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- Meritocracy in the Political and Economic Spheres.Benjamin Sachs-Cobbe &Alexander Douglas -2024 -Philosophy Compass 19 (1):e12955.The idea that our economic institutions should be designed meritocratically is back as a hot topic in western academic circles. At the same time political meritocracy is once again a subject of philosophical discussion, with some Western philosophers embracing epistocracy and Confucianism being revived among Eastern philosophers. This survey has the ambition, first, of putting differing strands of this literature into dialogue with each other: the economic with the political, and the Western with the Eastern. Second, we seek here to (...) impose order on the debates over meritocracy by carefully separating out the four steps that must be traversed on the journey to a meritocratic conclusion. Third we want to promote a more productive debate moving forward by cleanly pulling apart three kinds of purported merit base. (shrink)No categories
- Recolonization of bigleaf maple branches by epiphytic bryophytes following experimental disturbance.AlexanderCobb,Nalini Nadkarni,Grant Ramsey &Abraham Svoboda -2001 -Canadian Journal of Botany 79 (1):1-8.The dynamics of epiphytic bryophyte communities following natural and human disturbance have rarely been quantified. We describe the response of bryophyte communities on bigleaf maple trees in Olympia, Washington, following their experimental removal. Approximately 8% of the exposed area was recolonized by bryophytes 1 year after clearing, and 27% after 3 years. Lateral encroachment from bryophytes on the sides of the 20-cm-long plots accounted for 75% of this recolonization, with growth from residual plant parts or aerially dispersed diaspores accounting for (...) the remaining 25%. Though it was not possible to distinguish between the latter two sources of cover, the number of clear de novo colonization events over the course of the year was low. Disturbance appeared to reduce bryophyte diversity at this successional stage, as alpha and gamma diversity remained low after 1 year and had not recovered after 3 years. Reflecting the preponderance of lateral encroachment as the mechanism for recolonization, disturbance size may significantly affect the time needed to recolonize disturbed branch substrates. In addition to contributing to ecologists' understanding of processes of succession, these experiments may help to develop sustainable practices for moss-harvesting in the Pacific Northwest.Key words: succession, bryophytes, epiphytes, Acer macrophyllum, recolonization, canopy studies. (shrink)No categories
- (1 other version)The tradition of Scottish philosophy: a new perspective on the Enlightenment.Alexander Broadie -1990 - Savage, Md.: Barnes & Noble.Introduction The chief aim of this book is to give an account of two great periods in the history of Scottish culture. One is, inevitably, that of the ...
- Aristotelian Forms and Laws of Nature.Alexander Pruss -2013 -Analiza I Egzystencja 24:115-132.
- Linguistic Semiosis and Human Cognition.Alexander V. Kravchenko -2020 -Constructivist Foundations 15 (3):285-287.Counter to the traditional semiotic view of language as an object used in an instrumental function, linguistic semiosis is seen as constitutive of human cognition, accounting for sapience as the ….
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte und die Zukunft der Nation.Alexander Abusch -1962 - Berlin,: Aufbau-Verlag.Export citation
Bookmark - Lex mundi.Alexander Vincent -1892 - Littleton, Colo.: F.B. Rothman.The author opens with a general discussion of religion & the beginnings of Law. Each subsequent chapter discusses topics such as: Origin of Laws, Inherited Education, Rulers & Leaders, Evolution, Tyranny, Taxation, & many others. A very readable text, which invokes additional thought on a variety of topics.
- Ideal and Culture of Knowledge in Plato.Alexander Becker -2003 - Franz Steiner Verlag.Thirteen English-language papers, the proceedings of a conference held in Frankfurt in 2000, examine the culture of knowledge that surrounded Plato, contrasting it with Plato's idealised theory of knowledge. These specialised and annotated papers closely examine a number of Platonic texts including the Republic, Symposium and Gorgias. Extracts are in English translation.
- Arthur feiler and German liberalism.Alexander Böker -forthcoming -Social Research: An International Quarterly.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- The nature of medieval Jewish philosophy.Alexander Broadie -1997 - In Daniel H. Frank & Oliver Leaman,History of Jewish Philosophy. New York: Routledge. pp. 2--83.
- The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Transition from Learned Society to Totalitarian Academy (1944–1949).Alexander Vavrek -1998 -Science & Education 7 (3):301-306.
- Planetary Health Bioethics.Alexander Waller &Darryl Macer (eds.) -2023No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Comment choisir ce qui aura été? Réflexions sur l’optimisme prométhéen contemporain.Alexander Wilson -unknownMany have invoked the nihilism that is endemic of the age we call the anthropocene. Bernard Stiegler has articulated this sentiment by highlighting how anthropocene films are typically nihi listic, for example, Von Trier’s Melancholia. But if the age is characterized by a cultural pessi mism about the future of human kind, or again about its posthuman supersession, there is also a complementary symptom that corresponds to a strange optimism before the impasses of our age. This optimism, we find it (...) represented in another anthropocene film: Nolan’s Interstellar. This too is a film where the protagonists are faced with a world lacking a future, a world dying under the stresses caused by the human’s exploitation of nature. Here, instead of the mantra ‘Enjoy it while it lasts’, an opposing moral is repeated: ‘Don’t go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.’ In the film, Thomas’ poem is a tribute to prometheanism; the death of the earth will not mean the end of human life, it declares, the human will surpass all the limits of its ecosystem, the constraints of space time itself, and become pure hyperdimensional intelligence. The film echoes the superstitious optimism in the promise of technology we now find at the heart of contemporary movements such as accelerationism. This paper assesses the validity of this intrumentalization of optimism, drawing from Leibniz’s concept of compossibility and the cosmological anthropic principle. (shrink)No categories
- Origin and destiny of the moral species.Alexander Wilf -1969 - South Brunswick [N.J.]: A. S. Barnes.
- Encounters with Alphonso Lingis.Alexander E. Hooke &Wolfgang W. Fuchs (eds.) -2003 - Lexington Books.Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. The distinguished contributors to this volume address most of the central themes found in Lingis's writings—including singularity and otherness, death and eroticism, emotions and rationality, embodiment and the face, excess and the sacred. The book closes with a new essay by Lingis himself.
- Narrative structure and cultural significance in the novels of Ramon Llull.Alexander W. Ibarz -2018 - In Amy M. Austin & Mark David Johnston,A Companion to Ramon Llull and Llullism. Boston: BRILL.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Logic Programming and Interactive Applications.Alexander Šimko &Jozef Šiška -2013 -Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 20 (2):187-205.
- Eros Toward the World: Paul Tillich and the Theology of the Erotic.Alexander C. Irwin -1991No categories
- The Philosophers' Ship.Alexander Razin &Tatiana Sidorina -2001 -Philosophy Now 31:34-38.No categories
- Uncertainty as a Challenge for Leadership.Alexander J. Wulf -2015 -Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 24 (1):80-93.Export citation Bookmark
- Einmischung als Lebensprinzip: Bertrand Russell und die politische Bildung.Alexander Falk -2011 - Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.Diese Arbeit stellt Bertrand Russell als politischen Menschen vor und untersucht Erschließungspotentiale für die politische Bildung von heute. Hierbei sind Leitfragen von Bedeutung, wie: Welche Ereignisse bedingten Russells Lebensweg, wie kam er zu seinen politischen Ansichten und seinem Engagement? Wie lässt sich seine politische Philosophie verorten und systematisieren? Wie sieht seine pädagogische Konzeption aus und wie steht diese im Zusammenhang mit seinen politischen Überzeugungen? Wie ist Russells Wirkungsgeschichte zu beurteilen? Inwiefern eröffnen sich mit der Person Russell, seinen Schriften und mit (...) seinem politischen Handeln Erschließungschancen für politische Bildung? Inwieweit kann Russell als Vorbild für einen politischen Aktivbürger dienen? (shrink)
- Der abbau des "unendlich".Alexander Moszkowski -1925 - Berlin,: C. Heymannn.Export citation Bookmark
- Einstein, the searcher.Alexander Moszkowski -1921 - London,: Methuen & Co.. Edited by Henry L. Brose.
- Political geography.Alexander B. Murphy -2001 - In Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes,International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier.Export citation Bookmark
- It's all about Sex. The Peculiar Case of Technology and Gender.Alexander Darius Ornella -2013 -Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane 42 (1-3):183-213.
- Lying and speaking your interlocutor's language.Alexander R. Pruss -1999 -The Thomist 63 (3):439-453.Export citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Models of Moral Activity.Alexander Razin -2006 -Philosophy Now 54:16-17.
- (1 other version)De naturae natura: a study of idealistic conceptions of nature and the unconscious.Alexander Jacob -1992 - Stuttgart: F. Steiner.The sections on Schelling, Eschenmayer, and Schopenhauer in Chapters VI and IX appear in the 1992 Schopenhauer Jahrbuch as “From the World-Soul to the Will: The natural philosophy of Schelling, Eschenmayer, and Schopenhauer”.
- Sergei Prozorov, The Ethics of Postcommunism: History and Social Praxis in Russia.Alexander Astrov -2010 -Radical Philosophy 159:61.Export citation Bookmark
- Noëls materielle Kritik.Alexander Koyré -1922 -Jahrbuch für Philosophie Und Phänomenologische Forschung 5:608.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- From “Observer” to “Observers”: The Multiplicity of Constructed Realities.Alexander V. Kravchenko -2020 -Constructivist Foundations 16 (1):090-091.Since an observer arises in the experiential domain of languaging, and because everything said is said by an observer, it would be misleading to refer to a single reality constructed in language. ….
- From pragmatism to somaesthetics as philosophy.Alexander Kremer -2022 - In Jerold J. Abrams,Shusterman’s Somaesthetics: From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art. Boston: BRILL.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Pragmatist Perspectives on Science and Technology and Contemporary Dewey Studies.Alexander Kremer &Philipp Dorstewitz -2016 -Pragmatism Today 5 (9):5-10.No categories
- Economic Aspects of Industrial Dispersal.Alexander Melamid -forthcoming -Social Research: An International Quarterly.Export citation Bookmark
- Bare Functional Desire.Alexander Miller -unknownBut this changes nothing. The decisive claim is that in assessing the counterfactuals implicit in (A) we do not have to take sceptical worlds into the reckoning, whereas we must do that in assessing (B) because (B) explicitly speaks of them. Accept, provisionally, what is here said about (B) and focus on the claim about (A). Nobody should make it unless they are already in a position to assert that the actual world is not a sceptical world. And with that (...) we are back to the choice between impotence and redundancy. (shrink)
- Semiótica del ritual territorial contemporáneo en los aeropuertos/The Semiotics of Contemporary Territorial Ritual in Airports.Alexander Mosquera -2011 -Telos (Venezuela) 13 (2):160-174.Export citation Bookmark
- Bandwidth: how mathematics, physics, and chemistry constrain society.Alexander Scheeline -2023 - Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte..This book explains how limitations in the movement and perception of information constrain human behavior, cognition, interaction, and perspective. How fast can we learn? How much? Why are habits and biases unavoidable? Aspects considered include: how much information can one human absorb in a lifetime? How far does a process of perturbation propagate? How do specialization or generalization, critical thinking or belief, influence what people accomplish? It is aimed at general readers and scientists with an interest in how limitations of (...) the physical sciences affect society and human behavior. (shrink)No categories
- Die phänomenologische Metaphysik Marc Richirs.Alexander Schnell -2021 - Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann.No categories
- Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the Re-privatization of Labor (review).Alexander Means -2011 -Symploke 19 (1-2):383-385.
- What Does America Mean?Alexander Meiklejohn -1937 -Philosophical Review 46:102.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- What Does America Mean?Alexander Meikeljohn -1936 -The Monist 46:319.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Internalist and externalist aspects of justification in scientific inquiry.Kent Staley &AaronCobb -2011 -Synthese 182 (3):475-492.While epistemic justification is a central concern for both contemporary epistemology and philosophy of science, debates in contemporary epistemology about the nature of epistemic justification have not been discussed extensively by philosophers of science. As a step toward a coherent account of scientific justification that is informed by, and sheds light on, justificatory practices in the sciences, this paper examines one of these debates—the internalist-externalist debate—from the perspective of objective accounts of scientific evidence. In particular, we focus on Deborah Mayo’s (...) error-statistical theory of evidence because it is a paradigmatically objective theory of evidence that is strongly informed by methodological practice. We contend that from the standpoint of such an objective theory of evidence, justification in science has both externalist and internalist characteristics. In reaching this conclusion, however, we find that the terms of the contemporary debate between internalists and externalists have to be redefined to be applicable to scientific contexts. (shrink)
- A religious experience argument for the existence of a holy transcendent being.Alexander Pruss -manuscriptMuch of the discussion had focussed on the question of whether religious experiences are veridical, but then Richard M. Gale asked a more fundamental question: Are they even cognitive? An experience is cognitive if it takes an intentional accusative, such as “red cube” in “I see a red cube,” as opposed to the cognate accusative exemplified by the use of the word “waltz” in “I am dancing a waltz” which is synonymous with “I am dancing waltzily.” Cognitive experiences are objective (...) in the sense that they purport the existence of an object whose.. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- Is Non-Reductive Conceptual Analysis a Meta-Philosophical Problem for Theories of Causation?Alexander Reutlinger -2011 -Logique Et Analyse 54 (216).
- Causation and explanation in.Alexander Rosenberg -1986 -Behaviorism 14 (1):77-88.
- Individualism: An Essay on the Authority of the European Union.Alexander Somek -2008 - Oxford University Press.This book presents an original picture of the legitimacy underlying the European Union. Drawing on ancient and modern political philosophy, the book argues that the transnational regime is rooted in an individualist social and intellectual culture, and depends on an apolitical, isolated citizenship.
- What is the manifestation argument?Alexander Miller -2002 -Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83 (4):352–383.I consider the well known “manifestation challenge” to semantic realism propounded by Michael Dummett, and further developed by Crispin Wright and Bob Hale. I distinguish between strong and weak versions of the challenge, and show that anti–realists effectively concede that realism can meet the strong version. I then argue that the weak version is unmotivated. Building on work by John McDowell and Peter Strawson, and responding to criticisms from Wright, I argue further that the semantic realist can meet even the (...) weak version. It emerges, inter alia, that there are some serious ambiguities in the standard anti–realist characterisations of semantic realism. (shrink)
- Sympathy and the impartial spectator.Alexander Broadie -1996 - In Knud Haakonssen,The Cambridge companion to Adam Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Christian dialectic and the American dream.Alexander Schuller -2010 - In Jochen Bohn & Thomas Bohrmann,Religion als Lebensmacht: eine Festgabe für Gottfried Küenzlen. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- The Tarasoff Duty to Protect : Unintended Consequences and New Liability Concerns.Alexander C. Sones,William C. Darby &Robert Weinstock -2025 - In William Connor Darby & Robert Weinstock,Forensic neuropsychiatric ethics: balancing competing duties in and out of court. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing.Export citation Bookmark
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