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On Criminalization: An Essay in the Philosophy of Criminal Law
ISBN: 9789048143566 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I begin by introducing the main issues of the work, and inviting their consideration; as enticement, I offer a sketch of their practical importance, and of the philosophical challenge they present. And I provide a preview of the work's organization and central argument. There is something so obvious that it is easily-and often-overlooked: the enforcing of criminal statutes is the most intrusive and coercive exercise of domestic power by a state. Forcibly preventing people from doing that which they wish to do, forcibly compelling people to do that which they do not wish to do-and wielding...
I begin by introducing the main issues of the work, and inviting their consideration; as enticement, I offer a sketch of their practical importance, a...
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Towards a Philosophy of Critical Mathematics Education
ISBN: 9789048144259 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell gives a description of different forms of suppression. We learn about the telescreens placed everywhere, through which it is possible for Big-Brother to watch the inhabitants of Oceania. However, it is not only important to control the activities of the inhabitants, it is important as well to control their thoughts, and the Thought Police are on guard. This is a very direct form of monitoring and control, but Orwell also outlines a more imperceptible and calculated line of thought control. In the Appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell explains some struc...
In Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell gives a description of different forms of suppression. We learn about the telescreens placed everywhere, through...
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Moore on Right and Wrong: The Normative Ethics of G.E. Moore
ISBN: 9789048144891 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. G.E. Moore's work shaped twentieth century ethics. But while his metaethical doctrines have seen decades of debate, little attention has been paid to his normative theory. Yet Moore broke fresh and important ground in elaborating an indirect, sophisticated, and non-hedonistic form of utilitarianism. Moore on Right and Wrong is a critical reconstruction and exposition of this neglected side of his ethical thought. It situates his normative ethics with respect to traditional utilitarianism and assesses Moore's case for consequentialism. The final chapters explore in detail the...
G.E. Moore's work shaped twentieth century ethics. But while his metaethical doctrines have seen decades of debate, little attention has been...
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Quantum Structures and the Nature of Reality: The Indigo Book of `Einstein Meets Magritte'
ISBN: 9789048152438 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quantum Structures and the Nature of Reality is a collection of papers written for an interdisciplinary audience about the quantum structure research within the International Quantum Structures Association. The advent of quantum mechanics has changed our scientific worldview in a fundamental way. Many popular and semi-popular books have been published about the paradoxical aspects of quantum mechanics. Usually, however, these reflections find their origin in the standard views on quantum mechanics, most of all the wave-particle duality picture. Contrary to relativity theory, where...
Quantum Structures and the Nature of Reality is a collection of papers written for an interdisciplinary audience about the quantum structure ...
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Art, Education, and the Democratic Commitment: A Defense of State Support for the Arts
ISBN: 9789048154500 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In reflecting on this book and the process of writing it, the most pervasive theme I find is that of confluence. I drew much of the energy needed to write the book from the energy that resides at the confluence, or nexus, of contrasting ideas. At the most general level, the topic of arts subsidy offered a means of exploring simultaneously two of my favorite philosophical subjects-aesthetics and politics. The risk of a dual focus is of course that you do neither topic justice. However, the bigger payoff of this strategy resides in finding new and interesting connections between two otherwise...
In reflecting on this book and the process of writing it, the most pervasive theme I find is that of confluence. I drew much of the energy needed to w...
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The AIDS Crisis and the Modern Self: Biographical Self-Construction in the Awareness of Finitude
ISBN: 9789048154845 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. Receiving the diagnosis typically led to a dramatic biographical disruption.
This highly original book turns this basic feature of life with HIV into the vantage point for a fascinating analysis of Western subjectivity. Combining a host of empirical observations with the debate on the modern self, the author argues that the self-construction of people with HIV... In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is now increasingly perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available...
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Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change: An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ISBN: 9789048155880 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. Science-policy interaction is, however, complex and difficult, particularly because it is an encounter between two distinct systems of behaviour: the scientific ideal of impartiality and disinterestedness and the political reality of interest realisation and strategic behaviour. This study analyses the extent to which and how the institutional framework within which the science-policy dialogue takes place - through conscious design - can be utilised as an instrument...
Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. Science-policy interaction is, however,...
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Frontiers in Belief Revision
ISBN: 9789048157204 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frontiers in Belief Revision is a unique collection of leading edge research in Belief Revision. It contains the latest innovative ideas of highly respected and pioneering experts in the area, including Isaac Levi, Krister Segerberg, Sven Ove Hansson, Didier Dubois, and Henri Prade. The book addresses foundational issues of inductive reasoning and minimal change, generalizations of the standard belief revision theories, strategies for iterated revisions, probabilistic beliefs, multiagent environments and a variety of data structures and mechanisms for implementations. This book is...
Frontiers in Belief Revision is a unique collection of leading edge research in Belief Revision. It contains the latest innovative ideas of h...
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The Explanatory Power of Models: Bridging the Gap Between Empirical and Theoretical Research in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9789048161225 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empirical research often lacks theory. This book progressively works out a method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences. This might improve the explanatory power of models. The issue is quite novel, and it benefited from a thorough examination of statistical and mathematical models, conceptual models, diagrams and maps, machines, computer simulations, and artificial neural networks. These modelling practices have been approached through different disciplines. The proposed method is partly inspired by... Empirical research often lacks theory. This book progressively works out a method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical... |
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The Ethics of Managed Care: Professional Integrity and Patient Rights
ISBN: 9789048161850 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for stockholders, not necessarily medical care for clients. Cost-effective medicine was the goal in the context of a profit-making enterprise. Although preventive health care programs were promised, very few were realized and they were not nearly comprehensive. The definition of unnecessary testing slowly expanded to mean virtually any high-cost test requiring the service of a medical specialist, and low priced generalist physicians with limited diagnostic and therapeutic skills were made available to patients...
in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for stockholders, not necessarily medical care for clients. Cost-effe...
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The Paradoxes of Action: (Human Action, Law and Philosophy)
ISBN: 9789048164431 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the combined effects of certain natural facts (connected with the passage of time), institutional acts (performed at various points within the university system) and bonds offriendship (forged over quite a number ofyears ofacademic life), I have lately become an occasional writer of forewords. It is certainly not a kind of work that dis pleases me; but it would be too much to say that I have learned to do it with ease. Quite to the contrary Writing a foreword is, it seems to me, an example ofa rather complex action (al though, of course, much less complex than writing the book it...
Through the combined effects of certain natural facts (connected with the passage of time), institutional acts (performed at various points within the...
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Quantifiers, Questions and Quantum Physics: Essays on the Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka
ISBN: 9789048168156 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significant contributions to virtually all areas of the discipline, from epistemology and the philosophy of logic to the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science. Part of the fruitfulness of Hintikka's work is due to its opening important new lines of investigation and new approaches to traditional philosophical problems. This volume gathers together essays from some of Hintikka's colleagues and former students exploring his influence on their work and pursuing some of the insights that we...
Jaakko Hintikka is one of the most creative figures in contemporary philosophy. He has made significant contributions to virtually all areas of the di...
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Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Part Four of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congr
ISBN: 9789048183517 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, and was sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada and the University of Western Ontario. As those associated closely with the work of the Division over the years know well, the work undertaken by its members varies greatly and spans a number of...
The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 Aug...
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The Politics of Mathematics Education
ISBN: 9789048184309 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of knowledge is never easy. One doesn t want to go over old ground again, but yet one needs to establish the new in the context of the old. One is also anxious about the novelty of the ideas are they new enough, or are they too way out to be acceptable? In some fields perhaps these criteria are less important than in others. In education, I sense that novelty is a tricky criterion, varying in value from society to society. In some societies the new ideas have to justify their adoption in the face to the old, tried and tested ideas. (Better the devil you know than the devil you...
The development of knowledge is never easy. One doesn t want to go over old ground again, but yet one needs to establish the new in the context of the...
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A New Foundation for Representation in Cognitive and Brain Science: Category Theory and the Hippocampus
ISBN: 9789400777378 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of the book is to advance in the understanding of brain function by defining a general framework for representation based on category theory. The idea is to bring this mathematical formalism into the domain of neural representation of physical spaces, setting the basis for a theory of mental representation, able to relate empirical findings, uniting them into a sound theoretical corpus. The innovative approach presented in the book provides a horizon of interdisciplinary collaboration that aims to set up a common agenda that synthesizes mathematical formalization and... The purpose of the book is to advance in the understanding of brain function by defining a general framework for representation based on category t... |
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International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia Between Britain and America
ISBN: 9789401056861 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early - though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appointments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of...
The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early - though not always...
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Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 10-15
ISBN: 9780842527804 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moses Maimonides is among the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism and the author of enduring works on philosophy, law, and medicine. "Medical Aphorisms" is the best known and most comprehensive of his works, and Gerrit Bos offers here a masterly English translation with detailed annotations. "" "Medical Aphorisms" consists of approximately 1,500 maxims compiled by Maimonides from the treatises of Galen, the ancient Greek physician. Maimonides arranges the aphorisms into twenty-five treatises, organizing them by traditional medieval subspecialties such as gynecology,... Moses Maimonides is among the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism and the author of enduring works on philosophy, law, and medicine. "... |
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Atlas der Weltbilder
ISBN: 9783050045214 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 479 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praktiken visueller Welterzeugung in Form von Weltbildern lassen sich bereits in der Antike beobachten und haben sich bis heute als Mittel zur Konstruktion von Ordnungsvorstellungen bewahrt. Seit jeher steht der begrifflichen Ordnung der Welt eine modellhaft anschauliche Ordnung gegenuber. Die grundlegende Bedeutung, die Anschaulichkeit fur unser Verstandnis von der Welt spielt und die die vielfaltigsten Weltbilder hervorgebracht hat, ist jedoch mehr als eine blosse Wiederholung des Sehens. Die Bildwelten der Weltbilder geben uns nicht nur ein anschauliches Bild von der Welt und vom Kosmos....
Praktiken visueller Welterzeugung in Form von Weltbildern lassen sich bereits in der Antike beobachten und haben sich bis heute als Mittel zur Konstru...
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Alexander Von Humboldt Und Russland: Eine Spurensuche
ISBN: 9783050046341 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In diesem Band werden die Ergebnisse der sechs Expeditionen (1994-2009) entlang der Route, die Humboldt auf seiner russisch-sibirischen Reise 1829 zurucklegte, zusammengefasst. Es wurden nahezu alle wichtigen Reisewege Humboldts im Ural und seinem Umland nachvollzogen mit dem Ziel, seine Russlandreise aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu erforschen und mit den gegenwartigen Verhaltnissen in Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur zu vergleichen. "In diesem Band werden die Ergebnisse der sechs Expeditionen (1994-2009) entlang der Route, die Humboldt auf seiner russisch-sibirischen Reise 1829 ... |
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Autoren Und Redaktoren ALS Editoren: Internationale Fachtagung Der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Für Germanistische Edition Und Des Sonderforschungsbereiches 482 'Ereignis Weimar-Jena: Kultur Um 1800' Der Fried
ISBN: 9783484295292 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Band enthaauml;lt Vortrage, die auf der 11. internationalen Fachtagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuuuml;r germanistische Edition vom 22. bis 25. Februar 2006 in Weimar gehalten worden sind. Das thematische Spektrum des Bandes ist denkbar weit, sodass er sowohl fur Germanisten als auch fur Musikwissenschaftler und Philosophiehistoriker von Interesse ist. Eroouml;rtert werden spezielle Probleme anhand laufender Editionsprojekte wie auch Modelle von Editionen, die sich erst in der Vorbereitung befinden. Zugleich werden theoretische Aspekte des Rahmenthemas zur Diskussion gestellt, sodass der...
Der Band enthaauml;lt Vortrage, die auf der 11. internationalen Fachtagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuuuml;r germanistische Edition vom 22. bis 25. Feb...
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