Sonnenenergie.Jochen Diekmann,Alfred Gierer,Hans-Jürgen Krupp,KlausPinkau,Hans-Joachim Queisser,Fritz Peter Schäfer,Helmut Schaefer,Karl Stephan,Dieter Weiß &Horst Tobias Witt -1991 - de Gruyter.detailsThe book (in German) on “Solar Energy – challenge for research, development and international co-operation” is the report of a study group of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. It reviews solar thermal, photovoltaic, and bio mimetic solar energy techniques; prospects of de-central techniques in developing countries; transport and storage of solar energy; and chances for cooperation with Arabic countries and countries of the South of the former Soviet Union. The prospect of large scale energy production in arid areas, and (...) the modern potentials of conducting electricity over long distances by high-voltage DC transmission (V, 2.1) are particularly relevant for the concluding section. Political chances as well as risks were considered for reliable long term cooperation with various Arab countries on these issues. The recommendations appear to be still appropriate 25 years after the book was published, particularly the political advice in favour of cooperation between Europe and suitable countries of the Maghreb. The global time scale of implementation (discussed in chapter I, 7.2) is of the same (high) magnitude as that of other major changes in the history of technology, such as the substitution of sailing ships by steamboats which took almost a century. (shrink)
Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences.David Sander &Klaus Scherer (eds.) -2009 - Oxford University Press.detailsComprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and easy-to-use, The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences is an indispensable resource for all who wish to find out about theories, concepts, methods, and research findings in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field.
The Corporate Social Responsibility of The Pharmaceutical Industry.Klaus M. Leisinger -2005 -Business Ethics Quarterly 15 (4):577-594.detailsIn recent years society has come to expect more from the “socially-responsible” company and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in particular has resulted in some critics saying that the “Big Pharma” companies have not been living up to their social responsibilities. Corporate social responsibility can be understood as the socio-economic product of the organizational division of labor in complex modern society. Global poverty and poor health conditions are in the main the responsibilities of the world’s national governments and international governmental organizations, (...) which possess society’s mandate and appropriate organizational capabilities. Private enterprises have neither the societal mandate nor the organizational capabilities to feed the poor or provide health care to the sick intheir home countries or in the developing world. Nevertheless, private enterprises do have responsibilities to society that can be categorized as what they must do, what they ought do, and what they can do. (shrink)
Project lightspeed: A case study in research ethics and accelerated vaccine development.Klaus Leisinger &Doris Schroeder -2024 -Research Ethics 20 (4):847-856.detailsThe COVID-19 pathogen led to a fast expanding pandemic because it proved lethal in certain populations but could be transmitted by persons who appeared healthy. As a result, researchers came under unprecedented time pressure to develop a vaccine. This case study focuses on the first COVID-19 vaccine, which was approved for use in humans, known as Comirnaty, the BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine or Vaccine BNT162b2. With the benefit of hindsight, we show how close collaboration with regulators and trust-based decisions meant that (...) the race for a COVID-19 vaccine was won without purposefully infecting healthy participants with an infectious agent that can cause severe illness or death and for which no rescue therapy had existed. (shrink)
Freedom, authority and economics: essays on Michael Polanyi's politics and economics.R. T. Allen,Klaus R. Allerbeck,Viktor Geng,Tihamér Margitay,Richard W. Moodey,Carl Phillips Mullins,Endre Nagy &Simon Smith (eds.) -2016 - Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press.detailsThis edited volume of original contributions deals with the economic and political thought of Michael Polanyi. Requiring little prior knowledge of Polanyi, this volume further develops a somewhat neglected side of Polanyi's work. In particular it examines the 'tacit integration', of subsidiary details into focal objects or actions as central to all knowing and action. It traces ontological counterparts in the structures of comprehensive entities and complex actions, and a multi-level universe in which lower levels have their boundary conditions, the (...) extents to which they apply, determined by those of the next higher level, whilst each possessing its own laws or operative principles. This schema of 'dual control' preserves the reality and relative autonomy of each level, and its interactions with others, against the various reductions. The essays in this volume also employ and develop important additional concepts and distinctions such as: 'corporate' and 'spontaneous' order; 'public' and 'private' liberties; 'general' and 'specific authority'; and 'moral inversion'; which, as the essays show, are necessary for understanding and maintaining a free society and the freedom of institutions within it. Among the topics treated with them are: more of the prerequisites of freedom in public liberties dedicated to principles and transcendent values; totalitarianism and society as spontaneous order; the balance of general and specific authority in society and particular institutions; reductionism, totalitarianism and consumption in consumer societies, as moral inversions; the mutual interactions of economics and politics as distinct and autonomous but interacting levels; the sociological aspects of economics; and Polanyi's own contributions to sociology. Although, as indicated, Polanyi has his special terms, the essays in this volume, like his works, give them meaning with concrete examples and so avoid merely shuffling a mass of abstractions. Together the essays show that his work is a rich seam of ideas and inspiration for yet further extension and application--Publisher. (shrink)
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Rückkehr zur Utopie: Philosophische Szenarien.Klaus Kufeld -2021 - Verlag Karl Alber.details„Wenn die utopischen Oasen austrocknen, breitet sich eine Wüste von Banalität und Ratlosigkeit aus“, sagt Jürgen Habermas.Klaus Kufelds Vorträge und Schriften sind allesamt im Ton der denkbaren und erfüllbaren Utopien gehalten. Entstanden im Wirkungskreis des renommierten Ernst-Bloch-Zentrums sind seine breit aufgestellten utopischen Themen zeitlos zu lesen – und repräsentieren eine diagnostische Zeitkritik. Ergänzt wird der Band mit Streitgesprächen zu den Themen Utopie und Heimat mit namhaften Persönlichkeiten aus Wissenschaft und Politik. Mit Beiträgen von Heiner Geißler, Alfred Grosser, Konrad (...) Paul Liessmann, Mark Terkessidis und Sahra Wagenknecht. (shrink)
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The Democratizing Dynamics of a European Public Sphere: Towards a Theory of Democratic Functionalism.Klaus Eder &Hans-Jörg Trenz -2004 -European Journal of Social Theory 7 (1):5-25.detailsThe riddle of how to democratize the multi-level polity of the EU is answered by pointing to the empirical impact of an unfolding European public sphere. It is argued that there is a self-constituting dynamic of a European public sphere which abets the coupling of transnational spaces of communication with the institutional integration of the EU. From this perspective, democracy is not external to the EU, it is already part of the logic of European institution-building and governance and is fostered (...) by collective learning processes in which definitions of the collective good as well as conditions for appropriate forms of political participation are negotiated. In discussing the case of the EU’s constitutional reform, a theory of democratic functionalism is proposed which accounts for this specific form of democratization of the EU. (shrink)
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Hyperformulas and Solid Algebraic Systems.Klaus Denecke &Dara Phusanga -2008 -Studia Logica 90 (2):263-286.detailsDefining a composition operation on sets of formulas one obtains a many-sorted algebra which satisfies the superassociative law and one more identity. This algebra is called the clone of formulas of the given type. The interpretations of formulas on an algebraic system of the same type form a many-sorted algebra with similar properties. The satisfaction of a formula by an algebraic system defines a Galois connection between classes of algebraic systems of the same type and collections of formulas. Hypersubstitutions are (...) mappings sending pairs of operation symbols to pairs of terms of the corresponding arities and relation symbols to formulas of the same arities. Using hypersubstitutions we define hyperformulas. Satisfaction of a hyperformula by an algebraic system defines a second Galois connection between classes of algebraic systems of the same type and collections of formulas. A class of algebraic systems is said to be solid if every formula which is satisfied is also satisfied as a hyperformula. On the basis of these two Galois connections we construct a conjugate pair of additive closure operators and are able to characterize solid classes of algebraic systems. (shrink)
On p-compatible hybrid identities and hyperidentities.Klaus Denecke &Katarzyna Hałkowska -1994 -Studia Logica 53 (4):493-501.detailsP-compatible identities are built up from terms with a special structure. We investigate a variety defined by a set ofP-compatible hybrid identities and answer the question whether a variety defined by a set ofP-compatible hyperidentities can be solid.
Europe's Borders: The Narrative Construction of the Boundaries of Europe.Klaus Eder -2006 -European Journal of Social Theory 9 (2):255-271.detailsThis article argues that the social construction of the borders of Europe is the combined effect of a historical trajectory in which the construction of its outer and its inner boundaries interact. These boundaries make sense to the people because they have a narrative plausibility. On such narrative resonance, real hard borders are grounded. The idea of narrative boundary construction is embedded in a minimalist theory of identity that claims that anything can serve as a boundary within a historically specific (...) situation. The only restriction regarding boundary construction is that a new boundary continues the narrative – either in a continuous or a discontinuous way, either as conservative caring for a tradition or as a revolutionary break with a tradition. This radical break with substantialist notions of Europe's borders and identity implies that such trajectories do not imply any necessity. Whether the European integration process is continuing an old narrative or whether it points towards a specific discontinuity in the further telling of Europe's story, is historically contingent. Europe has just to continue to tell a story about itself that makes narrative sense. (shrink)
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Der Gottesbegriff der spekulativen Theologie.Klaus Krüger -1970 - Berlin,: de Gruyter.detailsKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der Gottesbegriff der spekulativen Theologie" verfügbar.
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Logik und Moderne: Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik als Paradigma moderner Subjektivität.Folko Zander &Klaus Vieweg (eds.) -2021 - Boston: BRILL.detailsHegels _Wissenschaft der Logik_ stellt eine Revolution im philosophischen Denken dar, sie repräsentiert eine moderne und ungebrochen aktuelle Metaphysik. Hegel's _Science of Logic_ represents a revolution in philosophical thought, advancing a modern and still relevant metaphysics.
Semantics: noun phrases, verb phrases and adjectives.Paul Portner,Klaus von Heusinger &Claudia Maienborn (eds.) -2019 - Boston: De Gruyter.detailsGain a deeper understanding of essential research on the semantics of noun phrases and verb phrases. Clear explanations of significant recent research bring complex issues to life, with expert guidance on topics of debate within the field. The book gives readers valuable insights into topics such as definiteness, specificity, genericity aspect, aktionsart and mood. It also discusses directions for future research. Written by a world-class team of authors, these highly cited articles are here in paperback for the first time since (...) their original publication. An essential reference for researchers in the area. (shrink)
Pseudoplatonica: Akten des Kongresses zu den Pseudoplatonica vom 6.-9. Juli 2003 in Bamberg.Klaus Döring,Michael Erler &Stefan Schorn (eds.) -2005 - Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.detailsDie pseudoplatonischen Dialoge Ã_ber die Tugend und Alkyon Hubertus Neuhausen: Der pseudo-platonische Alkibiades II und die sokratischen Alkibiadesdialoge Rosa Maria Piccione: Gli Pseudoplatonica nella tradizione dei florilegi Christopher ...
(1 other version)Stegmüller über „wissenschaftliche revolutionen“.Klaus Jürgen Düsberg -1977 -Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 8 (2):331-341.detailsAnknüpfend an Untersuchungen von J. D. Sneed, hat W. Stegmüller eine Explikation von "'revolutionärem' wissenschaftlichem Fortschritt" vorgeschlagen, die auf einer bestimmten Definition der intertheoretischen Relation der Reduktion beruht. Zumindest in seiner bisherigen Fassung erweist sich das von Stegmüller vorgebrachte Kriterium für "revolutionären" wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt jedoch nicht nur als zu weit, sondern auch, wie das Beispiel klassische vs. relativistische Kinematik zeigt, als zu eng.
Auslegungen: von Parmenides bis zu den Schwarzen Heften.Harald Seubert &Klaus Neugebauer (eds.) -2017 - Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber.detailsDie hier dokumentierte Wiener Tagung der Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft 2016 stand unter dem Vorzeichen verschiedenster Interpretationsmoglichkeiten von Heideggers Werk: von einer neuartigen Sicht auf seine Auseinandersetzung mit Parmenides, philosophisch sprachlichen Fragen der Ubersetzung in eine Fremdsprache, den farbigen Anstreichungen in den Manuskripten des Marbacher Literaturarchivs, einer Ortsbestimmung der judenbezogenen Textstellen in den Schwarzen Heften, seinem Umgang mit Zeitungsmedien, dem Stand der jungen Wissenschaft Daseinsanalyse als Entwicklung aus den Zollikoner Seminaren bis hin zu Fragen nach der Bedeutung des letzten Gottes. Mit Beitragen von (...) Damir Barbaric, Ulrich von Bulow, Francesco Cattaneo, Alfred Dunshirn, Istvan M. Feher, Hans-Christian Gunther, Dietmar Koch, Rosa Marafioti, Reinhard Mehring,Klaus Neugebauer, Alina Noveanu, Hanspeter Padrutt, Gunther Poltner, Hansjorg Reck, Ingeborg Schussler und Rainer Thurnher. (shrink)
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Der "Trialog" – eine Spielart der Ethik-Kommission in der Psychiatrie?Klaus Dörner -2003 -Ethik in der Medizin 15 (1):37-42.detailsZusammenfassung. Die Psychiatrie-Reform in Deutschland manifestiert sich sowohl in der Bewegung der Deinstitutionalisierung als auch in der Änderung der Haltung der psychiatrisch Tätigen, die das Ziel der Anerkennung der eigenen Perspektiven der psychisch Kranken wie auch der Angehörigen psychisch Kranker hat. Bisher letzte Innovation im Bereich der Haltungsänderungen sind der Trialog oder die Trialog-Foren, von denen in wenigen Jahren ca. 120 entstanden sind. Im Trialog-Forum treffen sich psychiatrisch Tätige, psychisch Kranke (=Psychiatrie-Erfahrene) und Angehörige, um ethisch ihre Beziehungen zu reflektieren und (...) dadurch zu moralisch angemessenen und von allen akzeptierten diagnostisch-therapeutischen Handlungsentscheidungen zu finden. In diesem Beitrag wird die Frage gestellt, ob Trialog-Foren Aufgaben der Ethik-Kommissionen wahrnehmen können. Zur Vorbereitung der Antwort wird nachgewiesen, dass die Arbeitsweise des Trialogs ethisch-theoretisch verallgemeinerbar ist, und zwar insbesondere prozeduralistisch nach Habermas' Diskus-Ethik sowie inhaltlich nach der Ethik von Levinas. Daraus ergab sich als Antwort: Wenn auch der Trialog in seiner jetzigen Entwicklungsphase nicht alle Funktionen der Ethik-Kommission ausfüllen kann, gilt umgekehrt, dass die etablierten Ethikkommissionen in der Gesamtmedizin von dieser psychiatrischen Innovation lernen können. Darüber hinaus scheint der Trialog die beziehungsmedizinische Fundierung der Medizin fördern zu können. (shrink)
La pandemia del coronavirus: una catástrofe global explosiva.Klaus Dörre -2020 -Astrolabio: Nueva Época 25:119-145.detailsEl artículo esboza una economía política de la pandemia del coronavirus. En línea con Fernand Braudel, la peste es interpretada como un “golpe externo” que remite a estructuras de larga data. Detrás de la pandemia y de la recesión que la sigue se esconde una crisis profunda. Ella es consecuencia de la tenaza económico-ecológica que tiene atrapadas a las sociedades del Norte Global. Esta nueva cesura no puede entenderse sin tener en cuenta el crash financiero de 2007-2009 y el interregno (...) político de los años de poscrisis. Según mi tesis, la pandemia y la recesión que la sigue son efectos repulsivos de una hiperglobalización que ha socavado progresivamente sus propios presupuestos. Sin embargo, no puede hablarse de un determinismo del coronavirus. La pandemia no conducirá espontáneamente a un “Build Back Better”. Un cambio de rumbo de este tipo exige alternativas creíbles y claramente delineadas, y, sobre todo, fuerzas sociales y actores políticos que lleven adelante los cambios. Por tanto, con llamamientos generales a las élites no se logra mucho. En lugar de ello, aquí se sugiere un análisis preciso de la tendencia hacia democracias bonapartistas que bloquean la revolución de sustentabilidad. El artículo explora las dificultades de una sociología pública y se expresa a favor de un nuevo orden institucional caracterizado por la democracia económica y la creación de consejos de transformación. (shrink)
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