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There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa. Since the beginning of the so-called »second wave feminism« (in the middle of the 20th century), there has been a growing awareness of the urgency of a...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2019-12-31
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Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie
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Computer software (operating systems, web browsers, word processors, etc.) structure our daily lives. Comprising both a user interface and the electronic circuits of the machine it is printed to, software represents a hybrid object at the crossroads of materiality and...
Editeur : Wiley-ISTE
Parution : 2019-12-19
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new position in the debate between scientific realism...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-11-29
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Synthese Library
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Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science's most divisive topics, such as philosophical issues in genetics, it also encompasses areas where modern biology has...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-11-28
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Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science's most divisive topics, such as philosophical issues in genetics, it also encompasses areas where modern biology has...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-11-28
Format(s) : ePub
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Diese philosophische, interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht, auf welche Weise Fehlfunktionen einen einzigartigen Zugang zu Daten für Entdeckung und Prüfung von Theorien in vielen Wissenschaften bieten. Anhand von Beispielen aus Biologie, Evolution, Linguistik,...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2019-10-08
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Die in diesem Band versammelten nachgelassenen Schriften von Moritz Schlick zur Naturphilosophie wurden über einen Zeitraum von annähernd sechs Jahren ediert und kommentiert. Dabei ist eine unverzichtbare Quelle zur Moritz-Schlick-Forschung entstanden, die als Grundlage...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-09-19
Collection :
Moritz Schlick. Gesamtausgabe
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Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-23
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At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science. It makes a unique contribution to research on epistemological naturalism in Quine’s tradition by criticizing the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-27
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Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-07-12
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals. How do we decide where funding for health-care programs should go?...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-06-21
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This innovative book proposes a unique and original perspective on the nature of the mind and how phenomenal consciousness may arise in a physical world. From simple sentient organisms to complex self-reflective systems, Faye argues for a naturalistic-evolutionary...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-11
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Living eXperience Design – the design of life experiences – is an extension of user experience design (UXD). The context comprises usage and practice in real contexts in which spatial, urban, social, temporal, historical and legal dimensions are considered. Reflecting...
Editeur : Wiley-ISTE
Parution : 2019-04-10
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This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction. Remarkably, these revolutionary contributions to philosophy turn out to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-03-09
Collection :
Synthese Library
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Dieser Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die normativen Theorien der Wissenschaft. Ende des 19. und Anfang des 20. Jhs. schien die Philosophie ihre Kompetenz in der Behandlung der Grundlagenprobleme der menschlichen Existenz an die Physik abzugeben. Einige...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-03-07
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Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-05
Collection :
New Human Frontiers
Format(s) : ePub
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Dieses Buch bietet einen weit zurückgreifenden Einblick in die abendländische Naturphilosophie. Beginnend mit den Vorsokratikern als erstem Höhepunkt des europäischen Naturbegriffs erfasst der Band alle Epochen der Geistesgeschichte: die Antike, christliche und...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2019-02-25
Format(s) : PDF
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If all philosophy starts with wondering, then Calculated Surprises starts with wondering about how computers are changing the face and inner workings of science. In this book, Lenhard concentrates on the ways in which computers and simulation are transforming the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-02-18
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Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern. Within philosophy, the Ethic of Life has been clarified, developed, and rigorously defended; yet it has also found its harshest critics. Between...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-02-01
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