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Books narrated by Madison Powers

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    Law And Limit The Architecture of the Infinite by Kiet Anh Le

    How Existence Emerges from Law Beyond Time and Space

    by KIET LE ...
    Narrated by MADISON POWERS ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    What if the universe didn't begin with a bang, but with a rule?In Law & Limit: The Architecture of the Infinite, independent theorist Kiet Anh Le redefines the origin of existence itself. Every event, every equation, presupposes structure — meaning that Law, not matter or time, is the true beginning of reality.Through a blend of logic, mathematics, and metaphysics, Le reveals a profound ... Read more

    Free

  • Social Justice

    The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy

    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Livable Planet

    Human Rights in the Global Economy

    Humanity faces an ecological predicament, consisting of a cluster of concurrent, mutually reinforcing crises. They are causally intertwined and resistant to resolution in isolation. In addition to climate disruption, the cluster includes land-system change, loss of biodiversity and biosphere integrity, alteration of biogeochemical cycles, and decreased freshwater availability. Madison Powers ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Structural Injustice

    Power, Advantage, and Human Rights

    Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms. Norms of both kinds are grounded in an account of well-being. Their well-being account provides the foundation for human rights, explains the depth of unfairness of systematic patterns of disadvantage, and locates the unfairness of power relations in forms of ... Read more

    $104.39 CAD

  • Social Justice

    The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy

    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many factors that determine the extent to which people live healthy lives, and fairness is not the only consideration in determining whether a health ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

    Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology ... Read more

    $100.09 CAD

  • Humanity's End

    Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives.Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Dialogues on Human Enhancement

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    Series series Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems
    We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. There are nootropic smart drugs and gene editing that influence the development of the brain. The near future promises cybernetic technologies that can be grafted onto our brains and bodies. The challenge for readers of Dialogues on Human Enhancement is to decide how to respond to ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • How to Think about Progress

    A Skeptic's Guide to Technology

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    How to Think about Progress is an interdisciplinary work exploring whether optimistic claims about technology’s potential stand up to humanity’s most difficult challenges. Will technology solve the problems of climate change, pandemics, cancer, loneliness, unhappiness, and even death? The authors show that techno-hype is all too often accepted because of the horizon bias, i.e. the modern ... Read more

    $42.29 CAD

  • How to Be Human in the Digital Economy

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developments ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Truly Human Enhancement

    A Philosophical Defense of Limits

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Sceptical Optimist

    Why technology isn't the answer to everything

    by Nicholas Agar ...
    The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD