Sentient Subjects


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Sentient Subjects


Sentient Subjects
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Author : Gerda Roelvink
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-27

Sentient Subjects written by Gerda Roelvink and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-27 with Philosophy categories.


Non-cognitive expressions of the life of the subject – feeling, motion, tactility, instinct, automatism, and sentience – have transformed how scholars understand subjectivity, agency and identity. This collection investigates the critical purchase of the idiom of affect in this ‘post-humanist’ thinking of the subject. It also explores political and ethical questions raised by the deployment of affect as a theoretical and artistic category. Together the contributors to this collection map the theoretically heterogeneous field of post-humanist scholarship on affect, making inspiring, and at times surprising, connections between Spinoza’s and Tomkins’s theories of affect, the concept of affect and psychoanalysis, and affect and animal studies in art and literature. As a result, the concepts, vocabulary, compatibility, and attribution of affect are challenged and extended. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.



Sentient Lands


Sentient Lands
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Author : Piergiorgio Di Giminiani
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2018-11-20

Sentient Lands written by Piergiorgio Di Giminiani and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-20 with Social Science categories.


In 1990, when Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year military dictatorship ended, democratic rule returned to Chile. Since then, Indigenous organizations have mobilized to demand restitution of their ancestral territories seized over the past 150 years. Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people’s engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and indigeneity to illustrate how land connections are articulated, in both landscape experiences and land claims. Rather than viewing land claims as simply bureaucratic procedures imposed on local understandings and experiences of land connections, Di Giminiani reveals these processes to be disputed practices of world making. Ancestral land formation is set in motion by the entangled principles of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, two very different and sometimes conflicting processes. Indigenous land ontologies are based on a relation between two subjects—land and people—both endowed with sentient abilities. By contrast, legal land ontologies are founded on the principles of property theory, wherein land is an object of possession that can be standardized within a regime of value. Governments also use land claims to domesticate Indigenous geographies into spatial constructs consistent with political and market configurations. Exploring the unexpected effects on political activism and state reparation policies caused by this entanglement of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, Di Giminiani offers a new analytical angle on Indigenous land politics.



On Intelligence


On Intelligence
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Author : Hippolyte Taine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875

On Intelligence written by Hippolyte Taine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.




The Origin Of Ideas


The Origin Of Ideas
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Author : Antonio Rosmini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

The Origin Of Ideas written by Antonio Rosmini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.




Southasia


Southasia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

Southasia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with South Asia categories.




Legal Personhood Animals Artificial Intelligence And The Unborn


Legal Personhood Animals Artificial Intelligence And The Unborn
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Author : Visa A.J. Kurki
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-03-23

Legal Personhood Animals Artificial Intelligence And The Unborn written by Visa A.J. Kurki and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-23 with Law categories.


This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights. The essays address analytic-descriptive questions, such as what legal personality actually means, and normative questions, such as who or what should be recognised as a legal person. As is well-known among jurists, the law has a special conception of personhood: corporations are persons, whereas slaves have traditionally been considered property rather than persons. This odd state of affairs has not garnered the interest of legal theorists for a while and the theory of legal personhood has been a relatively peripheral topic in jurisprudence for at least 50 years. As readers will see, there have recently been many developments and debates that justify a theoretical investigation of this topic. Animal rights activists have been demanding that some animals be recognized as legal persons. The field of robotics has prompted questions about driverless cars: should they be granted a limited legal personality, so that the car itself would be responsible for damages? This book explores such concepts and touches on matters of bioethics, animal law and medical law. It includes matters of legal history and appeals to both legal scholars and philosophers, especially those with an interest in theories of law and the philosophy of law.



The Moral Rights Of Animals


The Moral Rights Of Animals
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Author : Mylan Engel
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-03-16

The Moral Rights Of Animals written by Mylan Engel and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-16 with Philosophy categories.


Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the challenges posed by rights nihilism, the “kind” argument against animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and whether to hunt animals. Unlike other volumes on animal rights, which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic, this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics, applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in improving the treatment of animals.



The Subject And The Scientist


The Subject And The Scientist
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Author : Montana Stayer
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-02-18

The Subject And The Scientist written by Montana Stayer and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Fiction categories.


A morally questionable scientist accidentally created a sentient child in an attempt to save his dying daughter but his daughter died, leaving him with his ""experiment"". (Special Hardcover Edition with Art from 2020)



Frame Constructional Verb Classes


Frame Constructional Verb Classes
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Author : Ryan Dux
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-11-15

Frame Constructional Verb Classes written by Ryan Dux and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


While verb classes are a mainstay of linguistic research, the field lacks consensus on precisely what constitutes a verb class. This book presents a novel approach to verb classes, employing a bottom-up, corpus-based methodology and combining key insights from Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Valency Grammar. On this approach, verb classes are formulated at varying granularity levels to adequately capture both the shared semantic and syntactic properties unifying verbs of a class and the idiosyncratic properties unique to individual verbs. In-depth analyses based on this approach shed light on the interrelations between verbs, frame-semantics, and constructions, and on the semantic richness and network organization of grammatical constructions. This approach is extended to a comparison of Change and Theft verbs, revealing unexpected lexical and syntactic differences across semantically distinct classes. Finally, a range of contrastive (German–English) analyses demonstrate how verb classes can inform the cross-linguistic comparison of verbs and constructions.



Sentient


Sentient
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Author : Jackie Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-06-24

Sentient written by Jackie Higgins and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-24 with Science categories.


'Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.' – Financial Times Best Books of the Year 'Lyrical and lucid . . . Higgins makes popular science accessible.' – Observer The peacock mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture aquarium walls. The great grey owl can hear many decibels lower than the human ear. The star-nosed mole’s miraculous nose allows it to catch worms in as little as 120 milliseconds. In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to be human. In it, we also meet the four-eyed spookfish and its dark vision, the vampire bat and its remarkable powers of touch, as well as the common octopus, the Goliath catfish and the duck-billed platypus. Each zoological marvel illustrates the surprising sensory powers that lie within us and enables us to engage with the world in ways we never knew possible.