David Chalmers – författare

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics. This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics. This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics. This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.

Der dritte Band des Jahrbuch für klinische und interdisziplinäre Psychoanalyse nähert sich unter dem Titel »Kunst und Künstlichkeit« zwei Begrifflichkeiten, die beide Kulturleistungen des Menschen bezeichnen und damit auf Verzicht sowie Aneignung, Anerkennung sowie Beherrschung, Gestaltung und Symbolisierung von Natur, Natürlichem und materiell Gesellschaftlichem setzen. Das Konzept Künstlichkeit erfährt nun insbesondere durch den Diskurs um die Künstliche Intelligenz einen immensen und neuen Auftrieb. Ihr wird eine unglaubliche schöpferische Wirkmächtigkeit zugeschrieben, die in Teilen schon heute unsere Realität prägt. Wir können sie als eine Künstlichkeit verstehen, die sich irgendwie unabhängig entwickelt und etwas Eigenes hervorbringt, von dem wir nicht wissen, was es denn eigentlich ist. Was ist überhaupt Künstlichkeit? Kann sich daraus eigenes Leben entwickeln? Kommt ihr eine Form von Bewusstsein zu? Wie können wir mit künstlicher Intelligenz in Verbindung treten und was bedeutet das für uns als Subjekte?

In Backfire: How The Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement, the leading historian of the Ku Klux Klan brings the story of America's oldest terrorist society up-to-date. David Chalmers skillfully shows how Klan violence actually aided the civil rights movement of the 1960s and revolutionized the role of the national government in the protection of civil rights. He follows the forty-year struggle to punish Klan murderers through the courts of Alabama, Georgia, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and how Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center finally found a way to bring the Klan down. As it looks to the future, Backfire examines the emergence of today's violent conspiracies of the white supremacist Right.