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An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity's powerful capacity to connect ideas and people.Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems-the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Zurn and Bassett-identical twins who write that their book "e;represents the thought of one mind and two bodies"e;-harness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity. Traipsing across literatures of antiquity and medieval science, Victorian poetry and nature essays, as well as work by writers from a variety of marginalized communities, they trace a multitudinous curiosity. They identify three styles of curiosity-the busybody, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creating tight networks; and the dancer, who takes leaps of creative imagination, creating loopy ones. Investigating what happens in a curious brain, they offer an accessible account of the network neuroscience of curiosity. And they sketch out a new kind of curiosity-centric and inclusive education that embraces everyone's curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity that it describes, inviting readers to participate-to be curious with the book and not simply about it.

A journal for the modern man that offers guidance and inspiration for self-improvement and self-discovery. It draws on Confucius' wisdom and teachings on virtue, self-cultivation and becoming a superior man. The journal provides prompts to help readers reflect on and apply these teachings to their own lives in a modern context. It is a powerful tool for personal growth and self-mastery for any man seeking to become a more virtuous and wise modern man.

A young woman is abandoned by her boyfriend, an older man retires and feels worthless and lonely, a young man learns that his wife is having an extramarital affair. They all see suicide as the only solution.Usually, after a suicide attempt, people are treated in a hospital, where professionals try to work out the underlying psychiatric illness. Ladislav Valach and Annette Reissfelder, however, argue that suicide is not an illness but an action. Since this understanding is based on a high regard for everyday accounts of one's own experiences, the suicidal persons are given the stage in this book.The textbook presents twelve different cases after a suicide attempt. In the analysis of the conversations, attention is paid to the theory of action in everyday life. By presenting the long-term, medium-term and short-term concerns of the patients or the actions in the stories, practitioners gain a detailed insight into the underlying causes of the suicidal act and its treatment.

A classic guide to expanding perception and consciousness development

The unicycle provides a singular image of balance and impending peril, lifted by whimsy for the weighty subject of this book. All the evidence of experimental science reveals that nature is asymmetric. No pure symmetry has ever been found. What does it mean to live in an asymmetric environment?Unicycle introduces the logic of asymmetric polarities of change to interpret the evidence, while showing how our symmetry-based math has failed to grasp a vital ethical and physical connection between humanity and the environment, between mind and body.The observation that nature is asymmetric confirms reasoning that is as organized as the current foundational symmetries of math by using symmetry as a foil in a proof by contradiction. One result is the discovery that nature, the universe, has a nonrandom sense of direction with vital ethical consequences, as matter and conscious behavior fundamentally combine in changing polarities and degrees.Humans are drawn repetitively, even addictively, to pure symmetry in the fictitious simplicity of absolutes, like moths to the flame, gamblers to roulette, or - clowns to the unicycle. The more extreme the instability, the greater the need for balance. There is a Tao-like polarity - but one where absolute poles of chaos and order cannot exist.Where physical and social pressures cannot go, they must turn away, in the absence of absolutes, not into relativism, but into the natural, open-ended polarity of the River of Asymmetry. Self-defeating actions attract asymmetric counter-pressures. A self-centered monoculture needs to reach out for balance and learn to navigate the currents.A key finding is that symmetry and asymmetry are mutually exclusive. In the absence of absolutes, nature's asymmetry opens a creative continuum of opportunity that cannot be stopped with absolute finality. That which connects us is more profound than the differences that divide us. Nature's asymmetry is multifarious and fundamentally inclusive. This provides the ethical basis for a democratic society and a fresh, panpsychist understanding of natural law.The reasoning is elucidated with an interdisciplinary narrative fiction, including mythological tales. The stories gain a realism of their own through the deductions. Nature comes to life, along with the characters, as they work on the book by a river in Maine¿- discovering Mother Nature's moral compass.

Writing software is a team sport, and if you aren't prepared, you could let your big ego get in the way and cause conflict! With over 20 years in computer programming, I have been responsible for my own share of discord and drama. Have you run into that fellow programmer yet who thinks they know it all? Have you encountered a coworker yet who is very highly opinionated, judgmental, or difficult to get along with? What about within the extended community of directors, testers, product owners, solution architects, etc.? Ever encounter any ugly office politics when working with any of these players?There was a time when I ran into a toxic situation at a certain company, and I learned a great deal from it. In this book, I author a set of twenty-five aphorisms that are merely reminders of what to do and what not do, to promote harmony and prevent conflict in the information technology workplace. I have been inspired by Lao Tzu's philosophical classic the Tao Te Ching. This work espouses moderation and modesty in behavior. I have also been informed by the Hindu concept of Karma Yoga--the yoga of action or work. This is about giving up the efforts of your work to the universe rather than expecting recognition or keeping the rewards for yourself.I offer up these aphorisms to you, as nuggets of wisdom, to help you to learn, or to help you to remember rules of behavior that you already know, yet so often forget to follow. This book is for computer programmers in challenging work environments. If you never knew how to address difficult office politics or that pushy teammate who wants to change your code, then I invite you to purchase this book to find the answers that you seek!

" Trois plantes exotiques fournissent la base des principales boissons alimentaires et aromatiques introduites aujourd¿hui dans le régime habituel des nations. Depuis l¿époque où l¿usage de ces boissons s¿est établi, toutes n¿ont pas rencontré une faveur égale. Pour des causes que nous chercherons à expliquer, c¿est tantôt l¿une, tantôt l¿autre, qui a dominé dans la consommation générale ; chacune de ces boissons salutaires n¿en concourt pas moins pour sa part à développer le bienfaisant usage du sucre et à diminuer le dangereux abus des liqueurs et préparations alcooliques.On sait déjà comment on obtient du périsperme ou noyau d¿une petite cerise aigrelette cueillie sur un arbrisseau originaire d¿Arabie le produit remarquable connu sous le nom de café ; on sait aussi comment d¿un fruit beaucoup plus volumineux on extrait les nombreuses amandes qui constituent le cacao. On prépare la boisson connue sous le nom de thé avec des produits en apparence bien différents, avec les feuilles d¿un arbrisseau qui, dans certaines circonstances favorables de culture, atteint presque les proportions d¿un arbre de moyenne grandeur..."

" Alain écrit ses souvenirs en 1931 et précise en faire « quelques ajustements, mais sans rien changer à cette couleur des opinions » en mai 1933. Ces souvenirs présentés d¿une manière vaguement chronologique comportent peu de dates et quelques lieux seulement pourront aider à suivre le narrateur dans ses trois années de périple. On trouve néanmoins dans l¿ouvrage quelques tableaux assez bien descriptifs de ces lieux occupés par Alain et de nombreux détails techniques, restant superficiels toutefois. La période couverte s¿étale d¿octobre 1914 à octobre 1917."

Zur Erinnerung an den 250. Geburtstag von Hegel versammelt dieser Band mit dem ungewöhnlichen Titel »Das Beste von Hegel - The Best of Hegel« Beiträge zur Aktualität des Hegelschen Denkens. Es geht um ein einziges Thema: jeder Beiträger versucht, das zu pointieren, was ihm als das Beste in Hegels Philosophie gilt, was zu dem theoretisch Herausragenden dieser Philosophie zählt. In den Aufsätzen geht es nicht um Apologie oder Hagiographie, sondern um ein kritisches Interpretieren und kreatives Aufarbeiten der Theoriepotentiale dieser Philosophie, um gegen die heute grassierende >unintelligente Wut< auf den Aristoteles der Neuzeit, den bedeutendsten Philosophen der Moderne, zu argumentieren, um Hegels Gedanken, die auch die nächsten 250 Jahre grundlegend prägen werden. Das Spektrum der jetzt vorliegenden Texte reicht von Hegels moderner Logik bis hin zu Lehrstücken aus der Philosophie des Geistes.

Our digital existence is hurried and fast. We are tied to the present, or perhaps we are not present enough: immersed in digital social media and processes by artificial intelligence, we are hardly present to ourselves and to others, and feel alienated from nature. We are also made to fear climate change and the end of humanity. How can we live a good life and give meaning to our lives under these conditions? How can and should we co-exist today?Using process philosophy, narrative theory, and the concept of technoperformances, this book analyzes how digital technologies shape our relation to time and our existence, and discusses what this means in the light of climate change and new technologies such as AI. In dialogue with contemporary philosophy of technology and media theory and asking original questions about finding common times in what it calls the ¿Anthropochrone¿, it proposes a conceptual framework that helps us to understand how we (should) exist and relate to time today.

In Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where Contemporary Neuroscience Meets the Aristotelian Tradition, Matthew Owen argues that despite its nonphysical character, it is possible to empirically detect and measure consciousness. Toward the end of the previous century, the neuroscience of consciousness set its roots and sprouted within a materialist milieu that reduced the mind to matter. Several decades later, dualism is being dusted off and reconsidered. Although some may see this revival as a threat to consciousness science aimed at measuring the conscious mind, Owen argues that measuring consciousness, along with the medical benefits of such measurements, is not ruled out by consciousness being nonphysical. Owen proposes the Mind-Body Powers model of neural correlates of consciousness, which is informed by Aristotelian causation and a substance dualist view of human nature inspired by Thomas Aquinas, who often followed Aristotle. In addition to explaining why there are neural correlates of consciousness, the model provides a philosophical foundation for empirically discerning and quantifying consciousness. En route to presenting and applying the Mind-Body Powers model to neurobiology, Owen rebuts longstanding objections to dualism related to the mind-body problem. With scholarly precision and readable clarity, Owen applies an oft forgotten yet richly developed historical vantage point to contemporary cognitive neuroscience.

Maurice Blanchot : Dagens vanvid & Mit dødsøjeblik – oversættelse og efterskrift Mikkel Thykier Normalpris Udsolgt Inklusive moms. Levering bliver beregnet ved kassen MAURICE BLANCHOT, 1907-2003I Danmark er Blanchot meget lidt læst og først og fremmest kendt som en kritiker, der udøvede en skjult, men stærk påvirkning på folk som Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida og Michel Foucault, mens hans samlede forfatterskab, dvs. hans virke både som litteraturkritiker og skønlitterær forfatter i disse år diskuteres flittigt i resten af verden. Ikke bare Blanchots kritiske arbejde har været af afgørende betydning. Hans fiktion, som er samtidig med og tåler sammenligning med Samuel Becketts, har også været af afgørende betydning for den franske skønlitteratur i anden halvdel af det 20. århundrede, Marguerite Duras’ forfatterskab er fx utænkeligt uden Blanchot. Dagens vanvid er en kort og fortættet tekst fra de mest kreative år i Blanchots karriere, den gennemspiller hektisk et af de vigtigste temaer i forfatterskabet: Individet stillet over for døden, loven og kravet om sand tale. Mit dødsøjeblik er en sen tekst, tilsyneladende en erindringsskitse, som vender tilbage til en kort scene fra Dagens vanvid, uddyber den og sætter hele forfatterskabet i perspektiv. Udgivelsen er suppleret med et solidt essay (efterord) af oversætteren og forfatteren Mikkel Thykier, der sætter Blanchots diskussion af døden i forhold til H.C. Andersens forfatterskab, samt afklarer forholdet til Barthes, Deleuze, Derrida og Foucault.

This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G. E. Moore¿s philosophical views as they developed between 1894 and 1902. This period saw the inauguration of analytic philosophy through the work of Moore and Bertrand Russell. Moore¿s early views are examined in detail through unpublished archival material, including surviving letters, diaries, notes of lectures attended, papers for Cambridge societies, and drafts of early work, in order to revise the established view that the origin of analytic philosophy at Cambridge was an abrupt split from F. H. Bradley¿s Absolute Idealism. Traditional accounts of this period have highlighted the anti-psychologism of Frege¿s logic but have not explored the impact of this movement more broadly. Anti-psychologism was a key feature of the work of Moore¿s teachers on the nature of the mind and its objects, in their interpretation of Kant, and in ethics. Moore¿s teachers G.F. Stout and James Ward weresignificant contributors to the late 19th century debates in mental science and the developing new science of psychology. Henry Sidgwick¿s criticisms of Kant and Bradley and his leading work in ethics were key influences on Moore. Moore¿s Trinity Fellowship Dissertations are essential historical evidence of the development of Moore's new theory of judgment, a theory whose defining role in the origins of analytic philosophy cannot be overstated. Moore¿s study of Kant in his dissertations ultimately formed the groundwork for his Principia Ethica (1903), which evolved from ideas that manifested in Moore¿s earliest Apostles¿ papers, developed through his dissertations, and were refined through his Elements of Ethics lectures (1898-99). This monumental work of early twentieth century ethics is thus shown to be the culmination of Moore¿s early philosophical development.

Discussing marginality from an analytic perspective and drawing on canonical theories by a diverse set of authors, such as Dilthey, Collingwood, Wittgenstein, Foucault, John McDowell, Susan Carey, Michael Tomasello, and Chris Frith, this book is an important contribution to ongoing debates on marginality among psychiatrists, psychologists, social scientists, and philosophers.Psychology often resorts to overambitious theorizing due to a perceived pressure to justify its scientific credentials. Taking the cases of preverbal children and mentally ill patients, George Tudorie illustrates that applying overarching and unifying explanations to marginal subjects is problematic, arguing instead that those at the margins should be given their proper explanatory autonomy.Tudorie examines recent cognitive theories on early development in children to reveal the difficulties of conceptualising the emergence of human abilities, while also demonstrating how cognitive accounts of psychosis, built around the typical concepts of 'belief-desire-intention' psychology, eventually falter. In doing so, he reveals that interpretation is not a route psychology can take at the margins, and calls for a clearer view of explanatory options in marginal cases.

"This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them"--