New Titles Tuesday, September 10

These eBooks were added to the catalogue last week and are ready to use now.

 Across the spectrum: understanding issues in evangelical theology /Gregory A. Boyd and Paul Rhodes Eddy. This accessible yet comprehensive primer helps readers understand the breadth of viewpoints on major issues in evangelical theology.

 Philosophers at table: on food and being human /Raymond D. Boisvert and Lisa Heldke. Boisvert and Heldke show  that it’s difficult to imagine a more philosophically charged act than eating. Philosophers at Table explores the philosophical scaffolding that supports this crucial aspect of everyday life, showing that we are not just creatures with minds, but also with stomachs. Examining a cornucopia of literary works, myths, histories, and film–not to mention philosophical ideas–the authors make the case for a bona fide philosophy of food. They look at Babette’s Feast as an argument for hospitality as a central ethical virtue. They compare fast food in Accra to the molecular gastronomy of Spain as a way of considering the nature of food as art. And they bite into a slug–which is, unsurprisingly, completely gross–to explore tasting as a learning tool, a way of knowing. A surprising, original take on something we have not philosophically savored enough, Philosophers at Table invites readers to think in fresh ways about the simple and important act of eating.

 The emergence of mind: where technology ends and we begin /Jeffrey Kane. While it may appear that generative AI has mastered the mystery of the human mind and released its full power, The Emergence of Mind demonstrates the profound and fundamental limitations of the technology and its use as a model of human thinking. In response, the book offers an emergent model of the human mind rooted in our experiences as living, sentient, social and conscious beings. The text explores the nature of meaning in human cognition and the critical importance of the experience of ideas.