This multidisciplinary open access book provides eight philosophical lectures for sustainable development people, peace, and partnerships

The notion that “human beings”, mainstream humanity, is best conceived as “in the image and likeness of God” has an effect even on secular philosophers, scientists farmers, despite our understanding humanity only one twig within a larger evolutionary bush. Even if it taken seriously, does not license most current exploitation. Nor merely “contractual” theory rights duties support denial proper ...

Social targets' eyes are a rich source of information: partners with dilated and constricted pupils perceived positively negatively, respectively. Here, we tested whether observed pupil size influences the ascription humanity. In Study 1 (n = 198) participants were asked to attribute positive uniquely human non-uniquely traits ingroup (i.e., university students), derogated homeless people) non-...

Physical cues influence social judgments of others. For example, shorter individuals are evaluated less positively than taller individuals. Here, we demonstrate that height also impacts one of the most consequential intergroup judgments—attributions of humanity—and explore whether this effect is modulated by the tendency to value hierarchy maintenance. In Study 1, the shorter participants perce...

In the case of the Armenian Genocide, action and inaction and the weighing of costs and benefits led to the massive destruction of Armenians during WWI. The Turkish government’s racial discrimination against the Armenians drove them to politically and violently eradicate the Armenians within the Ottoman Empire. The benefit for the Turks from having separatist policies was establishing a pure Tu...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has been a major research interest in computer science for the better part of the last few decades. However, all too recently, both AI and ML have rapidly grown to be media frenzies, pressuring companies and researchers to claim they use these technologies. As ML continues to percolate into the layman's life, we, as computer scientists and ...

Michael Kozuch put forward the final question, which dealt with hardware innovation possibilities. Elliott believed heterogeneity was an important step forward, with network processors and FPGAs finding their way onto chip in the future. Glenn lightheartedly routed the question to the Google guys to put forward their demands and requirements to the academics, with reference to the panel discuss...