Mark Rowlands

A young philosophy professor describes his adoption of a wolf cub named Brenin who came to impact every facet of the author's life and prompted his reevaluation of his attitudes toward relationships, nature, and emotions.

Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness

The Philosopher and the Wolf

'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two - running and philosophising - are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life - from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches and up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, and through Florida swamps more recently with his dog Nina. Intertwined with this honest, passionate and witty memoir are the fascinating meditations that those runs triggered. He ends by describing running a mid-life marathon with absolutely no training. Woven throughout the book are profound meditations on mortailty, midlife and the meaning of life. This is a highly original and moving book that will make the philosophically inclined want to run, and those who love running become intoxicated by philosophical ideas.

Running with the Pack

Argues that philosophy hasn't died in our modern cultureless culture; it has merely relocated. Looks at 8 American TV shows, all broadcast in Australia.

Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato

Everything I Know I Learned from TV

There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands investigates the conceptual foundations of this new science of the mind. Traditional attempts to study the mind are based on the idea that mental processes—perceiving, remembering, thinking, reasoning—exist in brains; they are often described as "software" realized by the "hardware" of the brain. The new way of thinking about the mind has emerged from the confluence of various disciplines in cognitive science ranging from perceptual and developmental psychology to robotics. It emphasizes the ways in which mental processes are embodied (partly made up of extra-neural bodily structures and processes), embedded (designed to function in tandem with the environment), enacted (constituted in part by action), and extended (located in the environment). The new way of thinking about the mind, Rowlands writes, is actually an old way of thinking that has taken on new form. Rowlands describes a conception of mind that had its clearest expression in phenomenology—in the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. He builds on these views, clarifies and renders consistent the ideas of embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended mind, and develops a unified philosophical treatment of the novel conception of the mind that underlies the new science of the mind.

From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology

The New Science of the Mind

In recent years the ways in which humans treat animals has come to hold a central place in contemporary ethics, encapsulating, as it does, our increasingly strained relationship with our environment as well as overlapping with other global issues such as overpopulation and hunger. Animal Rights: All That Matters is a compelling account of some of the often bitterly contentious debates surrounding animal ethics. Starting from the key argument that - ethically speaking - there is far less difference between humans and animals than has conventionally been allowed, Mark Rowlands goes on to explore and illuminate a host of contemporary issues - from farming and animal experimentation to hunting and the preservation of endangered species . This accessible and readable book will appeal to both students and general readers, giving a fascinating introduction to animal rights - and what matters most about them -- P. 4 of cover.

Animal rights

Il lupo e il filosofo. Lezioni di vita dalla natura selvaggia

Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger

Sci-Phi

This provocative, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining guide explains the basics of philosophy as seen through today's blockbuster science fiction movies.

Philosophy Explained Through Science Fiction Films

The Philosopher at the End of the Universe

فیلسوف و گرگ

Was verbindet Neo, den Protagonisten aus Matrix, und René Descartes? Beide rätseln, ob die Wirklichkeit existiert. Die zentralen Thesen der Philosophie lassen sich aus ein paar Science-Fiction-Filmen herausfiltern. Denn viele von ihnen enthalten komplexe Fragestellungen, und die Aliens und fremden Welten lassen uns unser eigenes Universum besser verstehen. Der Philosophieprofessor Mark Rowlands hat sich einige der populärsten Science-Fiction-Filme vorgenommen und zeigt, dass in ihnen die großen philosophischen Fragen unserer Zeit verhandelt werden: Tod und Sinn des Lebens in Blade Runner, Identität in Total Recall, Gut und Böse in Star Wars und die Frage, ob es einen freien Willen gibt, in Minority Report. Descartes, Nietzsche, Kant, Sartre oder Kierkegaard – ihre Ideen lassen sich ohne weiteres an einigen Blockbustern erläutern, die tiefgründiger sind als ihr Ruf ahnen lässt und damit dem von Rowlands definierten Genre der Sci-Phi angehören. Mit Humor und Begeisterung verbindet »Der Leinwandphilosoph« Film und Philosophie. Rowlands verzichtet auf akademische Posen und zeigt, dass jeder von uns die großen Denker bequem im Fernsehsessel mit einer Tüte Popcorn in der Hand begreifen kann.

Große Theorien von Aristoteles bis Schwarzenegger

Der Leinwandphilosoph

The US Food and Drug Administration has expressed fears that as many as 500 or 600 toxic chemicals may be present in the country's meat supply.

Animals Like Us

Philosophical tradition has apparently convincing arguments on its side.

Can Animals Be Moral?

Putting Mind and World Back Together Again

Externalism

Framed by the story of a son finding his late father’s journal, a meditation on love, meaning, and morality by the author of The Philosopher and the Wolf. Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day—and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions, and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered in 2054 by his son after Myshkin's death in the Florida Keys, A Good Life is one man's reckoning with the life he has led and the choices he made. It is at once a philosophical handbook for living and a page-turning narrative, following one man's life (birth, death, education, religion, morality, illness, and so on) told through a philosophical lens. It is a riveting examination of the ethical questions we face, and the decisions we must make, and a defense of the idea that at the beating heart of morality we find love. Sometimes profoundly funny, sometimes deeply serious, A Good Life is as readable as a novel and as provocative as the best philosophy. It is the finest work to date by a charming and brilliant thinker. “A lovely writer, funny and moving.”—Observer

Philosophy from Cradle to Grave

A Good Life

One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Rowlands argues that our obsession with fame has transformed it. Fame was once associated with excellence or achievement in some or other field of endeavour. But today we are obsessed with something that is, in effect, quite different: fame unconnected with any discernible distinction, fame that allows a person to be famous simply for being famous. This book shows why this new fame is simultaneously fascinating and worthless. To understand this new form of fame, Rowlands maintains, we have to engage in an extensive philosophical excavation that takes us back to a dispute that began in ancient Greece between Plato and Protagoras, and was carried on in a remarkable philosophical experiment that began in eighteenth-century France. Somewhat like contestants on a reality TV show, today we find ourselves, unwittingly, playing out the consequences of this experiment.

Fame

Mark Rowlands develops an innovative and radical account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, with significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. He argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology, and cognitive science.

The Nature of Consciousness

'This moving account of the life [Rowlands] lived with an adopted wolf will be recognized as a seminal work of philosophy that forces us to re-evaluate our view of the human animal' John Gray, author of Straw Dogs

Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death and Happiness

'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two - running and philosophising - are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life: from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches and up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, and through Florida swamps more recently with his dog Nina. Woven throughout the book are profound meditations on mortality, middle age and the meaning of life. This is a highly original and moving book that will make the philosophically inclined want to run, and those who love running become intoxicated by philosophical ideas.

Thoughts From the Road on Meaning and Mortality

O Filosofo e o Lobo

Paul Williams

Ian Cook

Brian Jefferson

David Bowles

Katie Wood

Eddie Mullan

Garry Wiseman

John Rayneau

Mike Heylings

Rob Wagner

Tony Beadsworth

C P Rourke

Mark Gaulter

Brian Gaulter

Robert Smedley

Graham Upton

Thorning

Sadler

This Student Book provides full support for year two of an Edexcel A Level course. Written by a well recognised author team of experienced teachers, this book supports the major changes in assessment style. Using clear and concise explanations, and abundant worked examples, it covers all the pure, mechanics and statistics content needed.

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