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Normativity has long been conceived as more properly pertaining to the domain of thought than to the domain of nature. This conception goes back to Kant and still figures prominently in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and ethics. By offering a collection...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-05-13
Format(s) : ePub
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In this book Irving Zeitlin re-examines the work of this important philosopher and considers how we should assess Nietzsche's claims today.
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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For centuries, science and religion have been portrayed as diametrically opposed. In this provocative new book, Steve Fuller examines the apparent clash between science and religion by focusing on the heated debates about evolution and intelligent design theory. In so...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years. Should science and technology...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize -- winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2013-04-23
Format(s) : ePub
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In Systematicity, Paul Hoyningen-Huene answers the question "What is science?" by proposing that scientific knowledge is primarily distinguished from other forms of knowledge, especially everyday knowledge, by being more systematic. "Science" is here understood in the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-03-27
Format(s) : PDF
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This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics. The essays address questions such as: What fundamental metaphysics is best motivated by quantum mechanics? What is the ontological status of the wave function? Does quantum mechanics...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-03-08
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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What is meant by scientific evidence, and how can a definition of this concept be applied in the sciences to determine whether observed facts constitute evidence that a given theory is true?
In this book, Peter Achinstein proposes and defends several objective concepts...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-03-04
Format(s) : PDF
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The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-02-26
Collection :
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Format(s) : ePub
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Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-01-06
Collection :
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Format(s) : ePub
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This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-12-14
Collection :
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Format(s) : ePub
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Millikan and Her Critics offers a unique critical discussion of Ruth Millikan's highly regarded, influential, and systematic contributions to philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of biology, epistemology, and metaphysics. These newly written contributions...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2012-11-05
Collection :
Philosophers and their Critics
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science in some domain; in short, they are natural kinds. This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind and puts the account to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-15
Collection :
New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Format(s) : PDF
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Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-10-10
Collection :
Cultural Studies of Science Education
Format(s) : ePub
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Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology’s impact on society and our lives. Presents...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2012-10-01
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology’s impact on society and our lives. Presents the...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2012-10-01
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Format(s) : ePub
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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-10-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The first part deals with philosophies that have had a significant input, positive or negative, on the search for truth; it suggests that scientific and technological are either stimulated or smothered by a philosophical matrix; and it outlines two ontological...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-07-04
Collection :
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Format(s) : ePub
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The philosophy of cognitive science is concerned with fundamental philosophical and theoretical questions connected to the sciences of the mind. How does the brain give rise to conscious experience? Does speaking a language change how we think? Is a genuinely...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-01-10
Format(s) : PDF
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This is a collection of high-quality research papers in the philosophy of science, deriving from papers presented at the second meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Amsterdam, October 2009.
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-10-15
Collection :
The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings
Format(s) : ePub
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