Options for Anthropocentric R & D
Author : F. den Hertog
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Automation
ISBN :
Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents
Author : Gary Steiner
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2005-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0822970988
Book Description
Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents is the first-ever comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century. In recent decades, increased interest in this area has been accompanied by scholars' willingness to conceive of animal experience in terms of human mental capacities: consciousness, self-awareness, intention, deliberation, and in some instances, at least limited moral agency. This conception has been facilitated by a shift from behavioral to cognitive ethology (the science of animal behavior), and by attempts to affirm the essential similarities between the psychophysical makeup of human beings and animals. Gary Steiner sketches the terms of the current debates about animals and relates these to their historical antecedents, focusing on both the dominant anthropocentric voices and those recurring voices that instead assert a fundamental kinship relation between human beings and animals. He concludes with a discussion of the problem of balancing the need to recognize a human indebtedness to animals and the natural world with the need to preserve a sense of the uniqueness and dignity of the human individual.
Option for the Poor and for the Earth: Catholic Social Teaching
Author : Donal Dorr
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : 1608332160
Book Description
Anthropocentrism
Author : Rob Boddice
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9004214941
Book Description
Anthropocentrism is a charge of human chauvinism and an acknowledgement of human ontological boundaries. Anthropocentrism has provided order and structure to humans’ understanding of the world, while unavoidably expressing the limits of that understanding. This collection explores the assumptions behind the label ‘anthropocentrism’, critically enquiring into the meaning of ‘human’. It addresses the epistemological and ontological problems of charges of anthropocentrism, questioning whether all human views are inherently anthropocentric. In addition, it examines the potential scope for objective, empathetic, relational, or ‘other’ views that trump anthropocentrism. With a principal focus on ethical questions concerning animals, the environment and the social, the essays ultimately cohere around the question of the non-human, be it animal, ecosystem, god, or machine.
Options and Agency
Author : John T. Maier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031102436
Book Description
This book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents. The central thesis is that the idea of an option should be taken as primitive, and that other agentive notions – such as ability, skill, and free will – should be understood in terms of options. The main contributions of this book are twofold. First, it resolves many of the outstanding questions in the metaphysics and semantics of agentive modality. In doing so, it develops original accounts of topics that have been central to philosophy since Aristotle. It also contributes to a lively contemporary literature on these topics. Second, it articulates an austere and uncompromising form of compatibilism about free will, termed “simple compatibilism.” Simple compatibilism is so-called because it rejects both the reductive theses endorsed by traditional compatibilists and the sophisticated proposals of many contemporary compatibilists. Instead, it turns precisely on insisting that options are analytically simple. Arguments for incompatibilism are shown to rest on auxiliary principles that should, in light of the book’s general account of options, be rejected.
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics
Author :
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 3467 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0123739322
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition, Four Volume Set addresses both the physiological and the psychological aspects of human behavior. Carefully crafted, well written, and thoroughly indexed, the encyclopedia helps users - whether they are students just beginning formal study of the broad field or specialists in a branch of psychology - understand the field and how and why humans behave as we do. The work is an all-encompassing reference providing a comprehensive and definitive review of the field. A broad and inclusive table of contents ensures detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues. Several disciplines may be involved in applied ethics: one branch of applied ethics, for example, bioethics, is commonly explicated in terms of ethical, legal, social, and philosophical issues. Editor-in-Chief Ruth Chadwick has put together a group of leading contributors ranging from philosophers to practitioners in the particular fields in question, to academics from disciplines such as law and economics. The 376 chapters are divided into 4 volumes, each chapter falling into a subject category including Applied Ethics; Bioethics; Computers and Information Management; Economics/Business; Environmental Ethics; Ethics and Politics; Legal; Medical Ethics; Philosophy/Theories; Social; and Social/Media. Concise entries (ten pages on average) provide foundational knowledge of the field Each article will features suggested readings pointing readers to additional sources for more information, a list of related websites, a 5-10 word glossary and a definition paragraph, and cross-references to related articles in the encyclopedia Newly expanded editorial board and a host of international contributors from the US, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Sweden, and the United Kingdom The 376 chapters are divided into 4 volumes, each chapter falling into a subject category including Applied Ethics; Bioethics; Computers and Information Management; Economics/Business; Environmental Ethics; Ethics and Politics; Legal; Medical Ethics; Philosophy/Theories; Social; and Social/Media
Culture and Conservation
Author : Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317937295
Book Description
Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species. Equally important, however, is the fact that we, as the species that causes extinctions, have a moral responsibility to those whose evolutionary unfolding and very future we threaten. This volume is an examination of the relationship between conservation and the social sciences, particularly anthropology. It calls for increased collaboration between anthropologists, conservationists and environmental scientists, and advocates for a shift towards an environmentally focused perspective that embraces not only cultural values and human rights, but also the intrinsic value and rights to life of nonhuman species. This book demonstrates that cultural and biological diversity are intimately interlinked, and equally threatened by the industrialism that endangers the planet's life-giving processes. The consideration of ecological data, as well as an expansion of ethics that embraces more than one species, is essential to a well-rounded understanding of the connections between human behavior and environmental wellbeing. This book gives students and researchers in anthropology, conservation, environmental ethics and across the social sciences an invaluable insight into how innovative and intensive new interdisciplinary approaches, questions, ethics and subject pools can close the gap between culture and conservation.
Umatilla National Forest (N.F.), Land and Resource(s) Management Plan (LRMP) (WA,OR)
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
24 Topic-wise CLAT & AILET (2013 - 2024) Previous Year Solved Papers 7th Edition | Common Law Admission Test PYQs | Must for SLAT, LLB Law Exams
Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2024-03-28
Category :
ISBN : 8119181468
Book Description
The updated and revised 7th Edition of the book 24 Topic-wise CLAT & AILET (2013 - 2024) Previous Year Solved Papers consists: # A total of 24 Question Papers from the past 12 years (2013 - 2024) divided into 5 sections - English Including Comprehension, Elementary Mathematics, Logical Reasoning, General Knowledge & Legal Aptitude. # The coverage of the papers includes CLAT, NLU and AILET from 2013 to 2024 as they actually reflect the pattern of the Law exams. # Practicing these questions, aspirants will come to know about the pattern and toughness of the questions asked in the examination. # In the begining, this book provide the last 6 years tend analysis of CLAT & AILET. # In the end, this book will make the aspirants competent enough to crack the uncertainty of success in the Entrance Examination. # The strength of the book lies in the originality of its question papers and Errorless Solutions. # The solution of each and every question is provided in detail (step-by-step) so as to provide 100% concept clarity to the students.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy
Author : Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1483346358
Book Description
Society, globally, has entered into what might be called the “service economy.” Services now constitute the largest share of GDP in most countries and provide the major source of employment in both developed and developing countries. Services permeate all aspects of peoples’ lives and are becoming inseparable from most aspects of economic activity. “Quality management” has been a dominating managerial practice since World War II. With quality management initially associated with manufacturing industries, one might assume the relevance of quality management might decrease with the emergence of the service economy. To the contrary, the emergence of the service economy strengthened the importance of quality issues, which no longer are associated only with manufacturing industries but are increasingly applied in all service sectors, as well. Today, we talk not only about product or service quality but have even expanded the framework of quality to quality of life and quality of environment. Thus, quality and services have emerged in parallel as closely interrelated fields. The Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy explores such relevant questions as: What are the characteristics, nature, and definitions of quality and services? How do we define quality of products, quality of services, or quality of life? How are services distinguished from goods? How do we measure various aspects of quality and services? How can products and service quality be managed most effectively and efficiently? What is the role of customers in creation of values? These questions and more are explored within the pages of this two-volume, A-to-Z reference work.
