Works ofThomas Hill Green.Thomas Hill Green -1891 - New York,: AMS Press.detailsv. 1-2. Philosophical works.--v. 3. Miscellanies and memoir.
Introduction to semantics: an essential guide to the composition of meaning.Thomas Ede Zimmermann -2013 - Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.detailsThis textbook introduces undergraduate students of language and linguistics to the basic ideas, insights, and techniques of contemporary semantic theory. The book starts with everyday observations about word meaning and use and then gradually zooms in on the question of how speakers manage to meaningfully communicate with phrases, sentences, and texts they have never come across before. Extensive English examples provide ample illustration.
Ontologie und Autonomie. Zur reflexiven Vertiefung von Ontologie nach Heidegger und Brandom.Thomas Khurana -2011 - In Mario Grizelj & Oliver Jahraus,TheorieTheorie. Fink. pp. 397–416.detailsRobert Brandom unterscheidet im Anschluss an Heidegger zwischen einer objektivistischen Ontologie (‚Vulgärontologie‘) und einer selbst-reflexiven Form der Ontologie (‚Fundamentalontologie‘), die das ontologische Fragen vertieft und auf sich selbst zurückwendet. Der neuerdings erhobene ontologische Ton in der Philosophie scheint mir problematisch, insofern er im Modus einer objektivistischen Ontologie zu sprechen scheint und grundlegende Seinsarten schlechthin fixiert. Dieser ontologische Ton fragt nicht zu- reichend, wie dies eine ‚Fundamentalontologie‘ in Brandoms Sinne erfordert, nach demjenigen Seienden, das der Unterscheidung der verschiedenen Seinsarten und den (...) ontologischen Kategorien zugrunde liegt und nach der selbstbezüglichen Form, in der ontologische Erkenntnis gegeben ist. In einem zweiten Schritt kennzeichne ich dasjenige Seiende, das die ontologischen Unterschiede wesentlich trägt, mit Brandom als „eigengesetzlich“. Aus diesen Überlegungen resultiert drittens eine Konzeption von Fundamentalontologie als „Studium der Natur sozialen Seins“. Ich schließe mit einer Bemerkung zum Verhältnis dieses Typs von Ontologie zu dem neuerdings erhobenen Ton. (shrink)
The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung's Liber Novus.Thomas Kirsch &George B. Hogenson (eds.) -2013 - Routledge.detailsIn 2009, WW Norton published ‘The Red Book’, a book written by Jung in 1913-1914 but not previously published. Snippets of information about the likely contents of the Red Book had been in circulation for years, and there was much debate and eager anticipation of its publication within the Jungian field and the larger reading public. In 2010, a conference was held at the San Francisco Jungian Institute which brought together an international group of distinguished scholars in analytical psychology to (...) explore and address critical contextual aspects of ‘The Red Book’ and to debate its importance for current and future Jungian theory and practice. __The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s _Liber Novus_ is based on that conference, the individual papers have been thoroughly revised and updated for this book and address some of the important questions and issues that were raised at that conference in response to the presentation of these papers. As yet there has been very little published about ‘The Red Book’. __The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s _Liber Novus_ will contribute to setting the agenda for further research, both scholarly and clinical, in response to Jung’s account of his experiences between 1913-1914, when arguably, the future course of his entire project was set in motion. This book will be essential reading for any Jungian interested in the importance of The Red Book, analytical psychologists, trainee analysts, those with an interest in the history of ideas and historians. (shrink)
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On the intellectual soul.Thomas Wylton -2010 - Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by Lauge Olaf Nielsen, Cecilia Trifogli & Gail Trimble.detailsThomas Wylton's Quaestio de anima intellectiva presents a controversial defence of Averroes' interpretation of Aristotelian psychology. The detailed introduction guides the reader through the transmission of the text, as well as the philosophical contents of one of the most significant medieval treatments of the nature of the soul.
Poetry and philosophy.Thomas Woods -1961 - London,: Hutchinson.detailsA textbook tracing the history of Japan from its earliest settlements to its present-day position as a modern state.
Moral obligations: action, intention, and valuation.Thomas E. Wren -2010 - New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers. Edited by Thomas E. Wren.detailsThis is followed by a section about action in general: it establishes the standpoint of the agent and makes an inventory of several species of action.
Desaster und Versprechen. Eine irritierende Nähe im Werk Giorgio Agambens.Thomas Khurana -2007 - In Janine Böckelmann & Frank Meier,Die gouvernementale Maschine: zur politischen Philosophie Giorgio Agambens. Münster: Unrast. pp. 29–44.detailsIn diesem Essay untersuche ich (I) die irritierende Nähe von Desaster und Versprechen in Agambens Philosophie. Diese irritierende Nähe zeigt sich insbesondere daran, dass Figuren des Schlimmsten - wie etwa das nackte Leben - den erlösenden Figuren - wie etwa die Gestalt der Lebens-Form - strukturell betrachtet zutiefst verwandt sind. In einem zweiten Zug formuliere ich (II) eine Hypothese bezüglich des tieferliegenden Grundes für die betreffende Zweideutigkeit. Dieser erschließt sich, wenn wir beachten, dass der Übergang von der Figur des Desasters (...) zu der des Versprechens der einer ethischen Modifikation, nicht der einer Wahl zwischen gegebenen Alternativen entspricht. In einem dritten Schritt benenne ich schließlich (III) drei Paradigmen, die verdeutlichen, wie die Dialektik von Desaster und Versprechen in Agambens Texten ins Werk gesetzt wird. (shrink)
Collected Essays: Volume 3, Science and Education.Thomas Henry Huxley -2012 - Cambridge University Press.detailsKnown as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologistThomas Henry Huxley was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Australia while working as an assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy; ultimately he became President (...) of the Royal Society. Throughout his life Huxley struggled with issues of faith, and he coined the term 'agnostic' to describe his beliefs. This nine-volume collection of Huxley's essays, which he edited and published in 1893–4, demonstrates the wide range of his intellectual interests. Volume 3 contains lectures and essays spanning thirty years of campaigning about the importance of science in education. (shrink)
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Medical Injury Compensation: Beyond 'No-Fault'.Thomas Douglas -2009 -Medical Law Review 17:30-51.detailsIf I am injured in the course of medical investigation or treatment, I may be eligible to receive compensation for some of the adverse consequences of my injury—at least, if I live in a developed country. In most such countries, there exists some form of state-administered compensation scheme for medical injuries. However, even within the developed world, there is considerable variation in the eligibility criteria for compensation. Different countries would, for example, respond very differently to the following pair of cases...
M. Tulli Ciceronis Tusculanarum Disputationum Libri Quinque: Volume 1, Containing Books I and Ii: A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary and a Collation of Numerous Mss.Thomas Wilson Dougan (ed.) -2015 - Cambridge University Press.detailsOriginally published in 1905, this book contains the first two books of the Latin text of Cicero's Disputations at Tusculum, the first volume of Dougan's two-volume critical edition of the text. The Latin is accompanied by a running commentary, and Dougan provides a detailed introduction on the place of the Disputations in Cicero's philosophical canon, as well as on the arguments contained in the book and the manuscript sources for the text. This book will be of value to anyone with (...) an interest in the works of Cicero. (shrink)
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Thinking through stories: children, philosophy, and picture books.Thomas E. Wartenberg -2022 - New York, NY: Routledge.detailsThis book provides justification and instruction for exploring philosophy with children, especially by using picture books to initiate philosophical discussion. By demonstrating to pre-service teachers that picture books often embed philosophical issues into their narratives, and that this makes picture books a natural place to go to help young children investigate philosophical issues, the author offers a straightforward approach to engaging young students. In particular, this volume highlights how philosophical dialogue enhances children's sense of self, provides a safe space for (...) the discussion of issues that they are confronted with in living their lives, and develops an admirable method for resolving conflict that the children can use in other contexts. (shrink)
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Apollonius of Tyana, and other essays.Thomas Whittaker -1906 - London,: S. Sonnenschein & co., lim..detailsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain (...) in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. (shrink)
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The Neo-Platonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism.Thomas Whittaker -2016 - Cambridge University Press.detailsFirst published in 1918, as the second edition of a 1901 original, this book presents a study regarding the development of Neoplatonism, with information on the historical and religious contexts of its development. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in classical philosophy and Neoplatonism.
Describing God.Thomas Williams -2010 - In Robert Pasnau & Christina van Dyke,The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 749-760.detailsThe philosophical problem of describing God arises at the intersection of two different areas of inquiry. The word ‘describing’ makes it clear that the issue is in part a logical one – in the broad medieval sense of ‘logic,’ which includes semantics, the philosophy of language, and even some aspects of the theory of cognition. It is the problem, first, of forming an understanding of some extramental object and, second, of conveying that understanding by means of verbal signs. But the (...) word ‘God’ also indicates that the logical problems involved in description are exacerbated, or perhaps that new problems arise, because of the nature of the extramental object that we are seeking to describe. Given the enormous ingenuity with which logical problems were debated in the Middle Ages, it is not surprising that the problem of describing God would be worked out in detail – and that many thinkers would lose sight of the specifically theological context in which the problem was ostensibly set. We see here a familiar phenomenon. Once philosophers (even scholastic philosophers) have fully domesticated a problem, discussions of the problem seldom lay bare the practical urgency that alone made the question worth pursuing in the first place; it becomes a technical question, answerable by technical means. Yet, though it is not always in evidence, the practical upshot of the issue is never entirely forgotten, as John Duns Scotus reminds us in his curt dismissal of the view that we can at best say of God what he is not: “We do not have supreme love for negations” (Ordinatio I.3.1.1–2 n. 10). Attempts to resolve the problem of describing God are ultimately efforts to “save the appearances”: to accommodate within a philosophically defensible framework both the data of what are taken to be divinely revealed texts and the linguistic practices of believers. The appearances to be saved of course differ somewhat from one religious tradition to another. The Christian tradition, for example, faces distinctive problems that arise in understanding and describing.... (shrink)
Sin, grace, and redemption in Abelard.Thomas Williams -2004 - In Jeffrey E. Brower & Kevin Guilfoy,The Cambridge Companion to Abelard. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 258-278.details"From time to time some of my friends startle me by referring to the Atonement itself as a revolting heresy," wrote Austin Farrer, "invented by the twelfth century and exploded by the twentieth. Yet the word is in the Bible." (1) Farrer is referring to Romans 5:11 in the Authorized Version: "we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." Here the word 'atonement'--literally, the state of being "at one"--translates the Greek (...) katallagê, which means "reconciliation." The doctrine of the Atonement, then, is in its essentials the claim that the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ effects a reconciliation between God and human beings, who had been--and apart from Christ's gracious action would have remained--estranged on account of human sin. And that doctrine, far from being a twelfth-century innovation, is a prominent theme of the Pauline epistles and a matter of theological consensus from the earliest days of Christian thought. (shrink)
Transmission and translation.Thomas Williams -2003 - In Arthur Stephen McGrade,The Cambridge companion to medieval philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 328-346.detailsThe pitfalls of the Wadding edition of John Duns Scotus illustrate a general feature of the study of medieval philosophy: the gap that separates the authentic words of the medieval thinker one wishes to study from the Latin words one sees on the pages of a printed edition — and further still from the English words one sees in a translation. The aim of this essay is to make clear both the nature and the size of that gap, not in (...) order to dismay prospective students of medieval philosophy, but in order to explain the hazards in such a way that students can equip themselves properly to meet them. I will begin by discussing in a general way the channels of transmission by which medieval philosophy has made its way down to us. I then turn to three specific cases by which I illustrate some of those general points as they apply to texts of different sorts and from different periods. Along the way I draw attention to the kinds of errors that are liable to be introduced at the various stages of transmission between a medieval lecturer’s spoken words and the text of a modern critical edition, and I outline the tools and techniques that the careful historian of medieval philosophy will use in order to minimize such errors, especially where no critical edition is available. In the second half of the essay I turn to problems of translation. I provide an example that shows how a reader can sometimes detect errors in a translation even without checking the Latin text, and another to illustrate how translations sometimes reflect controversial views about how a text is to be interpreted. I then conclude with a look at the translation of particular terms, discussing a number of standard translations that are apt to be misleading, and giving some idea of the range of translation of certain key terms. (shrink)
SME directors and boards: The contribution of directors and boards to the growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).Colin Coulson-Thomas -2007 -International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 3 (3):250-261.detailsCorporate governance concerns, discussions and developments have been largely concerned with listed companies and situations in which there is a clear separation of ownership and control. This article examines the relevance of corporate governance to the worlds of smaller companies, family businesses and owner directors. It reports some preliminary findings of an examination of the governance of 60 unlisted SMEs based in the East of England which took place during 2005 and 2006. After assessing the value being added by the (...) directors and boards encountered and the contribution effective boards could make to the growth and development of SMEs, it considers the implications of the findings and areas for further research. (shrink)
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