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In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? How can we navigate the next uncomfortable discussion with family members, who follow completely different experts on climate?
In Third Millennium Thinking , a physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher introduce readers to the tools and frameworks that scientists use to keep from fooling themselves, to understand the world, and to make decisions. We can all borrow from these trust-building techniques that scientists have tested and developed for more than two millennia to tackle problems both big and small.
Readers will learn:
- How to gain a solid understanding of the facts that shape our modern world.
- How to navigate through a multitude of possibilities and make informed choices.
- How to collaborate effectively in tackling the challenges we encounter today.
- And much more.
Through engaging thought exercises, clear language free from technical jargon, and compelling illustrations drawn from history, everyday life, and insider stories of scientists, Third Millennium Thinking presents a fresh approach for readers to untangle the confusing and make sense of it all.
*Available for pre-order: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in
a world full of overwhelming information* __________ In our deluge
of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the
revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions
in the face of conflicting medical advice? How can we navigate the
next uncomfortable discussion with family members, who follow
completely different experts on climate? In Third Millennium
Thinking, a physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher introduce
readers to the tools and frameworks that scientists use to keep
from fooling themselves, to understand the world, and to make
decisions. We can all borrow from these trust-building techniques
that scientists have tested and developed for more than two
millennia to tackle problems both big and small. Readers will
learn: - How to gain a solid understanding of the facts that shape
our modern world - How to navigate through a multitude of
possibilities and make informed choices - How to collaborate
effectively in tackling the challenges we encounter today - And
much more Through engaging thought exercises, clear language free
from technical jargon, and compelling illustrations drawn from
history, everyday life, and insider stories of scientists, Third
Millennium Thinking presents a fresh approach for readers to
untangle the confusing and make sense of it all. __________ 'A
model of clear thinking, and a terrific discussion of how to use
logic and evidence to solve the hardest problems. This might just
be the cure for what ails us.' Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley
University Professor, Harvard University, and author of Decisions
About Decisions
Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British
Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5,
MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick'
universities and the Medical Research Council? This book reveals
that great figure: Richard Burdon Haldane. As a
philosopher-statesman, his groundbreaking proposals on defence,
education and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his
time-the very building blocks of modern Britain. His networks
ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, King to
Kaiser; he pioneered cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in
1915 Haldane was ejected from the Liberal government, unjustly
vilified as a German sympathiser. John Campbell charts these ups
and downs, reveals Haldane's intensely personal side through
previously unpublished private correspondence, and shows his
enormous relevance in our search for just societies today. Amidst
political and national instability, it is time to reinstate Haldane
as Britain's outstanding example of true statesmanship. A Sunday
Times Politics and Current Affairs Book of the Year, 2020. A
Telegraph Best Book of the Year, 2020.
A renowned philosopher argues that singular causation in the mind
is not grounded in general patterns of causation, a claim on behalf
of human distinctiveness, which has implications for the future of
social robots. A blab droid is a robot with a body shaped like a
pizza box, a pair of treads, and a smiley face. Guided by an
onboard video camera, it roams hotel lobbies and conference
centers, asking questions in the voice of a seven-year-old. “Can
you help me?†“What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?â€
“Who in the world do you love most?†People pour their hearts
out in response. This droid prompts the question of what we can
hope from social robots. Might they provide humanlike friendship?
Philosopher John Campbell doesn’t think so. He argues that, while
a social robot can remember the details of a person’s history
better than some spouses can, it cannot empathize with the human
mind, because it lacks the faculty for thinking in terms of
singular causation. Causation in Psychology makes the case that
singular causation is essential and unique to the human species.
From the point of view of practical action, knowledge of what
generally causes what is often all one needs. But humans are
capable of more. We have a capacity to imagine singular causation.
Unlike robots and nonhuman animals, we don’t have to rely on
axioms about pain to know how ongoing suffering is affecting
someone’s ability to make decisions, for example, and this
knowledge is not a derivative of general rules. The capacity to
imagine singular causation, Campbell contends, is a core element of
human freedom and of the ability to empathize with human thoughts
and feelings.
Radicalism is as American as apple pie. One can scarcely imagine
what American society would look like without the abolitionists,
feminists, union organizers, civil rights workers, gay and lesbian
activists, and environmentalists who have fought to breathe life
into the promises of freedom and equality, the lifeblood of
American democracy.
What course?s? do intimate relationships usually take? And why do
they often seem to go wrong? ?A? concise, brief guide aimed at
finding and maintaining peaceful, harmonious relationships?,
Miracle Relationships: A Path to Freedom and Joy w?i?ll help
you understand the? ?purpose ?of these relationships ?and the gifts
they? have to? offer. Understand the healing opportunities in every
relationship and the real reason we choose the partners we choose.
End the cycle of repeated painful patterns? and discover that there
is no 'failed'Â relationship.
Small Island Developing States are often depicted as being among
the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change,
and they are a cause celebre of many involved in climate science,
politics and the media. Yet while small island developing states
are much talked about, the production of both scientific knowledge
and policies to protect the rights of these nations and their
people has been remarkably slow. This book is the first to apply a
critical approach to climate change science and policy processes in
the South Pacific region. It shows how groups within politically
and scientifically powerful countries appropriate the issue of
island vulnerability in ways that do not do justice to the lives of
island people. It argues that the ways in which islands and their
inhabitants are represented in climate science and politics seldom
leads to meaningful responses to assist them to adapt to climate
change. Throughout, the authors focus on the hitherto largely
ignored social impacts of climate change, and demonstrate that
adaptation and mitigation policies cannot be effective without
understanding the social systems and values of island societies.
First published in 1900, this volume reproduces the key events of
the Ramayana and Mahabharata Indian epics. It emerged amongst
significant academic interest in Indian culture and literature.
Whilst many Indian histories had provided abstracts and full texts
of the two epics presented here, this book provided reproductions
of the main incidents and striking features of these two otherwise
imposing, lengthy works. The volume deals with each text separately
and presents several key excerpts along with a general introduction
and introductory remarks for both texts.
First published in 1900, this volume reproduces the key events of
the Ramayana and Mahabharata Indian epics. It emerged amongst
significant academic interest in Indian culture and literature.
Whilst many Indian histories had provided abstracts and full texts
of the two epics presented here, this book provided reproductions
of the main incidents and striking features of these two otherwise
imposing, lengthy works. The volume deals with each text separately
and presents several key excerpts along with a general introduction
and introductory remarks for both texts.
The most fully researched and fully revealing life of this
particular Lord Chancellor that we are ever likely to get. (David
Cannadine, London Review of Books). F.E. Smith was the most
brilliant political personality of the Edwardian era: 'the
cleverest man in the kingdom', said Beaverbrook. The youngest Lord
Chancellor since Judge Jeffreys, he engaged in some of the most
bitter political battles of the age: Ulster, trade union reform,
the House of Lords. He emerges from this masterly biography as a
massively compelling figure. A triumph of scholarship, judgement,
lucidity and art...Like its subject John Campbell's book is
leisurely, feline, and very, very clever. (Roy Foster, Guardian). A
model biography. (A.J.P. Taylor, Observer). A joy...800 pages of
trenchant and often vivid prose. (The Times).
Lloyd George fell from power in October 1922, never to hold
office again. As a result he has tended to be written out of the
politics of the 1920s. But John Campbell (in this, his first book,
published in 1977) argues that Lloyd George remained the central
figure on the political stage until 1931: his 'spectre haunted the
Cabinet Room of his successors like Banquo's ghost.' He worked with
Keynes and others to find a remedy for mass unemployment; but the
two-party trap was closing on the Liberals, and a great career was
doomed to end in frustration and disappointment.
'A vivid and sympathetic picture of the greatest British
politician of the twentieth] century. It throws a new light on the
politics of the 1920s, and in particular on the internal politics
of the Liberal Party.' David Marquand, "TLS"
'No praise could be too high for this book.' John Grigg,
"Spectator."
Can you name the creator of the Territorial Army and the British
Expeditionary Force? The man who laid the foundation stones of MI5,
MI6, the RAF, the LSE, Imperial College, the 'redbrick'
universities and the Medical Research Council? This book reveals
that great figure: Richard Burdon Haldane. As a
philosopher-statesman, his groundbreaking proposals on defence,
education and government structure were astonishingly ahead of his
time-the very building blocks of modern Britain. His networks
ranged from Wilde to Einstein, Churchill to Carnegie, King to
Kaiser; he pioneered cross-party, cross-sector cooperation. Yet in
1915 Haldane was ejected from the Liberal government, unjustly
vilified as a German sympathiser. John Campbell charts these ups
and downs, reveals Haldane's intensely personal side through
previously unpublished private correspondence, and shows his
enormous relevance in our search for just societies today. Amidst
political and national instability, it is time to reinstate Haldane
as Britain's outstanding example of true statesmanship. A Sunday
Times Politics and Current Affairs Book of the Year, 2020. A
Telegraph Best Book of the Year, 2020.
This collection presents papers on the science, engineering, and
technology of shape castings, with contributions from researchers
worldwide. Among the topics that are addressed are
structure-property-performance relationships, modeling of casting
processes, and the effect of casting defects on the mechanical
properties of cast alloys.
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Intelligent Computer Mathematics - 11th International Conference, AISC 2012, 19th Symposium, Calculemus 2012, 5th International Workshop, DML 2012, 11th International Conference, MKM 2012, Systems and Projects, Held as Part of CICM 2012, Bremen, Germany, July 8-13, 2012, Proceedings (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Johan Jeuring, John Campbell, Jacques Carette, Gabriel Dos Reis, Petr Sojka, …
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This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 11th
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic
Computation, AISC 2012, 19th Symposium on the Integration of
Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, Calculemus 2012, 5th
International Workshop on Digital Mathematics Libraries, DML 2012,
11th International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management,
MKM 2012, Systems and Projects, held in Bremen, Germany as CICM
2012, the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics. The 13
revised full papers out of 19 submissions for MKM 2012, 6 revised
full papers out of 9 submissions for Calculemus 2012, 6 revised
full papers out of 8 submissions for AISC 2012, 2 revised full
papers out of 3 submissions for DML 2012, and 11 revised full
papers out of 12 submissions for Systems and Project track
presented were carefully reviewed and selected, resulting in 38
papers from a total of 52 submissions.
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Intelligent Computer Mathematics - 9th International Conference, AISC 2008 15th Symposium, Calculemus 2008 7th International Conference, MKM 2008 Birmingham, UK, July 28 - August 1, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Serge Autexier, John Campbell, Julio Rubio, Volker Sorge, Masakazu Suzuki, …
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This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 9th
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic
Computation, AISC 2008, the 15th Symposium on the Integration of
Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, Calculemus 2008, and
the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge
Management, MKM 2008, held in Birmingham, UK, in July/August as
CICM 2008, the Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics.
The 14 revised full papers for AISC 2008, 10 revised full papers
for Calculemus 2008, and 18 revised full papers for MKM 2008, plus
5 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from a total
of 81 submissions for a joint presentation in the book. The papers
cover different aspects of traditional branches in CS such as
computer algebra, theorem proving, and artificial intelligence in
general, as well as newly emerging ones such as user interfaces,
knowledge management, and theory exploration, thus facilitating the
development of integrated mechanized mathematical assistants that
will be routinely used by mathematicians, computer scientists, and
engineers in their every-day business.
Small Island Developing States are often depicted as being among
the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change,
and they are a cause c l bre of many involved in climate science,
politics and the media. Yet while small island developing states
are much talked about, the production of both scientific knowledge
and policies to protect the rights of these nations and their
people has been remarkably slow.This book is the first to apply a
critical approach to climate change science and policy processes in
the South Pacific region. It shows how groups within politically
and scientifically powerful countries appropriate the issue of
island vulnerability in ways that do not do justice to the lives of
island people. It argues that the ways in which islands and their
inhabitants are represented in climate science and politics seldom
leads to meaningful responses to assist them to adapt to climate
change. Throughout, the authors focus on the hitherto largely
ignored social impacts of climate change, and demonstrate that
adaptation and mitigation policies cannot be effective without
understanding the social systems and values of island societies.
Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive
audience for participatory and qualitative research methods by
policy makers, development practitioners and academics working in
applied research. At the same time there is an increasing awareness
that the value of research can be enhanced through a more
systematic combination of quantitative and qualitative methods.
While this recent interest has begun to provide useful pointers as
to how development research might be improved, it has also given
rise to certain problems.This book will draw together lessons about
emerging best practice with regard to combining qualitative and
quantitative methods and approaches to generate numbers from
qualitative/participatory methods and to monitor and evaluation
development processes. It will build and expand upon innovation and
reflection from practice in developing and developed societies,
from within development agencies and academia, government
departments and civil society organizations.By drawing on current
research in many sectors and countries, the book will situate
current development research issues squarely within debates about
development policy and social research and it will help begin the
process of defining best practice in the use of participatory/
qualitative and quantitative methods, and issues of methodological
triangulation which are of considerable interest to academics,
practitioners and policy-makers."
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