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Lectures delivered at various workshops and seminars held at Manipur University from 1994-2004

Aventurar-se no pensamento em filosofia não depende, a princípio, do uso necessário dos arsenais da razão. Antes, seria necessário lançar-se em seus domínios e ficar à espreita dos seus acontecimentos. Somente quando esses ocorrerem teremos como distinguir os que coincidem enormemente com o que já fazemos e pensamos, e os que trazem o novo. Talvez aí, de fato, algum empenho tenha sentido. Assim, ao me deparar com os escritos da filosofia da diferença, de maneira especial com os de Deleuze, Guattari e Foucault, foi possível deslocar a minha prática docente em filosofia dos moldes da filosofia maior e vislumbrar a filosofia em sua menoridade. Aliás, pelo inusitado dos acontecimentos que atravessam nossas salas de aula, penso que seja possível sugerir aos alunos que inventem suas próprias regras de fazer filosofia, segundo uma nova maneira de confecção, um novo estilo que lhes seja próprio, ou seja, que tomem os autores da história do pensamento como matéria de entretimento, por meio de novas composições que não aquelas que os textos filosóficos já oferecem; que selecionem autores que endossam aquilo em que pensam, fazendo uso intensivo deles; que traiam os autores, respeitando-os o máximo, sem reproduzi-los.

The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis) in developing a coherent message around the technicity of science or rather, "technoscience". Within technoscience, the focus will be on recent developments in life sciences research, such as genomics, post-genomics, synthetic biology and global ecology. This book uniquely presents continental perspectives that tend to be underrepresented in mainstream philosophy of science, yet entail crucial insights for coming to terms with technoscience as it is evolving on a global scale today. This is an open access book.

Part of a symposium on Samuel Bellow's Ravelstein (2002) analyzes the novel within the debate of biographical representation vs fictional tribute to Allan Bloom. The roles of Judaism & eros are examined, particularly as they relate to political & religious philosophies, including the prospects for life after death. L. Collins

Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in a 2001 edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the Aristotelianism which was taught in the universities in the seventeenth century, and the picture of nature as a grand machine which was propounded by Hobbes, Descartes and members of the Royal Society of London, such as Boyle. She also rejects the views of nature which make reference to immaterial spirits. Instead she develops an original system of organicist materialism, and draws on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy. Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of women's contributions to philosophy and science

This volume presents twelve original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some critical, on constructivist understandings - Kantian or otherwise - of morality and reason.

Ronald Beiner wants to have it both ways. We know this because, near the end of his book, he tells us that he is a "dualist," someone for whom "philosophy and citizenship are defined by radically distinct purposes: the job of philosophy is to strive unconditionally for truth, and the job of citizenship is to strive for good and prudent judgment about the common purposes of civic life, and each should focus strictly on fulfilling its own appointed end without worrying too much about the other." So there needs to be "a steady appreciation of the fundamental chasm between what we (as citizens) need in the world of practice and what we (as human beings) need from the world of theory" (224). This, however, would be abhorrent to most of the political philosophers Beiner covers. Because they are not dualists but monists; to them, theory and practice should be one.

1. Philosophers on sexuality -- 2. What is sexuality? -- 3. Does sex have a purpose? -- 4. Feminism -- 5. Sexual morality -- 6. Adultery and fidelity -- 7. Homosexuality -- 8. The morality of abortion -- 9. Pornography -- 10. Sex differences -- 11. Gender equality -- 12. Sex talk -- 13. Romantic love -- 14. Marriage -- 15. Family and parenthood.