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Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer whose work on a wide range of topics over the past 40 years has been transformative and inspirational. Fischer’s semicompatibilist view of free will and moral responsibility is perhaps the most widely discussed view of its kind and his emphasis on the significance of reasons-responsiveness as the capacity that underlies moral accountability has been widely influential. Aside from free will and moral responsibility Fischer is also well-known for his work on freedom and foreknowledge the problem of evil the badness of death the meaning of life and the allure of immortality. This volume gathers new essays by leading scholars on some of the major themes of Fischer's work and it also includes a new piece by Fischer in which he offers a systematic reflection on and defense of the motivations that have shaped his theorizing about moral responsibility. Freedom Responsibility and Value will be of interest to scholars and students working on a variety of issues in metaphysics ethics and philosophy of religion. | Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

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The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

Many things make up a modern society: its history culture natural setting wealth classes and peoples. For some the power structure the political system lies at the heart of the social order. Russia has long been a political society and its future may also be decided in large part by the power structure. A good way to understand Russia and other modern societies is to examine the ties between the Soviet system and the rest of the country's life. George Fischer argues that it is these ties that explain much about the consequences of a communist state. The Soviet System originally published in 1968 presents a provocative challenge to prevailing theories of modernization throughout the world. In this book Fischer takes issue with current assumptions that societies developing an advanced fully modern economy and culture must inevitably adopt Western-type social and political institutions. The author holds that our understanding of contemporary nations is impeded by assessing them in terms of the prevailing American theory of pluralism. The notion that a pluralist division of labor pervades all of modern society is challenged and tested in the context of the former Soviet Union as a modern society. The emergence of the dual executive a leader with a special mixture of political and economic know-how is emphasized as a trend toward a monist model of society. Fischer demonstrates how this model in which all power is public and both industry and culture remain part of a non-capitalist non-liberal state structure can prove useful in studying social change today. The result is a book of value to all scholars and students dealing with the social and political systems of both developing and advanced societies long after the Soviet system of rule dissolved. | The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

GBP 130.00
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Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study this new anthology collects influential essays on free will including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work. Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom is divided into three parts. The essays in the first section address metaphysical issues concerning free will and causal determinism. The second section groups papers presenting a positive account of the nature of free action including competing compatibilist and incompatibilist analyses. The third section concerns free will and moral responsibility including theories of moral responsibility and the challenge to an alternative possibilities condition posed by Frankurt-type scenarios. Distinguished by its balance and consistently high quality the volume presents papers selected for their significance innovation and clarity of expression. Contributors include Harry Frankfurt Peter van Inwagen David Lewis Elizabeth Anscombe John Martin Fischer Michael Bratman Roderick Chisholm Robert Kane Peter Strawson and Susan Wolf. The anthology serves as an up-to-date resource for scholars as well as a useful text for courses in ethics philosophy of religion or metaphysics. In addition paired with Free Will: A Philosophical Study it would form an excellent upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course in free will responsibility motivation or action theory. | Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

GBP 130.00
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Manual of Stroke Models in Rats

Manual of Stroke Models in Rats

During the last few years exciting new insights into mechanisms and treatment of stroke have been obtained from animal experiments. Hence the use of animal models to induce stroke are of paramount importance as research tools. While a few articles on this topic have been published in select journals until now there has not been a systematic technical book available which assists researchers in building upon commonly known knowledge. The Manual of Stroke Models in Rats explains in great detail the methods and techniques for accomplishing different stroke models in rats as well as some techniques using mice. Expert contributors to this text include the most recent research information available as well as generally recognized facts making this volume an imperative tool for those researchers seeking to identify new areas of exploration. The first text in 20 years to detail new techniques in rat stroke models The book begins with a statistical update of stroke in America and proceeds to discuss the rationale for using ischemic stroke models. Major sections include different surgical models of stroke induced by the occlusion of the distal middle cerebral artery by intraluminal filament or embolic implantation by photochemically induced thrombosis global cerebral ischemia induced by asphyxia cardiac arrest or by four-vessel occlusion and brain hemorrhage. The book also includes anesthesia procedures general principles of microsurgery and a study of microsurgical instruments. Numerous tables figures and color images are used to supplement the material. The editor Dr. Yanlin Wang-Fischer has published more than 40 scientific articles in various medical journals and contributed to several projects related to animal models and surgeries. In this volume she brings together contributors who represent the cutting edge of research in the field. By reviewing the methods in this detailed technical treatise research

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