Télécharger le livre :  Demonstration and Burhan
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This book investigates the historical development of Aristotle’s perfect syllogism, or demonstration, into the Muslim world. It provides an accessible account to the modern reader, while at the same time bringing to the discussion the important issue of the specifically...

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Parution : 2024-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World
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This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to students and researchers of Social-Ecological  Systems (SES). It takes a systematic approach to three central topics:...

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Parution : 2024-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Universal Aspects of Scientific Practice: Commitment, Methodology, and Technique
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This book provides a unique contribution to philosophy of science from the perspective of the practice of science. It focuses on processes that generate scientific knowledge and seeks general and universal features that characterize scientific practice; features that...

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Parution : 2023-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding the Impact of Machine Learning on Labor and Education
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This book provides a novel framework for understanding and revising labor markets and education policies in an era of machine learning. It posits that while learning and knowing both require thinking, learning is fundamentally different than knowing because it results...

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Parution : 2023-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Synthetic Biology and the Question of Public Participation
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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...

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Parution : 2023-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Aristotelian Assertoric Syllogistic
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This book is a treatise on Aristotelian assertoric syllogistic, which is currently of growing interest. Some centuries ago, it attracted the attention of the founders of modern logic, who approached it in several (semantical and syntactical) ways. Further approaches...

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Parution : 2022-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Wittgenstein's On Certainty: Insight and Method
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This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty. In his work entitled On Certainty, Wittgenstein provides not only a brilliant solution to a previously intractable philosophical...

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Parution : 2022-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Mind-Body Entanglement
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This book suggests a radical departure in approaching the mind-body problem. Instead of trying to causally relate subjective experience to the functioning of the body, it begins with the notion of the psychosomatic unity of the individual and looks for its conditions of...

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Parution : 2021-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance
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This book states that the political systems of China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries are showing distinct maturity and ability to deal effectively with challenges – the most recent being the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to understand how they have developed...

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Parution : 2021-10-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Contextualism, Factivity and Closure
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This book analyses an inconsistency within epistemic contextualism known as the factivity problem. It also provides key insights into epistemic contextualism, an important innovation in contemporary epistemology, enabling readers to gain a better understanding of the...

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Parution : 2019-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Science and Enlightenment
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This book argues that two great problems of learning confront humanity: learning about the nature of the universe and about ourselves and other living things as a part of it; and learning how to become civilized. The author proposes that with the creation of modern...

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Parution : 2019-02-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Essays in Literary Aesthetics
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The book deals with philosophical issues concerning the understanding of the literary text and its distinctive nature, meaning, and relevance to life. It also provides an occasion to revisit many of the seminal ideas towards these ends by contextualizing them in the...

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Parution : 2018-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Idealization and the Laws of Nature
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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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Parution : 2018-08-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Dual-Process Theories of Numerical Cognition
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This book presents a philosophical interpretation to numerical cognition based on dual process theories and heuristics. It shows how investigations in cognitive science can shed light on issues traditionally raised by philosophers of mathematics. The analysis will also...

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Parution : 2018-08-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine
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This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains why it can be important to make this evidence explicit, and describes how to take such...

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Parution : 2018-07-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Quantum Theory and Local Causality
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?This book summarizes the results of research the authors have pursued in the past years on the problem of implementing Bell's notion of local causality in local physical theories and relating it to other important concepts and principles in the foundations of...

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Parution : 2018-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  An Investigation of the Causal Inference between Epidemiology and Jurisprudence
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This book examines how legal causation inference and epidemiological causal inference can be harmonized within the realm of jurisprudence, exploring why legal causation and epidemiological causation differ from each other and defining related problems. The book also...

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Parution : 2018-01-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Platonic Legislations
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This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became – in the longue durée – its most influential legislator. Making use of a vast scholarly literature, and offering original readings of a number of dialogues, it argues that the need...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Conquest of Body
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This book reflects on the phenomenon of biotechnology and how it affects the body and discusses a number of related issues, including visualization, mediation, and epistemology.The author offers a compelling thesis, arguing that the exploration of the human body has one...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Dignity in the 21st Century
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This book is open access under a CC BY license.This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life.Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and...

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Parution : 2017-05-20
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