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Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Playwright and novelist Frayn takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives. Humankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would there be numbers if there were no one to count them? With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work...
7) Spheres
Author
Series
Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time. Rejecting the century's predominant philosophical focus on temporality, Sloterdijk, a self-described "student of the air," reinterprets the history of Western metaphysics as an inherently spatial and immunological project, from the discovery of self (bubble) to the exploration of world...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
12) Historia visual de la inteligencia: de los orígenes de la humanidad a la inteligencia artificial
Author
Publisher
Conecta
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
En este libro he pretendido contar la historia de nuestra inteligencia, que no es una realidad estática como la calcopirita, sino una creación evolutiva o, más aún, una autocreación evolutiva. La inteligencia humana se crea a sí misma. Ésta es la fantástica aventura que he querido contar en los dos formatos que nos han acompañado desde que nuestra especie comenzó a decorar las cuevas: el lingüístico y el visual. Decía el gran poeta Paul...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
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