The Bounds of Choice

2013-10-08
The Bounds of Choice

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  • Author: Talbot Brewer
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135707421
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

Presents a sustained and original challenge to the orthodox understanding of the relationship between morality and voluntary choice. The two main theses of the book are that we can be morally responsible for aspects of our character that we have not chosen or otherwise authored, and that we can enter into interpersonal commitments to which we have not voluntarily consented.

Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method

2017-01-01
Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method

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  • Author: Robert Kolb
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • ISBN: 1506427103
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 395

Galvanized by Erasmus' teaching on free will, Martin Luther wrote "De servo arbitrio", or "The Bondage of the Will", insisting that the sinful human will could not turn itself to God. In this first study to investigate the sixteenth-century reception of "De servo", Robert Kolb unpacks Luther's theology and recounts his followers' ensuing disputes until their resolution in the Lutheran churches' 1577 "Formula of Concord".

The Bounds of Choice

2013-10-08
The Bounds of Choice

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  • Author: Talbot Brewer
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135707499
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

Presents a sustained and original challenge to the orthodox understanding of the relationship between morality and voluntary choice. The two main theses of the book are that we can be morally responsible for aspects of our character that we have not chosen or otherwise authored, and that we can enter into interpersonal commitments to which we have not voluntarily consented.

Comprehensive Commentary on Kant's Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason

2015-12-21
Comprehensive Commentary on Kant's Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason

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  • Author: Stephen R. Palmquist
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 111861920X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 634

Palmquist’s Commentary provides the first definitive clarification on Kant’s Philosophy of Religion in English; it includes the full text of Pluhar’s translation, interspersed with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an original interpretation of Kant’s work. Offers definitive, sentence-level commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason Presents a thoroughly revised version of Pluhar’s translation of the full text of Kant’s Religion, including detailed notes comparing the translation with the others still in use today Identifies most of the several hundred changes Kant made to the second (1794) edition and unearths evidence that many major changes were responses to criticisms of the first edition Provides both a detailed overview and original interpretation of Kant’s work on the philosophy of religion Demonstrates that Kant’s arguments in Religion are not only cogent, but have clear and profound practical applications to the way religion is actually practiced in the world today Includes a glossary aimed at justifying new translations of key technical terms in Religion, many of which have previously neglected religious and theological implications

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology – ICDSST 2019 & EURO Mini Conference 2019

2019-05-27
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology – ICDSST 2019 & EURO Mini Conference 2019

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  • Author: Paulo Sérgio Abreu Freitas
  • Publisher: EWG-DSS
  • ISBN: 9898805447
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

The Bounds of Agency

2019-03-26
The Bounds of Agency

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  • Author: Carol Rovane
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 0691655057
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

The subject of personal identity is one of the most central and most contested and exciting in philosophy. Ever since Locke, psychological and bodily criteria have vied with one another in conflicting accounts of personal identity. Carol Rovane argues that, as things stand, the debate is unresolvable since both sides hold coherent positions that our common sense, she maintains, is conflicted; so any resolution to the debate is bound to be revisionary. She boldly offers such a revisionary theory of personal identity by first inquiring into the nature of persons. Rovane begins with a premise about the distinctive ethical nature of persons to which all substantive ethical doctrines, ranging from Kantian to egoist, can subscribe. From this starting point, she derives two startling metaphysical possibilities: there could be group persons composed of many human beings and muliple persons within a single human being. Her conclusions supports Locke's distinction between persons and human beings, but on altogether new grounds. These grounds lie in her radically normative analysis of the condition of personal identity, as the condition in which a certain normative commitment arises, namely, the commitment to achieve overall rational unity within a rational point of view. It is by virtue of this normative commitment that individual agents can engage one another specifically as persons, and possess the distinctive ethical status of persons. Carol Rovan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance

1987-10-01
John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance

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  • Author: Johanne Clare
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • ISBN: 0773561390
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 234

The author suggests that the full significance of Clare's contribution to English literature is found not in his social criticism, but in his refusal to dissociate himself from his past or to become assimilated into the mainstream of English culture at the expense of his class-identity. She argues that a clear set of aesthetic principles informs his finest work and provides the first thematic and structural classification of his poetry. Focussing on the major vocational poems and selected passages from the prose, she shows how Clare formulated the creative ideas and rhetorical techniques that allowed him to give unified expression to both his social and literary concerns. Clare's deep involvement with nature and rural England was not only the basis for his poetry, but also enabled him to articulate beliefs which opposed the inhumane values of his time.

Artificial Immune Systems

2010-07-16
Artificial Immune Systems

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  • Author: Emma Hart
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3642145477
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 329

Arti?cial immune systems (AIS) is a diverse and maturing area of research that bridges the disciplines of immunology and computation. The original research impetus in AIS had a clear focus on applying immunological principles to c- putationalproblemsinpracticaldomainssuchascomputersecurity,datamining and optimization. As the ?eld has matured, it has diversi?ed such that we now see a growing interest in formalizing the theoretical properties of earlier - proaches, elaborating underlying relationships between applied computational models and those from theoretical immunology, as well a return to the roots of the domain in which the methods of computer science are being applied to - munological modelling problems. Following the trends in the ?eld, the ICARIS conference intends to provide a forum for all these perspectives. The 9th InternationalConference on AIS (ICARIS 2010)built on the success of previous years, providing a convenient vantage point for broader re?ection as it returned to Edinburgh, the venue of the Second ICARIS in 2003. This time, the conference was hosted by Edinburgh Napier University at its Craiglockhart Campus, recently reopened after extensive refurbishment which has resulted in a stunning building and state-of-the-art facilities. The extent to which the ?eld has matured over the preceding years is clear; a substantial track of theor- ical research now underpins the discipline. The applied stream has expanded in its outlook, and has examples of AIS algorithms being applied across a wide spectrum of practicalproblems,rangingfrom sensornetworksto semi-conductor design.

The Next Public Administration

2017-10-23
The Next Public Administration

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  • Author: B Guy Peters
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1473993938
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 193

Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component of democratic governance and fostering a state-citizen relationship. Wide-ranging in scope, The Next Public Administration: Extends basic public administration to consider issues associated with management, governance and democracy Covers core public administration concepts and their evolution through time Draws on an international spread of examples, bringing theoretical discussions to life Includes lists of further reading Essential reading for students of public management and public administration.

Private Law and the Value of Choice

2017-01-12
Private Law and the Value of Choice

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  • Author: Emmanuel Voyiakis
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 150990283X
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

Some say that private law ought to correct wrongs or to protect rights. Others say that private law ought to maximise social welfare or to minimise social cost. In this book, Emmanuel Voyiakis claims that private law ought to make our responsibilities to others depend on the opportunities we have to affect how things will go for us. Drawing on the work of HLA Hart and TM Scanlon, he argues that private law principles that require us to bear certain practical burdens in our relations with others are justified as long as those principles provide us with certain opportunities to choose what will happen to us, and having those opportunities is something we have reason to value. The book contrasts this 'value-of-choice' account with its wrong- and social cost-based rivals, and applies it to familiar problems of contract and tort law, including whether liability should be negligence-based or stricter; whether insurance should matter in the allocation of the burden of repair; how far private law should make allowance for persons of limited capacities; when a contract term counts as 'unconscionable' or 'unfair'; and when tort law should hold a person vicariously liable for another's mistakes.