1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781256703321

Autore

Heilman Samuel C

Titolo

Portrait of American Jews [[electronic resource] ] : the last half of the 20th century / / Samuel C. Heilman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c1995

ISBN

0-295-80065-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

The Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies

Disciplina

305.892/4073

Soggetti

Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States

Judaism - United States

Judaism - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Second printing (pbk.), 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-186) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents ; Preface ; Prologue ; 1. Starting Over: Acculturation and Suburbia, the Jews of the 1950's ; 2. The Emergence of Two Types of Jews: Choices Made in the 1960's and 1970's ; 3. Quality versus Quantity: The Challenge of the 1980's and 1990's ; Notes ; Index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787253403321

Autore

Nichols Shaun

Titolo

Bound : essays on free will and responsibility / / Shaun Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-104009-6

0-19-880131-9

0-19-179547-X

0-19-104008-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

123.5

Soggetti

Responsibility

Ethics

Free will and determinism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Shaun Nichols offers a naturalistic, psychological account of the origins of the problem of free will. He argues that our belief in indeterminist choice is grounded in faulty inference and therefore unjustified, goes on to suggest that there is no single answer to whether free will exists, and promotes a pragmatic approach to prescriptive issues.