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As he left for his second tour of duty as an Army chaplain in Iraq, Roger Benimoff noted in his journal: I am excited and I am scared. I am on fire for God...He is my hope, strength, and focus.

But not long after returning to Iraq, the burdens of his job-the memorial services for soldiers killed in action, the therapy sessions after contact with the enemy, the perilous excursions "outside the wire" while under enemy fire-began to overwhelm him. Amid the dust, heat, and blood of Iraq, Benimoff felt the pillar...

Der Band umfasst Beitrage zur "systematischen Wissensforschung." Zugleich wird eine Erweiterung und Neuausrichtung der klassischen Epistemologie vorgeschlagen. Themenfelder im zweiten der beiden Teilbande sind: Varianten des Skeptizismus; Wechselwirkungen der Wissensformen (begriffliches und nicht-begriffliches Wissen, implizites und explizites Wissen, knowing-how und knowing-that); Wissen der ersten, zweiten und dritten Person; Praktisches Wissen und die Struktur von Handlungen; Wissen und das Problem des Dualismus; Disjunktivismus bezuglich Erfahrung und Wahrnehmung.

The idea that there is a distinctively practical use of reason, and correspondingly a distinctively practical form of knowledge, unites many otherwise diverse voices in the history of practical philosophy: from Aristotle to Kant, from Rousseau to Marx, from Hegel to G.E.M. Anscombe, and many others. This volume gathers works by scholars who take inspiration from these and many other historical figures in order to deepen our systematic understanding of questions raised by their work that still are, or ought to be, at the center of contemporary philosophical debate: the form and nature of...

What, Conant asks, are the policy implications of the ECJ's decisions? How...

The public library as a "community facility dedicated to...service to everyone" is finding it impossible to meet the increasing demands made by a varied and shifting clientele--students require more space, more copies of books, more specialized services; educators wish to exploit the public library as a means of improving the educational and cultural opportunities of low-income groups; sophisticated industrial complexes demand high-level reference services and research resources; general readers want to retain the traditional image of the public library as a "refuge for the bookworm and...