PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Ecology, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity Adam Riggio, Independent Scholar, Canada A book that combines moral and political philosophy with traditions of activism and literature in a background of scientific knowledge and interpretation to build a comprehensive picture of an ecological humanity. Contents: 1. Nature’s Intrinsic Value: A Forgotten Philosophy of the Environment * 2. Looming Ecofascisms in the Value of Nature * 3. Two Paradoxes of Practical Philosophy * 4. The Essence of an Ecological Philosophy * 5. The Conditions of Selfhood * 6. Discovering Active Nature in the Subject * 7. Ecological Selfhood, Ecological Life
Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors August 2015 UK August 2015 US 252pp Hardback £63.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137540751
This is a book about evolution – from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the confluences of these ideas with those of complexity theory in environmental biology. Contents: 1. Introduction * 2. Bergson’s Core Ideas * 3. Bergson Redux * 4. Systems Theory Grows Up * 5. Durée Compléxe * 6. Creative Emergence
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August 2015 UK August 2015 US 252pp 3 b/w tables, 1 b/w photo, 1 figure Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137412195
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Climate Change and Individual Responsibility
Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology
Agency, Moral Disengagement and the Motivational Gap
Andrew Goldfinch, London School of Economics, UK Rethinking Evolutionary Psychology identifies, champions and vindicates a streamlined evolutionary psychology. It offers a new way of thinking that moves decisively away from theoretical and critical excess. Where standard accounts often obscure and distort, this book emphasizes and develops evolutionary psychology's heuristic credentials. Contents: Introduction * 1. Evolutionary Psychology As A Paradigm * 1.0. Introduction * 1.1. Evolutionary Theory, With An Emphasis On Natural Selection And Adaptation * 1.2. The Possibility Of Psychological Adaptations * 1.3. Empirical Adaptationism * 1.4. Inference From Empirical Adaptationism To Massive Modularity * 1.5. Methodological Adaptationism * 1.6. Metatheory For Psychology And The Behavioural Sciences * 1.7. Public Policy Agenda * 1.8. Conclusion * 2. Subverting The Paradigm * 2.0. Introduction * 2.1. Levels Of Selection * 2.2. Environment Of Evolutionary Adaptedness * 2.3. Behavioural Flexibility * 2.4. Developmental Complexity and Robustness * 2.5. Psychological Adaptations As Modules * 2.6. The Failure To Infer Massive Modularity From Empirical Adaptationism * 2.7. Methodological Objections * 2.8. Metatheory Or Marketing? * 2.9. Policy And Popularisation Dangers * 2.10. Conclusion * 3. Evolutionary Psychology And Heuristics * 3.0. Introduction * 3.1. Heuristics In Science * 3.2. Heuristics In Evolutionary Psychology * 3.3. The Two Research Strategies In Tandem * 3.4. Heuristics For Identifying Adaptive Problems * 3.5. Heuristics For Identifying Adaptive Solutions * 3.6. Testing Predictions * 3.7. Methodological Challenges Revisited * 3.8. Conclusion * 4. Unbundling And Reframing Evolutionary Psychology * 4.0. Introduction * 4.1. Streamlining Evolutionary Psychology * 4.2. The Challenge Of Adaptationist Explanation Revisited * 4.3. Evolutionary Psychology In The Evolutionary And Behavioural Sciences * 4.4. Conclusion * 5. Restructuring The Debate * and more... March 2015 UK March 2015 US 232pp Hardback £60.00 / $95.00 / CN$110.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137442901
David Kreps, Salford University, UK 'This is no ordinary introduction to Henri Bergson. What David Kreps' excellent study gives us is Bergson, complexe: first, because there is no simple way to take (or leave) Bergson's ideas – his thought of durée, élan, and 'multiplicity' demands the most subtle and nuanced reading to give them their full justice; and second, because only by intertwining his ideas with the most up-to-date research in systems thinking, complexity theory, and poststructuralism can we begin to understand their absolute contemporaneity. Kreps' work does all this and more – it gives us the Bergson we need for today.' - John Mullarkey, author of Bergson and Philosophy
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Wouter Peeters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Andries De Smet, Ghent University, Belgium, Lisa Diependaele, Ghent University, Belgium, Sigrid Sterckx, Ghent University, Belgium '[A] ground-breaking and valuable exploration of the psychological mechanisms of moral disengagement that underlie our mystifying inaction in the face of the growing dangers. The authors thoroughly demonstrate how deeply misleading our conventional phenomenology of moral agency is as ordinarily applied to climate change and suggest positive strategies for tackling moral disengagement while time remains.' - Henry Shue, University of Oxford, UK This book discusses the agency and responsibility of individuals in climate change, and argues that these are underemphasized, enabling individuals to maintain their consumptive lifestyles without having to accept moral responsibility for their luxury emissions. Contents: 1. Introduction * 1.1. Is Someone Responsible? * 1.2. Overview * 2. Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Responsibility * 2.1. Human Rights Threatened by Climate Change * 2.2. Assigning Remedial Responsibility for Tackling Climate Change * 2.3. Individual Responsibility and Moral Agency * 3. The Phenomenology of Agency in Climate Change * 3.1. First Feature: the Primacy of Acts Over Omissions * 3.2. Second Feature: the Primacy of Near Effects Over Remote Effects * 3.3. Third Feature: the Primacy of Individual Effects Over Group Effects * 4. Understanding the Motivational Gap * and more...
February 2015 UK February 2015 US 152pp Hardback £45.00 / $67.50 / CN$78.00 Canadian Rights ebooks available www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137464491
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