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Meditation - Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications (Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality)
Meditation - Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications (Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality)

This volume features a collection of essays on consciousness, which has become one of the hot topics at the crossroads between neuroscience, philosophy, and religious studies. Is consciousness something the brain produces? How can we study it? Is there just one type of consciousness or are there different states that can be discriminated? Are...

Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment)
Intervening in the Brain: Changing Psyche and Society (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment)

The wealth of insights into the brain’s functioning gained by neuroscience in recent years led to the development of new possibilities for intervening in the brain such as neurotransplantation, neural prostheses and brain stimulation techniques. Moreover, new and safer classes of psychopharmaceutical drugs lend themselves to...

Chances Are: Adventures in Probability
Chances Are: Adventures in Probability
A layman’s journey into the realm of probability—from poker to politics, weather to war, Monte Carlo to mortality

We search for certainty, but find only likelihood. All things are possible, only one thing actually happens; everything else is in the realm of probability. The twin disciplines of
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Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future
Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future
Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: what does it mean to be 'human' in the 21st century? As definitions between what is 'animal' and what is 'human' break down, and as emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and nano- and bio- technologies develop, accepted...
Towards a Posthuman Theory of Educational Relationality (New Directions in the Philosophy of Education)
Towards a Posthuman Theory of Educational Relationality (New Directions in the Philosophy of Education)

Towards a Posthuman Theory of Educational Relationality critically reads the intersubjective theories on educational relations and uses a posthuman approach to ascribe agency relationally to humans and nonhumans alike. The book introduces the concept of ‘educational relationality’ and contains examples of...

On Law and Reason (Law and Philosophy Library)
On Law and Reason (Law and Philosophy Library)
This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.

These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly indicate what On Law and Reason is about. It is a theory about the nature of the law which emphasises the role of reason in the law and...

Knowledge Management and E-Learning
Knowledge Management and E-Learning

This work embraces two heretofore distinct fields of study, knowledge management and e-learning. In order to understand the impetus to link these two fields by a common thread, it is necessary to understand the two fields and the focus of each.

Knowledge management (KM) has developed as a field from its roots in data and...

Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic
Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic
This book represents a new departure in science studies: an analysis of a scientific style of writing, situating it within the context of the contemporary style of literature. Its philosophical significance is that it provides a novel way of making sense of the notion of a scientific style. For the first time, the Hellenistic mathematical corpus -...
Ignorant Cognition: A Philosophical Investigation of the Cognitive Features of Not-Knowing (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics)
Ignorant Cognition: A Philosophical Investigation of the Cognitive Features of Not-Knowing (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics)

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical investigation of ignorance. Using a set of cognitive tools and models, it discusses features that can describe a state of ignorance if linked to a particular type of cognition affecting the agent’s social behavior, belief system, and inferential capacity. The author defines...

The Philosophy of Creative Solitudes
The Philosophy of Creative Solitudes

What is solitude, why do we crave and fear it, and how do we distinguish it properly from loneliness? It lies at the core of the lives of philosophers and their self-reflective contemplations, and it is the enabling (and disabling) condition that allows us to seriously question how to live creatively and meaningfully.

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Talking to Strangers
Talking to Strangers

Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker Prize–finalist Paul Auster.

Beginning with a short philosophical meditation written when he was twenty and
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The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses: Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity (Themes in Biblical Narrative)
The Revelation of the Name YHWH to Moses: Perspectives from Judaism, the Pagan Graeco-Roman World, and Early Christianity (Themes in Biblical Narrative)
The revelation of YHWH's name to Moses is a momentous event according to the Old Testament. The name `Yahweh' is of central importance in Judaism, and `Yahwism' became tantamount to Jewish monotheism. As such, this designation of God also attracted the attention of pagan writers in the Graeco-Roman period. And early Christians had to deal...
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