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Das vorliegende Buch gewährt Einblicke und Ausblicke in unterschiedliche Disziplinen der Wissenschaft und die mit ihnen einhergehenden ethischen Probleme und Fragestellungen. Das Buch richtet sich neben dem akademischen Fachpublikum vor allem auch an ein breiteres...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2022-06-23
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It can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came to the fore. Ever since, it has been attended by controversy: what does it mean to say that Boyle's law governs the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-06-23
Format(s) : ePub
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It can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came to the fore. Ever since, it has been attended by controversy: what does it mean to say that Boyle's law governs the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-06-23
Format(s) : PDF
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Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? This book introduces a new account, contextual emergence, seeking to...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-06-20
Format(s) : PDF
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This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination. There are two kinds of reasons that invite this reexamination, one deriving from philosophical concerns over the traditional concept, the other motivated by theoretical and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-06-13
Collection :
Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
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This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-06-01
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Synthese Library
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Mit dem Subjekt wird eine logisch nicht hintergehbare Entität benannt, die sich aus den Prämissen des Radikalen Konstruktivismus ableiten lässt. Damit ist jedoch wenig gesagt, weil ein reines Subjekt nicht mehr ist als ein Subjekt.Mit dem Fokus auf die Wissenschaft soll...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2022-05-10
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This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-04-11
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Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis
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This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth. The core thesis in this work is that many problems do not hinge on the question of whether or not we...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-03-28
Collection :
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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How similar are your choices, behaviours, and lifestyle to those of a parrot?
We humans are not like other mammals. We look like them, but we don't act like them. In fact, many of our defining human traits: our longevity, intelligence, monogamy and childrearing, and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-03-10
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How similar are your choices, behaviours, and lifestyle to those of a parrot?
We humans are not like other mammals. We look like them, but we don't act like them. In fact, many of our defining human traits: our longevity, intelligence, monogamy and childrearing, and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-03-10
Format(s) : ePub
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A clear and engaging introduction to the philosophy of science, exploring the role of science within the broader framework of human knowledge and engagement with the world What are the central features and advantages of a scientific worldview? Why do even reasonable...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2022-03-08
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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A look at how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years.
InA Strategic Nature, Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza examine public relations as a social and political force that shapes both our...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-12-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will encounter old and new arguments for and against scientific realism. They will also be given useful tips for how to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-12-02
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This book is the first academic work on the philosophy of engineering in China that reflects two decades of research. It puts forward a new thesis, namely that the core maxim in the philosophy of engineering is “I create, therefore I am,” which is radically different...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-10-19
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Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-23
Format(s) : ePub
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This book makes the case that several urban technologies contribute to wicked problems such as climate change and vast social and economic inequalities. Such situations often create unfavorable conditions for mental life in cities. These conditions force us to expand...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-09-17
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'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2021-09-02
Format(s) : ePub
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One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI – and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-19
Format(s) : ePub
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Technischer Fortschritt verlangt Verantwortung. Bei der Energieerzeugung, in der Medizin- und Militärtechnik, der Neurotechnik oder in der Raumfahrt Ethikfragen stellen sich in vielen Bereichen, in denen eine rasante technische Entwicklung stattfindet. Ist diese richtig...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2021-08-03
Format(s) : PDF
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