Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Deux "esprits fraternels" -- Un accouchement difficile -- Trois auteurs et une parole -- Le Logos de vie -- Un sacre ambivalent -- "Connaissez-vous René Girard ?" -- Un nouveau philosophe ? -- Le plateau d'"Apostrophes" -- Des enjeux multiples -- Un nouveau langage -- "Une aventure unique dans l'histoire de l'humanité" -- Poésie et résurrection -- Une triple synthèse -- La décollation de Jean-Baptiste -- Une tête sur un plateau -- Des critiques "fascinés" -- Philippe Muray : un lecteur habité -- Les années 1980 -- Le dernier colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle -- Les reprises originales de Roberto Calasso et de Marcel Gaucher -- La rencontre de Santa Cruz -- Job et ses amis -- Le mouvement de l'être -- Une "grande métaphore" -- Une théorie analogique -- Énigme et mystère -- Le retour à Stratford -- "The sound and the finy signihing nothing" -- Une "biographie imaginaire" -- Le manipulateur manipulé -- La mise à mort collective -- Deux pièces en une seule -- La sortie du théâtre -- La chute de Satan -- "Une triomphante métaphore" -- L'effondrement des tours de Manhattan -- Penser la guerre -- "Frapper un dernier coup" -- La "montée aux extrêmes" -- Une violence mondialisée -- Le crépuscule des héros -- Les derniers jours -- Place de la Nation -- René Girard et Michel Henry : identité des frères…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Approaches to the Study of Indian Politics and Nature of the State in India: Liberal, Marxist, and Gandhian -- Introduction -- Approaches to Politics -- Historical Approach -- Philosophical Tradition -- Legal-institutional Approach -- Systems Approach -- Structural-functional Approach -- Rational Choice Theory -- Nature of the Indian State -- Liberal Interpretation of the Indian State -- Liberal Institutional -- State and Party System -- Political Economy View -- The Marxist View of the Indian State -- Classical Orthodox Marxist Viewpoint -- The Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) -- Neo-Marxist View -- Recent Formulations -- Gandhian Theory of the Indian State -- Swaraj or Participatory Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 2: National Movement and Its Ideological Discourse and Political Legacies -- Introduction -- Ideological Streams/Discourse of Moderates and Extremists -- Moderates and Their Methods -- Economic Nationalism of Moderates -- Failures of Moderates -- Partition of Bengal -- Rise of Militant Nationalism/Extremism -- Swadeshi Movement -- Morley-Minto Reforms, 1909 -- Revolutionaries -- Chief Tenets of Gandhian Ideology -- Gandhian Ideas /Ideology and The National Movement -- Political Legacy -- Left Ideology and Its Legacies in India -- Growth of Socialist Ideas -- Communist Party of India -- Left Within the Congress -- The Congress Socialist Party (CSP) -- Ideology and Programmes -- CSP and the Congress -- CSP and the Communists -- Subhash Chandra Bose and Socialism -- Conclusion -- Socialist Legacies in Independent India -- Dignity of the Individual -- Directive Principles of State Policy -- Fundamental Duties -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 3: Indian Constitution: Provisions and Institutional Functioning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Leadership styles and their origins -- Natural origins -- Philosophical origins -- Management theory origins -- Engineering leadership style archetypes -- The commander and the servant -- The coach and the delegator -- The communicator and the co-creator -- What is the right leadership style for me? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The psychological perspectives of our times...Three shifts of a rhythm -- Section 1: The Social and Philosophical Context -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Indian psychology: Implications and applications -- Religion and spirituality -- Science and spirituality -- Spiritual psychology -- Theoretical base -- Theory to testing -- Implications and applications -- Socio-political implications -- Therapeutic implications -- Understanding extra-ordinary human experience -- Implications for health and wellness -- Distant (remote) intercessory prayer -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: A journey back to the roots: Psychology in India -- Twentieth century psychology in India: A Western implant -- Two worlds of Indian psychologists -- Initiatives towards socially relevant research -- Rapid but unplanned expansion -- The consolidation of Western research -- A crisis of identity -- A journey toward indigenous psychology -- Psychology in the new millennium -- References -- Chapter 3: Psychological ideas in the Vedas and their relevance to contemporary psychology -- All-sided perfection -- Life as a unique journey -- Who are the gods? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 6.8 A Super Artificial Worker -- 6.8.1 Generative AI Infrastructure -- 6.8.2 Predictive Infrastructure -- 6.8.3 Generative AI Applications -- 6.8.4 Predictive AI Applications -- References -- Part II Technical and Philosophical Issues -- Chapter 7 Artificial and Human Intelligence -- 7.1 What Intelligence Machines Cannot Simulate -- 7.2 Global Emulation of the Human Brain -- 7.3 Risks and Problems -- 7.3.1 Values -- 7.3.2 Decisions -- 7.4 Choice Architecture -- 7.5 Human Uniqueness -- 7.5.1 Creativity -- 7.5.2 Imagination -- 7.5.3 The Problem of Consciousness -- 7.5.4 Emotional Intelligence -- References -- Chapter 8 Five Critical Aspects You Cannot Ignore -- 8.1 Data Security and Privacy Risks -- 8.2 Technical Challenges and Reliability -- 8.3 Ethical and Legal Considerations -- 8.4 User Adoption and Training…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 21.3 Basic approach to thematic analysis -- 21.4 More sophisticated version of thematic analysis -- 21.5 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activity -- 22 Grounded theory -- Overview -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Development of grounded theory -- 22.3 Data in grounded theory -- 22.4 How to do grounded theory analysis -- 22.5 Computer grounded theory analysis -- 22.6 Evaluation of grounded theory -- 22.7 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activity -- 23 Discourse analysis -- Overview -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 Basic discourse analysis theory -- 23.3 The agenda of discourse analysis -- 23.4 Doing discourse analysis -- 23.5 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 24 Conversation analysis -- Overview -- 24.1 Introduction -- 24.2 Precepts of conversation analysis -- 24.3 Stages in conversation analysis -- 24.4 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 25 Interpretative phenomenological analysis -- Overview -- 25.1 Introduction -- 25.2 Philosophical foundations of interpretative phenomenological analysis -- 25.3 Stages in interpretative phenomenological analysis -- 25.4 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 26 Evaluating qualitative research -- Overview -- 26.1 Introduction -- 26.2 Criteria for novices -- 26.3 Evaluating qualitative research -- 26.4 Validity -- 26.5 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- 27 Improving your qualitative write-up -- Overview -- 27.1 Introduction -- 27.2 Poorly written qualitative report -- 27.3 Critical evaluation -- 27.4 Conclusion -- Key points -- Activities -- Part 5 Research for projects, dissertations and theses -- 28 Developing ideas for research -- Overview -- 28.1 Introduction -- 28.2 Why not a replication study? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Ethics and ethical reasoning in testing -- Ethical frameworks -- Classic ethical challenges -- Practical ethical issues in testing -- Skipping test steps and the good news -- Decisions are not made in meetings -- Scientific thinking and logical fallacies -- Logical fallacies -- How we wind up in hell and how to escape -- Put the responsibility in the right place -- Summary -- Additional readings for the serious philosopher -- Chapter 15: Words and Language About Work -- Context-driven testing and the other schools -- The Agile school -- The DevOps or CD school -- The analytical school -- The factory school -- The quality school -- The context-driven school -- Precise language -- Wordsmatter -- The benefits of being imprecise -- Process versus skill -- Testing and checking -- Yes, we can assure quality -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 16: Testing Strategy Applied -- A mobile test strategy example -- Our sample mobile app -- Designing a test program -- Mobile system coordination and deployment -- The human element -- AI in software testing -- The state of AI tools -- Possible ways to use AI for testing -- Other forms of AI in testing -- The bottom line for AI testing -- A few thoughts to leave with -- Thoughts on documentation -- Summary -- Index -- About PACKT -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Misdirection -- The illusion of philosophical dissociation -- The misconstrual of Dt and nHH as Egyptology evolved -- Religious doctrine and political ideology -- Figure 41: a 'smiting scene' depicting Ramesses III quelling his enemies, together with his Horus kA (far left) who appears in the form of an anthropomorphised standard with serekh and Horus falcon -- as inscribed on the southern face of the exterior wall o -- Epilogue -- Table 2: terms appropriate to Dt and nHH in accord with their respective associations with eternity and sempiternity. -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources -- Modern Sources -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Image and Gaze -- Chapter 1. The Legacy of Philosophers -- 1.1. The objectivist approach -- 1.1.1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Leveraging the Plug and Play convenience of using Llama Packs -- Using the Llama CLI -- Using advanced tracing and evaluation techniques -- Tracing our RAG workflows using Phoenix -- Evaluating our RAG system -- Introduction to deployment with Streamlit -- HANDS-ON - a step-by-step deployment guide -- Deploying our PITS project on Streamlit Community Cloud -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Prompt Engineering Guidelines and Best Practices -- Technical requirements -- Why prompts are your secret weapon -- Understanding how LlamaIndex uses prompts -- Customizing default prompts -- Using advanced prompting techniques in LlamaIndex -- The golden rules of prompt engineering -- Accuracy and clarity in expression -- Directiveness -- Context quality -- Context quantity -- Required output format -- Inference cost -- Overall system latency -- Choosing the right LLM for the task -- Common methods used for creating effective prompts -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Conclusion and Additional Resources -- Other projects and further learning -- The LlamaIndex examples collection -- Moving forward - Replit bounties -- The power of many - the LlamaIndex community -- Key takeaways, final words, and encouragement -- On the future of RAG in the larger context of generative AI -- A small philosophical nugget for you to consider -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The trouble with traditional innovation practices -- Our Problem Space always precedes our Solution Space -- One historical meaning - design "thinking" versus design "doing" -- Yet another meaning - "thinking like a Designer" -- Human-centered design - the philosophical foundation -- Design Thinking's superpower - reframing problems -- Understanding and achieving our intermediate goal - empathy and the empathic understanding -- Pursuing our intermediate goal - human empathy -- Achieving our intermediate goal - empathic understanding -- Understanding and achieving our ultimate goal - a reframed problem -- Reframing - seeking a more fundamental level of outcome need -- Our momentary win - the reframed problem -- The takeaway - what Design Thinking means to us -- Some important sidenotes on Design Thinking -- A bit of history on Design Thinking -- Documented successes of Design Thinking -- Applying Design Thinking properly - with no suppositions about the solution -- The criticisms of Design Thinking -- A broader conceptualization - Humanity-Centered Design -- Back to Intensifi - where are they now in all this? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Growth Assumption Problem -- The Rising Cost of the Economic Catastrophes to Come: The Damage Function Problem -- Ecosystem Collapse is Not a Minor Matter -- Unbearable Heatwaves -- Rising Tides and Howling Typhoons -- Not Only the Poor Pay for Climate Denial -- Wildfires Scorch the Globe -- Fat Tails and Tipping Points: A Pessimists' Confession -- Sudden Leaps and Nonlinearity Are Not an Economist's Best Friend -- Climate Change is Slow, Then Fast -- Some Locations Already Have Experienced Tipping Points -- Climate Crisis Economics Must Include Local Tipping Points and Global Fat Tails -- Time to Act, Test Models, and Use All Available Policy Levers -- A Return to Adam Smith as Moral Philosopher -- We Need a Homo Economicus Sympatico -- Appendix 2.1 -- Notes -- References -- 3 Setting Targets, Pricing Carbon, and Punishing Laggards -- Set Ambitious Long-Term Targets and Match Them With Clear Interim Steps and Plans -- Europe's Regreening and Rebuilding -- A Chinese Commitment With Potentially Momentous Impact -- Biden's Green New Deal - a Start, Finally -- Leadership at Last -- California's Demonstration of What is Possible With Leadership -- What of the Laggard States? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Slowing down programs using threads -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Getting the total number of active threads -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Getting the current thread -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Main thread -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Enumerating all threads -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Identifying threads -- Example -- Breakdown -- Ending a thread -- Best practice in stopping threads -- Example -- Output -- Orphan processes -- How does the operating system handle threads -- Creating processes versus threads -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Multithreading models -- One-to-one thread mapping -- Many-to-one -- Many-to-many -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Synchronization between Threads -- Synchronization between threads -- The Dining Philosophers -- Example -- Output -- Race conditions -- Process execution sequence -- The solution -- Critical sections -- Filesystem -- Life-critical systems -- Shared resources and data races -- The join method -- Breaking it down -- Putting it together -- Locks -- Example -- Breaking it down -- RLocks -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Output -- RLocks versus regular locks -- Condition -- Definition -- Example -- Our publisher -- Our subscriber -- Kicking it off -- The results -- Semaphores -- Class definition -- Example -- The TicketSeller class -- Output -- Thread race -- Bounded semaphores -- Events -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Barriers -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Output -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Communication between Threads -- Standard data structures -- Sets -- Extending the class -- Exercise - extending other primitives -- Decorator -- Class decorator -- Lists -- Queues -- FIFO queues -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Output -- LIFO queues -- Example -- Breaking it down -- Output -- PriorityQueue -- Example -- Breakdown -- Output -- Queue objects -- Full/empty queues -- Example…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Introduction -- Section 1 Philosophy, principles, and goals: Beyond tradeoffs by aiming for total instead of individual efficiency -- Chapter 1 Production systems' contribution to human progress -- Initial condition: Craftsmanship -- Current condition: The great mass production system -- Inflexibility in producing customized goods makes profit conflict with cash flow -- Dehumanization of work -- Singular dependence on economic growth and environmental pollution (Myopic dependency of singular performance metrics) -- Target condition: The Toyota Production System -- Technical innovation: Reconcile profit with cash flow -- Labor relation innovation: Re-humanization of work -- Economic innovation: Congruence between economic growth and environmental stewardship -- A new economy paradigm -- Chapter 2 Toyota Production System (TPS) as a system -- The three elements of TPS: What TPS does -- The philosophical element -- Customer focus philosophy -- "People are the most important asset" philosophy -- Kaizen philosophy -- Shop floor focus philosophy -- The technical element -- The managerial element (expertise with a framework) -- The unity of the three elements displayed in the house of TPS -- The house of TPS: A holistic framework from which to think -- The roof of the house: The goals of TPS -- The pillars of the house: The technical methods of TPS -- The foundation of the house: The managerial methods of TPS -- The house of TPS as a system -- Section 2 Technical innovation: Congruency Between profit and Cash Flow -- Chapter 3 As a system of economies of scale based on individual efficiency the traditional mass production system has inherent contradictions -- Batch of conveyance to reduce cost conflicts with quality and lead-time…”

“…A striking feature of the current philosophical scene is the division between those philosophers of religion primarily associated with the American Philosophical Association and those primarily associated with the American Academy of Religion. …”

“…This Special Issue of Philosophies is devoted to dialogue between feminist care ethics and mainstream philosophical figures and concepts. As care ethics has evolved from its origins in the 1980s, it is clear that it does not always fit neatly within traditional philosophical categories. …”

“…Extensive cross-referencing shows students how philosophers respond appreciatively or critically to the thoughts of other philosophers…”