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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

Concepts and Persons

Author : Michael Lambek
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487509057
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 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.

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

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.

Persons

Author : Antonia LoLordo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190634383
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Persons written by Antonia LoLordo and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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.

Creating Scientific Concepts

Author : Nancy J Nersessian
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262293455
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Creating Scientific Concepts written by Nancy J Nersessian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental problem of creativity in science: how does genuine novelty emerge from existing representations? How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of conceptual change. She argues that the popular image of novel concepts and profound insight bursting forth in a blinding flash of inspiration is mistaken. Instead, novel concepts are shown to arise out of the interplay of three factors: an attempt to solve specific problems; the use of conceptual, analytical, and material resources provided by the cognitive-social-cultural context of the problem; and dynamic processes of reasoning that extend ordinary cognition. Focusing on the third factor, Nersessian draws on cognitive science research and historical accounts of scientific practices to show how scientific and ordinary cognition lie on a continuum, and how problem-solving practices in one illuminate practices in the other. Her investigations of scientific practices show conceptual change as deriving from the use of analogies, imagistic representations, and thought experiments, integrated with experimental investigations and mathematical analyses. She presents a view of constructed models as hybrid objects, serving as intermediaries between targets and analogical sources in bootstrapping processes. Extending these results, she argues that these complex cognitive operations and structures are not mere aids to discovery, but that together they constitute a powerful form of reasoning—model-based reasoning—that generates novelty. This new approach to mental modeling and analogy, together with Nersessian's cognitive-historical approach, make Creating Scientific Concepts equally valuable to cognitive science and philosophy of science.

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.

Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology

Author : Robert H. Lavenda
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology by : Robert H. Lavenda

Download or read book Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology written by Robert H. Lavenda and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to address the needs of anthropology professors who prefer to make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings in their courses, this is a concise, accurate introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology. Not a standard textbook, "Core Concepts" is more like an annotated bibliography of the terms and concepts that anthropologists use in their work. The book will prepare students to read ethnography more effectively and with less confusion and misunderstanding.

Culture, Creation, and Procreation

Author : Monika Böck
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819116
Total Pages : 414 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 414 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

The Essential Concepts of Nursing

Author : John R. Cutcliffe
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0443073724
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Concepts of Nursing written by John R. Cutcliffe and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, leading authorities come together to offer their expertise as they present the building blocks and concepts of nursing theory. Provides an explanation of concepts necessary as building block of theoryResearch basedDraws extensively on literatureExperienced contributors and editors, all leading experts in their fields

Shifting Concepts

Author : Teresa Marques
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192524968
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Concepts written by Teresa Marques and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts stand at the centre of human cognition. We use concepts in categorizing objects and events in the world, in reasoning and action, and in social interaction. It is therefore not surprising that the study of concepts constitutes a central area of research in philosophy and psychology, yet only recently have the two disciplines developed greater interaction. Recent experiments in psychology that test the role of concepts in categorizing and reasoning have found a great deal of variation, across individuals and cultures, in categorization behaviour. Meanwhile, philosophers of language and mind have investigated the semantic properties of concepts, and how concepts are related to linguistic meaning and linguistic communication. A key motivation behind this was the idea that concepts must be shared across individuals and cultures. With the dawn of experimental philosophy, the proposal that the experimental data from psychology lacks relevance to semantics is increasingly difficult to defend. This volume brings together leading psychologists and philosophers to advance the interdisciplinary debate on the role of concepts in categorizing and reasoning, the relationship between concepts and linguistic meaning and communication, the challenges conceptual variation poses to communication, and the social and political effects of conceptual change.

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 Ontological Turn

Author : Martin Holbraad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107103886
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Ontological Turn written by Martin Holbraad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first systematic presentation of anthropology's 'ontological turn', placing it in the landscape of contemporary social theory.

Key Concepts in Crime and Society

Author : Ross Coomber
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473925150
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Crime and Society written by Ross Coomber and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A crucial text for whetting the academic appetite of those studying criminology at university. The comprehensive engagement with key crime and deviance debates and issues make this a perfect springboard for launching into the complex, diverse and exciting realm of researching criminology." - Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce, University of York "Essential reading for those new to the discipline and an invaluable reference point for those well versed in criminology and the sociology of crime and deviance." - Dr Mark Monaghan, University of Leeds Key Concepts in Crime and Society offers an authoritative introduction to key issues in the area of crime as it connects to society. By providing critical insight into the key issues within each concept as well as highlighted cross-references to other key concepts, students will be helped to grasp a clear understanding of each of the topics covered and how they relate to broader areas of crime and criminality. The book is divided into three parts: Understanding Crime and Criminality: introduces topics such as the social construction of crime and deviance, social control, the fear of crime, poverty and exclusion, white collar crime, victims of crime, race/gender and crime. Types of Crime and Criminality: explores examples including human trafficking, sex work, drug crime, environmental crime, cyber crime, war crime, terrorism, and interpersonal violence. Responses to Crime: looks at areas such as crime and the media, policing, moral panics, deterrence, prisons and rehabilitation. The book provides an up-to-date, critical understanding on a wide range of crime related topics covering the major concepts students are likely to encounter within the fields of sociology, criminology and across the social sciences.

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.

Concepts

Author : Paul Dehn Carleton
Publisher : Paul Dehn Carleton
ISBN 13 : 9780974558301
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Concepts written by Paul Dehn Carleton and published by Paul Dehn Carleton. This book was released on 2004 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Concepts" is a search for theism's roots - coined prototheism - a science of religion. Its notion is: Belief in God is a misconception of the Life Urge emerging from deep in human nature. "Concepts" traces Life's trajectory - from Earth's origin, to consciousness, to today's runaway material culture.