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David Lee Thompson has produced a caring and introspective personal
account of the vanishing Appalachian culture. This way of life
existed for over twelve generations, teaching its people the
importance of family, community, and religion. Thompson s old home
place, now empty and lonely, holds faint whispers of what was once
alive with laughter and reminiscences. His boyhood memories of life
on Bowen Creek represent the last vestiges of a time and place now
nearly extinct.
This book offers an introduction to and overview of Dennett's
ideas, his writings and his contributions to the various fields of
philosophy. Daniel Dennett is one of America's most important and
influential contemporary philosophers. He has made considerable
contributions to the philosophy of mind and to evolutionary
thought. While he has clarified his ideas considerably, his
fundamental philosophical approach has remained largely unchanged
throughout his career. This book offers an introduction to
Dennett's ideas, his key writings and his contributions to the
various fields of philosophy. Thematically organised, the book
presents a consistent and accessible philosophy. David L. Thompson
examines philosophical problems in consciousness, self, religion,
ethics, evolution, freedom and ontology and provides a clear
account of how Dennett resolves these issues. Thompson explores the
twentieth-century stand-off between the scientific worldview, on
the one hand, and ethics, freedom and human dignity on the other.
Ultimately he presents Dennett's work as reconciling these two
approaches. The book covers all Dennett's key texts and presents a
number of Dennett's often brilliant thought experiments. This is
the ideal companion to study of this hugely influential thinker.
"The Continuum Contemporary American Thinkers" series offers
concise and accessible introductions to the most important and
influential thinkers at work in philosophy today. Designed
specifically to meet the needs of students and readers encountering
these thinkers for the first time, these informative books provide
a coherent overview and analysis of each thinker's vital
contribution to the field of philosophy. The series is the ideal
companion to the study of these most inspiring and challenging of
thinkers.
It's 1963, a year that had an impact on the cultural, political and
religious beliefs of people locally, nationally and
internationally. As the minutes tick into the early hours of a new
year, Sebastian Crawley is unaware that his life is about to change
forever. Sebastian is a market trader living in a slum clearance
area of South Shields, in the north east of England. By his own
admission, life is comfortably boring. His responses to a new love
and personal tragedy forces him to react against a changing world.
His principles and beliefs are compromised by a series of unfolding
events which result in an unlikely alliance with the Sand Dancers,
a local crime brotherhood. His fight to find out who he really is
leads Sebastian to a violent confrontation with a policeman, who
happens to be his mother's former partner.
When Councillor Macauley Chrisp hears of a local museum's closing,
he buys an old brass machine from it and hires a young woman
studying engineering to reconstruct it. The machine, named Ada,
after Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace, soon provides some
astounding information which requires the help of computer expert
Kate, and elderly historian Raymond, to piece together the
machine's history. Ada produces stunning data which indicates that
a new 'messiah' was born in the north east of England in 1997. The
team set out to discover who it is. How Ada should be used
underlines the moral differences within the group and fractures
their working relationship, with tragic results. Because of Ada,
past world events will have to be redrawn. The future is at stake.
Eventually, when the machine has to pass the Turing Test to prove
itself to the scientific world, its public debut doesn't go to
plan.
David Lee Thompson has produced a caring and introspective personal
account of the vanishing Appalachian culture. This way of life
existed for over twelve generations, teaching its people the
importance of family, community, and religion. Thompson s old home
place, now empty and lonely, holds faint whispers of what was once
alive with laughter and reminiscences. His boyhood memories of life
on Bowen Creek represent the last vestiges of a time and place now
nearly extinct.
This book offers an introduction to and overview of Dennett's
ideas, his writings and his contributions to the various fields of
philosophy. Daniel Dennett is one of America's most important and
influential contemporary philosophers. He has made considerable
contributions to the philosophy of mind and to evolutionary
thought. While he has clarified his ideas considerably, his
fundamental philosophical approach has remained largely unchanged
throughout his career. This book offers an introduction to
Dennett's ideas, his key writings and his contributions to the
various fields of philosophy. Thematically organised, the book
presents a consistent and accessible philosophy. David L. Thompson
examines philosophical problems in consciousness, self, religion,
ethics, evolution, freedom and ontology and provides a clear
account of how Dennett resolves these issues. Thompson explores the
twentieth-century stand-off between the scientific worldview, on
the one hand, and ethics, freedom and human dignity on the other.
Ultimately he presents Dennett's work as reconciling these two
approaches. The book covers all Dennett's key texts and presents a
number of Dennett's often brilliant thought experiments. This is
the ideal companion to study of this hugely influential thinker.
"The Continuum Contemporary American Thinkers" series offers
concise and accessible introductions to the most important and
influential thinkers at work in philosophy today. Designed
specifically to meet the needs of students and readers encountering
these thinkers for the first time, these informative books provide
a coherent overview and analysis of each thinker's vital
contribution to the field of philosophy. The series is the ideal
companion to the study of these most inspiring and challenging of
thinkers.
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