Author: Stan Van Hooft
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: understanding, thought, modern, ethics, virtue, movements
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1844650456
ISBN-13: 9781844650453

Virtue ethics focuses upon the ’character’ of moral agents more than upon the moral status of their actions or of the consequences of those actions. Aristotle’s ethical theory is the major inspiration for the current revival of interest in virtue ethics, outlining how practical problems of moral complexity can be approached from a virtue perspective. The issue has been intrinsic to the history of philosophy, particularly through the work of Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche, and remains of central importance to contemporary philosophers such as Ricoeur and Levinas. After presenting a

Authors:Stan van Hooft, Wim Vandekerckhove,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: justice, global, studies, cosmopolitanism, questioning
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2010-05-28
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 9048187036
ISBN-13: 9789048187034

This book aims to provide cutting edge essays by leading scholars on cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is an emerging movement in global ethics and provides a meeting point between theorists of international law, political science, political philosophy, applied ethics, economics, development studies, and international relations. The second International Conference of the International Global Ethics Association will be held in Melbourne, Australia in June 2008 on the theme of ‘Questioning Cosmopolitanism’ and will attract major scholars from around the world. It is envisaged that the best es

Author: G. t Hooft
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Keywords: mathematical, physics, vol, series, advanced, gauge, principle, spell
Number of Pages: 620
Published: 1994-10
List price: $96.00
ISBN-10: 9810213085
ISBN-13: 9789810213084

This work features a collection of articles and review papers by the author on various subjects in quantum field theory, gauge field theory and quantum gravity. It covers: the mathematical aspects of the renormalization procedure needed to relate physically observable phenomena to the primary variables in these theories; a description of fundamental extended objects such as monopoles and instantons, aspects of quantum chromodynamics; and, finally, the author’s approach to the problem of quantizing the gravitational force by considering black holes. All of these topics are important for t

Author: Gerardus t Hooft
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: theory, mills, yang, years
Number of Pages: 487
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 9812389342
ISBN-13: 9789812389343

On the 50th anniversary of Yang–Mills theory, this invaluable volume looks back at the developments and achievements in elementary particle physics that ensued from that beautiful idea. During the last five decades, Yang-Mills theory, which is undeniably the most important cornerstone of theoretical physics, has expanded widely. It has been investigated from many perspectives, and many new and unexpected features have been uncovered from this theory. In recent decades, apart from high energy physics, the theory has been actively applied in other branches of physics, such as statistical physic

Author: Gerard ’t Hooft
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: blocks, building, ultimate, search
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1996-11-28
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521578833
ISBN-13: 9780521578837

From 1960 until 1990 theoretical physicists and experimentalists worked together to probe deeper and deeper into the basic structure of matter, moving closer to an understanding of the ultimate building blocks of the universe. Gerard ’t Hooft was closely involved in many of the advances in modern theoretical physics that led to improved understanding of elementary particles, and this is a first-hand account of one of the most creative and exciting periods of discovery in the history of physics. Using language a layperson can understand, this narrative touches on many central topics and i

Authors:Stan Hillman, Philip Withers, Robert Drewes, Stan Hil
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ecological, physiology, environmental, amp, amphibians
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2009-01-05
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198570325
ISBN-13: 9780198570325

Amphibians are the extant descendants of the first vertebrate class to successfully colonize terrestrial environments; hence they occupy a unique position between fish and reptiles. Amphibian skin provides essentially no resistance to evaporative water loss, and consequently daily water turnover rates are an order of magnitude greater than in other terrestrial vertebrate groups. This has led to a suite of physiological, morphological and behavioural adaptations that have allowed a successful terrestrial existence in spite of this apparently spendthrift water retention strategy.Ecological and E

Authors:John Stillwell, Stan Geertman, Stan Openshaw,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: advances, spatial, science, perspectives, european, information, planning, geographical
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 1999-11-15
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 3540659021
ISBN-13: 9783540659020

Presents advances in spatial science to an informed readership in universities, research organisations, and policymaking institutions throughout the world.