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China is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge. This up-to-date analysis evaluates China's state-led approach to science and technology, and its successes and failures. In recent decades,China has seen...
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Polity
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2018-10-15
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China Today
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Dieses Lehrbuch wendet sich vordringlich an die Studierenden und Lehrenden an den deutschen Universitäten, um die Heranbildung von Forschern an den deutschen Universitäten im Geiste des Humboldtschen Bildungsideals der Einheit von Forschung und Lehre ebenso zu...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-10
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This new study provides a refreshing look at the issue of exceptions and shows that much of the problem stems from a failure to recognize at least two kinds of exception-ridden law: ceteris paribus laws and ideal laws. Billy Wheeler offers the first book-length...
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Springer
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2018-08-28
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We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what...
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Polity
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2018-08-08
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Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Scientism answers both questions with yes. Scientism is increasingly influential in popular scientific literature and intellectual life in general, but...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-08-01
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Gibt es Elemente, Bestandteile, Strukturen, die in allen Wissenschaftsbereichen, Disziplinen und Theorien fast gleich sind? Dieses Buch stellt ein neues und originelles Modell für Theorien, Theoriennetze und dynamische Entwicklungen vor, das für empirische...
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Springer VS
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2018-07-30
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Erstmals wird mit diesem Band in einer Wissenschaftstheorie auch umfassend die Verantwortung der Wissenschaften thematisiert. Die Wissenschaften sind für die Organisation des Zusammenlebens und der Bewältigung der Überlebensprobleme der Menschen unentbehrlich geworden....
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Springer VS
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2018-06-28
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Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories, and concepts used by scientists. It mainly developed as a field in its own right during the twentieth century and is now a diversified and lively research area. This book surveys the current state of the discipline by...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-06-28
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Andrew Steane reconfigures the public understanding of science, by drawing on a deep knowledge of physics and by bringing in mainstream philosophy of science. Science is a beautiful, multi-lingual network of ideas; it is not a ladder in which ideas at one level make...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-28
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This book presents a novel approach to the analysis of interdisciplinary science based on the contemporary philosophical literature on scientific representation. The basic motivation for developing this approach is that epistemic issues are insufficiently dealt with in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-25
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This book puts multilevel selection theory into a much needed historical perspective.This is achieved by discussing multilevel selection in the first half of the twentieth century, the reasons for the energetic rejection of Wynne-Edwards’ group selectionist stance in...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-06-07
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Explanations are important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical contexts. But what is an explanation? In the philosophical study of explanation, there is long-standing, influential tradition that links...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-31
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How is that when scientists need some piece of mathematics through which to frame their theory, it is there to hand? What has been called 'the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics' sets a challenge for philosophers. Some have responded to that challenge by arguing...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-30
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Norwood Russell Hanson was one of the most important philosophers of science of the post-war period. Hanson brought Wittgensteinian ordinary language philosophy to bear on the concepts of science, and his treatments of observation, discovery, and the theory-ladenness of...
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Springer
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2018-05-29
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How is that when scientists need some piece of mathematics through which to frame their theory, it is there to hand? What has been called 'the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics' sets a challenge for philosophers. Some have responded to that challenge by arguing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-24
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Everything Flows explores the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-24
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The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain...
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Polity
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2018-05-18
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Psychological terms are widely used to describe the biological world: plants, insects, bacteria colonies, even single cells are described as making decisions, anticipating rewards, and communicating with language. Carrie Figdor presents a comprehensive critical...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-26
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Here is a universal biology that draws upon the contributions of Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel to unravel the mystery of life and conceive what is essential to living things anywhere they may arise. The book develops a philosopher’s guide to life in the universe,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-25
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