Yadin Dudai, Henry L. Roediger III, and Endel Tulving
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195310443
- eISBN:
- 9780199865321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310443.003.0001
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Systems
This chapter introduces the main problem of this book, which is to takle the less-than-perfect communication issues across the discipline boundaries in memory science. The chapter then goes on to ...
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This chapter introduces the main problem of this book, which is to takle the less-than-perfect communication issues across the discipline boundaries in memory science. The chapter then goes on to discuss how this book aims to overcome this problem. The chapter defines the idea of “concepts” as used in the book and explains the idea of “core concepts” and weighs up the arguments for and against “concepts”. The notion of “nonconcepts” is introduced and briefly explained.Less
This chapter introduces the main problem of this book, which is to takle the less-than-perfect communication issues across the discipline boundaries in memory science. The chapter then goes on to discuss how this book aims to overcome this problem. The chapter defines the idea of “concepts” as used in the book and explains the idea of “core concepts” and weighs up the arguments for and against “concepts”. The notion of “nonconcepts” is introduced and briefly explained.
Rachel S. Turner
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748632688
- eISBN:
- 9780748652792
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748632688.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Neo-liberalism has been one of the most influential ideologies since the Second World War. This book provides an original account of its intellectual foundations, development, and conceptual ...
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Neo-liberalism has been one of the most influential ideologies since the Second World War. This book provides an original account of its intellectual foundations, development, and conceptual configuration as an ideology. It presents a comparative study of the development and nature of neo-liberal ideas in the national contexts of Germany, Britain, and the United States since the twentieth century, addressing the following questions: What are neo-liberalism's intellectual origins? What influence did neo-liberalism have on public policy debates? What are neo-liberalism's core concepts, and how have they been interpreted in different national contexts that make it a distinctive ideology? In answering these questions, the book provides a deeper insight into the historical and intellectual origins and conceptual configuration of an ideology that reshaped politics and societies across the world. It explores the intellectual and historical genesis of neo-liberalism, presents a case study of ideological growth and formation, and concentrates on the four core concepts at the centre of neo-liberal ideology: the market, welfare, the constitution, and property.Less
Neo-liberalism has been one of the most influential ideologies since the Second World War. This book provides an original account of its intellectual foundations, development, and conceptual configuration as an ideology. It presents a comparative study of the development and nature of neo-liberal ideas in the national contexts of Germany, Britain, and the United States since the twentieth century, addressing the following questions: What are neo-liberalism's intellectual origins? What influence did neo-liberalism have on public policy debates? What are neo-liberalism's core concepts, and how have they been interpreted in different national contexts that make it a distinctive ideology? In answering these questions, the book provides a deeper insight into the historical and intellectual origins and conceptual configuration of an ideology that reshaped politics and societies across the world. It explores the intellectual and historical genesis of neo-liberalism, presents a case study of ideological growth and formation, and concentrates on the four core concepts at the centre of neo-liberal ideology: the market, welfare, the constitution, and property.
James A. Phills
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195171280
- eISBN:
- 9780199850327
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195171280.003.0009
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Strategy
This chapter provides some guidelines about how to deal with the problems of mission, strategy, and execution in an organization. Two broad classes of difficulty are noted: psychological factors ...
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This chapter provides some guidelines about how to deal with the problems of mission, strategy, and execution in an organization. Two broad classes of difficulty are noted: psychological factors related to how information is processed and to make sense of the experience (including emotional reactions and biases) and analytical factors related to the complexity of applying the core concepts of mission and strategy. The two final sets of criteria that may be helpful in evaluating the strategy include the general properties of good versus bad strategies and the specific tests that the strategy should pass.Less
This chapter provides some guidelines about how to deal with the problems of mission, strategy, and execution in an organization. Two broad classes of difficulty are noted: psychological factors related to how information is processed and to make sense of the experience (including emotional reactions and biases) and analytical factors related to the complexity of applying the core concepts of mission and strategy. The two final sets of criteria that may be helpful in evaluating the strategy include the general properties of good versus bad strategies and the specific tests that the strategy should pass.
Kimberly A. With
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- August 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198838388
- eISBN:
- 9780191874697
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198838388.003.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Ecology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
Landscape ecology provides the scientific basis for the study and management of landscapes, as well as the ecological systems they contain. More generally, landscape ecology investigates the ...
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Landscape ecology provides the scientific basis for the study and management of landscapes, as well as the ecological systems they contain. More generally, landscape ecology investigates the reciprocal interactions between spatial patterns (environmental heterogeneity) and ecological processes across a wide range of scales. This introductory chapter discusses the rise of landscape ecology as a discipline, its regional perspectives, core concepts, and research themes, and provides an overview of the textbook itself. Among its core concepts, landscape ecology asserts that heterogeneity is a defining characteristic of landscapes; that landscapes can be defined and studied at any scale; and that landscapes occur within aquatic and marine systems, as well as terrestrial ones. As such, landscape ecology can benefit the study and management of any ecological system, from populations to ecosystems, through its explicit consideration of how heterogeneity, scale, spatial context, and disturbance dynamics influence critical ecological processes.Less
Landscape ecology provides the scientific basis for the study and management of landscapes, as well as the ecological systems they contain. More generally, landscape ecology investigates the reciprocal interactions between spatial patterns (environmental heterogeneity) and ecological processes across a wide range of scales. This introductory chapter discusses the rise of landscape ecology as a discipline, its regional perspectives, core concepts, and research themes, and provides an overview of the textbook itself. Among its core concepts, landscape ecology asserts that heterogeneity is a defining characteristic of landscapes; that landscapes can be defined and studied at any scale; and that landscapes occur within aquatic and marine systems, as well as terrestrial ones. As such, landscape ecology can benefit the study and management of any ecological system, from populations to ecosystems, through its explicit consideration of how heterogeneity, scale, spatial context, and disturbance dynamics influence critical ecological processes.
Richard Sorabji
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199685547
- eISBN:
- 9780191765704
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685547.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This book is a study of moral conscience that asks, ‘what is conscience?’ and traces answers and treatments of conscience through the ages. It starts by following how a core concept of conscience was ...
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This book is a study of moral conscience that asks, ‘what is conscience?’ and traces answers and treatments of conscience through the ages. It starts by following how a core concept of conscience was established in the five hundred years from the Greek playwrights of the fifth century BCE through St Paul. It continues pursuing the concept through the Church Fathers, systems of penitence, Catholics, the Protestant Reformation, the 17th century's political unrest and the critics and champions of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. At the same time, it traces also a history of some of the ways in which the idea of conscience was used over this period and examines certain recurrent topics: the longing for different kinds of freedom of conscience, the proper limits of such freedom, protests at conscience being ‘terrorized,’ dilemmas of conscience including moral double-bind, the value of conscience to human beings, its secularization, its reliability, and ways to improve it. The account includes present-day concerns about topics such as conscientious objection, the force of conscience and the balance between freedoms of conscience, religion, and speech. In a final chapter alternative concepts are explained as deviations from, and violations of, the core concept. The value of conscience to humans is upheld, and it is reconsidered how to meet the criticism that conscience is as unreliable as the values on which it draws.Less
This book is a study of moral conscience that asks, ‘what is conscience?’ and traces answers and treatments of conscience through the ages. It starts by following how a core concept of conscience was established in the five hundred years from the Greek playwrights of the fifth century BCE through St Paul. It continues pursuing the concept through the Church Fathers, systems of penitence, Catholics, the Protestant Reformation, the 17th century's political unrest and the critics and champions of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. At the same time, it traces also a history of some of the ways in which the idea of conscience was used over this period and examines certain recurrent topics: the longing for different kinds of freedom of conscience, the proper limits of such freedom, protests at conscience being ‘terrorized,’ dilemmas of conscience including moral double-bind, the value of conscience to human beings, its secularization, its reliability, and ways to improve it. The account includes present-day concerns about topics such as conscientious objection, the force of conscience and the balance between freedoms of conscience, religion, and speech. In a final chapter alternative concepts are explained as deviations from, and violations of, the core concept. The value of conscience to humans is upheld, and it is reconsidered how to meet the criticism that conscience is as unreliable as the values on which it draws.
Charles Larmore
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780691179148
- eISBN:
- 9780691200873
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691179148.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter talks about the nature of political philosophy and focuses on its central problems and core concepts. It describes a fundamentally liberal conception of the basic shape political society ...
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This chapter talks about the nature of political philosophy and focuses on its central problems and core concepts. It describes a fundamentally liberal conception of the basic shape political society should take today. The chapter points out the difference of the nature of political philosophy from moral philosophy. As a rule, political philosophy is seen, if only implicitly, as part of the broader discipline of moral philosophy. The chapter also talks about the right and the good that form the subject of moral philosophy. However, political philosophy, as usually practiced, sets about its work within this framework. The chapter clarifies how political philosophy bases itself on those principles of morality that it regards as governing, not individual relationships to others, but instead the functioning of society as a whole in order to determine the sorts of institutions in which political philosophy would be best embodied.Less
This chapter talks about the nature of political philosophy and focuses on its central problems and core concepts. It describes a fundamentally liberal conception of the basic shape political society should take today. The chapter points out the difference of the nature of political philosophy from moral philosophy. As a rule, political philosophy is seen, if only implicitly, as part of the broader discipline of moral philosophy. The chapter also talks about the right and the good that form the subject of moral philosophy. However, political philosophy, as usually practiced, sets about its work within this framework. The chapter clarifies how political philosophy bases itself on those principles of morality that it regards as governing, not individual relationships to others, but instead the functioning of society as a whole in order to determine the sorts of institutions in which political philosophy would be best embodied.
Richard Sorabji
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199685547
- eISBN:
- 9780191765704
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685547.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Chapter 12 gathers threads. The core and most influential concept of conscience was established through the authority of St Paul building on the Greek concept, and often explains the appeal of ...
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Chapter 12 gathers threads. The core and most influential concept of conscience was established through the authority of St Paul building on the Greek concept, and often explains the appeal of deviations, although not of actual violations, nor the occurrence of accidents if the introduction of synderesis was due to one. Limits to freedom of conscience were highlighted by certain cases of erroneous conscience, but the wider concept of toleration could be invoked on other grounds, such as keeping the peace, compatibly with minimal restrictions to freedom of conscience. The value of conscience is not diminished by its re-secularisation. To lack the capacity for the relevant type of belief would be a tragedy for a human. The values on which conscience draws may be erroneous. But in showing how to increase reliability, Gandhi provided a provided a living model of what had been advocated by J.S. Mill and Milton.Less
Chapter 12 gathers threads. The core and most influential concept of conscience was established through the authority of St Paul building on the Greek concept, and often explains the appeal of deviations, although not of actual violations, nor the occurrence of accidents if the introduction of synderesis was due to one. Limits to freedom of conscience were highlighted by certain cases of erroneous conscience, but the wider concept of toleration could be invoked on other grounds, such as keeping the peace, compatibly with minimal restrictions to freedom of conscience. The value of conscience is not diminished by its re-secularisation. To lack the capacity for the relevant type of belief would be a tragedy for a human. The values on which conscience draws may be erroneous. But in showing how to increase reliability, Gandhi provided a provided a living model of what had been advocated by J.S. Mill and Milton.
Birch P. Browning
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199928200
- eISBN:
- 9780190668693
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199928200.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
It is possible to be both an artistic musician and an effective educator. Becoming both is a process that requires relentless effort to comprehend and apply basic understandings of how music works ...
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It is possible to be both an artistic musician and an effective educator. Becoming both is a process that requires relentless effort to comprehend and apply basic understandings of how music works and how students learn. The core concepts of both fields can be organized into frameworks of understanding, from which details can be derived and on which musical and instructional decisions can be based. During the process of becoming a musician-educator, the student must make wise decisions about what needs to be learned, how it will be learned, and how the knowledge and skills will be used or engaged. Above all, the student needs to be curious.Less
It is possible to be both an artistic musician and an effective educator. Becoming both is a process that requires relentless effort to comprehend and apply basic understandings of how music works and how students learn. The core concepts of both fields can be organized into frameworks of understanding, from which details can be derived and on which musical and instructional decisions can be based. During the process of becoming a musician-educator, the student must make wise decisions about what needs to be learned, how it will be learned, and how the knowledge and skills will be used or engaged. Above all, the student needs to be curious.
