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Inborn Knowledge

The Mystery Within

by Colin McGinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

An argument that nativism is true and important but mysterious, examining the particular case of ideas of sensible qualities. In this book, Colin McGinn presents a concise, clear, and compelling argument that the origins of knowledge are innate—that nativism, not empiricism, is correct in...
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The Rhythmic Event

Art, Media, and the Sonic

by Eleni Ikoniadou
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014

An investigation into the affective modes of perception, temporality, and experience enabled by experimental new media sonic art. The sonic has come to occupy center stage in the arts and humanities. In the age of computational media, sound and its subcultures can offer more dynamic ways of...
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Why Only Us

Language and Evolution

by Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. **“A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon...
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Plato's Revenge

Politics in the Age of Ecology

by William Ophuls
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011

A provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of “sustainability.” In this provocative call for a new ecological politics, William Ophuls starts from a radical premise: “sustainability” is impossible. We...
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Hanan al-Cinema

Affections for the Moving Image

by Laura U. Marks
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times. In this book, Laura Marks examines one of the world's most impressive, and affecting, bodies of independent and experimental...
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Reinventing Los Angeles

Nature and Community in the Global City

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007

Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city. Los Angeles—the place without a sense of place, famous for sprawl and overdevelopment and...
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The Machine Question

Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics

by David J. Gunkel
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012

An investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making. One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal...
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New Romantic Cyborgs

Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the Machine

by Mark Coeckelbergh
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017

An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs. Romanticism and technology are widely assumed to be opposed to each other. Romanticism—understood...
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The Time of Our Lives

A Critical History of Temporality

by David Couzens Hoy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012

A study of the emergence in post-Kantian continental philosophy of a focus on the lived experience of temporality. The project of all philosophy may be to gain reconciliation with time, even if not every philosopher has dealt with time expressly. A confrontation with the passing of time and...
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by Brian Upton
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015

A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative. The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since...
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by Elaine Scarry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010

A passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of...
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by Thomas S. Mullaney
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017

How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered...
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by Cristina Eisenberg, Jack Turner, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013

A compelling case for connecting with the wild, for our psychological and physical well-being and to flourish as a species We often enjoy the benefits of connecting with nearby, domesticated nature—a city park, a backyard garden. But this book makes the provocative case for the necessity...
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by Johan Redström
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017

A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design. Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms....
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