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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...
Sortition
Thoery and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This volume reflects the up-and-coming academic interest in sortition. It is based on contributions to the first international conference dedicated to the subject held at the University of Political Science (Sciences-Po) in Paris in November 2008.The papers explore important theoretical questions...
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.
Human Life, Action and Ethics
Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
A collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'
by Edmond Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Are you prepared, either as an atheist or a religious believer, to have your ideas of God, the self, other people, the body, the soul, spirituality, and faith challenged in an unexpected and original way? Here is a book that moves out from under and away from the received notions of those ponderous...
Independent
The Rise of the Non-Aligned Politician
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Martin Bell, Ken Livingstone and Richard Taylor (the doctor who became an MP to save his local hospital) are the best known of a growing band of British politicians making their mark outside the traditional party system. Some (like Livingstone) have emerged from within the old political system that...
Panic on a Plate
How Society Developed an Eating Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Food in Britain today is more plentiful, more nutritious, more varied, and much more affordable than ever in our history. This is something to celebrate, and Rob Lyons does exactly that. In a series of short up-beat chapters he challenges head on the fashionable critics of so-called junk food and...
Knowing, Doing, and Being
New Foundations for Consciousness Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Between 1965 and 2002 several key lines of research emerged which, taken together, can potentially revolutionise our understanding of the place of consciousness in the universe. Two of these are crucial: first, the analyses of human mental processes by Barnard, and independently by McGilchrist, revealing...