1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387068503316

Autore

Tavernier Jean-Baptiste <1605-1689.>

Titolo

The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, through Turky, into Persia and the East-Indies, for the space of forty years [[electronic resource] ] : giving an account of the present state of those countries ... : to which is added, a new description of the seraglio / / made English by J. P. ; added likewise, A voyage into the Indies, &c. by an English traveller, never before printed, publish'd by Dr Daniel Cox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by William Godbid, for Robert Littlebury at the King's Arms in Little Britain, and Moses Pitt at the Angel in St Paul's  Church-yard, 1677

Descrizione fisica

[6], 2, [16], 264, [2], 214, [6] 119, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

PhillipsJohn <1631-1706.>

Astracan, pseud

Soggetti

Voyages and travels

Turkey Description and travel

Iran Description and travel

India Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title within double line border.

Second general t.-p. has imprint: London: Printed, and sold by Robert Littlebury, at the King's-Arms in Little Britain, and Moses Pit, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard 1678.

Part 2 has title: The six travels of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, through Turky and Persia to the Indies, during the space of forty years ... The second part: describing India and the isles adjacent.

Appended, with separate pagination, are two treatises, each with separate t.-p.: A new relation of the inner-part of the Grand Seignor's seraglio. Containing several remarkable particulars, never before expos'd to publick view. By J. B. Tavernier ... London: Printed, and sold by R.L. and Moses Pitt. 1677; and A short description of all the kingdoms which encompass the Euxine and Caspian seas, delivered by the author after above twenty years travel. Together with a preface containing several remarkable observations concerning divers of the forementioned countries. London, Printed for R. L. and Moses Pytt.



1677. (Signed "Astracan")

Wing T-255 for 1677 general t-p.; T-256 for 1678.

Reproduction of original in: Cambridge University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0021

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791429603321

Autore

De Caro Mario

Titolo

Naturalism and Normativity [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-231-50887-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Collana

Columbia Themes in Philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

MacarthurDavid

Disciplina

146

501

Soggetti

Naturalism

Normativity (Ethics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Science, Naturalism, and the Problem of Normativity; Part I: Conceptual and Historical Background; 1: The Wider Significance of Naturalism a Genealogical Essay (Akeel Bilgrami); 2: Naturalism and Quietism (Richard Rorty); 3: Is Liberal Naturalism Possible?(Mario De Caro and Alberto Voltolini); Part II: Philosophy and the Natural Sciences; 4: Science and Philosophy (Hilary Putnam); 5: Why Scientific Realism May Invite Relativism (Carol Rovane); Part III: Philosophy and the Human Sciences; 6: Taking the Human Sciences Seriously (David Macarthur)

7: Reasons and Causes Revisited (Peter Menzies)Part IV: Meta-Ethics and Normativity; 8: Metaphysics and Morals (T. M . Scanlon); 9: The Naturalist Gap in Ethics (Erin I. Kelly and Lionel K. McPherson); 10: Phenomenology and the Normativity of Practical Reason (Stephen L. White); Part V: Epistemology and Normativity; 11: Truth as Convenient Friction (Huw Price); 12: Exchange on "Truth as Convenient Friction"



(Richard Rorty and Huw Price); 13: Two Directions for Analytic Kantianism Naturalism and Idealism (Paul Redding); Part VI: Naturalism and Human Nature

14: How to be Naturalistic Without Being Simplistic in the Study of Human Nature (John Dupré)15: Dewey, Continuity, and McDowell (Peter Godfrey-Smith); 16: Wittgenstein and Naturalism (Marie McGinn); Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral can we draw from the apparent absence of normativity in the scientific image of the world? For scientific naturalists, the moral is that the normative must be reduced to the nonnormative, while for nonnaturalists, the moral is that there must be a transcendent realm of norms. Naturalism and Normativity engages with both sides of t