Controversies in the contemporary world /edited by Adriano Fabris, Giovanni Scarafile.

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9789027262233
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HM1121 .C668 2019

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Giovanni Scarafile -- Introduction / Adriano Fabris -- Section 1. Philosophies and controversies: 1. Leibniz beyond Leibniz: Rationality, controversies and the ethics of communication / Giovanni Scarafile -- 2. Locke's and Leibniz's virtual debate over our knowledge of the existence of God / Kuti Shoham -- 3. Locke and Leibniz on matter and solidity / Idan Shimony -- 4. How should we think about a trans-cultural hermeneutics? A controversy between Wilhelm von Humboldt and Georg Friedrich Hegel / Stefania Achella -- 5. Virtues and vices and parts and wholes: A phenomenological analysis / George Heffernan -- 6. Trajectories and challenges of translating traditional Chinese medicine / Gábor Áron Zemplén -- Section 2. Dialogue and controversies: 7. Dialogue in philosophical practices / Luca Bertolino -- 8. The absence of God: The contribution of Levinas' thought to the interreligious dialogue / Silvia Dadà -- 9. Listening to the other: A way to change / Alberta Giani -- 10. Controversies on hypercomplexity and on education in the hypertechnological era / Piero Dominici -- 11. Filibuster: The beleaguered soul of the US senate / Christopher Ketcham -- 12. The ruins of the political: Thoughts about the concept of "border" / Francesco Del Bianco -- 13. Coordination games and disagreement / Oliver Laas -- 14. How to solve controversies in scenarios of legal pluralism / Danny Marrero -- 15. The "water memory affair": The epistemic structure of a scientific controversy / Pascal Ragouet -- About the contributors.

Subject: "Inspired by Marcelo Dascal's theory of controversies, this volume includes studies in the theory of controversies, studies of the history of controversy forms and their evolution, case-studies of particular historical and current controversies. The purpose of this volume is to identify a taxonomy of controversies and also to sense a line of development for the phenomenon itself of controversies. At the same time, we want to ask ourselves about the impact and the spread of controversies in the contemporary world, eminently intended as a heuristic element facilitating knowledge. For all these reasons, the fundamental aim of the volume is to provide the reader with a selection of current theoretical and practical perspectives on controversies, and to offer a broad picture of the complex range of definitions, meanings and practices connected to it"--

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Foreword / Giovanni Scarafile -- Introduction / Adriano Fabris -- Section 1. Philosophies and controversies: 1. Leibniz beyond Leibniz: Rationality, controversies and the ethics of communication / Giovanni Scarafile -- 2. Locke's and Leibniz's virtual debate over our knowledge of the existence of God / Kuti Shoham -- 3. Locke and Leibniz on matter and solidity / Idan Shimony -- 4. How should we think about a trans-cultural hermeneutics? A controversy between Wilhelm von Humboldt and Georg Friedrich Hegel / Stefania Achella -- 5. Virtues and vices and parts and wholes: A phenomenological analysis / George Heffernan -- 6. Trajectories and challenges of translating traditional Chinese medicine / Gábor Áron Zemplén -- Section 2. Dialogue and controversies: 7. Dialogue in philosophical practices / Luca Bertolino -- 8. The absence of God: The contribution of Levinas' thought to the interreligious dialogue / Silvia Dadà -- 9. Listening to the other: A way to change / Alberta Giani -- 10. Controversies on hypercomplexity and on education in the hypertechnological era / Piero Dominici -- 11. Filibuster: The beleaguered soul of the US senate / Christopher Ketcham -- 12. The ruins of the political: Thoughts about the concept of "border" / Francesco Del Bianco -- 13. Coordination games and disagreement / Oliver Laas -- 14. How to solve controversies in scenarios of legal pluralism / Danny Marrero -- 15. The "water memory affair": The epistemic structure of a scientific controversy / Pascal Ragouet -- About the contributors.

"Inspired by Marcelo Dascal's theory of controversies, this volume includes studies in the theory of controversies, studies of the history of controversy forms and their evolution, case-studies of particular historical and current controversies. The purpose of this volume is to identify a taxonomy of controversies and also to sense a line of development for the phenomenon itself of controversies. At the same time, we want to ask ourselves about the impact and the spread of controversies in the contemporary world, eminently intended as a heuristic element facilitating knowledge. For all these reasons, the fundamental aim of the volume is to provide the reader with a selection of current theoretical and practical perspectives on controversies, and to offer a broad picture of the complex range of definitions, meanings and practices connected to it"--

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