Saturday, October 31, 2015

Seven books that shook the world

The Act of Creation is a 1964 book by Arthur Koestler. It is a study of the processes of discovery, invention, imagination and creativity in humour, science, and the arts. Wikipedia

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is a book co-created by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. Wikipedia

Small Is Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays by British economist E. F. Schumacher. The phrase "Small Is Beautiful" came from a phrase by his teacher Leopold Kohr. Wikipedia

The Tao of Physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism is a 1975 book by physicist Fritjof Capra. It was a bestseller in the United States, and has been published in 43 editions in 23 languages. Wikipedia

A Brief History of Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a 1988 popular-science book by British physicist Stephen Hawking. It became a bestseller and sold more than 10 million copies in 20 years.Wikipedia

The End of History and the Last Man (1992) - Wikipedia

The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay "The End of History?", published in the international affairs journal The National Interest. Wikipedia
Clash of Civilizations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Clash of Civilizations is a theory that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. Wikipedia

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Robert Bellah, Roy Bhaskar and Abner Shimony

Robert Neelly Bellah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist, and the Elliott Professor of Sociology, as well as Professor Emeritus at ...
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The home page for Robert N. Bellah

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The Institute's work is guided by a disciplined understanding of the interrelationship between the inner life and resources of American religious institutions and ...

A brief biography of Robert N. Bellah - Robert Bellah

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A brief biography of Robert N. Bellah. Robert N. Bellah (February 23, 1927 - July 30, 2013) was Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of ...

Religion in Human Evolution by Robert N. Bellah - Robert Bellah

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Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age. By Robert N. Bellah. September 2011. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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This ambitious book probes our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have imagined were worth living. Bellah's theory goes deep into ...

Robert Bellah, Sociologist of Religion Who Mapped the American ...

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Aug 6, 2013 - Robert N. Bellah, a distinguished sociologist of religion who sought nothing less than to map the American soul, in both the sacred and secular ...

Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age ...

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Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age [Robert N. Bellah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Religion in Human ...

Roy Bhaskar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Roy Bhaskar (15 May 1944 – 19 November 2014) was a British philosopher, best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of Critical Realism.

Roy Bhaskar obituary | World news | The Guardian

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Dec 4, 2014 - Roy Bhaskar, who has died aged 70 of heart failure, turned to philosophy only after becoming an economics lecturer at Oxford University in the ...

Roy Bhaskar | The philosopher of critical realism

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Roy Bhaskar (1944 - 2014) is a philosopher who is best known as the originator of the philosophy of critical realism and metaReality. He is currently World ...

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Jan 29, 2015 - Roy Bhaskar was an outstanding philosopher who challenged established ways of thinking. Whereas most modern philosophy asks questions ...

The WSCR Archive: Roy Bhaskar: "Roy Bhaskar Interviewed"

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Roy Bhaskar Interviewed. Questions by CHRISTOPHER NORRIS. Q. You have been thinking and writing about issues in the philosophy of science for around ...

Abner Shimony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Abner Shimony (March 10, 1928 – August 8, 2015) was an American physicist and philosopher. He specialized in quantum theory and philosophy of science.


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In this paper, Abner Shimony describes two essential concepts in quantum mechanics. The first is the quantum state or wavefunction, which specifies all the  ...

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The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (Canto) by Roger Penrose, Malcolm Longair, Abner Shimony and Nancy Cartwright (Apr 28, 2000). (18) ...

Abner Shimony, Quantum physics and the philosophy of Whitehead ...

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Yutaka Tanaka (2004). The Individuality of a Quantum Event: Whitehead's Epochal Theory of Time and Bohr's Framework of Complementarity In. In T. E. ...

Monday, October 12, 2015

Ethos of Husserl's last work

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Perhaps the differences, in this last chapter at least, have been concealed too quickly in favour of their coincidences, in favour ... recent book on Husserl's corpus, Husserl 'understands a system of philosophy to be an ethos and a community of ...

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According to Husserl, philosophy should be undertaken with the following teleological aim: The straight and necessary path [philosophers] must take allows them to see only ... The ethical- religious questions are the last questions of phenomenological constitution.30 Husserl's phenomenology has an inherently religious ethos: God and God's word, man in search of God, living as a child of God, and so ...

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Leela Gandhi - 2014 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
61 This symbiosis between subject and object Husserl magnifies in the fifth of his Cartesian meditations into a text of radical intersubjectivity. For now ... 62 Or, we might add, the frugalities of phenomenological askesis are shown to cohabit with a rich ethos of radical relationality, ... Meditations, the theme of intention is properly developed only in work that belongs to the last ten years of his productive life.

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B. H. Son - 1973 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions
Although a strong accent fell upon 'essences' in this workHusserl nevertheless spent most of his time discussing how the essences could be grasped. His later philosophy, as will be seen, is devoted almost entirely to the method of discovering the last ground of knowledge. Husserl sees the ethos of modern philosophy in its desire to refine its methodological investigations (cf. Logos, 290) . Method, thus ...

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Jeffrey Bloechl, ‎Nicolas de Warren - 2015 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
universalism of an ideal, the ideal of knowledge responsible for itself guiding sciences since Plato (Husserl 1974, p. ... If there is an ethos of theory opening up for us the perspective on to a new world, it would hardly be possible without the ... theory and practice are not divided, what is practical is not reason's subordination of all activity to the final destination it aims at, ... Kant opposes philosophy as work to fanaticism (Schw€armerei) and misology, but takes these as the rush to forsake ...

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Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2012 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
[The Hague: Nijhoff, 1969–1971] and the assessment made by J. Smith in hisbook The Disputation over Teleological ... plainly, that I base my deliberations here mainly upon two works: Hartmann's Teleological Thinking and Husserl'sThe Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. The main feature of Hartmann's book is its critical ethos. ... Hartmann caps his critical analysis of the teleological principle with a declaration that finaldeterminism is a fiasco.

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enthusiasm of Husserl's exhortation at a student reception in 1924 “not to consider oneself too good for foundation work.” This conception of the task of philosophy also accounts for the characteristic mixture of pride and humility with which Husserl referred to his final ambition as that of being a “true beginner. ... 1. the ideal of rigorous science; 2. the urge to go down to the sources (philosophical radicalism); 3. the ethos of radical autonomy; 4. the “wonder of all wonders”: subjectivity. 

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Chhanda Gupta, ‎Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1998 - ‎Preview
It is true, however, that, in his last years, Husserl called this relationship into doubt and began to reconsider the inseparability of eidetic ... the eidetic discipline is grounded in naturalistic conceptions, then perceived necessity cannot escape being an artifact of history and ethos; and if it is ... 14 This comes close to the essential "motto" (Husserl's own term) abstracted from nearly all of Husserl's mature work.

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Marius Timmann Mjaaland, ‎Ola Sigurdson, ‎Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir - 2010 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
If so, then the last strain messianism in philosophy today is both secular and opens onto an ethos. ... on the work of the founder of phenomenology, they move past and sometimes frankly abandon Husserl's epistemological concerns in favor of ...

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L. Anckaert - 2006 - ‎Preview
Rosenzweig described man substantially as character and ethos. ... of self- identification as intentionality, enjoyment and representation, inhabitation, possession and labor, thought and work. ... In the final analysis, Levinas discovers in Husserl's transcendental reduction a totalistic structure, because intentionality, although ...

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I know — as well as anybody who has studied Husserl's writings on time — that his main concern is, as they say, to create a science of consciousness with ... an example of work that could be linked to the structure of time consciousness! ... In brief, I am left completely in the dark as to what these commentators could possibly mean by their final statement concerning ... historical reasons, cognitive science is concerned to be seen to be following the third-person ethos of natural science.

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Since the end of the 19th century, at the latest, culture has meant the ,world of man' as such. ... One might speak of an essential (constitutive) ethos of culture. ... In his workHusserl is convinced that he is living in a culture of science.