Concepts And Persons
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Author |
: Michael Lambek |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2021-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487539603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487539606 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Concepts and Persons by : Michael Lambek
The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions around the world, including the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. In January 2019, University of Toronto’s Michael Lambek, professor, former Canada Research Chair, and member of the Royal Society of Canada, delivered the Tanner Lecture at the University of Michigan’s Department of Philosophy on the topic of "Concepts and Persons." As well as tracing his career in social and cultural anthropology, Lambek’s Tanner Lecture spoke on the intersection of anthropology and philosophy as a means of articulating the moral basis of human action. By elucidating where anthropology and philosophy might intersect, Lambek’s lecture is a profound examination of the human condition, and is beautifully captured in this publication. Concepts and Persons recounts the lecture as delivered at the prestigious event, the commentary of three distinguished respondents, and Lambek’s own response to that commentary. The book’s presentation of the lecture also includes a rich and layered set of notes that augment the lecture significantly, as well as additional clarification and thought that has developed since the event. Foreword Elizabeth Anderson, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan Commentators Jonathan Lear, John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago Sherry B. Ortner, Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology, UCLA Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, and Fellow, Trinity College
Author |
: Hans Gerhard Kippenberg |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 311012159X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783110121599 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought by : Hans Gerhard Kippenberg
No detailed description available for "Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought".
Author |
: Anatol Rapoport |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2013-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486143675 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486143678 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis N-Person Game Theory by : Anatol Rapoport
DIVSequel to Two-Person Game Theory introduces necessary mathematical notation (mainly set theory), presents basic concepts and models, and provides applications to social situations. /div
Author |
: Hans G. Kippenberg |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2012-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110874372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110874377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought by : Hans G. Kippenberg
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Author |
: Antonia LoLordo |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190634384 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190634383 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Persons by : Antonia LoLordo
What is a person? Why do we count certain beings as persons and others not? How is the concept of a person distinct from the concept of a human being, or from the concept of the self? When and why did the concept of a person come into existence? What is the relationship between moral personhood and metaphysical personhood? How has their relationship changed over the last two millennia? This volume presents a genealogy of the concept of a person. It demonstrates how personhood--like the other central concepts of philosophy, law, and everyday life--has gained its significance not through definition but through the accretion of layers of meaning over centuries. We can only fully understand the concept by knowing its history. Essays show further how the concept of a person has five main strands: persons are particulars, roles, entities with special moral significance, rational beings, and selves. Thus, to count someone or something as a person is simultaneously to describe it--as a particular, a role, a rational being, and a self--and to prescribe certain norms concerning how it may act and how others may act towards it. A group of distinguished thinkers and philosophers here untangle these and other insights about personhood, asking us to reconsider our most fundamental assumptions of the self.
Author |
: Amy Kind |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 118 |
Release |
: 2015-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509500246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509500243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Persons and Personal Identity by : Amy Kind
As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive having all of our memories erased and replaced with false ones? What about if our bodies were destroyed and our brains were transplanted into android bodies, or if instead our minds were simply uploaded to computers? In this engaging and accessible introduction to these important philosophical questions, Amy Kind brings together three different areas of research: the nature of personhood, theories of personal identity over time, and the constitution of self-identity. Surveying the key contemporary theories in the philosophical literature, Kind analyzes and assesses their strengths and weaknesses. As she shows, our intuitions on these issues often pull us in different directions, making it difficult to develop an adequate general theory. Throughout her discussion, Kind seamlessly interweaves a vast array of up-to-date examples drawn from both real life and popular fiction, all of which greatly help to elucidate this central topic in metaphysics. A perfect text for readers coming to these issues for the first time, Persons and Personal Identity engages with some of the deepest and most important questions about human nature and our place in the world, making it a vital resource for students and researchers alike.
Author |
: Ákos Östör |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106012408461 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Concepts of Person by : Ákos Östör
Using rich ethnographic detail, this work looks at the extent to which new models of kinship, caste and marriage translate into regional and Indian Models. The contributors, all distinguished scholars of South Asia, tackle different geographical areas and such diverse topics as hierarchy, forms of address, ritual, household and widowhood. This edition has a new introduction which discusses current research done in these fields. This book is essential to better understand kinship, the possibilities for cross-cultural comparison, and ways of looking at social change.
Author |
: Edouard Machery |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2009-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195306880 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195306880 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Doing Without Concepts by : Edouard Machery
In Doing without Concepts, Edouard Machery argues that the dominant psychological theories of concept fail to provide a coherent framework to organize our extensive empirical knowledge about concepts. Machery proposes that to develop such a framework, drastic conceptual changes are required.
Author |
: John Wilson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 1970-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107076709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107076706 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thinking with Concepts by : John Wilson
In his preface Mr Wilson writes 'I feel that a great many adults ... would do better to spend less time in simply accepting the concepts of others uncritically, and more time in learning how to analyse concepts in general'. Mr Wilson starts by describing the techniques of conceptual analysis. He then gives examples of them in action by composing answers to specific questions and by criticism of quoted passages of argument. Chapter 3 sums up the importance of this kind of mental activity. Chapter 4 presents selections for the reader to analyse, followed by questions of university entrance/scholarship type. This is a book to be worked through, in a sense a text-book.
Author |
: Alfred Jules Ayer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 1968 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:716028891 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Concept of a Person and Other Essays by : Alfred Jules Ayer