Bioethics' rise, decline, and fall.BernardJoseph Ficarra -2002 - Lanham: University Press of America.detailsWith the rapid rise in bioengineering, bio-technology, bio-scientific economics, research commercialism, and the unraveling of genetic mysteries, many clinical and laboratory situations arise that bring bio-ethical urgencies to the forefront. Based on the author's years of teaching and private and hospital practice, Bioethics' Rise, Decline, and Fall offers guiding conclusions to today's medical quandaries.
... The establishment of the university of being in the doctrine of Meister Eckhart of Hochheim.BernardJoseph Muller-Thym -1939 - London,: Pub. for the Institute of medieval studies by Sheed & Ward.detailsThis is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Les dilemmes de la metaphysique pure.CharlesBernardJoseph Renouvier -1927 - Paris,: CreateSpace.details"Les Dilemmes de la métaphysique pure" de Charles Renouvier. Philosophe français (1815-1903).
An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine.ClaudeBernard,Henry Copley Greene &LawrenceJoseph Henderson -1957 - Courier Corporation.detailsThe basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; more.
Baudelaire: Individualism,, dandyism and the philosophy of history.Bernard Howells -1996 - Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre.detailsBernard Howells explores the problematics surrounding individualism and history in a number of prose texts, and situates Baudelaire within the broader contexts of nineteenth century historical, cultural and artistic speculation, represented by Emerson, Carlyle,Joseph de Maistre, Guiseppe Ferrari and Eugene Chreveul. This major new work will be of interest not only to Baudelaire specialists, but also to scholars working in any area of nineteenth-century French studies.".
Joseph Ibn Waqār and the treatment of retrograde motion in the middle ages.Bernard R. Goldstein &José Chabás -2023 -Archive for History of Exact Sciences 77 (2):175-199.detailsIn this article, we report the discovery of a new type of astronomical almanac byJoseph Ibn Waqār (Córdoba, fourteenth century) that begins at second station for each of the planets and may have been intended to serve as a template for planetary positions beginning at any dated second station. For background, we discuss the Ptolemaic tradition of treating stations and retrograde motions as well as two tables in Arabic zijes for the anomalistic cycles of the planets in which (...) the planets stay at first and second stations for a period of time (in contrast to the Ptolemaic tradition). Finally, we consider some medieval astrological texts where stations or retrograde motions are invoked. (shrink)
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Personal Identity, Projects, and Morality inBernard Williams' Earlier Writings.Joseph Okumu -2007 -Ethical Perspectives 14 (1):13-27.detailsThis paper probes any possible relation betweenBernard Williams’ writings on personal identity and his positive views on morality. Williams is silent about such a relation.However, one can be established. Focussing mainly on his earlier writings, this paper reveals a thread weaving together Williams’ views on personal identity, projects, and morality. Moral philosophy may only concern itself with a finite, embodied, historically-placed, or empirically-compelled agent.This paper traces Williams’ journey into the world of morality from his reflections on the self (...) or personal identity, assuming that his positive views on morality are ultimately traceable to his notion of personal identity. (shrink)
The Practice of Virtue.Joseph Raz -2005 - New York: Oxford University Press UK. Edited by Christine M. Korsgaard, Robert B. Pippin, Bernard Williams & R. Jay Wallace.detailsThe Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which honor the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and Great Britain. They were established at the University of California, Berkeley, beginning in the 2000/1 academic year. The Berkeley Tanner Lectures Series has been established in the belief that these distinguished lectures, together with the lively debates stimulated by their presentation in Berkeley, deserve to be made available to a wider (...) audience. The Practice of Value is an exploration of a pervasive but puzzling aspect of our world: value. At the core of the book are the Tanner Lectures delivered at Berkeley in 2001 byJoseph Raz, who has been one of the leading figures in moral and legal philosophy since the 1970s. His aim is to make sense of the dependence of value on social practice, without falling back on cultural relativism. In response, three eminent philosophers, Christine Korsgaard, Robert Pippin, andBernard Williams, offer interestingly different approaches to the subject. The book begins with an introduction by Jay Wallace, setting the scene for what follows, and ends with a response from Raz to his commentators. The result is a fascinating debate, accessible to readers throughout and beyond philosophy, about the relations between human values and human life. (shrink)
Normative realism, orBernard Williams and ethics at the limit.Joseph Mendola -1989 -Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67 (3):306 – 318.detailsRecent arguments for normative realism have centered on attempts to meet a demand on normative facts articulated by harman, That they be required for explanations of uncontroversial phenomena. This paper argues that another argument for normative realism should take precedence, An argument suggested by williams's skeptical discussion of moral objectivity in "ethics and the limits of philosophy".
Double effect, all over again: The case of Sister Margaret McBride.Bernard G. Prusak -2011 -Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 32 (4):271-283.detailsAs media reports have made widely known, in November 2009, the ethics committee of St.Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, permitted the abortion of an eleven-week-old fetus in order to save the life of its mother. This woman was suffering from acute pulmonary hypertension, which her doctors judged would prove fatal for both her and her previable child. The ethics committee believed abortion to be permitted in this case under the so-called principle of double effect, but Thomas J. Olmsted, (...) the bishop of Phoenix, disagreed with the committee and pronounced its chair, Sister Margaret McBride, excommunicated latae sententiae, “by the very commission of the act.” In this article, I take the much discussed Phoenix case as an occasion to subject the principle of double effect to another round of philosophical scrutiny. In particular, I examine the third condition of the principle in its textbook formulation, namely, that the evil effect in question may not be the means to the good effect. My argument, in brief, is that the textbook formulation of the principle does not withstand philosophical scrutiny. Nevertheless, in the end, I do not claim that we should then “do away” with the principle altogether. Instead, we do well to understand it within the context of casuistry, the tradition of moral reasoning from which it issued. (shrink)
Artificial Intelligence and Human Reason: A Teleological Critique.Joseph F. Rychlak -1991 - Columbia University Press.detailsThe author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. Readers will recognize names like Michael Cunningham, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours inspired the hit movie; and others like Christopher Bram,Bernard Cooper, Stephen McCauley, and Matthew Stadler. These accounts explore the (...) vicissitudes of writing on gay male themes in fiction over the last thirty years--prejudices of the literary marketplace; social and political questions; the impact of AIDS; commonalities between gay male and lesbian fiction... and even some delectable bits of gossip. (shrink)
Practice of Value.Joseph Raz -2003 - New York: Oxford University Press UK. Edited by Christine M. Korsgaard, Robert B. Pippin, Bernard Williams & R. Jay Wallace.detailsThe Tanner Lectures on Human Values, which are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and England, are among the most prestigious and notable events of the academic year. This volume inaugurates a new interdisciplinary series of books based on the Tanner Lectures given at the University of California, Berkeley. The series aims to make these distinguished lectures, and the lively debates stimulated by their presentation in Berkeley, available to a broad readership.The Practice of Value explores (...) the nature of value and its relation to the social and historical conditions under which human agents live. At the core of the book are the Tanner Lectures delivered at Berkeley in 2001 byJoseph Raz, who has been one of the leading figures in moral and legal philosophy since the 1970s. Raz argues that values depend importantly on social practices, but that we can make sense of this dependence without falling back on cultural relativism. In response, three eminent philosophers, Christine Korsgaard, Robert Pippin, andBernard Williams, offer their own distinctive reflections on the connections between value and practice. The book begins with an introduction by Jay Wallace, setting the scene for what follows, and ends with a response from Raz to his commentators. The result is a fascinating debate, accessible to readers throughout and beyond philosophy, about the relations between human values and human life. (shrink)
Self-Experience Despite Self-Elusiveness.Joseph Gottlieb -2022 -Review of Philosophy and Psychology 14 (4):1491-1504.detailsThe thesis of self-elusiveness says, roughly, that the self fails to be phenomenally manifest from the first-person perspective. This thesis has a long history. Yet many who endorse it do so only in a very specific sense. They say that the self fails to be phenomenally manifest as an object from the first-person perspective; they say that self-experience is not a species of ‘object-consciousness’. Yet if consciousness outstrips object-consciousness, then we are left with the possibility that there is another sense (...) in which the self is phenomenally manifest. Alas, efforts to articulate just what this form of self-experience comes to—often a holy grail of sorts for those in, and influenced by, the phenomenological tradition—have remained stubbornly obscure. This essay attempts a partial remedy. Taking a cue fromBernard Lonergan, I suggest that self-experience, while not a species of object-consciousness, is nonetheless partially grounded in it. The result is a view that is compatible with self-experience being representational and relational, contra tradition. (shrink)
A Philosophy of Human Hope. [REVIEW]Bernard P. Dauenhauer -1989 -Review of Metaphysics 42 (4):831-832.detailsJoseph Godfrey's A Philosophy of Human Hope is excellent. It is clearly written, thorough, and, in large measure, convincing.