Artifacts, representations and social practice : essays for Marx Wartofsky
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Artifacts, representations and social practice : essays for Marx Wartofsky
（Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 154）
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1994
Available at 17 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A collection of essays by friends, students, and colleagues on Max Wartofsky's 65th birthday. Reflecting Wartofsky's own interests, topics discussed in this text range from the arts and sciences, to ethics and history, from the Enlightenment, through the 19th century to the present day.
Table of Contents
- The Philosophy of Optimism and Pessimism
- J. Agassi. Hegel and the Doctrine of Expressivism
- I. Buchwalter. Translating Feuerbach
- P. Caws. Is the Enlightenment Over? W.J. Earle. Life is not a Poem? B. Elevitch. Levinas, Feminism, Holocaust, Ecocide
- R.S. Gottlieb. Marx after Marxism
- C.C. Gould. Institutional Blessing: the Museum as Canon-Maker
- H. Hein. An Anatomy of Wittgenstein's Picture Theory
- J. Hintikka. Suddenly One has the Right Eyes
- G. Horowitz. Danto, Dutton, and our Pre-Understanding of Tribal Art and Artifacts
- M.Kelly. In Defense of Musical Representation: Music, Representation and the Hybrid Arts
- P. Kivy. The Good and the Rational
- E. Kohak. Two Vignettes in the History of the Mensuration of Value
- D. Lackey. Irony and the Future of Art
- B. Lang. Rationality and Commitment
- I. Levi. The Theses on Feuerbach
- A. MacIntyre. Donald Davidson's Philosophical Strategies
- J. Margolis. The End of a Metaphor: the Base and the Superstructure
- G. Markus. A Marxian Vision of a (better) Possible Future: End of a Grand Illusion?
- W. McBride. On the Communicative Dimension of Social Practice
- T. McCarthy. Time and Conscious Experience
- J. Proust. Analysis and Synthesis according to Ibn al-Haytham
- R. Rashed. The Bread of Faithful Speech
- C. Ryan. Ten Philosophical Poems
- A. Shimony. Unsafe at Any Depth
- K. Shrader-Frechette. Community and Difference: Reflections in the Wake of Rodney King
- L.C. Simpson. Changes in the Concepts of Space and Time Brought about by Relativity
- J. Stachel. Partisanship, Universalism, and the Dialectics of Moral Consciousness
- W.H. Truitt.
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