Paradoxes and Inconsistent MathematicsWeber, Zach,Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. xii + 324, AUD$141.95 (hardback). [REVIEW]ChristianAlafaci -2024 -Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102 (1):239-239.detailsDialethism is the view that there are sentences that are both true and false. Paraconsistent logics are those denying the principle of explosion (that is, they do not licence arbitrary conclusions...
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Le transhumanisme: la technoscience au service des puissants.Christian Araud -2019 - Paris: Éditions Libre & solidaire.detailsCertains individus très hautement placés dans l'échelle sociale se désignent volontiers comme transhumanistes. On les trouve souvent à la tête de grandes sociétés à la pointe de la pointe de la technologie. Cette super-élite, immensément riche, promeut le mythe de l'explosion technologique, avec une reprise fantastique de la croissance économique. Elle ne s'inquiète guère de tous les avertissements catastrophistes, car toutes les menaces seront annihilées par la Techno-Science! Pour faire partager cette vue radieuse à ceux qui en sont naturellement les (...) premières victimes, les puissants ont trouvé quelques philosophes savants qui ont construit le mythe du transhumanisme : édifice, séduisant et fascinant, mais véritable imposture. (shrink)
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The Voice of Dissidence.Christian Tyler -unknowndetailsThis Savonarola of our century can fill a hall at the drop of a leaflet. But where the inflammatory friar of Florence was silenced by hanging and roasting at the stake, Chomsky's punishment is to be consigned to media oblivion in his own land.
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From Preaching to Behavioral Change: Fostering Ethics and Compliance Learning in the Workplace.Christian Hauser -2020 -Journal of Business Ethics 162 (4):835-855.detailsDespite the increasing inclusion of ethics and compliance issues in corporate training, the business world remains rife with breaches of responsible management conduct. This situation indicates a knowledge–practice gap among professionals, i.e., a discrepancy between their knowledge of responsible management principles and their behavior in day-to-day business life. With this in mind, this paper addresses the formative, developmental question of how companies’ ethics and compliance training programs should be organized in a manner that enhances their potential to be effective. Drawing (...) on both the qualitative analysis of existing ethics and compliance training and the conceptual literature on behavioral ethics, a framework is proposed that consecutively aligns various types of training into a comprehensive ethics and compliance training program. The strengths and limitations of the suggested framework are discussed. (shrink)
A Passport Photo of Two: On an Allusion in the Pictures of Wittgenstein and von Wright in Cambridge.Christian Eric Erbacher &Bernt Österman -2014 -Nordic Wittgenstein Review 3 (1):139-149.detailsThe article draws a connection between three items preserved at the von Wright and Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Helsinki (WWA), namely a book by Wilhelm Busch and two copies of the photos of von Wright and Wittgenstein in Cambridge taken by Knut Erik Tranøy in 1950, by suggesting that the photos contain an allusion by Wittgenstein.
Wittgenstein's Heirs and Editors.Christian Erbacher -2020 - Cambridge University Press.detailsLudwig Wittgenstein is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century. But the books in which his philosophy was published – with the exception of his early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – were posthumously edited from the writings he left to posterity. How did his 20,000 pages of philosophical writing become published volumes? Using extensive archival material, this Element reconstructs and examines the way in which Wittgenstein's writings were edited over more than fifty years, and shows how the (...) published volumes tell a thrilling story of philosophical inheritance. The discussion ranges over the conflicts between the editors, their deviations from Wittgenstein's manuscripts, other scholarly issues which arose, and also the shared philosophical tradition of the editors, which animated their desire to be faithful to Wittgenstein and to make his writings both available and accessible. The Element can thus be read as a companion to all of Wittgenstein's published works of philosophy. (shrink)
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Ancient and Modern Ethics Combined.Christian J. Feldbacher -2010 -Athens Dialogues E-Journal 1 (1).detailsOne challenge of societies in the 21st century is the conflict of norms between different cultures. In Ancient Greece, too, such conflicts arose, and great thinkers offered great solutions. In this contribution we will argue for the following: - Ancient ethical theories were not only individual ethical theories but also social ethical theories (II). - The ancient methods of scientific examinations are useful not only in classical sciences but also in ethics (III). - Accepting the result of (III) yields highly (...) interesting theoretical results about conflicts of norms between different cultures (IV). (shrink)
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Applying the Notion of Sustainability – Dilemmas and the Need for Dialogue.Christian Gamborg &Peter Sandøe -2005 - In Christian Gamborg & Peter Sandøe,Ethics, Law and Society. Routledge.detailsThis paper revisits the strained yet ubiquitous notion of sustainability to see where and how it can make a contribution to improved agricultural and natural resource management and policy making. The case of a three-year EU network on farm animal breeding and reproduction is used as a practical illustration. In this network, commercial breeders and breeding scientists were required, with professional assistance from philosophers and social scientists, to develop a definition of sustainable farm animal breeding. The word ‘sustainability’ does not (...) define a unique ethical perspective. At best it indicates a willingness to open an ethical agenda. However if the agenda is not specified in some detail, there is a real danger that necessary ethical discussion will be swept under the carpet. Even worse, the word may be used as a fig leaf in an attempt to legitimise projects which are ethically dubious. Used conscientiously, the framework of sustainability has two benefits: First, it invites parties involved in the planning of future activities in a company or sector to take a comprehensive look at potentially conflicting concerns and to face any difficult trade-offs. Second, it encourages concerns to be presented within a framework that is endorsed by society as a whole, and this enables the stakeholders to make room for communication to, and dialogue with, a broader audience than the rather narrow group of people directly involved. Adapting the definition of sustainability to specific conditions and circumstances is more than a technical or scientific task. It requires us to address carefully underlying questions about values. The fundamental dilemmas that emerge when the notion of sustainability is considered have no easy solutions, but they can be addressed by taking into account four key characteristics of sustainability discussed in this paper. (shrink)
Qu'est-il arrivé à la beauté?Christian Godin -2019 - Paris IIe: Éditions Kimé.detailsLa beauté, comme question et comme valeur, a été au centre de la culture occidentale depuis les Grecs jusqu'à l'aube du XXe siècle, en passant par le christianisme et l'âge classique. Elle occupe également il n e place centrale dans les civilisations orientales et arabo-musulmanes. Cet essai, qui contient une dimension historique et sociologique autant que philosophique, a été rédigé avec l'intention d'être lu et compris par le plus grand nombre. La question traitée intéresse en effet tous les gens de (...) bonne volonté, et pas seulement une élite cultivée. Comment, en effet, concevoir sans la beauté un monde véritablement humain, accueillant au plaisir, à la joie et au bonheur? Il semble que, depuis un siècle, cette centralité ait été perdue, les arts, qui l'exaltaient, ont joué à cet égard un rôle pionnier en cultivant des valeurs comme celles d'originalité, d'expressivité, d'étrangeté ou d'authenticité, qui peuvent jouer directement contre la beauté."--Page 4 of cover. (shrink)
Kant über Schönheit und Zweckmäßigkeit in der Mathematik.Christian Wenzel -2018 -Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society 26:281-284.detailsKann Mathematik schön sein? Gibt es Leben in der Mathematik? In der Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790) untersucht Kant Prinzipien der Zweckmäßigkeit, eine subjektive Zweckmäßigkeit für die Ästhetik und eine objektive Zweckmäßigkeit für die Teleologie. Die Mathematik aber fällt bezüglich beider durch. Mathematische Gegenstände und Eigenschaften können nach Kant nicht schön sein und bei Erklärungen müssen wir keine Vorstellung von einem Zweck voraussetzen, denn wir können die Gegenstände konstruieren, meint Kant. Jedoch räumt er ein, mathematische „Demonstrationen“ könnten schön sein. Dies hängt (...) mit seiner Unterscheidung von Anschauung und Begriff zusammen. Ich werde diesbezüglich einige seiner Ausführungen darstellen und problematisieren. (shrink)
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Ethik und Technik: Grundfragen, Meinungen, Kontroversen.Christian Walther -1992 - New York: W. de Gruyter.detailsKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Ethik und Technik" verfügbar.
Sturm's mechanist account of plant life.Christian Henkel -forthcoming -Nuncius.detailsIn this article, I investigate Johann Christoph Sturm’s (1635–1703) mechanist account of plant life. The problem of life is one of the touchstones of any early modern mechanist philosophy. Plant life, in turn, constitutes the most rudimentary form of life. Sturm’s account is functionalist: plants perform the life-function: nutrition, growth, self-preservation, and generation. Sturm makes clear that what his Aristotelian predecessors called the ‘vegetative soul’ must be reduced to (1) the possession of an organic body (i.e., a higher-order structure of (...) matter and its modifications) and (2) the extrinsic kinetic heat of the sun. In contrast to mechanists like Descartes, Sturm accepts teleology. He deals with the origin and transfer of motion on occasionalist grounds. For Sturm, all processes associated with the life of plants can be accounted for mechanically—all but the ultimate origin of the first plant’s seed, for which Sturm relies on the theory of pre-existence. (shrink)
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