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Science, Explanation, and Rationality: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel
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Carl G. Hempel exerted greater influence upon philosophers of science than any other figure during the 20th century. In this far-reaching collection, distinguished philosophers contribute valuable studies that illuminate and clarify the central problems to which Hempel was devoted. The essays enhance our understanding of the development of logical empiricism as the major intellectual influence for scientifically-oriented philosophers and philosophically-minded scientists of the 20th century.
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Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as âprocess philosophy.â Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors for our understanding of the realâprocess has priority over product, both ontologically and epistemically. Rescher examines the movement’s historical origins, reflecting a major line of thought in the work of such philosophers as Heracleitus, Leibniz, Bergson, Peirce, William James, and especially A. N. Whitehead.
Reacting against the tendency to associate process philosophy too closely with this last-named thinker, Rescher writes, âIndeed, one cardinal task for the partisans of process at this particular juncture of philosophical history is to prevent the idea of âprocess philosophy’ from being marginalized through a limitation of its bearing to the work and influence of any one single individual or group.â
This book will appeal to both students and professors of philosophy. Those teachers who have not been trained in process philosophy will welcome this new text by one one of North America’s foremost philosophers as a perspicuous and informative introduction.
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"Churchland and Hooker have collected ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply . . . these articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists."—Jeffrey Bub and David MacCallum, Foundations of Physics Letters
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- Substance over style
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Multiplicity and Becoming: The Pluralist Empiricism of Gilles Deleuze
Patrick Hayden
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Substance over style.......2002-12-12
Contrary to the previous reviewer, I found this to be a very useful and engaging book. I can only suspect that the previous reviewer was disappointed at the lack of postmodern jargon in Hayden's book. I found that absence to be refreshing, however, as Hayden seemed to place a premium on clearly setting out the problems, determining the concepts, and questioning what is often taken for granted by other Deleuze scholars who believe that they embody the "spirit" of Deleuze (which is itself a rather annoying characteristic, shared by similarly presumptuous types who think of themselves as the "true" inheritors of Nietzsche's ideals).
In contrast to many trendy yet often vacuous pomo authors, Hayden offers a more analytic approach that, while perhaps lacking in over the top expressionism, actually illuminates many of the central concerns of Deleuze's philosophy. His analysis of Difference and Repetition, for example, is helpful in deciphering what is an extraordinarily difficult text, and it should be kept in mind that Hayden's book was published at a time when little, if any work in English had appeared on D&R (not to mention the larger issue of Deleuze's empiricism). Finally, the book's last chapter on Deleuze and environmental politics clearly breaks new ground and establishes a new set of concerns surrounding Deleuze's thought, which still have not been taken up in any adequate fashion by other Deleuze scholars.
In closing, I would have to agree with both of the previous reviews that it is unfortunate the book has not been published in a less expensive format. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that this is a worthy and distinctive contribution to Deleuze scholarship.
Good try but no cigar.......2002-11-14
Benefits: Hayden has displayed a considerable amount of intestinal fortitude in trying to explain and elucidate the notoriously difficult Difference and Repetition. Other commentators have picked bits and pieces from it, where it suited their taste, but not one, to my knowledge, has tried to go through it step by step. Of course anyone can glean what Deleuze is SAYING in D&R, that was never the problem. The problem is that FOLLOWING him and his "rhythm," as he says, is well-nigh impossible, so that if asked to give an account of the catchy "anti-representationalist" conclusions one spouts after glossing the book, one is immediately silenced. So, kudos to Hayden for his attempt.
The rest of the book pretty much proceeds along the same expository path, and it's pretty dry--reading more like outlines for a course than a lively introduction (which it is supposed to be). Dryness aside however, his expositions are well-recieved and for the most part accurate.
Drawbacks: The analysis of Difference and Repetition is almost a verbatim transcription of what Deleuze himself writes in the book. I just read D&R and Hayden's outline of the first three chapters is just that: an outline. It's a surface movement, again, that anyone could get reading D&R, and Hayden makes no attempt to get underneath it and show us the rhythm of Deleuze's thought in the book, which, after all, is what we perplexed so dearly need. In short, you might as well read D&R and skip Hayden's lengthy first chapter---that way there's at least a chance of getting "in tune" with Deleuze.
Also, the rest of the chapters stick, as I said, to the same mode of exposition--dry and by the letter (missing the spirit). This latter part of the book suffers even more because many others have given accounts of Deleuze's apprenticeship to Bergson, Spinoza, and Nietzsche, and done it in a far more lively and interesting fashion (Michael Hardt, for example).
In short, I wouldn't recommend this book (and doubly so because of the insane pricetag attached to it) for beginner's. Nor would I recommend it as a refresher for Deleuzians because everything in here one already "knows." The book seems to be stuck in a limbo between these two audiences, and can't decide which to go for, despite Hayden's avowed "humble" aims. But, if you absolutely understood nothing in D&R, perhaps you might get something out of this.... though I highly doubt it.
A Breath of Fresh Air.......1999-12-28
Hayden's text is truly a breath of fresh air for both the seasoned Deleuzian and the newcomer alike. What makes _Multiplicity and Becoming_ different from so many other commentaries on Deleuze is its attentiveness to his independent works (especially _Difference and Repetition_) and the arguments that drive them. Where many other texts on Deleuze tend to 1) assimilate Deleuze's independent works to his collaborative works with Guattari and use them only to elucidate concepts found in A0 and ATP, or 2)attempt to reduce his thought to the historical monographs he wrote without carefully clarifying where Deleuze's own thought diverges from the thinkers he resonates with, Hayden takes great care to develop the critique of representational thinking motivating Deleuze and to show why what he is offering is a real alternative rather than nihilistic and nay-saying skepticism. What emerges from this reading is a picture of a philosophy that contains the possibility of revitalizing our thought and which allows us to overcome some vexing philosophical problems altogether.
On the downside, Hayden's book would have benifitted from a clearer articulation of terms like complication-implication-explication, the virtual and the actual, etc.. These terms are largely foreign todays dominant paradigms of phenomenology, post-modernism, and anglo-american philosophy and a clarification would have greatly helped the newcomer and skeptic in determining what precisely Deleuze is attempting to argue.
Whatever the case may be, Hayden's book is truly a first rate piece on Deleuze and it is a shame that it has not yet been published in paperback.
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This is an expanded edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's long out-of-print Heretical Empiricism. It includes a new Introduction by Ben Lawton that discusses the relevance of the book on the 30th anniversary of the author's death. It also features the first approved translation of "Repu- diation of the 'Trilogy of Life'," one of Pasolini's most con- troversial final essays.While Pasolini is best known in the U.S. as a revolutionary film director, in Italy he was even better known as poet, novelist, playwright, political gadfly, and scholar of the semiotics of film. "New Academic Publishing should be commended for making this expanded version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Hermetic Empiricism once again available to the English-speaking public, especially in the light of the fact that the important essay, "Repudiation of the Trilology of Life," has been added to its contents. Thirty years after Pasolini's violent death on 2 November 1975, the appearance of this excellent translation and edition of his major writings on Italian film, literature, and language is most welcome. No figure has emerged in Italy since the writer/director's death that has aroused such passionate opinions from all sides of the political and cultural spectrum. The translations by Ben Lawton and Louise Barnett render Pasolini's sometimes complex prose accurately with ample explanatory notes to guide the reader without a firm grasp of the original essays in Italian. This book represents an important work to have in every library devoted to cultural criticism, cinema, and literary theory." -- Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian, Indiana University "One of the greatest cultural figures of postwar Europe, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is already widely known as a revolutionary filmmaker, was an equally important writer and poet. Pasolini's numerous works are published in some 50 volumes, which include poetry, novels, critical and theoretical essays, verse tragedies, screenplays, political journalism, and translations. With this successful and complete translation of Empirismo eretico (a collection of Pasolini's interventions on language, literature, and film written between 1964 and 1971), editors Barnett and Lawton have made a wide sample of Pasolini's most significant theoretical work available to the English-speaking reader. Essays on the screenplay, on the commercial and the art cinema, and on film semiotics make the collection of special interest to American film scholars and students. This volume is further enriched by an excellent introduction, carefully edited notes, a useful biographical glossary, and a thorough index. Given the contemporary interest in studying film, together with other cultural forms, within a broad social and historical context, Pasolini's "extravagantly interdisciplinary" writings beckon as a promising source of insight. A potentially seminal text that could contribute to the further evolution of interdisciplinary humanistic studies, Heretical Empiricism is highly recommended for university and college libraries." -- J. Welle, University of Notre Dame, CHOICE (1989)
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At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of David Hume's philosophy, the work is invaluable for understanding the progress of Deleuze's thought.
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super duper.......2004-06-08
an excellent intro to deleuze. the book speaks of motivation, subjectivity, and habit, praising hume's empiricism and theory of mind. latter deleuze texts are oft' full of fanciful prose, but this one is clear and concise. the thesis: the blank slate, nothing is innate, except habit. the habit of habit.
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This book offers a novel account of the relationship of experience to knowledge. The account builds on the intuitive idea that our ordinary perceptual judgments are not autonomous, that an interdependence obtains between our view of the world and our perceptual judgments. Anil Gupta shows in this important study that this interdependence is the key to a satisfactory account of experience. He uses tools from logic and the philosophy of language to argue that his account of experience makes available an attractive and feasible empiricism.
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- Dewey's social & moral philosophy
- Brilliant, engrossing, if only we applied this!
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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 3, 1899 - 1924: Essays on the New Empiricism 1903-1906 (Collected Works of John Dewey)
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Spanning the crucial years of Dewey’s move from the University of Chicago to Columbia University, Volume 3 collects thirty-six essays and reviews published at the very time Dewey determined that his professional future would lie in the field of philosophy. After resigning from Chicago, Dewey seriously considered a career in university administration before finally deciding to accept a professorship in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia, where he was to remain the rest of his professional life.
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Dewey's social & moral philosophy.......2005-07-02
John Dewey's writing style will never set the world of letters ablaze, though there are a few of us who actually like his ordinary, Yankee prose. But you've got to be prepared for this if you're going to attempt to penetrate his thought.
With that said, this is not a bad place to start for someone looking to get into Dewey's thought. Although counted as part of his "middle" period, it nevertheless represents his mature thought on the connection between moral thought, educational policy, the democratic ideal, and the theory of inquiry. As such, there is a great deal going on and the patient reader is rewarded with an extraordinary range of relational connections which Dewey's prose -- since it is as lacking in style and extravagant rhetoric as possible -- might easily disguise by its superficial ordinariness.
Democracy, for Dewey, is nothing so simplistic as just the franchise, and education is nothing so brutal as schooling. The ideal of democracy is that of the maximization of opportunities for human growth, opportunities which can only manifest themselves in a community that shares in the ideals of personal and social growth. Education, on the other hand, is more or less the same thing as human growth. It is intrinsically moral, and is only possible in a context of free, intelligent inquiry. Hence, education is the foundation of democracy, and democracy is the manifestation of a durable educational ideal. (Schooling, on the other hand, is often enough the place where the entrenched powers of society strangle inquiry, and obliterate education for the sake of conformity and regimented training.)
It is worth mentioning that this volume, as part of the Collected Works, includes important critical essays and editorial matter from top Dewey scholars. Consequently, even if you have, or can get, an older edition of this book, it is well worth your trouble to choose this edition instead.
Brilliant, engrossing, if only we applied this!.......2003-11-20
I find most philosophical writings to be boring, impenetrable, and/or too theoretical and abstract, but this book was fascinating. Dewey's philosophy is a living, breathing analysis of human life in an ever-changing world, in a capitalist democracy, in a specific culture and family. This work is inspiring and useful for educators, policy-makers and anyone who wishes to live in a more engaged and meaningful manner.
A cure for Insomnia.......2001-08-01
If this book doesn't put you to sleep, nothing will. Full of vague and windy generalities, and incredible repetition, you won't find out much of anything. But you will be bored.
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A Work of Surpassing Importance.......2001-01-18
The current renaissance of American pragmatism, and John Dewey's philosophy in particular, began two decades ago with Richard Rorty's refashioning of Dewey as a postmodernist who renounces the "professional philosophy" of metaphysics and epistemology for the fluidity of conversation in the life and growth of a community. This depiction, though praised for rekindling Dewey's star, has been widely challenged by subsequent commentators. Ralph Sleeper's 1986 The Necessity of Pragmatism persuasively argues that Dewey reconfigures, rather than renounces, the logical and metaphysical grounds of knowledge. Despite an archaic Hegelian vocabulary that misleadingly suggests idealism and antirealism, Sleeper finds Dewey advancing a genuine metaphysics of existence, not merely a conversation about experience: a naturalistic realism of independent existences that enter into and are transformed by human interactions with them. This perspective is shared by most Dewey scholars, including Sandra Rosenthal, Raymond Boisvert, and J. E. Tiles. At least until now. In a profound and provocative exploration of his early philosophy, John R. Shook, presents a compelling case that Dewey's reconstruction of metaphysics and epistemology is deeper than even Sleeper imagined. Dewey did not merely abandon idealism under the influence of William James, as most assume; he transformed it in a original way that, while wholly naturalistic, is a fusion of idealism and realism that overcomes both the former's "mind-stuff" and the latter's "in-itself reality." Dewey began his philosophical odyssey with the searing desire to eradicate the dualisms of mind versus world, phenomenal versus noumenal, perceptual versus conceptual. Post-Hegelian idealists agreed that this division is ultimately reconciled in the "absolute," though they disagreed about whether the absolute is psychological or cosmological, social or supernatural; knowable or unknowable. From the very beginning, Shook argues, Dewey accepted the psychological path as sketched by James Ward, and also Edward Caird's claim that the absolute must be knowable in some sense. Intriguingly, the missing link between perception and conceptual awareness is Wilhelm Wundt's notion of volition: percepts are neither mechanically attached to concepts nor are they overlaid by Kantian "faculties of mind." Instead, a disruption of perceptual or noncognitive experience generates a desire for reconciliation that calls forth ideas that diagnose the problem and suggest ways to resolve it. Achieved solutions, in turn, forge a background of habitual dispositions that shape interpretations within the noncognitive realm. While still an idealist, then, Shook finds the essential elements of the "method of inquiry" that later anchored Dewey's instrumentalism and pragmatism. Prior to 1890, however, he still construed this as individual "mental activity," and the problem of its relation to God's Absolute Mind remained. Upon relinquishing the supernatural for the social, however, this final obstacle was eliminated. The dispositional background extends beyond the individual to the customs, traditions, and values of a culture-indeed, even the barest notions of "self" and "reality" are inconceivable without reference to such a background. This is Dewey's broad conception of "experience"-a humanistic naturalism with no trace of mind-stuff or subjectivism. In this sense Dewey is a realist, though his affirmation of things-themselves (including things we have not or may never actually discover) avoids the things-in-themselves that is the bane of metaphysical realism. To claim that things exist without an experiential background of how we may find them to exist is at best empty verbiage, and at worst hypnosis by the dervishes of dualism. Scrupulous in research, penetrating in detail, Shook's presentation is so faithful to Dewey that it will undoubtedly draw many of the same criticisms once hurled at the master. Though careful readers will be able to identify "experience" in its broadly social and functional sense, others will be confused by applications as diverse as "mental activity," "soul," "reality," "the history of the earth," and even "the metaphysical ultimate." Similarly, like Dewey himself Shook occasionally fails to remind us that the background of experience helps set up direct noncognitive "havings," in the absence of which some will mistakenly construe a naive realism of immediate "relations to things." Finally, critics may try to capitalize on the fact that Shook fully scrutinizes only the first half of Dewey's career, leaving ample wiggle room for a shift toward conventional realism after 1920. I believe this supposition is unfounded, and that future investigators who follow Shook's initiative will find Dewey expanding his early fusion of idealism and realism into an authentic tertium quid that as yet remains largely unappreciated. If so, Shook's book is not only a nonpareil study in Dewey's development, but a gateway to his crowning reconstruction of philosophy. As an indispensable step in that direction, this is one of the most important books about Dewey ever written.
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The study of music is always, to some extent, "empirical," in that it involves testing ideas and interpretations against some kind of external reality. But in musicology, the kinds of empirical approaches familiar in the social sciences have played a relatively marginal role, being generally restricted to inter-disciplinary areas such as psychology and sociology of music. Rather than advocating a new kind of musicology, Empirical Musicology provides a guide to empirical approaches that are ready for incorporation into the contemporary musicologist's toolkit. Its nine chapters cover perspectives from music theory, computational musicology, ethnomusicology, and the psychology and sociology of music, as well as an introduction to musical data analysis and statistics. This book shows that such approaches could play an important role in the further development of the discipline as a whole, not only through the application of statistical and modeling methods to musical scores but also--and perhaps more importantly--in terms of understanding music as a complex social practice.
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