The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul
With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.
Reflections on Ethical Values in Post(?) Modern American Literature
A university booklet for the students of contemporary American literature. The present collection of essays contains papers examining, or reflecting on, some literary works by American authors, and on some extraliterary phenomena in terms of values: ethical, cultural and aesthetic.
No one has taught more people decorative painting than Hauser, whose first book on the subject sold more than a million copies. This lovely, personal introduction to the basics of capturing flowers features handwritten pages with her reflections, worksheets for each project and brush stroke, patterns, and a photographic breakdown of all the necessary skills.
Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space, and provides reflections upon recent developments in museum architecture and exhibition design.
Composer, conductor, French horn player, publisher, broadcaster and former president of the New England Conservatory of Music, Schuller is a learned authority on jazz and one of the world's best writers on music. Introduced by a formidable pundit, this collection of Schuller's writings brings together pieces on Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Lee Konitz, Sarah Vaughan and the third stream, reflections on the performance of new music (including his own opera The Visitation), esthetic and educational ideals, and objectivity and subjectivity in the arts.
