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... legal, institutional and cultural an end to poverty ? An End to Poverty? 20the life and even on the health of the head of the family’. Their livelihood was ‘rather like a life annuity, save that ... also to ‘know his rights and be able to exercise them’; and even beyond that, to ‘be a stranger to none of the high and delicate feelings which honour human nature’. The priority was to avoid ... attempt to live with chance, both national and international, An End to Poverty? 40proposed that a national educational council be set up to direct public instruction according to uniform...

... Cambridge University Press. Levy-Faur, D. and Jordana, J. (eds.) 2004. The Politics of Regulation: Institutionsand Regulatory Reforms for the Age of Governance, Cheltenham: EdwardElgar.Moran, M. ... field and an accessible andcritical introduction to the subject. Morgan and Yeung set out a diverse andstimulating selection of materials and give them context with a compre-hensive and critical ... supplying and processing the level and qualityof information in question and approximately equal to the marginal benefits thatare engendered. An analogy can usefully be drawn with the way in which an...

... 1.Contentsviii4Mentalcontent69Propositions70Thecausalrelevanceofcontent74Theindividuationofcontent79Externalisminthephilosophyofmind82Broadversusnarrowcontent84Content,representationandcausality89Misrepresentationandnormality92Theteleologicalapproachtorepresentation95Objectionstoateleologicalaccountofmentalcontent99Conclusions1005Sensationandappearance102Appearanceandreality103Sense-datumtheoriesandtheargumentfromillusion107Otherargumentsforsense-data110Objectionstosense-datumtheories112Theadverbialtheoryofsensation114Theadverbialtheoryandsense-data116Primaryandsecondaryqualities119Sense-datumtheoriesandtheprimary/secondarydistinction121Anadverbialversionoftheprimary/secondarydistinction125Docolour-propertiesreallyexist?126Conclusions1286Perception130Perceptualexperienceandperceptualcontent131Perceptualcontent,appearanceandqualia135Perceptionandcausation137Objectionstocausaltheoriesofperception143Thedisjunctivetheoryofperception145Thecomputationalandecologicalapproachestoperception149Consciousness,experienceand‘blindsight’155Conclusions1587Thoughtandlanguage160Modesofmentalrepresentation162The‘languageofthought’hypothesis164Analogueversusdigitalrepresentation167Imaginationandmentalimagery169Thoughtandcommunication175Doanimalsthink?178Naturallanguageandconceptualschemes183In this book Jonathan Lowe offers a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the ... that what metaphysicians aspire to achieve is an imposs-ible dream. They claim that it is an illusion to suppose thathuman beings can formulate and justify an undistorted pic-ture of the fundamental ... existence in time and their alleged capacity to enter into causal relationships. According to the Cartesiandualist, thoughts and feelings, being states of an immaterialsubstance altogether lacking...

... Moral Significance ofHuman and Nonhuman Animals is also critical of Regan’s appeal to intuition, and I believe that she too has not completely credited hisdistinction between an intuition as ... original position,and the various forms of Kant’s categorical imperative are designed to apply to humans only to moral agents, as Regan puts it, who canact by understanding rules and making agreements, ... strictutilitarian may not eat meat.One might also suppose that a utilitarian would justify eating meatif the cost to animals in suffering were less than the cost to humanPeter Singer and Utilitarianism10shown...

... between thought and language on theone side and the external world on the other, such that it is possible to meanthings by language, to get to know certain aspects of the world, and to com-municate ... inquiry into “what there is” by drawing a distinc-tion between an objective world of fact and the human capacity by means oflanguage to describe and think about it. This distinction is classic andreceives ... true or false, it is meaningful. Thisanalysis shows both how powerful and subtle an ideal logical languagecan be.Apart from arguing that names and descriptions are to be analyzed dif-ferently,...

... example, gave rise to many different yet related languages known as the Romance languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian. Because these languages are historically related, ... liter-ally, to roof heaven, is more transparent to modern eyes and ears than the Northumbrian “heben til hrofe” (the preposition til still means to in the Scandinavian languages). Finally, ... Latin, from Scandinavian languages, and (with the Norman Conquest) from French. Part of the story of this book is the story of these loan words.The earliest records of any Germanic language are...

... attends to Butler’s attempts to answer those who accuse her of granting excessive power to language. She observes that But-ler’s response hinges on her claim that language is performative and ... Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton University Press, 2005). We thank Princeton University Press for permission to use this material.A portion of Rebecca ... gender and sexuality (and often with them), is a site where language, materiality, theory, and politics all come together in complex ways.PUTTING BUTLER TO WORKIn addition to deepening and...

... Thinang, Syang, Marpha, Chimang, andChairo—but today there are several more. The inhabitants of these villagesare often referred to collectively as Panchgaonle (i.e., the inhabitants ofPanchgaon), ... interactions to be ongoingprocesses in which structure and practice are constantly being shaped, re-produced, and transformed through negotiation and activity.16Anthropologists and historians have ... The list of participantsincluded many of my friends and informants, whose views were at odds withone another. For an earlier workshop, held in Kathmandu in 1983, theorganizers had invited...

... agroup that is meant to know its place in the world and maintain its boundaries andfunctions. Man and woman are both informed and blessed to procreate, to “befruitful and multiply” and assert stewardship ... could demand a husband and wife submit to a Jewish court, and many Orthodox organizations endorsed a prenuptialagreement, which contractually binds a husband to pay his wife’s maintenanceuntil ... wish to thank Wendy Lochner and her colleagues at Columbia Univer-sity Press for taking on this volume and working so assiduously to see to itstimely publication.We would also like to thank...

... to goals" methods such as branch−and−bound and A*. For descriptions of these and other search methods seeWinston 1992, Glover 1989 and 1990, and Kirkpatrick, Gelatt, and Vecchi 1983. "Steepest−ascent" ... time) and an intelligentstrategy for choosing the next set of sequences to evaluate.Many computational problems require a computer program to be adaptive to continue to perform well in achanging ... biologicalorganism depends on many factors—for example, how well it can weather the physical characteristics of itsenvironment and how well it can compete with or cooperate with the other organisms...