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From climate change to species extinction, and habitat loss to soil degradation, a stark awareness of the often devastating impacts of human actions is growing. People around the world are urgently seeking sustainable ways of life for themselves and their communities....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-16
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This book gives a short presentation of the triad philosophy–physics–technology against the background of the common origin in ancient times.
This is the first English edition of this book, previously published in German. The emergence of the book has...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea.The volume is organized into four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-12
Collection :
Cognitive Technologies
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This book invokes the Tawhidi ontological foundation of the Qur’anic law and worldview, and is also a study of ta’wil, the esoteric meaning of Qur’anic verses. It presents a comparative analysis between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari’ah....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-12
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In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-11-12
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This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences.This methodological variety is open to a number of consequences, such as the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-30
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This book examines the views of Hermann Helmholtz, Hermann Cohen and Gottlob Frege in reaction to the epistemic crises induced by rapid changes in 19th century scientific practice. Besides addressing longstanding interpretive puzzles of interest to Frege scholars, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-28
Collection :
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
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Angriffe auf die Wissenschaft sind alltäglich geworden: Die Erforschung des Klimawandels sei keine „anständige“ Wissenschaft, die Evolution „nur eine Theorie“, die „Wahrheit“ über Impfstoffe werde vertuscht. In diesem Buch diskutiert Lee McIntyre, was...
Editeur :
Springer
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2020-10-20
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Die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte und das Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland haben die Menschenwürde als Höchstwert und oberstes Prinzip verankert. Biopolitischen Eingriffen durch den Staat sollte damit eine absolute Grenze gesetzt werden.Die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-30
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Between 1905 and 1913, French physicist Jean Perrin's experiments on Brownian motion ostensibly put a definitive end to the long debate regarding the real existence of molecules, proving the atomic theory of matter. While Perrin's results had a significant impact at the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-14
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This book explores how the trans phenomenon can challenge the existing concept of the Self and its nature. The catalyst is Moore’s Paradox: can a trans person coherently state ‘I am a girl but I don’t believe that’? More deeply, three fundamental philosophical questions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-22
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"For all those who fear they cannot understand the science of DNA -- they will soon find that they can and it's fascinating." -- Matt Ridley, author of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
DNA, once the exclusive domain of scientists in research labs,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-05-19
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Philosophy of science puts science itself under the microscope: What exactly is science? How do its explanations of the world differ from those of other subjects, including so-called “pseudo-sciences”? How should we understand and evaluate scientific methods? What, if...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-20
Collection :
What is Philosophy?
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According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties – often called ‘powers’ – by means of which they are sources of change. Dispositionalism has become increasingly popular among...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-08
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Common morality has been the touchstone of medical ethics since the publication of Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1979. Rosamond Rhodes challenges this dominant view by presenting an original and novel account of the ethics of medicine, one...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-06
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This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-06
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Videomapping with its use of digital images is an audiovisual format that has gained traction with the creative industries. It consists of projecting images onto diverse surfaces, according to their geometric characteristics. It is also synonymous with spatial augmented...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2020-02-19
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The interdisciplinarity between the biological and human sciences is here to serve a daring objective: to decipher, by means of a logical chain, the explanatory factors of human trajectories and imbalances between societies and nations. To do this,The World’s...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2020-02-19
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This book highlights the phenomenon of social media use in university studies based on its participants’ lived experience. It will appeal both to academics and practitioners interested in the human factors in the study environments saturated with technologies of social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-21
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