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Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372871
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372901
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142237288X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372898
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142238182X
Author : Francesca Ferrando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350059481
The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism and Object Oriented Ontology. This book explains the similarities and differences between these currents and offers a detailed examination of a number of topics that fall under the “posthuman” umbrella, including the anthropocene, artificial intelligence and the deconstruction of the human. Francesca Ferrando affords particular focus to Philosophical Posthumanism, defined as a philosophy of mediation which addresses the meaning of humanity not in separation, but in relation to technology and ecology. The posthuman shift thus emerges in the global call for social change, responsible science and multispecies coexistence.
Author : Katie Spalding
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780316529648
Publishers Weekly Best Summer Reads Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition. For example: Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, believed that he could communicate with the undead and built the world’s very first hotline to heaven: the Spirit Phone. Marie and Pierre Curie, famous for discovering radioactivity, slept next to a lump of radioactive material for years and strapped it to their arms to watch it burn them in real-time. Lord Byron, acclaimed British poet, literally took a bear with him to university. Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity and motion, but he also looked up at the sun without eye protection. The result? Three days of blindness. Tesla, whose scientific work led to the invention of the AC unit, fell in love with a pigeon. Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit. You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now.
Author : Efemini, Ovo M.
Publisher : Malthouse Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789785325096
Modern Nigerian Constitutional Law: Practices, Principles and Precedents has fifteen chapters covers not only the traditional core topics in constitutional law, but also the generally neglected ones. In chapter one, the author examines some basic issues in Nigerian constitutional law, and in chapter two the supremacy of the Constitution is examined. Also examined in this book are federalism, local government, fundamental rights, the fundamental rights enforcement procedure, the legislature, the executive, the judiciary, elections, INEC, and political parties. Although primarily intended as a textbook for students, the practitioner and the judge will find it refreshingly rewarding.
Author : Jonathan Smele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190613495
This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which re-opened many old wounds, from the Baltic to the Caucasus. Contemporary memorialising and 'de-memorialising' of these wars, therefore form part of the book's focus, but at its heart lie the struggles between various Russian political and military forces which sought to inherit and preserve, or even expand, the territory of the tsars, overlain with examinations of the attempts of many non-Russian national and religious groups to divide the former empire. The reasons why some of the latter were successful (Poland and Finland, for example), while others (Ukraine, Georgia and the Muslim Basmachi) were not, are as much the author's concern as are explanations as to why the chief victors of the 'Russian' Civil Wars were the Bolsheviks. Tellingly, the work begins and ends with battles in Central Asia - a theatre of the 'Russian' Civil Wars that was closer to Mumbai than it was to Moscow.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422372758
Author : Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004367647
John Lachs (1934-) has been one of the most interesting American philosophers for nearly sixty years. His philosophical, educational, and public activity has been an attempt to show the relevance of philosophy to life. This is the first book dedicated to his thought.
Author : Rivka Feldhay,F. Jamil Ragep
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773550124
In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did Copernicus somehow learn of the work of his predecessors, and if so, how? And if Copernicus did use material from the Islamic world, how then should we understand the European context of his innovative cosmology? Although Copernicus’s work has been subject to a number of excellent studies, there has been little attention paid to the sources and diverse cultures that might have inspired him. Foregrounding the importance of interactions between Islamic and European astronomers and philosophers, Before Copernicus explores the multi-cultural, multi-religious, and multi-lingual context of learning on the eve of the Copernican revolution, determining the relationship between Copernicus and his predecessors. Essays by Christopher Celenza and Nancy Bisaha delve into the European cultural and intellectual contexts of the fifteenth century, revealing both the profound differences between “them” and “us,” and the nascent attitudes that would mark the turn to modernity. Michael Shank, F. Jamil Ragep, Sally Ragep, and Robert Morrison depict the vibrant and creative work of astronomers in the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish worlds. In other essays, Rivka Feldhay, Raz Chen-Morris, and Edith Sylla demonstrate the importance of shifting outlooks that were critical for the emergence of a new worldview. Highlighting the often-neglected intercultural exchange between Islam and early modern Europe, Before Copernicus reimagines the scientific revolution in a global context.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004413030
Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries is an anthology of texts offering an in-depth analysis of Latin medieval theories of sense-perception. The volume offers historical and systematic approaches to themes and questions that have shaped the medieval accounts of sense-perception.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422370208
Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191571138
This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about their uses of classical literature in their own work in lyric poetry and in theatre poetry, and essays from academic experts on the same topics. Living Classics asks why contemporary poets are returning to making versions of and allusions to Greek and Roman literature in their work, and interrogates the parallel interest of modern classical scholars in the contemporary reception of classical texts.
