwall Pdf

What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding of welfare fundamentally changes how we think about what is best for people. Most philosophers have assumed that a person's welfare is what is good from her point of view, namely, what she has a distinctive reason to pursue. In the now standard terminology, welfare is assumed to have an "agent-relative normativity." Darwall by contrast argues that someone's good is what one should want for that person insofar as one cares for her. Welfare, in other words, is normative, but not peculiarly for the person whose welfare is at stake. In addition, Darwall makes the radical proposal that something's contributing to someone's welfare is the same thing as its being something one ought to want for her own sake, insofar as one cares. Darwall defends this theory with clarity, precision, and elegance, and with a subtle understanding of the place of sympathetic concern in the rich psychology of sympathy and empathy. His forceful arguments will change how we understand a concept central to ethics and our understanding of human bonds and human choices.

Author : Stephen Darwall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400825325

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Welfare and Rational Care by Stephen Darwall Pdf

What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding of welfare fundamentally changes how we think about what is best for people. Most philosophers have assumed that a person's welfare is what is good from her point of view, namely, what she has a distinctive reason to pursue. In the now standard terminology, welfare is assumed to have an "agent-relative normativity." Darwall by contrast argues that someone's good is what one should want for that person insofar as one cares for her. Welfare, in other words, is normative, but not peculiarly for the person whose welfare is at stake. In addition, Darwall makes the radical proposal that something's contributing to someone's welfare is the same thing as its being something one ought to want for her own sake, insofar as one cares. Darwall defends this theory with clarity, precision, and elegance, and with a subtle understanding of the place of sympathetic concern in the rich psychology of sympathy and empathy. His forceful arguments will change how we understand a concept central to ethics and our understanding of human bonds and human choices.

Author : R. G. Frey,Christopher W. Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521039592

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Value, Welfare, and Morality by R. G. Frey,Christopher W. Morris Pdf

This book addresses critical issues in normative ethical theory. Every such theory must contain not only a theory of motivation but also a theory of value, and the link that is often forged between what is valuable and what would be right is human welfare or well-being. This topic is a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, not least because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism. Indeed, there is as much disagreement about the nature of value and its relationship to welfare and morality, as there is about the substantive content of normative ethical theories. The essays in this collection, all new and written by a distinguished team of moral philosophers, provide an overview, analysis, and an attempted resolution of those controversies. They constitute the most rigorous available account of the relationship among value, welfare, and morality.

Author : Raymond Plant,Peter Taylor-Gooby,Anthony Lesser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135195663

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Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) by Raymond Plant,Peter Taylor-Gooby,Anthony Lesser Pdf

This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of ‘community’.

Author : Noel Timms,David Watson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 0710083831

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Talking about Welfare by Noel Timms,David Watson Pdf

Author : L.Y Nordenfelt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401593618

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Action, Ability and Health by L.Y Nordenfelt Pdf

This book is a contribution to the general philosophy of action and the philosophy of welfare. The author makes separate analyses of concepts such as action, ability, interaction, action-explanation, happiness, health, illness and disability. At the same time he explores and substantiates the idea of a strong interdependence between the concept of action and some of the central concepts of welfare, in particular health and illness and related concepts.

Author : Don Habibi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0792368541

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John Stuart Mill and the Ethic of Human Growth by Don Habibi Pdf

In this well-researched, comprehensive study of J.S. Mill, Professor Habibi argues that the persistent, dominant theme of Mill's life and work was his passionate belief in human improvement and progress. Several Mill scholars recognize this; however, numerous writers overlook his 'growth ethic', and this has led to misunderstandings about his value system. This study defines and establishes the importance of Mill's growth ethic and clears up misinterpretations surrounding his notions of higher and lower pleasures, positive and negative freedom, the status of children, the legitimacy of authority, and support for British colonialism. Drawing from the entire corpus of Mill's writings, as well as the extensive secondary literature, Habibi has written the most focused, sustained analysis of Mill's grand, leading principle. This book will be useful to college students in philosophy and intellectual history as well as specialists in these fields.

Author : J.A.M Bransen,S.E. Cuypers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401150828

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Human Action, Deliberation and Causation by J.A.M Bransen,S.E. Cuypers Pdf

There is an interesting and far-reaching disagreement between Smith and Frederick Stoutland. In his 'The Real Reasons' Stoutland argues that one of the mistakes that turned the belief-desire model of action into the 'received view' is the underlying commitment to the idea that there is an underlying unity to all action explanations. According to Stoutland the unity is no deeper than the superficial fact that actions are responses of agents to the world, and the challenge for the philosophy of action is to make sense of that fact without falling victim to the un fruitful assumption that reasons should be understood as the normative content of determinate representational inner states of agents. Stoutland suggests an alternative according to which reasonable agents possess the know how to respond appropriately to the normative import of the external situations they find themselves in. These situations are, Stout land claims, the real reasons. Stoutland raises an important issue. If beliefs and desires should be understood as reasons, as introducing normative constraints that de serve respect, it seems we are bound to distinguish between on the one hand the content of our beliefs and desires and on the other hand their objects. Moreover, it seems we have good reasons to believe that the content of our beliefs and desires derives its normative import qua normative import from the objects of our beliefs and desires.

Author : Frans J.M. Smulders,Bo Algers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789086866908

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Welfare of production animals: assessment and management of risks by Frans J.M. Smulders,Bo Algers Pdf

This book, the fifth in the series 'Food Safety Assurance and Veterinary Public Health', has been conceived by a total of 33 internationally recognised experts from 11 different countries in Europe and from the USA, Canada and Australia, with backgrounds ranging from veterinary medicine, animal science, biology and microbiology to psychology, philosophy and ethics. It provides an up-to-date overview of the science of animal welfare and its assessment, of options for the assessment and management of risks for the welfare of production animals, and of the ramifications these may have for the safety of foods of animal origin. This volume is targeted at veterinary practitioners, official veterinarians in a control function, animal and food scientists, welfare scientists, students in animal welfare, auditing and inspection officials and risk managers at all levels of animal production. Other publications in the Food Safety Assurance and Veterinary Public Health series are: * Volume 1. Food safety assurance in the pre-harvest phase * Volume 2. Safety assurance during food processing * Volume 3. Risk management strategies: monitoring and surveillance * Volume 4. Towards a risk-based chain control

Author : Helen Bosanquet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781040129708

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The Philosophy of the State and the Practice of Welfare by Helen Bosanquet Pdf

Unemployment, poverty and the role of the state were themes which structured the discourse of social theory and the developing social legislation in Britain at the end of the Victorian period and the early twentieth century. This collection examines the neglected contribution of Bernard and Helen Bosanquet to that contemporary maelstrom of ideas about the condition of the people, the process of social reform and the practice of social work. Like their contemporaries Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the Bosanquets were a significant partnership integrating philosophy and practice, theory and action. Bernard Bosanquet, the Idealist philosopher, is best known for his study The Philosophical Theory of the State. His wife Helen, economist and social worker, was a member of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws (1905-9) and between 1909 and 1921, editor of the Charity Organisation Review. Themselves selective supporters of state welfare schemes, they helped to re-fashion the Charity Organisation Society away from its nineteenth century individualism by their advocacy of organic social collectivism. But character, self development and responsibility remained central tenets of their welfare programme. This collection re-publishes most of the Bosanquets' principal books and articles relating to the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare. The development of their ideas in the context of their own time, and their relevance to current debates in the theory and practice of welfare, forms the basis of a substantial introduction by David Gladstone, the series editor. This Volume looks at Social and Economic Conditions and the standard of life.

Author : N. Milkov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401701778

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A Hundred Years of English Philosophy by N. Milkov Pdf

This investigation is a historical review of twentieth-century analytical philosophy in England. In seven chapters, the intellectual development of its most prominent representatives - Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin, Strawson, Dummett - is traced. The book offers synopses of the main philosophical texts of these seven philosophers. It will serve as a reference book covering all the central problems discussed by these seven authors.

Author : David M. Kaplan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520951976

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The Philosophy of Food by David M. Kaplan Pdf

This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together sixteen leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food: What is it exactly? What should we eat? How do we know it is safe? How should food be distributed? What is good food? David M. Kaplan’s erudite and informative introduction grounds the discussion, showing how philosophers since Plato have taken up questions about food, diet, agriculture, and animals. However, until recently, few have considered food a standard subject for serious philosophical debate. Each of the essays in this book brings in-depth analysis to many contemporary debates in food studies—Slow Food, sustainability, food safety, and politics—and addresses such issues as "happy meat," aquaculture, veganism, and table manners. The result is an extraordinary resource that guides readers to think more clearly and responsibly about what we consume and how we provide for ourselves, and illuminates the reasons why we act as we do.