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'An excellent book' - Ted Honderich, Emeritus Professor of
Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London (UCL)
Introducing Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the
current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history
of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and proceeds
to scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural
mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. Along the
way, readers will be introduced to zombies and Chinese Rooms,
ghosts in machines and Erwin Schrodinger's cat.
In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory -
evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later,
his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs.
Introducing Evolution provides a step-by-step guide to 'Darwin's
dangerous idea' and takes a fresh look at the often misunderstood
concepts of natural selection and the selfish gene. Drawing on the
latest findings from genetics, ecology and animal behaviour- as
well as the work of best-selling science writers such as Richard
Dawkins and Steven Pinker- this book reveals how the evidence in
favour of evolutionary theory is stronger than ever.
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Half a century of research has resulted in machines capable of
beating the best human chess players, and humanoid robots which are
able to walk and interact with us. But how similar is this
'intelligence' to our own? Can machines really think? Is the mind
just a complicated computer program? Addressing major issues in the
design of intelligent machines, such as consciousness and
environment, and covering everything from the influential
groundwork of Alan Turing to the cutting-edge robots of today,
Introducing Artificial Intelligence is a uniquely accessible
illustrated introduction to this fascinating area of science.
Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but
authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a
uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's
most thrilling ideas. In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world
with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred
and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most
precious beliefs. Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide, on
'Darwin's dangerous idea', takes a fresh look at the often
misunderstood concepts of natural selection and the selfish gene.
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide the difficult progress from
pre-Darwinian thinking to modern genetics, and the devastatingly
important impact of one man on our fundamental understanding of
biology, life and ourselves. Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide
takes readers on a journey through this new science to the
discovery of DNA and the heart of the human gene map. In everyday
life, many of us increasingly have to make moral decisions where
genetics plays a part. This Graphic Guide gives us the information
to do so.
Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent
of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been
acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the
twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction,
existentialism and phenomenology, he stands behind all major
strands of post-structuralist and postmodern thought. Heidegger
announced the end of philosophy and of humanism, and was a
committed Nazi and vocal supporter of Hitler's National Socialism.
Was Heidegger offering a deeply conservative mythology or a crucial
deconstruction of philosophy as we have known it? "Introducing
Heidegger" provides an accessible introduction to his notoriously
abstruse thinking, mapping out its historical contexts and
exploring its resonances in ecology, theology, art, architecture,
literature and other fields. The book opens up an encounter with a
kind of thinking whose outlines might still not yet be clear, and
whose forms might still surprise us.
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