This volume identifies and addresses the wide array of ethical issues that have emerged for engineers due to the rise of a global economy. To date, there has been no systematic treatment of the partic
Indispensable for every home, library, and office, The Knowledge Book distills thousands of years of humankind’s most significant ideas and achievements? explains how they are linked and why they are important?and packs everything into a single, irresistibly readable volume. The richly illustrated pages burst with essential facts from all major fields of knowledge: science, technology, philosophy, art, religion, economics, and more.Loaded with cross-referencing, fact boxes, and other helpful features, the book is topically organized into five sections: Earth and Space; Mathematics and the Sciences; Politics and Economics; Religion, Philosophy, and Psychology; and the Arts. An introductory spread opens each section, summarizing its biggest ideas and discoveries. Time lines and fact boxes place events in the context of history, while sidebars add interesting details on processes, inventions, and artistic techniques. Famous personalities are introduced in highlighted columns. Finally, eac
Funk. It is multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology, dru
Svetlana Boym writes a new genealogy of modernity, moving beyond older debates between modernism and postmodernism to focus on the intersection of art, architecture, technology, and philosophy in the
Funk. It is multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology, dru
An interpretive guide to an internationally accepted system for quality-management philosophy, function, and assignment, this book introduces the philosophy of quality management. It provides a framew
A manifesto for transforming our thinking from reactionary short-termism to the long-term, widening our scope beyond today, tomorrow, even five years from now to gain perspective, become more creative, and reclaim meaning in our lives.Every major problem we face today, from climate change to work anxiety, is the result of short-term thinking. We are constantly bombarded by updates, notifications, and “Breaking News,” that are overwhelming our central nervous systems, forcing us to react in the moment and ultimately disconnecting us from what truly matters. But there is a solution. We must embrace what Ari Wallach, futurist and founder of Longpath Labs, calls the “longpath”―a mantra and mindset he developed to help us get beyond short-term thinking, focus on the long view, and cultivate a future-conscious mindset.Drawing on history, philosophy, theology, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and technology, Longpath reframes how we see our lives and the world. Wallach teaches us how to
Young defines his transhumanist philosophy as a belief in overcoming human limitations through reason, science, and technology. Death is an error of life, he argues, and science can correct it. After
The Athenian philosopher seems to have been consumed by the search for some hidden treasure the nature of which he was never quite clear, says Navia (philosophy, New York Institute of Technology). He
This is a revised and expanded edition of Peter Manning's classic introduction to electronic and computer music, dealing with the development of electronic and computer music from its birth to the present day. After an introductory chapter concerned with the antecedents of electronic music from the turn of the century to the Second World War, the book continues with the birth and development of the early "classical" studios of the 1950s, examined both in terms of their design philosophy and also their compositional output. A chapter devoted to the characteristics of voltage control technology leads to a study of the subsequent upsurge of creative activity, considered under three headings: tape works, live electronic music, and the early use of electronics in rock and pop music. Attention is then turned to the sphere of computer music and its evolution from the early experiments with large commercial computers to the advanced music workstations of today. This section has been significan
By examining objects that hold a prominent place in contemporary science and technology, contributors to this collection present a new direction in the philosophy of technoscience. Core concepts from
Ledwig (philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) not only defends common sense, as many philosophers have done before her, but also explores such matters as how far it generalizes, whethe
Navia (philosophy, New York Institute of Technology) begins by reviewing the enduring problem concerning the relationship between the historical Socrates and the various representations of him. Then h
A philosopher with a background in the earth sciences, Frodeman (science and technology policy, U. of Colorado) explores the philosophy of geology and how it can inform the larger field of environment
Written in clear, accessible prose, the Fourth edition of Computer Ethics brings together philosophy, law, and technology. The text provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of a broad range of t
This volume is based on The Royal Institute of Philosophy's London Lecture series for 2017–18. It consists of fourteen original papers in which leading philosophers consider key concepts in the area, including those of passion and emotion, and their intentionality, as well as love, guilt, forgiveness, desire and regret. The relationships between the passions and religious belief and to aesthetics are also analysed, alongside the ethical and psychoanalytical implications of our emotions. Connexions between the passions and our reading of fiction and our response to developments in technology are considered, as is the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Nietzsche, William James and R. G. Collingwood. This book will be an essential compendium to contemporary work in the area.
政治行動和政治制度要麼是基於政治哲學家發明的政治觀念，要麼是由於缺乏這樣的觀念。古往今來，偉大思想家通過提出回應社會問題的新觀念來回應其共同體中的危機。他們不僅過去是、現在也是才華橫溢之人，那些新的政治觀念將為他們所感受到的混亂帶來秩序。他們還給出理由來支持他們關於誰應當統治、如何統治以及為了誰的利益而統治這些問題的主張。無論亞裡士多德關於人性和宇宙的思考，聖奧古斯丁對於兩座城邦的看法，馬基雅維利的精英和大眾之分，霍布斯和洛克對自然狀態的構想，瑪麗·沃斯通克拉夫特對性別角色的批判，密爾的自由概念，馬克思對資本主義的批判，還是弗洛伊德對人類心理的刻畫，他們的觀念都帶來了改變。他們以此作為弱者的武器，用來對抗充當壓迫性政權工具的其他觀念。政治哲學的研究為我們呈現出過去的模式，我們可以通過人為的、抽象的但終究是有意義的術語（例如古代、中世紀以及現代）來考察這些模式。這些術語和相關的觀念為我們提供了新的視角，從而使得我們能夠以有助於擴大政治進步這一目標的方式去評價甚至改變當前的政府結構、組織與行為。因此，它們通過幫助我們從少數人或多數人的奴役中解放出來，提升了我們作為自由且負責任的公民採取行動的能力。本書是為幫助讀者看到政治哲學如何以種種大多數人沒有認識到的方式與人類生活的各個方面相聯繫，並旨在成為一本針對該主題的讀者友好型入門圖書。通過簡要地討論 17位主要西方政治思想家的觀點，以闡明他們關於政治和社會的觀點對於我們理解當代政治是多麼重要。--------------------系列書目《科學哲學導論》（第四版）Philosophy of Science，Fourth Edition《技術哲學導論》Philosophy of Technology《古典思想》Classical Thought《觀念的發明者》（第三版）Inventors of Ideas，Third Edition《物理學的概念》（第五版）Physics: Concepts and Connections，Fifth Edition《時間之箭，時間之環》Time’s Arrow，Time’s Cycle《現代宇宙中的空間與時間》Space and Time in the Modern Universe《牛頓傳》The Life of Isaac Newton《瓦特傳》The Life and Legend
本書介紹了從荷馬到聖奧古斯丁的大約1100年裡古典思想中一些有哲學趣味的議題，主要關注希臘哲學（也就是用希臘語表達的哲學思想）及其直系後裔。本書是為那些對希臘羅馬世界的哲學家或其文學歷史背景知之甚少或完全不知的讀者而寫的，他們或多或少會從中得到他們所期待的東西。第一章是導言，介紹了本書涉及的範圍、時期劃分、主要論題和相關研究資料。第二章到第四章並未涵蓋人們通常設想的所有那些“前蘇格拉底哲學家”，倒是涵蓋了值得早期希臘哲學初學者進一步研究的一些作者和問題。第五章到第七章用了很大篇幅來討論柏拉圖和亞裡士多德，但又試圖避免讓他們佔據主導。第八章到第十一章希望讓讀者對亞裡士多德之後哲學中的變化和延續有所瞭解。作者在本書中顯示出哲學問題意識的多樣性和複雜性，從宇宙論、自然哲學、知識論、本體論、倫理學到政治哲學和神學，無所不包，所有討論的理論都被視為對哲學的重要貢獻，讀者可以發現自己從頭到尾都被哲學問題所吸引。所以，如果毫無哲學背景的讀者被這本古代哲學史導論引向了哲學，那是一點兒也不稀奇的，或許這正是作者的初衷。--------------------系列書目《科學哲學導論》（第四版）Philosophy of Science，Fourth Edition《技術哲學導論》Philosophy of Technology《古典思想》Classical Thought《觀念的發明者》（第三版）Inventors of Ideas，Third Edition《物理學的概念》（第五版）Physics: Concepts and Connections，Fifth Edition《時間之箭，時間之環》Time’s Arrow，Time’s Cycle《現代宇宙中的空間與時間》Space and Time in the Modern Universe《牛頓傳》The Life of Isaac Newton《瓦特傳》The Life and Legend of James Watt
Barbarism represents acritique, from the perspective of Michel Henry's unique philosophy of life, ofthe increasing potential of science and technology to destroy the roots ofculture and the value of t
