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An account of the relation between belief and practice is inseparable from a general theory of religion and religious discourse. Rejection of the one time popular, but now more or less defunct, nonrealist position of people such as D. Z. Phillips, Don Cupitt, and indeed Wittgenstein leaves contemporary theo rists in anthropology and the "history of religions" with basically the vastly different "literalist" and "symbolist" analyses of religion (i.e., its ritual and discourse, belief and practice) from which to choose. This article critically appraises John Skorupksi's influential defense of intellectualism. I argue that his dismissal of symbolist approaches is more theoretically radical than he recog nizes. It rejects outright some of the very foundations and staples of contempo rary anthropology in, for example, Durkheim. His argument for the rejection of the symbolist approach is examined. Skorupski's defense of intellectualism is set in the context of a problematically naive understanding of the nature and function of religion.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / Pataki, Tamas -- Part I. What Is Racism? -- 1. The Nature of Racism / Dummett, Michael -- 2. Three Sites for Racism: Social Structures, Valuings, and Vice / Garcia, J. L.A. -- 3. What Do Accounts of"Racism" Do? / Blum, Lawrence -- 4. Philosophy and Racism / Levine, Michael P. -- 5. Oppressions: Racial and Other / Haslanger, Sally -- Part II. The Psychology Of Racism -- 6. Racism as Manic Defense / Altman, Neil / Tiemann, Johanna -- 7. The Characters of Violence and Prejudice / Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth -- 8. Racism and Impure Hearts / Lengbeyer, Lawrence A. -- 9. Psychoanalysis, Racism, and Envy / Pataki, Tamas -- Part III. Racism, Morality, Politics -- 10. Why We Should Not Think of Ourselves as Divided by Race / Boxill, Bernard -- 11. Upside-down Equality: A Response to Kantian Thought / Thomas, Laurence -- 12. The Social Element: A Phenomenology of Racialized Space and the Limits of Liberalism / Willett, Cynthia -- 13. If You Say So: Feminist Philosophy and Antiracism / La Caze, Marguerite -- References -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index

Contemporary discussions about the nature of leadership abound. But what constitutes a good leader? Are ethics and leadership even compatible? Accounts of leadership often lie at either end of an ethical spectrum: on one end are accounts that argue ethics are intrinsically linked to leadership; on the other are (Machiavellian) views that deny any such link-intrinsic or extrinsic. Leadership appears to require a normative component of virtue; otherwise 'leadership' amounts to no more than mere power or influence. But are such accounts coherent and justifiable? Approaching a controversial

In this essay we argue for the Janus-faced nature of hope. We show that attempts to sanitise the concept of hope either by separating it conceptually from other phenomena such as wishful thinking, or, more generally, by seeking to minimise the negative aspects of hope, do not help us to understand the nature of hope and its functions as regards religion. Drawing on functional accounts of religion from Clifford Geertz and Tamas Pataki, who both—in their different ways—see the function of religion in terms of its capacity to satisfy deep psychological needs, we demonstrate that religion uniquely positions itself with regard to hope's two faces, simultaneously exploiting positive and negative aspects of hope.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making Pragmatism Pragmatic -- Notes -- References -- Part 1: Issues: Putting James to Work -- Chapter 1 Listening to "the Cries of the Wounded": Jamesian Reflections on the Impasse over Gun Control -- The Problem and the Political Impasse -- Jamesian Ethics in Social Inquiry and Reform -- Listening to "Gun Guys": Toward a Pragmatic and Democratic Ideal of Consensus -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Revisiting the Social Value of College Breeding -- Introduction -- James's Ideal of Higher Education -- Higher Learning in America -- Making Docile Workers, Making Productive Citizens -- Realizing James's Ideal, Moving beyond James -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 What Makes the Lives of Livestock Significant? -- James's Conflicted Views -- The Possibilities of James's View -- References -- Chapter 4 Significant Lives and Certain Blindness: William James and the Disability Paradox -- Disability and Well-Being -- Disability in James's Experience -- Adaptive Preferences, Medical Materialism, and Self-Reports -- Significant Lives: Disability and Well-being -- The Revelations of Sick Rooms -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Pragmatism and Progress: Has There Been Progress in Race Relations in the United States? -- Philip Kitcher: Progress and Pragmatism -- Has There Been Progress in Race Relations in the United States? -- John Lachs: Progress as Detrimental to the "Active Life" and Meliorism -- Pragmatism, Meliorism, Hope -- Notes -- References -- Part 2: Theory: Clearing The Way -- Chapter 6 Applying Jamesian Pragmatism to Moral Life: Against "Applied Ethics" -- Introduction -- What Is Applied Ethics (and Applied Philosophy)? -- Deconstructing the Theory-versus-Practice Dichotomy -- Monism versus Pluralism-and the Ethical Relevance of Philosophy.

1. Ethics, architecture and philosophy -- 2. Architecture, ethics and aesthetics -- 3. Architecture and culture -- 4. Experiencing architecture -- 5. Writing on 'the Wall' : memory, monuments and memorials -- 6. Building community : new urbanism, planning and democracy.

This book investigates the close connections between engineering and war, broadly understood, and the conceptual and structural barriers that face those who would seek to loosen those connections. It shows how military institutions and interests have long influenced engineering education, research, and practice and how they continue to shape the field in the present. The book also provides a generalized framework for responding to these influences useful to students and scholars of engineering, as well as reflective practitioners. The analysis draws on philosophy, history, critical theory, and technology studies to understand the connections between engineering and war and how they shape our very understandings of what engineering is and what it might be. After providing a review of diverse dimensions of engineering itself, the analysis shifts to different dimensions of the connections between engineering and war. First, it considers the ethics of war generally and then explores questions of integrity for engineering practitioners facing career decisions relating to war. Next, it considers the historical rise of the military-industrial-academic complex, especially from World War II to the present. Finally, it considers a range of responses to the militarization of engineering from those who seek to unsettle the status quo. Only by confronting the ethical, historical, and political consequences of engineering for warfare, this book argues, can engineering be sensibly reimagined

How has 9/11 and the declaration of the 'global war on terror' changed our conceptions of politics? How has it affected our understanding of democracy, personal freedom and government accountability? In answering these and other questions, the authors engage in a comprehensive and critical analysis of politics in the age of terrorism

Catastrophe and the "Katrina Effect" / William M. Taylor and Michael P. Levine -- Reckoning : Disaster and Justice. The Effect of Katrina on Ideas of Justice / Naomi Zack ; New Orleans, 2005, and Port-au-Prince, 2010 : Some Reflections on Trans-American Disaster in the Twenty-first Century / Anna Hartnell -- Recomposing Katrina. "It's the end of the city (as we know it)" : Katrina as Metaphor and Template for the Urban Apocalypse / John Hannigan ; A Katrina Lexicon / Richard Campanella -- Bearing Witness : Journalists in the Eye of the Storm / James O'Byrne -- Dissembling : Sociology, Philosophy, and Ecology. Extending the "Urban Disaster" Paradigm : From New Orleans to Detroit (and Beyond?) / James Rhodes ; Witnessing Katrina : Morbid Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Disaster / Michael P. Levine -- Accounting for Disaster. Post-Katrina and Post-Financial Crises : Competing Logics of Risk, Uncertainty, and Security / Grahame F. Thompson ; Shifts in Compensating Victims of Disasters after Katrina / Michael G. Faure -- Tabula Rasa : Urbanism and Architecture. Katrina Effect : The Ruination of New Orleans and the Planners of Injustice / M. Christine Boyer ; Architecture after Katrina : Lessons from the Past or Designs for Someone Else's Future? / William M. Taylor ; Historic Urban Catastrophes : Learning for the Future from Wartime Destruction / Jeffry M. Diefendorf -- Memory : forgetfulness and commemoration. Historic City with a Poor Memory / Craig E. Colten ; Natural and Man-Made : Memorializing Complex Causes / David Simpson.