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Gabriel Marcel and American philosophy -- Radical empiricism, intersubjectivity, and the importance of praxis in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel -- Idealism through a past darkly: la métaphysic de Royce -- Gabriel Marcel and the issue of transitional importance in the philosophy of Josiah Royce -- Gabriel Marcel and William Ernest Hocking: companions of eternity, experience, intersubjectivity, and realization of the sacred -- Finding one's own voice: the philosophical development of Henry G. Bugbee, Jr -- Gabriel Marcel and the religious dimension of experience

Der Buchtitel ist Programm: Raymond Geuss, 1946 in Indiana (USA) geboren und seit 2007 Professor für Philosophie in Cambridge (GB), kritisiert in seiner schmalen Abhandlung Klassiker der (politischen) Philosophie – etwa Kant, Rawls oder Nozick – in scharfem, zum Teil auch polemischem Tonfall. Ihren Theorien unterstellt Geuss einen verfehlten Realismus und setzte ihnen einen eigenen, realistischen Ansatz der politischen Philosophie entgegen. Seiner Idee einer politischen Philosophie liegen vier Thesen zugrunde, welche Raymond Geuss bereits in der Einleitung vorstellt. Die Thesen lauten: Erstens: Die politische Philosophie muss realistisch sein. Dies bedeutet für Geuss, dass die politische Philosophie nicht von einem fiktiven Ideal ausgehen, sondern sich mit den realen Motivationen der Menschen oder der tatsächlichen Beschaffenheit von Institutionen beschäftigen soll. Zweitens: In der Politik geht es in erster Linie ums Handeln und um die Kontexte des Handelns. Drittens: Politik ist immer historisch verortet, also immer kontext- und zeitabhängig. Viertens: Politik ist eher ein Handwerk oder eine Kunst als eine reine Theorieanwendung. Zudem wendet er sich gegen all jene Theoretiker, die in der Tradition Kants stehen und dabei Theorien mit universellem Anspruch aufstellen, die
beinhalten, Politik sei angewandte Ethik.

"Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--

Introduction / Joachim Schummer and David Baird -- I. The Drexler challenge. 1. Two cultures of nanotechnology? / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. 2. The Drexler-Smalley debate on nanotechnology : incommensurability at work? / Otávio Bueno -- II. The metaphysics of nanotechnology. 3. Noumenal technology : reflections on the incredible tininess of nano / Alfred Nordmann. 4. Nanotechnology and nature : on two criteria for understanding their relationship / Gregor Schiemann. 5. Small, but determined : technological determinism in nanoscience / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- III. The truth of nanoscopic images. 6. When is an image not an image? / Joseph Pitt. 7. Changes in the design of scanning tunneling microscopic images from 1980 to 1990 / Jochen Hennig -- IV. Dealing with complexity. 8. Analyzing the complexity of nanotechnology / Marc J. De Vries. 9. Nanotechnology : generalizations in an interdisciplinary field of science and technology / Martin Meyer and Osmo Kuusi -- V. Social and environmental ethics of nanotechnology. 10. What counts as a 'social and ethical issue' in nanotechnology? / Bruce V. Lewenstein. 11. The promise and threat of nanotechnology : can environmental ethics guide us? / Christopher J. Preston -- VI. Managing the risks of nanotechnology. 12. Nanosciences and their convergence with other technologies : new golden age or apocalypse? / Louis Laurent and Jean-Claude Petit. 13. Living with uncertainty : toward the ongoing normative assessment of nanotechnology / Jean-Pierre Dupuy and Alexei Grinbaum. 14. Great uncertainty about small things / Sven Ove Hansson -- VII. Public discourses on the future. 15. Bridging the gaps : science fiction in nanotechnology / José López. 16. Beyond truth : pleasure of nanofutures / Arne Hessenbruch -- VIII. Visions and public reactions to nanotechnology. 17. Narratives for nanotech : anticipating public reactions to nanotechnology / Christopher P. Toumey. 18. 'Societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology' : meanings, interest groups, and social dynamics / Joachim Schummer.

Abstract
In this paper, I will focus on the role that findings of the empirical sciences might play in justifying normative claims in political philosophy. In the first section, I will describe how political theory has become a discipline divorced from empirical sciences, against a strong current in post-war political philosophy. I then argue that Rawls's idea of reflective equilibrium, rightly interpreted, leads to a perspective on the matter of justification that takes seriously empirical findings regarding currently held normative beliefs of people. I will finally outline some functions that empirical studies might have in political philosophy.

1. Introduction -- 2. Global Expressivism -- 3. Representationalism versus anti-representationalism about perceptual experience and in cognitive science -- 4. The world for us and the world in itself -- 5. Brains in vats -- 6. Anti-representationalism, realism, and anti-realism -- 7. Metaphysics for anti-representationalists? -- References.

The article is devoted to the problem of the current state of political philosophy. It is proved that destructive conclusions in theory regarding the status and essence of the modern political sphere are determined by transformations in the fi eld of social existence. This article proceeds from the assumption that the deep ontological foundations are in the essence of actual social relations. Hence, the role of modern politics cannot be reduced to the tools of social games. In a comparative analysis of the achievements of modern sociological thought, exploring the specifi cs of a communicative society, and the conclusions of political philosophy in the fi eld of social methodology, the main trends in the transformation of the political sphere are revealed. An attempt is made to criticize the concept of landfi ll philosophy, which provokes the recognition of politics as a policy of nihilism. Variants of modern classifi cations of policy levels are traced. The essence of the ontological foundations of the «death» of political philosophy is revealed. It is shown that a certain belittling of the status of politics and attempts to replace its managerial functions, for example, with an emotional intelligence system, translates politics into the status of a simulacrum. In this context, an attempt is made to return the traditional consideration of politics in the dialectic of private and public. The risks of social uncertainty of the policy are evidently determined. Special attention in this analysis is paid to the infl uence of transformations of modern man on the state of the political sphere. The evolution of nihilism has been specially traced and the risks of replacing the traditional ideological shells of politics with this social trend have been identifi ed. The aspects of the interaction of politics with the sphere of freedom are touched upon and the signifi cance of the infl uence of politics on the areas of social existence is revealed. In particular, the interrelation of politics and transformations of the economic sphere of society is traced.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Matrix Events and Institution -- Sedimentation and Symbolism in Institution -- Symbolic Forms and Elemental Being -- Outline of Chapters -- Chapter 1. Matrix Events: Methods and Antecedents -- The Homeric Diphthong -- The Platonic Dividing-Collecting -- The Merleau-Pontian écart -- Interrogative Method and écart -- Écart and Division in Heraclitus -- λόγος and ἁπτόμενον in Heraclitus -- Some Remaining Questions -- Chapter 2. Space-Imagination -- Abstract Geometrical Essences, Morphological Ideals, and Phantasy in Husserl -- The Role of Imagination in the Substruction of Essences -- Sculptural Shapes and the Space of Imagination -- Beyond Sight and Image -- Some Remaining Questions -- Chapter 3. Light-Dark/Awake-Asleep -- The Light-Dark Opposition in Jean-Luc Nancy -- Light-Dark and Elementality -- Waking-Sleeping -- Dark Sleep -- Some Remaining Questions -- Chapter 4. Philosophy-Symbolism -- Dreams and Passivity -- The Positive Symbol -- The Positive Symbol and Psyche -- The Positive Symbol, Psyche, and λέγειν -- The Positive Symbol in Philosophy: Analysis and the Analyzed -- Some Remaining Questions -- Chapter 5. Philosophical Language-Literary Language -- Ontology, Not Metaphorical Ontology -- Finding a Hermeneutical Reverie with Proust -- The Chiasm between Conceptual and Literary Language -- The Chiasm between the Real and the Fictive -- The Chiasm between Localized Space and Nonlocalized Time -- Some Remaining Questions -- Conclusion -- Sedimentation, Elementality -- The Different Politics of Metaphor and Symbolism -- Politics, History, and Elements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Having enjoyed more than a decade of lively critique and creativity, feminist philosophy of religion continues to be a vital field of inquiry. New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion maintains this vitality with both women and men, from their own distinctive social and material locations, contributing critically to the rich traditions in philosophy of religion. The twenty contributors open up new possibilities for spiritual practice, while contesting the gender-bias of traditional concepts in the field: the old models of human and divine will no longer 'simply do'! A lively current debate develops in re-imagining and revaluing transcendence in terms of body, space and self-other relations. This collection is an excellent source for courses in feminist philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics and literature, Continental and analytical philosophy of religion, engaging with a range of religions and philosophers including Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Heidegger, Arendt, Weil, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Levinas, Irigaray, Bourdieu, Kristeva, Le Doeuff, bell hooks and Jantzen.

This volume is divided into four parts. The first Part explores individual philosophers, including Fichte, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, amongst other great thinkers of the period. The second addresses key philosophical movements: Idealism, Romanticism, Neo-Kantianism, and Existentialism. The essays in the third Part engage with different areas of philosophy that received particular attention at this time, including philosophy of nature and of science, philosophy of mind and language, the philosophy of education, and the relationship between philosophy and science, or Wissenschaft (a German term that is famously less narrowly restricted to natural science and disciplines modeled on it than its English counterpart). Finally, the contributors turn to discuss central philosophical topics, from skepticism to materialism, from dialectics to ideas of historical and cultural Otherness, and from the reception of antiquity to atheism

Barry Chazan is a Professor Emeritus at Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. He gives lectures at Spertus Institute of Jewish
Learning and Leadership. He wrote a very brief book on Israel Education that provides
very specific information about its aim, principles, content, and pedagogy. It is
based on three papers titled, A Relational Philosophy of Israel Education;
Making Israel Education Happen; A Culture of Israel Education;
and an Epilogue. The subject of Israel Education promotes national
cohesion through teaching Israeli national narrative to its citizens and Jewish
visitors there. Author describes the target subject by a Relational Approach with
an objective for building a response to the
challenge of Jewish life in 21st Century, which must remain loyal to
its past, conversant to its present and progressive to its future. The
whole content of the book is written with basic ideas
of Zionist Israeli nationalist approach, which calls Theodore Herzl as its
hero.

Edmund Husserl, founder of the phenomenological movement, is usually read as an idealist in his metaphysics and an instrumentalist in his philosophy of science. In Nature's Suit, Lee Hardy argues that both views represent a serious misreading of Husserl's texts. Drawing upon the full range of Husserl's major published works together with material from Husserl's unpublished manuscripts, Hardy develops a consistent interpretation of Husserl's conception of logic as a theory of science, his phenomenological account of truth and rationality, his ontology of the physical thing and mathematical objectivity, his account of the process of idealization in the physical sciences, and his approach to the phenomenological clarification and critique of scientific knowledge. Offering a jargon-free explanation of the basic principles of Husserl's phenomenology, Nature's Suit provides an excellent introduction to the philosophy of Edmund Husserl as well as a focused examination of his potential contributions to the philosophy of science. While the majority of research on Husserl's philosophy of the sciences focuses on the critique of science in his late work, The Crisis of European Sciences, Lee Hardy covers the entire breadth of Husserl's reflections on science in a systematic fashion, contextualizing Husserl's phenomenological critique to demonstrate that it is entirely compatible with the theoretical dimensions of contemporary science.