Author: Andreas Stokke File Type: pdf Philosophers have been thinking about lying for several thousand years, yet this topic has only recently become a central area of academic interest for philosophers of language, epistemologists, ethicists, and political philosophers. Lying Language, Knowledge, Ethics, Politics provides the first dedicated collection of philosophical essays on the emerging topic of lying. Adopting an inter-subdisciplinary approach, this volume breaks new methodologicalground in exploring the ways that a better understanding of language can inform the study of knowledge, ethics, or politics - and vice-versa. How can we lie when it is unclear what exactly we believe, or when we have contradictory beliefs? Can corporations lie, and if so how? Is lying always wrong, or always atleast prima facie wrong? What can one learn from a liar? Can we lie to mindless machines? These engaging questions and many more are explored at length in this accessible reference text. **About the Author Eliot Michaelson, Lecturer, Kings College London,Andreas Stokke, Pro Futura Scientia FellowSenior Lecturer, Swedish Collegium for Advanced StudyDepartment of Philosophy, Uppsala University Dr. Michaelson is a Lecturer at Kings College London. He joined the Department of Philosophy in 2014 after holding the position of Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University the previous academic year. Dr. Michaelson was a Ph.D. student at UCLA, and he holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and an A.A. from Deep Springs College. He works primarily in philosophy of language, also has a secondary interest in ethics, and is the creator of the Philosophy Time video series. Dr. Stokke pursued his postgraduate studies at the University of St Andrews, where he received an MLitt degree in 2006 and a Ph.D. in 2010. After completing his doctoral studies, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo and at the University of Lisbon. In 2013, he took up a position as University Lecturer at Umea University. Dr. Stokke was awarded a Pro Futura Scientia Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in 2016 after being nominated by the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, where he is now also a senior lecturer. His research is mainly in the fields of philosophy of language and epistemology, but he has also worked on ethics and philosophy of action.
Author: Christopher Janaway
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ReviewHighly recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty and researchers. ChoiceExposing the deep flaws as well as the merits of Schopenhauers work, the text offers a valuable contribution to its understanding, while charitably passing over his renowned and unfortunate prejudices. The Review of Metaphysics Book DescriptionSchopenhauer (1788-1860) is something of a maverick figure in the history of philosophy. He produced a unique theory of the world and human existence based upon his notion of will. This collection analyzes the related but distinct components of will from the point of view of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Schopenhauer currently available. Advance students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Schopenhauer.
Author: Peter Riley
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In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry , Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and exploited. The book seeks to challenge a dominant cultural logic that frames contingent, non-vocational labor as a necessary sacrifice that frustrates the righteous progress towards realizing that seemingly purest of callings Poet. Incorporating the often overlooked or excluded workaday ephemera of three canonical US Romantic poets--Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Hart Crane--this volume offers new archival insights that call for a re-examination of celebrated literary careers and disputes their status as renowned or tragic icons of creative vocation. The poetry of Whitman the real estate dealer, Melville the customs inspector, and Crane the copywriter, Riley contends, does not constitute the formal inscription of an antagonistic or discreet poetic labor struggling against quotidian work towards the fulfilment of exceptional individual callings. Instead, the distracted forms of their poetry are always already intermingled with a variety of apparently lesser labors. Ousting poetic production from its default sanctuary of privileged exemption or transcendent repose, the volume refigures the work of the poet as a living sensuous activity that transgresses labors various divisions and hierarchies. It consequently recasts the poet as a figure who actually unfastens the right of passage vocational logic that does so much to secure and reproduce the current neoliberal paradigm.
Author: Philip Matyszak
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The story of one of the most colorful dynasties in history, from Caesars rise to power in the first century BC to Neros death in AD 68This engaging new study reviews the long history of the Julian and Claudian families in the Roman Republic and the social and political background of Rome. At the heart of the account are the lives of six menJulius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Neromenwho mastered Rome and then changed it from a democracy to a personal possession. It was no easy task Caesar and Caligula were assassinated, Nero committed suicide, and Claudius was poisoned. Only Augustus and Tiberius died natural deaths and even that is uncertain. The Julio-Claudian saga has a host of other intriguing characters, from Cicero, the last great statesman of the Republic, to Livia, matriarch of the Empire the passionate Mark Antony and the scheming Sejanus and Agrippina, mother of Nero and sister of Caligula, who probably murdered her husband and was in turn killed by her son. Set against a background of foreign wars and domestic intrigue, the story of Romes greatest dynasty is also the story of the birth of an imperial system that shaped the Europe of today.**From Publishers WeeklyWhen Rome became a republic in 509 BC, its citizens so deplored the idea of monarchy they would not even allow a foreign king into the city. Despite such thinking, the Republics institutions were vulnerable to the power, money and influence of its aristocracy. Matyszaks book is an engrossing and expertly assembled presentation of Romes first families, the Julio-Claudian line of leaders whose example, Matyszak argues, continues to convince many that an effective autocracy is superior to a dysfunctional democracy. Two of Matyszaks main reasons for re-examining this oft-explored era are to overturn common myths, including the widely-accepted, facile explanation for Romes downfall-strain caused by expansion and military campaigns-and to prove that empire is not always a dirty word. Matyszak follows the slow transformation of a republican government into an expansive imperial power, beginning with the awkward reconciliation between Julius Caesars declaration of dictatorship and the existing Roman constitution, and continuing in small but significant steps amid civil wars and familial infighting. His profiles, from Julius to Nero, are fresh looks at characters marred by caricature and misconception, and his analysis of Romes transformation is both instructive and precient, and will give those who employ the term empire in contemporary public dialogue much to consider. 90 illustrations. Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. About the Author Philip Matyszak has a doctorate in Roman history from St. Johns College, Oxford. His books include Legionary, Gladiator, Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day, Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day, The Classical Compendium, Chronicle of the Roman Republic, and The Greek and Roman Myths. He lives in British Columbia, Canada.
Author: David N. Carvalho
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A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink.
Author: Jaime Rollins
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Set against a volatile political landscape, Irish republican culture has struggled to maintain continuity with the past, affirm legitimacy in the present, and generate a sense of community for the future. Lullabies and Battle Cries explores the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in republican parading bands, with a focus on how this music continues to be utilized in a post-conflict climate. As author Jaime Rollins shows, rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities within continually shifting dynamics of republican culture. **Review Rollins offers an insightful account of the changing landscape of republican identity politics in postPeace Process Northern Ireland, illuminating a surprisingly neglected topic and reshaping our thoughts of what the future of Northern Ireland may look like. Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield About the Author Jaime Rollins has a PhD in anthropology from Queens University Belfast. She has assisted with a number of research projects, including Public Displays of Flags and Emblems in Northern Ireland, commissioned by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. She has previously published in Anthropology in Action and in the Irish Journal of Anthropology, where she has also been a guest editor. Her research interests include identity, emotion, memory, political agendas expressed through narratives and song, textiles and art, and medical anthropology. She is currently pursuing a nursing degree.
Author: Teresa Delgado
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This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology. Using an interdisciplinary methodology of dialogue between literature and theology, this study reveals the oppression, resistance, and theological vision of the Puerto Rican community. It demonstrates how Puerto Rican literature and Puerto Rican theology are prophetic voices calling out for the liberation of a suffering people, on the island and in the Puerto Rican Diaspora, while employing personal Puerto Rican familycommunity stories as an authoritative contextual reference point. This work stands within the continuum of contextual theology and diasporic studies of religion in the United States, as well as research in the interdisciplinary field of decolonial and post-colonial studies.
Author: Lewis Dartnell
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A New York Times -bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speciesWhen we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human. From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.