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Anglo-American Idealism

Thinkers and Ideas

This volume is devoted to a critical discussion and re-appraisal of the work of Anglo-American Idealists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Idealism was the dominant philosophy in Britain and the entire English-speaking world during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The British Idealists made important contributions to logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. Their legacy awaits further exploration and reassessment, and this book is a contribution to this task. The essays in this collection display many aspects of contemporary concern with idealistic philosophy: they range from treatments of logic to consideration of the Absolute, personal idealism, the philosophy of religion, philosophy of art, philosophy of action, and moral and political philosophy. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the work of the Anglo-American Idealists has once again been widely discussed and re-considered, and new pathways of research and investigation have been opened.

MARIE-LUISE RATERS Art, Feeling and Truth: The Central Problem of the
Aesthetics of Anglo-Saxon Idealism The aesthetics of the English and German
Enlightenment (Shaftesbury and Burke) conceived the work of art as the
adequate ...

New Approaches to Materials Development for Language Learning

Proceedings of the 2005 Joint BALEAP/SATEFL Conference

Containing a selection of papers from a conference held in Edinburgh in 2005, this book highlights current issues in the teaching of English for academic and specific purposes.

John Wrigglesworth 9 Using a Genre-based Approach to Curriculum Design in
EAP: Assumptions, Applications, and Reactions Introduction The advantages of a
genre-based pedagogy are becoming familiar to university-based language
teachers in ... This paper looks at the method of weaving together the various
ideas surrounding genre and discourse structure that informed a particular
academic English unit. ... The syllabus was taught using a genre-based learning
and teaching ...

Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English

A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto

This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process - such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation - through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.

Meiko Matsumoto Semantic Shifts in the Development of Color Terms in English
1. Introduction The color terms green and blue have undergone interesting
semantic shifts in the course of their development. In discussing the use of these
terms in the Middle Ages, Johan Huizinga (1954 [1924]: 271) argues that "the
relative rarity of blue and of green must not be simply ascribed to an aesthetic
predilection. [. . .] They were the special colours of love. Blue signified fidelity;
green, amorous ...

Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence

Methodology and Data

The studies presented in this volume concentrate on aspects of Late Modern English correspondence in the usage of individuals belonging to different social classes, writing for different purposes, and finding themselves in different social contexts, both in Britain and in its colonies. As the growing body of research published in recent years has shown, analysing the language of letters presents both a challenge and an opportunity to obtain access to as full a range of styles as would be possible for a period for which we only have access to the language in its written form. It is an area of study in which all the contributors have considerable expertise, which affords them to present data findings while discussing important methodological issues. In addition, in most cases data derive from specially-designed 'second-generation' corpora, reflecting state-of-the-art approaches to historical sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Theoretical issues concerning letters as a text type, their role in social network analysis, and their value in the identification of register or variety specific traits are highlighted, alongside issues concerning the (often less than easy) relationship between strictly codified norms and actual usage on the part of speakers whose level of education could vary considerably.

Stefan Dollinger Colonial Variation in the Late Modern English Business Letter: '
Periphery and Core' or 'Random Variation'?1 1 . Introduction The study of LModE
increasingly includes colonial, native varieties of English. While American
English (AmE) has long received scholarly attention, the study of non-dominant
varieties is coming to the fore by detailing aspects of the historical development
from the eighteenth century until the present day (cf. Watts/Trudgill 2002, Hickey
2004).

Structural Phenomenology

An Empirically-based Model of Consciousness

This book represents a major step forward in the philosophy of mind. Steven Ravett Brown makes an important contribution to the field of naturalized phenomenology by developing a -structural phenomenology- model based on contemporary studies of gestalts and attention. This model clearly and explicitly brings scientific data to bear upon the nature of conscious experience. Synthesizing empirical data from several fields, Brown provides a phenomenological analysis of structural components of intentionality, a reconsideration of functional processes of gestalts, and a reformulation and indepth analysis of higher-order processing and the -tip of the tongue- meta-cognitive phenomenon. The unique importance of this book lies in its providing an explanatory tool that can predict as well as elucidate mental phenomena. It demands attention from all philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists engaged in research into the mental."

An Empirically-based Model of Consciousness Steven Ravett Brown. • 2. THE
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS General Introduction diis
chapter will serve as an in-depth introduction and explication of the parameters
or dimensions of my model for phenomenal con- M sciousness. It will be written
in the same manner that I am modeling consciousness, i.e., top-down. That is, I
will start by making very general claims and rather rough explanations of what I
consider the ...

Islam and "Scientific" Economics

In the Pursuit of a New Paradigm

In an Islamic society, it is ethics that dominates and determines all behavior, including economic behavior. The Holy Koran emerges as the main source of all economic behavior and practices which are subject to the commands of Allah as stated in the Koran. Since Islam is a universal religion, the Islamic economic paradigm with its -scientific- Islamic economic theories has to be comprehensive as well as perfect in the sense of fairness, ethical values and fruitfulness. A universal Islamic economic system ought to have universally applicable economic laws acceptable by both, the Muslim and the non-Muslim world - meaning that when the word <I>Islamic is taken out of the equation; it should appeal to all societies and countries equally, regardless of their religious persuasion. The question now is; do Islamic economics offer such -scientific- economic theories? Surprisingly, there were no such theories at all. In fact, there was not even a theory of interest, the most frequently referred to subject in Islamic economics. This appeared to be a serious omission. The Holy sources may be more than sufficient for Muslims, but what about non-Muslims? Isn't it justified to expect Islamic -scientific- economic models and theories that are applicable to or able to guide non-Muslims?"

The Islamic economic paradigm with its scientific Islamic economic theories have to be comprehensive as well as perfect in the sense of fairness, ethical values and fruitfulness.

From Tahrir Square to Gezi Park

Social Networks as Facilitators of Social Movements

The chapters in this book argue that good games teach through well-designed problem-solving experiences.

The Austrian Subjectivist Theory of Interest

An Investigation Into the History of Thought

The renaissance of Austrian economics since the seventies has led to a revival of a «purely subjective» pure time preference theory of interest. This theory has been developed particularly in the U.S. on the foundations of Böhm-Bawerk's agio theory. This

The present book critically investigates in historical sequence all known versions of the subjectivist theory of interest and offers a reformulation of the theory along essentialist lines.

Action Research as a Living Practice

"This book aims to enlarge understandings of educational action research. Drawing from complexity theory, deep ecology, Eastern philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and literary theory, the essays in this collection show how participation in educational action research practices requires more of the researcher than the application of research methods. Each essay demonstrates how action research is a lived practice that asks the researcher to not only investigate the subject at hand but, as well, to provide some account of the way in which the investigation both shapes and is shaped by the investigator."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"This book aims to enlarge understandings of educational action research.

Action Research Primer

Despite the fact that publishers and policy-makers have had increasing influence over classrooms, it is the teacher who must make decisions on a minute-by-minute basis about what will help specific students learn. Similarly, local administrators must make key decisions at the school and district level that will best serve particular communities of teachers, students, and parents. Action research offers educators and other stakeholders a systematic way to research and reflect on specific students, classrooms, schools, and communities in order to solve local problems and improve local conditions. This book offers an overview of various definitions and perspectives on action research without prescribing any single approach. Instead, key questions are explored: Who conducts action research? Why? How? Possible answers sketch the many types of possible projects, ranging from an individual teacher trying to improve the experience of a particular student to a group of educators and community members striving to improve local socioeconomic conditions. The Action Research Primer presents an accessible but comprehensive introduction to the field, providing a basic compass and map for the interested practitioner. Chapters include a brief historical overview, an introduction to competing research paradigms, discussion of key issues that inform project design, a serviceable guide to process, and an extensive list of resources pointing to more detail on the many categories, communities, and publication outlets of action research.

Some Basics and Some History Introduction to the Concept of Action Research
Some Basics To understand what action research (AR) is, it's helpful first to
sweep some common but misleading mental images of research out of the way.
One teacher has described the stereotypical picture as "Big R" research,
characterized by "long hours in the library, notes that could fill a novel, and a
bibliography several pages long.... [with] tension and stress lurking in the
shadows" (Hubbard and ...