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Millikan and Her Critics offers a unique critical discussion of Ruth Millikan's highly regarded, influential, and systematic contributions to philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of biology, epistemology, and metaphysics. These newly written contributions...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-11-05
Collection :
Philosophers and their Critics
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Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and...
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Springer
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2012-10-10
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Cultural Studies of Science Education
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Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology’s impact on society and our lives. Presents...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-10-01
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology’s impact on society and our lives. Presents the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-10-01
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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The first part deals with philosophies that have had a significant input, positive or negative, on the search for truth; it suggests that scientific and technological are either stimulated or smothered by a philosophical matrix; and it outlines two ontological...
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Springer
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2012-07-04
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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This is a collection of high-quality research papers in the philosophy of science, deriving from papers presented at the second meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association in Amsterdam, October 2009.
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Springer
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2011-10-15
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The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings
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At a time when the human genome has been sequenced advances in the life sciences seem to have great potential for human health, industry and the environment throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Still, for some, potential risks and ethical dilemmas remain,...
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Springer
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2011-08-13
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Putting Information First focuses on Luciano Floridi’s contributions to the philosophy of information. Respected scholars stimulate the debate on the most distinctive and controversial views he defended, and present the philosophy of information as a specific way of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
Collection :
Metaphilosophy
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A Summary of Scientific Method is a brief description of what makes science scientific. It is written in a direct, clear style that is accessible and informative for scientists and science students. It is intended to help science teachers explain how science works,...
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Springer
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2011-04-26
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Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice. Utilizes a systematic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-23
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The third edition of Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity has been carefully updated to reflect significant developments, including a new chapter covering important recent work in the foundations of physics. A new edition of the premier philosophical study of Bell’s...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-08
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Recently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science. Taking their lead from scientific structuralists such as Henri Poincaré, Ernst Cassirer, and Bertrand Russell, some contemporary philosophers and scientists have argued that the most...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-01-21
Collection :
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Belief revision theory and philosophy of science both aspire to shed light on the dynamics of
knowledge – on how our view of the world changes (typically) in the light of new evidence. Yet these two areas of research have long seemed strangely detached from each other,...
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Springer
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2010-10-27
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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter?, and What is mind? A reason for tackling both problems in a single book is that two of the most influential views in modern philosophy are that the universe is...
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Springer
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2010-09-14
Collection :
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Am Anfang war DarwinGut 150 Jahren sind vergangen, seit Darwin sein Werk „Die Entstehung der Arten“ geschrieben hat. Das Evolutionsparadigma hat sich inzwischen als erfolgreicher Forschungsansatz in den Wissenschaften vom Menschen erwiesen. Er trägt zur Erklärung vieler...
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Springer
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2010-09-09
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It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-04-07
Collection :
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition reflects the latest advances in the field while continuing to provide students with a road map to the complex interdisciplinary terrain of science and technology studies. Distinctive in its attention to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-11-20
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A collection of essays discussing a wide range of sciences and the central philosophical issues associated with them, presenting the sciences collectively to encourage a greater understanding of their associative theoretical foundations, as well as their relationships...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-11-19
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This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotly debated questions in philosophy of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-11-19
Collection :
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
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A collection of essays discussing a wide range of sciences and the central philosophical issues associated with them, presenting the sciences collectively to encourage a greater understanding of their associative theoretical foundations, as well as their relationships...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-11-19
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