Catálogo de libros: Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología sobre la sociedad

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  • Experimentation in the Sciences
    This book takes a novel approach by highlighting comparative and long-term historical perspectives on experimental practice. The juxtaposition of accounts of natural, social, and medical experimentation is very enlightening, especially because the authors put the emphasis on the different kinds of objects of experimentation (physical matter, chemical reagents, social groups, or...
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    157,78 €

  • Descartes on Mathematics, Method and Motion
    Ladislav Kvasz
    This book argues that Descartes’ physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics. After Newton introduced a completely different approach to mathematical description of motion, Descartes’ physics became obsolete and even difficult to comprehend. This text follows the language of Descartes and the means of which motion can be described. It argues that Descarte...
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    60,74 €

  • Sustainable Carbon Capture
    A comprehensive resource on different aspects of sustainable carbon capture technologies including recent process developments, environmentally friendly methods and roadmaps for implementations. Discusses also the socio-economic and policy aspects of carbon capture and the challenges, opportunities, and incentives for change in industry and policy. ...
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    85,18 €

  • The Explanatory Autonomy of the Biological Sciences
    Wei Fang
    This book argues for the explanatory autonomy of the biological sciences. It does so by showing that scientific explanations in the biological sciences cannot be reduced to explanations in the fundamental sciences, and by demonstrating that biological explanations are advanced by models rather than laws of nature. ...
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    73,51 €

  • The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment
    This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its ultimate explanatory target catapults the investigation of these research tools into a philosophical spotlight. ...
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    72,72 €

  • Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past
    Anna Collar
    Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange gathers contributions from an international group of scholars to reconsider the role that strong social ties play in the transmission of new ideas, and their crucial place in network analyses of the past. ...
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    72,94 €

  • Reconsideration of Science and Technology I
    Ding Junqiang / Liu Dachun / Wang Bolu
    This volume analyses Karl Marx’s understanding of science and technology and how it is associated with his focus on the perspective of history and human practice, seeking to illuminate a renewed understanding of science and technology from a Marx’s angle. ...
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    73,33 €

  • Reconsideration of Science and Technology II
    Ai Zhiqiang / Liu Dachun / Yang Huili
    In reviewing and reconsidering the intellectual history of scientism and anti-scientism, the authors assess the process of reasoning and prejudices of these contrasting viewpoints, while discussing the repercussions of scientific hegemony and its contemporary criticism. ...
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    73,09 €

  • Reconsideration of Science and Technology III
    Fan Shanshan / Liu Dachun / Yang Huili
    Drawing on debates from traditional and postmodern thoughts on science and technology, the title builds a new theoretical framework to reconsider science and technology, integrating the opposing viewpoints that either justify science or negate it. ...
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    73,20 €

  • Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era
    This collection responds to widespread, complex, and current environmental challenges by presenting eleven original essays on a new elemental-embodied approach in environmental humanities. This approach has a special focus on elemental and indigenous philosophies as well as localized experiences of terrestrial forces: from earthquakes and eruptions to pandemics and natural disa...
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    169,85 €

  • Lamarckism and the Emergence of ’Scientific’ Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
    Snait B. Gissis
    The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ’the biological’ and ’the social’. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring to be constituted as autonomous, as ’scientific’ disciplines, is described, analyzed and explained. Through this framework, the author points to conceptual and constructive comm...
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    159,70 €

  • The Philosophy of Symmetry
    Nicholas Joshua Yii Wye Teh
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    27,50 €

  • The Philosophy of Symmetry
    Nicholas Joshua Yii Wye Teh
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    84,38 €

  • Left to Our Own Devices
    Margaret E. Morris
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    24,27 €

  • Networking Peripheries
    Anita Say Chan
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    38,85 €

  • Tower to Tower
    Henriette Steiner / Kristin Veel
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    40,91 €

  • Remaking the News
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    38,50 €

  • Rock, Bone, and Ruin
    Adrian Currie
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    33,46 €

  • The SAFE Leader
    Dr. Mark McBride-Wright MBE CEng
    The engineering industry underpins everything that we encounter daily and spans across a wide range of sectors including technology, manufacturing, construction, oil and gas, shipping, healthcare, renewable energy, and more. Yet despite its importance in our lives, fewer people than ever are studying in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The...
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    25,78 €

  • The Consciousness Explosion
    Ben Goertzel / Gabriel Axel Montes
    The pace of engineering and science is speeding up, rapidly leading us toward a 'Technological Singularity' - a point in time when superintelligent machines achieve and improve so much so fast, traditional humans can no longer operate at the forefront. However, if all goes well, human beings may still flourish greatly in their own ways in this unprecedented era.If humanity is g...
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    152,40 €

  • Scientific Realism and Laws of Nature
    Michel Ghins
    This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate realist and empiricist perspective. Accordingly, good arguments in favour of the existence of unobservable entities postulated by our best theories, such as electrons, must be induc...
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    157,42 €

  • Ideal Man MASTERING MASCULINITY
    TBD / Travis Neville
    Good men wonder if they are where they should be in life. If you consistently seek natural, masculine ideals, it will lead you to a bountiful and productive life. Sovereignty, real preparedness, a warm and loving home, and genuine appreciation are only earned through consistent discipline and e­ffort. If you’ve been doing it right, you’ll have achieved the concepts listed in th...
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    27,40 €

  • Mosaic of Minds
    Songyee Yoon
    Forging a More Humane Future through Ethical AI CollaborationThe rapid development of AI is bringing revolutionary changes that raise complex ethical questions without clear solutions. As AI becomes an integral part of human society, how can we ensure it evolves responsibly and ethically? Songyee Yoon draws from conversations with pioneering AI experts to provide insight into b...
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    16,31 €

  • Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge
    Jagdish Hattiangadi
    The book sets an ambitious goal. It devises a new account of scientific methodology that makes it possible to explain how scientists manage, at least occasionally, to find true models of reality. The new methods may be contrasted with all those currently available that employ 'coherence theories' of knowledge. Under this designation are grouped positions that can seem very diff...
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    168,97 €

  • Human Minds and Cultures
    Sanjit Chakraborty
    This book puts forward a harmonious analysis of similarities and differences between two concepts-human minds and cultures-and strives for a multicultural spectrum of philosophical explorations that could assist them in pondering the striking pursuit of envisaging human minds and cultures as an essential appraisal of philosophy and the social sciences. The book hinges on a theo...
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    157,54 €

  • HUMANITIES, SCIENCE, SCIMAT
    LUI LAM
    The humanities (and social science) are the disciplines that study human, which are essential in helping us to understand ourselves and others and the world around us. Since science is the study of everything in the universe and human is a material system consisting of the same atoms that make up other nonhuman systems, humanities are part of science. Thus, understanding correc...
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    202,74 €

  • AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism
    This edited volume presents perspectives from computer science, information theory, neuroscience and brain imaging, aesthetics, social sciences, psychiatry, and philosophy to answer frontier questions related to artificial intelligence and human experience. Can a machine think, believe, aspire and be purposeful as a human? What is the place in the machine world for hope, meanin...
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    156,83 €

  • Mechanisms in Science
    Stathis Psillos / Stavros Ioannidis
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    39,25 €

  • The Ethics of Aristotle
    Aristotle
    It seems clear that happiness is the ultimate goal to which human life aspires. But what is the true essence of happiness? This thorny question is faced by Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) in the Nicomachean Ethics. Among the many values that can be attributed to the philosopher of Stagira (Macedonia) is this text belonging to the last period of his production and undoubtedly the most ...
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    17,04 €

  • Information Crisis
    Julia Soplop
    'This is a book every citizen should read.' -SY MONTGOMERY, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus and editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019The rapid and ubiquitous spread of information has failed to remedy one of humanity’s most enduring challenges: making accurate sense of the world. Instead, a constellation of factors influencing h...
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    39,88 €


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