Social and political philosophy

No theory is more passionately and widely defined, or decried, than is liberalism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

The papers in this book have been collected in celebration of Carl Wellman, who, after forty-five years, is retiring from teaching.

This volume brings together a number of authors that see themselves as contribu- tors to, or critical commentators on, a new field that has recently emerged within the sociology of knowledge.

Before Machiavelli, political freedom was approached as a problem of the best distribution of the functions of ruler and ruled.

In this age of collections that is ours, many volumes of collections are published.

Johann Valentin Andrere (1586-1654) was a multi-faceted product of late- Reformation Germany.

Philosophical aspects of law and jurisprudence are investigated from various points of view.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, infonnation, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

Solidarity as a phenomenon lies like an erratic block in the midst of the moral landscape of our age.

The maintext in the present volume has beenconstructed out of passages found scattered aboutin thirty-five years of Alfred Schutz's writings, and it has been constructed by following a pageof notes for a lecture that he gave in 1955 under the title "e;Sociological Aspect of Literature.

Questions about the relationship between autonomy and authority are raised in nearly every area of moral philosophy.

Even though several branches of philosophy meet in the notion of trust, it has nevertheless been largely neglected by mainstream philosophy.

`Scientific history of philosophy' was one of the professional branches of Soviet philosophy, and a place where philosophical culture was preserved in an often hostile environment.

The Cambridge Platonists were defenders of tolerance in the political as well as the moral sphere ; they held that practical j u d g e m e n t came down in the last instance to individual conscience ; and they laid the foundations of our modern conceptions of conscience and liberty.

Talking Wolves advances an analysis of Hobbes which takes language seriously (as seriously as Hobbes took it).

Kantianism, Postmodernism and Critical Legal Thought presents a challenging alternative theory of legal philosophy.

The theory of practical rationality does not belong to one academic discipline alone.

This book is designed to serve two purposes.

The roots of this work lie in my earlier book, Scientific Progress, which first appeared in 1981.

Gans ranks at the head of that important group of Hegelian thinkers that bridged the generations of Hegel and Marx.

Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of "e;surrender and catch"e; to human experience, particularly in its cogni- tive forms.

Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social thought has been shaped directly or indirectly by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, though there is considerable disagreement about how his work should be understood.

Both Perelman's collaborators, Professors Haarscher and Ingber, shared with me their deep personal insights about origins, birth and phases of the develop- ment of the New Rhetoric.

The collapse of socialism across Eastern Europe - as manifested most dramatically by the events of the forever memorable November 9, 1989, when the Germans of East and West reunited, moved and overjoyed, on top of the Berlin Wall - has added more support and urgency to the central thesis of this volume than I had ever hoped for.

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or machine.

I begin by introducing the main issues of the work, and inviting their consideration; as enticement, I offer a sketch of their practical importance, and of the philosophical challenge they present.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION This study of the concept of health is an attempt to combine central ideas in modern philosophy of medicine with certain results from analytical action theory.

My initial interest in sociology stemmed from the desire to see specific social change in certain areas of my native United States of America.

This essay attempts to demonstrate the significance of the principle of activity in the philosophy of Karl Marx.

The idea of the present study is basically a simple one.

Hegel once said that philosophy is the "e;world stood on its head"e; and Karl Marx credited his own philosophic genius with setting the Hegel- ian world right side up again.

There are greatly divergent modes of thinking and widely differing problems subsumed as belonging to the domain of eontemporary philosophy.

Aron Gurwitsch (1900-73) was one of the most important figures in the phenomenological movement between the 1920s and the 1970s.

Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information processing, namely by a process in which pieces of descriptive and practical information are involved.

Robert Heeger has been professor of ethics at Utrecht University since 1977, both at the Faculty of Theology and at the Faculty of Philosophy.

Ideas linked to rational choice theory started to appear frequently in the economics literature in the 1960s and 1970s, but the attention given to rationality widened to include commentators presenting far-reaching appraisals and critiques.

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

The subject of medical ethics is always current and offers an inviting theme, particularly for anyone who has spent his life in medical practice.

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This collection of essays draws together work done during a period of more than fifteen years.

For much of the last three decades or more economic methodology has been dominated by the work of Karl Popper who advocated the position that science is what it is by virtue of its adherence to certain ideals.

In this book I have tried to develop further the ideas expressed in my previous work, Between Experience and Metaphysics, which was published in the same series in 1975.

Thomas White, in the quatercentenary of his birth, is due for historical rehabilitation.

An idea of the philosophy of archaeology can best be gained by showing what it is, what the issues are, who is working in the field, and how they proceed.