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"Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience, they write, makes us anxious about democracy, because we are also Americans living in perilous times. The 2020s remind us of the 1930s when Nazis destroyed democracy in Germany. Carnage followed. In the 2020s, Donald Trump and his followers endanger democracy in the United States. With Vladimir Putin's ruthless assault against Ukraine compounding the difficulties, democracy must not be taken for granted. Americans love democracy--except when we don't. That division and conflict mean that democracy will be on the ballot in the 2024 American elections. Probing the prospects, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy features exchanges between us that underscore the most urgent threats to democracy in the United States and show how to resist them. What's most needed is ethical patriotism that urges us Americans to be our best selves. Our best selves defend liberal democracy; they strive for inclusive pluralism. Our best selves resist decisions and policies like those that led to the Holocaust or genocidal war in Ukraine or conspiracies to overturn fair and free elections in the United States. Our best selves reject antisemitism and racism; they oppose hypocrisy and autocracy. Our best selves hold lying leaders accountable. Our best selves believe that, against all odds, democracy can win out if we never give up trying to be our best." --

This book shows that screens don't just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physical and anthropological-cultural environment. By combining a series of historical-genealogical reconstructions going back to prehistoric times with the analysis of present and near-future technologies, the authors show that screens have always incorporated not only the hiding/showing functions but also the protecting/exposing ones, as the Covid-19 pandemic retaught us. The intertwining of these functions allows the authors to criticize the mainstream ideas of images as inseparable from screens, of words as opposed to images, and of what they call "Transparency 2.0" ideology, which currently dominates our socio-political life. Moreover, they show how wearable technologies don't approximate us to a presumed disappearance of screens but seem to draw a circular pathway back to using our bodies as screens. This raises new relational, ethical, and political questions, which this book helps to illuminate

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho and Sophie Germain to Stebbing and Evelyn Fox Keller, this work ultimately demonstrates the impact these non-canonical, sometimes unknown or hidden, sources had, or may have had, on the recognized male leaders in their fields, from Aristotle to Pascal, Kant, Whitehead, and Russell. Chapters reflect philosophical pluralism, both analytic and continental themes, and cover figures reaching across the entire history of ideas in the West, from pre-historic times to the twentieth century. Anyone interested in coming to know or in preparing to teach women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature will appreciate this collection and its myriad insights into the still unrecognized voices of non-canonical sources across these disciplines

The corporate environment is always characterized by a high degree of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. These aspects influence Human Resource Management (HRM) just like other areas of the company. In the context of decision problems, especially in HRM, it is not always possible to specify all the considered variables precisely. A suitable instrument to deal with such fuzzy conditions is Fuzzy Logic (FL). This paper aims to give insights into this field and its possible applications in HRM. For this purpose, selected theoretical foundations from the areas of HRM, FL and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are presented first. Based on this, situations in HRM are shown in which it can be useful to include FL in decision calculations. These concern e.g. problems of personnel allocation or considerations on the segmentation of labor forces. The paper is aimed at both practitioners and scholars.

In diesem Vorhaben wurden die Ergebnisse und wissenschaftlichen Auswertungen der Pilotstudie Kleingewässermonitoring (KgM, 2018/2019) vor dem Hintergrund des Standes der Wissenschaft sowie der einschlägigen gesetzlichen Anforderungen zum Gewässerschutz eingeordnet und Handlungsempfehlungen für Politik und regulatorische Entscheidungen erarbeitet. Dieser Tätigkeitsberichtgibt einen Überblick über die Aktivitäten im Rahmen des Vorhabens. Ziel war die Erarbeitung von Produkten wie Vorträgen und Veröffentlichungen; daher finden sich die Ergebnisse zu den Arbeitspaketen in Form von Vortragsfolien und öffentlich zugänglichen Publikationen.