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Congratulations to Dr. Judea Pearl! Winner of the 2011 Harvey Prize!
The Technion's 2011 Harvey Prize is awarded to Prof. Pearl in recognition of his foundational work that has touched a multitude of spheres of modern life.
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Judea Pearl, AI's Hall of Fame
Cambridge University Press congratulates Dr. Judea Pearl on his 2011 induction to the first ever IEEE Intelligent System's Inaugural "AI Hall of Fame".
Ethics and the Media
Provides an ethical framework that addresses the issues of a global, interactive media produced by both citizens and professionals.
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Should Race Matter?
In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by five important and widely contested racial practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech restrictions, hate crime laws, and racial profiling. He arrives at an unusual and unorthodox set of conclusions, one that is neither liberal nor conservative, color conscious nor color blind.
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Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
This book demonstrates the rich diversity and depth of political philosophy in the twentieth century in essays on the lives and works of eighteen eminent political theorists, including representatives of the three main political alternatives – liberal, fascist, and communist – in the first half of the century, émigrés like Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss who brought a continental perspective to the United States after World War II, and more recent defenders and critics of liberalism.
- $95.00 (C)
Agro-Technology
A thorough analysis of agro-biotechnology for students including objections, purported benefits and harms, legal/ethical concerns and organic agriculture.
- $90.00 (C)
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Presents a detailed assessment of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia and analyses its contribution to political philosophy.
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The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics
This book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes, providing an unusually wide-ranging history that includes both analytic and non-analytic schools of thought. It also provides a compelling case for why metaphysics matters and how it can help us to cope with continually changing demands on our humanity by making sense of things in ways that are radically new.
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Leibniz
In this first intellectual biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), Maria Rosa Antognazza surveys the full range of the philosopher's interests and activities and offers a unified portrait of a unique thinker, identifying the master project that inspired and coordinated his huge range of apparently miscellaneous endeavors.
- $29.99 (G)
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