Download or read book Objectivity and the Silence of Reason written by George McCarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues important to the philosophy of social science are widely discussed in the American academy today. Some social scientists resist the very idea of a debate on general issues. They continue to focus on behaviorist and positivist criteria, and the concepts, methods, and theories appropriate to a particular and narrow form of scientific inquiry. McCarthy argues that a new and valuable perspective may be gained on these questions through a return to philosophical debates surrounding the origins and development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German sociology. In Objectivity and the Silence of Reason he focuses on two key figures, Max Weber and Jurrgen Habermas, reopening the vibrant and rich intellectual dispute about knowledge and truth in epistemology and concept formation, logic of analysis, and methodology in the social sciences. He uses this debate to explore the forms of objectivity in everyday experience and science, and the relations between science, ethics, and politics. McCarthy analyzes the tension in Weber's work between his early methodological writings with their emphasis on interpretive science, subjective intentionality, cultural and historical meaning and the later works that emphasize issues of explanatory science, natural causality, social prediction, and nomological law. While arguing for a value-free science, Weber was highly critical of the disenchanted and meaningless world of technical reason and rejected positivist objectivity. McCarthy shows how Habermas attempted to resolve tensions in Weber's work by clarifying the relationship between the methods of subjective interpretation and objective causality. Habermas believes that social science cannot be silent in the face of alienation, false consciousness, and the oppression of technological and administrative rationality and must adopt methodologies connected to the broader ethical and political questions of the day. Drawing deeply on the Kantian and neo-Kantian tradition that contributed to the development of Weber's method, Objectivity and the Silence of Reason demonstrates the crucial integration of philosophy and sociology in German intellectual culture. It elucidates the complexities of the development of modern social science. The book will be of interest to sociologists, philosophers, and intellectual historians.
Download or read book The View from Somewhere written by Lewis Raven Wallace and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the history of the idea of the objective journalist and how this very ideal can often be used to undercut itself. In The View from Somewhere, Lewis Raven Wallace dives deep into the history of “objectivity” in journalism and how its been used to gatekeep and silence marginalized writers as far back as Ida B. Wells. At its core, this is a book about fierce journalists who have pursued truth and transparency and sometimes been punished for it—not just by tyrannical governments but by journalistic institutions themselves. He highlights the stories of journalists who question “objectivity” with sensitivity and passion: Desmond Cole of the Toronto Star; New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse; Pulitzer Prize-winner Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah; Peabody-winning podcaster John Biewen; Guardian correspondent Gary Younge; former Buzzfeed reporter Meredith Talusan; and many others. Wallace also shares his own experiences as a midwestern transgender journalist and activist who was fired from his job as a national reporter for public radio for speaking out against “objectivity” in coverage of Trump and white supremacy. With insightful steps through history, Wallace stresses that journalists have never been mere passive observers. Using historical and contemporary examples—from lynching in the nineteenth century to transgender issues in the twenty-first—Wallace offers a definitive critique of “objectivity” as a catchall for accurate journalism. He calls for the dismissal of this damaging mythology in order to confront the realities of institutional power, racism, and other forms of oppression and exploitation in the news industry. The View from Somewhere is a compelling rallying cry against journalist neutrality and for the validity of news told from distinctly subjective voices.
Download or read book Objectivity as a Gesture written by Thomas Nelson Lampert and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self Consciousness and Objectivity written by Sebastian Rdl and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastian Rödl undermines a foundational dogma of contemporary philosophy: that knowledge, in order to be objective, must be knowledge of something that is as it is, independent of being known to be so. This profound work revives the thought that knowledge, precisely on account of being objective, is self-knowledge: knowledge knowing itself.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Right of Silence written by Hannah Quirk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of the effects of curtailing the right to silence. The right to silence has served as the practical expression of the principles that an individual was to be considered innocent until proven guilty, and that it was for the prosecution to establish guilt. In 1791, the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution proclaimed that none ‘shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself’. In more recent times, the privilege against self-incrimination has been a founding principle for the International Criminal Court, the new South African constitution and the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Despite this pedigree, over the past 30 years when governments have felt under pressure to combat crime or terrorism, the right to silence has been reconsidered (as in Australia), curtailed (in most of the United Kingdom) or circumvented (by the creation of the military tribunals to try the Guantánamo detainees). The analysis here focuses upon the effects of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in England and Wales. There, curtailing the right to silence was advocated in terms of ‘common sense’ policy-making and was achieved by an eclectic borrowing of concepts and policies from other jurisdictions. The implications of curtailing this right are here explored in detail with reference to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but within a comparative context that examines how different ‘types’ of legal systems regard the right to silence and the effects of constitutional protection.
Download or read book The Unreasonable Silence of the World written by Gary Sauer-Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1997. This book develops a postmodernist critique of philosophy - although not the postmodernism of literary philosophers such as Derrida. This postmodernism is one of ecological limitationism coupled with a practical common sense ’realism’. The authors affirm the reality of life-world and the primacy of practice against materialists, physicalists and reductionists. They attempt to show that orthodox Anglo-American analytic philosophy is not merely incapable of completing its own quest to supply a regionally justified system of reality, but, more importantly, it fails as well to meet the challenges of the age.
Download or read book Murphy on Evidence written by Richard Glover and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murphy on Evidence frames the law of evidence in its practical context. Suitable for both undergraduates and BPTC students, the text is supported by a wealth of online resources based around two fictional cases, bringing the law to life, and developing a clear contextual understanding of the law.
Download or read book Evidence written by Andrew L.-T. Choo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Choo's 'Evidence' provides a lucid and concise account of the principles of the law of civil and criminal evidence in England and Wales. Critical and thought-provoking, it is the ideal text for undergraduate law students.
Download or read book Introduction and Reason in common sense written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silence of Adam written by Lawrence J. Crabb and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1998-03-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men today have locked horns with their toughest issue: reclaiming the full potential of manhood. But in the midst of the excitement -- the meetings, rallies, seminars, and high-fives -- is something vital missing? What gives manhood definition and meaning? In The Silence of Adam, Dr. Larry Crabb and his colleagues, biblical scholar Don Hudson and counselor Al Andrews, offer a fresh look at how God designed men. They draw from neglected biblical data and their own professional experience to help us explore - manhood's lost vision - the problems of masculine community - the power of mentoring relationships -- The Silence of Adam deals thoughtfully and honestly with men's ongoing struggles and exposes the difficulties they have in relationships. It presents the rich calling men have to reveal God in ways uniquely masculine. And it summons them beyond their paralyzing fear of failure to bold risk-taking, action, deep spirituality, and full-hearted living.
Download or read book Evidence written by Roderick Munday and published by Core Texts Series. This book was released on 2019 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roderick Munday's 'Evidence' provides students with a succinct yet critical introduction to all of the topics an undergraduate studying the law of evidence will encounter. Vibrant and engaging, this invaluable text is the ideal guide to the core of this challenging subject.
Download or read book Objectivity Empiricism and Truth written by R. W. Newell and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Authority of Reason written by Jean Hampton and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This challenging and provocative book argues against much contemporary orthodoxy in philosophy and the social sciences by showing why objectivity in the domain of ethics is really no different from the objectivity of scientific knowledge. Many philosophers and social scientists have challenged the idea that we act for objectively authoritative reasons. Jean Hampton takes up the challenge by undermining two central assumptions of this contemporary orthodoxy: that one can understand instrumental reasons without appeal to objective authority, and that the adoption of the scientific world view requires no such appeal. In the course of the book Jean Hampton examines moral realism, the general nature of reason and norms, internalism and externalism, instrumental reasoning, and the expected utility model of practical reasoning. The book is sure to prove to be a seminal work in the theory of rationality that will be read by a broad swathe of philosophers and social scientists.
Download or read book The Omega Objective written by Wesley Hankins the West Meadow Crow and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The return of Christ for his church is just a whisper away, but there are still a few who are willing to believe the gospel, and Roger Converse is one of them. Catapulted to prominence when the surveillance company where he works discovers his past military talents, Roger becomes a key player. Trained in Special Ops for military intelligence, he soon finds himself in the middle of an elaborate scheme to introduce world peace. In possession of elitist information, Roger begins to struggle with the claims of Christianity, while a tangled web of coincidence usually reserved only for conspiracy theory now becomes rational policy. His life depends on where he places his trust as he sees a darker side to the utopian peace about to be introduced.
Download or read book Objective Electrical Technology written by Rohit Mehta and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present edition,authors have made sincere efforts to make the book up-to-date.A noteable feature is the inclusion of two chapters on Power System.It is hoped that this edition will serve the readers in a more useful way.
Download or read book Foundations of Objective Knowledge written by Sergio L. de C. Fernandes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant and Popper. The affmity between the philosophy of Kant and the philosophy of Karl Popper has often been noted, and most decisively in Popper's own reflections on his thought. But in this work before us, Sergio Fernandes has given a cogent, comprehensive, and challenging investigation of Kant which differs from what we may call Popper's Kant while nevertheless showing Kant as very much a precursor of Popper. The investigation is directly conceptual, although Fernandes has also contributed to a novel historical understanding of Kant in his reinterpretation; the novelty is the genuine result of meticulous study of texts and commentators, characterized by the author's thorough command of the epistemological issues in the philosophy of science in the 20th century as much as by his mastery of the Kantian themes of the 18th. Naturally, we may wish to understand whether Kant is relevant to Popper's philosophy of knowledge, how Popper has understood Kant, and to what extent the Popperian Kant has systematically or historically been of influence on later philosophy of science, as seen by Popper or not.
Download or read book The Objective Is Life written by Christopher S. Arch and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion book to The Subject Was Death, Christopher Arch, after impulsively stealing his father's car from a police impound lot with critical evidence in the trunk, finds himself alone and in the middle of Kansas. He is faced with an important decision: Should he return home with the car and face the consequences, or continue west to Denver and carry out his plan of raising money for his father, Edgar, who has been falsely arrested for attempted murder? Christopher decides to go to his father's defense, but once in Denver, he becomes involved in some shady dealings. While Edgar is languishing behind bars, Christopher doesn't have enough money to hire a good criminal lawyer, but he will do most anything to come up with the cash. He meets a woman and believes they are destined for one another because he has been given "the sign." Christopher falls in love and thinks this is the real reason he has been lured to Denver. Like the prodigal son, he risks losing everything - his wife, children and home - all because of a false signal. Will Christopher make the right decisions after all? About the Author: Christopher S. Arch is retired and lives in the Akron, Ohio area. He is inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens and the Apostle Paul. He has finished writing his next two books. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheObjectiveIsLife.html
