Die Vorstellung von einer Wissenspräsupposition literarischen Verstehens, also die Annahme, dass ein textseitig begründbares Verständnis immer auch textspezifische Wissensbestände erfordert, gehört zur Alltagserfahrung bei der Vermittlung von Literatur. Literarisches Verstehen gelingt dann am besten, wenn Lernende über bestimmte Wissensbestände verfügen und dieses Wissen auf eine bestimmte Weise einsetzen können; bemerkenswert ist daher, dass die prominenten…
Wissen Wissenskulturen und die Kontextualitaet des Wissens Wissenskultur ist ein ?ber wissenshistorische und wissenssoziologische Untersuchungen hinaus auch in philosophisch-epistemologischen Theorien verwendeter Begriff.Er bezeichnet, dass das menschliche Erkennen und Wissen in Kontexte komplexer kultureller ? epistemischer und praktisch-sozialer ? Netzwerke eingebunden ist. Er geh?rt zum Lexikon des Kontextualismus. Der Begriff bezieht sich in erster Linie auf…
Wissenschaft und Kunst der Modellierung Kieler Zugang zur Definition, Nutzung und Zukunft Modelle sind wichtige Instrumente in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung.Die Disziplinen haben unterschiedliche Modell-Verst?ndnisse vom Begriff, der Funktion und dem Zweck entwickelt. Wir ben?tigen einen systematischen Ansatz, um zu verstehen, wie Modelle entwickelt und eingesetzt werden. Dieses Buch gibt einen Einblick in das disziplin?re Modellierungs-Know-how…
Wissenschaft und Pseudowissenschaft Ein Beitrag zum Demarkationsproblem Wie kann Wissenschaft von Pseudowissenschaft unterschieden werden? In dieser Untersuchung wird der Versuch unternommen, dieses extern-normative Demarkationsproblem auf der Grundlage des Konzepts von Wissenschaft zu beantworten, welches von Gerhard Schurz entwickelt wurde.Basierend auf rational rekonstruierten Annahmen ?ber die axiologischen, epistemologischen, forschungsethischen und methodologischen Voraussetzungen der modernen Wissenschaften wird…
Wissenstransfer Konditionen, Praktiken, Verlaufsformen der Weitergabe von Erkenntnis Wissen ist nicht zu denken ohne seine unter historisch variablen Konditionen realisierte Vermittlung.Erkenntnisse und Methoden werden an unterschiedlichen Orten und mit historisch variablen Praktiken transferiert. Der Band schafft Grundlagen, um die komplexen Vorg?nge der Weitergabe, Aufnahme, Adaptation und Modifikation von Wissen zu analysieren. Dazu werden Begriffe zur…
Popular culture is a central part of everyday life to many Americans. Personalities such as Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan are more recognizable to many people than are most elected officials. With Amusement for All is the first comprehensive history of two centuries of mass entertainment in the United States, covering everything from…
.With Good Intentions examines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. These people recognized colonial wrongs and worked together in a variety of ways to right them, but they could not stem…
Wittgenstein and the Practice of Philosophy Wittgenstein and the Practice of Philosophy introduces Wittgenstein’s philosophy to senior undergraduates and graduate students. Its pedagogical premise is that the best way to understand Wittgenstein’s thought is to take seriously his methodological remarks. Its interpretive premise is that those methodological remarks are the natural result of Wittgenstein’s rejection…
Wittgenstein and the Turning Point in the Philosophy of Mathematics First published in 2005. This study seeks to identify the specific mistakes that critics were alluding to in their passing asides on Wittgenstein’s failure to grasp the mechanics of Godel’s second incompleteness theorem. It also includes an understanding of his attack on meta-mathematics and Hilbert’s…
This volume is the first collection of articles dedicated to Ludwig Wittgenstein�s thoughts on colour, focusing in particular on his so-called Remarks on Colour, a piece of writing that has received comparably little attention from Wittgenstein scholars.The book provides the reader with the state of the art in research on Wittgenstein�s thoughts on colour and…
Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism Essays on the Later Philosophy Central to any interpretation of Wittgenstein?s later philosophy is an understanding of his philosophical method and the nature of the turn which characterises the evolution from his early to his later work. In the essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism, Marie Mc Ginn argues that the…
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Language Some Aspects of its Development First published in 2005. This book studies the often overlooked work of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus, the Tractatus and their later work being argued as being mutually illuminating. Bogen states that the works of Wittgenstein require a study of their points of contact which led to…
The provision of attractive dwellings in Europe’s population centers has long been a topic of central concern not only to architects but also to city planners, investors, and municipalities.Redensification and the creation of new residential developments are always accompanied by the question of sustainable approaches. In Alpine areas, such efforts must contend with topographical and…
How did a country whose past is intertwined with African slavery ignore its cultural legacies through much of history? And how did Blackness recently break through this amnesia so that nearly a third of Panamanians now self-identify as Afro-descendants? Wolf Tracks explores these and other related questions through the lens of Panamanian street culture.Popular art…
Women and Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive view of how gender, race, and class affect the status of women in the context of policing, courts, and corrections.Systematic and engaging, Hsieh and Mc Shane integrate the perspectives and experiences of women who are employed in the criminal justice system, as well as those who are offenders…
Entrepreneurship in context has been described as the third wave in entrepreneurship research. Accordingly, specific socio-economic, political, market, and institutional contexts are key to fostering, enabling, and enacting entrepreneurial activity and behaviours. These contexts shape everyday entrepreneurship experiences. This book is based on the premise that how gender is articulated within the entrepreneurial debate has…
