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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Can Robots Die? -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 2 Death, Humanity and Existence -- Abstract -- Fear of Death -- Transhumanism and the Conquest of Death -- Non-biological Death -- References -- Chapter 3 Machine Consciousness: Ethics and Implications -- Abstract -- Creating Consciousness -- Ethics and Essentialism -- Killer Robots -- The Frankenstein Complex: Fear of the Robot -- References -- Chapter 4 Imagining a Robot Death -- Abstract -- The Robot's Fear of Death -- Semantics of a Robot Death -- Functionalism and the Non-biological Human -- References -- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Death Beyond Biology -- Abstract -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: British Social Work Education in Context: Policy Change and Professional Education -- 1 British Social Work Education -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene -- Origins of Social Work Education -- The Late 1940s to 1969 -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- Developments in the 1990s -- The Diploma in Social Work -- The Continuum of Training -- Further Change -- Concluding Comments -- 2 Social Work: New Paradigms and the Professional Debate -- Introduction -- Unification and Genericism -- Continuity and Change: The Return to Specialisms -- Task and Mandate: Care, Protection and Control -- Professional Status, Accountability and Regulation -- Concluding Summary -- 3 Higher Education: Changing Policies and Expectations -- Introduction -- Post-War Development of the Higher Education System -- Policy Change Since 1979 -- Policy Developments in the 1990s -- Accountability and Academic Freedom -- Enterprise in Higher Education -- Concluding Comments -- 4 Professional Education and Knowledge -- Introduction -- Some Characteristics and Issues of the Professions -- Education for the Professions -- Partnerships and Accountability -- On the Nature of Knowledge -- Knowledge and the Reflective Practitioner -- Assessment and Competencies -- Conclusions: Professional Education and Higher Education -- Part 2: Characteristics of Contemporary Social Work Education -- 5 Social Work in Higher Education: Rationale, Location and Scope -- Introduction -- The Rationale for Social Work in Higher Education -- The Naming and Organisational Location of Social Work -- Alliances -- Epistemological Characteristics -- The Scope and Scale of the Subject Area -- Collaborative Activities -- Summary and Concluding Comments -- 6 Curricular and Pedagogical Characteristics

This books 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.

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Author's Note" -- "Contents" -- "Prologue: Welcome to the Content Factory" -- "Chapter 1: Beached White Male" -- "Chapter 2: When the Ducks Quack" -- "Chapter 3: What's a HubSpot?" -- "Chapter 4: The Happy!! Awesome!! Start-Up Cult" -- "Chapter 5: HubSpeak" -- "Chapter 6: Our Cult Leader Has a Really Awesome Teddy Bear" -- "Chapter 7: We Need to Make the Blog a Lot More Dumberer" -- "Chapter 8: The Bozo Explosion" -- "Chapter 9: In Which I Make a Very Big Mistake" -- "Chapter 10: Life in the Boiler Room" -- "Chapter 11: OMG the Halloween Party!!!" -- "Chapter 12: The New Work: Employees as Widgets" -- "Chapter 13: The Ron Burgundy of Tech" -- "Chapter 14: Meet the New Boss" -- "Chapter 15: Grandpa Buzz" -- "Chapter 16: Ritual Humiliation as Rehabilitation" -- "Chapter 17: A Disturbance in the Farce" -- "Chapter 18: A House of Cards?" -- "Chapter 19: Go West, Old Man" -- "Chapter 20: Glassholes" -- "Chapter 21: Excuse Me, but Would You Please Get the Fuck Out of Our Company?" -- "Chapter 22: Inbound and Down" -- "Chapter 23: Escape Velocity" -- "Chapter 24: If I Only Had a HEART" -- "Chapter 25: Graduation Day" -- "Epilogue" -- "Acknowledgments

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