The Boundaries Of Humanity

Author : James J. Sheehan,Morton Sosna
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520313118

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The Boundaries of Humanity by James J. Sheehan,Morton Sosna Pdf

To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with colorful individuality by the authors of The Boundaries of Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers, historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies. Contributors: Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupré, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire, Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry Winograd This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1191807961

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Why Borders Matter by Frank Furedi Pdf

Author : Matthew Calarco
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231550963

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The Boundaries of Human Nature by Matthew Calarco Pdf

Are animals capable of wonder? Can they be said to possess language and reason? What can animals teach us about how to live well? How can they help us to see the limitations of human civilization? Is it possible to draw firm distinctions between humans and animals? And how might asking and answering questions like these lead us to rethink human-animal relations in an age of catastrophic ecological destruction? In this accessible and engaging book, Matthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. He leads readers on a spirited tour of historical and contemporary philosophy, ranging from Plato to Donna Haraway and from the Cynics to the Jains. Calarco unearths surprising insights about animals from a number of philosophers while also underscoring ways in which the philosophical tradition has failed to challenge the dogma of human-centeredness. Along the way, he indicates how mainstream Western philosophy is both complemented and challenged by non-Western traditions and noncanonical theories about animals. Throughout, Calarco uses examples from contemporary culture to illustrate how philosophical theories about animals are deeply relevant to our lives today. The Boundaries of Human Nature shows readers why philosophy can help transform not just the way we think about animals but also how we interact with them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : OCLC:223653507

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The Boundaries of Humanity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melih Karakuzu,Hasan Baktır,Banu Akçeşme,Betül Ateşci Koçak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527570290

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Exploring Borders and Boundaries in the Humanities by Melih Karakuzu,Hasan Baktır,Banu Akçeşme,Betül Ateşci Koçak Pdf

In a ‘post-everything’ world, we have felt more pain than happiness in building and tampering with borders. The term ‘border’ has been expanded to become a ploy for grim, chauvinistic, self-flattery, and ultra-nationalist bigotry. We have also faced notorious coverage of the ‘border’ in the media worldwide, and its diverse forms have been extensively deployed in cinema and literature. Centering on a wide range of literary and cinematic genres, the contributors to this volume explore and explain distinct theoretical and scholarly arguments to promote research on literary, linguistic, and media representations of the word ‘border.’

Author : R. S. Zaharna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190930271

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Boundary Spanners of Humanity by R. S. Zaharna Pdf

"Boundary Spanners of Humanity tackles the growing severity of global problems and our strained ability to collaborate by critically re-examining two pivotal tools: communication and public diplomacy. R.S. Zaharna, a leading scholar of public diplomacy and international strategic communication, exposes the limitations of intercultural communication and state-based public diplomacy and proposes a pan-human vision of communication that can revolutionize how we communicate globally. The book reveals how dominant views of communication and public diplomacy are based on a 19th-century mindset of separateness that clashes with today's global connectivity and diversity. In a radical break from outdated models that divide humanity into cultural categories, Zaharna introduces a vision of humanity-centered public diplomacy featuring three complementary logics of communication. Used together, these communication logics are key to leveraging diversity, navigating connectivity, and enhancing our capacity for collaboration. Zaharna's innovative approach stems from decade-long, interdisciplinary research spanning ancient cosmologies, diverse intellectual heritages, contemporary social science, and emerging neuro-biological science. Boundary Spanners of Humanity provides a rich array of examples from ancient diplomacies to the covid-19 pandemic to illustrate a vision of pan-human communication that spans our diversity and harnesses it as an essential strength in collective problem solving and global collaboration"--

Author : Bernice Bovenkerk,Jozef Keulartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319442068

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Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans by Bernice Bovenkerk,Jozef Keulartz Pdf

This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature leads to a rethinking of the old distinction between individual animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats leads to a blurring between the categories of wild and domesticated animals. Finally, globalization and global climate change have led to the fragmentation of natural habitats, blurring the old distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation. In this book, researchers at the cutting edge of their fields systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations, dealing with wild, liminal, and domestic animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with technologies such as biomimicry. This book is timely in that it explores the new directions in which our thinking about the human-animal relationship are developing. While the target audience primarily consists of animal studies scholars, coming from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethology, literature, and film studies, many of the topics that are discussed have relevance beyond a purely theoretical one; as such the book also aims to inspire for example biologists, conservationists, and zoo keepers to reflect on their relationship with animals.

Author : Leif Cocks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648501809

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Finding Our Humanity by Leif Cocks Pdf

Author : Julie Thompson Klein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472052547

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Interdisciplining Digital Humanities by Julie Thompson Klein Pdf

The first book to test the claim that the emerging field of Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary and also examines the boundary work of establishing and sustaining a new field of study

Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780698184541

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The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene Pdf

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around you Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.

Author : Sarah Chan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1780932189

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Humans and Other Animals by Sarah Chan Pdf

The aim of this book is to examine and challenge the boundaries so often drawn in philosophy, as elsewhere, between humans and other animals, drawing on philosophical, legal and scientific perspectives in order to question the legitimacy and utility of such distinctions and thereby to explore the moral and philosophical meanings of humanity and being human. A century and half ago, Darwin's theory of evolution challenged the notion of absolute species boundaries, showing that humans were related to animals rather than created unique amongst living creatures and putting us on a continuum with other animals and indeed all life on earth. Genetically, biologically, as moral subjects and even as moral agents, humans are a species of animal. What implications might this have for philosophical considerations of human nature, for the use of 'human' as a qualifier or distinguishing feature in moral, legal and social contexts, and for how we view ourselves, other creatures that exist now and creatures that might one day exist?

Author : Paul R. Ehrlich,Robert E. Ornstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442206502

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Humanity on a Tightrope by Paul R. Ehrlich,Robert E. Ornstein Pdf

More than ever, the world finds itself faced with common problems that affect most of the planet's population in some way: climate change, poverty, escalating violence, international conflicts, illness. And while an 'us v. them' mentality persists, a growing sense of empathy, of connection, with those in remote parts of the world has caught hold and is spreading. The authors argue that empathy and feelings of kinship with others are necessary to preventing the collapse of civilization. Through a careful examination of how humans must learn to relate to one another to avoid global calamity, they show how empathy can help to create a sustainable society of many billions of individuals.

Author : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Animals (Philosophy)
ISBN : 2503549217

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The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference Pdf

The essays in this collection were first delivered as presentations at the Sixteenth Annual ACMRS Conference on 'Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance' in February, 2010, at Arizona State University. They reflect the current state of the critical discussion regarding the 'history of the human'.

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780143122012

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The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Pdf

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.

Author : Mario Wenning,Nandita Batra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498557832

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The Human–Animal Boundary by Mario Wenning,Nandita Batra Pdf

The Human–Animal Boundary shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question “what is human?” with the question “what is animal?” The objective is to expand the imaginative scope of human–animal relationships by combining perspectives from different disciplines, traditions, and cultural backgrounds.