The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human beings, of the meaning of human life, and of the place of death in life. It is an essay in philosophical anthropology: the study of the conceptual framework in terms of which we think about, speak about, and investigate homo sapiens as a social and cultural animal. This volume examines the diversity of values in human life and the place of mora...

« Richard : La chose est claire ! Avoir un esprit est comparable au fait d’avoir des aptitudes – non à celui d’avoir une maison ou une voiture. Faire quelque chose avec son esprit n’a rien à voir avec le fait de faire quelque chose avec un marteau, mais plutôt avec le fait de réaliser quelque chose grâce à ses talents.Alan : Tout à fait. Nous ne pensons ni ne raisonnons avec rien – si ce n’est avec un crayon à la main.Jill : Nous faisons pourtant bien ...

Just as a professional athlete doesn’t show up without a solid game plan, ethical hackers, IT professionals, and security researchers should not be unprepared, either. The Hacker Playbook provides them their own game plans. Written by a longtime security professional and CEO of Secure Planet, LLC, this step-by-step guide to the “game” of penetration hacking features hands-on examples and helpful advice from the top of the field.Through a series of football-style “plays,” this strai...

In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive neuroscientists. Their position is then criticized by Daniel Dennett and John Searle, two philosophers who have written extensive...

This highly accessible account offers an illuminating introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and to his conception of philosophy. Combining passages from Wittgenstein's writings with detailed interpretation and commentary, Hacker leads us into a world of philosophical investigation in which 'to smell a rat is ever so much easier than to trap it.'Wittgenstein claimed that the role of philosophy is to dissolve conceptual confusions, to untie the knots in our understanding ...

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. Insights are gleaned through the prism of the philosophical, built, performative, political, and int...

An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists answ...

First published in 1993, The Ultimate Cigar Book has become a classic in its field, and is generally credited with having helped launch the current cigar-smoking craze. It has been reprinted numerous times in the United States, and is now sold worldwide. No other book contains as much detailed and factual information on virtually every facet of cigar making and cigar smoking. Now we present an audio edition of the beloved fourth edition for the audio-loving aficionado of the futur...

Die Insolvenzanfechtung ist ein wichtiges Instrument, um die Insolvenzmasse zu mehren. Der Autor beschäftigt sich mit den Mitteln, die dem Insolvenzverwalter zur Ermittlung und gerichtsfesten Substantiierung von Insolvenzanfechtungsansprüchen zur Verfügung stehen. Dabei geht er in einem ersten Schritt nicht nur auf die Auskunftspflichten des Anfechtungsgegners ein. Der Autor nimmt vielmehr auch insolvenzspezifische Informations- und Auskunftsquellen des Insolvenzverwalters sowie zu seinen ...

Sir Anthony Kenny is one of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of our time. In the wide range and historical breadth of his interests, he has influenced many parts of the philosophical landscape, especially in the philosophy of mind and the theory of human action and responsibility. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, who have played down philosophy's debt to its past, Kenny's work has always been rooted in the great tradition of Western philosophical inquiry. Mind...

„Das wird eine andere Geschichte, tröstete ich ihn, sie steht in einem anderen Buch", heißt es in Katharina Hackers Roman «Die Gäste», der vom Erbe eines Berliner Cafés in Pandemiezeiten erzählt. Der präzise Blick auf Zeitgeschehen aus der Perspektive einer Vielzahl von Geschichten, die Fragen nach dem sozialen Zusammenhalt in der Gegenwart thematisieren, charakterisiert das Werk Katharina Hackers. Dabei wird der jüdisch-deutschen Geschichte, dem Erinnern und Vergessen der Shoa, zentrale B...

Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon—both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third functio...