The William O. Douglas Inquiry Into The State Of Individual Freedom
The William O. Douglas Inquiry Into The State Of Individual Freedom

Author: Harry S Ashmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-31

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 100061252X

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This volume, an inventory of aspects of individual freedom in a rapidly changing society bound by the Bills of Rights, is the result of a project of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to monitor concerns of individual freedom that marked the career of Justice William O. Douglas.

Logic - The Theory of Inquiry
Logic - The Theory of Inquiry

Author: John Dewey

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2018-01-04

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1447496728

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This antiquarian volume contains a detailed treatise on logic and the theory of 'Inquiry', as a development of ideas regarding the nature of logical theory that were first presented in Studies in Logical Theory. The present work is marked in particular by application of the earlier ideas to interpretation of the forms and formal relations that constitute the standard material of the logical tradition. Inquiry is one of the most essential skills in the world of business and management; as well as being of great utility to the student of philosophy, this book can help clarify the process of inquiry and develop skills for inquiry in the context of decision making, and may therefore be of considerable service to a range of different readers. The chapters of this volume include: - The Matrix of Inquiry - The Problem of Logical Subject-Matter - Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry - The Needed Reform of Logic - Immediate Knowledge: Understanding and Inference This vintage book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?
Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?

Author: Akeel Bilgrami

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-02-10

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0231538790

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In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed. As the editors say in their introduction: "No freedom can be taken for granted, even in the most well-functioning of formal democracies. Exposing the tendencies that undermine freedom of inquiry and their hidden sources and widespread implications is in itself an exercise in and for democracy."

Freedom, Eudaemonia, and Risk
Freedom, Eudaemonia, and Risk

Author: Kathleen Touchstone

Publisher: Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781498596992

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"This book uses the philosophies of Objectivism, rule-utilitarianism, and neo-Aristotelianism to argue that ethical risk-taking is vital for economic flourishing"--