Speaking Of Forms Of Life
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Speaking Of Forms Of Life
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Author : Claudio Campagna
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-26
Speaking Of Forms Of Life written by Claudio Campagna and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-26 with Science categories.
Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms. The human-induced extinction rate has been compared to “mass extinctions” of the past. But this language masks the fact that the crisis is due to voluntary, and thus, avoidable choices and actions. “Speaking of Forms of Life” shows that at the root of this crisis is the tragic inadequacy of the language predominantly used to represent and address what we are doing, including the language of “sustainable development,” “rights” for animals and the rest of nature, their “intrinsic value,” and conservation of species as “populations.” This talk alienates us from the other living things, from what they actually are, have and do, and it perpetuates the harm and loss. Campagna and Guevara compellingly argue, on rigorous but accessible grounds, that there is an alternative language to guide conservation, in confronting the radically urgent, ethical issues it faces. This is a language with which we are all familiar, mastered by naturalists, from Aristotle to Audubon. It articulates the primary value in life and the standard that must guide how human beings should live, as one form of life, among countless others. This book is a homecoming for those who practice conservation to, above all else, secure a creature’s ability to satisfy the necessities of its form of life. "This is an essential book for anyone who cares about conservation and is concerned about the frightening pace of extinctions. The great theme of the book is the importance of the language in which we think and talk about living beings. Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna make available for conservationists the ground-breaking work of Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson on natural goodness and on our thought about living beings. They show how it can be brought to bear on the threats that confront conservation and on disputes that may seem irresolvable. I recommend Speaking of Forms of Life as strongly as I can.” Cora Diamond, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Professor of Law, and University Professor, University of Virginia “Our current conservation language is shot through with economic platitudes that don’t explain anyone’s real motives for conserving biodiversity. Campagna and Guevara’s new book lays out a convincing alternative, grounding conservation goals in the objective goodness of life’s many ways of flourishing. Speaking of Forms of Life is inspiring, informative, well-grounded in the relevant philosophy and conservation literatures but never pedantic. Both activists and thinkers will find much of value in Speaking of Forms of Life.” Philip Cafaro, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University “Speaking of Forms of Life” helps us confront the fact that language often obscures, rather than facilitates, our understanding of living things. Our language reflects past misperceptions, current ignorance, and our shockingly limited intellectual ability to comprehend where we are in space and time, and who we are with on this strange planet with its soap-bubble coating of life. The language in use has abetted, and accelerated the catastrophic course we daily continue to choose. “Speaking of Forms of Life” shows us why and how this must change. It’s a crucial revelation that we must heed, because our species alone can consider changing course—and our species alone must do so. Carl Safina, MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina Research Chair for Nature and Humanity, Stony Brook University "Our biosphere is a miracle. Communicating the sense of awe and wonder that it instills in many of us is essential to shift from wanton destructionof our natural world for short term economic profit to health and prosperity for all creatures - including us humans. Speaking of Forms of Life is the first book that unveils how the way we speak to each other affects the way we value and care for our planet. An essential read for everyone who cares about the future of nature and humanity." Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence and Hubbard Medalist
Language Form S Of Life And Logic
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Author : Christian Martin
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Language Form S Of Life And Logic written by Christian Martin and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Philosophy categories.
This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein’s approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance against both biological and ethnological interpretations of the notion "form of life" and seeks to promote a broadly logico-linguistic understanding instead. The structure of this book is threefold. Part one focuses on lines of thinking that lead from Wittgenstein’s earlier thought to the concept of form of life in his later work. Contributions to part two examine the concrete philosophical function of this notion as well as the ways in which it differs from cognate concepts. Contributions to part three put Wittgenstein’s notion of form of life in perspective by relating it to phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy and problems in contemporary analytic philosophy.
This Complicated Form Of Life
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Author : Newton Garver
language : en
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Release Date : 1994
This Complicated Form Of Life written by Newton Garver and has been published by Open Court Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Far from overthrowing or stepping outside that tradition, Wittgenstein builds on it, draws from it, and contributes brilliantly to the fruition of certain elements in it. In This Complicated Form of Life, Garver analyzes from several angles Wittgenstein's relationship to Kant, and to what Finch has called Wittgenstein's completion of Kant's revolt against the Cartesian hegemony of epistemology in philosophy.
Wittgenstein Language And Information Back To The Rough Ground
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Author : David Blair
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-05-16
Wittgenstein Language And Information Back To The Rough Ground written by David Blair and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-16 with Computers categories.
“The more narrowly we examine language, the sharper becomes the con?ict - tween it and our requirement. (For the crystalline purity of logic was, of course, not a result of investigation; it was a requirement. ) The con?ict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in danger of becoming empty. —We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk; so we need 1 friction. Back to the rough ground!” —Ludwig Wittgenstein This manuscript consists of four related parts: a brief overview of Wittgenstein’s p- losophy of language and its relevance to information systems; a detailed explanation of Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of language and mind; an extended discussion of the re- vance of his philosophy to understanding some of the problems inherent in information systems, especially those systems which rely on retrieval based on some representation of the intellectual content of that information. And, fourthly, a series of detailed footnotes which cite the sources of the numerous quotations and provide some discussion of the related issues that the text inspires. The ?rst three of these parts can each be read by itself with some pro?t, although they are related and do form a conceptual whole.
Wittgenstein And Classical German Philosophy
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Author : Alexander Berg
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-11-04
Wittgenstein And Classical German Philosophy written by Alexander Berg and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-04 with Philosophy categories.
The contributors in this volume situate Wittgenstein’s philosophy within the context of Kant, Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling. They show how his philosophy both stands in the tradition of German idealism while breaking new ground. The topics of logic and language make this tension especially palpable and allow the authors to reveal new connections and offer critical perspectives.
The Fragility Of Philosophy Of Medicine
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Author : Lucien Karhausen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-20
The Fragility Of Philosophy Of Medicine written by Lucien Karhausen and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-20 with Philosophy categories.
This book about philosophy of medicine bestows a bottom-up and not a top-down approach. It starts from clinical medicine and epidemiology, analyzing their interrelations with philosophical instruments. The book criticizes the constant search for generalities and the essentialism that too often characterizes this discipline, which results in philosophers of medicine dialoguing with each other without direct contact with medical science. In the light of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy, this book proposes an approach to the philosophy of medicine based on the quorum of language, what Wittgenstein calls family resemblances. In this way the author establishes a philosophy of medicine that is closely related to the medical clinic and to public health and as such avoids armchair philosophy. “Don’t think, but look", wrote Wittgenstein.
Social Practices
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Author : Theodore R. Schatzki
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-09-13
Social Practices written by Theodore R. Schatzki 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 1996-09-13 with Philosophy categories.
This book addresses key topics in social theory such as the basic structures of social life, the character of human activity, and the nature of individuality. Drawing on the work of Wittgenstein, the author develops an account of social existence that argues that social practices are the fundamental phenomenon in social life. This approach offers new insight into the social formation of individuals, surpassing and critiquing the existing practice theories of Bourdieu, Giddens, Lyotard, and Oakeshott.
Daimon Life
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Author : David Farrell Krell
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1992-12-22
Daimon Life written by David Farrell Krell and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-12-22 with Philosophy categories.
"Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." –John Llewelyn Disclosure of Martin Heidegger's complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger's philosophy exhibit a kind of organicism readily transformed into ideological "blood and soil"? Or, rather, did his support of the Nazis betray a fundamental lack of loyalty to living things? David Farrell Krell traces Heidegger's political authoritarianism to his failure to develop a constructive "life-philosophy"—his phobic reactions to other forms of being. Krell details Heidegger's opposition to Lebensphilosophie as expressed in Being and Time, in an important but little-known lecture course on theoretical biology given in 1929–30 called "The Basic Concepts of Metaphysics," and in a recently published key text, Contributions to Philosophy, written in 1936–38. Although Heidegger's attempt to think through the problems of life, sexual reproduction, behavior, environment, and the ecosystem ultimately failed, Krell contends that his methods of thinking nonetheless pose important tasks for our own thought. Drawing on and away from Heidegger, Krell expands on the topics of life, death, sexuality, and spirit as these are treated by Freud, Nietzsche, Derrida, and Irigaray. Daimon Life addresses issues central to contemporary philosophies of politics, gender, ecology, and theoretical biology.
Management Information And Power
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Author : Lucas D. Introna
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1997-11-11
Management Information And Power written by Lucas D. Introna and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-11 with Business & Economics categories.
This book sets out to instil a different approach to thinking about the theory and practice of management and information management in organizations. Building on the work of earlier philosophers and social theorists, it puts forward a sophisticated theory for the understanding of how management, information and power operate and interact in the real world.
The Many Faces Of Language Games
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Author : Jesús Padilla Gálvez
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-11-04
The Many Faces Of Language Games written by Jesús Padilla Gálvez and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-04 with Philosophy categories.
Wittgenstein used the concept of language games to refer to all forms of linguistic expression in practical contexts and to the myriad ways in which signs are used in language. He used the term to specify speaking as an activity and to relate it to a form of life. Wittgenstein was well aware that his proposal for “language games” did not solve the central problems of language. Until today, the essential characteristics of the concept remain unspecified. The contributors in this volume analyze the reasons for the difficulties in understanding the concept and propose new essential characteristics and contents, by examining language games such as certainty and error, belief, strategy, and their linguistic foundations.