Larry Carbone
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161960
- eISBN:
- 9780199790067
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161960.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This book presents a history of animal rights. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched ...
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This book presents a history of animal rights. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate. This book is about the people who would speak for animals in laboratories. On the one hand, people vie to speak on animals' behalf in the policy arena, to advocate for them in a forum in which they have no direct voice. Animal protectionists are immediately obvious in this role, but so are veterinarians, other animal care professionals, and many scientists. On the other hand, speaking for animals means interpreting them, translating their animal minds into human language; it's a claim of expertise and knowledge rather than commitment and advocacy. But the two are intimately intertwined, and many of the policy debates examined in this book are about these two ways of speaking for animals. This book is offered to those who are hoping for some sort of balance that promotes animal welfare and biomedical progress, not platitudes or irrelevant rules with no real impact in animals' lives.Less
This book presents a history of animal rights. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate. This book is about the people who would speak for animals in laboratories. On the one hand, people vie to speak on animals' behalf in the policy arena, to advocate for them in a forum in which they have no direct voice. Animal protectionists are immediately obvious in this role, but so are veterinarians, other animal care professionals, and many scientists. On the other hand, speaking for animals means interpreting them, translating their animal minds into human language; it's a claim of expertise and knowledge rather than commitment and advocacy. But the two are intimately intertwined, and many of the policy debates examined in this book are about these two ways of speaking for animals. This book is offered to those who are hoping for some sort of balance that promotes animal welfare and biomedical progress, not platitudes or irrelevant rules with no real impact in animals' lives.
Huw Price
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195117981
- eISBN:
- 9780199853045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195117981.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Time is a matter that man has tried to quantify for centuries, trying to understand whether it is an object, an idea, or simply, a fact. The book is hard evidence of these inquiries, and shows how ...
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Time is a matter that man has tried to quantify for centuries, trying to understand whether it is an object, an idea, or simply, a fact. The book is hard evidence of these inquiries, and shows how deeply intertwined the past and the future is. There is a scientific and philosophical perspective to all these questions, but the book leans towards the philosophical world. It seeks to find answers and settle confusion and curiosity. This chapter relies upon Archimedes view, one that is a view from nowhere, straddling a temporal perspective. The book hopes that it will be of use to both scientist and philosopher alike, and that it will create a new form that is more clear and comprehensive.Less
Time is a matter that man has tried to quantify for centuries, trying to understand whether it is an object, an idea, or simply, a fact. The book is hard evidence of these inquiries, and shows how deeply intertwined the past and the future is. There is a scientific and philosophical perspective to all these questions, but the book leans towards the philosophical world. It seeks to find answers and settle confusion and curiosity. This chapter relies upon Archimedes view, one that is a view from nowhere, straddling a temporal perspective. The book hopes that it will be of use to both scientist and philosopher alike, and that it will create a new form that is more clear and comprehensive.
Aleida Assmann
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501742439
- eISBN:
- 9781501742446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501742439.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter focuses on the relation between time, history, and historiography. In the field of historiography, the modern chronotope took on a shape that deeply informs our sense and awareness of ...
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This chapter focuses on the relation between time, history, and historiography. In the field of historiography, the modern chronotope took on a shape that deeply informs our sense and awareness of time and has had practical consequences for both our thinking and our acting. As such, this chapter examines the foundations of the modern myth of history. This examination includes historico-philosophical perspectives and ideas about progress, as well as contemporary theoretical concepts from the areas of systems theory and historiography. Because history and the modern are directly related to one another with regard to the issue of time, there are also theories of modernization and the modern to bear on this chapter's reflections.Less
This chapter focuses on the relation between time, history, and historiography. In the field of historiography, the modern chronotope took on a shape that deeply informs our sense and awareness of time and has had practical consequences for both our thinking and our acting. As such, this chapter examines the foundations of the modern myth of history. This examination includes historico-philosophical perspectives and ideas about progress, as well as contemporary theoretical concepts from the areas of systems theory and historiography. Because history and the modern are directly related to one another with regard to the issue of time, there are also theories of modernization and the modern to bear on this chapter's reflections.
Jo Hockley, Katherine Froggatt, and Katharina Heimerl
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199644155
- eISBN:
- 9780191749094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644155.003.0001
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine Research, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making
This chapter sets the scene for the whole book and maps the history of action research starting with Lewin's work as a psychologist in the 1940s, its take-up within education to its current position ...
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This chapter sets the scene for the whole book and maps the history of action research starting with Lewin's work as a psychologist in the 1940s, its take-up within education to its current position in healthcare. Because of its history, action research has numerous names and definitions — the majority of which are cited briefly in this chapter and then specifically addressed within individual chapters of the book. The philosophical perspective of action research is debated concluding its position within critical social theory. The importance of a cyclic process involving a change intervention and an important partnership between the researcher and practitioners is emphasised. Finally, the chapter looks at palliative care and the uptake of action research as a methodology within the specialty.Less
This chapter sets the scene for the whole book and maps the history of action research starting with Lewin's work as a psychologist in the 1940s, its take-up within education to its current position in healthcare. Because of its history, action research has numerous names and definitions — the majority of which are cited briefly in this chapter and then specifically addressed within individual chapters of the book. The philosophical perspective of action research is debated concluding its position within critical social theory. The importance of a cyclic process involving a change intervention and an important partnership between the researcher and practitioners is emphasised. Finally, the chapter looks at palliative care and the uptake of action research as a methodology within the specialty.
Mark Kaplan
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198824855
- eISBN:
- 9780191863530
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198824855.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology, History of Philosophy
Begins with Barry Stroud’s reconstruction of Descartes’s dream argument; lays out the critique of the argument that emerges from what Austin wrote in “Other Minds”; describes the long-standing ...
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Begins with Barry Stroud’s reconstruction of Descartes’s dream argument; lays out the critique of the argument that emerges from what Austin wrote in “Other Minds”; describes the long-standing consensus on how, and why, Austin’s way with skepticism goes wrong; shows how poorly this consensus view, of why Austin wrote as he did, fits with what Austin said about why he wrote as he did; explains how Austin’s requirement, that our epistemology be faithful to what we would ordinarily say and do, is properly to be understood, and why he endorsed it; defends Austin’s fidelity requirement against the charge that it fails to take proper account of (i) our failure to agree on what we would ordinarily say, (ii) the pragmatic factors that influence what we ordinarily say, (iii) the attitude of philosophical detachment with which epistemology is conducted, and (iv) the role intuitions play in epistemology.Less
Begins with Barry Stroud’s reconstruction of Descartes’s dream argument; lays out the critique of the argument that emerges from what Austin wrote in “Other Minds”; describes the long-standing consensus on how, and why, Austin’s way with skepticism goes wrong; shows how poorly this consensus view, of why Austin wrote as he did, fits with what Austin said about why he wrote as he did; explains how Austin’s requirement, that our epistemology be faithful to what we would ordinarily say and do, is properly to be understood, and why he endorsed it; defends Austin’s fidelity requirement against the charge that it fails to take proper account of (i) our failure to agree on what we would ordinarily say, (ii) the pragmatic factors that influence what we ordinarily say, (iii) the attitude of philosophical detachment with which epistemology is conducted, and (iv) the role intuitions play in epistemology.
Mark Chinca
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198861980
- eISBN:
- 9780191894787
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198861980.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature, European Literature
Between the 1580s and the 1640s there was a reconfiguration of the discursive environment in which meditation on death and the afterlife was conducted. The conclusion traces this reconfiguration in ...
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Between the 1580s and the 1640s there was a reconfiguration of the discursive environment in which meditation on death and the afterlife was conducted. The conclusion traces this reconfiguration in writings by Montaigne, Bacon, and especially Descartes. In their different ways, all three writers contributed to a new pluralism of discourse surrounding death and the afterlife, one where philosophy and Christian remembrance of the last end, which had hitherto been regarded as one and the same discourse, or at least in close alliance, could no longer be assumed to reinforce each other.Less
Between the 1580s and the 1640s there was a reconfiguration of the discursive environment in which meditation on death and the afterlife was conducted. The conclusion traces this reconfiguration in writings by Montaigne, Bacon, and especially Descartes. In their different ways, all three writers contributed to a new pluralism of discourse surrounding death and the afterlife, one where philosophy and Christian remembrance of the last end, which had hitherto been regarded as one and the same discourse, or at least in close alliance, could no longer be assumed to reinforce each other.
Martyn Percy
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198870708
- eISBN:
- 9780191913334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198870708.003.0003
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Corporate Governance and Accountability
This chapter provides some thoughts on the ideas of mutuality and economics from a philosophical and theological perspective. It explores the changing relationships between business, finance, social ...
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This chapter provides some thoughts on the ideas of mutuality and economics from a philosophical and theological perspective. It explores the changing relationships between business, finance, social flourishing, and morality, suggesting that the myopia of the market economy derives from values and assumptions that prioritize the individual over the social, and wealth over wider concepts of flourishing. It describes the values that promote human flourishing and how they have come to be condensed in a single value of profit that has progressively dominated our lives and societies. The chapter lays the foundations for the values that underpin putting purpose into practice and the economics of mutuality.Less
This chapter provides some thoughts on the ideas of mutuality and economics from a philosophical and theological perspective. It explores the changing relationships between business, finance, social flourishing, and morality, suggesting that the myopia of the market economy derives from values and assumptions that prioritize the individual over the social, and wealth over wider concepts of flourishing. It describes the values that promote human flourishing and how they have come to be condensed in a single value of profit that has progressively dominated our lives and societies. The chapter lays the foundations for the values that underpin putting purpose into practice and the economics of mutuality.
