Locality and Practical Judgment

Locality and Practical Judgment
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1994
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780823215560

The philosophical viewpoint Ross examines in Locality and Practical Judgment is related to the American naturalist and pragmatist traditions and to the views of many twentieth-century European philosophers. It bears affinities with historicism and existentialism, insofar as both emphasize aspects of human finiteness. What is new is the systematic development of locality in application to practical experience.

The Ring of Representation

The Ring of Representation
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791411094

This book asks how we may undertake to represent representation.

A Religion of Nature

A Religion of Nature
Author: Donald A. Crosby
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791454534

An eloquent case for regarding nature itself as the focus of religion—as the metaphysical ultimate deserving religious commitment.

Inexhaustibility and Human Being

Inexhaustibility and Human Being
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1989
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780823212279

At a time when the metaphysical tradition is being called profoundly into question by proponents of pragmatism and continental philosophy, Inexhaustibility and Human Being examines a specific aspect of metaphysics: the nature of being human, acknowledging the force of these critiques and discussing their ramifications. Exploring the possibility of a systematic metaphysics that acknowledges the limits of every thought, the book offers a metaphysics of human being based on locality and inexhaustibility. Its major focus is on a corresponding "anthropology" in which human being is both local and exhaustive - that is, based on limitation and on the limitation of limitation. Among the book's major topics are: being as locality and inexhaustibility; human being as judgment and perspective; knowing and reason as query; language and meaning as semasis; emotion; sociality; politics; life and death. Clearly written, and wide-ranging in scope, Inexhaustibility and Human Being covers a multitude of subjects - history, love, sexuality, consciousness, suffering, the body, instrumentality, government, and law - in the development of its thesis. The book will appeal not only to philosophers - but also to those involved in studying the various arenas of human activity Professor Ross examines.

The Limits of Language

The Limits of Language
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780823215188

What makes the author's approach unique is its concern with the ways in which we may understand language and its relation to the world and ourselves as a question of limits, drawing upon contemporary continental and English-language views of language, philosophical and linguistic, from American pragmatists such as Peirce and Dewey, and from important contemporary sources such as feminist theory.

Metaphysical Aporia and Philosophical Heresy

Metaphysical Aporia and Philosophical Heresy
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791400067

From Descartes to the present, there has been a call for a new beginning in philosophy. Contemporary continental philosophy and American pragmatism continue to proclaim the end of one philosophic tradition and the beginning of another. The basis for many of these developments is the repudiation of metaphysics. The purpose of this book is to rethink the metaphysical traditions in terms of the continental and pragmatist critiques, rejecting a single view. The major works in the tradition are viewed as heretical. Philosophy has recurrently acknowledged aporia: "moments in the movement of thought in which it finds itself faced with unconquerable obstacles resulting from conflicts in its understanding of its own intelligibility." A chapter is devoted to each of the eight major philosophers and movements in the Western canonical tradition: the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Leibniz, empiricism, Kant, and Hegel. The last three chapters are devoted to contemporary discussions of the end of metaphysics, including the development of a "local" metaphysics that is able to express its own locality and aporia.

Rethinking Administrative Theory

Rethinking Administrative Theory
Author: Jong S. Jun
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2001-10-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0313074763

Striving to redirect the study of public administration toward innovation and imagination, deliberative democracy, knowledge transfer, policy making, and ethics and values--topics which for too long have been overshadowed by traditional problems of efficency, productivity, and instrumental-rational solutions--this book of diverse essays is certain to invigorate both scholarship and practice. Eighteen leading international scholars evaluate public administration's historical development and explore the significance and value trends in public administration from a variety of cutting-edge theoretical and practical perspectives. Aimed at students and practitioners alike, this collection of essays is certain to stimulate critical thinking and discussion of public administration's aims, mechanisms, and overall effectiveness, as well as the role it plays in democratizing countries.

Injustice and Restitution

Injustice and Restitution
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1993-09-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438417942

This book addresses the nature and injustice of authority, retracing the ideas of reason and law from ancient Greece to the present, pursuing a line of thought begun with Anaximander, who speaks of the ordinance of time as restitution for immemorial injustice, and Heraclitus, who speaks of justice as strife. Predominantly philosophical, exploring the authority of Western philosophy in twentieth-century continental and pragmatist writings, the book explores alternative voices as challenges to authority, in feminist and multicultural writings, in Greek mythology and African narratives, in Greek drama and twentieth-century literature.

The Gift of Property

The Gift of Property
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2001-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791448656

Explores the human propensity for owning and having.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.