Escape from modernity: On the ethnography of repair and the repair of ethnography

Douglas Harper, Working knowledge: Skill and community in a small shop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 214 pages with index and photographs. $29.95 (cloth).     

What good is moral imagination?

Johnson, Mark. (1993). Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (287 pp.). ISBN 0–226–40168–5.     

Briefly noted

David Brendel. Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 208 pp. $26 (cloth) ISBN 0‐262‐02594‐9. David Livingstone and Charles Withers. Geography and Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 440 pp. $45 (cloth) ISBN: 0‐226‐48733‐4. Sanford Schram and Brian Caterino. Making Political Science Matter. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 304 pp. $24 (paper) ISBN: 0‐8147‐4033‐2. Dieter Borchmeyer. Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 391 pp. (cloth) ISBN 0‐691‐11497‐8. Arnold Goldberg. Moral Stealth: How “Correct Behavior” Insinuates Itself Into Psychotherapeutic Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 144 pp. $32 (cloth) ISBN 0‐226‐30120‐4.     

Information and Opinion During an International Crisis

Abstract

(Vogt, E. Z., &; Hyman, R. Water Witching U. S. A. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1959.). Reviewed by Sam W. Anderson     

Tactual Space Perception in Translocated Tissue

L. L. Thurstone. The Theory of Multiple Factors. Chicago: Author, 1933. Pp. vii+65. Reviewed by Raymond Royce Willoughby.

L. L. Thurstone. A Simplified Multiple Factor Method and an Outline of the Computations. Chicago, Author, 1933. Pp. 25. Reviewed by Raymond Royce Willoughby.     

Note on the Relation of Simple to Serial Reaction

Abstract

John A. Larson, in collaboration with George W. Haney and Leonarde Keeler. Lying and Its Detection. A Study of Deception and Deception Tests. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1932. Pp. xxii+463.     

The Construction of Imaginaries of the Public as a Threat to Synthetic Biology

Discipline &; Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, by Peter Dear, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 290 pp., $24.00 pb; $60.00 hb

Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory, edited by Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997, 279 pp., $12.00 pb     

Prison Research: Techniques and Methods

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(Thurstone, L. L. Multiple Factor Analysis. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1947. Pp. 535.) Reviewed by H. J. Eysenck.

(Sherif, M., &; Cantril, H. The Psychology of Ego-Involvements. New York: Wiley, 1947‥ Pp. 525.) Reviewed by H. J. Eysenck.     

Allegations of sexual abuse in Satanic rituals

H. L. Seneviratne. The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, xvi+358 pp., $49 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 74865 0, $22 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 74866 9.

Michael W. Myers. Brahman: A Comparative Theology. Richmond, Curzon, 2001, xiii+268 pp., £45 ISBN 0 7007 1257 7.

Todd T. Lewis, in collaboration with Subarna Man Tuladhar and Labh Ratna Tuladhar. Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism. Foreword by Gregory Schopen. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2000, xviii+236 pp., $59.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 4611 5, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 4612 3.

Walter Burkett. Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001, xiv+110 pp., $28.00, £18.00 ISBN 0 226 08085 4.

Text by Massoud Fourouzandeh and Alain Brunet. Photos by Abbas Tahvildar. Baptists of Iran. Les baptistes d'Iran. Tehran, Key Press, 2001, 173 pp. (with 5 pages in Farsi), n.p. ISBN 964 90645 5 9.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Mathematical Discovery. by George Polya, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The Creative Organization, Gary A. Steiner (Ed.). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press The Contemporary Music Project for Creativity in Music Education, 1963–1969, Norman Dello Joio, Chairman; Grant Beglarian, Director. Synectics. by William J. J. Gordon. New York: Harper & Row, 1961 Creativity in Childhood and Adolescence, H. H. Anderson (Ed.). (Proceedings of a workshop of the American Orthopsychiatric Association). Palo Alto, Calif.: Science & Behavior Books, Inc.     

Positive Rights and the Cosmopolitan Community: A Rights-Centered Foundation for Global Ethics

The recent transnational wave of destruction that was caused by the earthquake-induced tsunamis in South East Asia has raised the issue of global justice in terms of the rights of victims to expect aid relief and the moral responsibility of the rest of the world to provide it. In this paper I will discuss the issue of global ethics in terms of positive rights that people have to assistance from others when they cannot provide such assistance themselves. The main object of the paper is to demonstrate that positive rights are universal and global in scope and cannot therefore be restricted by any national, religious, cultural or other social boundaries. Such rights provide a rational and ethical foundation for global justice that is cosmopolitan. The argument for the position offered in the paper will be broadly based on the moral philosophy of Alan Gewirth.1 1. The sources referred to in this paper with regard to Gewith's moral philosophy will, in the main, be: Alan Gewirth, Reason and Morality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978) and Alan Gewirth, The Community of Rights (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). For ease of reference, Reason and Morality will be referred to in the body of the paper as RM and Community of Rights as CR.      

Recent books

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Eisenberg, N. and Strayer, J. (Ed 4 (1987). Empathy and its development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-326095, 406 pp., £35.00/$54.50.

Wolff, P. H. (1987). The development of behavioral states and the expression of emotions in early infancy: New proposals for investigation. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-90520-9, 291 pp., £25.95/$37.50.

Greenspan, Patricia S. (1988). Emotions and reasons: An inquiry into emotional justification. New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-90049-2, 197 pp., £30.00/$30.00     

Robert E. Park's „notes on the origins of the society for social research”︁

Robert Park's „Notes on the Origins of the Society for Social Research”︁ represent an important document previously published only in the in-house Bulletin of the Society for Social Research. They are presented here, along with an introduction which indicates the generally unacknowledged importance of the society and suggests five themes in Park's „Notes”︁: the impact of W. I. Thomas on Chicago sociology, the role of the society in the Chicago department, the city as a research laboratory, influences on Park's work, and the importance of the pragmatic perspective.     

An index of bewilderment

Stuart F. Spicker (ed.). The Philosophy of the Body: Rejections of Cartesian Dualism. Chicago, Illinois: Quadrangle Books, 1970. Pp. viii, 367. Not indexed. $2.95 (paper).     

William Foote Whyte,Street Corner Society and Social Organization

Social scientists have mostly taken it for granted that William Foote Whyte's sociological classic Street Corner Society (SCS, 1943) belongs to the Chicago school of sociology's research tradition or that it is a relatively independent study which cannot be placed in any specific research tradition. Social science research has usually overlooked the fact that William Foote Whyte was educated in social anthropology at Harvard University, and was mainly influenced by Conrad M. Arensberg and W. Lloyd Warner. What I want to show, based on archival research, is that SCS cannot easily be said either to belong to the Chicago school's urban sociology or to be an independent study in departmental and idea‐historical terms. Instead, the work should be seen as part of A. R. Radcliffe‐Brown's and W. Lloyd Warner's comparative research projects in social anthropology.     

Maternal Influences on Anal or Compulsive Character in Children

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Hunter, W. S. Human Behavior. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1928. Pp. X + 355. $2.00 Reviewed by Herbert Woodrow

Pavlov, I. P. Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes. (Trans. by W. H. Gantt and G. Volborth.) New York: International Publ., 1928. Pp. 414. $6.50. Reviewed by C. J. Warden

Copeland, E. B. Natural Conduct: Principles of Practical Ethics. Stanford University: Stanford Univ. Press, 1928. Pp. vii+262. $3.50. Reviewed by Raymond R. Willoughby

Hull, C. L. Aptitude Testing. Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book, 1928. Pp. iv + 535. $2.68. Reviewed by L. M. Harden     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: THE ETHICS OF WAR AND NUCLEAR DETERRENCE James P. Sterba (ed.) Belmont. CAN MODERN WAR BE JUST? James Turner Johnson New Haven. SOCRATES AND THE STATE Richard Kraut Princeton N.J. ROUSSEAU'S SOCIAL CONTRACT: A Conceptual Analysis John B. Noone, Jr. Athens, Ga. ROUSSEAU'S SOCIAL CONTRACT: The Design of the Argument Hilail Gildin Chicago. ANALYZING MARX: Morality, Power and History Richard W. Miller Princeton, N.J. TECHNOLOGY AND THE CHARACTER OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE: A Philosophical Inquiry Albert Borgmann Chicago COLLECTIVE AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY Peter A. ETHICS IN HUMAN COMMUNICATION Richard L. Johannesen Prospect Heights, Ill. MYSTICAL AND ETHICAL EXPERIENCE Gerry C. Heard Macon, Ga REASONS FOR ACTION: A Praxiological Approach to Philosophy of Social Sciences Satya P. Gautam Delhi.     

Anvil or Onion? Determinism as a Layered Concept

Kellert (In the Wake of Chars, University of Chicago press, Chicago, 1993) has argued that Laplacean determinism in classical physics is actually a layered concept, where various properties or layers composing this form of determinism can be peeled away. Here, I argue that a layered conception of determinism is inappropriate and that we should think in terms of different deterministic models applicable to different kinds of systems. The upshot of this analysis is that the notion of state is more closely tied to the kind of system being investigated than is usually considered in discussions of determinism. So when investigating determinism corresponding changes to the appropriate notion of state – and, perhaps, the state space itself – also need to be considered.     

A philosophical inquiry into the moral sense of nature and artifacts

Conclusion These inquiries do not diminish or overshadow the power and importance of the gift that isThe Embers and the Stars. It must be counted among the richest, most eloquent, original, and challenging new works of philosophy to appear in recent years, standing alongisde the best of the authors Kohák admires most, like Marcel and Ricoeur. It must be read. Moreover, we must press Kohák for both the philosophical theology and philosophical inquiry into the moral sense of artifacts toward which this work points. Once there was a man, once there was a raccoon, once there was a work. That is the miracle, that is the point.Erazim Kohák,The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Moral Sense of Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 240 pp. $ 17.50. Hereafter references to Kohák's book will be included in the text using the abbreviationETS.