Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.
This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash....
by Luciano Rizzo
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Book of existential philosophy, practical manual of Problem Solving or essay for Neuroscience and Mathematics of Games?
This book speaks about all these arguments and connect them to help us understand the Ego, that part of the mind that governs most of our behaviors.
Then, it introduces a simple...
NOBODY IS MORE HATED THAN THE MAN WHO THINKS
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Why talk if the people do not want to listen to you?
In that sense, if the people don't want your love?
Why create, if you do not want to destroy what is old?
Why revolutionize if - while alienated - seek always the conformism?
Why preach...
Visions Of Technology
A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems A
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals threaten to poison the earth....
by Rudolf Steiner, Gertrude Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Of all of his works, Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path is the one that Steiner himself believed would have the longest life and the greatest spiritual and cultural consequences. It was written as a phenomenological account of the results of observing the human soul according to the methods of natural...
Wisdom Writers Around the World
Aphorisms Explained
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Many of the great one-liner thoughts of the past have gone unexplained or even unread. Contained in this volume are some of those thoughts and aphorisms, accompanied by a brief explanation of what each one means.
How appropriate that early authors of aphorisms were called wisdom writers. John...
by George Grant
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Originally published in 1986, the six essays that comprise Technology and Justice offer absorbing reflections on the extent to which technology has shaped the way we live now. George Grant, one of Canada’s most influential philosophers, explores the fate of traditional values in modern education,...
The Naked Future
What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
“A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive
Thanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry,...
by Jheni Osman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Every once in a while, an idea comes along that makes the entire world sit up and take notice. From the earliest understandings of our place in the solar system, via Darwinism, DNA, neutrons and quarks, right up to the theories that are pushing the boundaries of our knowledge today, we are forever...
Body, Text, and Science
The Literacy of Investigative Practices and the Phenomenology of Edith Stein
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What is "scientific" about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That account of the essence of science comes from Edith Stein, who as HusserI's assistant 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his...
Singularity Rising
Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times bestseller The Singularity is Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a likely future utterly different than anything we can imagine. The Singularity is triggered by the tremendous growth of human and computing intelligence that is an almost...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The hidden curriculum (HC) in health professional education comprises the organizational and institutional contexts and cultural subtexts that shape how and what students learn outside the formal and intended curriculum. HC includes informal social processes such as role modeling, informal conversations...
by Sheila Jasanoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
We live in a world increasingly governed by technology—but to what end?
Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we cross a street, drive a car, or go to the doctor, we submit to the silent power of technology....
Participatory Politics
Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
An examination of the mix of face-to-face and digital methods that young people use in their experiments with civic engagement.
Although they may disavow politics as such, civic-minded young people use every means and media at their disposal to carry out the basic tasks of citizenship. Through...