Pluralism And Unity
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Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered
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Author : Stephanie Ruphy
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2016-12-23
Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered written by Stephanie Ruphy and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-23 with Science categories.
Can we expect our scientific theories to make up a unified structure, or do they form a kind of "patchwork" whose pieces remain independent from each other? Does the proliferation of sometimes-incompatible representations of the same phenomenon compromise the ability of science to deliver reliable knowledge? Is there a single correct way to classify things that science should try to discover, or is taxonomic pluralism here to stay? These questions are at the heart of philosophical debate on the unity or plurality of science, one of the most central issues in philosophy of science today. This book offers a critical overview and a new structure of this debate. It focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and metaphysical commitments of various philosophical attitudes surrounding monism and pluralism, and offers novel perspectives and pluralist theses on scientific methods and objects, reductionism, plurality of representations, natural kinds, and scientific classifications.
Unity And Plurality
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Author : Massimiliano Carrara
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Unity And Plurality written by Massimiliano Carrara 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 2016 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Unity and Plurality presents novel ways of thinking about plurality while casting new light on the interconnections among the logical, philosophical, and linguistic aspects of plurals. The volume brings together new work on the logic and ontology of plurality and on the semantics of plurals in natural language. Plural reference, the view that definite plurals such as 'the students' refer to several entities at once (the individual students), is an approach favoured by logicians and philosophers, who take sentences with plurals ('the students gathered') not to be committed to entities beyond individuals, entities such as classes, sums, or sets. By contrast, linguistic semantics has been dominated by a singularist approach to plurals, taking the semantic value of a definite plural such as 'the students' to be a mereological sum or set. Moreover, semantics has been dominated by a particular ontological view of plurality, that of extensional mereology. This volume aims to build a bridge between the two traditions and to show the fruitfulness of nonstandard mereological approaches. A team of leading experts investigates new perspectives that arise from plural logic and non-standard mereology and explore novel applications to natural language phenomena.
Environmental Justice And The New Pluralism
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Author : David Schlosberg
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1999-04-01
Environmental Justice And The New Pluralism written by David Schlosberg and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-01 with Political Science categories.
In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of `critical' pluralism, in both theory and practice. Taking into account the evolution of environmentalism and pluralism over the course of the century, the author argues that the environmental justice movement and new pluralist theories now represent a considerable challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement. Much of recent political theory has been aimed at how to acknowledge and recognize, rather than deny, the diversity inherent in contemporary life. In practice, the myriad ways people define and experience the `environment' has given credence to a form of environmentalism that takes difference seriously. The environmental justice movement, with its base in diversity, its networked structure, and its communicative practices and demands, exemplifies the attempt to design political practices beyond those one would expect from a standard interest group in the conventional pluralist model.
Biological Complexity And Integrative Pluralism
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Author : Sandra D. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-09-15
Biological Complexity And Integrative Pluralism written by Sandra D. Mitchell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-15 with Philosophy categories.
This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defense of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most basic particles that populate our universe is ill-suited to the biological sciences, which study multi-component, multi-level, evolved complex systems. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in the philosophy of science
Hindu Pluralism
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Author : Elaine M. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-02-24
Hindu Pluralism written by Elaine M. Fisher and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-24 with Religion categories.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.
An Elusive Unity
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Author : James J. Connolly
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2010
An Elusive Unity written by James J. Connolly and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Although many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from the start, inherited ideals of civic virtue and moral unity proved stubbornly persistent and influential. The tension between these conceptions of public life was especially evident in the young nation's burgeoning cities. Exploiting a wide range of sources, including novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era. The necessity of redesigning civic institutions and practices to suit city life triggered enduring disagreements centered on what came to be called machine politics. Featuring plebian leadership, a sharp masculinity, party discipline, and frank acknowledgment of social differences, this new political formula first arose in eastern cities during the mid-nineteenth century and became a subject of national discussion after the Civil War. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, business leaders, workers, and women proposed alternative understandings of how urban democracy might work. Some tried to create venues for deliberation that built common ground among citizens of all classes, faiths, ethnicities, and political persuasions. But accommodating such differences proved difficult, and a vision of politics as the businesslike management of a contentious modern society took precedence. As Connolly makes clear, machine politics offered at best a quasi-democratic way to organize urban public life. Where unity proved elusive, machine politics provided a viable, if imperfect, alternative.
Truth In Religion
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Author : Mortimer J. Adler
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1992-04
Truth In Religion written by Mortimer J. Adler and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04 with Education categories.
Only if, with regard to the diversity of religions, there are questions about truth and falsehood do we have a problem about the pluralism of religions and the unity of truth. That problem is not concerned with preserving religious liberty, freedom of worship, and the toleration, in a particular society or in the world, of a diversity of religious institutions, communities, practices, and beliefs. It is concerned only with the question of where, in that diversity, the truth lies if there is any truth in religion at all.
Pluralism And Liberal Democracy
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Author : Richard E. Flathman
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005-09-14
Pluralism And Liberal Democracy written by Richard E. Flathman and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-14 with Political Science categories.
Turns to the task of how to explain, justify, and encourage the concept, practice, and institutionalization of pluralism. By examining and analyzing the accounts and explanations of four philosophers, the author augments the theories of pluralism familiar to students and scholars of politics and political theory.
The Problem Of Value Pluralism
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Author : George Crowder
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-13
The Problem Of Value Pluralism written by George Crowder and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-13 with Political Science categories.
Value pluralism is the idea, most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are universal, plural, conflicting, and incommensurable with one another. Incommensurability is the key component of pluralism, undermining familiar monist philosophies such as utilitarianism. But if values are incommensurable, how do we decide between them when they conflict? George Crowder assesses a range of responses to this problem proposed by Berlin and developed by his successors. Three broad approaches are especially important: universalism, contextualism, and conceptualism. Crowder argues that the conceptual approach is the most fruitful, yielding norms of value diversity, personal autonomy, and inclusive democracy. Historical context must also be taken into account. Together these approaches indicate a liberal politics of redistribution, multiculturalism, and constitutionalism, and a public policy in which basic values are carefully balanced. The Problem of Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and Beyond is a uniquely comprehensive survey of the political theory of value pluralism and also an original contribution by a leading voice in the pluralist literature. Scholars and researchers interested in the work of Berlin, liberalism, value pluralism, and related ideas will find this a stimulating and valuable source.
Civil Society Pluralism And Universalism
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Author : Eugeniusz Górski
language : en
Publisher: CRVP
Release Date : 2007
Civil Society Pluralism And Universalism written by Eugeniusz Górski and has been published by CRVP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Political Science categories.