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The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Birch (Author)This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences...

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Franklin (Author)Nominal Christianity is not enough. We can't sustain the ethics and norms we take for granted in societies that have been formed through a Christian worldview, for the long term, without Christianity itself - this book calls for a full-blooded, believing 'return' to Christianity on that basis. Fear not, however, this is not an evangelical screed about 'revival' -- it is a solid case, methodically set out in order to argue from a philosop...

Louise Humann (1766-1836): Re-Christianizing Post-Revolutionary France

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret R. O'Leary (Author)Upon Mademoiselle Louise Humann's death in 1836, a distraught Abbé Théodore Ratisbonne said of his spiritual mother, "Here lays this sweet, strong Christian who, from the depths of her quiet, secluded home, has exercised more influence on the world of her time than will ever be known!" Yet in an era when women had few opportunities to excel or contribute to society outside the home, how did this brilliant and pious French mystic help...

A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment - Paperback

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by Spring Washam (Author)With stories from south central LA to the jungles of Peru, A Fierce Heart offers deep and honest reflections on compassion and suffering by one of the country's most powerful mindfulness teachers. Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, the most diverse and accessible meditation center in the United States. In A Fierce Heart, she shares her contemporary, unique interpretation of the Buddha's 2,500-year-old teachings that get to the heart of mindf...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-Clet Martin (Author), Laura Acquaviva (Illustrator)Michel Foucault's writings announce not only that God is dead, but also that man is dying.He interrogates objects deemed unworthy that have never been taken into account by philosophy. These include crime, madness, sexuality, the excesses of literature and evil. He offers an extraordinary history. Instead of understanding our societies by what they ex hibe, Foucault insists on what they conceal, in order t...

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Report copyright infringementby Tahir Shah (Author)During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to follow certain threads that are of profound interest to Shah.Spanning a number of distinct genres - in both fiction and non-fiction work - the collections incorpora...

Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back: This Is the Way - Paperback

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by William Irwin (Editor), Jason T. Eberl (Editor), Kevin S. Decker (Editor)Should droids be free? Should clone troopers? What political and ethical ideas ground resistance and rebellion? What's wrong with the way women are portrayed in Star Wars? Does Han Solo have a philosophical worldview? Was Galen Erso responsible for the destruction of Alderaan? Should you eat Baby Yoda? "This is the Way." In Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, the Way wends through entirely new adventures in the Sta...

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by Berislav Marusic (Author), Mark Schroeder (Author) Dimensions: 0.87 x 9.34 x 6.48 IN Publication Date: January 03, 2025

Derek Jarman's Visionary Arts: Exploring Land and Depth

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Charlesworth (Author)Derek Jarman's place in the history of film is assured by virtue of his vibrant, defiant films that experiment with the very process of film-making and create new forms. His paintings, their excitements and their profundity, are less well known. Michael Charlesworth sheds light on the varied ramifications of Jarman's artistic practice from his years at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, and provides the first book-length study of his in...

Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas - Paperback

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by Thomas Aquinas (Author), Ralph McInerny (Introduction by), Ralph McInerny (Translator)In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and truth can ultimately only be reached through divine revelation. Thomas's writings, which contain highly influential sta...

From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence - Hardcover

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by Cameron J. Buckner (Author)This book provides a framework for thinking about foundational philosophical questions surrounding the use of deep artificial neural networks ("deep learning") to achieve artificial intelligence. Specifically, it links recent breakthroughs to classic works in empiricist philosophy of mind. In recent assessments of deep learning's potential, scientists have cited historical figures from the philosophical debate between nativism and empiricism, which concerns the o...

Westworld and Philosophy: If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing - Paperback

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by William Irwin (Editor), James B. South (Editor), Kimberly S. Engels (Editor)"We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next." --Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO's Westworld, a high-concept...

Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza - Paperback

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by Gilles Deleuze (Author), Martin Joughin (Translator)In this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the thinkers of the past who most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. For Deleuze, Spinoza, along with Nietzsche and Lucretius, conceived of philosophy as an enterprise of liberation and radical demystification. He locates in Spinoza "a set of affects, a kinetic determination, an impulse" and makes Spinoza into ...

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by Zhuangzi (Author), Chris Fraser (Author)'Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless.' The Zhuangzi -- an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC -- is one of the world's great literary treasures and the single most important source for early Daoist philosophy. It has exerted a profound influence on Chinese thought, literature, and culture, inspiring philosophy, poetry, idioms, proverbs, and even visual art. ...

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World - Paperback

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by David Deutsch (Author)The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge"Dazzling." - Steven Pinker, The Guardian In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe--and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor. Taking us on a journey through every fundamental field of science, as well as the history of ci...

Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Fergus Kerr (Author)Thomas Aquinas is one of the giants of medieval philosophy, a thinker who had--and who still has--a profound influence on Western thought. Aquinas was a controversial figure in his time who was often engaged in fierce theological debates. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. This Very Short Introduction will look at Aquinas in a historical context, and explore the Church and cultu...

Ideology: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Freeden (Author)Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores the changing understandings of ideology as a concept, and the arguments...

Yield: A Quixotic Quest to Rescue Virtue

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Report copyright infringementby Felecia B. Babb Cass (Author)Felicia Babb Cass paints her personal worldview in an unorthodox and upbeat fusion of words and images.Yield is an irresistible invitation to explore the concepts of virtue through the psyche of Felicia Babb Cass. It's not about abstract ideas but how virtues lived, play out in real life. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Felicia.This small, wildly origina...

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Report copyright infringementby Eda Collective (Author)Why are Animals Funny? comprises 46 articles in which nigh on everything is analyzed, from the smartphone to the 2010 general election, from toasties to Margaret Thatcher, from anxiety in children's literature to David Cameron's music tastes...,Author BiographyEveryday Analysis (EDA Collective) is a group of writers, mostly in Manchester, in the UK, who have been posting short articles on everyday events, phenomena, affairs, popular and a...

Being and Neonness: Translation and content revised, augmented, and updated for this edition by Luis de Miranda

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Report copyright infringementby Luis De Miranda (Author), Michael Wells (Translator)A cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day. For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. Being and Neonness is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-centu...

The Spiral Remembers: A Codex of Field Memory, Myth-Tech, and Repatterned Time

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Report copyright infringementby Colleen Guenther (Author)The Spiral Remembers is not a guidebook or spiritual how-to. It is a living transmission-a field-encoded text designed to activate memory through tone, breath, and body coherence.Across 44 chapters, the book unweaves myth, religious programming, reincarnation loops, and spiritual distortion, guiding the reader into a deeper spiral of embodied remembering. Each chapter includes a Sigil Gesture, Field Activation, and an attributed quote f...

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by Thomas Paine (Author), Richard Beeman (Editor), Richard Beeman (Introduction by)The radical pamphlet that helped incite the American Revolution Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and--above all--essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life to create a timely and informative mini-library of perennially...

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Report copyright infringementby Ifakolade Olujoko Obafemi B. a. (Author)While endeavoring to tell this story, I needed clarification on which approach to take. I could present this work in an entirely academic format. However, I am reminded of what my comparative religions professor would say at the beginning of his lectures..." Intellectuals are boring. We will attempt to tell the story from the griot format. You may have wondered why I am writing this book. This is the third book in my seri...

Minimalism: A guide to improving your life with minimalism

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Hill (Author)MINIMALISMMinimalism is a way of simplifying your life. It means eliminating what you do not use or need. It provides you the time and space to figure out what is important to you so you can start living intentionally-whatever that means for you. Whether you want to focus on your health, have more time for family, hobbies, learning a new skill, or you simply want to declutter your home, minimalism frees you from excess, so you have more tim...

John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856: April 15, 1925; a Conversation Piece - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Martin 1878-1970 Birnbaum (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is ...

Causation: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Stephen Mumford (Author), Rani Lill Anjum (Author)Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage. Any intervention we make in the world around us is premised on there be...

Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul - Hardcover

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by Julius Evola (Author), Joscelyn Godwin (Translator), Constance Fontana (Translator)Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution - Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age - Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberation The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, ...

Reveries of the Solitary Walker - Paperback

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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author), Russell Goulbourne (Author)Rousseau's last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and nature. The Reveries are an important complement to Rousseau's other philosophical and autobiographical works and address many of the same issues, making it a useful introduction for anyone interested in reading Rousseau for the first ti...

Law and Economic Order: A Theory of Requisite Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Gibson Friesen (Author)In Law and Economic Order Friesen gives us a provocative series of insights by deconstructingthe tension between 'maintaining order' and 'competition'. Requisite Economy helps todeeply understand what is emerging in society by embracing a true holistic perspective. Thisis a rich and compelling call-to-rethink for anyone looking for new ways to deal with societalchallenges. I strongly recommend reading it.--Jan De Visch, Managing Dir...

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by Richard Higgins (Author)Meditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker's deeply felt experience of the divine. Henry David Thoreau's spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau's passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the church only to pursue a deeper communion with a presence he felt at the heart of the universe. He called this illimitable presence many names, but he often called it God. In Tho...

Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Stephen Gaukroger (Author)Is objectivity possible? Can there be objectivity in matters of morals? What would a truly objective account of the world be like? Is everything subjective, or relative? Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? This Very Short Introduction demonstrates that there are a number of common misunderstandings about what objectivity is, and explores the theoretical and practical problems of objectivity by assessing the basic questions raised by it. In additi...

Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Bhante Gunaratana (Author)"A masterpiece." --Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994, is one of the bestselling -- and most influential -- books in the field of mindfulness. It's easy to see why. Author Bhante Gunaratana, a renowned meditation master, takes us step by step through the myths, realities, and benefits of meditation and the practice of mindfulness. The book showcases Bhante's trademark clarity and wit as he explores the tool of meditation, what...