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Ideals And Illusions
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Author : Thomas McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1993
Ideals And Illusions written by Thomas McCarthy and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Philosophy categories.
These lucid and closely reasoned studies of the thought of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, J�rgen Habermas, and Richard Rorty provide a coherent analysis of major pathways in recent critical theory. They defend a position analogous to Kant's - that ideas of reason are both unavoidable presuppositions of thought that have to be carefully reconstructed and persistent sources of illusions that have to be repeatedly deconstructed.McCarthy examines the critique of impure reason from the complementary viewpoints of the attackers and defenders of Enlightenment rationality. He first analyzes the work of Rorty, Foucault, and Derrida to determine what these radical critics have contributed to our understanding of reason and where they have gone wrong. He explores Habermas's theory of communicative rationality, focusing on the attempt to go beyond hermeneutics, the incorporation of systems theory, the implications of discourse ethics for our understanding of political debate and collective decision making, and the relation of political theology to critical social theory.Thomas McCarthy is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and the editor of The MIT Press series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought. The analysis and assessment of Habermas's recent work in Ideals and Illusions serves as a sequel to his earlier study The Critical Theory of J�rgen Habermas.
Ideals And Illusions By L Susan Stebbing With An Introduction By A E Heath
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Author : Lizzie Susan Stebbing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Ideals And Illusions By L Susan Stebbing With An Introduction By A E Heath written by Lizzie Susan Stebbing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with categories.
Value Free Science
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Author : Harold Kincaid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Value Free Science written by Harold Kincaid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Ideals And Illusions
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Author : Lizzie Susan Stebbing
language : en
Publisher: London, Watts
Release Date : 1941
Ideals And Illusions written by Lizzie Susan Stebbing and has been published by London, Watts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Civilization categories.
After Certainty
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Author : Robert Pasnau
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-17
After Certainty written by Robert Pasnau and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-17 with Philosophy categories.
No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity and into the Middle Ages, before being dramatically reformulated in the seventeenth century. In watching these debates unfold over the centuries, one sees why epistemology has traditionally been embedded within a much larger sphere of concerns about human nature and the reality of the world we live in. It ultimately becomes clear why epistemology today has become a much narrower and specialized field, concerned with the conditions under which it is true to say, that someone knows something. Based on a series of lectures given at Oxford University, Robert Pasnau's book ranges widely over the history of philosophy, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline. Ultimately Pasnau argues that we may have no good reasons to suppose ourselves capable of achieving even the most minimal standards for knowledge, and the final chapter concludes with a discussion of faith and hope.
Ideal Illusions
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Author : James Peck
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Ideal Illusions written by James Peck and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with History categories.
From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement The United States has long been hailed as a powerful force for global human rights. Now, drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent ideological weapon for purposes having little to do with rights—and everything to do with furthering America's global reach. Using the words of Washington's leaders when they are speaking among themselves, Peck tracks the rise of human rights from its dismissal in the cold war years as "fuzzy minded" to its calculated adoption, after the Vietnam War, as a rationale for American foreign engagement. He considers such milestones as the fight for Soviet dissidents, Tiananmen Square, and today's war on terror, exposing in the process how the human rights movement has too often failed to challenge Washington's strategies. A gripping and elegant work of analysis, Ideal Illusions argues that the movement must break free from Washington if it is to develop a truly uncompromising critique of power in all its forms.
Value Free Science
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Author : Harold Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-15
Value Free Science written by Harold Kincaid and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-15 with Philosophy categories.
It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free. Things are not so simple, however, as recent work in science studies makes clear. The contributors to this volume investigate where and how values are involved in science, and examine the implications of this involvement for ideals of objectivity.
Ideals And Illusions
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Author : Leon S. Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: SP Books
Release Date : 1992
Ideals And Illusions written by Leon S. Hoffman and has been published by SP Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The incredible true story of a Smith College graduate's audacious adventures in the wild, primitive and dirt-poor land of 1920s Israel. She came from the privilege and prestige of one of Philadelphia's wealthiest families, the first Jewish woman to attend Smith College, but she decided to boldly seek meaning in the land of her ancestors.
The Illusion Of Conscious Will
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Author : Daniel M. Wegner
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003-08-11
The Illusion Of Conscious Will written by Daniel M. Wegner and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-11 with Philosophy categories.
A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will? The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will—those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing or, conversely, are not willing an act that they in fact are doing. He explores conscious will in hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, and facilitated communication, as well as in such phenomena as spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, and trance channeling. The result is a book that sidesteps endless debates to focus, more fruitfully, on the impact on our lives of the illusion of conscious will.
Illusions And Ideals Poems
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Author : Richard Dimsdale Stocker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Illusions And Ideals Poems written by Richard Dimsdale Stocker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with categories.