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Cybersecurity Ethics: An Introduction
by Mary ManjikianThis new textbook offers an accessible introduction to the topic of cybersecurity ethics. The book is split into three parts. Part I provides an introduction to the field of ethics, philosophy and philosophy of science, three ethical frameworks – virtue ethics, utilitarian ethics and communitarian ethics – and the notion of ethical hacking. Part II applies these frameworks to particular issues within the field of cybersecurity, including privacy rights, intellectual property and piracy, surveillance, and cyberethics in relation to military affairs. The third part concludes by exploring current codes of ethics used in cybersecurity. The overall aims of the book are to: provide ethical frameworks to aid decision making; present the key ethical issues in relation to computer security; highlight the connection between values and beliefs and the professional code of ethics. The textbook also includes three different features to aid students: ‘Going Deeper’ provides background information on key individuals and concepts; ‘Critical Issues’ features contemporary case studies; and ‘Applications’ examine specific technologies or practices which raise ethical issues. The book will be of much interest to students of cybersecurity, cyberethics, hacking, surveillance studies, ethics and information science.
Cybersecurity Ethics: An Introduction
by Mary ManjikianThis new textbook offers an accessible introduction to the topic of cybersecurity ethics. The book is split into three parts. Part I provides an introduction to the field of ethics, philosophy and philosophy of science, three ethical frameworks – virtue ethics, utilitarian ethics and communitarian ethics – and the notion of ethical hacking. Part II applies these frameworks to particular issues within the field of cybersecurity, including privacy rights, intellectual property and piracy, surveillance, and cyberethics in relation to military affairs. The third part concludes by exploring current codes of ethics used in cybersecurity. The overall aims of the book are to: provide ethical frameworks to aid decision making; present the key ethical issues in relation to computer security; highlight the connection between values and beliefs and the professional code of ethics. The textbook also includes three different features to aid students: ‘Going Deeper’ provides background information on key individuals and concepts; ‘Critical Issues’ features contemporary case studies; and ‘Applications’ examine specific technologies or practices which raise ethical issues. The book will be of much interest to students of cybersecurity, cyberethics, hacking, surveillance studies, ethics and information science.
Cypriot Nationalisms in Context: History, Identity and Politics
by Thekla Kyritsi Nikos ChristofisThis book explores the different perspectives and historical moments of nationalism in Cyprus. It does this by looking at nationalism as a form of identity, as a form of ideology, and as a form of politics. The fifteen contributors to this book are scholars of different scientific backgrounds and present Cypriot nationalisms from an interdisciplinary framework, including approaches such as history, political science, psychology, and gender studies. The chapters take a historical approach to nationalism and argue that the world of nations, ethnic identity, and national ideology are neither eternal, nor ahistorical nor primordial, but are rather socially constructed and function within particular historical and social contexts. As a land that was, and still is, marked by opposed nationalisms – that is, Greek and Turkish – Cyprus constitutes a fertile ground for examining the history, the dynamics, and the dialectics of nationalism.
The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin
by Lauren F. WinnerChallenging the central place that “practices” have recently held in Christian theology, Lauren Winner explores the damages these practices have inflicted over the centuries Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculate practices that will definitionally train Christians in virtue and that can’t be answerable to their histories. Is there, for instance, an account of prayer that has anything useful to say about a slave†‘owning woman’s praying for her slaves’ obedience? Is there a robustly theological account of the Eucharist that connects the Eucharist’s goods to the sacrament’s central role in medieval Christian murder of Jews? Arguing that practices are deformed in ways that are characteristic of and intrinsic to the practices themselves, Winner proposes that the register in which Christians might best think about the Eucharist, prayer, and baptism is that of “damaged gift.” Christians go on with these practices because, though blighted by sin, they remain gifts from God.
Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments
by Townsend Middleton Sara ShneidermanDarjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary with its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens, and brisk mountain air. Thousands of tourists, domestic and international, annually flock to the hills to taste their world-renowned tea and soak up the colonial nostalgia. Darjeeling Reconsidered rethinks Darjeeling’s status in the postcolonial imagination. Mobilizing diverse disciplinary approaches from the social sciences and humanities, this definitive collection of essays sheds fresh light on the region’s past and offers critical insight into the issues facing its people today. While the historical analyses provide alternative readings of the systems of governance, labour, and migration that shaped Darjeeling, the ethnographic chapters present accounts of dynamics that define life in twenty-first century Darjeeling, including the Gorkhaland Movement, Fair Trade tea, indigenous and subnationalist struggle, gendered inequality, ecological transformation, and resource scarcity. The volume figures Darjeeling as a vital site for South Asian and postcolonial studies and calls for a timely reexamination of the legend and hard realities of this oft-romanticized region.
Dark Days (Penguin Modern)
by James Baldwin'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
Darwin's Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation
by Alistair SponselWhy—against his mentor’s exhortations to publish—did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In Darwin’s Evolving Identity, Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to atone for his provocative theorizing as a young author spurred by that mentor, the geologist Charles Lyell. While we might expect him to have been tormented by guilt about his private study of evolution, Darwin was most distressed by harsh reactions to his published work on coral reefs, volcanoes, and earthquakes, judging himself guilty of an authorial “sin of speculation.” It was the battle to defend himself against charges of overzealous theorizing as a geologist, rather than the prospect of broader public outcry over evolution, which made Darwin such a cautious author of Origin of Species. Drawing on his own ambitious research in Darwin’s manuscripts and at the Beagle’s remotest ports of call, Sponsel takes us from the ocean to the Origin and beyond. He provides a vivid new picture of Darwin’s career as a voyaging naturalist and metropolitan author, and in doing so makes a bold argument about how we should understand the history of scientific theories.
Darwin's Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation
by Alistair SponselWhy—against his mentor’s exhortations to publish—did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In Darwin’s Evolving Identity, Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to atone for his provocative theorizing as a young author spurred by that mentor, the geologist Charles Lyell. While we might expect him to have been tormented by guilt about his private study of evolution, Darwin was most distressed by harsh reactions to his published work on coral reefs, volcanoes, and earthquakes, judging himself guilty of an authorial “sin of speculation.” It was the battle to defend himself against charges of overzealous theorizing as a geologist, rather than the prospect of broader public outcry over evolution, which made Darwin such a cautious author of Origin of Species. Drawing on his own ambitious research in Darwin’s manuscripts and at the Beagle’s remotest ports of call, Sponsel takes us from the ocean to the Origin and beyond. He provides a vivid new picture of Darwin’s career as a voyaging naturalist and metropolitan author, and in doing so makes a bold argument about how we should understand the history of scientific theories.
Darwin's Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation
by Alistair SponselWhy—against his mentor’s exhortations to publish—did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In Darwin’s Evolving Identity, Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to atone for his provocative theorizing as a young author spurred by that mentor, the geologist Charles Lyell. While we might expect him to have been tormented by guilt about his private study of evolution, Darwin was most distressed by harsh reactions to his published work on coral reefs, volcanoes, and earthquakes, judging himself guilty of an authorial “sin of speculation.” It was the battle to defend himself against charges of overzealous theorizing as a geologist, rather than the prospect of broader public outcry over evolution, which made Darwin such a cautious author of Origin of Species. Drawing on his own ambitious research in Darwin’s manuscripts and at the Beagle’s remotest ports of call, Sponsel takes us from the ocean to the Origin and beyond. He provides a vivid new picture of Darwin’s career as a voyaging naturalist and metropolitan author, and in doing so makes a bold argument about how we should understand the history of scientific theories.
Darwin's Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation
by Alistair SponselWhy—against his mentor’s exhortations to publish—did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In Darwin’s Evolving Identity, Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to atone for his provocative theorizing as a young author spurred by that mentor, the geologist Charles Lyell. While we might expect him to have been tormented by guilt about his private study of evolution, Darwin was most distressed by harsh reactions to his published work on coral reefs, volcanoes, and earthquakes, judging himself guilty of an authorial “sin of speculation.” It was the battle to defend himself against charges of overzealous theorizing as a geologist, rather than the prospect of broader public outcry over evolution, which made Darwin such a cautious author of Origin of Species. Drawing on his own ambitious research in Darwin’s manuscripts and at the Beagle’s remotest ports of call, Sponsel takes us from the ocean to the Origin and beyond. He provides a vivid new picture of Darwin’s career as a voyaging naturalist and metropolitan author, and in doing so makes a bold argument about how we should understand the history of scientific theories.
Das Konzept des inneren Feindes in Guatemala: Aufstandsbekämpfung, Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Sicherheitspolitik im Zeitalter der neuen Kriege (Politik in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika)
by Matthias EpeDie politische Bedeutung innergesellschaftlicher Feindschaft erfasst Matthias Epe am Beispiel des Bürgerkrieges in Guatemala von 1960–1996 sowie in der unmittelbaren Folgezeit dieses Konflikts. Davon ausgehend, dass der innere Feind ein politischer Fremdkörper ist, konturiert er sowohl die realen und imaginierten Figurationen der Feindschaft als auch die zumeist radikalen Formen seiner Bekämpfung, womit der weitgehenden Ausblendung dieses Themas in den Sozialwissenschaften Rechnung getragen wird. Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die Transformation eines politisch begründeten Antagonismus in eine absolute Feindschaft, die durch die moralische Entwertung des Feindes als Mensch gekennzeichnet ist.
Das Narrativ von der Wiederkehr der Religion (Politik und Religion)
by Holger Zapf Oliver Hidalgo Philipp W. HildmannDer Band thematisiert die gesellschaftliche Rolle der Religion, die heute grundsätzlich unter widersprüchlichen Vorzeichen steht: Einerseits hält sich nach wie vor die Vorstellung vom Siegeszug der Säkularisierung, der zufolge die Bedeutung von Religion für die Gesellschaft insgesamt abnimmt. Andererseits wird behauptet, dass die Säkularisierung ein Mythos ist, der sich einer notorischen Unterschätzung der Beharrungs- und Wandlungsfähigkeit von Religion verdankt. In diesem Spannungsfeld verorten und diskutieren die Beiträge das omnipräsente Narrativ von der Wiederkehr der Religion unter theoretischen und empirischen Gesichtspunkten.
Das Parteiensystem der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Eine Einführung (Grundwissen Politik)
by Ulrich Von Alemann Philipp Erbentraut Jens WaltherIn der parlamentarischen Demokratie nehmen Parteien eine zentrale Vermittlerrolle zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft ein. Deshalb ist es wichtig, ihre historische Entwicklung, die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen sowie ihre soziologischen Besonderheiten näher zu beleuchten. Über diese Grundfragen hinaus widmen sich die Autoren des Lehrbuchs auch aktuellen Herausforderungen, wie etwa der viel beklagten Parteienverdrossenheit oder der Diskussion um eine gerechte Parteienfinanzierung. Damit bietet dieses Standardwerk eine fundierte, aber zugleich kompakte und verständliche Einführung in das Parteiensystem der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und richtet sich gleichermaßen an Studierende und Lehrende der Sozialwissenschaften wie an die interessierte Öffentlichkeit.
Das politische System Bosnien und Herzegowinas: Herausforderungen zwischen Dayton-Friedensabkommen und EU-Annäherung
by Tobias Flessenkemper Nicolas MollDas politische System Bosnien und Herzegowinas spiegelt das Ergebnis des Krieges von 1992 bis 1995 wider. Die Verfassungspraxis seit den 1990er Jahren hat Konflikte und Institutionen verfestigt. Ansätze für eine Verfassungsreform sind mehrfach gescheitert. Auf dem Weg zur EU-Mitgliedschaft muss Bosnien und Herzegowina individuelle Bürgerrechte und die Gruppenrechte der drei konstituierenden Völker (Bosniaken, Kroaten, Serben) den europäischen Normen anpassen. Inwieweit dies im engen Rahmen des Friedensabkommens von Dayton-Paris gelingen kann, wird anhand der Verfassung, den Institutionen, Parteien, der Rolle der Internationalen Gemeinschaft und der Medien und Zivilgesellschaft von den AutorInnen diskutiert.
Das politische System der Philippinen: Eine Einführung
by Howard LoewenDiese Einführung behandelt die Grundlagen der Politik auf den Philippinen, ihre Institutionen und die politische Kultur des Landes.
Das Problem der Ethikbegründung aus evidenzphilosophischer Sicht: Eine Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ethik Franz Brentanos
by Christian ReimannDer Autor sucht in diesem Buch eine endgültige Antwort auf die bislang als offen geltende metaethische Frage nach der Begründbarkeit normativer Ethik zu geben. Im Zentrum steht die Absicht, die These der Begründbarkeit der Ethik als selbstkontradiktorisch und damit unmöglich zutreffend auszuweisen. Aus methodologischen Gründen findet dabei der phänomenalistische Ethikbegründungsversuch Franz Brentanos besondere Berücksichtigung. Verbunden mit dem Problem der Ethikbegründung widmet sich der Autor ebenfalls dem Problem der Willensfreiheit.
Das Soziale: Gegenstand der Sozialen Arbeit (Forschung, Innovation und Soziale Arbeit)
by Bringfriede Scheu Otger AutrataDer Gegenstand der Sozialen Arbeit ist aus ihrer Denomination ableitbar: Der Gegenstand der Sozialen Arbeit ist das Soziale. Allerdings fehlt bislang eine wissenschaftlich gesicherte Bestimmung des Sozialen. Bringfriede Scheu und Otger Autrata nehmen eine Bestimmung und Definition des Sozialen vor. Damit wird wissenschaftliche Soziale Arbeit zu einer eigenständigen Disziplin mit dem Alleinstellungsmerkmal, dass sie Grundlagenforschung zum Sozialen leistet. Die Festlegung auf das Soziale und das soziale Handeln als Gegenstand ist auf die professionelle Soziale Arbeit fortzuführen: Bringfriede Scheu und Otger Autrata erläutern, dass die Förderung sozialen Handelns das verbindende Merkmal professioneller Sozialer Arbeit in unterschiedlichen Arbeitsfeldern ist.
Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains: XIX International Conference, DAMDID/RCDL 2017, Moscow, Russia, October 10–13, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #822)
by Leonid Kalinichenko Yannis Manolopoulos Oleg Malkov Nikolay Skvortsov Sergey Stupnikov Vladimir SukhomlinThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains, DAMDID/RCDL 2017, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2017.The 16 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: data analytics; next generation genomic sequencing: challenges and solutions; novel approaches to analyzing and classifying of various astronomical entities and events; ontology population in data intensive domains; heterogeneous data integration issues; data curation and data provenance support; and temporal summaries generation.
Data Management Technologies and Applications: 6th International Conference, DATA 2017, Madrid, Spain, July 24–26, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #814)
by Joaquim Filipe Jorge Bernardino Christoph QuixThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications, DATA 2017, held in Madrid, Spain, in July 2017. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics: databases, big data, data mining, data management, data security, and other aspects of information systems and technology involving advanced applications of data.
Daten-Karrieren und epistemische Materialität: Eine wissenschaftssoziologische Studie zur methodologischen Praxis der Ethnografie (Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology)
by Christian Meier zu VerlDieses Buch rekonstruiert konkrete ethnografische Daten-Karrieren von der Beobachtung im Feld bis zur Publikation wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse über das Feld. Die beobachteten ethnografischen Arbeiten an den einzelnen Karriereschritten machen methodologische Probleme einer adäquaten Beschreibung sozialer Wirklichkeit als Probleme des ethnografischen Alltags sichtbar. Diese Probleme werden u.a. praktisch gelöst, indem implizite kooperative Praktiken des Reinszenierens, des De- und Rekontextualisierens ethnografische Erfahrungen in sozialwissenschaftlich relevante Beschreibungen transformieren.
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
by David HumeA compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars exploring his complex intellectual legacy, this volume presents an overview of Hume’s moral, political, and social philosophy. Editors Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls bring together a selection of writings from Hume’s most important works, with contributors placing them in their appropriate context and offering a lively discourse on the relevance of Hume’s thought to contemporary subjects like reason’s dependence on emotion and the importance of social convention in political and economic behavior. Perfect for classroom use, this volume is an invaluable companion for anyone studying an important thinker who advanced the development of moral philosophy, economics, cognitive science, and many other fields of the Western tradition.
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
by Bruno MaçãesIn this original and timely book, Bruno Maçães argues that the best word for the emerging global order is 'Eurasian', and shows why we need to begin thinking on a super-continental scale. While China and Russia have been quicker to recognise the increasing strategic significance of Eurasia, even Europeans are realizing that their political project is intimately linked to the rest of the supercontinent - and as Maçães shows, they will be stronger for it. Weaving together history, diplomacy and vivid reports from his six-month overland journey across Eurasia from Baku to Samarkand, Vladivostock to Beijing, Maçães provides a fascinating portrait of this shifting geopolitical landscape. As he demonstrates, we can already see the coming Eurasianism in China's bold infrastructure project reopening the historic Silk Road, in the success of cities like Hong Kong and Singapore, in Turkey's increasing global role and in the fact that, revealingly, the United States is redefining its place as between Europe and Asia. An insightful and clarifying book for our turbulent times, The Dawn of Eurasia argues that the artificial separation of the world's largest island cannot hold, and the sooner we realise it, the better.
Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty
by Colin Wilson Marty Davidson Arvind Krishnamurthy Frank Baumgartner Kaneesha JohnsonIn 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just four years before in the Furman decision because it found that the penalty had been applied in a capricious and arbitrary manner. The 1976 decision ushered in the 'modern' period of the US death penalty, setting the country on a course to execute over 1,400 inmates in the ensuing years, with over 8,000 individuals currently sentenced to die. Now, forty years after the decision, the eminent political scientist Frank Baumgartner along with a team of younger scholars (Marty Davidson, Kaneesha Johnson, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Colin Wilson) have collaborated to assess the empirical record and provide a definitive account of how the death penalty has been implemented. Each chapter addresses a precise empirical question and provides evidence, not opinion, about whether how the modern death penalty has functioned. They decided to write the book after Justice Breyer issued a dissent in a 2015 death penalty case in which he asked for a full briefing on the constitutionality of the death penalty. In particular, they assess the extent to which the modern death penalty has met the aspirations of Gregg or continues to suffer from the flaws that caused its rejection in Furman. To answer this question, they provide the most comprehensive statistical account yet of the workings of the capital punishment system. Authoritative and pithy, the book is intended for both students in a wide variety of fields, researchers studying the topic, and--not least--the Supreme Court itself.
Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics
by Siobhan LyonsThis book challenges conventional notions of biological life and death in the area of robotics, discussing issues such as machine consciousness, autonomous AI, and representations of robots in popular culture. Using philosophical approaches alongside scientific theory, this book offers a compelling critique on the changing nature of both humanity and biological death in an increasingly technological world.
Death and the Machine: Intersections of Mortality and Robotics
by Siobhan LyonsThis book challenges conventional notions of biological life and death in the area of robotics, discussing issues such as machine consciousness, autonomous AI, and representations of robots in popular culture. Using philosophical approaches alongside scientific theory, this book offers a compelling critique on the changing nature of both humanity and biological death in an increasingly technological world.