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Peregrinations from Physics to Phylogeny

Author : Kok Khoo Phua
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814759104
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Peregrinations from Physics to Phylogeny written by Kok Khoo Phua and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' "Professor Hao Bailin is one of China''s most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists. He has made important contributions to a wide variety of research fields, including biology in which he pioneered a multidimensional method for studying the evolutionary pathways of bacteria. Indeed he calls himself, appreciatively I believe, a guerrilla fighter." Nobel Laureate, Chen-Ning Yang Contents: C N Yang on Hao Bailin, 2015 (Chen-Ning Yang)Skeleton Graph Expansion of Critical Exponents in "Cultural Revolution" Years (Hao Bailin)The Virial Expansion Re-visited: A New Interpretation (Fa-Yueh Wu and Ron Aaron)Chaos in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction (Richard J Field)Discrete Resonances (Franco Vivaldi)Exact Solution of the Planar Motion of Three Arbitrary Point Vortices (Robert Conte and Laurent de Seze)A Cognitive Network for Oracle-Bone Characters Related to Animals (Andreas Dress, Stefan Grünewald and Zhenbing Zeng)Periodic Oscillations of the Forced Brusselator (Jason A C Gallas)Genomes: At the Edge of Chaos with Maximum Information Capacity (Sing-Guan Kong, Hong-Da Chen, Andrew Torda, and H C Lee)Low Temperature Glassy Systems: Present Understanding, Open Problems and Future Developments (Giorgio Parisi)CVTrees Support the Bergey''s Systematics and Provide High Resolution at Species Levels and Below (Bailin Hao)My Days as a Student of Prof. Hao (1982–1986) (Mingzhou Ding)Teacher and Friend (Yong-Shi Wu) Readership: This book is suitable for students of physics and mathematics and all members of the general public interested in science. Keywords:Hao Bailin;Virial Expansion;Chaos;Complex Systems;Glassy Systems'

Dear Professor Dyson

Author : Freeman John Dyson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814759090
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Dear Professor Dyson written by Freeman John Dyson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future; he showed quantum mechanics to be consistent with electrodynamics and started cosmological eschatology; he has won international recognition for his work in science and for his work in reconciling science to religion; he has advised generals and congressional committees. An STS (Science, Technology, Society) curriculum or discussion group that engages topics such as nuclear policies, genetic technologies, environmental sustainability, the role of religion in a scientific society, and a hard look towards the future, would count itself privileged to include Professor Dyson as a class participant and mentor. In this book, STS topics are not discussed as objectified abstractions, but through personal stories. The reader is invited to observe Dyson's influence on a generation of young people as they wrestle with issues of science, technology, society, life in general and our place in the universe. The book is filled with personal anecdotes, student questions and responses, honest doubts and passions"--

A Physicist's View of Matter and Mind

Author : Chandre Dharma-wardana
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814425435
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book A Physicist's View of Matter and Mind written by Chandre Dharma-wardana and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key areas of human understanding, namely physics and conscious complex systems, are presented in simple language. An optional technical presentation is also given in parallel where it is needed. Contents:Part I. The Nature of Physical Law:A Bird's Eye View of Our QuestAn Epistemic Hunt for Scientific TruthThe Laws of Nature and the Supremacy of SymmetryMaxwell's Magical Trinity — Electricity, Magnetism and LightThe Theory of RelativityThe Quantum World and 'Reality'Entanglement, Measurement and Quantum ParadoxesMany Particle Systems and the Classical LimitEnergy, Entropy and Emergent PropertiesPart II. Complex Systems and Consiousness:Bio-Molecules, the Sub-Slime of AstrochemistryThe Cell as the Basic Unit of LifeSpecialized Cells for Sight, Insight, and InformationExotic, Quantum Explanations of ConsciousnessAddressing the Enigmatic Questions Readership: General audience with interest in physics and complex systems biology as well as science academics. Keywords:Laws of Physics;Epistemology of Science;Scientific Revolutions;Relativity;Quantum Theory;Bohmian Picture;Paradoxes in Physics;Density Functional Theory;Decoherence;Thermodynamics;Determinism and Free Will;Emergent Properties;Evolution;Origin of life;Memory;ConsciousnessKey Features:The book traces developments in astrochemistry and the origin of life, and it provides the reader with our modern understanding of memory and consciousness

Pwa90

Author : Piers E. T. Al COLEMAN
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814733636
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Pwa90 written by Piers E. T. Al COLEMAN and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W. Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase "More is Different", Anderson has been the most forceful and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, viewpoint of emergent phenomena: truly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale. Anderson's ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of physics, including the Anderson-Higgs mechanism and the dynamics of pulsars. PWA90: A Lifetime of Emergence is a volume of original scientific essays and personal reminiscences of Philip W Anderson by experts in the field, that were presented as part of "PWA90: Emergent Frontiers of Condensed Matter" meeting held at Princeton in December 2013 to highlight Anderson's contributions to physics"--

Current Topics In Physics: In Honor Of Sir Roger J Elliott

Author : Rafael A Barrio
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783260351
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis Current Topics In Physics: In Honor Of Sir Roger J Elliott by : Rafael A Barrio

Download or read book Current Topics In Physics: In Honor Of Sir Roger J Elliott written by Rafael A Barrio and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable book is a compilation of invited talks delivered at the symposium, “Current Topics in Physics” held in Mexico City in June 2003, to celebrate the 75th birthday of Professor Sir Roger Elliott. The contributions have been prepared by research associates, former students, post-doctoral fellows and colleagues of Professor Elliott, many of them leading scientists — as Sir Roger himself — in important research institutes around the world. The book gives a very timely and comprehensive overview of various key areas of modern condensed matter and statistical physics. 19 original contributions are included, grouped in three main areas: disorder and dynamical systems, structures and glasses, electrical and magnetic properties.The contributions are by many of the foremost researchers in the field of condensed matter and statistical physics. In particular, contributions by such prominent scientists as M E Fisher, A A Maradudin, M F Thorpe, M Balkanski, T Fujiwara, and of course Sir Roger Elliott himself make this book a rewarding read.

The Foundations of Physical Law

Author : Peter Rowlands
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9789814618373
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Physical Law written by Peter Rowlands and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book originated in a series of lectures given at Liverpool in 2013 to a group that included postgraduate and undergraduate students and staff of the Physics Department. They followed from two very successful lectures given to the undergraduate Physical Society. It seemed that there was a very large interest among the students in investigating the foundations of physics in a way that was never done in physics courses, and was not available in books or other outlets. However, the idea was to create a framework in which students (and interested staff) could develop their own thinking relative to the ideas in the lectures. So it was important to create both conceptual and mathematical structures on the issues that are important at this level. The book has the right sort of technical content to allow for this development, but doesn't lose itself in excessive details. The ideal use for this book would be on postgraduate courses where students would be encouraged to think about the foundations in a way that is well beyond the superficial. However, a course on aspects of this material would also be valuable at the undergraduate level, where students could be stimulated into believing that creative thinking could solve the problems that emerge when we confront foundational problems.

My Own Country

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679752927
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book My Own Country written by Abraham Verghese and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-04-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. “Remarkable.... An account of the [AIDS] plague years in America. Beautifully written…by a doctor who was changed and shaped by his patients.” —The New York Times Book Review Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an “urban problem” had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency.

Modern Trends in Physics Research

Author : Lotfia Mohamed el Nadi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814504904
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Modern Trends in Physics Research written by Lotfia Mohamed el Nadi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of the conference are to develop greater understanding of physics research and its applications to promote new industries; to innovate knowledge about recent breakthroughs in physics, both the fundamental and technological aspects; to implement of international cooperation in new trends in physics research and to improve the performance of the physics research facilities in Egypt. This proceedings highlights the latest results in the fields of astrophysics, atomic, molecular, condensed matter, laser, nuclear and particle physics. The peer refereed papers collected in this volume were written by international experts in these laser fields. Contents:Atomic, Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics:Solar Activities and Space Weather Hazards (Ahmed A Hady)Electron Beam Ion Trap and Its Applications (Yaming Zou)Fundamental Studies and Applications of Highly Charged Ions (Reinhold Schuch)Stark Broadening Calculations of Several Ti Lines (A I Refaie and H Sharkawy)Synthesis of Rare Earth Doped and Undoped GaN Nano-Crystallites (Lotfia El Nadi, S Ahmed, M Awaad, Magdy Omar and Y Badr)Conductivity Enhancement of Mn-Zn Ferrite by Gamma Irradiation (M A Ahmed, A M Diab and S F Mansour)Giant Enhancement in the Physical Properties of LaFeO3 by Substitution of Divalent Ions (M A Ahmed, S I Dek, M M Arman)High Density Short Pulse Lasers, Lasers and Applications:Advanced Laboratory for High Density Physics (Lotfia El Nadi, A Naser A Fettoh, A Refaie, Galila A Mehena, Hussien A Moniem, Hisham Imam, Khaled A Elsayed, Magdy Omar and Salah H Naby)High Energy Density Physics: The Laser Field of Tomorrow (Richard R Freeman)The Texas Petawatt Laser and Technology Development Towards an Exawatt Laser (Todd Ditmier)XUV and Soft X-ray Laser Radiation from Ni-like Au (Wessameldin S Abdelaziz and H M Hamed)Novel Process for Laser Stain Removal from Archeological Oil Paintings (Lotfia El Nadi, Osama El-Feky, Galila Abdellatif and Sawsan Darwish)Application of Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy on Breast Cancer Diagnoses (A Abd-Alfattah, A A Eldakrouri, H Emam and I M Azzouz)Ultrafast Process in Condensed Matter Studied with Ultrashort Laser Pulses (Panagnioti A Loukakous)Nuclear, Particle Physics and Astrophysics:Charge Measurements of Fragmented Nuclei of Si at Different Energies (M S EL-Nagdy, A Abdelsalam, A Algaood and M Ahmed)Research Studies Performed Using the Cairo Fourier Diffractometer Facility (R M A Maayouf)K-Surfaces in Schwarzschild Geometry (Ayub Faridi, Fazal-E-Aleem and Haris Rashid)Light-Strange Mesons Decays in the Quark Model (A M Yasser, E M Hassan, M A Fawzy and M A Allosh)Surprising Rapid Collapse of Sirius B from Red Giant to White Dwarf Through Mass Transfer to Sirius A (Shahinaz Yousef and Ola Ali)Evaluation of Radioactivity Concentration in Tilapia Nilotica and Radiation Dose to Egyptian Population (Hannan H Amer and Enas H El-Khawas)Solar Forcings on Nile and Earthquakes (Saad Mohammed Al-Shehri, Ismail Sabbah, Shahinaz Yousef and Magdy Y Amin)and other papers Keywords:Atomic;Astrophysics;Condensed Matter;Chemical;Laser;Molecular;Nuclear and Particle Physics

Modern Physics and Technology for Undergraduates

Author : Lorcan M Folan
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9814723371
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Modern Physics and Technology for Undergraduates written by Lorcan M Folan and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge chasm has developed between modern science and undergraduate education. The result of this chasm is that students who are graduating from college are unable to exploit the many opportunities offered by modern science and technology. Modern science and technology widely uses the methods of classical physics, but these modern applications are not reflected in the physics problems often suggested to students. Solving practical problems is a very effective way to inform students about contemporary science, to illustrate the important relationships between modern and classical physics, and to prepare them for future activity in the modern technological environment. The aim of this book is to try to bridge this chasm between modern science and technology and an undergraduate course in physics. The first part of the book gives an overview of "hot" directions in modern physics and technology. The second part includes a brief review of undergraduate physics, followed by problems which are related to those directions. These problems, which are based on some of the latest developments in science and technology, can be solved using the classical physics accessible in a standard undergraduate program. Where necessary, the problems have detailed solutions. The second edition of Modern Physics and Technology for Undergraduates includes six new subsections dealing with the most recent developments in science, and a fully updated and expanded list of problems.

The Canon

Author : Natalie Angier
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547348568
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Canon written by Natalie Angier and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller that makes scientific subjects both understandable and fun: “Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm.” —Richard Dawkins From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times science journalist and bestselling author of Woman, this is a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us (and inside us)—from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and more. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world’s top scientists, Natalie Angier creates a thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. For those who want a fuller understanding of some of the great issues of our time, The Canon offers insights on stem cells, bird flu, evolution, and global warming. For students—or parents whose kids ask a lot of questions about how the world works—it brings to life such topics as how the earth was formed, or what electricity is. Also included are clear, fascinating explanations of how to think scientifically and grasp the tricky subject of probability. The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines that reignites our childhood delight and sense of wonder—and along the way, tells us what is actually happening when our ice cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat a caramel, why the horse is an example of evolution at work, and how we’re all really made of stardust.

Globalizing Race

Author : Dorian Bell
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810136902
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Race written by Dorian Bell and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalizing Race explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Morès to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France’s colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form—and that, conversely, antisemitism influenced the elaboration of the imperial project itself. Globalizing Race radiates from France to place authors like Guy de Maupassant and Émile Zola into sustained relation with thinkers from across the ideological spectrum, including Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Engaging with what has been called the “spatial turn” in social theory, the book offers new tools for thinking about how racisms interact across space and time. Among these is what Bell calls racial scalarity. Race, Bell argues, did not just become globalized when European racism and antisemitism accompanied imperial penetration into the farthest reaches of the world. Rather, race became most thoroughly global as a method for constructing and negotiating the different scales (national, global, etc.) necessary for the development of imperial capitalism. As France, Europe, and the world confront a rising tide of Islamophobia, Globalizing Race also brings into fascinating focus how present-day French responses to Muslim antisemitism hark back to older, problematic modes of representing the European colonial periphery.

Bodies and Artefacts: Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics (2 vols.)

Author : Joseph Fracchia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004471596
Total Pages : 1450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Bodies and Artefacts: Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics (2 vols.) written by Joseph Fracchia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an offhand, never systematically elaborated comment Karl Marx deemed ‘human corporeal organisation’ the ‘first fact for the study of human history’. This book explores the implications of Marx’s radically corporeal insight for historical-materialist analysis of socio-economic and cultural forms.

Why Evolution is True

Author : Jerry A. Coyne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164384X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Why Evolution is True written by Jerry A. Coyne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.

Modern Peoplehood

Author : John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289781
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Modern Peoplehood written by John Lie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—'well-read' mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive, historically grounded theory of 'modern peoplehood,' which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names 'race,' 'ethnicity,' and nationality.'" Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Lie's objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls 'modern peoplehood.' His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University and author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded)

Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340406
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded) written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-06-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."

Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness

Author : Rupert Glasgow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3958260780
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness written by Rupert Glasgow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness, R.D.V. Glasgow seeks to ground the logical roots of consciousness in what he has previously called the 'minimal self'. The idea is that elementary forms of consciousness are logically dependent not, as is commonly assumed, on ownership of an anatomical brain or nervous system, but on the intrinsic reflexivity that defines minimal selfhood. The aim of the book is to trace the logical pathway by which minimal selfhood gives rise to the possible appearance of consciousness. It is argued that in specific circumstances it thus makes sense to ascribe elementary consciousness to certain predatory single-celled organisms such as amoebae and dinoflagellates as well as to some of the simpler animals. Such an argument involves establishing exactly what those specific circumstances are and determining how elementary consciousness differs in nature and scope from its more complex manifestations.

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus

Author : Eugene W. Holland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134829469
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus written by Eugene W. Holland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene W. Holland provides an excellent introduction to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus which is widely recognized as one of the most influential texts in philosophy to have appeared in the last thirty years. He lucidly presents the theoretical concerns behind Anti-Oedipus and explores with clarity the diverse influences of Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Kant on the development of Deleuze & Guattari's thinking. He also examines the wider implications of their work in revitalizing Marxism, environmentalism, feminism and cultural studies.