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2017 |
![]() ![]() Author: Atlan Henri Publisher: EDB «Supponiamo di riuscire un giorno a spiegare meccanicamente l'insieme dei nostri comportamenti e delle scelte che riteniamo libere. Significherebbe la fine della moralità, della responsabilità e della vita sociale?». Fino alla seconda metà del secolo scorso eravamo convinti che i nostri atti fossero la conseguenza di libere decisioni. Biologia e neuroscienze dimostrano invece che alcuni dei nostri comportamenti, dei nostri sentimenti e delle nostre passioni sono determinati da fenomeni biologici oltre che da meccanismi sociali, psicologici e linguistici. Quando si scopre che una decisione è condizionata da uno scompenso ormonale, una disposizione genetica, un particolare contesto sociale o culturale l'idea che possiamo liberamente decidere dei nostri atti viene drasticamente rovesciata. Ma in un mondo interamente determinato possono ancora esistere libertà, vita sociale e morale? La tradizione etica di cui siamo eredi afferma che in assenza di libero arbitrio, non c'è nemmeno libertà, responsabilità e morale. È dunque possibile concepire una libertà diversa dal libero arbitrio? E pensare una diversa responsabilità e una diversa morale a partire dagli scenari e dai meccanismi che la scienza ci rivela? € 12,50
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Atlan Henri, Schott Nils F. (TRN) Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr We can calculate financial fraud, but how do we measure bad faith? How can we evaluate the words of the pharmaceutical industry or of eco-scientific ideologies, or the subtle deception found in political scheming? Henri Atlan sheds light on these questions through the concept of ona'ah, which in Hebrew refers to both fraud in financial transactions and the verbal injury inflicted by speech. The world of ona'ah is a world of an 'in-between,' where the impossible purity of absolute Platonic truth gives way to a more relative notion—the near-theft, the quasi-lie. Today it seems that no discourse is safe from fraudulent excesses, be they intentional or no. As both philosopher and biologist, Atlan works on several registers. He forges links between the Talmud, the Kabbalah, and the big questions of our time, multiplying the bridges between science, philosophy, and current ethical dilemmas. In a context of financial and moral crises that appear to be weakening our democracies, Henri Atlan's work allows us to rethink the status of fraud in the contemporary world. € 23,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Atlan Henri, Schramm Lenn J. (TRN) Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr In this second volume of The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan pursues his investigation of human life, which he grounds in a distinctive intermingling of the biological and cognitive sciences and traditions of Jewish thought. The Atheism of Scripture offers up a paradox: its audacious thesis is that the Word or revealed scripture can be better understood without God. It must be decrypted or analyzed atheistically, that is, not as divine revelation, but in and of itself. The first part of the book addresses contemporary science. It puts the evolution of ideas about life and knowledge as conceived by today's biological and cognitive sciences into perspective and shows how the genealogy of ethics must be approached in a new way. The second part takes up this challenge by putting classical philosophy in dialogue with the Talmud and the Kabbalah to advance a non-dualistic anthropology of the body and the mind. € 29,00
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1910 |
![]() ![]() Author: Atlan Henri, Schramm Lenn J. (TRN) Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan's magnum opus, develops his whole philosophy with a highly impressive display of knowledge, wisdom, depth, rigor, and intellectual and moral vigor. Atlan founds an ethics adapted to the new power over life that modern scientific knowledge has given us. He holds that the results of science cannot ground any ethical or political truth whatsoever, while human creative activity and the conquest of knowledge are a double-edged sword. This first volume, Spermatic Knowledge, begins with the Talmudic tale about the prophet Jeremiah's creation of a golem, or artificial man. Atlan shows that the Jewish tradition does not demonize man for creating and changing living things---a charge often leveled at promoters of advanced technologies, like biologists, who are accused of 'playing God.' To the contrary, man is depicted as being the co-creator of the world. Although Atlan believes that the fabrication of life 'from scratch' will take place in the near future, he posits that this achievement will not really amount to creating life: current biology and biotechnologies have demonstrated that there is no absolute distinction between life and non-life, no critical threshold whose crossing would be taboo. He also debunks and demystifies our belief in free will and our conviction, of theological origin, that there would be no possibility for ethics if free will were shown to be an illusion. Throughout, he combines science, religion, and ancient and modern philosophy in unexpected and inspired ways. His radical, uncompromising Spinozism allows him to propose a complete revision of cognitive science and philosophy of mind, while showing that their current impasses stem from remnants of traditional dualism. From his brilliant reflections on time, he also derives exciting considerations for medicine and epidemiology. 'As a physician, biologist, and philosopher, Henri Atlan is a preeminent French intellectual. This book is not only fundamental for the future of biology, cognitive science, and the human sciences in general, but also constitutes one of the most important readings of Spinoza ever produced.'---Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Stanford University € 28,10
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2006 |
![]() ![]() Author: Atlan Henri Publisher: Giuffrè € 14,00
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1995 |
![]() ![]() Author: Atlan Henri; Isola S. (cur.) Publisher: Hopefulmonster € 18,08
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1989 |
![]() ![]() Author: Atlan Henri Publisher: Hopefulmonster € 20,66
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1986 |
![]() ![]() Author: Atlan Henri; Isola S. (cur.) Publisher: Hopefulmonster € 18,59
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