Listen to a short interview with Michael Sandel. Host: Chris Gondek. Producer: Heron & Crane. Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic t...(展开全部)

Listen to a short interview with Michael Sandel. Host: Chris Gondek. Producer: Heron & Crane. Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic t...(展开全部)

Digital Ethics in the Age of AI covers the ethical, social, and political implications of AI. Learn about AI's impact on privacy, bias, misinformation, job displacement, and its regulation in the digital age. Key Features Comprehensive coverage of AI ethics and societal implications. Insights into AI’s impact on misinformation, privacy, and job displacement. Practical strategies for addressing bias, governance, and future AI regulation. B

The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed. Rothbard provides a succinct account of the origins of money, showing h...(展开全部)

The Case Against the Fed takes a critical look at the United States Federal Reserve and central banks in general. It details the history of reserve banking and the influence that bankers have had on monetary policy over the last few centuries. The claim that the U.S. Federal Reserve is designed to fight inflation is proven false in this book,--in fact, it is price inflation whi...(展开全部)

The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed. Rothbard calls for the abolition of the central bank and a restoration ...(展开全部)

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Eden...(展开全部)

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Eden...(展开全部)

汉斯·约纳斯，1903年生于德国门兴格拉德巴赫一个犹太家庭。师从胡塞尔、海德格尔和布尔特曼学习。1928年、在海德格尔和布尔特曼那里以论文《诺斯替的概念》（Der Begriff der Gnosis）获得博士学位。1933年，约纳斯迫于“反犹”浪潮离开德国，发誓不征服纳粹绝不返 回祖国。他到了到英格兰、1935年来到巴勒斯坦。1949年移居加拿大、1955年来到美国。在耶路撒冷、加拿大和美国任讲师和教授。1969年，约纳斯参与创立Hastings Center，这个中心致力于从多学科角度研究现代医学与生命技术发展所带来的伦理问题。作为该中心的哲学代言人，约纳斯积极参与到科技伦理的公共讨论当中。1955-1976年间任教于美国纽约的社会研究新学院（New School for Social Research）。1982年至1983年第一次在慕尼黑的路...(展开全部)

Ethics for the Information Age offers students a timely, balanced, and impartial treatment of computer ethics. By including an introduction to ethical theories and material on the history of computing, the text addresses all the topics of the “Social and Professional Issues” in the 2001 Model Curricula for Computing developed by the ACM and IEEE Computer Society. By introducing...(展开全部)