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Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Great Debates in Philosophy)

2 reviews
Gilbert Harman, Judith Thomson

Wiley-Blackwell, 1996

Definitely worth reading
Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity is both thought provoking and profound. The authors of the book present their ideas in tremendous depth, yet the language is very accessible. Harman writes with incredible intuitive appeal, and Thomson writes with rigorous and astounding clarity. The book is absolutely captivating. The authors cover everything from philosophy of language to epistemology. ...

Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History

1 review
Thomas L. Haskell

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

The writings of a deeply philosophical historian
This is a deeply thoughtful book. Thomas L. Haskell is an excellent historian who brings to his reflections on his craft a deeply informed philosophical bent. This book is a collection of his writings from over twenty years. The first thing to note is that the title of the book may be somewhat misleading. It is the title of a review that he wrote of Peter Novick's great book, That Noble Dream, on ...

Objectivity and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)
Matthew Kramer

Cambridge University Press, 2007

What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ways and to what degrees are they objective? Does anything of importance depend on the objectivity of law? These are some of the principal questions addressed by Matthew H. Kramer in this lucid and wide-ranging study that introduces readers to vital areas of philosophical enquiry.

From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service-Learning Research ...

Information Age Publishing, 2007

This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at the Sixth International Service-learning Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in October 2006. The theme of the conference, which is also the title of this volume, was "From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service- ...

That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context)

8 reviews
Peter Novick

Cambridge University Press, 1988

Must read for every historian
When a professor assigned Peter Novick's "That Noble Dream" as one of the last readings in one of my seminars, I blanched. Who, I inwardly groaned, would force students to read a book this huge in the waning weeks of the semester, a time when the heavy weight of tests, papers, and grading exams rests on your shoulders? "Look at the size of that font! How in the heck are we supposed to get through ...

The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture (SUNY Series in Philosophy)

1 review
Susan R. Bordo

State University of New York Press, 1987

The modern mindset
The modern mindset did not arise out of a vacuum but out of a multiplicity of changes that took place as Europe transitioned from the medieval civilization to something very different, and yet at the same time very much moulded by what went before. Most people are quite unaware of the huge part that philosophy has played in forming the modern/postmodern culture we have today. This book ...

Objectivity

1 review
Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison

Zone Books, 2007

Fast service and great condition!
Received it quickly and in great condition. Cheapest price for a brand new product I could find online.

In Defence of Objectivity (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)
Andrew Collier

Routledge, 2003

This volume develops and defends critical realism whilst engaging critically with existentialist philosophy in a number of ways. The work of existentialist thinkers as diverse as Kierkegarrd, R.D. Laing, Heideggar and Sartre is discussed at length and Andrew Collier argues that there is much to be learnt from their work, especially in Heidegger's critique of the technological view of the world. However the book concludes with a defence of ...

Objectivity, Simulation and the Unity of Consciousness: Current Issues in the Philosophy of Mind ...

British Academy, 1996

What is it to be capable of thoughts about an objective world? What is involved in the unity of consciousness? How is the ability to attribute attitudes to other persons to be understood? The three symposia in this volume develop new approaches to these central questions in the philosophy of mind. The contributors include leading philosophers of the middle and younger generation working in Britain. All the issues discussed have an ...

Objectivity, Communication, and the Foundation of Understanding
Bruce Wayne McKinzie

University Press of America, 1994

This phenomenological investigation of lived experience suggests that human understanding inevitably relies on objectivist comprehensions due to ethical imperatives that are necessitated by communal existence. The analysis also indicates that human understanding and human communication can be considered commensurate processes that are oriented toward maintaining these objectivist comprehensions through the integration of meanings and the ...

Truth and Objectivity

2 reviews
Crispin Wright

Harvard University Press, 1992

Tough going, but worthwhile reading.
Wright is well-known for his turgid prose, but this should not prevent people from reading this book. The primary aim of the book is modest: to characterise the debate between realists and anti-realists in any meta-discipline (meta-ethics and philosophy of mathematics provide most of the examples). En route to this end, Wright makes some valuable contributions to several debates in ...

Our Knowledge of the Law: Objectivity and Practice in Legal Theory
George Pavlakos

Hart Publishing, 2007

In the long-standing debate between positivism and non-positivism, legal validity has always been a subject of controversy. While positivists deny that moral values play any role in the determination of legal validity, non-positivists affirm the opposite thesis. In departing from this narrow point of view, the book focuses on the notion of legal knowledge. Apart from what one takes to constitute the grounds of legal validity, there is a more ...

Under Cover of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity

2 reviews
James R. Hackney Jr.

Duke University Press, 2007

Insightful, important, and very well-written
Professor Hackney, who teaches torts, corporate law, and jurisprudence at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, is the author of several important articles on the relationship between law and science in legal theory. Prof. Hackney's prologue outlines the context of the project. Certain influential theorists have long used the rhetoric of science and claims of ...

Just the Facts: How "Objectivity" Came to Define American Journalism

4 reviews
David Mindich

NYU Press, 2000

Excellent!
This is one of the best treatments of journalism I've ever read. It is both a gripping historical narrative (with an excellent chapter on how the New York Times covered lynching) and a serious intellectual history of an idea central to journalism: how journalists started to think of themselves as objective. At its core, it is also a cultural history of the nineteenth century. Perhaps this ...

New Objectivity (Midsize)
Sergiusz Michalski

Taschen, 2003

Foundations of Futures Studies: Values, Objectivity, and the Good Society : Human Science for a New Era (Vol. ...

1 review

Transaction Publishers, 2004

Foundations Of Futures Studies, Vol 2
In the book, Foundations of Future Studies, Vol. 2, Wendell Bell examines "the ethical foundations of futures studies." Because "a great deal of scientific research is directed at creating knowledge not as an end in itself but as a means for solving practical problems or achieving other valued ends," he shows concern for "ethics, morality and human values...[in] proposing preferable futures." He ...

Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention: Symmetry in Physical Science
Talal A. Debs, Michael L. G. Redhead

Harvard University Press, 2007

Most observers agree that modern physical theory attempts to provide objective representations of reality. However, the claim that these representations are based on conventional choices is viewed by many as a denial of their objectivity. As a result, objectivity and conventionality in representation are often framed as polar opposites. Offering a new appraisal of symmetry in modern physics, employing detailed case studies from relativity ...

Rethinking Objectivity (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Allan Megill

Duke University Press, 1994

Although "objectivity" is a term used widely in many areas of public discourse, from discussions concerning the media and politics to debates over political correctness and cultural literacy, the question "What is objectivity?" is often ignored, as if the answer were obvious. In this volume, Allan Megill has gathered essays from fourteen leading scholars in a variety of fields--history, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, history of science, ...

Objectivity in Biblical Interpretation

3 reviews
Thomas Howe

Advantage Inspirational, 2005

An Island of Truth in a Sea of Hermeneutical Indeterminism
This book is long overdue gem of philosophical correction. Since the onset of hermeneutics as a philosophical discipline within the mainstream of post-Kantian philosophy, evangelical Christians have largely followed the trend begun by Schleiermacher and culminating in Gadamer that meaning cannot be objective. In post-Kantian philosophical development, knowing things-in-themselves is considered ...

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