A study of Southern political liberals, including University of North Carolina sociologist Howard Odum.

In search of the silent South: Southern liberals and the race issue (Contemporary American history series)

Sosna, Morton

Columbia University Press

<div>To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are addressed with colorful individuality by the authors of&nbsp;The Boundaries of Humanity. Leading researchers in both sociobiology and artificial intelligence combine their reflections with those of philosophers, historians, and social scientists, while the editors explore the historical and contemporary contexts of the debate in their introductions. The implications of their individual arguments, and the often heated controversies generated by biological determinism or by mechanical models of mind, go to the heart of contemporary scientific, philosophical, and humanistic studies. Contributors: Arnold I. Davidson, John Dupré, Roger Hahn, Stuart Hampshire, Evelyn Fox Keller, Melvin Konner, Alan Newell, Harriet Ritvo, James J. Sheehan, Morton Sosna, Sherry Turkle, Bernard Williams, Terry Winograd This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.</div>

Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines

Politics & Social Sciences

Sheehan, James J.

Philosophy

University of California Press

A collection of 16 essays displaying a wide diversity of views on individualism from contributors whose backgrounds span eight disciplines. Three general assumptions inform the entire work: (1) Some form of individualism - broadly conceived as the view that the individual human subject is a maker of the world we inhabit - has been a key factor in the life of the West for the last 500 years; (2) That the individualist order of the modern Western world has met with challenges that have rendered its beliefs and doctrines problematic; and (3) That the concept of the individual needs to be rethought in the wake of the severe criticisms directed against it.

Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought

Heller, Thomas C.

Stanford Univ Pr

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