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1: Introduction -- I: And End to Skimming -- 2: The (Hard) Practice of Reading: On the Use and Misuse of Wittgenstein for Literature -- II: Learning to Go on -- 3: 'Following a Rule' is a Practice -- 4: Kripke and Wittgenstein on Rule-Following: The Problem of Empty Philosophical Explanations -- 5: Wittgenstein, Meaning and Action -- 6: What is a Context? -- III: Counting Matters -- 7: The Bolshevik Menace of Anthropological Mathematics: Ramsey and Wittgenstein -- 8: Technik and Praxis in Later Wittgenstein -- 9: Mathematics and Aspect-Seeing -- 10: Entering a Practice of Mathematical Proof – On the Difficulty of Teaching Proofs -- IV: Agreeable Animals -- 11: Social Ontology, Evolution, and the Foundations of Practice Theory -- 12: Practices, Normativity, and the Natural History of Human Biological Niche Construction -- 13: Avoiding Tac-on Theories of Culture.

This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin Cahill's approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically, while Cahill avoids interpretative debates, he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond's and James Conant's work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book, which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell's work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy, the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences.
Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences, Wittgenstein, and philosophical anthropology.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Somalia -- Nicaragua -- South Sudan -- Foundations -- An Easter Offering -- Family -- Training From Reality -- The Other Prong -- Breaking Barriers -- Art and Artifacts -- The Drain Works -- An Unexpected Help -- Focus on the Individual -- About the CIHC -- Support the CIHC -- About the Refuge Press

Front -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I -- CH02_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p026-039 -- CH03_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p040-042 -- CH04_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p043-052 -- PART II -- CH06_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p069-083 -- CH07_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p084-096 -- CH08_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p097-111 -- CH09_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p112-122 -- PART III -- CH11_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p140-154 -- CH12_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p155-168 -- CH13_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p169-176 -- PART IV -- CH15_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p192-207 -- CH16_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p208-221 -- CH17_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p222-234 -- CH18_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p235-242 -- CH19_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p243-254 -- CH20_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p255-269 -- CH21_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p270-286 -- PART V -- CH23_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p303-319 -- CH24_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p320-334 -- CH25_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p335-338 -- PART VI -- CH27_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p346-355 -- CH28_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p356-369 -- CH29_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p370-380 -- PART VII -- CH31_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p389-390 -- CH32_Appx_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p391-392 -- CH33_Notes_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p393-428 -- CH34_Contri_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p429-432 -- CH35_CIHC_2012_016_FUP_Cahill_p433-434 -- Index.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Patients Without Borders -- 2. Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: A Decade of Promises -- 3. No Justice Without Power: The Case for Humanitarian Intervention -- 4. The Humanitarian Community and the Private Sector -- 5. Looking Beyond the ''Latest and Greatest'' -- 6. Not If . . . But When and How? -- 7. The 2005 Pakistan Earthquake -- 8. Protecting Societies in Transition -- 9. Internal Displacement in West Africa: Challenges and Constraints -- 10. Coordination and Collaboration: An NGO View -- 11. Being With Them -- 12. Transformation from Relief to a Justice and Solidarity Focus -- Notes -- Contributors -- About the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation and the Institute for International Humanitarian Affairs

For more than fifty years, Dr. Cahill has been helping to heal the world, as a leading specialist in tropical medicine and as a driving force in humanitarian assistance and relief efforts around the globe. In this revised and expanded edition, he chronicles extraordinary achievements of compassion and commitment. Bringing together a rich selection of writings, he crafts a fascinating memoir of a life devoted to others. The book includes front-line reports from places under siege Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Nicaragua, Gaza, and Ireland; there are also visionary essays from the origins of the AIDS

The suppression of war has been the primary objective of the United Nations for almost fifty years, and stopping a war before it starts is easier than ending a war already underway. History, however, has shown that military interventions and economic sanctions often do more harm than good. In Preventive Diplomacy, Nobel prize winners, top officials, and revered thinkers tackle these issues and explore the process of conflict prevention from humanitarian, economic, and political perspectives. This cross-disciplinary reader on global politics demonstrates that when new insights and methodologies

Foreword / H.E. Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann -- Introduction / Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. -- Ensuring the right to education / H.H. Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned -- Protecting human rights in emergency situations / Vernor Muñoz -- The child protection viewpoint / Alec Wargo -- Donor investment for education in emergencies / Brenda Haiplik -- Education as a means of conflict resolution / President Pierre Nkurunziza -- Hear our voices: experiences of conflict-affected children / Zlata Filipović -- Learning from children / Robert Coles -- An unexpected lifeline / Gerald Martone -- The power of the curriculum / Falk Pingel -- Attacks on education / Brendan O'Malley -- Minimum standards, maximum results / Allison Anderson and Jennifer Hofmann -- Establishing safe learning environments / Simon Reich -- Psychosocial issues in education / Arancha García del Soto -- Education in the IDP camps of Eastern Chad / Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán -- Education as a survival strategy: sixty years of schooling for Palestinian refugees / Sam Rose -- Education in Afghanistan: a personal reflection / Leslie Wilson -- Child-friendly: the dual function of protection and education in Myanmar / Ni Ni Htwe and Makiba Yamano -- After the storm: minority school development in New Orleans / Juan Rangel -- The Sudan: education, culture, and negotiations / Francis M. Deng -- Life doesn't frighten me / Maya Angelou

Understanding the complex nature of international humanitarian action-particularly following natural disasters or armed conflicts-has been the mission of this unique series. This book explores the cutting-edge concerns that will affect how assistance is offered in the future.Featuring twelve original essays by leading practitioners, policymakers, and scholars, the book is a state of the field report on problems, threats, and opportunities facing relief efforts in today's world.With contributions from such authorities as Bernard Kouchner, founder of Doctors Without Borders, Charles McCormick, CEO of Save the Children, and physicians, military leaders, field workers, and others, the essays confront the most critical issues facing the delivery of effective relief.

The tragic death in Baghdad in 2003 of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, brought into bitter relief the challenges faced by peacekeepers and humanitarian aid workers. The contributors to this book, all leading scholars and practitioners, offer invaluable perspectives on many of the most important political, legal, social, and military challenges confronting humanitarian aid in a world of terror and conflict.

Christianity and humanitarian action / Avery Cardinal Dulles -- For the sake of my kin and friends : traditions, values, and humanitarian action in Judaism / Harlan J. Wechsler -- Strategies for disagreement / H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal -- The world of the Dinka : a portrait of a threatened culture / Francis Mading Deng -- Military values and traditions / Timothy Cross -- The academy and humanitarian action / Joseph A. O'Hare -- Is any news good news? / Tom Brokaw -- Human rights and the making of a good doctor / Eoin O'Brien -- Immigration in Europe : promise or peril? / Jan Eliasson -- Torture / Timothy W. Harding -- Terrorism : the concept / Paul Wilkinson -- Terrorism : theory and reality / Larry Hollingworth -- Gender exploitation / Nancy Ely-Raphel -- Balancing national security and civil liberties / John D. Feerick -- Disregarding the gGneva Conventions on the protection of war victims / Michel Veuthey -- Media : prism or mirror / Edward Mortimer -- International migration : at the boiling point / Kathleen Newland -- Government responses to fault lines / Peter Tarnoff -- Reviving global civil society after September 11 / Richard Falk