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This volume contains seventeen papers that were presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held in Washington, D.C. In addition to...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2016-12-15
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We find “vertical” relations in many different realms, whether between atoms and molecules, words and sentences, neurons and brains, or individuals and societies. This book is the first to bring together, and comparatively assess, the exciting array of philosophical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-07
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Scientific thinking must be understood as an activity. The acts of interpretation, representation, and explanation are the cognitive processes by which scientific thinking leads to understanding. The book explores the nature of these processes and describes how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-15
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The idea that our memories, in some sense, make us who we are, is a common one-and not at all implausible. After all, what could make us who we are if not the things we have experienced, thought, felt and desired on these idiosyncratic pathways through space and time...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-14
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Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic. Yet it is not well known that Feyerabend spent many years working on a philosophy of nature that was...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-26
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This book is focused on the examination of the particular relationship between developments in neuroscience and commonsense concepts, such as free will, personal identity, privacy, etc., which feature prominently in moral discourse. In the book common sense is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-09-23
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The aim of this work is to provide a preliminary analysis of a much more far-reaching investigation into the relationship between technology and philosophy. In the context of the contemporary German thought, the author compares the different positions of Karl Marx,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-09-21
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This book studies Hume’s scepticism and its roots, context, and role in the philosopher’s life. It relates how Hume wrote his philosophy in a time of tumult, as the millennia-old metaphysical tradition that placed humans and their cognitive abilities in an ontological...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-09-20
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The Darwinian Revolution--the change in thinking sparked by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which argued that all organisms including humans are the end product of a long, slow, natural process of evolution rather than the miraculous creation of an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-20
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This last one out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series focuses on various fields of social sciences and their connection to international politics. The author writes about topics in psychology, tragedy, and ethics. All of these fields are being put...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-09-19
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Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic understanding of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-16
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental issues and diseases such as cancer and dementia, and science has made important contributions to today’s knowledge economies and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-12
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Neuroscience, with its astounding new technologies, is uncovering the workings of the brain and with this perhaps the mind. The 'neuro' prefix spills out into every area of life, from neuroaesthetics to neuroeconomics, neurogastronomy and neuroeducation. With its...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-06
Collection :
New Human Frontiers
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This book about the philosophy of science is the second out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series. It not only provides a useful overview of this broad topic, but also provides deeper insight into specific topics like the philosophy of science...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-09-01
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Some may consider that the language and concepts of philosophy will eventually be superseded by those of neuroscience. This book questions such a naïve assumption and through a variety of perspectives and traditions, the authors show the possible contributions of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-26
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This third out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series includes texts on psychology and international relations, causation, counterfactual analysis. The political psychology contributions draw on richer, ancient Greek understandings of the psyche and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-25
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This book discusses the relationship between the philosophy of science and philosophy of engineering, and demonstrates how philosophers of engineering design as well as design researchers can benefit from the conceptual toolkit that the philosophy of science has to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-20
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The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-18
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Die ökologische Krise hängt mit einem bestimmten modernen Naturverständnis zusammen, nämlich dem sogenannten mechanisierten Weltbild. Aus dieser Sicht ist die Natur ein Ensemble toter, inerter Dinge ohne Innenseite und eigene Aktivität und infolgedessen ein Inventar von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-08-11
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