Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension In Celebration of Erazim
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BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editor
ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKYt (Co-editor 1960-1997)
Editorial Advisory Board
THOMAS F. GLICK, Boston University ADOLF GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University
VOLUME 195
Erazim Kohak, 1997
PHILOSOPHIES OF NATURE: THE HUMAN DIMENSION In Celebration of Erazim Kohak Edited by ROBERTS. COHEN Boston University and ALFRED I. TAUBER Boston University
With a complete bibiliography of Erazim Kohllk's works
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SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-90-481-4859-2 ISBN 978-94-017-2614-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2614-6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Origin of the Essays by Erazim Kobak
ix
PREFACE I RobertS. Cohen
xi xiii
INTRODUCTION I Vladimir Zeman I.
THE SYMPOSIUM
KLAUS BRINKMANN I The natural and the supernatural in human nature: Hegel on the soul
3
LAWRENCE CAHOONE I Whose nature? Which morality? On Kobak's moral sense of nature
19
ERAZIM KOHAK I Whose nature? Which morality? A response
35
TIAN YU CAO I Monism, but not through reductionism
39
MALCOLM DAVID ECKEL I Is there a Buddhist philosophy of nature?
53
ALFREDO FERRARIN I Aristotelian and Newtonian models in Hegel's philosophy of nature
71
LIVIA KOHN I Yin and yang: the natural dimension of evil
91
KRZYSZTOF MICHALSKI I Human nature and the nature of time: a Nietzschean metaphor and its consequences
107
ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE I The contingency of nature
121
ALAN M. OLSON I Theological reflections on the nature of nature: revolution, reformation, restoration
139
STANLEY ROSEN I Remarks on human nature in Plato
151
STEPHEN SCULLY I The nature of the gods and early Greek poetic thought
163
ABNER SHIMONYI The relationship between physics and philosophy
177
ALFRED I. TAUBER I Ecology and the claims for a science-based 185 ethics Vll
viii
TABLE OF CONTENTS II.
SELECTED ESSAYS OF ERAZIM KOHAK
Phenomenology and ecology: dependence and co-dependency
209
Human rights and nature's rightness
221
Transcendental experience, everyday philosophy
231
Should auld acquaintance be forgot ... ?
249
Varieties of ecological experience
257
Nature as presence and experience
273
The true and the good: reflections on the primacy of practical reason
285
The ecological dilemma: ethical categories in a biocentric world
293
Creation's orphans: toward a metaphysics of artifacts
303
III.
Erazim Kobak: Bibliography
315
Index of Names
327
ORIGIN OF THE ESSAYS BY ERAZIM KOHAK
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