Автор: Parfit Derek Название: On What Matters ISBN: 0198778600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198778608 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 49410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences.
An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves.
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own thought processes.
Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve; perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense; different levels of infinity; the bizarre world of the quantum; the relevance of relativity theory; the causes of chaos theory; math problems that cannot be solved by normal means; and statements that are true but cannot be proven. He explains the limitations of our intuitions about the world -- our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known.
Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.
Автор: What Should We Do With Our Brain? Название: What Should We Do With Our Brain? ISBN: 082322953X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823229536 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 26300.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized “plasticity,” the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings. Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of talking about the brain mirrors the management discourse of the neo-liberal capitalist world in which we now live, with its talk of decentralization, networks, and flexibility. Consciously or unconsciously, science cannot but echo the world in which it takes place. In the neo-liberal world, “plasticity” can be equated with “flexibility”—a term that has become a buzzword in economics and management theory. The plastic brain would thus represent just another style of power, which, although less centralized, is still a means of control. In this book, Catherine Malabou develops a second, more radical meaning for plasticity. Not only does plasticity allow our brains to adapt to existing circumstances, it opens a margin of freedom to intervene, to change those very circumstances. Such an understanding opens up a newly transformative aspect of the neurosciences. In insisting on this proximity between the neurosciences and the social sciences, Malabou applies to the brain Marx’s well-known phrase about history: people make their own brains, but they do not know it. This book is a summons to such knowledge.
Автор: Nagel, Thomas Название: What does it all mean? ISBN: 0195174372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195174373 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 68970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student.
Автор: Edmonds David Название: Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong ISBN: 0691165637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691165639 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the best-selling Wittgenstein`s Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with the ethical dilemma posed by the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy.
Автор: Coady David Название: What to Believe Now ISBN: 1405199946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405199940 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: What can we know and what should we believe about today`s world? What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues applies the concerns and techniques of epistemology to a wide variety of contemporary issues.
Автор: Susan Sugarman Название: What Freud Really Meant ISBN: 1107116392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107116399 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 80250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: By tracking the development of Freud`s thought, Susan Sugarman reconstructs his theory as a fascinating and organic system that evokes mental life as we live it. This book will appeal to both specialists and students of Freud, who will appreciate an exciting new interpretation of familiar material.
Автор: Schmidtz David, Willott Elizabeth Название: Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works ISBN: 0199793514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199793518 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 78130.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Extensively revised and expanded in this second edition, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works examines morality from an environmental perspective. Featuring seventy-one accessible selections-from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research-it addresses both theory and practice. Asking what really matters, the first section of the book explores the abstract ideas of human value and value in nature. The secondsection turns to the question of what it would take to solve our real-world environmental problems. This second edition features new chapters on climate change, urban management issues, and technology (Chapters 12-14) and twenty-nine new readings, including two selections that were custom-written for thisanthology.
Автор: R. Bertolet Название: What is Said ISBN: 9401074259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401074254 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 158340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: `" Another, an oratio obliqua or indirect speech report, consists in the response `He said that he wants us to write a paper reconciling . Since `says` is construable in these various ways, it is at best unhelpful to write something like `Alice said "Your paper is two days late", thereby saying that Tom`s paper was two days late.
Автор: M. Ruse Название: What the Philosophy of Biology Is ISBN: 9401070202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401070201 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 81050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: It is now twenty years since Hull fnt gave his seminal paper `What the philosophy of biology is not`, and to mark that point and to show our respect, gratitude and affection to its author, a number of us who owe much to Hull decided to produce a volume of essays on and around themes to which Hull has spoken.
Автор: Suikkanen Название: Essays on Derek Parfit`s On What Matters ISBN: 140519698X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405196987 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 21390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Essays on Derek Parfit`s On What Matters, seven leading moral philosophers offer critical evaluations of the central ideas presented in a greatly anticipated new work by world-renowned moral philosopher Derek Parfit.
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