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- Profits, priests, and princes: Adam Smithʾs emancipation of economics from politics and religion.PeterMinowitz -1993 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.In launching modern economics, Adam Smith paved the way for laissez-faire capitalism, Marxism, and contemporary social science. This book scrutinizes Smith's disparagement of politics and religion to illuminate the subtlety of his rhetoric, the depth of his thought, and the ultimate shortcomings of his project. The author analyzes Smith's ideas on government, justice, human psychology, and international relations, stressing Smith's efforts to elevate wealth at the expense of citizenship and to replace normative political philosophy with historical theorizing and empirical modeling (...) that emphasize economic causes. The book also provides the most comprehensive interpretation available of Smith's views on religion, examining the discrepancies between The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The concluding chapter appraises the demise of communism in light of the Marxian emancipation of economics from politics and religion. (shrink)
- Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield.John Gibbons,Nathan Tarcov,Ralph Hancock,Jerry Weinberger,Paul A. Cantor,Mark Blitz,James W. Muller,Kenneth Weinstein,Clifford Orwin,Arthur Melzer,Susan Meld Shell,PeterMinowitz,James Stoner,Jeremy Rabkin,David F. Epstein,Charles R. Kesler,Glen E. Thurow,R. Shep Melnick,Jessica Korn &Robert P. Kraynak (eds.) -2000 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.For forty years, Harvey Mansfield has been worth reading. Whether plumbing the depths of MachiavelliOs Discourses or explaining what was at stake in Bill ClintonOs impeachment, MansfieldOs work in political philosophy and political science has set the standard. In Educating the Prince, twenty-one of his students, themselves distinguished scholars, try to live up to that standard. Their essays offer penetrating analyses of Machiavellianism, liberalism, and America., all of them informed by MansfieldOs own work. The volume also includes a bibliography of (...) MansfieldOs writings. (shrink)
- Prospect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity.Peter P. Wakker -2010 - Cambridge University Press.Prospect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity, provides a comprehensive and accessible textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical probabilities associated with uncertain future events and when we lack them. The book presents models, primarily prospect theory, that are both tractable and psychologically realistic. A method of presentation is chosen that makes the empirical meaning of each theoretical model completely transparent. Prospect theory has many applications in a wide variety of disciplines. The material in (...) the book has been carefully organized to allow readers to select pathways through the book relevant to their own interests. With numerous exercises and worked examples, the book is ideally suited to the needs of students taking courses in decision theory in economics, mathematics, finance, psychology, management science, health, computer science, Bayesian statistics, and engineering. (shrink)No categories
- A Sociology of Modernity: Liberty and Discipline.Peter Wagner -2002 - Routledge.First Published in 2004. Confusion reigns in sociological accounts of the curent condition of modernity. The story-lines from the 'end of the subject' to 'a new individualism', from the 'dissolution of society' to the re-emergence of 'civil society', from the 'end of modernity' to an 'other modernoity' to 'neo-modernization'. This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of a historical account of social transformations over the past two centuries, focusing on Western Europe but also looking at the USA and (...) at Soviet socialism as distinct variants of modernity. A fundamental ambivalence of modernity is captured by the double notion of liberty and discipline in its three major dimensions: the relations between individual liberty and political community, betwen agency and structure, and between locally situated human lives and widely extended social institutions. Two major historical transformations of modernity are distinguished, the first one beginning in the late nineteenth century and leading to a social formation that can be called organized modernity, and the second being the one that dissolves organized modernity. It is this current transformation which revives some key concerns of the 'modern project', ideas of liberty, plurality and individual autonomy. But it imperils others, especially the creation of social identities as ties between human beings that allow meaningful and socially viable development of individual autonomy, and the possibility of politics as communicative interaction and collaborative deliberation about what human beings have in common. (shrink)
- Du musst dein Leben ändern: über Anthropotechnik.Peter Sloterdijk -2009 - Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.Der Mensch als Übender, als sich durch Übungen selbst erzeugendes Wesen - Rainer Maria Rilke hat den Antrieb zu solchen Exerzitien zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts in die Form gefaßt: "Du mußt dein Leben ändern." In seinem Plädoyer für die Ausweitung der Übungszone des einzelnen wie der Gesellschaft entwirftPeter Sloterdijk eine grundlegende und grundlegend neue Anthropologie. Den Kern seiner Wissenschaft vom Menschen bildet die Einsicht von der Selbstbildung alles Humanen. Seine Aktivitäten wirken unablässig auf ihn zurück: die Arbeit (...) auf den Arbeiter, die Kommunikation auf den Kommunizierenden, die Gefühle auf den Fühlenden. Es sind die ausdrücklich übenden Menschen, die diese Existenzweise am deutlichsten verkörpern: Bauern, Arbeiter, Krieger, Schreiber, Yogi, Rhetoren, Instrumentalvirtuosen oder Models. Ihre Trainingspläne und Höchstleistungen versammelt dieses Buch zu einer vergnüglich-instruktiven Lektüre von den Übungen, die erforderlich sind, ein Mensch zu sein. (shrink)No categories
- Secular Cycles.Peter Turchin &Sergey A. Nefedov -2009 - Princeton University Press.The graphs present the data in a fashion that will be clear to any audience, and the text is straightforward and persuasive. This book carries the study of historical dynamics to a whole new level.No categories
- Rasse, Blut und Gene: Geschichte der Eugenik und Rassenhygiene in Deutschland.Peter Weingart,Kurt Bayertz &Robert N. Proctor -1989 -Journal of the History of Biology 22 (3):501-505.
- Ética práctica.Peter Singer -2009 - Ediciones AKAL.Ética práctica se ha convertido en una introducción clásica a la ética aplicada.Peter Singer plantea la aplicación de la ética a cuestiones sociales polémicas y difíciles: la igualdad y la discriminación por motivo de raza, sexo, capacidad o especie. el aborto, la eutanasia y la experimentación con embriones. el estatus moral de los animales. la violencia política y la desobediencia civil. la ayuda exterior y la obligación de ayudar a los demás. la responsabilidad para con el medio ambiente. (...) y el trato a los refugiados. Singer explica y evalúa los argumentos pertinentes de forma perspicaz y no doctrinaria. A través de la estructura del libro, muestra cómo las polémicas actuales a menudo tienen profundas raíces filosóficas y presenta a la vez una teoría ética propia que puede aplicarse de manera convincente y coherente a todos los casos prácticos. (shrink)No categories
- Citizenship without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity.Peter H. Schuck &Rogers M. Smith -1985 - Yale University Press.
- House X.Peter Eisenman -1982 - Rizzoli International Publications.Uses the architectural design of a house to show the principles of structuralism and a possible reaction against traditional functionalism.No categories
- Discourses on Society: The Shaping of the Social Science Disciplines.Peter Wagner,Björn Wittrock &Richard P. Whitley -1990 - Springer Verlag.This book, which represents probably the most comprehensive discussion of the emergence of modem social science yet produced, is of far more than merely historical interest. The contributors set out to rewrite the history of the social sciences and to show the limitations of conventional conceptions of their development. These tasks they accomplish with great success and much distinction. Yet in so doing they contribute in a direct way to our understanding of the relation between social analysis and the nature (...) of human societies today. The brilliant and distinctive perspective of the papers in this collection is to demonstrate, with many specific examples, that social science and modem institutions have helped shape each other in mutual interplay. Modem systems are in some part con stituted through the reflexive incorporation of developing social science knowledge; on the other hand, the social sciences organise themselves in terms of a continuing reflection upon the evolution of those systems. Such a perspective, as Wagner and Wittrock in particular make clear, does not in any way either impugn the status of knowledge claims made within social science or destroy the independent reality of social institutions. The book questions the notion that the institutionalising of the social sciences can be understood as a process of their increasing autonomy from extemal social connections. 'Autonomy' forms a mode of legitima tion and a basis of power rather than a distinctive phenomenon as such. (shrink)
- Al-kindī and the mu‘tazila: Divine attributes, creation and freedom:Peter Adamson.Peter Adamson -2003 -Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 13 (1):45-77.The paper discusses al-Kindī's response to doctrines held by contemporary theologians of the Mu‘tazilite school: divine attributes, creation, and freedom. In the first section it is argued that, despite his broadly negative theology, al-Kindī recognizes a special kind of “essential” positive attribute belonging to God. The second section argues that al-Kindī agreed with the Mu‘tazila in holding that something may not yet exist but still be an object of God's knowledge and power. Also it presents a new parallel between al-Kindī (...) and John Philoponus. The third section gives an interpretation of al-Kindī as a compatibilist, in other words as holding that humans may be free even though their actions are necessitated. In all three cases, it is argued, al-Kindī is close to the Mu‘tazilite point of view, though he departs from them in the arguments he gives for that point of view. (shrink)
- Learning and Coordination: Inductive Deliberation, Equilibrium, and Convention.Peter Vanderschraaf -2001 - Routledge.Vanderschraaf develops a new theory of game theory equilibrium selection in this book. The new theory defends general correlated equilibrium concepts and suggests a new analysis of convention.
- Reply to Paul Snowdon.Peter F. Strawson -1995 - In P. F. Strawson, Pranab Kumar Sen & Roop Rekha Verma,The Philosophy of P.F. Strawson. Bombay: Allied Publishers.
- 'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment.Peter Harrison -1992 -Religious Studies 28 (1):122-123.
- Wittgenstein.Peter Hacker -1995 - In Ted Honderich,The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers. New York: Oxford University Press.
- The Uniqueness in Causation.Peter Unger -1977 -American Philosophical Quarterly 14 (3):177 - 188.
- Logic and truth value gaps.Peter W. Woodruff -1970 - In Karel Lambert,Philosophical problems in Logic. Dordrecht,: Reidel. pp. 121--142.
- Inferences from Multinomal Data: Learning about a bag of marbles (with discussion).Peter Walley -1996 -Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 58:3-57.
- Externalism, logical form and linguistic intentions.Peter Ludlow -2003 - In Alex Barber,Epistemology of language. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Asking the Fox to Guard the Henhouse: The Tax Planning Industry and Corporate Social Responsibility.Peter Dietsch -2011 -Ethical Perspectives 18 (3):341-354.What does it take for a corporation to act in a socially responsible manner? It would seem that respecting the fiscal duties imposed by the state should be high on the list. Compared to standard accounts of corporate social responsibility, this requirement seems relatively weak. The present paper argues that such a minimalist CSR turns out to be quite demanding. More specifically, I argue that for one particular sector, namely the tax planning industry, it would be utopian to expect its (...) members to adopt even such a minimalist CSR. Given the business model of the tax planning industry and the motivations that flow from it, state intervention and enforceable rules are required to ensure socially responsible corporate conduct in this industry. (shrink)
- A uniformly consistent estimator of causal effects under the k-Triangle-Faithfulness assumption.Peter Spirtes &Jiji Zhang -unknownSpirtes, Glymour and Scheines [Causation, Prediction, and Search Springer] described a pointwise consistent estimator of the Markov equivalence class of any causal structure that can be represented by a directed acyclic graph for any parametric family with a uniformly consistent test of conditional independence, under the Causal Markov and Causal Faithfulness assumptions. Robins et al. [Biometrika 90 491–515], however, proved that there are no uniformly consistent estimators of Markov equivalence classes of causal structures under those assumptions. Subsequently, Kalisch and B¨uhlmann (...) [J. Mach. Learn. Res. 8 613–636] described a uniformly consistent estimator of the Markov equivalence class of a linear Gaussian causal structure under the Causal Markov and Strong Causal Faithfulness assumptions. However, the Strong Faithfulness assumption may be false with high probability in many domains. We describe a uniformly consistent estimator of both the Markov equivalence class of a linear Gaussian causal structure and the identifiable structural coefficients in the Markov equivalence class under the Causal Markov assumption and the considerably weaker k-Triangle-Faithfulness assumption. (shrink)
- Logical Procedures and the Identity of Expressions.Peter Geach -1965 -Ratio (Misc.) 7 (2):199-205.
- Equality and justice.Peter Vallentyne (ed.) -2003 - New York: Routledge.Bringing together the most influential essays in ethical philosophy throughout the twentieth century, this comprehensive collection examines the issues that form the basis of the modern understanding of a democratic society. The carefully selected articles debate the character of human, legal, institutional, and universal equality and justice. Topics and coverage include contemporary notions of justice and social equality; the conceptual foundation for requiring minimum justice and equality; discussions of who is entitled to justice and equality and who is obliged to (...) provide these conditions; and universal, procedural, legal concepts of justice and equality. This collection is a useful survey on timeless issues of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, law, policy, and international relations alike. This volume is available on its own or as part of the six-volume set, Equality and Justice . For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Equality and Justice [ISBN: 0-415-94142-3]. (shrink)
- Gilles Deleuze and the redemption from interest.Peter Hallward -1997 -Radical Philosophy 81:6-21.
- The use and non-use of the human nature concept by evolutionary biologists.Peter J. Richerson -2018 - In Elizabeth Hannon & Tim Lewens,Why We Disagree About Human Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Conditions for description.Peter Zinkernagel &Olaf Lindum -1962 - New York,: Humanities Press.
- Precursors of force fields in Newton's' Principia'.Peter Enders -2010 -Apeiron: Studies in Infinite Nature 17 (1).
- Descartes and the Possibility of Science.Peter A. Scholuls -2002 -Philosophical Quarterly 52 (208):394-397.No categories
- Darwinian building blocks.Peter Railton -2000 -Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (1-2):1-2.Although the ‘naturalistic fallacy’ and the is/ought distinction have often been invoked as definitive grounds for rejecting any attempt to bring evolutionary thought to bear on ethics, they are better interpreted as warnings than as absolute barriers. Our moral concepts themselves -- e.g. the principle that ‘ought implies can’ -- require us to ask whether human psychology is capable of impartial empathetic thought and motivation characteristic of normative systems that could count as moral. As the essay by Flack and de (...) Waal shows, evolutionary theory and evidence can help us answer the question whether the psychological ‘building blocks’ needed for morality are indeed likely to be present in a given species, including Homo sapiens. It is important, however, not to think that a positive answer to this question commits us to attributing identifiable moral concepts to actual members. (shrink)
- Scientific speculation and evidential progress.Peter Achinstein -2022 - In Yafeng Shan,New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress. New York: Routledge.No categories
- The ideology of skills and its implications for socially progressive learning in university cooperative education : student and administrator perspectives.Peter Milley -2016 - In Eugénie Angèle Samier,Ideologies in Educational Administration and Leadership. New York: Routledge.Export citation
Bookmark - Western Traditions, Nature’s Values, and Environmental Ethics.Peter Miller -1988 -Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 2:74-79.No categories
- Arendt, Hannah (1906-75)1.Peter Murphy -unknownExport citation Bookmark
- Existence of faster than light signals implies hypercomputation already in special relativity.Péter Németi &Gergely Székely -2012 - In S. Barry Cooper,How the World Computes. pp. 528--538.
- The Joy of Sects: A Spirited Guide to the World's Religious Traditions.Peter Occhiogrosso -1994No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Case 3: informed consent ; Understanding the concept of vulnerability from a Western Africa perspective.Peter F. Omonzejele -2014 - In Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon & Alison Dundes Renteln,Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.Export citation Bookmark
- 'The country of lost children': the case of Clara Crosbie.Peter Pierce -1997 -Critical Review (University of Melbourne) 37:18.
- Limits of Liberty Studies of Mill's on Liberty.Peter Radcliff -1966 - Wadsworth Pub. Co.Export citation Bookmark
- Excerpt.Peter Read &David Fisher -1990 -The Chesterton Review 16 (3/4):349-350.Export citation Bookmark
- Logic and Ethics.Peter Geach &Jacek Holowka -1992 -Ethics 102 (2):392-393.
- Slow reading.Peter Goodrich -2005 - In Peter Goodrich & Mariana Valverde,Nietzsche and legal theory: half-written laws. New York: Routledge.
- John Dee: The World of the Elizabethan Magus.Peter J. French -1987 - Routledge.First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
- The Logic of Violence: Foucault on How Power Kills.Peter DeAngelis -2011 - In Nathan Eckstrand & Christopher Yates,Philosophy and the return of violence: studies from this widening gyre. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.Export citation Bookmark
- Zeit und zeitliche Existenz. Metaphysik und Ontologie.Peter Kügler -2019No categories
- Gramsci and the Political.Peter Thomas -2009 -Radical Philosophy 153:27-36.
- Ill the ethics of popular journalism.Peter Dahlgren -1998 - In Kees Brants, Joke Hermes & Liesbet van Zoonen,The media in question: popular cultures and public interests. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. pp. 89.
- An Ethics for the Affluent.Peter L. Danner -1980 - Upa.No descriptive material is available for this title.
- Can We Know God by Experience?Peter Donovan -2000 - In Brian Davies,Philosophy of religion: a guide and anthology. New York: Oxford University Press.Export citation Bookmark
- Hungarian Perspectives.Peter Engelmann -1981 -Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 47:142.Export citation Bookmark
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