This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences. By bringing together chapters by evolutionary biologists, systematic biologists, philosophers of biology, philosophers of social science, complex systems modelers, psychologists, anthropologists, economists, linguists, historians, and educators, the volume examines evolutionary thinking within (...) and outside the life sciences from a multidisciplinary perspective. While the chapters written by biologists and philosophers of science address theoretical aspects of the guiding questions and aims of the volume, the chapters written by researchers from the other areas approach them from the perspective of applying evolutionary thinking to non-biological phenomena. Taken together, the chapters in this volume do not only show how evolutionary thinking can be fruitfully applied in various areas of investigation, but also highlight numerous open problems, unanswered questions, and issues on which more clarity is needed. As such, the volume can serve as a starting point for future research on the application of evolutionary thinking across disciplines. (shrink)

Ontology as presented in the Advaita works of Vācaspatimiśra, fl. 976-1000, Hindu philosopher.

"El libro que publicamos hoy no tiene otro fin que servir de guía a los espíritus deseosos de profundizar los problemas generales del Derecho; es una “Introducción” en el sentido más exacto del término. Se trata de orientar progresivamente al lector partiendo de las realidades más simples para llevarlo después hasta los problemas más abstractos. Hemos renunciado deliberadamente a dar a los primeros capítulos un rigor científico. Igualmente, hemos evitado de pronto los términos técnicos, esforzándonos por explicarlos y hacerlos asimilar (...) gradualmente en el curso de la obra". Claude Du Pasquier. (shrink)

The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea, a pioneering study of Chŏng Chedu (Hagok, 1649-1736) and Korean Yangming Neo-Confucianism, includes an annotated translation of the Chonŏn, Hagok's most important work on self-cultivation, and a comprehensive introduction to his life, scholarship, and thought.

It has often been claimed that without drastic conceptual innovations a genuine explanation of quantum interference effects and quantum randomness is impossible. This book concerns Bohmian mechanics, a simple particle theory that is a counterexample to such claims. The gentle introduction and other contributions collected here show how the phenomena of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to non-commuting observables, emerge from the Bohmian motion of particles, the natural particle motion associated with Schrödinger's equation. This book will be of (...) value to all students and researchers in physics with an interest in the meaning of quantum theory as well as to philosophers of science. (shrink)

Vincent du Bois est sculpteur sur pierre. Il a appris à tailler le marbre au pied des carrières de Carrare. Mais sa passion pour Michel-Ange ne l'empêche pas de se définir comme un artiste contemporain. De nos jours, le corps à corps avec la matière n'est plus une étape indispensable pour que l'oeuvre prenne forme. Le sculpteur peut programmer une machine pour se charger de ce travail. En tant qu'artiste, mais aussi en tant que penseur et citoyen, Vincent du Bois (...) interroge cette virtualisation de notre société qui contourne le rapport direct avec la matière et le sens du touché en donnant les pleins pouvoirs à la vue.0Il nous montre comment la révolution numérique, phénomène unique par son ampleur dans l'histoire humaine, signe le triomphe de l'abstraction sur la sensation. Vincent du Bois écrit en sculpteur. Il creuse l'essence des choses comme on taille un bloc, procédant par épanelages successifs jusqu'à ce que se révèle la forme sous-jacente. Elle prend ici les traits d'une question : quel pourra être le rôle du corps dans une société vouée aux écrans? (shrink)

Science is king. Every week, headlines announce new breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe, new technologies that will transform our environment, new medical advances that will extend our lives. Science is giving us unprecedented insight into some of the big questions that have challenged humanity ever since we've been able to formulate those questions. Where did we come from? What is the ultimate destiny of the universe? What are the building blocks of the physical world? What is consciousness? This (...) book asks us to rein in this unbridled enthusiasm for the power of science. Marcus du Sautoy explores the limits of human knowledge, to probe whether there is anything we truly cannot know. (shrink)

本书全面解读知行合一理念及其创始人王阳明.书中通过讲述王阳明的辉煌传奇,剖析知行合一.在蛮荒的龙场,王阳明悟出了"圣人之道,吾性自足",即人人皆有良知.而在血腥的沙场和险恶的朝堂,让龙场悟道实际发挥作 用的,是"知行合一",即遵循内心的良知,便能达到宁静于内,无敌于外的境界.在经历了无数磨难后,王阳明不但求得了内心的安宁,而且逐渐通过"知行合一"拥有了足以改变世界的力量.凭借知行合一的强大力量,王阳 明率文吏弱卒,荡平了江西数十年巨寇;以几封书信,一场火攻,三十五天内平定了宁王之乱;从根本上扫清了困扰明政府多年的广西部族匪患.

內容簡介 本書深入地總結二十世紀當代中國哲學家們對中國哲學研究的方法論觀念，提出一套改良的系統，以「宇宙論、本體論、工夫論、境界論」的四方架構，作為中國哲學的「解釋體系」，解消了當代中國哲學界對「中國有沒有哲學 ？」以及「中國哲學是不是哲學？」甚至「中國哲學的合法性問題？」等等的討論，明確地提出一套方法論系統，作為傳統中國哲學進行文本詮釋時之使用工具，這一套工具，將明確地使中國哲學在當代的討論，既可免於持「否 定中國哲學有哲學性之見者」的不具哲學性的批評，又可免於持「純粹西方哲學研究方法以研究中國哲學者」的不具中國哲學特色的批評。這套工具將可以使學者藉以一方面深入傳統進行哲學史的地毯性研究，另方面將可以轉出 讓中國哲學現代化、國際化、以及哲學化的全面研究成果。 本書共分十一章，詳細反省以下諸問題：中國哲學的特質、當代中國哲學的研究成果、儒釋道三家的研究方法及現況、與西方哲學問題意識的比較，並從而建構了以下理論系統：通用於儒釋道三教的解釋架構、作為哲學史研究的 方法論工具、反對重返國學研究的哲學研究之路、哲學基本問題研究法、對概念範疇研究之路的批判、接受所有研究方法的開放性中國哲學研究觀念。.

The exploration of penal censure in this book is inspired by the fortieth anniversary in 2016 of the publication of Andreas von Hirsch's Doing Justice, which opened up a fresh set of issues in theorisation about punishment that eventually led von Hirsch to ground his proposed model of desert-based sentencing on the notion of penal censure. Von Hirsch's work thus provides an obvious starting-point for an exploration of the importance of censure for the justification of punishment, both within von Hirsch's (...) theory of just deserts and from the perspectives of other theoretical approaches. It also provides an opportunity for engaging with censure more broadly from philosophical, sociological-anthropological and individual-psychological perspectives. The essays in this collection map the conceptual territory of censure from these different perspectives, address issues for desert theory that arise from fuller understandings of censure, and consider afresh the role of censure within the jurisprudence of punishment. They show that analyses of censure from different vantage points can significantly enrich punishment theory, not least by providing a conceptual basis for perceiving common ground between and thus connecting different strands of penal theory. (shrink)