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Humanity's end: Why we should reject radical enhancement
"A Bradford book."""Arguments against radical enhancement have too often in the past been characterized by irrationalism and mysticism. Nicholas Agar presents the first cogent case for the rationality of opposing radical enhancement. Moving easily between science and philosophy, he argues for a species-relative conception of valuable experiences, according to which we have a strong reason to re…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages).
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The nature of insight
"A Bradford book."The Nature of Insight brings together diverse perspectives, including recent theories and discoveries, to examine the nature and origins of insightful thinking, as well as the history of theory and research on the topic and the methods used to study it. There are chapters by the leading experts in this field, including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald A. Finke, Howard E. Gruber…
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- 9780262284370
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 618 pages) :illustrations
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The nature of the farm :contracts, risk, and organization in agriculture
The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests th…
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- 9780262267014
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages)
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The Myth of the Intuitive: Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Method
In The Myth of the Intuitive, Max Deutsch defends the methods of analytic philosophy against a recent empirical challenge mounted by the practitioners of experimental philosophy (xphi). This challenge concerns the extent to which analytic philosophy relies on intuition—in particular, the extent to which analytic philosophers treat intuitions as evidence in arguing for philosophical conclusion…
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NBER International seminar on macroeconomics 2005
This 20th edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual treats many questions at the cutting edge of macroeconomics that are central to current policy debates. The papers and discussions include an analysis of the differential between American and European unemployment rates, with the authors of the paper taking issue with Edward Prescott's view that higher European tax rates are responsible; a pro…
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- 9780262273732
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Lab coats in Hollywood: Science, scientists, and cinema
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", released in 1968, is perhaps the most scientifically accurate film ever produced. The film presented such a plausible, realistic vision of space flight that many moon hoax proponents believe that Kubrick staged the 1969 moon landing using the same studios and techniques. Kubrick's scientific verisimilitude in 2001 came courtesy of his science consultan…
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- 9780262295499
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) :illustrations
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Transient workspaces: Technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe
"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in th…
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- 9780262326155
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- 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Nearest-neighbor methods in learning and vision :theory and practice
" ... held in Whistler, British Columbia ... annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in December 2003"--Preface.Regression and classification methods based on similarity of the input to stored examples have not been widely used in applications involving very large sets of high-dimensional data. Recent advances in computational geometry and machine learning, however, ma…
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- 9780262256957
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- 1 online resource (vi, 252 pages) :illustrations.
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Knowledge unbound: Selected writings on open access, 2002-2011
Selection of writings, mostly from the author's SPARC open access newsletter.Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, "it was like an asteroid crash, fundamen…
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Borders as infrastructure :the technopolitics of border control
"Examines the European border-and the various actors and institutions involved behind the maintenance of a border--as an infrastructure, with particular attention to the refugee crisis of 2014-2016"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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