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Book SynopsisIn-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is an anthology comprising contributions from a group of social scientists all preoccupied with the possibilities and potentials of working ethnographically. The chapters of the book investigates a range of small everyday life ‘cracks’ – a notion covering unnoticed, withdrawn and overlooked phenomena alike, and which designate the metaphorical interstices and in-betweens that influence and affect most aspects of everyday experience, the comprehensive field also subject to ethnographic inquiry. The chapters in the anthology are all based on original fieldwork and explore different cracks occurring in-between humans as well as in-between humans and non-human entities.A distinct element of the book as a whole is that it comprises experiments in terms of both ethnographic writing approaches as well as with the construction of analytical objects. The argument consistently going through the separate chapters, as well as through the volume in entirety, is that the many wondrous, mysterious, odd and puzzling phenomena encountered in everyday life are not necessarily grasped best by the application of strictly rational and rigorous academic approaches. To the contrary, and as the authors all demonstrate in their own manner, social science can also seek to fathom these sides of human existence with analytical explorations that are both sensitive, bold and infused with responsive and creative intensity.

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Book SynopsisThe Philosophical Inquiry concerning Human Liberty of Anthony Collins' was considered by Joseph Priestley and Voltaire to be the best book written on freewill up to their own time. Priestley admitted that it convert­ ed him to determinism and it had a powerful effect on Voltaire in the same direction. It seems important to place in its wider historical context a book which so influenced such men and which greatly impressed the philosophes in general. Therefore - and because such an account has value in itself - the Introduction contains a survey of the freewill controversy from the time of Hobbes to that of Leibniz, giving in some detail the opinions of Hobbes, Locke, Pierre Bayle, William King, Archbishop of Dublin, and Leibniz and an account of the Scholastic doctrine of liberty of indifference - opinions which either influenced Collins or against which he reacted. The value and originality of Collins' works need assessing. He was also at times liable to misinterpret or misunderstand the authorities he quoted. I have, therefore, subjected the Inquiry to a detailed critique. This also gives cross-references to parallel passages in Collins' works and those of the authors who influenced him, and, by discussing the philosophical and theological questions to which his writings give rise, obviates the need for a good many footnotes in the notes that follow the text.Table of ContentsDeism.- Anthony Collins.- Writings.- The Controversy on Freewill.- The Philosophical Inquiry.- Thomas Hobbes.- John Locke.- Pierre Bayle and William King.- Liberty of Indifference.- De Origine Mali.- Bayle and King.- Leibniz.- The Inquiry.- Conclusion.- Text of the Philosophical Inquiry concerning Human Liberty.- Notes to the Text of the Inquiry.- Collation of the Text of the Inquiry.

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Book SynopsisMensen veranderen voortdurend, zowel lichamelijk als geestelijk. Hoe is het desondanks mogelijk dat men er niet aan twijfelt dat men een en dezelfde persoon blijft? Hoe komt de eenheid van onze identiteit tot stand – of is die eenheid slechts illusie? In het klassieke filosofische denken ging men ervan uit dat de ziel borg stond voor onze persoonlijke continuïteit. Maar wat als met de opkomst van het moderne denken het bestaan van die ziel wordt aangevochten? Waar de Britse intellectuele wereld in de achttiende eeuw nog grondig verdeeld raakte over deze kwestie, lijkt men hierover vandaag de dag alvast een consensus te hebben bereikt: bijna iedere hedendaagse filosoof en wetenschapper gaat ervan uit dat er geen ziel bestaat. De vraag naar de oorsprong en grond van onze persoonsidentiteit wordt hiermee prangender dan ooit tevoren. Gregory De Vleeschouwer legt in dit boek de historische achtergrond van het filosofische debat over persoonsidentiteit bloot en laat zien op welke problemen dit debat stuit zolang men de rol van het lichaam negeert. Dankzij zijn lichaam wordt iedere baby meteen gezien als 'een van ons': in het laatste hoofdstuk toont de auteur aan dat dit intersubjectieve aspect onontbeerlijk is voor de totstandkoming van het menselijke zelfbewustzijn. Hierbij werpt hij tevens een nieuw licht op enkele klassieke filosofische gedachtenexperimenten (breintransplantaties, cyborgs, teletransportatie,...) en laat hij zien dat de mens in zijn afhankelijkheid van de ander juist allermenselijkst is.

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Book SynopsisIf Rudolf Steiner had only been a thinker, his thoughts and ideas could have been criticized with intellectual thinking. However, if he was an initiate, a supra-intellectual thinking, a pure thinking would be required, and only through this could his statements be differentiated and tested.

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Book SynopsisVibha Prabhatamulu: Telugu Pragatisheela Sahitya Gavaksham is part of the Dakshinayan Indian Thought series of books. This volume presents a selection of writings in Telugu by 89 authors from the thirteenth century CE to the present across various genres poetry, song, novel, story and tract. The book attempts to explore the resonances and articulations across historical periods spanning over eight centuries of the progressive political in Telugu literature. This is an attempt to open a window into literary imaginations around questions that continue to preoccupy us today: egalitarianism, dignity, oppression, violence and resistance.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the issue of cognitive semantics’ aspects that cannot be represented by traditional digital and logical means. The problem of creating cognitive semantics can be resolved in an indirect way. The electromagnetic waves, quantum fields, beam of light, chaos control, relativistic theory, cosmic string recognition, category theory, group theory, and so on can be used for this aim. Since the term artificial intelligence (AI) appeared, various versions of logic have been created; many heuristics for neural networks deep learning have been made; new nature-like algorithms have been suggested. At the same time, the initial digital, logical, and neural network principles of representation of knowledge in AI systems have not changed a lot. The researches of these aspects of cognitive semantics of AI are based on the author's convergent methodology, which provides the necessary conditions for purposeful and sustainable convergence of decision-making.Table of ContentsHistory of Knowledge.- Philosophy of Knowledge.- Nonlogic Thought.- Hidden Consciousness.- Formalized Semantics.- Cosmomicrophysical Thinking.- Nonlocal Brainstorming.- Purposeful Creativity.- Cognitive Structures.- Quantum Semantics.- Optical Semantics.- Wave of Consciousness.- Entanglement of Thought.- Thought Event.- Thought Boosts.- Purposeful Chaos.- Dissipative Thought.- Purposefulness of Thought.- Small Impacts.- Light Thought.- Quantization of Thought.- Thought Interferometry.- Architecture of AI Semantics.- Applications.

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Book Synopsis1. The Evolutionary Nature of Knowledge.- 2. Scientific Theories are Intellectual Constructs.- 3. Knowledge and Employability: The Futility of Rote Education.- 4. Evolving AI Raises Human Concern.- 5. Vulnerabilities of the Patent System.

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