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Author : Mark Weber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Optimism and Skepticism written by Mark Weber and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noah Jordan Goldstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Optimism for Skepticism written by Noah Jordan Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Agar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019102662X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sceptical Optimist written by Nicholas Agar and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress will automatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical optimism 'assigns to technological progress an undeserved pre-eminence among all the goals pursued by our civilization'. Instead, Agar uses the most recent psychological studies about human perceptions of well-being to create a realistic model of the impact technology will have. Although he accepts that technological advance does produce benefits, he insists that these are significantly less than those proposed by the radical optimists, and aspects of such progress can also pose a threat to values such as social justice and our relationship with nature, while problems such as poverty cannot be understood in technological terms. He concludes by arguing that a more realistic assessment of the benefits that technological advance can bring will allow us to better manage its risks in future.
Author : Jerrold Lee Shapiro Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669802558
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)
Download or read book An Acquired Taste: Lifelong Optimism, Skepticism and Darn Good Luck written by Jerrold Lee Shapiro Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a kid from the streets of the Boston Ghetto end up spending his adult life in Hawaii and Northern California? This memoir was written for two reasons. The first and most important is to be better known by my children and grandchildren. The nature of my early life would seem inexplicable today. Not only are the years gone to the dustbin of history, but so is the neighborhood and lifestyle. Thus, it is also an attempt to comprehend better the trials, tribulations, missteps, great moments, and victories (large and small), as I approach my 9th decade of life. Throughout the book, I try to be transparent, while exploring motives and reasons for my becoming a transplant, far from my roots. I try to explore my journey primarily through the lens of several crucial junctures and transforming choices.
Author : Nicholas Agar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019102662X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sceptical Optimist written by Nicholas Agar and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress will automatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical optimism 'assigns to technological progress an undeserved pre-eminence among all the goals pursued by our civilization'. Instead, Agar uses the most recent psychological studies about human perceptions of well-being to create a realistic model of the impact technology will have. Although he accepts that technological advance does produce benefits, he insists that these are significantly less than those proposed by the radical optimists, and aspects of such progress can also pose a threat to values such as social justice and our relationship with nature, while problems such as poverty cannot be understood in technological terms. He concludes by arguing that a more realistic assessment of the benefits that technological advance can bring will allow us to better manage its risks in future.
Author : Stephen R. Armstrong (II.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Persistent Optimism and Recurrent Skepticism written by Stephen R. Armstrong (II.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108661262
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society written by Elizabeth Shaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Free will skepticism' refers to a family of views that all take seriously the possibility that human beings lack the control in action - i.e. the free will - required for an agent to be truly deserving of blame and praise, punishment and reward. Critics fear that adopting this view would have harmful consequences for our interpersonal relationships, society, morality, meaning, and laws. Optimistic free will skeptics, on the other hand, respond by arguing that life without free will and so-called basic desert moral responsibility would not be harmful in these ways, and might even be beneficial. This collection addresses the practical implications of free will skepticism for law and society. It contains eleven original essays that provide alternatives to retributive punishment, explore what (if any) changes are needed for the criminal justice system, and ask whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic about the real-world implications of free will skepticism.
Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525954155
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Making Sense of God written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.
Author : Richard Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (937 download)
Download or read book My Hope For Racial Harmony In America written by Richard Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am, an eighty-six-year-old Black Man, explaining why he is somewhat optimistic about racial harmony in America... These Essays are about "The Beauty and Necessity of Generational Perspective in understanding social growth...AND The Passing of the "Indignation Torch"... The heart of this book is two personal essays on race relations in America, written thirty years apart... Both essays approach the subject from a hopeful and optimistic point of view. And Most Importantly it is About Why MY hope and optimism IS NOT TOTALLY EMBRACED by My Children and Grandchildren! I see a world where the beauty in others does not diminishes your own... In fact, it enhances the beauty of all. I must believe this BECAUSE... The alternative is too horrible to contemplate... AND not good for anyone!
Author : Putut Widjanarko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Mapping Notions of Cyberspace written by Putut Widjanarko and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781637560587
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Idiotic Optimism written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Currie
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262037262
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Rock, Bone, and Ruin written by Adrian Currie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past. The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in advancing our understanding of the deep past. How has this been possible, given that the evidence they have to work with offers mere traces of the past? In Rock, Bone, and Ruin, Adrian Currie explains that these scientists are “methodological omnivores,” with a variety of strategies and techniques at their disposal, and that this gives us every reason to be optimistic about their capacity to uncover truths about prehistory. Creative and opportunistic paleontologists, for example, discovered and described a new species of prehistoric duck-billed platypus from a single fossilized tooth. Examining the complex reasoning processes of historical science, Currie also considers philosophical and scientific reflection on the relationship between past and present, the nature of evidence, contingency, and scientific progress. Currie draws on varied examples from across the historical sciences, from Mayan ritual sacrifice to giant Mesozoic fleas to Mars's mysterious watery past, to develop an account of the nature of, and resources available to, historical science. He presents two major case studies: the emerging explanation of sauropod size, and the “snowball earth” hypothesis that accounts for signs of glaciation in Neoproterozoic tropics. He develops the Ripple Model of Evidence to analyze “unlucky circumstances” in scientific investigation; examines and refutes arguments for pessimism about the capacity of the historical sciences, defending the role of analogy and arguing that simulations have an experiment-like function. Currie argues for a creative, open-ended approach, “empirically grounded” speculation.
Author : Frank S. Robinson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412815819
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Case for Rational Optimism written by Frank S. Robinson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case for Rational Optimism tackles a host of challenging subjects in an engaging, accessible, down-to-earth style. It is intellectually serious, ceaselessly intriguing, and devoid of banalities. While other books in this genre tend to be oriented toward self-help, this volume brings evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, economics, and a keen sense of history to the topic. Robinson begins with three goals: making the case for feeling good about oneself, about humanity in general, and about the global situation. He addresses such seemingly disparate subjects as selfi shness versus altruism, mind and free will, human nature, and issues relating to economics, technology, the environment, and more. Unifying these ideas into a coherent philosophical whole are central concepts: evolution has endowed our species with more good qualities than bad, and why; those qualities, and our use of reason, are the foundations of civilization, and how; and, consistent with our nature, we make a better world by valuing human life therefore enabling others to fl ourish in ways they freely choose. The Case for Rational Optimism argues that the highly challenging conditions confronting early man created a Darwinian selective pressure for cooperation, even altruism, among members of a tribe. Th e author fi nds evidence for this in the way our brains work, and in observable human behavior. He argues against existential despair over the human condition. Even though there probably is no grand celestial design investing life with meaning, he considers this liberating, giving every person the freedom to craft their own meaning. To Robinson, whether sentient beings experience suff ering or joy is the only thing that matters; without emotive highs and lows, the Universe would hardly matter.
Author : Whitney Goodman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593542754
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Toxic Positivity written by Whitney Goodman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful guide to owning our emotions—even the difficult ones—in order to show up authentically in the world, from the popular therapist behind the Instagram account @sitwithwhit. Every day, we’re bombarded with pressure to be positive. From “good vibes only” and “life is good” memes, to endless reminders to “look on the bright side,” we’re constantly told that the key to happiness is silencing negativity wherever it crops up—in ourselves and in others. Even when faced with illness, loss, breakups, and other challenges, there’s little space for talking about our real feelings—and processing them so that we can feel better and move forward. But if non-stop positivity is the answer, why are so many of us anxious, depressed, and burned out? In this refreshingly honest guide, sought-after therapist Whitney Goodman shares the latest research along with everyday examples and client stories that reveal how damaging toxic positivity is to ourselves and our relationships, and presents simple ways to experience and work through difficult emotions. The result is more authenticity, connection, and growth—and ultimately, a path to showing up as you truly are.
Author : Daniel Stoljar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198802099
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Philosophical Progress written by Daniel Stoljar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people believe that philosophy makes no progress. Members of the general public often find it amazing that philosophers exist in universities at all, at least in research positions. Academics who are not philosophers often think of philosophy either as a scholarly or interpretative enterprise, or else as a sort of pre-scientific speculation. And - amazingly - many well-known philosophers argue that there is little genuine progress in philosophy. Daniel Stoljar arguesargues that this is all a big mistake. When you think through exactly what philosophical problems are, and what it takes to solve them, the pattern of success and failure in philosophy is similar to that in other fields. In philosophy, as elsewhere, there is a series of overlapping topics that determine what the subject is about. In philosophy, as elsewhere, different people in different historical epochs and different cultures ask different big questions about these topics. And in philosophy, as elsewhere, big questions asked in the past have often been solved: Stoljar provides examples. Philosophical Progress presents a strikingly optimistic picture of philosophy - not a radical optimism that says that there is some key that unlocks all philosophical problems, and not the kind of pessimism that dominates both professional and non-professional thinking about philosophy, but a reasonable optimism that views philosophy as akin to other fields.
Author : Wilbert J. LeMelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Town Meeting for Tomorrow written by Wilbert J. LeMelle and published by . This book was released on 1964* with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mr Peter J Jacques
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409498980
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Environmental Skepticism written by Mr Peter J Jacques and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, especially global ones, are inauthentic. Peter Jacques describes, both empirically and historically, how environmental skepticism has been organized by mostly US-based conservative think tanks as an anti-environmental counter-movement. This is the first book to analyze the importance of the US conservative counter-movement in world politics and its meaning for democratic and accountable deliberation, as well as its importance as a mal-adaptive project that hinders the world's people to rise to the challenges of sustainability. Specific consideration is given to the threat of the counter-movement to marginalized people of the world and its philosophical implications through its commitment to a 'deep anthropocentrism'.
