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The Structure of Moral Revolutions : Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution / Robert BAKER / MIT PRESS (2019)
Titre : The Structure of Moral Revolutions : Studies of Changes in the Morality of Abortion, Death, and the Bioethics Revolution Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Robert BAKER Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262043083 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : A theoretical account of moral revolutions, illustrated by historical cases that include the criminalization and decriminalization of abortion and the patient rebellion against medical paternalism. We live in an age of moral revolutions in which the once morally outrageous has become morally acceptable, and the formerly acceptable is now regarded as reprehensible. Attitudes toward same-sex love, for example, and the proper role of women, have undergone paradigm shifts over the last several decades. In this book, Robert Baker argues that these inversions are the product of moral revolutions that follow a pattern similar to that of the scientific revolutions analyzed by Thomas Kuhn in his influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. After laying out the theoretical terrain, Baker develops his argument with examples of moral reversals from the recent and distant past. He describes the revolution, led by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, that transformed the postmortem dissection of human bodies from punitive desecration to civic virtue; the criminalization of abortion in the nineteenth century and its decriminalization in the twentieth century; and the invention of a new bioethics paradigm in the 1970s and 1980s, supporting a patient-led rebellion against medical paternalism. Finally, Baker reflects on moral relativism, arguing that the acceptance of ?absolute? moral truths denies us the diversity of moral perspectives that permit us to alter our morality in response to changing environments. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88875557 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=495199 The Synthetic Age - Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World / Christopher J. PRESTON / MIT PRESS (2019)
Titre : The Synthetic Age - Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Christopher J. PRESTON Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262037617 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.
We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The Synthetic Age, Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about this coming epoch is not only how much impact humans have had but, more important, how much deliberate shaping they will start to do. Emerging technologies promise to give us the power to take over some of Nature's most basic operations. It is not just that we are exiting the Holocene and entering the Anthropocene; it is that we are leaving behind the time in which planetary change is just the unintended consequence of unbridled industrialism. A world designed by engineers and technicians means the birth of the planet's first Synthetic Age.
Preston describes a range of technologies that will reconfigure Earth's very metabolism: nanotechnologies that can restructure natural forms of matter; ?molecular manufacturing? that offers unlimited repurposing; synthetic biology's potential to build, not just read, a genome; ?biological mini-machines? that can outdesign evolution; the relocation and resurrection of species; and climate engineering attempts to manage solar radiation by synthesizing a volcanic haze, cool surface temperatures by increasing the brightness of clouds, and remove carbon from the atmosphere with artificial trees that capture carbon from the breeze.
What does it mean when humans shift from being caretakers of the Earth to being shapers of it? And in whom should we trust to decide the contours of our synthetic future? These questions are too important to be left to the engineers.
Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88866600 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=484546 The Technology Fallacy : How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation / Gerald C. KANE / MIT PRESS (2019)
Titre : The Technology Fallacy : How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Gerald C. KANE Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262039680 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology.Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions?but it is not a book about technology. It is about the organizational changes required to harness the power of technology. The authors argue that digital disruption is primarily about people and that effective digital transformation involves changes to organizational dynamics and how work gets done. A focus only on selecting and implementing the right digital technologies is not likely to lead to success. The best way to respond to digital disruption is by changing the company culture to be more agile, risk tolerant, and experimental.The authors draw on four years of research, conducted in partnership with MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte, surveying more than 16,000 people and conducting interviews with managers at such companies as Walmart, Google, and Salesforce. They introduce the concept of digital maturity?the ability to take advantage of opportunities offered by the new technology?and address the specifics of digital transformation, including cultivating a digital environment, enabling intentional collaboration, and fostering an experimental mindset. Every organization needs to understand its ?digital DNA? in order to stop ?doing digital? and start ?being digital.?Digital disruption won't end anytime soon; the average worker will probably experience numerous waves of disruption during the course of a career. The insights offered by The Technology Fallacy will hold true through them all.A book in the Management on the Cutting Edge series, published in cooperation with MIT Sloan Management Review. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88867604 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=484918
Titre : A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Eric SCHWITZGEBEL Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262043090 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : A collection of quirky, entertaining, and reader-friendly short pieces on philosophical topics that range from a theory of jerks to the ethics of ethicists. Have you ever wondered about why some people are jerks? Asked whether your driverless car should kill you so that others may live? Found a robot adorable? Considered the ethics of professional ethicists? Reflected on the philosophy of hair? In this engaging, entertaining, and enlightening book, Eric Schwitzgebel turns a philosopher's eye on these and other burning questions. In a series of quirky and accessible short pieces that cover a mind-boggling variety of philosophical topics, Schwitzgebel offers incisive takes on matters both small (the consciousness of garden snails) and large (time, space, and causation). A common theme might be the ragged edge of the human intellect, where moral or philosophical reflection begins to turn against itself, lost among doubts and improbable conclusions. The history of philosophy is humbling when we see how badly wrong previous thinkers have been, despite their intellectual skills and confidence. (See, for example, ?Kant on Killing Bastards, Masturbation, Organ Donation, Homosexuality, Tyrants, Wives, and Servants.?) Some of the texts resist thematic categorization?thoughts on the philosophical implications of dreidels, the diminishing offensiveness of the most profane profanity, and fatherly optimism?but are no less interesting. Schwitzgebel has selected these pieces from the more than one thousand that have appeared since 2006 in various publications and on his popular blog, The Splintered Mind, revising and updating them for this book. Philosophy has never been this much fun. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88875392 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=493394 Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? : Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities / Karen CHAPPLE / MIT PRESS (2019)
Titre : Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? : Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Karen CHAPPLE Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262039840 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning literature and various policy interventions in recent decades, we still understand little about what happens to neighborhoods and residents with the development of transit systems and the trend toward more compact cities. Research has failed to determine why some neighborhoods change both physically and socially while others do not, and how race and class shape change in the twenty-first-century context of growing inequality. Drawing on novel methodological approaches, this book sheds new light on the question of who benefits and who loses from more compact development around new transit stations. Building on data at multiple levels, it connects quantitative analysis on regional patterns with qualitative research through interviews, field observations, and photographic documentation in twelve different California neighborhoods. From the local to the regional to the global, Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris examine the phenomena of neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement not only through an empirical lens but also from theoretical and historical perspectives. Growing out of an in-depth research process that involved close collaboration with dozens of community groups, the book aims to respond to the needs of both advocates and policymakers for ideas that work in the trenches. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88867619 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=484910 Value Sensitive Design : Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination / Batya FRIEDMAN / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkPermalinkWhen Innovation Moves at Digital Speed : Strategies and Tactics to Provoke, Sustain, and Defend Innovation in Today's Unsettled Markets / Mit Sloan Management REVIEW / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkWhen the President Calls - Conversations with Economic Policymakers / Simon W. BOWMAKER / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkWho Wins in a Digital World? : Strategies to Make Your Organization Fit for the Future / Mit Sloan Management REVIEW / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkPermalinkWriters in the Secret Garden : Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring / Cecilia ARAGON / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkAlice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire : The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta / Thomas LIN / MIT PRESS (2018)PermalinkPermalinkCulture Is Not Always Popular : Fifteen Years of Design Observer / Michael BIERUT / MIT PRESS (2018)Permalink
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