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Bringing together literary scholars, computer scientists, ethicists, philosophers of mind, and scholars from affiliated disciplines, this collection of essays offers important and timely insights into the pasts, presents, and, above all, possible futures of Artificial Intelligence.This book covers topics such as ethics and morality, identity and selfhood, and broader issues about AI, addressing questions about the individual, social, and exist...

Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, grounded in the continuity we find in our streams of consciousness: this is the key to explaining how we can undergo changes but remain the same person. He has original things to say about personal identity, the conditions of our existence and survival, and our relation to our bodies.

This fully revised edition of this standard work on the philosophy of time and space includes two new chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, new material on dynamic time, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and time and consciousness, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage.

This fully revised edition of this standard work on the philosophy of time and space includes two new chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, new material on dynamic time, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and time and consciousness, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage.

An in-depth investigation into the phenomenology of conscious experience - the nature of awareness, introspection, phenomenal space and time consciousness. A fascinating and probing study.

Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, grounded in the continuity we find in our streams of consciousness: this is the key to explaining how we can undergo changes but remain the same person. He has original things to say about personal identity, the conditions of our existence and survival, and our relation to our bodies.

Barry Dainton is professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He works in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and is influenced by current and predicted developments in science and technology. He is the author of three books: The Phenomenal Self, Stream of Consciousness, and Time and Space.

A one volume reference guide to historical and contemporary developments in analytic philosophy, written by a team of leading scholars from across the world.

Stream of Consciousness is about the phenomenology of conscious experience. Barry Dainton shows us that stream of consciousness is not a mosaic of discrete fragments of experience, but rather an interconnected flowing whole. Through a deep probing into the nature of awareness, introspection, phenomenal space and time consciousness, Dainton offers a truly original understanding of the nature of consciousness.

Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training and makes the philosophy of space and time accessible to anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms...

Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and unintimidating way that keeps conceptual issues comprehensible to students with little scientific or mathematical training and makes the philosophy of space and time accessible to anyone trying to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. With over 100 original line illustrations and a full glossary of terms...