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Determinism and Its Discontents

Author : Suresh Kanekar
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627343628
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Determinism and Its Discontents written by Suresh Kanekar and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deterministic position is that all events are effects of previous events and causes of future events, in inexorable cause-effect sequences, which leave no room for intervention of anything outside of the stream of causal relationships, such as free will, thus rendering moral responsibility meaningless. Libertarians believe in freedom of will which is, for them, indispensable for moral responsibility. This controversy can be resolved only by making a clear distinction between two kinds of freedom. In common parlance, freedom means freedom from constraint or compulsion, which can be designated as contra-constraintual freedom. The second meaning of freedom is freedom from causation, which has been referred to as contra-causal freedom, and this is the meaning that is inherent in the concept of freedom of will. If we have contra-causal freedom, we can choose or decide to act irrespective of antecedent conditions including our own past. The distinction between contra-causal freedom and contra-constraintual freedom is the key to the resolution of the controversy between determinism and libertarianism. The absence of contra-causal freedom prevails at the theoretical, conceptual, objective, abstract, or as-is level, whereas contra-constraintual freedom functions at the practical, behavioral, subjective, concrete, or as-if level. All we need for moral responsibility is contra-constraintual freedom, and not contra-causal freedom. At the as-is level, there is neither freedom nor dignity, neither morality nor accountability, and neither purpose nor meaning for human existence. It is only at the as-if level that these terms make any sense at all. In theory there is no choice from alternative courses of action in light of the absence of contra-causal freedom; in practice there is, in direct proportion to contra-constraintual freedom. And that practice forms the foundation of criminal jurisprudence and moral behavior in general, without which human civilization would not survive.

Determinism and Its Discontents

Author : Suresh Kanekar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781627343633
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Determinism and Its Discontents written by Suresh Kanekar and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This monograph deals with the controversy about determinism versus freedom of will. The book is addressed to scholars, especially in the areas of philosophy and psychology, and also to thinking and serious-minded laypersons who are interested in the implications of being human. The book attempts to help the reader understand and resolve the dilemma of determinism. The solution offered by this book has not been previously offered by any other book, even though the literature on this topic is vast. The deterministic position is that all events are effects of previous events and causes of future events, in inexorable cause-effect sequences, which leave no room for intervention of anything outside of the stream of causal relationships, such as free will, thus rendering moral responsibility meaningless. Libertarians believe in freedom of will which is, for them, indispensable for moral responsibility. This controversy can be resolved only by making a clear distinction between two kinds of freedom. In common parlance, freedom means freedom from constraint or compulsion, which can be designated as contra-constraintual freedom. The second meaning of freedom is freedom from causation, which has been referred to as contra-causal freedom, and this is the meaning that is inherent in the concept of freedom of will. If we have contra-causal freedom, we can choose or decide to act irrespective of antecedent conditions including our own past. The distinction between contra-causal freedom and contra-constraintual freedom is the key to the resolution of the controversy between determinism and libertarianism. The absence of contra-causal freedom prevails at the theoretical, conceptual, objective, abstract, or as-is level, whereas contra-constraintual freedom functions at the practical, behavioral, subjective, concrete, or as-if level. All we need for moral responsibility is contra-constraintual freedom, and not contra-causal freedom. At the as-is level, there is neither freedom nor dignity, neither morality nor accountability, and neither purpose nor meaning for human existence. It is only at the as-if level that these terms make any sense at all. In theory there is no choice from alternative courses of action in light of the absence of contra-causal freedom; in practice there is, in direct proportion to contra-constraintual freedom"--

Physicalism and Its Discontents

Author : Carl Gillett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521801751
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Physicalism and Its Discontents written by Carl Gillett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by physicalists and their critics on the important doctrine of physicalism, first published in 2001.

Secularization and Its Discontents

Author : Rob Warner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144118385X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Secularization and Its Discontents written by Rob Warner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secularization and Its Discontents provides an illuminating overview of major current debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years. Examining classical secularization theory as well as modified versions that allow for difference between national and social contexts, Rob Warner also explores the proposed post-secularization paradigm, as well as its close offshoot, rational choice theory. Possibilities for a spiritual revolution and the feminisation of religion are scrutinised, and also theories of the durability of conservative religion. The author goes on to develop a new interpretation of resilient religion from an analysis of 21st century trends in religious participation. These are categorised as entrepreneurial and experiential-therapeutic, before the volume finally focuses upon individual identity construction through autonomous religious consumption. This book provides a clear and penetrating overview of theoretical frameworks and develops a new theoretical synthesis derived from fresh examination of empirical data, and will be of interest to academics and students in religious studies, practical theology and the sociology of religion.

Darwinism and Its Discontents

Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052182947X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Darwinism and Its Discontents written by Michael Ruse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents

Author : Fikret Adaman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786732092
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents written by Fikret Adaman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal. Here, a group of experts on Turkish political economy show how these policies have also had a detrimental impact on the environment, sustainability and the long-term health of the Turkish economy. Taking the two main sectors of growth during the past decade-energy and construction-as its primary focus, the book engages broadly with the political economy of inequality and sustainability in contemporary Turkey. Ultimately, the authors argue that 'environmental conflicts' in Turkey are not merely about the environment but intersect with contemporary politics of religion, ethnicity, gender, and class within the context of top-down, modernising economic development. Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents marks an important contribution to debates around the economic growth of Turkey and the future of the AKP's long-term economic plan.

Italy and Its Discontents

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137117419
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Italy and Its Discontents written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major bestseller in Italy, Paul Ginsborg's account of this most recent and dynamic period in Italy's history is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand contemoprary Italy. Ginsborg chronicles a period that witnessed a radical transformation in the country's social, economic and political landscape, creating a fascinating and definitve account of how Italy has coped or failed to cope as it moves from one century to the next. With particular emphasis on its role in italian life, work and culture Ginsborg shows how smaller families, longer lives and greater generation crossover have had significant effects on Italian society. Ginsborg looks at the 2000 elections, the influence of the Mafia, the decline of both Communism and Catholicism, and the change in national identity. This is modern history at its best.

The Digital and Its Discontents

Author : Aden Evens
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452970645
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Digital and Its Discontents written by Aden Evens and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking critique of the digital world that analyzes its universal technological foundations Whence that nagging sense that something in the digital is amiss—that, as wonderful as our devices are, time spent on smartphones and computers leaves us sour, enervated, alienated? The Digital and Its Discontents uniquely explains that worry and points us toward a more satisfying relationship between our digital lives and our nondigital selves, one that requires a radical change in the way we incorporate technology into our lives. Aden Evens analyzes universal technological principles—in particular, the binary logic—to show that they encourage certain ways of thinking while making others more challenging or impossible. What is out of reach for any digital machine is contingency, the ontological principle that refuses every rule. As humans engage ourselves and our world ever more through digital machines, we are losing touch with contingency and so banishing from our lives the accidental and unexpected that fuel our most creative and novel possibilities for living. Taking cues from philosophy rather than cultural or media theory, Evens argues that the consequences of this erosion of contingency are significant yet often overlooked because the same values that make the digital seem so desirable also make contingency seem unimportant—without contingency the digital is confined to what has already been thought, and yet the digital’s ubiquity has allowed it to disguise this inherent sterility. Responsive only to desires that meet the demands of its narrow logic, the digital requires its users to practice those same ideological dictates, instituting a hegemony of thought and value sustained by the pervasive presence of digital mechanisms. Interweaving technical and philosophical concepts, The Digital and Its Discontents advances a powerful and urgent argument about the digital and its impact on our lives. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.

Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents:

Author : Rodrick Wallace
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387767657
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Collective Consciousness and Its Discontents: written by Rodrick Wallace and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earlier book by Rodrick Wallace entitled Consciousness: A Mathematical Treatment of the Global Neuronal Workspace Model, introduced a formal information-theoretic approach to individual consciousness. This latest book takes a more formal 'groupoid' perspective to its predecessor and generalizes the results presented in that earlier book. It applies a multiple-workspace version of Dr. Wallace’s earlier consciousness model to large-scale institutional cognition.

Virtual Realities and Their Discontents

Author : Robert Markley
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801852268
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Realities and Their Discontents written by Robert Markley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition that cyberspace is a fiction -- a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine "really" exists -- is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks. In this groundbreaking volume Robert Markley and his co-authors set out to discover why "cyberspace provokes often-rapturous rhetoric but resists critical analysis." Taking a variety of approaches, the authors explore the ways in which virtual realities conserve and incorporate rather than overthrow the assumptions and values of a traditional, logocentric humanism: the Platonist division of the world into the physical and metaphysical in which ideal forms are valued over material content. Cyberspace, David Porush suggests, represents not a break with our metaphysical past but an extension of its basic theistic postulates. Richard Grusin argues that the claims for new forms of electronic communication depend upon the very notions of authorship -- and subjectivity -- they claim to transcend. N. Katherine Hayles examines debates about cybernetics in the 1950s to demonstrate that the history of mind-body ideas in the age of computers and feedback loops is itself conflicted. David Brande analyzes cyberspace as an extension of the logic of late twentieth-century capitalism. And Robert Markley explores the entangled roots of cyberspace in the philosophy of mathematics. "One of the ironies of our culture's fascination with cyberspace is that our material and psychic investments in Virtual Reality suggest that the death of print culture -- or its disappearance into the matrix -- has been greatly exaggerated.... Cyberspace is unthinkable, literally inconceivable, without the print culture it claims to transcend. It is, in part, a by-product of a tradition of metaphysics that, boats against the current, bears us back relentlessly to our past." -- Robert Markley, from the introduction

The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research

Author : Sara Price
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446287084
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research written by Sara Price and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on and with digital technologies is everywhere today. This timely, authoritative Handbook explores the issues of rapid technological development, social change, and the ubiquity of computing technologies which have become an integrated part of people's everyday lives. This is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for the twenty-first century. It addresses the key aspects of research within the digital technology field and provides a clear framework for readers wanting to navigate the changeable currents of digital innovation. Main themes include: - Introduction to the field of contemporary digital technology research - New digital technologies: key characteristics and considerations - Research perspectives for digital technologies: theory and analysis - Environments and tools for digital research - Research challenges Aimed at a social science audience, it will be of particular value for postgraduate students, researchers and academics interested in research on digital technology, or using digital technology to undertake research.

The Spontaneous Self

Author : Paul Breer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477159681
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book The Spontaneous Self written by Paul Breer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spontaneous Self by Paul Breer

Harvard Law Review: Volume 127, Number 3 - January 2014

Author : Harvard Law Review
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
ISBN 13 : 1610272226
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Harvard Law Review: Volume 127, Number 3 - January 2014 written by Harvard Law Review and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The January 2014 issue (Volume 127, Number 3) includes the following articles and student contributions: * Article, "For-Profit Public Enforcement," by Margaret H. Lemos and Max Minzner * Book Review, "Technological Determinism and Its Discontents," by Christopher S. Yoo * Note, "More than a Formality: The Case for Meaningful Substantive Reasonableness Review" * Note, "Appointing State Attorneys General: Evaluating the Unbundled State Executive" * Note, "The Devil Wears Trademark: How the Fashion Industry Has Expanded Trademark Doctrine to Its Detriment" In addition, student case notes explore recent cases on misleading law school employment data, the First Amendment religious rights of for-profit corporations, regulation of nuclear energy, forensic search of laptops at the border, search of cellphone date incident to arrest, obscene or lewd student speech, and access to polling places for news-gathering purposes. Finally, the issue includes several summaries of Recent Publications. The issue is offered in a quality digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, active URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Number 3 include scholarly essays by leading academic figures, as well as substantial student research. The Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School; student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions.

The Social Context of Technological Experiences

Author : Anant Kamath
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000072207
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Context of Technological Experiences written by Anant Kamath and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how technology and society shape one another and that there are intrinsic connections between technological experiences and social relationships. It employs an array of theoretical concepts and methodological tools to examine the technology–society nexus among three urban groups in India (traditional caste-based handloom weavers, subaltern Dalit communities, and informal female labour). It provides evidence of how innovations such as industrial technologies, communication technologies, and workplace technologies are not only about strides in science and engineering but also about politics and sociology on the ground. The book contributes to the growing research in innovation studies and technology policy that establishes how technological processes and outcomes are contingent on complex sociological variables and contexts. The author offers an inclusive, holistic, and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the field of innovation and technological change and development by involving various methodologies (network analysis, archival work, oral histories, focus group discussions, interviews). The book will serve as reference for researchers and scholars in social sciences, especially those interested in development studies, science and technology policy and innovation studies, information and communication technology (ICT) policy, public policy, management, social work and research methods, economics, sociology, social exclusion and subaltern studies, women’s studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be useful to nongovernmental organisations, activists, and policymakers.

Genes, Determinism and God

Author : Denis Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141141
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Genes, Determinism and God written by Denis Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does genetic variation impact on behavioural differences and how does this relate to free will and personal identity? Denis Alexander examines these questions.

The Implications of Determinism

Author : Roy Weatherford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351786741
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Implications of Determinism written by Roy Weatherford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of determinism arises in all the major areas of philosophy. The first part of this book, first published in 1991, is a critical and historical exposition of the problem and the most important ideas and arguments which have arisen over the many years of debate. The second part considers the various forms of determinism and the implications that they engender.

Freudian Dictionary

Author : José Luis Valls
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429621876
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Freudian Dictionary written by José Luis Valls and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Freudian Dictionary provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to essential Freudian terms and concepts. Organized conceptually, the book is grounded in detailed and meticulous readings, and covers the full range of Freud’s writings and subjects. It also provides an overview of the development, vicissitudes, and syntheses of Freud’s unique lines of thought. Contemporary developments in psychoanalytic thought have aspired to surpass their Freudian origins. But this comprehensive guide to Freud’s work provides a touchstone for those wishing to clarify these roots, and the foundations of the discipline itself. It will be a valuable companion to psychoanalysts in practice and training across a range of schools, as well as a reference work for sociologists, artists, philosophers, historians and other scholars.