Contingent States

Contingent States
Author: William A. Callahan
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780816644001

In the 1990s, Greater China became the subject of debate as the site of either the danger of the “China threat” or the promise of Confucian capitalism. William A. Callahan argues that Greater China presents challenges not only to economic and political order but also to international relations theory. In fact, Greater China, though absent from geopolitical maps and international law, is very much present in economic and cultural exchange and exemplifies the contingent state of international politics. Callahan deconstructs the mainstream geopolitical and political-economic understandings of Greater China, tracing its emergence through an ethnographic analysis of four political “problems” in East Asia: the South China Sea disputes, Sino-Korean relations, the return of Hong Kong, and cross-straits relations. Callahan shows how bureaucrats, outlaws, tycoons, academics, workers, politicians, and hooligans alike produce Greater China through networks of relations in local, national, regional, global, and transnational space. Finally, Contingent States reveals how each of the “problems” provoked theoretical innovations that depart from standard conceptions of sovereignty, democracy, and the nation-state.William A. Callahan is senior lecturer of international politics and deputy director of the Center for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, England, and the author of Imagining Democracy: Reading “The Events of May” in Thailand and Pollwatching, Elections, and Civil Society in Southeast Asia.

A World of States of Affairs

A World of States of Affairs
Author: D. M. Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1997-03-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521589482

Offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective.

Metaphysics of States of Affairs

Metaphysics of States of Affairs
Author: Bo R. Meinertsen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2019-04-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9811330689

This book addresses the metaphysics of Armstrongian states of affairs, i.e. instantiations of naturalist universals by particulars. The author argues that states of affairs are the best candidate for truthmakers and, in the spirit of logical atomism, that we need no molecular truthmakers for positive truths. In the book's context, this has the pleasing result that there are no molecular states of affairs. Following this account of truthmaking, the author first shows that the particulars in (first-order) states of affairs are bare particulars. He then argues that the properties in states of affairs are simple, non-relational and concrete universals. Next, he argues that (material) relations in states of affairs are external relations. Lastly, he argues that a state of affairs is unified by a distinctive formal relation without giving rise to Bradley’s regress. Written in a relatively non-technical style, the book offers a valuable resource for philosophers working on analytic metaphysics and ontology, as well as their graduate students.

Uncertainty, Production, Choice, and Agency

Uncertainty, Production, Choice, and Agency
Author: Robert G. Chambers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2000-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521785235

This book presents a justification of the state-contingent approach to the economics of uncertainty.

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion
Author: William E. Mann
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0470756543

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion features fourteen new essays written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in the field. Contributors include Linda Zabzeski, Hugh McCann, Brian Leftow, Gareth B. Matthews, William L. Rowe, Elliott Sober, Derk Pereboom, Alfred J. Freddoso, William P. Alston, William J. Wainwright, Peter van Inwagen, Philip Kitcher and Philip Quinn. Features fourteen newly commissioned essays. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the major problems in the philosophy of religion. Surveys the field and presents distinctive arguments.

Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XIII

Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XIII
Author: Hannu Kangassalo
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781586032340

This is a collection of papers presented in the 11th European Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases held in Maribor, Slovenia. This annually organized conference brings together the leading researchers from Europe and Japan to introduce the latest results of their research.