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For the millions of midlife couples at a crossroads, this immensely
practical book operates on the assumption that most people are
looking for a way through the crisis and delivers step-by-step
guidelines for making marriages more compassionate and rewarding.
As more and more companies gain a global reach, managing cultural
differences is an increasingly important part of every job. This
book demonstrates how culture affects management practice, from
organisational structure to strategy and human resource management.
Drawing upon evidence from the authors' research, it encourages
managers to reconsider, explore and transfer alternative practices
across national boundaries. As well as providing an insight into
other cultures, this text provides readers with an increased
awareness of their own. The third edition of this book serves to
expand the discussion of the impact of culture on effective
management and on utilising differences to create competitive
advantage. Employing tools of observation, questioning and
interpretation, the book challenges assumptions and encourages
critical reflection on the influences of culture in business.
Managing Across Cultures will appeal to both managers and
executives working within an international business environment, as
well as to students on a growing number of MBA and other
undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience courses. Key
features * New and updated examples interspersed throughout the
chapters * Strong theoretical foundations are linked to highly
practical application * Expanded coverage of geographical
perspectives - especially from the powerful emerging economies *
Focus on the emergence of diversity as a strategic priority *
Exploration of the impact of culture on 'virtual teams' * Improved
design, layout and 'sign-posting' of content Susan C. Schneider is
Professor Emeritus of Human Resource Management at HEC University
of Geneva, Switzerland. She has been Visiting Professor at INSEAD
and ESSEC (France), NOVA University (Portugal) and Zhejiang
University (China). As well as her research into cross-cultural
management, she has actively worked to internationalise the
'mindsets' of managers and companies. Her current research focuses
on diversity and corporate responsibility. Jean-Louis Barsoux is
Senior Research Fellow at IMD, Switzerland. He is the author of
several books on culture and diversity in management, and has
written for Harvard Business Review and Financial Times. Gunter K.
Stahl is Professor of International Management at Vienna University
of Economics & Business (WU Vienna). Prior to joining WU
Vienna, he served for eight years as a faculty member at INSEAD and
held visiting appointments at Duke University's Fuqua School of
Business, the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern
University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
and Hitotsubashi University. He has published in lead ing aca demic
and practitioner-oriented journals and has designed and taught
cross-cultural management courses at the Masters, MBA, and
Executive MBA levels for universities and business schools around
the world.
A guide to AI's thorniest implications that asks: How shall we
navigate our brave new world? We are at a monumental turning point
in human history. AI is taking intelligence in new directions. The
strongest human competitors in chess, go, and Jeopardy! have been
beaten by AIs, and AI is getting more sophisticated by the day.
Further, AI research is going inside the human brain itself,
attempting to augment human minds. It may even create
greater-than-human-level intelligence, leading to a new generation
of artificial minds-Minds 2.0. Susan Schneider, a philosopher,
argues that these undertakings must not be attempted without a
richer understanding of the nature of the mind. An insufficient
grasp of the underlying philosophical issues could undermine the
use of AI and brain enhancement technology, bringing about the
demise or suffering of conscious beings. Examining the
philosophical questions lying beneath the algorithms, Schneider
takes on AI's thorniest implications.
Hailed by the Washington Post as "a sure-footed and witty guide to
slippery ethical terrain," a philosophical exploration of AI and
the future of the mind that Astronomer Royal Martin Rees calls
"profound and entertaining" Humans may not be Earth's most
intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess,
Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress
in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level
intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could
quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean
for the future of the mind? In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says
that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new
directions, but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible
path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain,
as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is
crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing
with "tools" they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind,
and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of
the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and
brain enhancement technology, bringing about the demise or
suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the
philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms. At the heart of
her exploration is a sober-minded discussion of what AI can truly
achieve: Can robots really be conscious? Can we merge with AI, as
tech leaders like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil suggest? Is the mind
just a program? Examining these thorny issues, Schneider proposes
ways we can test for machine consciousness, questions whether
consciousness is an unavoidable byproduct of sophisticated
intelligence, and considers the overall dangers of creating machine
minds.
Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and
Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that
utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a
variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues. * Uses
science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary
philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific
developments * Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain
enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of
artificial intelligence * Features numerous updates to the popular
and highly acclaimed first edition, including new chapters
addressing the cutting-edge topic of the technological singularity
* Draws on a broad range of science fiction s more familiar novels,
films, and TV series, including I, Robot, The Hunger Games, The
Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, and Brave New World * Provides a
gateway into classic philosophical puzzles and topics informed by
the latest technology
Set at first in late 19th century Eastern Europe, Fire in My Ears
by Susan Schneider is a coming-of-age tale that begins with a
beautiful young woman who makes a tragic far-reaching decision and
the result is three generations of pain, disappointing and bitter
struggle for happiness. We follow Mary as her adoring father loves
her perhaps too much, as she is nearly jilted by the handsome
Avram, and as she brazenly makes her way by train through Europe.
We continue with her across the English Channel and see her settle
in the east end of London and then travel steerage with three young
children to America. We find ourselves finally in a mid-century
American suburb amid all of Mary's damaged and miserable
descendants. Mary's story is told by her grown up granddaughter
Sarah who learned all her grandmother's lessons from nightly tales
entrusted to her when she was a nine-year-old child in their shared
bedroom. The book alternates between those stories that sometimes
delight but often terrify Sarah, and the daily events of her own
life. She listens intently for clues to understand the
mean-spirited love she observes in the three generations of her
family that gather at her house every Sunday. This is a matriarch's
tale of a haunting past, dangerous choices and terrible secrets. It
explores relationships seen through the eyes of both an old woman
and her precious grandchild. Mary's determination to save her
favorite grandchild from her own unhappy existence is perhaps her
only noble gesture and it elevates her to the heroic heights her
benighted beauty never could.
Once a lowly wedding writer, Leigh "Lucky" Quinn is thrust into
power as Your Wedding magazine's new Editor-in-Chief on the same
day that two of the magazine's major competitors fold. It's the
"Big Day" for Lucky and Your Wedding, as well as for the deposed
EIC, Grace Ralston, who has been at Your Wedding's helm from day
one, and had taken Lucky under her wing. While the formidable Grace
faces the humiliation of sudden failure and being forcibly removed
from her office (and a future that looms as emptily as an
unemployed, pre-cocktail-hour afternoon), Lucky must face the
confusion and disappointment of her new staff, especially Felice
and Sara, the Art and Fashion directors leftover from Grace's
regime. In the wake of Lucky's ascension, for better or for worse,
each woman confronts her past and deals with her hectic present in
this juicy tale about work, love, loss and the world of bridal
weddings.
A philosophical refashioning of the Language of Thought approach
and the related computational theory of mind. The language of
thought (LOT) approach to the nature of mind has been highly
influential in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind; and
yet, as Susan Schneider argues, its philosophical foundations are
weak. In this philosophical refashioning of LOT and the related
computational theory of mind (CTM), Schneider offers a different
framework than has been developed by LOT and CTM's main architect,
Jerry Fodor: one that seeks integration with neuroscience,
repudiates Fodor's pessimism about the capacity of cognitive
science to explain cognition, embraces pragmatism, and advances a
different approach to the nature of concepts, mental symbols, and
modes of presentation. According to the LOT approach, conceptual
thought is determined by the manipulation of mental symbols
according to algorithms. Schneider tackles three key problems that
have plagued the LOT approach for decades: the computational nature
of the central system (the system responsible for higher cognitive
function); the nature of symbols; and Frege cases. To address these
problems,] Schneider develops a computational theory that is based
on the Global Workspace approach; develops a theory of symbols,
"the algorithmic view"; and brings her theory of symbols to bear on
LOT's account of the causation of thought and behavior. In the
course of solving these problems, Schneider shows that LOT must
make peace with both computationalism and pragmatism; indeed, the
new conception of symbols renders LOT a pragmatist theory. And LOT
must turn its focus to cognitive and computational neuroscience for
its naturalism to succeed.
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