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  • Popper and His Popular Critics
    Joseph Agassi
    This volume examines Popper’s philosophy by analyzing the criticism of his most popular critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. They all followed his rejection of the traditional view of science as inductive. Starting from the assumption that Hume’s criticism of induction is valid, the book explores the central criticism and objections that these three critics h...
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    79,11 €

  • Personal Media and Everyday Life
    Terje Rasmussen
    This book argues that the plethora of new genres, apps and services in digital personal media must be understood historically and sociologically, and insists that sociology, media and communication theory can provide insight beyond surveys on media use and effects. It introduces key terms like ’personal media’, ’personalisation’ and the ’lifeworld’ in order to embed current med...
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    65,72 €

  • A Quaker Approach to Research
    Gray Cox
    A Quaker Approach to Research: Collaborative Practice and Communal Discernment grows out of a decade of experiments employing Quaker processes of communal discernment in research in the context of public policy, academic study, and community-based research. The guiding hypothesis has been that the methods developed by Quakers for spirit led governance could be adapted for spiri...
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    8,75 €

  • A Mathematical Prelude to the Philosophy of Mathematics
    Stephen Pollard
    This book is based on two premises: one cannot understand philosophy of mathematics without understanding mathematics and one cannot understand mathematics without doing mathematics. It draws readers into philosophy of mathematics by having them do mathematics. It offers 298 exercises, covering philosophically important material, presented in a philosophically informed way. The...
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    83,73 €

  • Waste
    William Viney
    Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new - it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millennia and has been treated as a rich resource by artists, writers, philosophers and archi...
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    206,60 €

  • Origins and Grand Finale
    Gary Haitel
    Origins and Grand Finale presents an in-depth study of how modern science and astronomy compare to the biblical narrative of the origin of the universe as well as the origin of life. Distinguishing between scientific facts and fairy-tales, as well as biblical facts and poetry, author Gary Haitel attempts to build a perfect harmony between science and theology. In Origins and Gr...
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    24,22 €

  • Origins and Grand Finale
    Gary Haitel
    Origins and Grand Finale presents an in-depth study of how modern science and astronomy compare to the biblical narrative of the origin of the universe as well as the origin of life. Distinguishing between scientific facts and fairy-tales, as well as biblical facts and poetry, author Gary Haitel attempts to build a perfect harmony between science and theology. In Origins and Gr...
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    16,49 €

  • Infinite Regress Arguments
    Jan Willem Wieland
    This book on infinite regress arguments provides (i) an up-to-date overview of the literature on the topic, (ii) ready-to-use insights for all domains of philosophy, and (iii) two case studies to illustrate these insights in some detail. Infinite regress arguments play an important role in all domains of philosophy. There are infinite regresses of reasons, obligations, rules, a...
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    66,67 €

  • Rationis Defensor
    James Maclaurin
    Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among its past and present faculty and which has twice been judged as the strongest research department across all dis...
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    133,80 €

  • Infinite Regress Arguments
    Jan Willem Wieland
    This book on infinite regress arguments provides (i) an up-to-date overview of the literature on the topic, (ii) ready-to-use insights for all domains of philosophy, and (iii) two case studies to illustrate these insights in some detail. Infinite regress arguments play an important role in all domains of philosophy. There are infinite regresses of reasons, obligations, rules, a...
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    48,22 €

  • Augmented Education
    Gill Clough / Kieron Sheehy / Rebecca Ferguson
    What happens when learning in the 'real world' is augmented by use of the virtual, and learning in virtual environments is augmented by use of the 'real'? Augmented Education explores learning that takes place at the frontiers of reality. Using electronic ...
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    65,29 €

  • Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture
    Daniel Appollon / Nadine Desrochers
    The paratext framework is now used in a variety of fields to assess, measure, analyze, and comprehend the elements that provide thresholds, allowing scholars to better understand digital objects. Researchers from many disciplines revisit paratextual theories in order to grasp what surrounds text in the digital age. Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Cu...
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    282,32 €

  • Cyber Behavior
    IRMA
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    987,56 €

  • Cyber Behavior
    IRMA
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    987,51 €

  • Cyber Behavior
    IRMA
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    987,51 €

  • Cyber Behavior
    IRMA
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    987,52 €

  • Epistemic Relativism
    M. Seidel
    Markus Seidel provides a detailed critique of epistemic relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In addition to scrutinizing the main arguments for epistemic relativism he provides an absolutist account that nevertheless aims at integrating the relativist’s intuition. ...
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    47,83 €

  • Archaeological Approaches to Dance Performance
    Christina Aamodt
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    57,67 €

  • Poincaré, Philosopher of Science
    This volume presents a selection of papers from the Poincaré Project of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, bringing together an international group of scholars with new assessments of Henri Poincaré’s philosophy of science-both its historical impact on the foundations of science and mathematics, and its relevance to contemporary philosophical inquir...
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    132,96 €

  • Language, Logic and Method
    Fundamental problems of the uses of formal techniques and of natural and instrumental practices have been raised again and again these past two decades, in many quarters and from varying viewpoints. We have brought a number of quite basic studies of these issues together in this volume, not linked con­ ceptually nor by any rigorously defined problemat...
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    268,29 €

  • Studies in Inductive Probability and Rational Expectation
    Theo A. F. Kuipers
    3 in philosophy, and therefore in metaphilosophy, cannot be based on rules that avoid spending time on pseudo-problems. Of course, this implies that, if one succeeds in demonstrating convincingly the pseudo-character of a problem by giving its ’solution’, the time spent on it need not be seen as wasted. We conclude this section with a brief statement ...
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    66,84 €

  • Unity of Science
    Robert L. Causey
    The first section of this chapter describes the major goals of this investiga­ tion and the general strategy of my presentation. The remaining three sections review some requisite background material and introduce some terminology and notation used in the book. Section B contains a brief review of some of the ideas and notation of elementary logic and...
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    134,34 €

  • Scientific Progress
    Craig Dilworth
    For the philosopher interested in the idea of objective knowledge of the real world, the nature of science is of special importance, for science, and more particularly physics, is today considered to be paradigmatic in its affording of such knowledge. And no understand­ ing of science is complete until it includes an appreciation of the nature of the ...
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    66,86 €

  • The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    Hanne Andersen / Peter Barker / Xiang Chen
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    62,95 €

  • Characterizing the Robustness of Science
    Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the 'successfulness', 'reliability' or 'trustworthiness' of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of 'robustness', often without specifying in a precise way the meaning of this term. This lack of clarity is the cause of frequent misunderstandings, since ...
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    207,25 €

  • Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism
    R CREATH
    This Institute’s Yearbook for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on various aspects of the work of Rudolf Carnap by an international group of distinguished scholars.​ ...
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    134,28 €

  • New Essays on Leibniz Reception
    This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz’s thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors studied include C.F. Gauss, Georg Cantor, Kurd Lasswitz, Bertrand Russell, Ernst Cassirer, Louis Couturat, Hans Reichenbach, Hermann Weyl, Kurt Gödel and Gregory Chaitin. In addition, we consider concepts and problem...
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    68,65 €

  • Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences
    The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profo...
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    133,97 €

  • Philosophy of the Sciences
    F. R. Tennant / FRTennant
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    50,85 €

  • Holy Sci-Fi!
    Paul J. Nahin
    Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive? Is there really such a thing as free will? If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)? For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many more.In Holy Sci-Fi!, popular writer Paul Nahin explores the fertile and sometim...
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    48,07 €


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