Utopia em Jonas e Levinas

Paracoccidioidomicose em crianças e adolescentes

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an important systemic mycosis; it is restricted to Latin America, and Brazil is the most affected country. Children and adolescents account for approximately 5 to 10% of all cases with the acute form of the disease, which afflicts the mononuclear phagocytic system, in particular, lymph nodes and abdominal organs. Involvement of bones and joints has been observed ...

Ambient Utopia

This chapter presents an analysis of the ambitions that lie behind the concept of Ambient Intelligence as it is presented by the advocates and researchers working in the field. In particular it looks at the ideas regarding the forms of natural and intuitive forms of interaction that are envisaged including agents and robots from a philosophical perspective. The views on interaction are analysed...

If Goffman Had Read Levinas

The article attempts to explore fundamental assumptions underlying Goffman’s theory of interaction. Goffman’s work has long been criticized for certain pervasive weaknesses such as the idea of a self as ‘inside’ and therefore inaccessible, an indifference to any distinction between appearance and reality, and a lack of concern for morality. It is argued that combating these and related problems...

Engineering Utopia

The likely advent of AGI and the long-established trend of improving computational hardware promise a dual revolution in coming decades: machines which are both more intelligent and more numerous than human beings. This possibility raises substantial concern over the moral nature of such intelligent machines, and of the changes they will cause in society. Will we have the chance to determine th...

Utopia Rising