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Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science's most divisive topics, such as philosophical issues in genetics, it also encompasses areas where modern biology has...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-11-28
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Over the last forty years the philosophy of biology has emerged as an important sub-discipline of the philosophy of science. Covering some of science's most divisive topics, such as philosophical issues in genetics, it also encompasses areas where modern biology has...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Diese philosophische, interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht, auf welche Weise Fehlfunktionen einen einzigartigen Zugang zu Daten für Entdeckung und Prüfung von Theorien in vielen Wissenschaften bieten. Anhand von Beispielen aus Biologie, Evolution, Linguistik,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-10-08
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Die in diesem Band versammelten nachgelassenen Schriften von Moritz Schlick zur Naturphilosophie wurden über einen Zeitraum von annähernd sechs Jahren ediert und kommentiert. Dabei ist eine unverzichtbare Quelle zur Moritz-Schlick-Forschung entstanden, die als Grundlage...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-09-19
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Moritz Schlick. Gesamtausgabe
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Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was...
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Polity
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2019-08-15
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At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science. It makes a unique contribution to research on epistemological naturalism in Quine’s tradition by criticizing the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-27
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Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-07-12
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This innovative book proposes a unique and original perspective on the nature of the mind and how phenomenal consciousness may arise in a physical world. From simple sentient organisms to complex self-reflective systems, Faye argues for a naturalistic-evolutionary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-11
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Living eXperience Design – the design of life experiences – is an extension of user experience design (UXD). The context comprises usage and practice in real contexts in which spatial, urban, social, temporal, historical and legal dimensions are considered. Reflecting...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-04-10
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This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction. Remarkably, these revolutionary contributions to philosophy turn out to...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-09
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Synthese Library
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Dieser Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die normativen Theorien der Wissenschaft. Ende des 19. und Anfang des 20. Jhs. schien die Philosophie ihre Kompetenz in der Behandlung der Grundlagenprobleme der menschlichen Existenz an die Physik abzugeben. Einige...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-07
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Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are...
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Polity
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2019-03-05
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New Human Frontiers
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Dieses Buch bietet einen weit zurückgreifenden Einblick in die abendländische Naturphilosophie. Beginnend mit den Vorsokratikern als erstem Höhepunkt des europäischen Naturbegriffs erfasst der Band alle Epochen der Geistesgeschichte: die Antike, christliche und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-25
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What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-21
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If all philosophy starts with wondering, then Calculated Surprises starts with wondering about how computers are changing the face and inner workings of science. In this book, Lenhard concentrates on the ways in which computers and simulation are transforming the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-18
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Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern. Within philosophy, the Ethic of Life has been clarified, developed, and rigorously defended; yet it has also found its harshest critics. Between...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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In this book, the author develops a new form of structural realism and deals with the problem of representation. The work combines two distinguished developments of the Semantic View of Theories, namely Structural Realism (SR), a flourishing theory from contemporary...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-29
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Leibniz war in der Moderne wohl der letzte Universalgelehrte, der auf allen wesentlichen Wissensgebieten seiner Zeit originelle und innovative Leistungen erbracht hat: als reformorientierter Jurist, multilateral denkender Diplomat, als Mathematiker der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-01-21
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What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-10
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