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Happiness and utility : essays presented to Frederick Rosen
Happiness and Utility brings together experts on utilitarianism to explore the concept of happiness within the utilitarian tradition, situating it in earlier eighteenth-century thinkers and working through some of its developments at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Drawing on a range of philosophical and historical approaches to the study of the central idea …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787350489
- Collation
- xiv, 334 p.
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- 171.5 HAP G
ANTHROPOCENE CHILDHOODS : speculative fiction, racialization, and climate crisis
This open access book brings together the disciplines of childhood studies, literary studies, and the environmental humanities to focus on the figure of the child as it appears in popular culture and theory. Drawing on theoretical works by Clare Colebrook, Elizabeth Povinelli, Kathryn Yusoff, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the book offers creative readings of sci-fi novels, short stories and fi…
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- 2
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- 9781350262409
- Collation
- ix, 208p.; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 372.21 ANT a
Gender and Migration : IMISCOE Short Reader
This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides…
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- 9783030919719
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- vi, 123 p.
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- 304.82 GEN A
John Dewey : The Global Public and its Problems
"This book argues that John Dewey should be read as a philosopher of globalization rather than as a 'local' American philosopher. Although Dewey's political philosophy was rooted in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, it was more importantly about the role of America in a globalized world. In returning to, and recovering the neglected global dimensions of Dewey's political phil…
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- 9781526101020
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- xii, 192 p.
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- 320.01 JOH J
The Spectacle 2.0 : Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism
Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour…
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- 9781911534464
- Collation
- xi, 252 p.
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- 303.484 SPE E
The psychosocial reality of digital travel : being in virtual places
When physical travel to a specific place is prohibited or otherwise difficult or impossible, digital travel provides a promising alternative. The technology to do this is now widely available and many people have the possibility to meet with others digitally, and thus alleviate the social effects of physical isolation. Digital travel can also be source of pleasure and entertainment, and man…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030912727
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- xi, 152 p. ill;
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- 302.231 PSY I
Newton's third rule and the experimental argument for universal gravity
This book provides a reading of Newton’s argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton associates with his program of experimental philosophy. It highlights the richness and complexity of the Principia and also draws important lessons about how to situate Newton in his natural philosophical context. The book has two primary objectiv…
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- 11
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- 9781000449419
- Collation
- ix; 116p;
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- 531.14 NEW M
The World We Want to Live in : Compendium of Digitalisation, Digital Networks…
Digitalisation, digital networks, and artificial intelligence are fundamentally changing our lives! We must understand the various developments and assess how they interact and how they affect our regular, analogue lives. What are the consequences of such changes for me personally and for our society? Digital networks and artificial intelligence are seminal innovations that are going to permeat…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783832553654
- Collation
- 295p.
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- 004 WOR s
Digital disruption in teaching and testing : assessments, big data, and the t…
This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and industry-informed discussions and analyses on the place of big data in education, particularly as it pertai…
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- 8
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780367493356
- Collation
- xxvi, 248p.
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- 371.334 DIG w
Immigration justice
Immigration Justice is the culmination of over seven years of work that began in the fall of 2005, when I wrote a short paper examining the global egalitarian potential of “open borders.” Judging that paper to be inadequate by itself for defending the central thought underlying my views on the justice of states’ immigrant admissions policies, I resolved to continu…
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- edition 17
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780748670277
- Collation
- vi. ;281 p. ill.
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- -
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- 325.1. IMM p
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