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Philographics : grote ideeën in simpele beelden.
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ISBN: 9789063693411 9063693419 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amsterdam Bis Publishers

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Philographics is een visueel filosofisch woordenboek, een verzameling van de belangrijkste ‘ismes’ ter wereld die worden uitgelegd door middel van eenvoudige vormen en kleur. In het boek versmelten de werelden van de filosofie en het grafische design, twee gebieden die elkaars tegenpolen lijken te zijn: het ene is zwaar en gecompliceerd, het andere aantrekkelijk en toegankelijk. Het resultaat van deze fusie is een collectie van 95 grafische ontwerpen die complexe filosofische stromingen verbeelden, sommige met behulp van visuele beeldspraken, en andere met bestaande of nieuwe symbolen en abstracte afbeeldingen.


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Liberal rights and responsibilities : essays on citizenship and sovereignty
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ISBN: 9780199982189 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Equitable sharing : distributing the benefits and detriments of democratic society
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ISBN: 0739184369 1498521061 9780739184363 9781498521062 0739184377 9780739184370 1306219167 9781306219167 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books,

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In Equitable Sharing: Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society, Thomas Kleven argues that a principle of equitable sharing is fundamental to the concept of democracy and is implicit in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Kleven makes the case that the Supreme Court, interacting with the public and the legislature, has a meaningful role to play in the dialogue over the requirements of equitable sharing and can play this role in a manner consistent with democratic principles.


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Evolution of the social contract
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ISBN: 9781107077287 1107077281 9781107434288 1107434289 9781139924825 1316121747 1316120651 1139924826 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, and including recent developments in game theory and evolution literature, his book introduces and applies appropriate concepts of equilibrium and evolutionary dynamics, showing how key issues can be modeled as games and considering the ways in which evolution sometimes supports, and sometimes does not support, rational choice. He discusses topics including how bargaining with neighbors promotes sharing of resources, the diversity of behavior in ultimatum bargaining in small societies, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and an investigation into signaling games and the spontaneous emergence of meaningful communication. His book will be of great interest to readers in philosophy of science, social science, evolutionary biology, game and decision theory, and political theory.


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The rhetorical foundations of society
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ISBN: 9781781681701 9781781681718 1781681708 1781681716 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Brooklyn, NY Verso

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"The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Mouffe's classic "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy", taking it in three principal directions. First, this book explores the specificity of social antagonisms and answers the question "What is an antagonistic relation?"--An issue which has become increasingly crucial in our globalized world, where the proliferation of conflicts and points of rupture is eroding their links to the social subjects postulated by classical social analysis. This leads Laclau to a second line of questioning: What is the ontological terrain that allows us to understand the nature of social relations in our heterogeneous world?" This is a task he addresses with theoretical instruments drawn from analytical philosophy and from the phenomenological and structuralist traditions. Finally, central to the argument of the book is the basic role attributed to rhetorical tropes--metaphor, metonymy, catachresis--in shaping the "non-foundational" grounds of society"--


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Think like a commoner
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ISBN: 9780865717688 0865717680 1550925598 9781550925593 Year: 2014 Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC, Canada Beaconsfield, Quebec


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Frames and Concept Types : Applications in Language and Philosophy
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ISSN: 09244662 2215034X ISBN: 9783319015408 9783319015415 3319015400 3319015419 Year: 2014 Volume: v. 94 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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The articles in this volume showcase the potential richness of frame representations. The presentation includes introductory articles on the application of frames to linguistics and philosophy of science, offering readers the tools to conduct the interdisciplinary investigation of concepts that frames allow. * Introductory articles on the application of frames to linguistics and philosophy of science * Frame analysis of changes in scientific concepts * Event frames and lexical decomposition * Properties, frame attributes and adjectives * Frames in concept composition * Nominal concept types and determination "This volume deals with frame representations and their relations to concept types in linguistics and philosophy of science. It aims at reviving concepts and frames as a common model across disciplines for representing semantic and conceptual knowledge. Departing from the general assumption that frames are not just an arbitrary format of representation but essential to human cognition, a number of case studies apply frames as an analytical tool to a wide range of phenomena, from changes in scientific concepts to particular linguistic phenomena. This provides new insights into long-standing semantic issues, such as the lexical representation of verbs (as predicative frames specifying particular event descriptions or situation types and their participants), adjectives and nominals (as concept frames, which provide attributes and properties of an entity), as well as modification, complementation, possessive constructions, compounding, nominal concept types, determination, or definiteness marking." Bert Gehrke, Pompeu, Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.


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Animating film theory
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ISBN: 9780822356400 9780822356523 0822356406 082235652X 9780822376811 0822376814 1306494389 Year: 2014 Publisher: Durham Duke University Press

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"Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The contributors to this collection consider the reasons for this marginalization while also bringing attention to key historical contributions across a wide range of animation practices, geographic and linguistic terrains, and historical periods. They delve deep into questions of how animation might best be understood, as well as how it relates to concepts such as the still, the moving image, the frame, animism, and utopia. The contributors take on the kinds of theoretical questions that have remained underexplored because, as Karen Beckman argues, scholars of cinema and media studies have allowed themselves to be constrained by too narrow a sense of what cinema is. This collection reanimates and expands film studies by taking the concept of animation seriously."--Publisher's description.


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Stop, thief! : the commons, enclosures and resistance
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ISBN: 9781604867473 1604867477 1306329396 1604869011 1604869410 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oakland, CA PM Press

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"In this majestic tour de force, celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed on the face of the earth that has not had commoning at its heart. "Neither the state nor the market," say the planetary commoners. These essays kindle the embers of memory to ignite our future commons. From Thomas Paine to the Luddites, from Karl Marx--who concluded his great study of capitalism with the enclosure of commons--to the practical dreamer William Morris--who made communism into a verb and advocated communizing industry and agriculture--to the 20th-century communist historian E.P. Thompson, Linebaugh brings to life the vital commonist tradition. He traces the red thread from the great revolt of commoners in 1381 to the enclosures of Ireland, and the American commons, where European immigrants who had been expelled from their commons met the immense commons of the native peoples and the underground African-American urban commons. Illuminating these struggles in this indispensable collection, Linebaugh reignites the ancient cry, "Stop, Thief!"" -- Publisher's description.


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Superintelligence : paths, dangers, strategies
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ISBN: 9780199678112 0199678111 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. But we have one advantage: we get to make the first move. Will it be possible to construct a seed AI or otherwise to engineer initial conditions so as to make an intelligence explosion survivable? How could one achieve a controlled detonation? To get closer to an answer to this question, we must make our way through a fascinating landscape of topics and considerations. Read the book and learn about oracles, genies, singletons; about boxing methods, tripwires, and mind crime; about humanity's cosmic endowment and differential technological development; indirect normativity, instrumental convergence, whole brain emulation and technology couplings; Malthusian economics and dystopian evolution; artificial intelligence, and biological cognitive enhancement, and collective intelligence.

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