Lawrence Haworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 294672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Haworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Haworth |
| SIGNATURE | HAWORTH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Focal Things and Focal Practices
This chapter examines the relationship between focal practices and focal things. The chapter's meditation on things and practices, with its thoughtfully selected and well-developed examples, appeals to those who might not know Borgmann's work firsthand and deepens and clarifies, with its subtle distinctions, any sophisticated reader's understanding of Borgmann's account of this matter. Technology's relationship with democracy is at best an uneasy…
Is a Scientific Assessment of Risk Possible? Value Assumptions in the Canadian Alachlor Controversy
Increasingly our society relies upon government regulatory agencies to protect its people, its institutions and its environment from the negative impacts of new technologies. These agencies are saddled with the task of deciding among strongly conflicting viewpoints represented by a wide range of interest groups and "value communities" within the society. When regulatory decisions are made some interests and values are protected while others are c…
Liberal Neutrality
In Patterns of Moral Complexity , Charles Larmore describes three related ways in which moral and political theory are more complex than is often allowed. He objects to three parallel simplifications: that moral decision making largely consists in the application of rules to particular situations; that the ideals by which we are guided in our personal (private, social) lives should also do service as political ideals, a simplification which he ca…
Autonomy
Leisure, work and profession
This paper is divided into four sections. The first birefly discusses some problematic aspects of the prospect of a leisure society, and identifies two alternatives to such a society. In the second, the conceptions of leisure held by the two major philosophers of leisure in western thought, Aristotle and Marx, are described. In the third, a brief critique of their views suggests some leading ideas for dealing constructively with the contemporary …
Decadence and Objectivity
In this book Haworth concerns himself with the conceptual foundations of social order and the options for a future society. He analyses two sharply contrasting systems, the one committed to individual satisfaction and independence and the other based on collective values and rewards.
The Good City
The Good City
Concerning Value Science
There has been much discussion in recent years of the possibilities for and nature of “value science.” The present paper is intended to be a contribution to this discussion. One encouraging feature of the bulk of current discussion of value science is that its protagonists have a definite end in view, namely, “human betterment,” taking that phrase in the common sense as covering, at least, a process of creating and maintaining such conditions of …
Is a Scientific Assessment of Risk Possible? Value Assumptions in the Canadian Alachlor Controversy
Increasingly our society relies upon government regulatory agencies to protect its people, its institutions and its environment from the negative impacts of new technologies. These agencies are saddled with the task of deciding among strongly conflicting viewpoints represented by a wide range of interest groups and "value communities" within the society. When regulatory decisions are made some interests and values are protected while others are c…
Leisure, work and profession
This paper is divided into four sections. The first birefly discusses some problematic aspects of the prospect of a leisure society, and identifies two alternatives to such a society. In the second, the conceptions of leisure held by the two major philosophers of leisure in western thought, Aristotle and Marx, are described. In the third, a brief critique of their views suggests some leading ideas for dealing constructively with the contemporary …
The Good City
Concerning Value Science
There has been much discussion in recent years of the possibilities for and nature of “value science.” The present paper is intended to be a contribution to this discussion. One encouraging feature of the bulk of current discussion of value science is that its protagonists have a definite end in view, namely, “human betterment,” taking that phrase in the common sense as covering, at least, a process of creating and maintaining such conditions of …
Concerning Value Science
There has been much discussion in recent years of the possibilities for and nature of “value science.” The present paper is intended to be a contribution to this discussion. One encouraging feature of the bulk of current discussion of value science is that its protagonists have a definite end in view, namely, “human betterment,” taking that phrase in the common sense as covering, at least, a process of creating and maintaining such conditions of …
The Good City
The Good City
Decadence and Objectivity
In this book Haworth concerns himself with the conceptual foundations of social order and the options for a future society. He analyses two sharply contrasting systems, the one committed to individual satisfaction and independence and the other based on collective values and rewards.
Leisure, work and profession
This paper is divided into four sections. The first birefly discusses some problematic aspects of the prospect of a leisure society, and identifies two alternatives to such a society. In the second, the conceptions of leisure held by the two major philosophers of leisure in western thought, Aristotle and Marx, are described. In the third, a brief critique of their views suggests some leading ideas for dealing constructively with the contemporary …
Autonomy
Liberal Neutrality
In Patterns of Moral Complexity , Charles Larmore describes three related ways in which moral and political theory are more complex than is often allowed. He objects to three parallel simplifications: that moral decision making largely consists in the application of rules to particular situations; that the ideals by which we are guided in our personal (private, social) lives should also do service as political ideals, a simplification which he ca…
Is a Scientific Assessment of Risk Possible? Value Assumptions in the Canadian Alachlor Controversy
Increasingly our society relies upon government regulatory agencies to protect its people, its institutions and its environment from the negative impacts of new technologies. These agencies are saddled with the task of deciding among strongly conflicting viewpoints represented by a wide range of interest groups and "value communities" within the society. When regulatory decisions are made some interests and values are protected while others are c…
Focal Things and Focal Practices
This chapter examines the relationship between focal practices and focal things. The chapter's meditation on things and practices, with its thoughtfully selected and well-developed examples, appeals to those who might not know Borgmann's work firsthand and deepens and clarifies, with its subtle distinctions, any sophisticated reader's understanding of Borgmann's account of this matter. Technology's relationship with democracy is at best an uneasy…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Value (mathematics) (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)