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Concepts and Persons

Author : Michael Lambek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487539606
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Concepts and Persons written by Michael Lambek and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Living with Concepts

Author : Andrew Brandel
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823294285
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Living with Concepts written by Andrew Brandel and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology, philosophers and anthropologists examine a concept too often taken for granted: that of the concept itself. Concepts are often thought of as mere tools of analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs or symbols. But the contributors in this volume challenge these conventional frameworks, turning instead to the ways concepts are intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our conscious existence. Attending to our ordinary lives with concepts requires not an ascent from the rough ground of reality into the skies of theory, but rather acceptance of the fact that thinking is congenital to living with and through concepts. The volume offers a critical and timely intervention into both contemporary philosophy and anthropological theory by unsettling the distinction between thought and reality that continues to be too often assumed. showing how the supposed need to grasp reality may be replaced by an acknowledgement that we are in its grip. Contributors: Jocelyn Benoist, Andrew Brandel, Michael Cordey, Veena Das, Rasmus Dyring and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Marco Motta, Michael J. Puett, and Lotte Buch Segal.

Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought

Author : Hans G. Kippenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110874377
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought written by Hans G. Kippenberg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought

Author : Hans Gerhard Kippenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110121599
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought written by Hans Gerhard Kippenberg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1990 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought".

N-Person Game Theory

Author : Anatol Rapoport
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143678
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book N-Person Game Theory written by Anatol Rapoport and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Persons and Personal Identity

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509500243
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Persons and Personal Identity written by Amy Kind and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Doing Without Concepts

Author : Edouard Machery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195306880
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Doing Without Concepts written by Edouard Machery and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Concept of a Person and Other Essays

Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of a Person and Other Essays written by Alfred Jules Ayer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concepts of Person

Author : Catherine McCall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Concepts of Person written by Catherine McCall and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thinking with Concepts

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107076706
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Thinking with Concepts written by John Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970-04-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Concept of a Person, and Other Essays

Author : Alfred Jules Ayer (filosoof)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of a Person, and Other Essays written by Alfred Jules Ayer (filosoof) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Architecture of Concepts

Author : Peter de Bolla
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823254402
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Concepts written by Peter de Bolla and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century. The first chapter outlines an innovative account of concepts as cultural entities. The second develops an original methodology for recovering the historical formation of the concept of human rights based on data extracted from digital archives. This enables us to track the construction of conceptual architectures over time. Having established the architecture of the concept of human rights, the book then examines two key moments in its historical formation: the First Continental Congress in 1775 and the publication of Tom Paine’s Rights of Man in 1792. Arguing that we have yet to fully understand or appreciate the consequences of the eighteenth-century invention of the concept “rights of man,” the final chapter addresses our problematic contemporary attempts to leverage human rights as the most efficacious way of achieving universal equality.

Beyond Concepts

Author : Ruth Garrett Millikan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198717199
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Concepts written by Ruth Garrett Millikan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought. The question at the heart of her book is Kant's 'How is knowledge possible?', but answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. The starting assumption is that we are evolved creatures that use cognition as a guide in dealing with the natural world, and that the natural world is roughly as natural science has tried to describe it. Very unlike Kant, then, we must begin with ontology, with a rough understanding of what the world is like prior to cognition, only later developing theories about the nature of cognition within that world and how it manages to reflect the rest of nature. And in trying to get from ontology to cognition we must traverse another non-Kantian domain: questions about the transmission of information both through natural signs and through purposeful signs including, especially, language. Millikan makes a number of innovations. Central to the book is her introduction of the ideas of unitrackers and unicepts, whose job is to recognize the same again as manifested through the jargon of experience. She offers a direct reference theory for common nouns and other extensional terms; a naturalist sketch of conceptual development; a theory of natural information and of language function that shows how properly functioning language carries natural information; a novel description of the semantics/pragmatics distinction; a discussion of perception as translation from natural informational signs; new descriptions of indexicals, demonstratives and intensional contexts; and a new analysis of the reference of incomplete descriptions.

Social Psychology

Author : Daniel W. Barrett
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506310591
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Social Psychology written by Daniel W. Barrett and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a lively and accessible writing style, author Daniel W. Barrett integrates up-to-date coverage of social psychology’s core theories, concepts, and research with a discussion of emerging developments in the field—including social neuroscience and the social psychology of happiness, religion, and sustainability. Social Psychology: Core Concepts and Emerging Trends presents engaging examples, Applying Social Psychology sections, and a wealth of pedagogical features to help readers cultivate a deep understanding of the causes of social behavior.

The Origin of Concepts

Author : Susan Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199838801
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Concepts written by Susan Carey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in paperback-- A transformative book on the way we think about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.

The Concept of a Person

Author : A. J. Ayer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331215953
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of a Person written by A. J. Ayer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Concept of a Person: And Other Essays Bristol in April 1957, and On the Probability Of Particular Events' was published in No. 58, Fasc. 4, of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie in 1961. My thanks are due to the editors, institutions, and publishers concerned for permission to reprint this set of articles, and also to my secretary, Mrs. Rosanne Richardson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Culture, Creation, and Procreation

Author : Monika Böck
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819123
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Creation, and Procreation written by Monika Böck and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR