Suchergebnisse

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965

Remain up-to-date. and acknowledge the interdisciplinary continuum that semiotics uncovers. This event, chaired by William Passarini (Mansarda Acesa) and to be commented on by Gonçalo Santos (Research Centre for Anthropology and Health), is part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing, cooperatively organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, the Iranian Society for Phenomenology at the Iranian Political Science Association, the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Semiotic Society of America, the American Maritain Association, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, Moscow State Academic University for the Humanities and the Mansarda Acesa with the support of the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Government of Portugal under the UID/FIL/00010/2020 project. *** Anton Markoš is a theoretical biologist and associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. In his writings, he focuses on cell and evolutionary biology and biosemiotics from the hermeneutical, historical and philosophical point of view. Among his many scientific and popular books and articles are Epigenetic Processes and the Evolution of Life (w/ Jana Švorcová; CRC Press 2019), Readers of the Book of Life (Oxford University Press 2002), or Life as its own Designer: Darwin´s Origin and Western Thought (w/ Filip Grygar, László Hajnal, Karel Kleisner, Zdenek Kratochvíl, Zdenek Neubauer; Springer 2009). *** Gonçalo ...

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Learning From the Global South -- The Arrogance of Western Philosophy -- The Centrality of Critique -- The Genius Motive -- Constructing World History Based On the Scantest of Sources -- Making a Difference in the World -- Structure of this Book -- Bibliography -- 1 Decolonizing Epistemology: Fuzzy Logic -- Ontology, Epistemology, Methodology -- Aristotelian Logic -- Conquest and Categorization -- The World Against Aristotle -- Fuzzy Logic Today: Toward an Operationalization of Fuzzy Logic -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- 2 Decolonizing Citizenship: Candomblé Nationhood -- Against Western Epistemological Dominance -- Candomblés Da Bahia -- Candomblé Nationhood -- Salvador: City of Women -- Becoming Yoruba: Joining a Nation By Initiation -- Jus Ritualis -- Implications -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Decolonizing Republicanism: Maroon Republics -- Free Maroon City-Republics: Cimarron Republicanism -- Maroon Political Autonomy in Colombia: Cimarron Republicanism -- The Loss of Autonomy Republican Palenquera -- Cimarron Resistance: the Kuagro -- The Kuagro as the Matrix for Political and Civic Organizing -- Seeking Political Autonomy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 First People of the Americas: Lessons On Democracy, Citizenship, and Politics -- Politics -- The State -- Only Tribes Will Survive: Escaping Wétiko -- The Wintukua - Guardians of the Earth -- Political Leadership -- A Culture of Responsibility -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 The African Origins of Democracy -- Counter-history -- The Timeline -- Against Civilization -- Democracy -- Hunter-Gatherer Egalitarianism and Direct Democracy -- Africa -- Egypt, Phoenicia, Babylon, and Carthage -- Women and Rule -- Kgotla -- Conclusion -- Note.

This article surveys the activities and funding priorities of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) during the first two decades of the Cold War, from the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s. Drawing on documents from the RF's own archive as well as Western government repositories, the article focuses on the foundation's support for research in the social sciences and the humanities. The article first gives an overview of RF policies and grants during the early Cold War and then discusses the political dimension of the foundation's philanthropic practices. The main part of the article looks in detail at two specific RF projects in the humanities and social sciences that exemplify the political and intellectual features of the early Cold War. The final section considers the nature of modernity, modernization, and the Cold War.

This article surveys the activities and funding priorities of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) during the first two decades of the Cold War, from the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s. Drawing on documents from the RF's own archive as well as Western government repositories, the article focuses on the foundation's support for research in the social sciences and the humanities. The article first gives an overview of RF policies and grants during the early Cold War and then discusses the political dimension of the foundation's philanthropic practices. The main part of the article looks in detail at two specific RF projects in the humanities and social sciences that exemplify the political and intellectual features of the early Cold War. The final section considers the nature of modernity, modernization, and the Cold War. Adapted from the source document.

It is argued that there is a radical distinction between the natural sci's, the soc sci's & the humanities grounded in the typal diversity of the phenomena with which they are concerned. Natural sci's are concerned with a realm in which value-considerations are practically non-existent. Humanities study a realm which is the specific creation of men & in which value-bearing & value-embodying aspects are the essence of the matter. Soc sci's deal with a midway realm of human reality arising out of the interaction of men in which the causal & the valuational intertwine in an inextricable manner. This midway positioning of the soc sci's accounts for the continuous temptation of the soc sci'st to regard his subject-matter in completely naturalistic terms, on the one hand, or as analogous to a piece of human art-creation, on the other. The diverse & even contradictory methodologies pleaded for in the soc sci's can be understood in the perspective & context of such a situation. AA.

Characterizing the three cultures -- The natural sciences -- Social sciences 1 -- Social sciences 2 -- The humanities -- Current tensions