PDF-(EBOOK)-The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas (Untimely Meditations)

Provocative takes on cyberbullshit smartphone zombies instant gratification the traffic school of the information highway and other philosophical concerns of the Internet ageIn The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views social political and ethical challenges as technological problems that can be fixed with the right algorithm the best data or the fastest computer For example the death algorithm is programmed into a driverless car to decide in an emergency whether to plow into a group of pedestrians a mother and child or a brick wall Can such lifeanddeath decisions no longer be left to the individual humanIn these incisive essays Simanowski asks us to consider what it means to be living in a time when the president of the United States declares the mainstream media to be an enemy of the peoplewhile Facebook transforms the people into the enemy of mainstream media Simanowski describes smartphone zombies or smombies who remove themselves from the physical world to the parallel universe of social media networks calls on Adorno to help parse Trumps tweeting considers transmedia cannibalism as written text is transformed into a postliterate object compares the economic and social effects of the sharing economy to a sixteenwheeler running over a plastic bottle on the road and explains why philosophy mat become the most important element in the automotive and technology industries. Inconsolable after the loss of her husband, Natasha Ponente decided to end her life—but then she had a visitor 34, who lives in Melbourne’s Canterbury: “I knew in DEATH?“I saw tha Difficult dilemmas In struggling with the practicalities of M&E of capacity building, I come across seven common and interrelated dilemmas. Different stakeholders bring different agendas to these iss by Marcus Aurelius. Garrett Olsen. Period 4A. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born on April 26, A.D. 121 . Born into a noble family. Parents . died and his grandfather adopted . him . R. eceived . his education from the finest teachers . Meditations of First PhilosophyDescartesThis page copyright BA 445 Lesson B.6 Prisoner Dilemmas. If I ever went to war, . instead of throwing a grenade, I’d throw one of those small pumpkins. Then maybe my enemy would pick up the pumpkin and think about the futility of war. And that would give me the time I need to hit him with a real grenade. . Chathurika Samarasinghe. Dilki . Shehani. Dilemma. A situation in which an individual feels compelled to make a choice between two or more actions that he or she can reasonably and morally justify...!. Presented by . Howard H. Collens . Patricia E. Kefalas Dudek. State Bar of Michigan ELDER Section . Lost in Translation Conference. October 5, 2012. 1. 2. OBJECTIVE. . To answer the question: . One year later - What happens to my digital “stuff” when I die or become disabled?. Dilemmas for the Clinician. Ryan White Annual Conference. Washington, DC November 2012. Jeffrey Beal, MD. Jennifer Janelle, MD. Robert Lawrence, MD. Disclosures. This continuing education activity is managed and accredited by . This valuable guide helps develop the critical thinking skills needed to become effective patient advocates. Pinpointing the systematic methods of reasoning through an ethical dilemma, this is the ultimate resource to resolving ethical issues in a system undergoing fundamental change. The fourth edition reflects contemporary issues such as informed consent, abortion, death and dying, and behavior control. Numerous case studies are also included A provocative and fascinating look at new discoveries about the brain that challenge our ethicsThe rapid advance of scientific knowledge has raised ethical dilemmas that humankind has never before had to address. Questions about the moment when life technically begins and ends or about the morality of genetically designing babies are now relevant and timely. Our ever-increasing knowledge of the workings of the human brain can guide us in the formation of new moral principles in the twenty-first century. In The Ethical Brain, preeminent neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga presents the emerging social and ethical issues arising out of modern-day brain science and challenges the way we look at them. Courageous and thought-provoking -- a work of enormous intelligence, insight, and importance -- this book explores the hitherto uncharted landscape where science and society intersect. The relationship between spirituality and health care has been much discussed in recent years--and Daniel Sulmasy, M.D., is leading the wave. His 1997 book with Paulist, The Healer\'s Calling, has sold over 30,000 copies. And the fact that more and more med schools are teaching courses not just on bioethics but on religion and medicine suggests that this wave is growing. Sulmasy\'s spring 2006 volume with Georgetown, The Rebirth of the Clinic, is a textbook on spirituality and health care. This book is different: it is a work of spirituality, a series of meditations, of inspiration, aimed at health care professionals and all those involved in the care of the sick and dying. Like a Swiss lake, it is clear and deep. Sulmasy draws from philosophical and theological sources--specifically, Hebrew and Christian scripture--to illuminate how the art of healing is integrally tied to a sense of the divine and our ultimate interconnectedness. For example, Sulmasy shows how the ancient wisdom of Sirach speaks to the significance of good health--while not turning health into a golden calf of obsession. And speaking of obsession, Sulmasy compares the prodigal son of the New Testament to the prodigal profession of health care--urging his colleagues to put their patients ahead of their own greed and financial gain. And then there is beauty. Sulmasy reminds readers of the beauty of all god\'s creation--and how that should always trump our cultural and professional attitudes toward obesity and disfigurement. As a Franciscan, Sulmasy does not shy away from his explicit Catholic Christian faith convictions. This may limit his audience. But at the same time, his certitude and his passion that health care must change, that it must recover a theological foundation of fundamental concern for the other, will speak clearly to committed Catholics. A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enlisted to illustrate and buttress moral orders. Revolutionaries and reactionaries alike have appealed to nature to shore up their causes. No amount of philosophical argument or political critique deters the persistent and pervasive temptation to conflate the is of natural orders with the ought of moral orders.In this short, pithy work of philosophical anthropology, Lorraine Daston asks why we continually seek moral orders in natural orders, despite so much good counsel to the contrary. She outlines three specific forms of natural order in the Western philosophical tradition--specific natures, local natures, and universal natural laws--and describes how each of these three natural orders has been used to define and oppose a distinctive form of the unnatural. She argues that each of these forms of the unnatural triggers equally distinctive emotions: horror, terror, and wonder.Daston proposes that human reason practiced in human bodies should command the attention of philosophers, who have traditionally yearned for a transcendent reason, valid for all species, all epochs, even all planets. Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes. His answer is a reasoned “no.” In his view, Americans are merely struggling to find cultural scripts for the exceptional conditions of dying that our social world and medical technologies have thrust upon us. The book-is written in the first-person for a broad audience by a senior anthropologist, making it an authoritative yet accessible textbook for courses on death and dying and American culture-includes contemporary debates about highly visible cases, the definition of death, the status of human remains, aging, and the medicalization of grief-demonstrates persuasively that arguments over death and dying are in fact arguments about what it means to be human in modern America. It’s no secret that this world we live in can be pretty stressful sometimes. If you find yourself feeling out-of-sorts, pick up a book.According to a recent study, reading can significantly reduce stress levels. In as little as six minutes, you can reduce your stress levels by 68%.