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Book Radical Reflection and the Origin of the Human Sciences

Download or read book Radical Reflection and the Origin of the Human Sciences written by Calvin O. Schrag and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the human sciences. However, it is not a treatise on scientific methodology nor is it a proposal for a unification of the human sciences through an integration of their findings within a general conceptual scheme.

Book Radical Reflection and the Origin of the Human Sciences

Download or read book Radical Reflection and the Origin of the Human Sciences written by Calvin O. Schrag and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the human sciences. However, it is not a treatise on scientific methodology nor is it a proposal for a unification of the human sciences through an integration of their findings within a general conceptual scheme.

Book The Human Sciences

    Book Details:
  • Author : Baha Abu-Laban
  • Publisher : University of Alberta
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780888641342
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Human Sciences written by Baha Abu-Laban and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of continued funding of research within the scholarly community, especially in the humanities and social sciences, has become a major consideration as Canadian universities plan for the future.

Book Composition as a Human Science

Download or read book Composition as a Human Science written by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These groundbreaking essays reflect on the conceptual and ethical basis for composition studies as a new discipline of written language.

Book Philosophical Papers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Calvin O. Schrag
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1994-03-08
  • ISBN : 9780791418307
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Philosophical Papers written by Calvin O. Schrag and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-03-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 16 essays written between 1958 and 1990 (most previously published in journals and edited volumes) that provides an account of the main developments in 20th-century continental philosophy. The volume is divided into four sections: the existence- problem--explorations in existentialism and phenomenology; the disciplinary crisis in the human sciences--between empiricism and structuralism; deconstruction and reflections on the end of philosophy; and the postmodern challenge and the reconstruction of reason. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Crisis of the Human Sciences

Download or read book The Crisis of the Human Sciences written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the human sciences to the “real world.” The authors of this volume suggest that the humanities need to operate in a concrete cultural environment able to influence procedures on a hic et nunc basis, and that they should not entirely depend on normative criteria whose function is often to hide ignorance behind a pretentious veil of value-neutral objectivity. In sociology, the growth of scientism has fragmented ethical categories and distorted discourse between our inner and outer selves, while philosophy is suffering from an empty professionalism current in many philosophy departments in industrialized and developing countries where boring, ahistorical, and nonpolitical exercises are justified through appeals to false excellence. In all branches of the humanities, absurd evaluation processes foster similar tendencies as they create a sterile atmosphere and prevent interdisciplinarity and creativity. Technicization of theory plays into the hands of technocrats. The authors offer a broad range of approaches and interpretations, reaching from philosophy of education to the re-evaluation of business models for universities.

Book Methodology for the Human Sciences

Download or read book Methodology for the Human Sciences written by Donald E. Polkinghorne and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1984-06-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodology for the Human Sciences addresses the growing need for a comprehensive textbook that surveys the emerging body of literature on human science research and clearly describes procedures and methods for carrying out new research strategies. It provides an overview of developing methods, describes their commonalities and variations, and contains practical information on how to implement strategies in the field. In it, Donald Polkinghorne calls for a renewal of debate over which methods are appropriate for the study of human beings, proposing that the results of the extensive changes in the philosophy of science since 1960 call for a reexamination of the original issues of this debate. The book traces the history of the deliberations from Mill and Dilthey to Hempel and logical positivism, examines recently developed systems of inquiry and their importance for the human sciences, and relates these systems to the practical problems of doing research on topics related to human experience. It discusses historical realism, systems and structures, phenomenology and hermeneutics, action theory, and the implications recent systems have for a revised human science methodology.

Book Foundations of Morality  Human Rights  and the Human Sciences

Download or read book Foundations of Morality Human Rights and the Human Sciences written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume constitute a portion of the research program being carried out by the International Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. Established as an affiliate society of the World Institute for Ad vanced Phenomenological Research and Learning in 1976, in Arezzo, Italy, by the president of the Institute, Dr Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, this particular society is devoted to an exploration of the relevance of phenomenological methods and insights for an understanding of the origins and goals of the specialised human sciences. The essays printed in the first part of the book were originally presented at the Second Congress of this society held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 12-14 July 1979. The second part of the volume consists of selected essays from the third convention (the Eleventh International Congress of Phenomenology of the World Phenomen ology Institute) held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1981. With the third part of this book we pass into the "Human Rights" issue as treated by the World Phenomenology Institute at the Interamerican Philosophy Congress held in Tallahassee, Florida, also in 1981. The volume opens with a mono graph by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka on the foundations of ethics in the moral practice within the life-world and the social world shown as clearly distinct. The main ideas of this work had been presented by Tymieniecka as lead lectures to the three conferences giving them a tight research-project con sistency.

Book Reflections on the Religious  the Ethical  and the Political

Download or read book Reflections on the Religious the Ethical and the Political written by Calvin O. Schrag and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political presents fourteen essays devoted to the interconnected topics of religion, ethics, and politics, along with an introductory interview with the author regarding his philosophical development over the years. This volume serves two interconnected purposes: as an introduction or reintroduction to Calvin O.Schrag's intellectual contributions to a critical consideration of these three topics, and as a critical companion and supplement to Schrag's published work on these topics. The topics of religion, ethics, and politics have served as pivot points throughout Schrag's career in the academy, which spans half a century.

Book Experiences between Philosophy and Communication

Download or read book Experiences between Philosophy and Communication written by Ramsey Eric Ramsey and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing developments and advancements concerning the thought of Calvin O. Schrag, this book includes the first full-length interview with the American continental philosopher and covers his long and illustrative philosophical contribution to thinking about the consequences of communication. The influence of Schrag's work is significant and broad, and these nine thought-provoking pieces by leading scholars whose work has been influenced by his philosophy presents the best contemporary thought on communicative praxis. Encompassing questions of democracy, the public and private spheres, and relations inside organizational structures, to questions of giving and ethics, rhetoric and narrative, suffering and love, this is a wellspring of insight and provocation for both those already familiar with Schrag's work and those seeking a keen invitation to his many critical reflections.

Book Education in Human Creative Existential Planning

Download or read book Education in Human Creative Existential Planning written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is the transmission of knowledge and skill from one generation to another, and is vitally significant for the growth and unfolding of the living individual. It manifests the quintessential ability of the logos to differentiate life in self-individualization from within, and in its spread through inter-generative networks. The present collection of papers focuses on the underpinnings of the creative workings of the human strategies of reason.

Book The Rhetorical Turn

Download or read book The Rhetorical Turn written by Herbert W. Simons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have only recently started to challenge the notion that "serious" inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it can rely exclusively on "hard" fact and "cold" logic in support of its claims. Increasingly, scholars are shifting their attention from methods of proof to the heuristic methods of debate and discussion—the art of rhetoric—to examine how scholarly discourse is shaped by tropes and figures, by the naming and framing of issues, and by the need to adapt arguments to ends, audiences, and circumstances. Herbert W. Simons and the contributors to this important collection of essays provide impressive evidence that the new movement referred to as the rhetorical turn offers a rigorous way to look within and across the disciplines. The Rhetorical Turn moves from biology to politics via excursions into the rhetorics of psychoanalysis, decision science, and conversational analysis. Topics explored include how rhetorical invention guides scientific invention, how rhetoric assists political judgment, and how it integrates varying approaches to meta-theory. Concluding with four philosophical essays, this volume of case studies demonstrates how the inventive and persuasive dimensions of scholarly discourse point the way to forms of argument appropriate to our postmodern age.

Book The Opening of Vision

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  • Author : David Michael Levin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2008-01-28
  • ISBN : 1134988923
  • Pages : 818 pages

Download or read book The Opening of Vision written by David Michael Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Selfhood and Authenticity

Download or read book Selfhood and Authenticity written by Corey Anton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the notion of selfhood in the wake of the post-structuralist debates.

Book Philosophical Foundations for Moral Education and Character Development

Download or read book Philosophical Foundations for Moral Education and Character Development written by George F. McLean and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Phenomenology

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Phenomenology written by Lester Embree and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia presents phenomenological thought and the phenomenological movement within philosophy and within more than a score of other disciplines on a level accessible to professional colleagues of other orientations as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Entries average 3,000 words. In practically all cases, they include lists of works "For Further Study." The Introduction briefly chronicles the changing phenomenological agenda and compares phenomenology with other 20th Century movements. The 166 entries are a baut matters of seven sorts: ( 1) the faur broad tendencies and periods within the phenomenological movement; (2) twenty-three national traditions ofphenomenology; (3) twenty-two philosophical sub-disciplines, including those referred to with the formula "the philosophy of x"; (4) phenomenological tendencies within twenty-one non-philosophical dis ciplines; (5) forty major phenomenological topics; (6) twenty-eight leading phenomenological figures; and (7) twenty-seven non-phenomenological figures and movements ofinteresting sim ilarities and differences with phenomenology. Conventions Concern ing persons, years ofbirth and death are given upon first mention in an entry ofthe names of deceased non-phenomenologists. The names of persons believed tobe phenomenologists and also, for cross-referencing purposes, the titles of other entries are printed entirely in SMALL CAPITAL letters, also upon first mention. In addition, all words thus occurring in all small capital letters are listed in the index with the numbers of all pages on which they occur. To facilitate indexing, Chinese, Hungarian, and Japanese names have been re-arranged so that the personal name precedes the family name.

Book American Phenomenology

    Book Details:
  • Author : E.F. Kaelin
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9400925751
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book American Phenomenology written by E.F. Kaelin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THEODORE KISIEL Date of birth: October 30,1930. Place of birth: Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Date of institution of highest degree: PhD. , Duquesne University, 1962. Academic appointments: University of Dayton; Canisius College; Northwestern University; Duquesne University; Northern Illinois University. I first left the university to pursue a career in metallurgical research and nuclear technology. But I soon found myself drawn back to the uni versity to 'round out' an overly specialized education. It was along this path that I was 'waylaid' into philosophy by teachers like H. L. Van Breda and Bernard Boelen. The philosophy department at Duquesne University was then (1958-1962) a veritable "little Louvain," and the Belgian-Dutch connection exposed me to (among other visiting scholars) Jean Ladriere and Joe Kockelmans, who planted the seeds which eventually led me to the hybrid discipline of a hermeneutics of natural science, and prompted me soon after graduation to make the first of numerous extended visits to Belgium and Germany. The endeavor to learn French and German led me to the task of translating the phenomenological literature bearing especially on natural science and on Heidegger. The talk in the sixties was of a "continental divide" in philosophy between Europe and the Anglo-American world. But in designing my courses in the philosophy of science, I naturally gravitated to the works of Hanson, Kuhn, Polanyi and Toulmin without at first fully realizing why I felt such a strong kinship with them, beyond their common anti positivism.