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This book on infinite regress arguments provides (i) an up-to-date overview of the literature on the topic, (ii) ready-to-use insights for all domains of philosophy, and (iii) two case studies to illustrate these insights in some detail. Infinite regress arguments play...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-04-26
Format(s) : ePub
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This volume of essays examines the problem of mind, looking at how the problem has appeared to neuroscientists (in the widest sense) from classical antiquity through to contemporary times. Beginning with a look at ventricular neuropsychology in antiquity, this book goes...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-04-23
Collection :
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
Format(s) : ePub
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To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science’s pre-eminence. Revelations such as...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-03-28
Collection :
New Human Frontiers
Format(s) : ePub
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This book deals with contemporary epistemological questions, connecting Educational Philosophy with the field of Science- and Technology Studies. It can be understood as a draft of a general theory of world-disclosure, which is in its core a distinction between two...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-03-18
Collection :
Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
Format(s) : ePub
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This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-01-08
Format(s) : ePub
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The new edition of this authoritative introduction to the philosophy of technology includes recent developments in the subject, while retaining the range and depth of its selection of seminal contributions and its much-admired editorial commentary. Remains the most...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-12-02
Collection :
Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Biology and history are often viewed as closely related disciplines, with biology informed by history, especially in its task of charting our evolutionary past. Maximizing the opportunities for cross-fertilization in these two fields requires an accurate reckoning of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-11-29
Collection :
Synthese Library
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains. Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science, and...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2013-11-20
Collection :
Metaphilosophy
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The Niels Bohr Collected Works are now complete with the publication of Volume 12, Popularization and People (1911-1962).Niels Bohr is generally regarded as one of the most influential physicists of the twentieth century. The following are only some of the high points....
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 2013-10-22
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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The influence of Niels Bohr's work, of his approach to research, both practical and theoretical, is widely felt today. His contributions to our knowledge of the atomic constituents of matter and to our view of science, remain of fundamental importance.The publication of...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 2013-10-22
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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This volume is divided into five parts. The title of the volume refers primarily to part I, which is by far the largest and comprises papers discussing the fundamental questions of biology and related psychological and philosophical problems. Following the reproduction...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 2013-10-22
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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Part I is devoted to Niels Bohr's mission to promote an "open world" between nations, that is, full sharing of information in the scientific and technical, as well as in the cultural spheres the scientific and technical, as well as in the cultural spheres. He started...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 2013-10-22
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological works of Aristotle and revisits the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-21
Format(s) : ePub
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Evidence in Science: A Simple Account of the Principles of Science for Students of Medicine and Biology is an 18-chapter text that explores the truth behind ""principles of science"" and the correction of wrong beliefs about it. The book starts with a presentation of...
Editeur : Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution : 2013-09-17
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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This book is the first comprehensive attempt to solve what Hartry Field has called "the central problem in the metaphysics of causation": the problem of reconciling the need for causal notions in the special sciences with the limited role of causation in physics. If the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-08-30
Format(s) : PDF
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If the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe is just around the corner, what would be the consequences for religion? Would it represent another major conflict between science and religion, even leading to the death of faith? Some would suggest that the discovery...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-08-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Explores the practical applicability of the philosophy of science to scientific research, but also considers its relevance to practice within the realms of technology, design, crafts, and even within the world of arts and the humanities. The attempt to engage working...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-07-13
Format(s) : ePub
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This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible to anticipate ethical questions and problems at a stage when the technology can still be changed.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-13
Format(s) : PDF
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This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-28
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This volume is a serious attempt to open up the subject of European philosophy of science to real thought, and provide the structural basis for the interdisciplinary development of its specialist fields, but also to provoke reflection on the idea of ‘European philosophy...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-05-28
Collection :
The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective
Format(s) : ePub
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