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This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and meditations, Transforming Terror powerfully demonstrates that terrorist violence-defined here as any attack on unarmed civilians-can never be stopped by a return to the thinking that created it. A diverse array of contributors-writers, healers, spiritual and political leaders, scientists, and activists, including Desmond Tutu, Huston Smith, Riane Eisler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amos Oz, Fatema Mernissi, Fritjof Capra, George Lakoff, Mahmoud Darwish, Terry Tempest Williams, and Jack Kornfield-considers how we might transform the conditions that produce terrorist acts and bring true healing to the victims of these acts. Broadly encompassing both the Islamic and Western worlds, the book explores the nature of consciousness and offers a blueprint for change that makes peace possible. From unforgettable firsthand accounts of terrorism, the book draws us into awareness of our ecological and economic interdependence, the need for connectedness, and the innate human capacity for compassion.

Violence -- Prevention. --- Terrorism --- Terror --- Violence --- Emotional intelligence --- Psychological aspects --- Prevention --- activist. --- amos oz. --- bombing. --- civilians. --- comparative religion. --- compassion. --- conflict. --- crusade. --- daniel ellsberg. --- desmond tutu. --- fatema mernissi. --- forgiveness. --- fritjof capra. --- george lakoff. --- healing. --- holy war. --- huston smith. --- islam. --- jack kornfield. --- jihad. --- mahmoud darwish. --- nonfiction. --- pacifism. --- peace. --- political leaders. --- redemption. --- religious war. --- riane eisler. --- sociology. --- terrorism. --- terrorist violence. --- terrorist. --- terry tempest williams. --- violence. --- war on terror. --- world peace.

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In line with the emerging field of philosophy of mathematical practice, this book pushes the philosophy of mathematics away from questions about the reality and truth of mathematical entities and statements and toward a focus on what mathematicians actually do-and how that evolves and changes over time. How do new mathematical entities come to be? What internal, natural, cognitive, and social constraints shape mathematical cultures? How do mathematical signs form and reform their meanings? How can we model the cognitive processes at play in mathematical evolution? And how does mathematics tie together ideas, reality, and applications?Roi Wagner uniquely combines philosophical, historical, and cognitive studies to paint a fully rounded image of mathematics not as an absolute ideal but as a human endeavor that takes shape in specific social and institutional contexts. The book builds on ancient, medieval, and modern case studies to confront philosophical reconstructions and cutting-edge cognitive theories. It focuses on the contingent semiotic and interpretive dimensions of mathematical practice, rather than on mathematics' claim to universal or fundamental truths, in order to explore not only what mathematics is, but also what it could be. Along the way, Wagner challenges conventional views that mathematical signs represent fixed, ideal entities; that mathematical cognition is a rigid transfer of inferences between formal domains; and that mathematics' exceptional consensus is due to the subject's underlying reality.The result is a revisionist account of mathematical philosophy that will interest mathematicians, philosophers, and historians of science alike.

Mathematics --- Mathematics --- Philosophy --- History. --- History. --- Benedetto. --- Black-Scholes formula. --- Eugene Wigner. --- Friedrich W.J. Schelling. --- George Lakoff. --- Gilles Deleuze. --- Hermann Cohen. --- Hilary Putnam. --- Johann G. Fichte. --- Logic of Sensation. --- Mark Steiner. --- Rafael Nez. --- Stanislas Dehaene. --- Vincent Walsh. --- Water J. Freeman III. --- abbaco. --- algebra. --- arithmetic. --- authority. --- cognitive theory. --- combinatorics. --- conceptual freedom. --- constraints. --- economy. --- gender role stereotypes. --- generating functions. --- geometry. --- inferences. --- infinities. --- infinity. --- mathematical cognition. --- mathematical concepts. --- mathematical cultures. --- mathematical domains. --- mathematical entities. --- mathematical evolution. --- mathematical interpretation. --- mathematical language. --- mathematical metaphor. --- mathematical norms. --- mathematical objects. --- mathematical practice. --- mathematical signs. --- mathematical standards. --- mathematical statements. --- mathematics. --- natural order. --- natural sciences. --- nature. --- negative numbers. --- number sense. --- option pricing. --- philosophy of mathematics. --- reality. --- reason. --- relevance. --- semiosis. --- sexuality. --- stable marriage problem.