The Faculties

Author : Dominik Perler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199935262
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faculties written by Dominik Perler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties. Thus, we say that dogs can smell things in their environment because they have perceptual faculties, or that human beings can think because they have rational faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings? The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about faculties as modules of the mind. They show that faculties were referred to in different theoretical contexts, but analyzed in radically different ways. Some philosophers, especially Aristotelians, made them the cornerstone of their biological and psychological theories, taking them to be basic powers of living beings. Others took them to be inner causes that literally produce activities, while still others provided a purely functional explanation. The chapters focus on various models, taking into account Greek, Arabic, Latin, French, German and Anglo-American debates. They analyze the role assigned to faculties in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and epistemology, but also the attack that was often launched against the assumption that faculties are hidden yet real features of living beings. The short "Reflections" inserted between the chapters make clear that faculties were also widely discussed in literature, science and medicine.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017879544
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Der Streit Der Facultäten written by Immanuel Kant and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Georgetown University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Download or read book Register of the Faculties and Students written by Georgetown University and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019978244X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the Faculty written by Benjamin Ginsberg and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda.The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities. In the past decade, universities have added layers of administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while laying off full-time faculty in increasing numbers--ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted--and non-academic--administrators are career managers who downplay the importance of teaching and research, as evidenced by their tireless advocacy for a banal "life skills" curriculum. Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational experience--one defined by intellectual rigor. Ginsberg also reveals how the legitimate grievances of minority groups and liberal activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members, have, in the hands of administrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics. By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administration gained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to bolster their power over the faculty.As troubling as this trend has become, there are ways to reverse it. The Fall of the Faculty outlines how we can revamp the system so that real educators can regain their voice in curriculum policy.

Author : Antonino Falduto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110351145
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book The Faculties of the Human Mind and the Case of Moral Feeling in Kant’s Philosophy written by Antonino Falduto and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past few decades a remarkable change occurred in Kant scholarship: the "other" Kant has been discovered, i.e. the one of the doctrine of virtue and the anthropology. Through the rediscovery of Kant's investigations into the empirical and sensuous aspects of knowledge, our understanding of Kant's philosophy has been enriched by an important element that has allowed researchers to correct supposed deficiencies in Kant's work. In addition, further questions concerning the nature of Kant's philosophy itself have been formulated: the more the "other" Kant comes to the fore, the stronger the question concerning the connection between pure philosophy and empirical investigation becomes. The aim of this study is to show that the psychological and anthropological interpretations of Kant's pure philosophy are not convincing and at the same time to illustrate some connections between his critical and anthropological investigations by means of an analysis of the theory of the faculties. Against both a "transcendental psychological" and an "anthropological" reading, the book presents Kant's theory of the faculties as a constitutive part of his critical philosophy and shows that there is a close connection between Kant's pure philosophy and his moral aesthetic.

Author : Dominik Perler
Publisher : Oxford Philosophical Concepts
ISBN 13 : 0199935270
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faculties written by Dominik Perler and published by Oxford Philosophical Concepts. This book was released on 2015 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and nonhuman animals by referring to their special faculties. But what are faculties? In what sense are they responsible for a wide range of activities? How can they be individuated? How are they interrelated? And why are different types of faculties assigned to different types of living beings? The six chapters in this book discuss these questions, covering a wide period from Plato up to contemporary debates about faculties as modules of the mind.

Author : Théodore Simon JOUFFROY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Scepticism of the present age, the Faculties of the human Soul ... and on Philosophy and Common Sense ... Translated from the French by G. Ripley written by Théodore Simon JOUFFROY and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : South Dakota. State Planning Board
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Total Pages : 162 pages
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Download or read book A Personnel Survey of the Faculties in the Seven State Institutions of Higher Education in So. Dakota written by South Dakota. State Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192662198
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Download or read book Charles Bonnet, Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of the eighteenth century, understanding human cognitive life came to be construed as something to be explored in terms of the physiology of the sensory organs, the nerves, and the brain: a form of naturalization that effectively moved cognition out of the realm of philosophy as it had traditionally been understood. Bonnet's Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul was at the forefront of these developments, and this is its first English translation. Drawing on his earlier work in natural history—he was the leading entomologist of his era—he approaches problems of the nature of the mind via the physiology and anatomy of the brain and sensory systems. His approach is one of 'reverse engineering', starting from an organic statue without faculties, and investigating how it would need to be modified to produce a human being. Bonnet takes up a position that cuts across the standard understanding of the period as a clash between materialism and dualism. While his approach was rigorously naturalistic and physiological, this did not lead him to reject the notion of a soul. Instead, he argues that, in order to make sense of their sensory abilities, we need to attribute a soul to animals as well as human beings. At the same time, he argues that if personal immortality is to be possible, it can be conceived along the lines of insect metamorphosis, which shows how different biological forms can harbour a single identity.

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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Download or read book The Faculties of Birds ; with Illustrations written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: