Problems Of Knowledge And Freedom

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UCSC:32106001515227

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Problems of Knowledge and Freedom by Noam Chomsky Pdf

Originally delivered in 1971 as the first Cambridge lectures in memory of Bertrand Russell, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom is a masterful and cogent synthesis of Noam Chomsky's moral philosophy, linguistic analysis, and emergent political critique of America's war in Vietnam. In the first half of this wide-ranging work, Chomsky takes up Russell's lifelong search for the empirical principles of human understanding, in a philosophical overview referencing Hume, Wittgenstein, von Humboldt, and others. In the following half, aptly titled On Changing the World, Chomsky applies these concepts to the issues that would remain the focus of his increasingly political work of the period--his criticisms of the war in Indochina and the Cold War ideology that supported it, of the centralization of U.S. decision-making in the Pentagon and the growing influence of multinational corporations in those circles, and of the politicization of American universities in the post-World War II years, as well as his analyses of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Nixon's foreign policies.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : OCLC:395378180

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Problems of knowledge and freedom by Noam Chomsky Pdf

Author : Lorna Stefanick
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926836263

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Controlling Knowledge by Lorna Stefanick Pdf

Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? In Controlling Knowledge, author Lorna Stefanick offers a thought-provoking and eminently user-friendly overview of current legislation governing freedom of information and the protection of privacy. Aiming to clarify rather than mystify, Stefanick outlines the history and application of FOIP legislation, with special focus on how these laws affect the individual. To illustrate the impact of FOIP, she examines the notion of informed consent, looks at concerns about surveillance in the digital age, and explores the sometimes insidious influence of Facebook. Specialists in public policy and public administration, information technology, communications, law, criminal justice, sociology, and health care will find much here that bears directly on their work, while students and general readers will welcome the book's down-to-earth language and accessible style. Intended to serve as a "citizen's guide," Controlling Knowledge is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand how freedom of information and privacy protection are legally defined and how this legislation is shaping our individual rights as citizens of the information age.

Author : David Owens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134593293

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Reason Without Freedom by David Owens Pdf

Arguing that the major problems in epistemology have their roots in concerns about our control over our beliefs, David Owen presents a critical discussion of the current trends in contemporary epistemology.

Author : Danny Frederick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030486372

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Freedom, Indeterminism, and Fallibilism by Danny Frederick Pdf

This book uses the concepts of freedom, indeterminism, and fallibilism to solve, in a unified way, problems of free will, knowledge, reasoning, rationality, personhood, ethics and politics. Presenting an overarching theory of human freedom, Frederick argues for an account of free will as the capacity for undetermined acts. Knowledge, rationality, and reasoning, both theoretical and practical, as well as personhood, morality and political authority, are all shown to be dependent at their roots on indeterminism and fallibility, and to be connected to individual freedom. Thought-provoking and original, Frederick’s theory of freedom examines a broad spectrum of issues, from the distinction between persons and other animals, to the purpose of the state and political authority. Offering a bold and succinct conspectus of the philosophy of freedom, this book makes surprising connections between perennial issues across the field of philosophy.

Author : American Library Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112060168629

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The Freedom to Read by American Library Association Pdf

Author : Johanna Oksala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521847796

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Foucault on Freedom by Johanna Oksala Pdf

Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in Foucault's philosophy and examines its three major divisions.

Author : Palmer George Herbert
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1022134701

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The Problem of Freedom by Palmer George Herbert Pdf

In this classic work of philosophy, George Herbert Palmer examines the concept of freedom from a variety of angles, including political, psychological, and metaphysical. Palmer seeks to reconcile the idea of individual freedom with the demands of social order and moral responsibility. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192854230

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The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Pdf

This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell's views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, knowledge by acquaintance and by description, induction, truth and falsehood, the distinction between knowledge, error and probable opinion, and the limits and value of philosophical knowledge.

Author : Swami Chinmayananda
Publisher : Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788175977419

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Knowledge to Freedom by Swami Chinmayananda Pdf

"No success is a real success, no joy is a real joy, no beauty is a true beauty unless the individual has conquered his mind." "To conquer the mind we need no physically run away from all sense objects or living beings. All that we have to do is to attend consistently to the taming of the mind." The above quote helps us to understand, regulate and discipline the desires and attain happiness in the mundane world as well as to reach the final goal of life - Jivanmukti.

Author : Christophe Bouton
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810168138

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Time and Freedom by Christophe Bouton Pdf

Christophe Bouton’s Time and Freedom addresses the problem of the relationship between time and freedom as a matter of practical philosophy, examining how the individual lives time and how her freedom is effective in time. Bouton first charts the history of modern philosophy’s reengagement with the Aristotelian debate about future contingents, beginning with Leibniz. While Kant, Husserl, and their followers would engage time through theories of knowledge, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and (later), Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas applied a phenomenological and existential methodology to time, but faced a problem of the temporality of human freedom. Bouton’s is the first major work of its kind since Bergson’s Time and Free Will (1889), and Bouton’s “mystery of the future,” in which the individual has freedom within the shifting bounds dictated by time, charts a new direction.

Author : Tara Chatterjea
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739106929

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Knowledge and Freedom in Indian Philosophy by Tara Chatterjea Pdf

In this groundbreaking collection of articles, Tara Chatterjea brings Indian philosophy into proximity with contemporary analytic thought. Her emphasis on analytic methodology, as well as the book's combination of epistemology and ethics, makes this work unique. With issues ranging from the definition of pramanya and the relation between truth and knowledge to a meaningful redefinition of moksa, this book will appeal to scholars and will be welcomed into advanced courses in Indian philosophy, religion, and culture.

Author : David Vincent
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000986808

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Bread, Knowledge and Freedom by David Vincent Pdf

First published in 1981, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom is a study of 142 working class autobiographies all of which cover some part of the period between 1790 and 1850. It is a full-scale examination of a form of source material that is significantly extensive. The book illustrates many aspects of ordinary working-class family life as well as the working-class pursuit of knowledge and literacy and the attempts of the middle-class educators to impose their notion of ‘useful knowledge.’ Dr. Vincent concludes with an assessment of the contribution of autobiography to nineteenth century working class history. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology and literature.

Author : Robert Lockie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350029064

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Free Will and Epistemology by Robert Lockie Pdf

In the first in-depth study of the transcendental argument for decades, Free Will and Epistemology defends a modern version of the famous transcendental argument for free will: that we could not be justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong notion of free will is required for any such process of undermining to be itself epistemically justified. By arguing for a conception of internalism that goes back to the early days of the internalist-externalist debates, it draws on work by Richard Foley, William Alston and Alvin Plantinga to explain the importance of epistemic deontology and its role in the transcendental argument. It expands on the principle that 'ought' implies 'can' and presents a strong case for a form of self-determination. With references to cases in the neuroscientific and cognitive-psychological literature, Free Will and Epistemology provides an original contribution to work on epistemic justification and the free will debate.

Author : Francesco Tava
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783483792

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The Risk of Freedom by Francesco Tava Pdf

An examination of the moral and political aspects of the philosophical work of Jan Patočka, one of the most influential Central European philosophers of the twentieth century.