Being No-Self and Being Nice, digital original edition

Being No-Self and Being Nice, digital original edition
Author: Owen Flanagan
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0262318881

Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge—a “naturalized” Buddhism? In this BIT, Flanagan connects Buddhist wisdom to the compassion and lovingkindness that Buddhism endorses—linking Buddhism's metaphysics to its ethics.

Brain Growth-The Illusion and the Reality of Being, digital original edition

Brain Growth-The Illusion and the Reality of Being, digital original edition
Author: J. Allan Hobson
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2015-08-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0262330326

In this BIT, a pioneer in sleep and dream science addresses the infant's experience of consciousness, considering developmental factors inaccessible to memory, the continuous evolution of the brain, and the importance of sleep to brain development.

To Be or Not to Be...an Architect?, digital original edition

To Be or Not to Be...an Architect?, digital original edition
Author: Roger K. Lewis
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0262317478

From an essential text for the aspiring architect, this BIT offers realistic, unvarnished advice. A practicing architect and planner, professor of architecture, and architecture columnist offers reasons for becoming an architect (including “creative and intellectual fulfillment,” “love of drawing—without a computer,” and “immortality”) as well as reasons for not becoming an architect (including “lack of work,” “competition,” and “ego vulnerability”).

Virtual Agency, digital original edition

Virtual Agency, digital original edition
Author: Daniel M. Wegner
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 026231973X

Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. This BIT, excerpted from an influential book by the late Daniel Wegner, offers an innovative view of one aspect of free will. Wegner argues that when people project action to imaginary agents, they create virtual agents, apparent sources of their own volition.

No More Mr Nice Guy

No More Mr Nice Guy
Author: Dr Robert A Glover
Publisher: Sanage Publishing House Llp
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-11-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9789391560485

Originally published as an e-book that became a controversial media phenomenon, No More Mr. Nice Guy! landed its author, a certified marriage and family therapist, on The O'Reilly Factor and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Robert Glover has dubbed the "Nice Guy Syndrome" trying too hard to please others while neglecting one's own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness. It's no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frustration at their loved ones, claims Dr. Glover. He explains how they can stop seeking approval and start getting what they want in life, by presenting the information and tools to help them ensure their needs are met, to express their emotions, to have a satisfying sex life, to embrace their masculinity and form meaningful relationships with other men, and to live up to their creative potential.

The Pathway to a Digital Deed.

The Pathway to a Digital Deed.
Author: Charles Moore
Publisher: charles moore
Total Pages: 93
Release:
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The idea of making a deal with a handshake—what we generally call an incomplete contract—makes most of us uncomfortable. While complete contracts are inevitably imperfect; electronic signatures represent legal trickery, which produces incomplete contracts. The legal system via electronic signatures has conjured up a set of unknowables, technical inept, and incomplete set of legal experimentation, which seeks to produce incomplete and legally reputable contracts and agreements. Signatures don’t work very well in a vacuum, and only have meaning when existing alongside something else, the faith we have in the meaning of signatures stems from the mechanisms involved in the use of paper. Electronic signatures are a question of understanding an unknowable technology. Bruce Schneier - a renowned cryptologist - once wrote that “electronic signature” probably is the greatest terminological mistake in the history of cryptology. THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY A SEAL APPLIED TO A PIECE OF PAPER AND LATTER A WET SIGNATURE REMAINS THE GOLD STANDARD OF INTENT AND NON-REPUDIATION.

The Subject, This Inwardly Circumcised Jew, digital original edition

The Subject, This Inwardly Circumcised Jew, digital original edition
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0262318776

Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Slavoj Žižek is interested in the “parallax gap” separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an “impossible short circuit” of levels that can never meet. In this BIT, Žižek draws on Lacan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kant, Hegel, and Marx to explore the philosophical implications of parallax.

Destiny - The Original First Edition

Destiny - The Original First Edition
Author: Peter Karsten
Publisher: Peter Karsten
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

'Destiny - The Original First Edition' is the first self-published book by the author, and has been faithfully been given a new look, but it still retains its original text. The expanded version 'Destiny' the 3rd edition does contain this text albeit amended.

The Puppet Called Theology, digital original edition

The Puppet Called Theology, digital original edition
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 026231875X

Slavoj Žižek, “the wild man of theory” famously mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in his dissections of current intellectual pieties. In this BIT, he considers religion from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis, pondering a dialectical materialist theology and comparing monotheistic and polytheistic violence.

Why There Are No Good Arguments for or against Determinism (or Any Other Thesis That Would Establish or Refute Libertarianism), digital original edition

Why There Are No Good Arguments for or against Determinism (or Any Other Thesis That Would Establish or Refute Libertarianism), digital original edition
Author: Mark Balaguer
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0262319780

Mark Balaguer argues that the question of libertarian free will reduces to a question about indeterminacy—in particular, to a straightforward empirical question about whether certain neural events in our heads are causally undetermined in a certain specific way. In this BIT, refuting arguments both for and against determinism, Balaguer shows that the question of whether human beings possess libertarian free will is a wide-open empirical question.