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Our existence as living beings - thinking, feeling, acting - is an extraordinary thing: this book provides a scientifically based account of the entirety of factors that lead to our existence.
The text begins with the physical foundations of our existence, examining...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-05-21
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This book contains a selection of the very best papers from the Philosophy of AI (PhAI, formerly PT-AI), one of the leading regular conferences in the field of Philosophy of AI. The field finds itself in a moment of massive growth and change, and this book presents...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-17
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This book discusses and answers several long-standing and intriguing questions about science: What is science? What are its unique features compared to other forms of knowledge about the world? What are its relationships with other forms of knowledge? Should it play a...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-05-15
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This book provides a naturalistic account of the problems that led Wilfrid Sellars to formulate two rival images of humans and their place in the world. According to Sellars, the scientific image separated from the manifest image during the Renaissance because...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-12
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This Handbook explores the ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across philosophical, legal, and applied perspectives. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, the handbook examines key issues in this field, including algorithmic bias,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-06
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This book sheds philosophical light on the current and future scope of artificall inteligence. Artifical intelligence (AI) I is becoming increasingly relevant in today’s world. However, ‘AI’ is a very generic label that encompasses a multitude of realities and fuels...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-05-03
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This book provides a novel approach to a key topic in the history and philosophy of science, the role and status of prediction in the natural sciences. In contrast to most of the literature on the topic, this volume problematizes what constitutes a successful...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-15
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The Theory Pamphlet presents Gerhard Gentzen's natural deduction and sequent calculi with emphasis on the theory behind the formalism. Its five chapters serve as an advanced logic textbook, introducing universal properties, proof normalization techniques, and decision...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-04-05
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This open access book explores how the elements of Blumenbach’s epistemology have been variously assembled in different ways and in different historical-cultural and political-social contexts. It looks at the ways in which this epistemology has been enriched with...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-03-25
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This open access volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf Carnap’s philosophy, documented in his recently released diaries, from a combination of historical, cultural and philosophical...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-12
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This book, in memory of Noel M. Swerdlow, brings together new work by prominent historians of the ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Arabic, Hebrew, Classical, Hellenistic, Medieval and Renaissance traditions of astronomy, astrology, philosophy and chronology to expand our...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-23
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This book proposes a novel way to view thought experiments, models and scientific explanations. Current literature focuses largely on the assumed differences between the thought experiments and models, and as a result we have lost sight of an important role they can...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-17
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This book serves as a gentle primer on the philosophy of mind for those wishing to directly explore the strange subjective aspects of psychedelics, providing the means for novices to get to grips with the mind before disrupting it. The discussion includes both classic...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-12
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This book challenges the confusion and sensationalism dominating today’s discussions about artificial intelligence by going straight to the root: we misunderstand AI because we misunderstand intelligence itself. The author reframes the debate, connecting the rise...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-10
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In this second edition of Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Adults, Kirk Heilbrun and Christopher M. King review, analyze, and offer recommendations for best practice in violence risk assessment in adults conducted during forensic mental health assessment (FMHA),...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2026-01-30
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This book argues for a new direction of research, namely ‘History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences’ (HPSS). By adding a historical approach to the philosophy of the social sciences, the editor and authors show how fruitful HPSS is and simultaneously...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-29
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This book explores the question to what extent science is Western, whether in origin or by character. It aims to contribute to the debate regarding the relative status of local forms of knowledge (such as those found among indigenous peoples) and modern science....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-14
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Dieses Buchprojekt erscheint in drei Teilen mit jeweils einem inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt – PLANET, PEOPLE, PROFIT – und beschäftigt sich übergreifend mit den Nachhaltigkeitszielen der Vereinten Nationen (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs). Dieser dritte Band behandelt...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book examines and assesses the work of Thomas Kuhn. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to and examination of the full range of Kuhn’s philosophical work. It is the first book to take into account Kuhn’s hitherto unpublished writings as well...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This open access book offers a comprehensive and systematic debate on the key concepts and areas of application of the philosophy of science for machine learning. The current landscape of the debate about the epistemic and methodological challenges raised by machine...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-12-08
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