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Science and Technology
Embodying Art
How We See, Think, Feel, and Create
Chiara Cappelletto Translated by Samuel Fleck
Chiara Cappelletto recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself to personal experience in the world. Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artifact.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19587-4 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19586-7 November 2022 280 pages Balance
How It Works and What It Means Paul Thagard
Paul Thagard explores the physiological workings and metaphorical resonance of balance in the brain, the body, and society. Bridging philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Balance shows how an unheralded concept’s many meanings illuminate the human condition.
$32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20558-0 2022 352 pages 38 illus.
Great Minds Don’t Think Alike
Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human Edited and with commentary by Marcelo Gleiser
Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20411-8 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20410-1 2022 280 pages
Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel
Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis Edited by Christina Schües
Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing, has changed the experience of pregnancy and prenatal care. This book presents conversations between leading scholars from Israel and Germany, featuring analyses of the reshaping of life by biomedicine and philosophical reflections on sociocultural claims and responsibilities.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-5988-7 November 2022 280 pages
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Social Robotics and the Good Life
The Normative Side of Forming Emotional Bonds With Robots Edited by Janina Loh and Wulf Loh
Robots as social companions to humans have a strong potential of becoming more prevalent in the realms of elder day care, child rearing, and education. We need to answer ethical questions that concern human-robot-interactions, and how we conceive of “good lives,” as aspects of our daily lives will be interwoven with social robots.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-6265-8 November 2022 300 pages
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Bernoulli’s Fallacy
Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science Aubrey Clayton
Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it.
$34.95 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19994-0 2021 368 pages Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation
Current Debates and International Perspectives Edited by Solveig Lena Hansen and Silke Schicktanz
This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. It covers core issues in the global ethical debate such as donating, procuring, allocating, and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4643-6 2021 358 pages
