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by Humberto Maturana Romesín
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors’ basic question is: ‘How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the rational justification of aggression?’ The authors answer this basic question indirectly by providing...
Self and Society
Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
A series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq.The enlarged new edition contains extra essays and...
Sensibility and Sense
The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an...
Spinoza
Basic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Spinoza is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. He has had a deep and enduring influence on a wide range of philosophical subjects, and his work is encountered by all serious students of Western philosophy. His Ethics is one of the seminal works of metaphysical, moral, religious...
Situated Aesthetics
Art Beyond the Skin
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This book focuses on externalist approaches to art. It is the first fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009, where leading scholars in the emerging field of psychology of art compared their different approaches using a neutral language and discussing freely their goals.The event threw up...
Metapsychology of the Creative Process
Continuous Novelty as the Ground of Creative Advance
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Many are fascinated by the phenomenon of genius and search for an understanding of its nature. Modern research is not especially helpful in elucidating the inner process or its relation to ordinary thought. The present work comes from clinical studies of focal brain injuries that dissect unconscious...
What is Wrong with Us?
Essays in Cultural Pathology
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Can any of us entirely banish from our hearts and minds grave misgivings about the condition of the culture we now inhabit? Expressions of those misgivings are mostly unheard in public forums, ignored in the dominant media, and, if noticed at all, dismissed by state-supported bureaucracies and commercial...
The Singularity
Could artificial intelligence really out-think us (and would we want it to)?
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This volume represents the combination of two special issues of the Journal of Consciousness Studies on the topic of the technological singularity. Could artificial intelligence really out-think us, and what would be the likely repercussions if it could? Leading authors contribute to the debate, which...
Unlearning
or 'How NOT To Be Governed?'
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
One view of education (appealing to the Latin root "educare" "to train or mold") aims to fill students' heads with knowledge and turn them into disciplined, normalized and potentially productive members of the workforce.An alternative (appealing to the Latin root "educere" "to lead out or draw out")...
The Creation of Reality
A Constructivist Epistemology of Journalism and Journalism Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates, and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as justifying a trendy post-modern "Anything goes".In this book, Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist thinking and charts out directions for the...
by Gerard Casey
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
In Freedom's Progress?, Gerard Casey argues that the progress of freedom has largely consisted in an intermittent and imperfect transition from tribalism to individualism, from the primacy of the collective to the fragile centrality of the individual person and of freedom. Such a transition is, he...
by Jenny Manson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The contributors to this book mount a robust defence of the concept and practice of public service at a crucial time for its future. They question the ill-conceived assumptions behind the endless programmes of reform imposed by successive governments, often on the basis of advice from people with...
by David Carr
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
What could be the point of teaching such works of bygone cultural and literary inheritance as Cervantes' Don Quixote and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in schools today? This book argues that the narratives and stories of such works are of neglected significance and value for contemporary understanding...
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility
Happiness in Philosophical and Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
A volume on the nature, ingredients, causes and consequences of human happiness by the father and son team of Anthony and Charles Kenny.