Language in the New Millennium

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction: The Alliance of Understanding
• Part I Concepts and Methodology for New Horizons
• Social Knowledge: Inclusions and Exclusions for the Sake of the Future Democracy
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Redefining knowledge in a social world
• 3 Knowing society beyond the absolutism
• 4 Conclusions
• References
• Human’s Tragedy in the Global World
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Human who knows thyself in the antiquity
• 3 Human who believes in the medieval
• 4 Human who lives tragedy in the modern and global world
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• On Finitude and the Ground of Hope: A Kantian Horizon Radicalized by Meillassoux
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Kantian limits of speculative knowledge
• 3 The speculative horizon of hope
• 4 Meillassoux’s radicalization of Kant
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• The Quest for Peace
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Pre-civilised societies and peace
• 3 Darwin’s evolutionary view of violent nature
• 4 Peace is naturally moral while war needs justification
• 5 Conflict, war, peace and human nature
• 6 Role of power in war and peace
• 7 War and peace in history, sociology, and politics
• 8 Quest for permanent peace
• 9 Artificial intelligence and war and peace
• 10 Conclusion
• References
• About the Opportunity of a Permanent Peace in Today’s World: Kantian Perpetual Peace
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Preconditions of perpetual peace
• 3 Sense of republican state
• 4 A federation of peoples
• 5 Cosmopolitan right
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Rationality in Religion and Religious Beliefs
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Preliminaries for explanation of philosophical rationality of religion and religious beliefs
• 3 Introductory explanation of philosophical rationality of religious beliefs
• 4 Intermediate beliefs
• 5 Marginal beliefs
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Islamic Perspective on Islamophobia: From Misconceptions to Reason
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Literature review
• 3 Theoretical framework of Islamophobia
• 4 Methodology
• 5 Islamic interpretation of Islamophobia
• 6 Discussion
• 7 Loyalty (Al-Wala) and disassociation (wal Bara)
• 8 Conclusion
• References
• The West and Islam: Consequences in the Marginalization of the Religion by the Post-National State
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Theological roots of the contemporary State
• 3 Liberty, secularism and anthropological turn of the Second Vatican Council
• 4 The collision between lay ethics and natural morality is a dead-end street
• 5 The effects of pluralism in the post-national State: the rise of relativism
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Unravelling the Dark Face of the Enlightenment: Theodor Adorno
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Frankfurt School (critical theory) and enlightenment rationality
• 3 Theodor Adorno: “culture industry” and instrumental reason
• 4 The possibility of art within the culture industry
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Environmental Destruction as a Philosophical Problem
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Environmental ethics
• 3 Human-centred ethics (anthropocentrism)
• 4 Life-centred ethics (biocentrism)
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• The Relation between Theory and Observation in Science as Seen by N. R. Hanson
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Relation of observation and experimentation to theory
• 3 Is there an independent observation and experiment in theory?
• 4 Observation and experiment are theory dependent
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Quantum Theory is the Paradigm of Contemporary Science: The Role of Philosophy in the New Paradigm
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Development
• 3 From classic concepts to generic symbols
• 4 Displacements
• 5 Mental experiment: intelligent quantum entities
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Wisdom and Artificial Intelligence
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Social cognition and scientific rationalism
• 3 What is wisdom?
• 4 What is science?
• 5 Can science teach wisdom?
• 6 Science, wisdom, and consciousness
• 7 Moral reasoning and artificial intelligence?
• 8 End of the human era
• 9 Conclusion
• References
• Part II Researches for New Horizons
• A Qualitative Research with Healthcare Employees regarding Violence against Healthcare Workers
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Research objective, scope and methodology
• 3 Definition of violence and an overview on violence forms
• 4 Research findings: subjective view on form, source and causes of violence
• 5 Subjective view regarding violence experience and working environment
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Feminist Economics and Unpaid Labour
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A brief history of the studies on women’s unpaid labour in Turkey
• 3 Capitalism and unpaid domestic labour
• 4 Women’s labour in subsistence production/family businesses
• 5 Care labour and emotional labour
• 6 Women’s labour in informal economy
• 7 The economic value of unpaid labour and its measurement
• 8 Economic and feminist approaches and unpaid labour
• 9 Conclusion
• References
• Macroeconomic Growth Policies and Female Labour
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The impacts of the development strategies on different countries
• 3 Import-substitution industrialization period and female labour in Turkey
• 4 The period of export-oriented industrialization and female labour in Turkey
• 5 Development and its relation with gender
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Areas: From Awareness to Difference: Denizli Case
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Sociodemographic characteristics of rural women entrepreneurs in Turkey
• 3 Study method
• 4 Participants
• 5 Collecting data
• 6 Findings: factors that encouraged women to become entrepreneurs
• 7 Challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter
• 8 Challenges and advantages of being a woman entrepreneur
• 9 Women entrepreneurs’ expectations from institutions and family members
• 10 Conclusion
• References
• Sociological Analysis of the Effects of Divorce on Children: Example of Denizli in Turkey
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Material and methods
• 3 Findings
• 4 Conclusion
• References
• Rendezvous of Turkish Secularists with Yoga: Self-Inquiry Attempts in the Midst of Spirituality, Religion and Politics
• 1 Introduction
• 2 About the methodology
• 3 Yoga in Turkey
• 4 From mat to life
• 5 Yoga and political activism
• 6 Yoga, religion and spirituality
• 7 Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• References
• The Hiv/Aids in Turkey as a Social Phenomenon
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Methodology
• 3 Sample features
• 4 Findings
• 4.1 Access to health services
• 4.2 Access to education services
• 4.3 Access to law services
• 4.4 Work life
• 4.5 Family life
• 4.6 Social life
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Life Support Units and Rings of Sustainable Cities: Ecological Villages
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Aims and background
• 3 Practices and potential gains of sustainable ecological villages
• 4 Discussion
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Notes on Contributors