Environmentalist thought and ideology

This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life presented in some 30 volumes of the Analecta Husserliana, and inaugurates a new phase in philosophy/phenomenology - a truly radical turn.

What essentially is a garden?

From the very beginning it was realised that quantum physics involves radically new interpretative and epistemological consequences.

According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities has been the traditional tendency to focus on the horizontal dimension of wholes (i.

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe.

This is a collection of some works of Polish philosophers and physicists on philosophical problems of time and spacetime.

In the book If Tropes, the author attempts to approach and then deal with some of the most basic problems for a theory of tropes.

This volume is composed chiefly of papers first presented and discussed at the Research Symposium on Feminist Phenomenology held November 18-19, 1994 in Delray Beach, Florida.

The papers collected here comprise the proceedings of a Workshop in honor ofMerrilee and Wes Salmon, held in Florence on May 17-18, 1996.

This book starts with a representation of Husserl's idea of phenomenology as a foundational theory of science.

This volume is chiefly composed of revised versions of essays presented and discussed at the research symposium of the same title held in Delray Beach, Florida, on May 7-9, 1993.

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science.

In the history of science and philosophy and the philosophy of nature the name Robert Hooke has been largely ignored.

This collection presents perspectives into the pristine field of phenomenology/philosophy of life conceived by Tymieniecka, initiated in the Analecta Husserliana and unfolding with each volume.

In her Introduction, Tymieniecka states the core theme of the present book sharply: Is culture an excess of nature's prodigious expansiveness - an excess which might turn out to be dangerous for nature itself if it goes too far - or is culture a 'natural', congenial prolongation of nature-life?

According to the modal interpretation, the standard mathematical framework of quantum mechanics specifies the physical magnitudes of a system, which have definite values.

Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection presents insights of the renowned key speakers of the interdisciplinary Einstein meets Magritte conference (1995, Brussels Free University).

INSTEAD OF A "e;FESTSCHRIFT"e; In June 1998 Hans Primas turned 70 years old.

It has often been noted that a kind of double dynamics char- terizes the development of science.

techniques, and raises new issues of physical interpretation as well as possibilities for deepening the theory.

The topic to which this book is devoted is reductionism, and not reduction.

Every child is born a physical, emotional and spiritual being.

Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective: this was the theme of the conference at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.

Plaass's treatise stood at the beginning of a renewed wave of scholarship regarding Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (MF).

Science is a multifaceted, natural and historical phenomenon.

From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.

The nature of life consists in a constructive becoming (see Analecta Husserliana vol.

The tension between art and science may be traced back to the Greeks.

Western thought is surging, on the rebound from centuries of a merely background interest.

New Issues in Polar Tourism traces and analyzes a decade of growing interest in the polar regions, and the consequent challenges and opportunities of increasing tourist traffic in formerly remote and seldom-visited places.

The big question of how and why mindedness evolved necessitates collaborative,multidisciplinary investigation.

The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .

There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980's.

Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne.

This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit.

Flashes of lightning, resounding thunder, gloomy fog, brilliant sunshine.

Since the publication of The New Science of Astrobiology in the year 2001-the first edition of the present book-two significant events have taken place raising the subject from the beginning of the present century to its present maturity.

Exploring a topic of vital and ongoing importance, Traditional Forest Knowledge examines the history, current status and trends in the development and application of traditional forest knowledge by local and indigenous communities worldwide.

This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009.

This Encyclopedia offers a definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important new area of food and agricultural ethics.

Mi hijo Francisco es un relato de la experiencia de una mamá con su hijo diagnosticado con TEA (Trastorno del Espectro Autista).

This volume presents new philosophical perspectives on environmental emotions.

This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label.

This work presents and philosophically analyzes the early modern and modern history of the theory concerning the soul of the world, anima mundi.

Most philosophers still like to feel that they have a special subject matter, well insulated from anything that the social scientists, and scientists in general, have to tell them.

"e;New Visions of Nature"e; focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains.

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality - bridging physiological experience and consciousness.

An individual has the potentiality to develop himself/herself during each period of his/her life.