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Author : Forrest Clell Shaklee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0875020372
Author : Diane P Michelfelder,Natasha McCarthy,David E. Goldberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400777620
Building on the breakthrough text Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda, this book offers 30 chapters covering conceptual and substantive developments in the philosophy of engineering, along with a series of critical reflections by engineering practitioners. The volume demonstrates how reflective engineering can contribute to a better understanding of engineering identity and explores how integrating engineering and philosophy could lead to innovation in engineering methods, design and education. The volume is divided into reflections on practice, principles and process, each of which challenges prevalent assumptions and commitments within engineering and philosophy. The volume explores the ontological and epistemological dimensions of engineering and exposes the falsity of the commonly held belief that the field is simply the application of science knowledge to problem solving. Above all, the perspectives collected here demonstrate the value of a constructive dialogue between engineering and philosophy and show how collaboration between the disciplines casts light on longstanding problems from both sides. The chapters in this volume are from a diverse and international body of authors, including philosophers and engineers, and represent a highly select group of papers originally presented in three different conferences. These are the 2008 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE-2008) held at the Royal Academy of Engineering; the 2009 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT-2009) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands; and the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET-2010), held in Golden, Colorado at the Colorado School of Mines.
Author : Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195176551
This historically based collection of philosophers' reflections--the letters, journals and prefaces that reveals their hopes and hesitations, their triumphs and struggles, their deepest doubts and convictions--allows us to witness philosophical thought in process. Ranging from Plato to Hannah Arendt, with contributions from 44 philosophers (Augustine, Maimonides, AlGhazali, Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, among others) this remarkable collection documents philosophers' claim that they change as well as understand the world. In her introductory essay, "Witnessing Philosophers," Amelie Rorty locates philosophers' reflections in the larger context of the many facets of their other activities and commitments.
Author : David Kyle Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119578260
A philosophical look at the twisted, high-tech near-future of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror, offering a glimpse of the darkest reflections of the human condition in digital technology Black Mirror―the Emmy-winning Netflix series that holds up a dark, digital mirror of speculative technologies to modern society—shows us a high-tech world where it is all too easy to fall victim to ever-evolving forms of social control.In Black Mirror and Philosophy, original essays written by a diverse group of scholars invite you to peer into the void and explore the philosophical, ethical, and existential dimensions of Charlie Brooker’s sinister stories. The collection reflects Black Mirror’s anthology structure by pairing a chapter with every episode in the show’s five seasons—including an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure analysis of Bandersnatch—and concludes with general essays that explore the series’ broader themes. Chapters address questions about artificial intelligence, virtual reality, surveillance, privacy, love, death, criminal behavior, and politics, including: Have we given social media too much power over our lives? Could heaven really, one day, be a place on Earth? Should criminal justice and punishment be crowdsourced? What rights should a “cookie” have? Immersive, engaging, and experimental, Black Mirror and Philosophy navigates the intellectual landscape of Brooker’s morality plays for the modern world, where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.
Author : Christopher Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0748614184
In a series of original and perceptive philosophical essays, Christopher Hamilton reflects on the mystery of life and our quest to understand it.
Author : Curtis L. Hancock,Brendan Sweetman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 1563248530
This book contains a thorough and balanced series of dialogues introducing key topics in philosophy of religion, such as: the existence and nature of God, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, the nature of religious experience, immortality, and the meaning of life. A realistic cast of characters in a natural setting engages in a series of thought-provoking conversations; the dialogue format of these conversations captures typical student attitudes and questions concerning religious belief; allows comparison of important themes throughout the dialogues; encourages the interjection of insights, observations, questions, and objections; and introduces related points when they would naturally arise, instead of relegating them to a later chapter. As well as presenting a detailed and probing discussion, each dialogue includes a list of key terms, a set of study questions, and a bibliography - all of which make this an excellent text for courses in philosophy of religion and introductory philosophy classes.
Author : John Cottingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191551635
John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life. He also examines ways in which his philosophy has been misunderstood. The Cartesian mind-body dualism that is so often attacked is only a part of Descartes's account of what it is to be a thinking, sentient, human creature, and the way he makes the division between the mental and the physical is considerably more subtle, and philosophically more appealing, than is generally assumed. Although Descartes is often considered to be one of the heralds of our modern secular worldview, the 'new' philosophy which he launched retains many links with the ideas of his predecessors, not least in the all-pervasive role it assigns to God (something that is ignored or downplayed by many modern readers); and the character of the Cartesian outlook is multifaceted, sometimes anticipating Enlightenment ideas of human autonomy and independent scientific inquiry, but also sometimes harmonizing with more traditional notions of human nature as created to find fulfilment in harmony with its creator.
Author : Lilli Alanen,Charlotte Witt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402024894
Feminist work in the history of philosophy has come of age as an innovative field in the history of philosophy. This volume marks that accomplishment with original essays by leading feminist scholars who ask basic questions: What is distinctive of feminist work in the history of philosophy? Is there a method that is distinctive of feminist historical work? How can women philosophers be meaningfully included in the history of the discipline? Who counts as a philosopher? This collection is a unique collaboration among philosophers from North America and the Nordic Countries, including papers written from both analytic and continental philosophical perspectives and discussing both ancient and modern philosophers. Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy will be of interest to historians of philosophy, feminist theorists, women's studies faculty and students, and humanists interested in canon formation and transformation.
Author : Gareth D. Williams,Katharina Volk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199999767
Collection of 13 essays delivered at a conference held at Columbia University in March 2012.
Author : S.J. Bartlett,P. Suber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400935518
Self-reference, although a topic studied by some philosophers and known to a number of other disciplines, has received comparatively little explicit attention. For the most part the focus of studies of self-reference has been on its logical and linguistic aspects, with perhaps disproportionate emphasis placed on the reflexive paradoxes. The eight-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example, does not contain a single entry in its index under "self-reference", and in connection with "reflexivity" mentions only "relations", "classes", and "sets". Yet, in this volume, the introductory essay identifies some 75 varieties and occurrences of self-reference in a wide range of disciplines, and the bibliography contains more than 1,200 citations to English language works about reflexivity. The contributed papers investigate a number of forms and applications of self-reference, and examine some of the challenges posed by its difficult temperament. The editors hope that readers of this volume will gain a richer sense of the sti11largely unexplored frontiers of reflexivity, and of the indispensability of reflexive concepts and methods to foundational inquiries in philosophy, logic, language, and into the freedom, personality and intelligence of persons.
Author : Shadworth Hollway Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015068406399
Author : Marcia Cavell
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199287086
Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in an investigation of human subjectivity. She describes the ideal of a subject as an agent doing things for reasons and able to assume responsibility for itself. The book investigates what might stand in the way of this.
Author : Paulin J. Hountondji
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780896802254
"While the book's immediate concern is with Africa, the theoretical nature of its analyses and its bearing on postmodern theories of the "Other" will make this translation of great interest to many disciplines especially ethnic gender and multicultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Shadworth Hollway Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243641281
Author : Tziporah Kasachkoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 074251448X
Here, two dozen distinguished philosophers share their insights and practical suggestions on a diverse range of pedagogic issues with essays on how to motivate students, constructing syllabi for particular courses, teaching particularly complex concepts, and constructing creative examinations.
