Philosophy and Geography III
Title | Philosophy and Geography III PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Light |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780847690954 |
Places are today subject to contrary tendencies. They lose some functions, which may scale up to fewer more centralized places, or down to numerous more dispersed places, and they gain other functions, which are scaling up and down from other places. This prompts premature prophecies of the abolition of space and the obsolescence of place. At the same time, a growing literature testifies to the persistence of place as an incorrigible aspect of human experience, identity, and morality. Place is a common ground for thought and action, a community of experienced particulars that avoids solipsism and universalism. It draws us into the philosophy of the ordinary, into familiarity as a form of knowledge, into the wisdom of proximity. Each of these essays offers a philosophy of place, and reminds us that such philosophies ultimately decide how we make, use, and understand places, whether as accidents, instruments, or fields of care.
Philosophy and Geography II
Title | Philosophy and Geography II PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Light |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780847688104 |
Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute themselves as a public. This volume advances this inquiry, making extensive use of political and social theory, while drawing intimate connections between political principles, social processes, and the commonplaces of our everyday environments.
The Philosophy of Geography
Title | The Philosophy of Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Tambassi |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2021-08-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030771555 |
The relationship between geography and philosophy is still largely in need of being explored. Geographers and philosophers share the responsibility for that. On the one hand, geographers have considered as a dangerous deviation any attempt to elaborate an image of the Earth which was not a mere replica of a cartographic representation. On the other hand, philosophers have generally been uninterested in a discipline offering little chance for critical reflection. In light of these considerations, the purpose of this book is to identify some fundamental philosophical issues involved in the reflection of geography by adopting a perspective which looks at the discipline with a specific focus on its fundamental concepts and distinctions.
Philosophy and Human Geography
Title | Philosophy and Human Geography PDF eBook |
Author | R. J. Johnston |
Publisher | Wiley |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1995-04-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780470249666 |
Johnston traced the debates within human geography since 1945 over philosophical and methodological issues. In the present book, the aim is the complementary one of giving an introduction to the foundation of those discussions, assuming no prior knowledge of philosophy.
Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography
Title | Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Andre Roy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2014-04-08 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1444144669 |
Over the past twenty years, geography as an academic discipline has become more and more reflective, asking the key questions 'What are we doing?' 'Why are we doing it?'. These questions have, so far, been more enthusiastically taken up by human geography rather than physical geography. Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography aims to redress the balance. Written and edited by a distinguished group of physical geographers, Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography comprises of a collection of international writer's thoughts which reveal personal motivations, and look at tensions in the worlds of meaning in which physical geography is involved. How are the meanings of the physical environment derived? Is the future of physical geography one where the only, or at least the dominant, meanings are framed in the contexts of environmental issues. Covering a diverse and lively selection of topics, the contributors of this book offer guides to the contemporary debates in the philosophy of physical geography, and introduce the reader to its wider cultural significance. This book is an essential companion to anyone studying, or with an interest in, physical geography.
Reading Kant's Geography
Title | Reading Kant's Geography PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Elden |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438436068 |
For almost forty years, German enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant gave lectures on geography, more than almost any other subject. Kant believed that geography and anthropology together provided knowledge of the world, an empirical ground for his thought. Above all, he thought that knowledge of the world was indispensable to the development of an informed cosmopolitan citizenry that would be self-ruling. While these lectures have received very little attention compared to his work on other subjects, they are an indispensable source of material and insight for understanding his work, specifically his thinking and contributions to anthropology, race theory, space and time, history, the environment and the emergence of a mature public. This indispensable volume brings together world-renowned scholars of geography, philosophy and related disciplines to offer a broad discussion of the importance of Kant's work on this topic for contemporary philosophical and geographical work.
The Geography of Morals
Title | The Geography of Morals PDF eBook |
Author | Owen J. Flanagan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190212152 |
Variations -- On being imprisoned by one's upbringing -- Moral psychologies and moral ecologies -- Bibliographical essay -- First nature -- Classical Chinese sprouts -- Modern moral psychology -- Beyond moral modularity -- Destructive emotions -- Bibliographic essay -- Collisions -- When values collide -- Moral geographies of anger -- Weird anger -- For love's and justice's sake -- Bibliographical essay -- Anthropologies -- Self-variations: philosophical archaeologies -- The content of character.