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Animals in our midst : the challenges of co-existing with animals in the anth…
This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offe…
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- 1
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- 9783030635237
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- xv, 579p.; ill.
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- The international library of environmental, agricultural and food ethics
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- 179.3 ANI b
Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future : An Ecosystem Perspective on the…
This open access book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster medical diagnoses, improved business processes and efficiency, and the automation of boring work. But undesirable and ethically problematic consequences are possible too: biases and discrimination, breaches of privacy and security, and societal distortions such as…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030699789
- Collation
- 124 p
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance,
- Call Number
- 174.90063 STA
Hesychasm and Art : The Appearance of New Iconographic Trends in Byzantine an…
“Although many of the iconographic traditions in Byzantine art formed in the early centuries of Christianity, they were not petrified within a time warp. Subtle changes and refinements in Byzantine theology did find reflection in changes to the iconographic and stylistic conventions of Byzantine art. This is a brilliant and innovative book in which Dr Anita Strezova argues that a religious…
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- 9781925021851
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- -
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- 759.022.STR
The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies
The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. The articles in this collection take up a tension between the wide political use of human rights claims…
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- -
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- 9783110263886
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- vi, 253 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 323.01 GER t
Latour for architects
Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories ‘flourished’ in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding of the social. In the past decade, Latour and his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have gained popularity among researc…
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- 1
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- 9780429328510
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- xiv + 141 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 720.1 YAN l
Extimate technology : self-formation in a technological world
This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood. New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological environments, imaging technologies and smart drugs, are increasingly shaping who and what we are and influencing who we ought to be. How should we adequately understand, evaluate an…
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- -
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- 9781003139409
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- xii + 343 p
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- -
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- 303.48301 AYD e
The philosophy and psychology of commitment
The phenomenon of commitment is a cornerstone of human social life. Commitments make individuals’ behavior predictable, thereby facilitating the planning and coordination of joint actions involving multiple agents. Moreover, commitments make people willing to rely upon each other, and thereby contribute to sustaining characteristically human social institutions such as jobs, money, government…
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- -
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- 9781315111308
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- viii + 101 p
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- -
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- 158 MIC p
Publishing Sacrobosco's "De sphaera" in early modern Europe : modes of materi…
This open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783030866006
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- XIV, 492
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- -
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- 523.1 Pub
Debating humanity : towards a philosophical sociology
Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger in the 1940s and then re-assesses the implicit and expli…
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- -
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- 9781316416303
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- -
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- -
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- 128 DAN d
Abrahamic reflections on randomness and providence
This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or is responsible for everything that happens. However, scientific advances since the 19th century pose serious challenges to traditional views of providence. From Darwinian evolut…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030757977
- Collation
- xiv + 384
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 231.5 ABR a
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