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This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark
Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his extraordinarily
well-travelled wolf. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted
an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person, and, strangely
enough, as a philosopher, leading him to re-evaluate his attitude
to love, happiness, nature and death. By turns funny (what do you
do when your wolf eats your air-conditioning unit?) and poignant,
this life-affirming classic of popular philosophy will make you
reappraise what it means to be human.
It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and
feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are
constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head. The
view known as externalism, however, denies that mental phenomena
are internal in this sense. The mind is not purely in the head.
Mental phenomena are hybrid entities that straddle both internal
state and processes and things occurring in the outside world. The
development of externalist conceptions of the mind is one of the
most controversial, and arguably one of the most important,
developments in the philosophy of mind in the second half of the
twentieth century. Yet, despite its significance most recent work
on externalism has been highly technical, clouding its basic ideas
and principles. Moreover, very little work has been done to locate
externalism within philosophical developments in both analytic and
continental traditions. In this book, Mark Rowlands aims to remedy
both these problems and present for the reader a clear and
accessible introduction to the subject grounded in wider
developments in the history of philosophy. Rowlands shows that
externalism has significant and respectable historical roots that
make it much more important than a specific eruption that occurred
in late twentieth-century analytic philosophy.
It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and
feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are
constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head. The
view known as externalism, however, denies that mental phenomena
are internal in this sense. The mind is not purely in the head.
Mental phenomena are hybrid entities that straddle both internal
state and processes and things occurring in the outside world. The
development of externalist conceptions of the mind is one of the
most controversial, and arguably one of the most important,
developments in the philosophy of mind in the second half of the
twentieth century. Yet, despite its significance most recent work
on externalism has been highly technical, clouding its basic ideas
and principles. Moreover, very little work has been done to locate
externalism within philosophical developments in both analytic and
continental traditions. In this book, Mark Rowlands aims to remedy
both these problems and present for the reader a clear and
accessible introduction to the subject grounded in wider
developments in the history of philosophy. Rowlands shows that
externalism has significant and respectable historical roots that
make it much more important than a specific eruption that occurred
in late twentieth-century analytic philosophy.
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Fame (Paperback)
Mark Rowlands
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R1,169
Discovery Miles 11 690
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has
been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Rowlands argues
that our obsession with fame has transformed it. Fame was once
associated with excellence or achievement in some or other field of
endeavour. But today we are obsessed with something that is, in
effect, quite different: fame unconnected with any discernible
distinction, fame that allows a person to be famous simply for
being famous. This book shows why this new fame is simultaneously
fascinating and worthless. To understand this new form of fame,
Rowlands maintains, we have to engage in an extensive philosophical
excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in ancient
Greece between Plato and Protagoras, and was carried on in a
remarkable philosophical experiment that began in
eighteenth-century France. Somewhat like contestants on a reality
TV show, today we find ourselves, unwittingly, playing out the
consequences of this experiment.
'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty
years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most
of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for
him the two - running and philosophising - are inextricably
connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most
significant runs of his life: from the entire day he spent running
as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches and up Irish
mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, and through Florida swamps
more recently with his dog Nina. Woven throughout the book are
profound meditations on mortality, middle age and the meaning of
life. This is a highly original and moving book that will make the
philosophically inclined want to run, and those who love running
become intoxicated by philosophical ideas.
Ensure students are fully prepared for A-Level Maths with this
revised second edition, fully updated to bridge the GCSE Maths 9-1
and A-level 2017 specifications. Written by an experienced A-level
author who is a practising A-level teacher, this fully updated
edition is an ideal resource to be used in the classroom or for
independent study. Similar in structure to Collins Maths revision
guides, the Bridging GCSE and A-level Maths Student Book is split
into an explanation section and a practice section. * Identify and
understand the transition from GCSE to AS and A-level Maths with
'What you should already know' objectives and 'What you will learn'
objectives at the start of each topic * Get a head start on your
AS/A-level Maths with introductions to key pure maths topics for
all exam boards (AQA, OCR, MEI and Edexcel) * Boost your
understanding with worked examples which include extra guidance in
the form of 'Handy hint', 'Checkpoint', 'A-level Alert!' and
'Common error' boxes * Reinforce and build on your maths to fully
prepare you for AS level/A-level with worked examples and plenty of
practice questions from Grades 7-9 at GCSE Level extending to AS
standard * Think and draw on different areas of maths with
investigations at the end of some topics * Check your progress with
answers to Maths practice questions at the back of the book * Test
your understanding of the maths you've covered with the practice
exam paper
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Fame (Hardcover)
Mark Rowlands
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R4,428
Discovery Miles 44 280
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has
been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Rowlands argues
that our obsession with fame has transformed it. Fame was once
associated with excellence or achievement in some or other field of
endeavour. But today we are obsessed with something that is, in
effect, quite different: fame unconnected with any discernible
distinction, fame that allows a person to be famous simply for
being famous. This book shows why this new fame is simultaneously
fascinating and worthless. To understand this new form of fame,
Rowlands maintains, we have to engage in an extensive philosophical
excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in ancient
Greece between Plato and Protagoras, and was carried on in a
remarkable philosophical experiment that began in
eighteenth-century France. Somewhat like contestants on a reality
TV show, today we find ourselves, unwittingly, playing out the
consequences of this experiment.
This Student Book is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board:
AQA Level and subject: AS/A Level Maths First teaching: 2017
Approved by AQA, this Student Book provides full support for AS
Level Maths and Year 1 of the full A Level (2017 specification).
Bridging units at the start of each chapter provide the perfect
springboard to support students in their transition from GCSE.
Concise recap sections and abundant fluency-style questions ensure
the whole class can be brought to the same level of readiness for A
Level. The main chapters cover the full AS specification across
pure, mechanics and statistics. Clear and concise explanations are
supported by extensive worked examples showing key techniques and
common pitfalls. For each topic, students can check their
understanding with a fluency-style exercise before advancing to a
dedicated problem-solving exercise. This book supports the major
changes in assessment style for the 2017 specification, with an
assessment at the end of each chapter written in the new exam
style, and with revision exercises that test synoptically across
the syllabus. The statistics content has been fully updated to
support AQA's new 2018 Large data set (car data). Short answers are
in the back of the book, while full step-by-step solutions are
provided free online. MyMaths links appear at the bottom of all
exercises, providing a quick route to further practice and support.
Additional support is available online via Oxford's widely
acclaimed Kerboodle platform.
In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the
mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a
radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive
processes. Cognition is not something done exclusively in the head,
but fundamentally something done in the world. Drawing on both
evolutionary theory and a detailed examination of the processes
involved in perception, memory, thought and language use, Rowlands
argues that cognition is, in part, a process whereby creatures
manipulate and exploit relevant objects in their environment. It is
not simply an internal process of information processing; equally
significantly, it is an external process of information processing.
This innovative book provides a foundation for an unorthodox but
increasingly popular view of the nature of cognition.
In The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an
innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one
that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for
it in the natural order. The most significant feature of
consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the
directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed.
Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion
of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that
the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that
exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal
objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain
consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be
of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind
and language, psychology and cognitive science.
In this 2nd edition, the author has substantially revised his book
throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on
animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal
rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative evaluation
of moral theory as explored through the issue of animal rights.
In this 2nd edition, the author has substantially revised his book
throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on
animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal
rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative evaluation
of moral theory as explored through the issue of animal rights.
Mark Rowlands develops an innovative and radical account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, with significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. He argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology, and cognitive science.
Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam
Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level Maths First teaching:
September 2017 First exams: June 2018 Approved by AQA, this Student
Book provides full support for A Level Maths (2017 specification).
Bridging units at the start of each Year 1 chapter provide the
perfect springboard to support students in their transition from
GCSE. Concise recap sections and abundant fluency-style questions
ensure the whole class can be brought to the same level of
readiness for A Level. The main chapters cover the full
specification across pure, mechanics and statistics. Clear and
concise explanations are supported by extensive worked examples
showing key techniques and common pitfalls. For each topic,
students can check their understanding with a fluency-style
exercise before advancing to a dedicated problem-solving exercise.
This book supports the major changes in assessment style for the
2017 specification, with an assessment at the end of each chapter
written in the new exam style, and with revision exercises that
test synoptically across the syllabus. The statistics content has
been fully updated to support AQA's new 2018 Large data set (car
data). Short answers are in the back of the book, while full
step-by-step solutions are provided free online. MyMaths links
appear at the bottom of all exercises, providing a quick route to
further practice and support. Additional support is available
online via Oxford's widely acclaimed Kerboodle platform.
A Collection of True Tales of Animal Empathy and Altruism that will
Inspire Us to Reflect on Our Own Human Nature What do stories about
humpback whales protecting a biologist from a shark, a pride of
lions rescuing a girl from kidnappers, gorillas working together to
dismantle poacher snares, a parrot warding off an attacker in a
park, a chimpanzee consoling a human, and an elephant trying to
rescue a baby rhino tell us about animal nature? And what might
they suggest about our very own human nature? Until just a few
decades ago, there were only a few animals reported to behave
empathetically and altruistically. More recently, the list of
species who have been observed behaving in compassionate, helpful,
and caring ways has grown exponentially, ranging from rats to
elephants. Rescued by a Whale presents dozens of astonishing and
heart-warming stories about animals, such as chickens, horses,
dolphins, and wolves, who engage in acts of helpful kindness.
During a time in history when studies show that human empathy is
decreasing, our knowledge about animal empathy is increasing. These
true tales of heroism, kindness, and compassion suggest that we
have far more in common with other animals than we once believed
and provocatively suggest that what's best about our human natures
just might be our animal natures.
Pick up and teach exciting lessons for AQA Level 3 Mathematical
Studies. This guide provides a clear approach to the specification,
makes links with other subject areas and takes the real-life
contexts further. An off-the-shelf teaching solution for AQA Core
Maths Easy to use with a chapter overview to show the scope,
specification references, prior knowledge, links to Collins AQA
GCSE Maths, learning objectives and key terminology. Help with
student engagement and recruitment with links to other A-level
subjects. Support non-specialist teachers with common
misconceptions and content that is outside GCSE Maths highlighted.
Kick off your lessons with ready-made starter activities. Bring to
life the discussion sections in the Student Book plus advice on the
case study and project work tasks. Give students even more practice
with ready-to-go tasks and worksheets for each chapter available on
the CD-Rom. Save time with copies of graphs from the Student Book
and Check your progress statements ready to print off in black and
white.
Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining
environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our
climate is changing at a rate that is unprecedented and, if
unchecked, disastrous. Species are disappearing hundreds or
thousands of times faster than normal. COVID-19 has wreaked social
and economic havoc but is merely the latest off a blossoming
production line of emerging infectious diseases, many of which have
the potential to be far worse. Rowlands establishes that all three
problems are consequences of choices we have made about energy,
which can be divided into two major forms: fuel and food. Focusing
on food choices as far more central to the issue than commonly
recognized, he argues that the solution is breaking our collective
habit of eating animals. Rowlands shows that in doing so, we stem
our insatiable hunger for land, which he identifies as central to
the problems of extinction and pestilence. He explains that
reversing the industrial farming of animals for food will first,
substantially cut climate emissions, rapidly enough to allow
sustainable energy technologies time to become viable alternatives;
and most importantly, make vast areas of a land available for the
kind of aggressive afforestation policy that he shows as necessary
to bring all three problems under control. With World on Fire, Mark
Rowlands identifies the source of our environmental ills and
provides a compelling and accessible account of how to solve them.
Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam
Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level Maths First teaching:
September 2017 First exams: June 2018 This Student Book provides
full support for year two of an AQA A Level course. Covering all
the pure maths, mechanics and statistics content needed, the book
provides dedicated exercises in every chapter for exam-style
problem-solving and modelling questions. Dedicated revision
exercises test synoptically across the curriculum. Throughout the
book, the explanatory text is clear and concise, with abundant
worked examples to show how key techniques can be used and common
pitfalls to avoid. Short answers are in the back of the book, while
full step-by-step solutions are provided online. MyMaths links
appear at the bottom of all exercises, providing a quick route to
further practice and support.
This Student Book provides full support for the Further Pure 2
paper in the Edexcel AS and A Level exams. Throughout the book, the
explanations are clear and concise, with an emphasis on visual
presentation, abundant worked examples and learning by doing. In
every chapter, sequential exercises allow students to practise
first their fluency and skills, and then the new exam-style
problem-solving and modelling questions. The problem-solving is
supported by Strategy boxes, which provide guidance on how best to
approach these questions. Short answers are given in the back,
while full step-by-step solutions to every single question can be
found online. This Student Book belongs to a series of 10 OUP
Student Books covering all the compulsory and optional papers for
Edexcel Further Maths AS and A Level.
Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and
some things happened to him in between. These things presented him
with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to
answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin's
death, A Good Life is one man's reckoning with the life he has led
and the choices he made. It is at once a philosophical handbook for
living and a page-turning narrative. A Good Life is one man's life
(birth, death, education, religion, morality, illness and so on)
told through a philosophical lens. It is a riveting examination of
the ethical questions we face, and the decisions we must make, and
a defence of the idea that at the beating heart of morality we find
love. And it is written with the conviction that, on their own,
moral rules and principles are childish things - risible and easily
refuted. It is only a life in its entirety that can be morally
judged. A Good Life is sometimes profoundly funny, sometimes deeply
serious. It is as readable as a novel and as provocative as the
best philosophy. It is the finest work to date by a charming and
brilliant thinker.
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