Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy.Patricia Smith Churchland -2002 - MIT Press.detailsProgress in the neurosciences is profoundly changing our conception of ourselves. Contrary to time-honored intuition, the mind turns out to be a complex of brain functions. And contrary to the wishful thinking of some philosophers, there is no stemming the revolutionary impact that brain research will have on our understanding of how the mind works. Brain-Wise is the sequel toPatricia Smith Churchland's Neurophilosophy, the book that launched a subfield. In a clear, conversational manner, this book examines old questions (...) about the nature of the mind within the new framework of the brain sciences. What, it asks, is the neurobiological basis of consciousness, the self, and free choice? How does the brain learn about the external world and about its own introspective world? What can neurophilosophy tell us about the basis and significance of religious and moral experiences? Drawing on results from research at the neuronal, neurochemical, system, and whole-brain levels, the book gives an up-to-date perspective on the state of neurophilosophy—what we know, what we do not know, and where things may go from here. (shrink)
The Linguistic Turn, Social Construction and the Impartial Spectator: why Do these Ideas Matter to Managerial Thinking?Patricia Werhane -2018 -Philosophy of Management 17 (3):265-278.detailsOne’s philosophical points of view, which form the bases for assumptions that we bring to management theory and practice matter, and matter deeply, to management thinking and corporate behavior. In this paper I outline three related threads of philosophical conversations and explain how they are important in management theory and practice: the “linguistic turn” in philosophy, deriving from the later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a social constructionist perspective: a set of theories at least implicitly derived from the linguistic turn in (...) philosophy, and the notion of the impartial spectator. I then use these three theories to analyze the idea of the corporation, corporate cultures and corporate mission statements, stakeholder theories and their differences, and the limitations of the popular notion of “corporate social responsibility.” I conclude that how one frames these management ideas makes a difference, a difference in theory and in practice. (shrink)
Corporate Governance as a Key Driver of Corporate Sustainability in France: The Role of Board Members and Investor Relations.Patricia Crifo,Elena Escrig-Olmedo &Nicolas Mottis -2019 -Journal of Business Ethics 159 (4):1127-1146.detailsThis paper examines the relationships between corporate governance and corporate sustainability by focusing on two main components of companies’ governance structure: boards of directors and investor relations officers. We propose an original empirical strategy based on the 120 biggest French capitalizations for the year 2013, allowing us to measure boards of directors’ independence and expertise, as well as investor relations officers’ convictions and communication on corporate sustainability. Our results show that corporate governance has an ambiguous impact on corporate sustainability because (...) of opposing forces: internal, external and intermediate forces. On the one hand, the higher the proportion of inside directors, the higher the company’s environmental and governance performance, while the higher the proportion of general experts in the board room, the lower the company’s governance performance. On the other hand, investor relations officers’ beliefs that corporate sustainability is primarily driven by investors’ ethical values appear negatively related to companies’ governance performance. In sum, corporate sustainability appears positively related to internal forces and negatively related to external forces. The results of this study demonstrate the need to carry out efforts to train BoDs and IROs to respond to corporate sustainability and to take more of a leadership role in this area. (shrink)
Evolution and Human Values.Robert Wesson &Patricia A. Williams (eds.) -1995 - Rodopi.detailsInitiated by Robert Wesson, Evolution and Human Values is a collection of newly written essays designed to bring interdisciplinary insight to that area of thought where human evolution intersects with human values. The disciplines brought to bear on the subject are diverse - philosophy, psychiatry, behavioral science, biology, anthropology, psychology, biochemistry, and sociology. Yet, as organized by co-editorPatricia A. Williams, the volume falls coherently into three related sections. Entitled Evolutionary Ethics, the first section brings contemporary research to an (...) area first explored by Herbert Spencer. Evolutionary ethics looks to the theory of evolution by natural selection to find values for human living. The second section, Evolved Ethics, discusses the evolution of language and religion and their impact on moral thought and feeling. Evolved ethics was partly Charles Darwin's subject in The Descent of Man. The last section bears the title Scientific Ethics. A nascent field, scientific ethics asks about the evolution of human nature and the implications of that nature for ethical theory and social policy. Together, the essays collected here provide important contemporary insights into what it is - and what it may be - to be human. (shrink)
Merleau-Ponty: Space, Place, Architecture.Patricia M. Locke &Rachel McCann (eds.) -2015 - Ohio University Press.detailsThe first collection devoted to Merleau-Ponty's contributions to our understanding of architecture and place.
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Spheres of Awareness: A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art.James Lough &Patricia Herron (eds.) -2009 - Upa.detailsThis book moves toward building a new and more comprehensive theory of literature, philosophy, psychology, and art. The extremely popular work of Ken Wilber, unites the best of both western and eastern thought and affirms that the stages of consciousness, more refined than that of the reasoning mind, do exist.
Bioportal: Ontologies and integrated data resources at the click of the mouse.L. WhetzelPatricia,H. Shah Nigam,F. Noy Natalya,Dai Benjamin,Dorf Michael,Griffith Nicholas,Jonquet Clement,Youn Cherie,Callendar Chris,Coulet Adrien,Barry Smith,Chris Chute &Mark Musen -2011 - In Whetzel Patricia L., Shah Nigam H., Noy Natalya F., Benjamin Dai, Michael Dorf, Nicholas Griffith, Clement Jonquet, Cherie Youn, Chris Callendar, Adrien Coulet, Smith Barry, Chute Chris & Musen Mark,Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Buffalo, NY. pp. 292-293.detailsBioPortal is a Web portal that provides access to a library of biomedical ontologies and terminologies developed in OWL, RDF(S), OBO format, Protégé frames, and Rich Release Format. BioPortal functionality, driven by a service-oriented architecture, includes the ability to browse, search and visualize ontologies (Figure 1). The Web interface also facilitates community-based participation in the evaluation and evolution of ontology content.
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Phytographia.Patrícia Vieira -2015 -Environmental Philosophy 12 (2):205-220.detailsThis article develops the notion of plant writing or phytographia, the roots of which go back to the early modern concept of signatura rerum, as well as, more recently, to Walter Benjamin’s idea of a “language of things” and to Jacques Derrida’s arche-writing. Phytographia designates the encounter between the plants’ inscription in the world and the traces of that imprint left in literary works, mediated by the artistic perspective of the author. The final section of the essay turns to the (...) so-called “jungle novel,” set in the Amazonian rainforest, as an instantiation of phytographia. (shrink)
The Arts and Sciences of Criticism.David Fuller &Patricia Waugh (eds.) -1999 - Oxford University Press.detailsWhat can we expect of literature? And what should the role of criticism be? This collection reflects on developments in criticism and the different modes of knowledge that underwrite literature: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as vehicles. Discussion ranges widely with contributions from leading academics as well as those outside the literary academy, including essays by the novelists Doris Lessing and David Lodge. (...) All the essays are concerned with what literature, and therefore criticism, is or aims to be. (shrink)
„Den Bösen sind wir los, die Bösen sind geblieben“: Vom schlechten Gebrauch der Vernunft.Patricia Rehm-Grätzel -2020 - Verlag Karl Alber.detailsDer Buchtitel zitiert Goethes Prophetie im Faust I und verweist auf die „Banalität des Bösen“, die im 20. Jahrhundert zum breit diskutierten Thema wurde. Sowohl Philosophie als auch Literatur zeigen die Spuren auf, in denen „der Böse“ sich verflüchtigt hat, um einer Vielgesichtigkeit des Bösen Platz zu machen. Im Buch werden diese Prozesse anhand von einschlägigen Texten nachvollzogen. Sie bieten in Darstellung und Interpretation eine Tiefenanalyse der zunehmenden Verrohung der westlichen Kultur. Aus dem Inhalt: Der Pakt mit dem Teufel * (...) Goethes Faust * Amélie Nothomb: Böses Mädchen – Antéchrista * Jonathan Littell: Die Wohlgesinnten * Der künstliche Mensch * Der Golem * Cynthia Ozicks weiblicher Golem * Mary Shelley: Frankenstein * Nachdenken über das Böse * Das Böse als Möglichkeit bei Leibniz * Die Bedeutungslosigkeit des Bösen bei Herder * Die Entdeckung des radikal Bösen bei Kant * Das mythologisch begründete Böse bei Schelling * Die Kultur als Keimzelle allen Bösen bei Jean-Jacques Rousseau * Radikalisierung der Freiheit bei Jean-Paul Sartre * Der Verlust des Teufels bei Sören Kierkegaard * Die Schwermut bei Romano Guardini * Der Dialog wider das Böse bei Hannah Arendt * Die Bedeutung der Ehrfurcht bei Albert Schweitzer. (shrink)
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La intervención psicosocial en un contexto investigativo: "Lecturas psico-sociales sobre jóvenes agrópolis - sector rural - desde diversos actores que los intervienen".MarthaPatricia Peláez Romero,Oscar Enrique Cañon Ortiz &Nestor Mario Noreña Noreña -2007 -Aletheia: An International Journal of Philosophy 25:191-201.detailsEn el presente documento se c onceptualiza la intervención d esde diferentes acepciones, siendo el sentido psicosocial de la intervención , la opción de sus autores. Lo s avances conceptuales sobre int ervención psicosocial reflexio nan sobre los "planes de desarrollo" municipales colombianos, en co..
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Living Professionalism: Reflections on the Practice of Medicine.Erin A. Egan &Patricia M. Surdyk (eds.) -2006 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.detailsA collection of personal narratives and essays, Living Professionalism is designed to help medical students and residents understand and internalize various aspects of professionalism. These essays are meant for personal reflection and above all, for thoughtful discussion with mentors, with peers, with others throughout the health care provider community who care about acting professionally.
Frege on Mathematical Progress.Patricia Blanchette -2016 - In Sorin Costreie,Early Analytic Philosophy – New Perspectives on the Tradition. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. pp. 3 - 19.detailsFrege claims that mathematical theories are collections of thoughts, and that scientific continuity turns on thought-identity. This essay explores the difficulties posed for this conception of mathematics by the conceptual development canonically involved in mathematical progress. The central difficulties are that mathematical development often involves sufficient conceptual progress that mature versions of theories do not involve easily-recognizable synonyms of their earlier versions, and that the introduction of new elements in the domains of mathematical theories would seem to conflict with Frege’s (...) view that the original theories involved determinate reference. It is argued here that the difficulties apparently posed to Frege’s central views stem from an overly-simple view of Frege’s understanding of mathematical objects and of reference. The positive view recommended is one on which Frege’s view of mathematical theories is largely consistent with, and helps make sense of, the phenomenon of theoretical unity across conceptual development. (shrink)
The Transcendental Role of the Principle of Anticipations of Perception in Quantum Mechanics.Patricia Kauark-Leite -2009 - In Michel Bitbol, Jean Petitot & Pierre Kerszberg,CONSTITUTING OBJECTIVITY The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science.detailsThe aim of this work is to analyse the diffrerences between the formal structure of anticipation of perception in classical and in quantum context. I argue that a transcendental point of view can be supported in quantum context if objectivity is defined by an invariant anticipative structure, which has only a predictive character. The classical objectivity, which defined a set of properties having a descriptive meaning must be abandoned in quantum context. I will focus my analysis on Kant's Principle of (...) the Anticipations of Perception. (shrink)
Curious Novelties.Patricia Clare Ingham -2017 -Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 93 (2):23-39.detailsTaking inspiration from a famous manuscript illumination of Fortunes Wheel, this article argues for a reconsideration of diverse uses of repetition legible in accounts of medieval curiosity, and in the association of curiosity with the figure of the ape.
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