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Explore the moral and ethical issues which arise at the intersection of novel technology and engineering In Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an insightful and thought-provoking exploration of some of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-08-07
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Health is weird.Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-04
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Indikatoren sind in Prozessen des Monitorings in allen gesellschaftlich relevanten Bereichen sowie in Prozessen der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Entscheidungsfindung von der lokalen Ebene bis zur internationalen Governance unverzichtbar geworden. Überall in der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-08-03
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This book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. In the first five years (2015-2021) of operation, this program...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe has for our understanding of time, geometry, and physics. The appearance of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Health is weird.Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-14
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This anthology is a unique compilation of scientific contributions on the topic of measurement and understanding, showing how terms such as number, measurement, understanding, model, pattern are used in a wide variety of disciplines. Based on the results and experiences...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-06-12
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Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. From the time young children express gender incongruent preferences and attitudes, up to the time in which older...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-07
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Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on theHumean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity. A central question in metaphysics and philosophy of science is: What are laws of nature? Humeans hold that laws are not sui...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-06-01
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This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-05-25
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Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. From the time young children express gender incongruent preferences and attitudes, up to the time in which older...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-23
ePub
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Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on theHumean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity. A central question in metaphysics and philosophy of science is: What are laws of nature? Humeans hold that laws are not sui...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-17
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What is a language?What do scientific grammars tell us about the structure of individual languages and human language in general?What kind of science is linguistics? These and other questions are the subject of Ryan M. Nefdt's Language, Science, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-04-14
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Healthcare providers are constantly confronted with illness and injury, and the challenges of healing. Yet this very work, the relief of suffering, inflicts on healthcare providers suffering of their own that is often crippling. The most common terms for the pain...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-03-17
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The book considers the relationship between governance and participation, and the ways participation has been understood, framed and applied in the context of synthetic biology (SB) governance approaches. Based on fundamental questions about the scope, purpose, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-03-15
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In this book, Matej Kohar demonstrates how the new mechanistic account of explanation can be used to support a non-representationalist view of explanations in cognitive neuroscience, and therefore can bring new conceptual tools to the non-representationalist arsenal....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-03-09
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For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity--point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The Sacred Depths of Nature, eminent biologist Ursula Goodenough shows us...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-02-03
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Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world
This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as individual scientific disciplines became established and institutionalized....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-01
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Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world
This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as individual scientific disciplines became established and institutionalized....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-13
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The field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "Science" that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action. However, the multiple significant ways in which colonial...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-06
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