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In this book, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether
or not we should choose to live forever. This ancient question is
as topical as ever: while billions of people believe they will live
forever in an otherworldly realm, billions of dollars are currently
being poured into anti-ageing research in the hope that we will be
able to radically extend our lives on earth. But are we wise to
wish for immortality? What would it mean for each of us as
individuals, for society, and for the planet? In this lively and
accessible debate, the authors introduce the main arguments for and
against living forever, along with some new ones. They draw on
examples from myth and literature as well as new thought
experiments in order to bring the arguments to life. Cave contends
that the aspiring immortalist is stuck on the horns of a series of
dilemmas, such as boredom and meaninglessness, or overpopulation
and social injustice. Fischer argues that there is a vision of
radically longer lives that is both recognizably human and
desirable. This book offers both students and experienced
philosophers a provocative new guide to a topic of perennial
importance. Key Features Gives a comprehensive overview of the main
arguments for and against living forever. Uses lively examples from
myth, literature, and novel thought experiments. Highly accessible
- avoiding jargon and assuming no prior knowledge - without
sacrificing intellectual rigor. Includes helpful pedagogical
features, including chapter summaries, an annotated reading list, a
glossary, and clear examples.
In this book, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether
or not we should choose to live forever. This ancient question is
as topical as ever: while billions of people believe they will live
forever in an otherworldly realm, billions of dollars are currently
being poured into anti-ageing research in the hope that we will be
able to radically extend our lives on earth. But are we wise to
wish for immortality? What would it mean for each of us as
individuals, for society, and for the planet? In this lively and
accessible debate, the authors introduce the main arguments for and
against living forever, along with some new ones. They draw on
examples from myth and literature as well as new thought
experiments in order to bring the arguments to life. Cave contends
that the aspiring immortalist is stuck on the horns of a series of
dilemmas, such as boredom and meaninglessness, or overpopulation
and social injustice. Fischer argues that there is a vision of
radically longer lives that is both recognizably human and
desirable. This book offers both students and experienced
philosophers a provocative new guide to a topic of perennial
importance. Key Features Gives a comprehensive overview of the main
arguments for and against living forever. Uses lively examples from
myth, literature, and novel thought experiments. Highly accessible
- avoiding jargon and assuming no prior knowledge - without
sacrificing intellectual rigor. Includes helpful pedagogical
features, including chapter summaries, an annotated reading list, a
glossary, and clear examples.
Work Process Knowledge brings together the findings of twenty-four
leading researchers on new forms of work and the demands these
place on workers' knowledge and skill. Their findings, based on a
new set of investigations in a wide range of manufacturing and
service industries, identify the kinds of knowledge required to
work effectively in the post-Taylorist industrial organization.
Raising fundamental issues for current industrial policy, science
and technology policy, and ways of managing the post-Taylorist
organization and developing human resources, this book will be of
essential interest to academics and professionals working in the
fields of management, human resource development, and workplace
learning.
Work Process Knowledge brings together the findings of twenty-four leading researchers on new forms of work and the demands these place on workers' knowledge and skill. Their findings, based on a new set of investigations in a wide range of manufacturing and service industries, identify the kinds of knowledge required to work effectively in the post-Taylorist industrial organization. Raising fundamental issues for current industrial policy, science and technology policy, and ways of managing the post-Taylorist organization and developing human resources, this book will be of essential interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of management, human resource development, and workplace learning. eBook available with sample pages: 0203219694
Over the last three decades there has been a tremendous amount of
philosophical work in the Anglo-American tradition on the cluster
of topics pertaining to Free Will. Of course, this work has in many
instances built on and extended the historical treatments of this
great area of philosophical interest. The issues range from fairly
abstract philosophical questions about the logic of arguments about
human freedom (and its relationship to prior predictability of our
choices and actions, or God's foreknowledge, or causal determinism
and scientific explanation) to more concrete practical questions
about legal and criminal accountability.
The contemporary work has in some instances been in the form of
lively debates between proponents of different viewpoints, and the
literature is characterized by a genuine vitality. Work has
appeared in a wide variety of different places: academic and (and
even trade) monographs, anthologies, philosophical and legal
academic journals, and conference proceedings. This collection
selects the very best of this material and presents it in a single,
accessible set of volumes.
This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as
opposed to the moral issues pertaining to death. For example, the
authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes
death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death "is" a bad
thing. This issue is more basic and abstract than such moral
questions as the particular conditions under which euthanasia is
justified, if it "is" ever justified.
Though there are important connections between the more abstract
questions addressed in this book and many contemporary moral
issues, such as euthanasia, suicide, and abortion, the primary
focus of this book is on metaphysical issues concerning the nature
of death: What is the nature of the harm or bad involved in death?
(If it is not pain, wha is it, and how can it be bad?) Who is the
subject of the harm or bad? (if the person is no longer alive, how
can he be the subject of the bad? An if he is not the subject, who
is? Can one have harm with no subject?) When does the harm take
place? (Can a harm take place after its subject ceases to exist? If
death harms a person, can the harm take place before the death
occurs?) If death can be a bad thing, would immorality be a
desirable alternative? This family of questions helps to fram ethe
puzzle of why--and how--death is bad.
Other subjects addressed include the Epicurean view othat death is
not a misfortune (for the person who dies); the nature of
misfortune and benefit; the meaningulness and value of life; and
the distinction between the life of a person and the life of a
living creature who is not a person. There is an extensive
bibiography that includes science-fiction treatments of death and
immorality.
This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the
multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition. With contributions
from internationally acknowledged researchers from a variety of
fields, Foundations of Embodied Cognition reveals how intelligent
behaviour emerges from the interplay between brain, body and
environment. Drawing on the most recent theoretical and empirical
findings in embodied cognition, Volume 2 Conceptual and Interactive
Embodiment is divided into four distinct parts, bringing together a
number of influential perspectives and new ideas. Part one
introduces the field of embodied language processing, before part
two presents recent developments in our understanding of embodied
conceptual understanding. The final two parts look at the applied
nature of embodied cognition, exploring the embodied nature of
social co-ordination as well as the emerging field of artificial
embodiment. Building on the idea that knowledge acquisition,
retention and retrieval are intimately interconnected with sensory
and motor processes, Foundations of Embodied Cognition is a
landmark publication in the field. It will be of great interest to
researchers and advanced students from across the cognitive
sciences, including those specialising in psychology, neuroscience,
intelligent systems and robotics, philosophy, linguistics and
anthropology.
This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the
multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition. With contributions
from internationally acknowledged researchers from a variety of
fields, Foundations of Embodied Cognition reveals how intelligent
behaviour emerges from the interplay between brain, body and
environment. Drawing on the most recent theoretical and empirical
findings in embodied cognition, Volume 2 Conceptual and Interactive
Embodiment is divided into four distinct parts, bringing together a
number of influential perspectives and new ideas. Part one
introduces the field of embodied language processing, before part
two presents recent developments in our understanding of embodied
conceptual understanding. The final two parts look at the applied
nature of embodied cognition, exploring the embodied nature of
social co-ordination as well as the emerging field of artificial
embodiment. Building on the idea that knowledge acquisition,
retention and retrieval are intimately interconnected with sensory
and motor processes, Foundations of Embodied Cognition is a
landmark publication in the field. It will be of great interest to
researchers and advanced students from across the cognitive
sciences, including those specialising in psychology, neuroscience,
intelligent systems and robotics, philosophy, linguistics and
anthropology.
This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as
opposed to the moral issues pertaining to death. For example, the
authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes
death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death "is" a bad
thing. This issue is more basic and abstract than such moral
questions as the particular conditions under which euthanasia is
justified, if it "is" ever justified.
Though there are important connections between the more abstract
questions addressed in this book and many contemporary moral
issues, such as euthanasia, suicide, and abortion, the primary
focus of this book is on metaphysical issues concerning the nature
of death: What is the nature of the harm or bad involved in death?
(If it is not pain, wha is it, and how can it be bad?) Who is the
subject of the harm or bad? (if the person is no longer alive, how
can he be the subject of the bad? An if he is not the subject, who
is? Can one have harm with no subject?) When does the harm take
place? (Can a harm take place after its subject ceases to exist? If
death harms a person, can the harm take place before the death
occurs?) If death can be a bad thing, would immorality be a
desirable alternative? This family of questions helps to fram ethe
puzzle of why--and how--death is bad.
Other subjects addressed include the Epicurean view othat death is
not a misfortune (for the person who dies); the nature of
misfortune and benefit; the meaningulness and value of life; and
the distinction between the life of a person and the life of a
living creature who is not a person. There is an extensive
bibiography that includes science-fiction treatments of death and
immorality.
Winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by the
Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books.
Poverty has become the central focus of global development efforts,
with a vast body of research and funding dedicated to its
alleviation. And yet, the field of poverty studies remains deeply
ideological and has been used to justify wealth and power within
the prevailing world order. Andrew Martin Fischer clarifies this
deeply political character, from conceptions and measures of
poverty through to their application as policies. Poverty as
Ideology shows how our dominant approaches to poverty studies have,
in fact, served to reinforce the prevailing neoliberal ideology
while neglecting the wider interests of social justice that are
fundamental to creating more equitable societies. Instead, our
development policies have created a 'poverty industry' that
obscures the dynamic reproductions of poverty within contemporary
capitalist development and promotes segregation in the name of
science and charity. Fischer argues that an effective and lasting
solution to global poverty requires us to reorient our efforts away
from current fixations on productivity and towards more equitable
distributions of wealth and resources. This provocative work offers
a radical new approach to understanding poverty based on a
comprehensive and accessible critique of key concepts and research
methods. It upends much of the received wisdom to provide an
invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers across
the social sciences.
Wahrheitstheorien sind ein zentraler Bestandteil von Davidsons
semantischem Programm zur Erklarung von Interpretation.
Deflationare Wahrheitskonzeptionen hingegen schreiben dem
Wahrheitspradikat eine minimale explanatorische Funktion zu. Die
Frage der Vereinbarkeit dieser beiden Positionen bildet den Kern
dieser Untersuchung. Eine Antwort wird durch eine kritische
Auseinandersetzung mit Unvereinbarkeitsargumenten und durch eine
systematische Betrachtung der Funktion eines deflationaren
Wahrheitspradikats anhand von axiomatischen Wahrheitstheorien
gegeben. Letztlich wird dafur argumentiert, dass nichts gegen die
fruchtbare Anwendbarkeit einer deflationaren Wahrheitstheorie
innerhalb von Davidsons semantischem Programm spricht."
Von der Krise der dualen Berufsausbildung ist allenthalben die
Rede. Deutlich wird mindestens, dass die Kernelemente des dualen
Systems - die betriebliche Ausbildung und das Lernen an der
Berufsschule - eher durch ein Nebeneinander als durch ein
dialogisches Verhaltnis gekennzeichnet sind, so dass in Frage
steht, wie Auszubildende betriebliche Erfahrung und schulische
Wissensvermittlung miteinander verbinden konnen. Als Medium der
Verknupfung wird der begriff des "Arbeitsprozesswissens"
vorgeschlagen und anhand empirischer Untersuchungsergebnisse
erlautert. Konzepte einer am beruflichen Arbeitsprozesswissen
orientierten Ausbildung werden unterbreitet und
Umsetzungsmoglichkeiten im Rahmen schulischer
Organisationsentwicklung erortert. Die Aneignung von
Arbeitsprozesswissen ist jedoch nicht nur eine Frage schulischen
Lernens. Auch das Lernen im Arbeitsprozess gilt es zu ermoglichen
und zu unterstutzen. Moglichkeiten hierfur werden aufgewiesen."
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What's with Free Will? (Hardcover)
Philip Clayton, James W. Walters; Foreword by John Martin Fischer
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