Author: Abrol Fairweather File Type: pdf This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology. These bridges are empirically informed theories of epistemic virtue virtue theoretic solutions to under determination epistemic virtues in the history of science and the value of understanding. Virtue epistemology has opened many new areas of inquiry in contemporary epistemology including epistemic agency, the role of motivations and emotions in epistemology, the nature of abilities, skills and competences, wisdom and curiosity. Value driven epistemic inquiry has become quite complex and there is a need for a responsible and rigorous process of constructing naturalized theories of epistemic virtue. This volume makes the involvement of the sciences more explicit and looks at the empirical aspect of virtue epistemology. Concerns about virtue epistemology are considered in the essays contained here, including the question can any virtue epistemology meet both the normativity constraint and the empirical constraint? The volume suggests that these worries should not be seen as impediments but rather as useful constraints and desiderata to guide the construction of naturalized theories of epistemic virtue. **Review From the book reviews This is a collection of nineteen papers, assembled and briefly introduced by Abrol Fairweather. Together they explore an incredibly broad and fertile range of the connections between virtue epistemology, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of science. Anyone interested in virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, or naturalized epistemology should consider this book an excellent resource. (Sarah Wright, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, April, 2015) From the Back Cover This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology. These bridges are empirically informed theories of epistemic virtue virtue theoretic solutions to underdetermination epistemic virtues in the history of science and the value of understanding. Virtue epistemology has opened many new areas of inquiry in contemporary epistemology including epistemic agency, the role of motivations and emotions in epistemology, the nature of abilities, skills and competences, wisdom and curiosity. Value driven epistemic inquiry has become quite complex and there is a need for a responsible and rigorous process of constructing naturalized theories of epistemic virtue. This volume makes the involvement of the sciences more explicit and looks at the empirical aspect of virtue epistemology. Concerns about virtue epistemology are considered in the essays contained here, including the question can any virtue epistemology meet both the normativity constraint and the empirical constraint? The volume suggests that these worries should not be seen as impediments but rather as useful constraints and desiderata to guide the construction of naturalized theories of epistemic virtue.

Author: Thomas A. Borchert File Type: pdf Most studies of Buddhist communities tend to be limited to villages, individual temple communities, or a single national community. Buddhist monastics, however, cross a number of these different framings They are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the abovecollectively and often simultaneously. Educating Monks examines a minority Buddhist community in Sipsongpanna, a region located on Chinas southwest border with Myanmar and Laos. Its people, the Dai-lue, are double minorities They are recognized by the Chinese state as part of a minority group, and they practice Theravada Buddhism, a minority form within China, where Mahayana Buddhism is the norm. Theravada has long been the primary training ground for Dai-lue men, and since the return of Buddhism to the area in the years following Mao Zedongs death, the Dai-lue have put many of their resources into providing monastic education for their sons. However, the authors analysis of institutional organization within Sipsongpanna, the governance of religion there, and the movements of monks (revealing the ethnoscapes that the monks of Sipsongpanna participate in) points to educational contexts that depend not just on local villagers, but also resources from the local (Communist) government and aid form Chinese Mahayana monks and Theravada monks from Thailand and Myanmar. While the Dai-lue monks draw on these various resources for the development of the sangha, they do not share the same agenda and must continually engage in a careful political dance between villagers who want to revive traditional forms of Buddhism, a Chinese state that is at best indifferent to the continuation of Buddhism, and transnational monks that want to import their own modern forms of Buddhism into the region. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Dai-lue monks in China, Thailand, and Singapore, this ambitious and sophisticated study will find a ready audience among students and scholars of the anthropology of Buddhism, and religion, education, and transnationalism in Southeast and East Asia. **

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Author: Wolfgang Munchau File Type: pdf The Meltdown Years offers the most lucid and useful explanation to date about why home values, life savings, job security, and investments around the world are in peril.Rather than focus on who is to blame, though, author Wolfgang Munchau takes the more practical approach of focusing on what is to blame. The fact that individuals were stupid, greedy, and corrupt should come as no surprise. Whats remarkable is that our worlds financial systemsput in place to help stave off such a crisisfailed so miserably.What is inherently wrong with the global monetary system? What happened to the regulatory process? What role did the credit market, hedge funds, and investment banks play? These are the types of questions one must answer in order to truly comprehend what caused the meltdown and, more importantly, to understand what must be done to repair it.Munchau dissects the global financial system, exposing its flaws and weaknesses in the context of the crisis. A decidedly global perspective of the greatest financial crisis of our time, The Meltdown Years examinesullThe structure of the world banking system llGlobal events that led to financial collapse llThe growth of speculative bubbles llThe descent from financial crisis into full-out recessionlulPointing to an unstable global economic system as the root of the problem, the author predicts how long the recession willand illustrates long-term consequences of the meltdown.Apportioning [individual] blame for this crisis may be fun, Munchau writes, but it is a dead-end road for anyone who seeks an understanding of what happened. AIG, Alan Greenspan, Fannie Mae, Bear Stearns Each is portrayed as a villain responsible for the state of the economy. In truth, the blame is much broader and lies much deeper.The Meltdown Years is required reading for anyone who wants to follow the ongoing debate about economic recovery and understand what the collapse means for the future of financial capitalism.From the Back CoverTotal Systems Failure The Global Financial Breakdown and How to Repair It2008 will go down in history as the year the U.S. financial system plunged over the cliffand pulled the global economy along with it. Nevertheless, says Financial Times editor Wolfgang Munchau, this is not an American problem requiring an American solution. The meltdown was caused by inherent defects in the global economy. It is the worlds problem, and it will take international action to fix it.An updated edition of Verboben, Munchaus award-winning book published in Germany in 2008, The Meltdown Years provides a solid foundation in the structure and workings of the global economy and presents a broad view of the financial crisis.Munchau focuses on three main questionsullWhat were the key events that led to the global financial bubble? llHow did the meltdown start and why did it spread? llWhat needs to be done to repair the economy and to avoid future setbacks?lulMunchau puts the pieces of the puzzle together to form a remarkably clear picture of an extraordinarily complex subject--while providing actionable advice for creating a more durable financial order.About the AuthorWolfgang Munchau is an associate editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly column about the European Union and the European economy. Between 1988 and 1995 he held several posts at The Times newspaper, including Washington and Brussels correspondent. Wolfgang Munchau lives in Belgium.