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  • Compromising the Ideals of Science
    Raphael Sassower
    This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. The book also offers suggestions for changing the political and economic conditions under which the integrity of science and its ethos can be practiced. ...
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    65,82 €

  • Compromising the Ideals of Science
    R. Sassower
    This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. The book also offers suggestions for changing the political and economic conditions under which the integrity of science and its ethos can be practiced. ...
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    48,71 €

  • The Future of Scientific Practice
    Marta Bertolaso
    Focusing on cell dynamics, molecular medicine and robotics, contributors explore the interplay between biological, technological and theoretical ways of thinking. The collection makes a strong contribution to current debates in the philosophy of science and the changing role of scientific practice. ...
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    254,52 €

  • Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption
    Ali Saif Al-Aufi / Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri
    With the increasingly complex and ubiquitous data available through modern technology, digital information is being utilized daily by academics and professionals of all disciplines and career paths. Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption: Theories and Trends brings together the many theories and meta-theories that make information science relevant across different...
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    262,43 €

  • Contemporary Ethical Issues in Engineering
    Satya Sundar Sethy
    For most professions, a code of ethics exists to promote positive behavior among practitioners in order to enrich others within the field as well as the communities they serve. Similar to the medical, law, and business fields, the engineering discipline also instills a code of ethical conduct. Contemporary Ethical Issues in Engineering highlights a modern approach to the topic ...
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    282,13 €

  • From Aristotle’s Teleology to Darwin’s Genealogy
    Marco Solinas
    From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle’s framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary revolution. ...
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    65,40 €

  • From Where We Came
    Arthur J Stewart
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    11,27 €

  • Minding the Modern
    Thomas Pfau
    In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of human agency-will, person, judgment, action-from antiquity through Scholasticism and on to eighteenth-...
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    175,21 €

  • Minding the Modern
    Thomas Pfau
    In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of human agency-will, person, judgment, action-from antiquity through Scholasticism and on to eighteenth-...
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    45,57 €

  • An Anthropology of Robots and AI
    Kathleen Richardson
    This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological theorizing regarding the way that robots are reimagined as intellig...
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    268,52 €

  • Neurophenomenology and Its Applications to Psychology
    Susan Gordon
    This book explores the meaning and import of neurophenomenology and the philosophy of enactive or embodied cognition for psychology. It introduces the psychologist to an experiential, non-reductive, holistic, theoretical, and practical framework that integrates the approaches of natural and human science to consciousness. In integrating phenomenology with cognitive science, neu...
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    134,22 €

  • Climate Change and Individual Responsibility
    A. De Smet / L. Diependaele / Wouter Peeters
    This book discusses the agency and responsibility of individuals in climate change, and argues that these are underemphasized, enabling individuals to maintain their consumptive lifestyles without having to accept moral responsibility for their luxury emissions. ...
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    48,54 €

  • String Figures as Mathematics?
    Eric Vandendriessche
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    135,32 €

  • Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain
    N. Sieroka
    This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from unconscious to conscious states, especially with regard to the constitution of phenomenal time. ...
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    47,73 €

  • Is Science Compatible with Free Will?
    Anyone who claims the right ’to choose how to live their life’ excludes any purely deterministic description of their brain in terms of genes, chemicals or environmental influences. For example, when an author of a text expresses his thoughts, he assumes that, in typing the text, he governs the firing of the neurons in his brain and the movement of his fingers through the exerc...
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    210,16 €

  • Innovation Contested
    Benoît Godin
    Benoît Godin lucidly examines the idea and representations of innovation from antiquity to the present. He studies the meaning(s) of innovation over time, its diverse uses, and the contexts in which the concept emerged and changed. This history is organized around three periods or episteme: the prohibition episteme, the instrument episteme, and the value episteme. ...
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    213,36 €

  • Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Logic and Science Facing the New Technologies
    The 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held on July 19 - 26, 2011 in Nancy, the historic capital of Lorraine and the birthplace of Henri Poincaré. For the first time in LMPS history, the Nancy congress had a special topic: Logic and Science Facing the New Technologies. These Proceedings include state of the art discussions by leading...
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    30,82 €

  • The Quantum Dissidents
    Olival Freire Junior
    This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research...
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    122,89 €

  • Creating Scientific Controversies
    David Harker
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    38,11 €

  • The Quantum Dissidents
    Olival Freire Junior
    This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research...
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    47,46 €

  • Natural History Dioramas
    This book brings together in a unique perspective aspects of natural history dioramas, their history, construction and rationale, interpretation and educational importance, from a number of different countries, from the west coast of the USA, across Europe to China. It describes the journey of dioramas from their inception through development to visions of their future. A compl...
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    47,80 €

  • String Figures as Mathematics?
    Eric Vandendriessche
    This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies, and particularly in those of oral tradition. It consists in applying a successio...
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    47,27 €

  • What This World Is Really About!
    Ken Minton
    This rebel with a cause author intellectually challenges the demarcation separating science from philosophy in his firestorm of a book, What This World Is Really About!With the alternative 'correct' demarcations established, the author then explores the many and significant ramifications. Thus, the first chapter is dedicated to answering the question: How is reality correctly u...
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    9,40 €

  • Interpreting Quantum Theory
    S. Friederich
    Is it possible to approach quantum theory in a ’therapeutic’ vein that sees its foundational problems as arising from mistaken conceptual presuppositions? The book explores the prospects for this project and, in doing so, discusses such fascinating issues as the nature of quantum states, explanation in quantum theory, and ’quantum non-locality’. ...
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    66,78 €

  • Shape of Thought
    H Clark Barrett
    The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and cognitive science to show how the brain can be composed of specialized ad...
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    43,98 €

  • Leibniz, Husserl and the Brain
    N. Sieroka
    This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory perception and making new and updated use of Leibniz and Husserl, it investigates the transition from unconscious to conscious states, especially with regard to the constitution of phenomenal time. ...
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    66,18 €

  • Naturalizing Badiou
    Fabio Gironi
    Crossing the boundaries between ’continental’ and ’analytic’ philosophical approaches, this book proposes a naturalistic revision of the mathematical ontology of Alain Badiou, establishing links with structuralist projects in the philosophy of science and mathematics. ...
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    66,48 €

  • From Aristotle’s Teleology to Darwin’s Genealogy
    M. Solinas / Byrt
    From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Aristotle’s framework into modernity, until its radical overthrow by the evolutionary revolution. ...
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    66,87 €

  • Atoms, Bytes and Genes
    Martin W. Bauer
    This book traces historical debates over developments in nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering which raised controversy with consequences, and argues that public opinion is a factor of the development of modern techno-science. Bauer uses a 'pain analogy' to show that just as pain impacts movement, resistance impacts techno-scientific mobilization: it signals that som...
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    267,69 €

  • The Grammar of Science
    Karl Pearson
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    72,96 €