The Study of Man. By Michael Polanyi. Price, $1.75. Pp. 102. University of Chicago Press, 5750 Ellis Ave., Chicago 37, 1959. One subtitle to Polanyi's challenging and fascinating book might be The Evolution and Natural History of Error , for Polanyi is at pains to expunge what he believes to be the false notion contained in the contemporary view of science which treats it as an object and basically impersonal discipline. According to Polanyi not only is this a radical and important error, but it is harmful to the objectives of science itself. Another subtitle could be Farewell to Detachment , for in place of cold objectivity he develops the idea that science is necessarily intensely personal. It is a human endeavor and human point of view which cannot be divorced from nor uprooted out of the human matrix from which it arises and in which it works. For a good while

Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy

政治自由主义 = Political liberalism

Gru nd legung zur Metaphysik der Sitten

Injectable matrices and scaffolds for drug delivery in tissue engineering

Although uncertainty about structures of environmental models (conceptual uncertainty) is often acknowledged to be the main source of uncertainty in model predictions, it is rarely considered in environmental modelling. Rather, formal uncertainty analyses have traditionally focused on model parameters and input data as the principal source of uncertainty in model predictions. The traditional approach to model uncertainty analysis, which considers only a single conceptual model, may fail to adequately sample the relevant space of plausible conceptual models. As such, it is prone to modelling bias and underestimation of predictive uncertainty. In this paper we review a range of strategies for assessing structural uncertainties in models. The existing strategies fall into two categories depending on whether field data are available for the predicted variable of interest. To date, most research has focussed on situations where inferences on the accuracy of a model structure can be made directly on the basis of field data. This corresponds to a situation of ‘interpolation’. However, in many cases environmental models are used for ‘extrapolation’; that is, beyond the situation and the field data available for calibration. In the present paper, a framework is presented for assessing the predictive uncertainties of environmental models used for extrapolation. It involves the use of multiple conceptual models, assessment of their pedigree and reflection on the extent to which the sampled models adequately represent the space of plausible models. � 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

A Framework for Dealing With Uncertainty due to Model Structure Error

Personales Leben und menschlicher Tod : Personale Identität als Prinzip der biomedizinischen Ethik

Debates on precedent autonomy and some forms of paternalistic interventions, which are related to questions of personal identity, are analyzed. The discussion is based on the distinction between personal identity as persistence and as biographical identity. It first is shown that categorical objections to advance directives and "Ulysses contracts" are based on false assumptions about personal identity that conflate persistence and biographical identity. Therefore, advance directives and "Ulysses contracts" are ethically acceptable tools for prolonging one's autonomy. The notions of personality and biographical identity are used to analyze the ethically relevant features. Thereby, it is shown that these concepts are operative in and useful for thinking in biomedical ethics. The overall conclusion is that categorical arguments against precedent autonomy or "Ulysses contracts" are based on misleading theories of personal identity and that advance directives are an ethically respectable tool for prolonging individuals' autonomy in cases of dementia and mental illness.

Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity

Preface 1. Substance, subject, system: the justification of science in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Dietmar H. Heidemann 2. 'Science of the phenomenology of spirit': Hegel's program and its implementation Hans-Friedrich Fulda 3. The Phenomenology of Spirit as a 'transcendentalistic' argument for a monistic ontology Rolf-Peter Horstmann 4. Sense certainty and the 'this-such' Willem A. deVries 5. From desire to recognition: Hegel's account of human sociality Alex Honneth 6. 'Reason (...) apprehended irrationally': Hegel's critique of observing reason Michael Quante 7. What is a 'shape of spirit?' Terry Pinkard 8. Ethical life, morality, and the role of spirit in the Phenomenology Will Dudley 9. Self-completing alienation: Hegel's argument of transparent conditions of free agency Dean Moyar 10. Practical reason and spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Ludwig Siep 11. Religion and demythologization in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Thomas A. Lewis 12. A 'logic of experience' as 'absolute knowledge': on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Roger B. Pippin.

"Sense-certainty and the 'this-such'" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide

Preface to the English edition Abbreviations used in the text Introduction Part I. The Subjective Will: 1. Conceptual presuppositions: person and subject 2. Intentionality: the form of subjective freedom 3. Recapitulation Part II. The Action: 4. The form of the action 5. The content of the action Part III. Concluding Remarks References Index.

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Michael Quante

Papers

Personales Leben und menschlicher Tod : Personale Identität als Prinzip der biomedizinischen Ethik

Precedent Autonomy and Personal Identity

"Sense-certainty and the 'this-such'" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide

Hegel's Concept of Action

Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit : a critical guide