From the Publisher\nThis text is the result of a collaborative effort between two philosophers with expertise in ethics, and an agricultural economist with expertise in public policy. The book offers students an analytical framework for understanding and evaluating the ethical issues associated with agriculture-related public policy. The first part of the book offers an introduction to both public policy and ethical theory, along with a description of how (and where) ethical considerations figure in the policy process. The second part examines, largely through case studies, the ethical issues associated with particular areas of agriculture-related public policy: food safety, environmental protection, international assistance, animal welfare, farm structure, and sustainability.

Ethics, Public Policy, and Agriculture

Business & Money

Thompson, Paul B.

Matthews, Robert J.

Van Ravenswaay, Eileen O.

Economics

Macmillan Coll Div

The Measure of Mind: Propositional Attitudes and their Attribution

The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role in the production of thought and behavior. On this view, having a propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in the production of thought and behavior. Robert J. Matthews argues that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical support that proponents claim for it; moreover, the view misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing. The Measure of Mind goes on to develop an alternative measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the sentences by which we attribute them. On this account, the sentences by which we attribute propositional attitudes function semantically like the sentences by which we attribute a quantity of some physical magnitude (e.g., having a mass of 80 kilos). That is, in much the same way that we specify a quantity of some physical magnitude by means of its numerical representative on a measurement scale, we specify propositional attitude of a given type by means of its representative in a linguistically-defined measurement space. Propositional attitudes turn out to be causally efficacious aptitudes for thought and behavior, not semantically evaluable mental particulars of some sort. Matthews' measurement-theoretic account provides a more plausible view of the explanatorily relevant properties of propositional attitudes, the semantics of propositional attitude attributions, and the role of such attributions in computational cognitive scientific theorizing.

The Measure of Mind: Propositional Attitudes and Their Attribution

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Clarendon Press

The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role in the production of thought and behaviour. On this view, having a propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in the production of thought and behaviour. Robert J. Matthews argues that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical support that proponents claim for it; moreover, it misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing. He then goes on to develop an alternative measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the sentences by which we attribute them. On this account, the sentences by which we attribute propositional attitudes function semantically like the sentences by which we attribute a quantity of some physical magnitude (e.g. having a mass of 80 kilos). That is, in much the same way that we specify a quantity of some physical magnitude by means of its numerical representative on a measurement scale, we specify propositional attitudes by means of their representatives in a linguistically-defined measurement space. Matthews argues that, unlike the representationalist view, his account of propositional attitudes draws a clear distinction between propositional attitudes and our natural language representations of them, and does not presume that salient properties of the latter can simply be read back onto the former. On his view, propositional attitudes turn out to be causally efficacious aptitudes for thought and behaviour, and not mental entities of some sort. In defending this approach, Matthews provides a plausible account both of the standard philosophical puzzles about propositional attitudes, and of the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing.

Oxford University Press

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"A Plainer Translation" Joseph Smiths Translation of the Bible - A History and Commentary

Religion & Spirituality

Brigham Young University Press

A Burning Light: The life and ministry of John the Baptist

A Plainer Translation: Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible--A History and Commentary

Friends of the Library

Unto all nations: A guide to the book of Acts and the writings of Paul

Reference

Deseret Book

The object in this volume is to present precise analytical biographies of each of the persons mentioned in the Book of Mormon. This will enable readers to quickly observe the information available about each character. The material is presented in the sequence in which it is given in the Book of Mormon record.

Who's who in the Book of Mormon

Deseret Book Company

World events have intensified with wars and rumors of wars. It is becoming increasingly evident that there is a crucial need for a world-Messiah, having the power and the plan to change human nature and disposition. The process of finding Christ and coming unto Him can be much enhanced by this landmark book. Thus the story emphasizes the premortal life. It moves quickly to John the Baptist,the Lord's forerunner and herald. Then, from the Christ child's birth to the Redeemer's death and glorious resurrection, the author follows the Lord's ministry, highlighting the major issues and events, explaining and clarifying the traditional record.

Behold the Messiah

Christian Books & Bibles

Bookcraft

NEW Never read.1980 Edition. Great soft cover. Very clean inside copy.

Human Adventure: A Study Course for Christians on Sexuality

CSS Pub. Co

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