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Moral teleology : a theory of progress (2023)

Sauer, Hanno,

New York, NY :Routledge,

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Format: 1 online resource (225 pages)

ISBN: 1-00-337575-8 , 1-000-89956-X , 1-003-37575-8 , 1-000-89960-8

Series Statement: Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory

Content: "This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended. The book's main aim is to flesh out the process of moral progress in more detail, and to show how, when the right mechanisms and institutions of moral progress are matched together, they create pressure for the desired types of moral gains to manifest. The first part of the book deals with two issues: the conceptual one about what moral progress is, and the broadly empirical one whether it is possible. It shows that cultural evolution successfully explains the origins of modern forms of morally welcome change. The second part argues that there is logical space for a moderate, scientifically credible form of teleology, and that the converse case for moral decline is weak. It addresses the types, drivers and institutions of moral progress that allow for the storage, transmission and cumulative improvement of our normative infrastructure over time. Finally, the third part demonstrates why moral progress cannot be accounted for in metaethically realist terms. Moral Teleology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics, moral epistemology and moral psychology"--

Note: Intro -- Introduction -- 1 The Shape of Things to Come: What Is Moral Progress? -- Introduction -- 1.1 The Concept of Moral Progress -- 1.2 But Is It Progress? -- 1.3 Local and Global -- 1.4 Individual and Collective -- 1.5 Wide and Narrow -- 1.6 Moral Regress -- 1.7 One Step Back, Two Steps Forward -- 1.8 Regress for All! -- 1.9 Imperfect Allies -- 1.10 The Princess and the Pea -- 2 Butchering Benevolence: Is Moral Progress Possible? -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Limits of Concern -- 2.2 From Evolution to Conservatism -- 2.3 A Conservative Advantage? -- 2.4 The Wrong Kind of Progress -- 2.5 Does Evolution Constrain Moral Progress? -- 3 The End of Utopia: Does Moral Progress Have a Goal? -- Introduction -- 3.1 Naturalizing Teleology? -- 3.2 Normative Ambivalence -- 3.3 What Is Teleology, Anyway? -- (i) Directionality -- (ii) Agency -- (iii) Probability -- (iv) Morality -- (v) Transparency -- (vi) Scale -- (vii) Uniqueness -- (viii) Timing -- 3.4 Taking Teleology Seriously -- 4 Looking Forward: Towards Teleology 2.0 -- Introduction -- 4.1 The Case for Decline -- 4.2 Debunking Teleology? Anti-Narrativism -- 4.3 The New Optimism: Empirical Evidence for Progress -- 4.4 The Cunning of Reason: Teleology Without Goals -- 4.5 The Arc(s) of History -- 4.6 Circularity and Smugness -- 5 Beyond Expansion: Which Types of Moral Progress Are There? -- Introduction -- 5.1 Well-Being -- 5.2 Equality -- 5.3 Moral Status: The Expanding Circle -- 5.4 Moral Status: The Contracting Circle -- 5.5 Liberty and Autonomy -- 5.6 Fewer Bad Norms -- 5.7 More Good Norms -- 5.8 Improved Compliance -- 5.9 Improved Moral Knowledge -- 5.10 Moral Progress: Towards a Systematic Typology -- 5.11 Evolutionary Conservatism Again -- 6 Mechanisms of Moral Evolution: What Drives Moral Progress? -- Introduction -- 6.1 Energy Capture, Group Size, and Technology: Material Mechanisms. , 6.2 Social Integration: Functionalistic Mechanisms -- 6.3 Knowledge and Information: Epistemic Mechanisms -- 6.4 Crisis and Struggle: Social Movements -- 6.5 New Norms: Experiments in Living -- 7 Unsocial Sociability: How Can Moral Progress Be Sustained? -- Introduction -- 7.1 Intelligent Design -- 7.2 Storage and Retrieval: Mechanisms of Transmission -- 7.3 Norms and Practices -- 7.4 The Socially Extended Mind -- 7.5 Institutions Rule -- 7.6 Institutional Bypassing -- 7.7 Proxy Institutions -- 7.8 Ameliorative Institutions -- 7.9 Slow Institutions? -- 7.10 Reflexive Institutions -- 7.11 Extracting Norms From Institutions -- 8 The Long March: Does Moral Progress Require Moral Facts? -- Introduction -- 8.1 From Moral Progress to Moral Facts: The Simple Argument -- 8.2 The Case of Conversion -- 8.3 A Realist Account of Moral Progress -- 8.4 Anti-Realism: Moral and Scientific Progress, Functionalism, and Problem-Solving -- 8.5 Moral Convergence -- 8.6 The Fact of Moral Universalism -- (1) Basic Evaluative Dispositions -- (2) Cooperative Strategies -- (3) Cross-Cultural Values -- (4) Political Values -- 8.7 Realism Requires Disagreement -- Scientific and Moral Knowledge -- Everyday Knowledge and Moral Knowledge -- Easy Moral Knowledge -- Moral Expertise -- Counterattack -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Sauer, Hanno Moral Teleology Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2023 ISBN 9781032451800

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

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Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder (2007)

Weinberger, David

New York [u.a.] :Times Books,

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Format: 277 S.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 0-8050-8043-0 , 978-0-8050-8043-8

Content: Philosopher Weinberger shows how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives. Human beings constantly collect, label, and organize data--but today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place--the physical world demanded it--but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Everything is suddenly miscellaneous. Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. He examines how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children's teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future.--From publisher description

Content: From A to Z, Everything Is Miscellaneous will completely reshape the way you think - and what you know - about the world. Includes information on alphabetical order, Amaxon.com, animals, Aristotle, authority, Bettmann Archive, blogs (weblogs), books, broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), business, card catalog, categories and categorization, clusters, companies, Colon Classification, conversation, Melvil Dewey, Dewey Decimal Classification system, Encyclopaedia Britannica, encyclopedia, essentialism, experts, faceted classification system, first order of order, Flickr.com, Google, Great Books of the Western World, ancient Greeks, health and medical information, identifiers, index, inventory tracking, knowledge, labels, leaf and leaves, libraries, Library of Congress, links, Carolus Linnaeus, lumping and splitting, maps and mapping, marketing, meaning, metadata, multiple listing services (MLS), names of people, neutrality or neutral point of view, New York Public Library, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), order and organization, people, physical space, everything having place, Plato, race, S.R. Ranganathan, Eleanor Rosch, Joshua Schacter, science, second order of order, simplicity, social constructivism, social knowledge, social networks, sorting, species, standardization, tags, taxonomies, third order of roder, topical categorization, tree, Uniform Product Code (UPC), users, Jimmy Wales, web, Wikipedia, etc

Language: English

Subjects: Computer Science , General works , Philosophy

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AN 93200

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CC 3200

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ST 515

Keywords: Informationsmanagement ; Elektronisches Informationsmittel ; Wissensmanagement ; Informationstechnik ; Wissensmanagement ; Informationstechnik ; Gesellschaft

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Time's arrow & Archimedes' point : new directions for the physics of time (1996)

Price, Huw 1953-

New York [u.a.] :Oxford Univ. Press,

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Format: XIII, 306 S. : graph. Darst.

ISBN: 0-19-510095-6

Content: "Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way." "Price begins with the mystery of the arrow of time. Why, for example, does disorder always increase, as required by the second law of thermodynamics? Price shows that, for over a century, most physicists have thought about these problems the wrong way. Misled by the human perspective from within time, which distorts and exaggerates the differences between past and future, they have fallen victim to what Price calls the "double standard fallacy": proposed explanations of the difference between the past and the future turn out to rely on a difference which has been slipped in at the beginning, when the physicists themselves treat the past and future in different ways. To avoid this fallacy, Price argues, we need to overcome our natural tendency to think about the past and the future differently. We need to imagine a point outside time - an Archimedean "view from nowhen" - from which to observe time in an unbiased way."

Content: "Price then turns to the greatest mystery of modern physics, the meaning of quantum theory. He argues that in missing the Archimedean viewpoint, modern physics has missed a radical and attractive solution to many of the apparent paradoxes of quantum physics. Many consequences of quantum theory appear counter-intuitive, such as Schrodinger's Cat, whose condition seems undetermined until observed, and Bell's Theorem, which suggests a spooky "nonlocality," where events happening simultaneously in different places seem to affect each other directly. Price shows that these paradoxes can be avoided by allowing that at the quantum level the future does, indeed, affect the past. This demystifies nonlocality, and supports Einstein's unpopular intuition that quantum theory describes an objective world, existing independently of human observers: the Cat is alive or dead, even when nobody looks. So interpreted, Price argues, quantum mechanics is simply the kind of theory we ought to have expected in microphysics - from the symmetric standpoint."--BOOK JACKET

Language: English

Subjects: Physics , Philosophy

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Keywords: Zeit ; Physik ; Zeitrichtung ; Physik ; Philosophie ; Zeit ; Physik ; Philosophie ; Zeitrichtung ; Einführung ; Einführung ; Einführung

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Out of their minds : the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists (1998)

Shasha, Dennis Elliott, 1955- ; Lazere, Cathy

New York, NY :Copernicus,

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Format: XI, 291 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.

ISBN: 0-387-97992-1 , 0-387-98269-8 , 978-0-387-98269-4

Content: "Out of Their Minds" profiles 15 of the planet's foremost computer scientists, including eight winners of the Turing Award, computing's Nobel Prize. Based on recent interviews, the scientists are revealed in fascinating anecdotes about their early inspirations and influences, contributions, and thoughts on the field's explosive future. "A fascinating collection of profiles and interviews with some of the men . . . who brought us (to the computing age)".--"The New York Times". 56 illus.

Language: English

Subjects: Computer Science , Philosophy

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Keywords: Informatiker ; Informatik ; Geschichte ; Biografie ; Biografie

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Time's arrow : the origins of thermodynamic behavior (1993)

Mackey, Michael C. [Verfasser] 1942-

New York [u.a.] : Springer

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Format: XV, 175 S. , graph. Darst.

Edition: Springer study ed., 1. ed.

ISBN: 3540977023

Language: English

Subjects: Physics , Philosophy

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Keywords: Hauptsatz der Thermodynamik 2 ; Thermodynamik ; Entropie ; Zeitrichtung

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Resilience in the Anthropocene : governance and politics at the end of the world (2020)

Chandler, David 1962- ; Grove, Kevin ; Wakefield, Stephanie

London ; New York : Routledge

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Format: X, 206 Seiten

ISBN: 9781138387447 , 9781138387423

Series Statement: Routledge research in the Anthropocene

Content: "This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental practice. Faced with the climate catastrophe of the Anthropocene, theorists and policymakers are increasingly turning to 'sustainable', 'creative' and 'bottom-up' imaginaries of governance. The book brings together cutting-edge insights from leading geographers, international relations scholars and philosophers to explore how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene challenge and transform prevailing understandings of Earth, space, time and knowledge, and how these transformations reshape governance, ethics and critique today. This book examines how the Anthropocene calls into question established categories through which modern societies have tended to make sense of the world and engage in critical reflection and analysis. It also considers how resilience approaches attempt to re-stabilize these categories - and the ethical and political effects that result from these resilience-based efforts. Offering innovative insights into the problem of how environmental change is known and governed in the Anthropocene, this book will be of interest to students in fields such as geography, international relations, anthropology, science and technology studies, sociology, and the environmental humanities."

Note: Introduction: The power of life / Stephanie Wakefield, Kevin Grove and David Chandler -- Resilient Earth : Gaia, geopolitics and the Anthropocene / Simon Dalby -- Security for a fragmented world : ecology and the challenge of the Anthropocene / Madeleine Fagan -- The end of resilience? Rethinking adaptation in the Anthropocene / David Chandler -- Colliding times : urgency, resilience and the politics of living with volcanic gas emissions in the Anthropocene / Sébastien Nobert, Harold Bellanger Rodríguez and Xochilt Hernandez -- Resilient arts of government : the birth of a 'systems-cybernetic governmentality' / Sara Nelson -- Destituting resilience : contextualizing and contesting science for the Anthropocene / Kevin Grove and Allain Barnett -- Ironies of the Anthropocene / Lauren Rickards -- 'Primordial wounds' : resilience, trauma, and the rifted body of the Earth / Nigel Clark -- More of the same? Life beyond the liberal one world world / Stephanie Wakefield -- What would you do (and who would you kill) in order to save the world? : dialectical resilience / Claire Colebrook

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Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , General works , Philosophy

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Keywords: Resilienz ; Anthropozän ; Ökologie ; Internationale Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Owning the future : power and property in an age of crisis (2022)

Buller, Adrienne [Verfasser] ; Lawrence, Mathew [Verfasser]

London ; New York : Verso

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Format: 218 Seiten

ISBN: 9781839765803

Content: "A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politics. The question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times, and during the pandemic this issue has only become more divisive. Since March 2020 we have witnessed the extraordinary growth of asset manager capitalism and the explosive concentration of wealth within the hands of the super-rich. This new oligarchy controls every part of our social and economic lives. In the face of crisis, the authors warn that mere redistribution within current forms of ownership is not enough; our goal must be to go beyond the limits of the current system, dominated by private enclosure and unequal ownership. Only by reimagining how our economy is owned and by whom can we address the crises of our time--from the fallout of the pandemic to ecological collapse--at their roots. Building from this insight, the authors argue that the systemic change we need hinges on a new era of democratic ownership: a reinvention of the firm as a vehicle for collective endeavour and meeting social needs; against the oligarchy of the platform giants, a digital commons that uses our data for collective good, not private profit; in place of environmental devastation, a new agenda of decommodification--of both nature and needs--with a Green New Deal and collective stewardship of the planet's natural wealth. Together, these proposals offer a road map to owning the future and building a better world"--Publisher's website

Note: Introduction: power, property, and a pandemic -- 1. Ownership matters -- 2. The primacy of property -- 3. Engines of extraction -- 4. The commodified life -- 5. A shared inheritance -- 6. Robbing the worker and the soil -- 7. Conclusion: owning the future

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Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Philosophy

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Keywords: Eigentum ; Demokratisierung ; Krise ; Politischer Wandel

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The Enlightenment : the pursuit of happiness, 1680-1790 (2021)

Robertson, Ritchie [Verfasser] 1952-

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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Format: xxii, 984 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm

Edition: First U.S. edition

ISBN: 9780062410658

Content: A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument.

Content: Yet why, over three hundred years after it began, is the Enlightenment so profoundly misunderstood as controversial, the expression of soulless calculation? The answer may be that, to an extraordinary extent, we have accepted the account of the Enlightenment given by its conservative enemies: that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion or support for an unfettered free market, or that this was "the best of all possible worlds." Ritchie Robertson goes back into the "long eighteenth century," from approximately 1680 to 1790, to reveal what this much-debated period was really about. Robertson returns to the era's original texts to show that above all, the Enlightenment was really about increasing human happiness in this world rather than the next by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument.

Content: In so doing Robertson chronicles the campaigns mounted by some Enlightened figures against evils like capital punishment, judicial torture, serfdom and witchcraft trials, featuring the experiences of major figures like Voltaire and Diderot alongside ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary moment. In answering the question "What is Enlightenment?" in 1784, Kant famously urged men and women above all to "have the courage to use your own intellect." Robertson shows how the thinkers of the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a well-rounded understanding of humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility. Drawing on philosophy, theology, historiography and literature across the major western European languages, 'The Enlightenment' is a master-class in big picture history about the foundational epoch of modern times

Note: "Originally published in Great Britain in 2020 by Allen Lane". - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Happiness, reason and passion -- , The scientific revolution -- , Toleration -- , The religious enlightenment -- , Unbelief and speculation -- , Science and sensibility -- , Sociability -- , Practical enlightenment -- , Aesthetics -- , The science of society -- , Philosophical history -- , Cosmopolitanism -- , Forms of government -- , Revolutions -- , Conclusion: the battle over the enlightenment , Includes quotations in French, German, or Italian, most with English translation

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

RVK:

CF 1050

Keywords: Europa ; Aufklärung ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Glück ; Wohlfahrt ; Mündigkeit ; Geistesgeschichte 1680-1790

Author information: Robertson, Ritchie 1952-

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