Unity and Plurality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unity and Plurality write by Massimiliano Carrara. This book was released on 2016-03-18. Unity and Plurality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unity and Plurality presents novel ways of thinking about plurality while casting new light on the interconnections among the logical, philosophical, and linguistic aspects of plurals. The volume brings together new work on the logic and ontology of plurality and on the semantics of plurals in natural language. Plural reference, the view that definite plurals such as 'the students' refer to several entities at once (the individual students), is an approach favoured by logicians and philosophers, who take sentences with plurals ('the students gathered') not to be committed to entities beyond individuals, entities such as classes, sums, or sets. By contrast, linguistic semantics has been dominated by a singularist approach to plurals, taking the semantic value of a definite plural such as 'the students' to be a mereological sum or set. Moreover, semantics has been dominated by a particular ontological view of plurality, that of extensional mereology. This volume aims to build a bridge between the two traditions and to show the fruitfulness of nonstandard mereological approaches. A team of leading experts investigates new perspectives that arise from plural logic and non-standard mereology and explore novel applications to natural language phenomena.
Unity, Plurality and Politics
Unity, Plurality and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unity, Plurality and Politics write by J. M. Porter. This book was released on 2019-11-19. Unity, Plurality and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as 'cultural'; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed 'political'. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by plurality. Unity and plurality interpenetrate. These insights, which derive from the thinking of Herder, have been fundamental to the work of F. M. Barnard. In this volume a number of scholars contribute, in Barnardian vein, reflections on the tensions between unity and plurality in the history of ideas. The central underlying question is, in essence, ’what is the context of political life?’ The question remains of more importance than any single answer.
Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered
Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered write by Stephanie Ruphy. This book was released on 2016-12-23. Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can we expect our scientific theories to make up a unified structure, or do they form a kind of "patchwork" whose pieces remain independent from each other? Does the proliferation of sometimes-incompatible representations of the same phenomenon compromise the ability of science to deliver reliable knowledge? Is there a single correct way to classify things that science should try to discover, or is taxonomic pluralism here to stay? These questions are at the heart of philosophical debate on the unity or plurality of science, one of the most central issues in philosophy of science today. This book offers a critical overview and a new structure of this debate. It focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and metaphysical commitments of various philosophical attitudes surrounding monism and pluralism, and offers novel perspectives and pluralist theses on scientific methods and objects, reductionism, plurality of representations, natural kinds, and scientific classifications.
Pluralism and Unity?
Pluralism and Unity? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pluralism and Unity? write by Jorge Canestri. This book was released on 2018-10-08. Pluralism and Unity? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book compiles the papers presented at an International Conference, "Pluralism of Sciences: The Psychoanalytic Method between Clinical, Conceptual and Empirical Research" in 2002. It provides the variety and diversity of psychoanalytic research cultures in different psychoanalytic societies.
Continental Perspectives on Community
Continental Perspectives on Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Continental Perspectives on Community write by Chantal Bax. This book was released on 2019-10-02. Continental Perspectives on Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the issues at the center of many historical and contemporary reflections on community and sociality in Continental philosophy. The essays reflect on the thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, Derrida, Badiou, Fanon, Baldwin, Nancy, Agamben and Laruelle. Continental Perspectives on Community brings the different approaches of these thinkers into conversation with each other. It discusses the possibility of how the concept of community can extend beyond the one and beyond any sense of unity and totality. Additionally, the book shows how notion of community in plurality is at the heart of ethical and political reflections on alterity and race, of political philosophical reflections on the exception, and of ontological reflections on what it means for humans to be social. In this way, it offers an important contribution to the examination of how a community can be thought today. This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on social, political, and cultural issues in Continental philosophy.
