Which values for our time?
By: edited by Daniel S. Hamilton.
Contributors: Hamilton, Daniel S. 1955-.; Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Center for Transatlantic Relations.; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Publisher: Center for Transatlantic Relations, American Consortium on EU Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC; Lisbon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780978882167
Subjects: Values -- Congresses.; Truth -- Congresses.; Meaning (Philosophy) -- Congresses.; Moral conditions -- Congresses.; Ethics -- Congresses.; Knowledge, Theory of -- Congresses.; History -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from a conference sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Oct. 25-27, 2006 in Lisbon Portugal.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : which values for our time? / Emilio Rui Vilar; title: Introduction / Anibal Cavaco Silva; title: In the shadow of Nietzsche / Eduardo Lourenco; title: Part I: A World in Crisis; title: The beautiful, the good and the true / Paulo Tunhas; title: End of subject? / Patrick Nerhot; title: End of rationality? / Jean Petitot; title: Do we need truth? / Jacques Bouveresse; title: A crisis of values, or crisis value? / Hubert Damisch; title: End of history? / Robert Kagan; title: Part II: Cognitive Values: Scientific and Philosophical Knowledge; title: Introduction / Antonio Coutinho; title: Reconstruction of objectivity : "on what there is" from the quantum-logical point of view / Maria Luisa Dalla Chiara...et. al.; title: The philosophical rediscovery of the natural / Zenon Pylyshyn; title: Representations of the living in a world of biological artifacts / Henri Atlan; title: Part III: Aesthetic Values: Art and its Audience; title: Artistic worth and personal taste / Jerrold Levinson; title: The phylogenesis of art / Francois-Bernard Mache; title: Primitivism : the counterweight to modernity / Philippe Dagen; title: Part IV: Ethical and Political Values: Responsibility; title: Is democracy a universal deal? On the need for new thinking about an aging ideal / John Keane; title: Life, death, technology / Joao Lobo Antunes; title: The morality of globalization : is there a duty to transfer wealth? / David Gordon; title: The temptation of pride / Jean-Pierre Dupuy; title: Conclusion : which values for our time? / Daniele Cohn.