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This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination. There are two kinds of reasons that invite this reexamination, one deriving from philosophical concerns over the traditional concept, the other motivated by theoretical and...
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Springer
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2022-06-13
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Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
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This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-01
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed...
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Springer
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2022-04-11
Collection :
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis
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This book takes a new approach to the debate on causal pluralism in the philosophy of biology by asking how useful pluralism is instead of debating its truth. The core thesis in this work is that many problems do not hinge on the question of whether or not we...
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Springer
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2022-03-28
Collection :
History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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A clear and engaging introduction to the philosophy of science, exploring the role of science within the broader framework of human knowledge and engagement with the world What are the central features and advantages of a scientific worldview? Why do even reasonable...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-03-04
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will encounter old and new arguments for and against scientific realism. They will also be given useful tips for how to...
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Springer
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2021-12-02
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This book is the first academic work on the philosophy of engineering in China that reflects two decades of research. It puts forward a new thesis, namely that the core maxim in the philosophy of engineering is “I create, therefore I am,” which is radically different...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-19
Collection :
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
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Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-09-23
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This book makes the case that several urban technologies contribute to wicked problems such as climate change and vast social and economic inequalities. Such situations often create unfavorable conditions for mental life in cities. These conditions force us to expand...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-17
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'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2021-09-02
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One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI – and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the...
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Polity
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2021-08-19
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The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never “just” facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-15
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This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism. These can be viewed as different stances...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-27
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to an overcoming of the traditional separation between humanties and life sciences which, according to the authors, is required today both by the developments of these disciplines and by the social problems they have to...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-22
Collection :
Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
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?Engineers love to build “things” and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-14
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Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious - 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-03-18
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This book gives a short presentation of the triad philosophy–physics–technology against the background of the common origin in ancient times.
This is the first English edition of this book, previously published in German. The emergence of the book has...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea.The volume is organized into four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-12
Collection :
Cognitive Technologies
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This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences.This methodological variety is open to a number of consequences, such as the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-30
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This book examines the views of Hermann Helmholtz, Hermann Cohen and Gottlob Frege in reaction to the epistemic crises induced by rapid changes in 19th century scientific practice. Besides addressing longstanding interpretive puzzles of interest to Frege scholars, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-28
Collection :
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
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