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This annual edited volume presents an overview of cutting-edge
research areas within digital ethics as defined by the Digital
Ethics Lab of the University of Oxford. It identifies new
challenges and opportunities of influence in setting the research
agenda in the field. The 2020 edition of the yearbook presents
research on the following topics: governing digital health,
visualising governance, the digital afterlife, the possibility of
an AI winter, the limits of design theory in philosophy,
cyberwarfare, ethics of online behaviour change, governance of AI,
trust in AI, and Emotional Self-Awareness as a Digital Literacy.
This book appeals to students, researchers and professionals in the
field.
This interdisciplinary study introduces readers to Friedrich
Schleiermacher's diverse pathways of reflection and creative
practice that are related to the field of translation. By drawing
attention to Schleiermacher's various writings on a range of
subjects (including philology, criticism, hermeneutics, dialectics,
rhetoric and religion), the author makes it clear that the
frequently cited lecture UEber die verschiedenen Methoden des
UEbersetzens (On the Different Methods of Translating) represents
but a fraction of Schleiermacher's contributions to modern-day
insights into translation. The analysis of Schleiermacher's various
pathways of reflection on translation presented in this book leads
to the conclusion that translation is part of the essence of the
world, as it is a fundamental tool of our cognition and a
foundation of our existence. In Schleiermacher's works, transfer,
translation, mediation, and communication underpin our very
existence in the world and our self-awareness. At the same time,
they represent fundamental categories for a project that focuses on
the consolidation and assimilation - through translation - of that
which is foreign, different, diverse.
Elizabeth Anscombe’s 1958 essay “Modern Moral Philosophy” is a cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power of good evaluative and analytical critical thinking skills.
Though only 16 pages long, Anscombe’s paper set out to do nothing less than reform the entire field of modern moral philosophy – something that could only be done by carefully examining the existing arguments of the giants of the field. To do this, she deployed the central skills of evaluation and analysis.
In critical thinking, analysis helps understand the sequence and features of arguments: it asks what reasons these arguments produce, what implicit reasons and assumptions they rely on, what conclusions they arrive at. Evaluation involves judging whether or not the arguments are strong enough to sustain their conclusions: it asks how acceptable, adequate, and relevant the reasons given are, and whether or not the conclusions drawn from them are really valid.
In “Modern Moral Philosophy,” Anscombe dispassionately turns these skills on figures that have dominated moral philosophy since the 18th-century, revealing the underlying assumptions of their work, their weaknesses and strengths, and showing that in many ways the supposed differences between their arguments are actually negligible. A brilliantly incisive piece, “Modern Moral Philosophy” radically affected its field, remaining required – and controversial – reading today.
The book by Professor Kurbanov Marat Ahnafovich is about a new
worldview, a new teaching on the way to self-awareness, to
understanding the planet and Universe as a whole, to knowing good
from evil. The book uncovers that knowledge which the new Man, the
new generation that has been born on the planet in new conditions
should accept. The book gives the reader an opportunity to accept
the new laws of the world, whiteout which step the future of all
humanity is impossible; it gives the key to understanding the Unity
of the Universe. Accept this book and you will be One with the
World, with the whole Universe The book has healing powers. Homo
Sapiens Accept and understand Everything Because Everything - is in
you, and, as Everything is in you, then, it is what the Creation
is, because Creation is the essence of Homo Sapiens.
In a masterful synthesis of science and philosophy, one of the world's pre-eminent behavioural scientists demonstrates that free will is a powerful and dangerous illusion. The result is a new way to think about choice, identity, responsibility, justice, morality and how we live together.
Behind every thought, action and experience there lies a chain of biological and environmental causes, stretching back from the moment a neuron fires to the dawn of our species and beyond. Nowhere in this infinite sequence is there a place where free will could play a role.
Without free will, it makes no more sense to punish people for antisocial behaviour than it does to scold a car for breaking down. It is no one's fault they are poor or overweight or unsuccessful, nor do people deserve praise for their talent or hard work; 'grit' is a myth. This mechanistic view of human behaviour challenges our most powerful instincts, but history suggests that we have already made great strides toward where once we saw demonic possession or cowardice, for example, now we diagnose illness or trauma and offer help.
Determined confronts us with our true who and what we are is biology and nothing more. Disturbing and liberating in equal measure, it explores the far-reaching implications for society of accepting this reality. Monumentally difficult as it may be, the reward will be a far more just and humane world.
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