Varieties Of Understanding

Author : Stephen R. Grimm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190860981

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What does it mean to understand something? What is the essence of understanding, when compared across multiple domains? Varieties of Understanding offers new and original work on the nature of understanding, raising questions about what understanding looks like from different perspectives and exploring how ordinary people use the notion of understanding. According to a long historical tradition, understanding comes in different varieties. In particular, it is said that understanding people has a different epistemic profile than understanding the natural world-that it calls on different cognitive resources and brings to bear distinctive normative considerations. Thus, in order to understand people we might need to appreciate, or in some way sympathetically reconstruct, the reasons that led a person to act in a certain way. By comparison, when it comes to understanding natural events, like earthquakes or eclipses, no appreciation of reasons or acts of sympathetic reconstruction is arguably needed-mainly because there are no reasons on the scene to even be appreciated, and no perspectives to be sympathetically pieced together. This volume brings together some of the world's leading philosophers, psychologists, and theologians in order to shed light on the various ways in which we understand the world, pushing debates on this issue to new levels of sophistication and insight.

Author : Stephen R. Grimm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190860998

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What does it mean to understand something? What is the essence of understanding, when compared across multiple domains? Varieties of Understanding offers new and original work on the nature of understanding, raising questions about what understanding looks like from different perspectives and exploring how ordinary people use the notion of understanding. According to a long historical tradition, understanding comes in different varieties. In particular, it is said that understanding people has a different epistemic profile than understanding the natural world-that it calls on different cognitive resources and brings to bear distinctive normative considerations. Thus, in order to understand people we might need to appreciate, or in some way sympathetically reconstruct, the reasons that led a person to act in a certain way. By comparison, when it comes to understanding natural events, like earthquakes or eclipses, no appreciation of reasons or acts of sympathetic reconstruction is arguably needed-mainly because there are no reasons on the scene to even be appreciated, and no perspectives to be sympathetically pieced together. This volume brings together some of the world's leading philosophers, psychologists, and theologians in order to shed light on the various ways in which we understand the world, pushing debates on this issue to new levels of sophistication and insight.

Author : Alva Noë,Alva Noë
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674063013

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Varieties of Presence by Alva Noë,Alva Noë Pdf

Main description: The world shows up for us-it is present in our thought and perception. But, as Alva Noë contends in his latest exploration of the problem of consciousness, it doesn't show up for free. The world is not simply available; it is achieved rather than given. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our able engagement with it. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. This means that education, skills acquisition, and technology can expand the world's availability to us and transform our consciousness. Although deeply philosophical, Varieties of Presence is nurtured by collaboration with scientists and artists. Cognitive science, dance, and performance art as well as Kant and Wittgenstein inform this literary and personal work of scholarship intended no less for artists and art theorists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and anthropologists than for philosophers. Noë rejects the traditional representational theory of mind and its companion internalism, dismissing outright the notion that conceptual knowledge is radically distinct from other forms of practical ability or know-how. For him, perceptual presence and thought presence are species of the same genus. Both are varieties of exploration through which we achieve contact with the world. Forceful reflections on the nature of understanding, as well as substantial examination of the perceptual experience of pictures and what they depict or model are included in this far-ranging discussion.

Author : Asfaw Negassa ,Hellin, J. ,Shiferaw, B.
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786079584412

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Determinants of adoption and spatial diversity of wheat varieties on household farms in Turkey by Asfaw Negassa ,Hellin, J. ,Shiferaw, B. Pdf

Author : Anika Fiebich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3957439205

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Varieties of Social Understanding by Anika Fiebich Pdf

Author : James Conant,Andrea Kern
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110369717

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Varieties of Skepticism by James Conant,Andrea Kern Pdf

This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past of couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered — above all, in the work of those who have sought to take their cue from Kant, Wittgenstein, or Cavell — and to illuminate how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another. The philosophers brought together in this volume are united by the thought that a proper appreciation of the depth of the skeptical challenge must reveal it to be deeply disquieting, in the sense that skepticism threatens not just some set of theoretical commitments, but also-and fundamentally-our very sense of self, world, and other. Second, that skepticism is the proper starting point for any serious attempt to make sense of what philosophy is, and to gauge the prospects of philosophical progress.

Author : Donald L. Gelpi SJ
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725220294

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Varieties of Transcendental Experience by Donald L. Gelpi SJ Pdf

This study traces the critique of Enlightenment modernism that began with Ralph Waldo Emerson and culminated in the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce and the mature Josiah Royce. Varieties of Transcendental Experience argues that these thinkers provide a constructive alternative to deconstructionist postmodernism that is compatible with the Christian faith.

Author : Hans Joas,Matthias Jung,Magnus Schlette
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823267583

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The Varieties of Transcendence by Hans Joas,Matthias Jung,Magnus Schlette Pdf

The Varieties of Transcendence traces American pragmatist thought on religion and its relevance for theorizing religion today. The volume establishes pragmatist concepts of religious individualization as powerful alternatives to the more common secularization discourse. In stressing the importance of Josiah Royce’s work, it emphasizes religious individualism’s compatibility with community. At the same time, by covering all of the major classical pragmatist theories of religion, it shows their kinship and common focus on the interrelation between the challenges of contingency and the semiotic significance of transcendence.

Author : Nathalie Karagiannis,Peter Wagner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781846314346

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Varieties of World Making by Nathalie Karagiannis,Peter Wagner Pdf

Globalization has been the topic of heated debate in recent years, with one side asserting that it will produce a better standard of living for people around the world, and a fierce opposition arguing that it will ultimately lead to greater poverty and the destruction of unique human cultures. Varieties of World Making tackles the issue from a different angle, proposing that the contemporary global network of business, politics and culture be viewed from the inter-disciplinary perspective of ‘world making’. Drawn from the ranks of sociology, law, international relations, political philosophy and history, the distinguished contributors cut through polarized rhetoric to examine the current global situation. Their proposed diagnoses draw upon thoughtful analyses of various political dilemmas whose ripple effects are felt around the world, such as the volatile relationship between Islam and Europe, or the legal foundations for a true international order absent in the shadows of imperialism. Varieties of World Making will be an essential resource for all those grappling with the complex consequences of globalization for the future.

Author : Owen Flanagan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674036956

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Varieties of Moral Personality by Owen Flanagan Pdf

Owen Flanagan argues in this book for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which psychology can enrich moral philosophy. Beginning with a discussion of such “moral saints” as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Oskar Schindler, Flanagan charts a middle course between an ethics that is too realistic and socially parochial and one that is too idealistic, giving no weight to our natures.

Author : Janos Kollar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783662032763

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Rational Curves on Algebraic Varieties by Janos Kollar Pdf

The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to the structure theory of higher dimensional algebraic varieties by studying the geometry of curves, especially rational curves, on varieties. The main applications are in the study of Fano varieties and of related varieties with lots of rational curves on them. This Ergebnisse volume provides the first systematic introduction to this field of study. The book contains a large number of examples and exercises which serve to illustrate the range of the methods and also lead to many open questions of current research.

Author : Sucharit Katyal,Sisir Roy,Philippe R. Goldin,Anna-Lena Lumma
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832529003

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The varieties of contemplative experiences and practices by Sucharit Katyal,Sisir Roy,Philippe R. Goldin,Anna-Lena Lumma Pdf

Author : Craig Bradshaw Woelfel
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611179064

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Varieties of Aesthetic Experience by Craig Bradshaw Woelfel Pdf

An exploration of belief as an experience, both secular and religious, through the study of major literary works At the height of modernism in the 1920s, what did it mean to believe and how was it experienced? Craig Woelfel seeks to answer this pivotal question in Varieties of Aesthetic Experience: Literary Modernism and Dissociation of Belief, a groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between secular modernity and religious engagement. Woelfel hinges his argument on the unlikely comparison of two revered modern writers: T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster. They had vastly different experiences with religion, as Eliot converted to Christianity later in life and Forster became a steadfast nonbeliever over time, but Woelfel contends that their stories offer a compelling model for belief as broken and ambivalent rather than constant. Narratives of faith—its loss or gain—are no longer linear but instead are just as fractured and varied as the modernists themselves. Drawing from Eliot's and Forster's major and minor creative and critical works, Woelfel makes the case for a "dissociation of belief" during the modern era—a separation of emotional and spiritual religious experience from its reduction to forms. He contextualizes belief in the modern era alongside modernist religious studies scholarship and current secularization theory, with particular attention to Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, paving the way for a more nuanced understanding of religious engagement at the time. In Varieties of Aesthetic Experience, Woelfel considers major literary works—including Eliot's The Waste Land and Forster's A Passage to India—as well as the Cambridge Clark Lectures and previously unstudied personal writings from both authors. The volume revolves around a line from Eliot himself, from a lecture in which he said that he wanted "to see art, and to see it whole." Rather than excluding belief from the conversation, Woelfel contends that modernist art can become a critical liminal space for exploring what it means to believe in a secular age.

Author : Anab Whitehouse
Publisher : Bilquees Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Varieties of Psychological Inquiry - Volume 1 by Anab Whitehouse Pdf

'Varieties of Psychological Inquiry' (Volumes 1 and 2) consists of twenty-five essays (distributed across two volumes) that venture into various facets of psychology - ranging from: Freud. Jung and Sullivan, to: Piaget, Sheldrake, and beyond. Among the topics explored are: Anxiety, dissociation, abuse, charisma, developmental psychology, the 'God gene', SSRIs, memory, chronobiology, neurobiology, consciousness, and holographic theories of mind. While no particular theory of psychology is espoused during the pages of this two volume work, a variety of theoretical and empirical issues are critically explored and reflected upon in considerable detail. In a sense, the direction in which the essays in these two books point is toward epistemological horizons where what is known (possibly) seeks to merge with what is not, yet, known.

Author : Elisa Aaltola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786606112

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Varieties of Empathy by Elisa Aaltola Pdf

Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics. Yet, its precise meaning is often left unexplored. The book aims to tackle this by clarifying the different and even contradictory ways in which “empathy” can be defined.