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What Scientists Think
ISBN: 9780415334266 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are scientists working on today? What do they worry about? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, animal experimentation, cancer, and mental illness? Is science progressing or in retreat? Is this century humankind's last? Essential reading for anyone interested in popular... What are scientists working on today? What do they worry about? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, animal experimen... |
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What Scientists Think
ISBN: 9780415334273 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are leading scientists working on now? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, animal experimentation, cancer, and mental illness? Is science progressing or in retreat? Is this century humankind's last?
These are just some of the compelling questions discussed by twelve of world's leading scientists and scientific thinkers in this fascinating book. In engaging and lucid discussion, they clarify many of the complex scientific challenges and dilemmas facing science today. They also explain what drives their interest in science, revealing something of the... What are leading scientists working on now? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, animal experimentation, cancer, and men...
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Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding
ISBN: 9780415349031 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free. He also focuses on discussions of 'development', especially in Third World countries. This paperback edition includes a new preface.
Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed b...
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277,99 |
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Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9780415386005 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nancy Cartwright is one of the distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. This book is devoted to a critical assessment of Cartwright's philosophy of science and contains contributions from Cartwright's champions and critics. It is suitable for philosophers of science the world over.
Nancy Cartwright is one of the distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. This book is devoted to a critical assessment of Ca...
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780,44 |
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Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance: A Foucauldian Critique
ISBN: 9780415444330 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called genetic revolution. Looking at the knowledge-power relations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing issues of genetic privacy and discrimination in the context of neoliberal governance, this book demonstrates and explains the mechanisms of mutual production between biotechnology and cultural, political, economic and legal frameworks. In the first part Antoinette Rouvroy explores the social, political and economic... Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called geneti... |
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731,67 |
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Conceptual Systems
ISBN: 9780415701822 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New concepts are constantly being introduced into our thinking. Conceptual Systems explores how these new concepts are entered into our systems along with sufficient continuity with older ideas to ensure understanding. The encyclopaedic breadth of this text highlights the many different aspects and disciplines that together present an insightful view into the various theories of concepts. Harold Brown, a reputable author in the philosophy of science examines several historically influential theories of concepts as well as providing a clear view on the general theory of conceptual change....
New concepts are constantly being introduced into our thinking. Conceptual Systems explores how these new concepts are entered into our systems along ...
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Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots
ISBN: 9780415916035 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to ethnographic analysis to science fiction. Contributors, who include Sherry Turkle, Joseph Dumit, Lisa Mitchell and Mizuko Ito, offer ethnographies, critiques, and personal narratives of cyborg conceptions (sperm banks, IVF, surrogacy) and prenatal (mis)diagnosis (DES, ultrasound, amniocentesis); the technological de- and reconstruction of birth in the hospital (electronic foetal monitors, epidurals); and the effects of computer simulation games an...
This text tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to eth...
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Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots
ISBN: 9780415916042 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. From foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. The contributors, who include Sherry Turkle, Emily Martin and Mikuko Ito, discuss the co-development of the human and the machine. While much popular reporting swings between presenting technology as monstrous or science as saviour, this volume argues for a more complex analysis, and provides a range of perspectives from cultural anthropologists...
This text explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. From foetuses scanned elec...
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The Science Studies Reader
ISBN: 9780415918671 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings, with some attention to non- Western contexts. By mapping some of the open questions and points of tension likely to occupy the field for years to come, the essays in the Readercast fresh light on what "science" means at the end of the twentieth century.
The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional setting...
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The Science Studies Reader
ISBN: 9780415918688 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text pulls together the foundational essays in science studies by the field's key scholars, including the cultural study of science, feminism and science, the relation of technology to society and humans.
This text pulls together the foundational essays in science studies by the field's key scholars, including the cultural study of science, feminism and...
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Doing Science + Culture
ISBN: 9780415921121 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science.
Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life an...
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Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
ISBN: 9780415933544 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent surveys indicate that 10 per cent of children starting primary school are now regarded as alarmingly overweight, increasing to 15 per cent among school leavers. Doctors fear that this could lead to three out of four Britons being labelled obese within the next 15 years. This volume looks at the increasingly low levels of physical activity in our daily lives in the UK. There is also a chapter on the benefits of exercise. The information presented here comes from a wide variety of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper reports, features, magazine articles and...
Recent surveys indicate that 10 per cent of children starting primary school are now regarded as alarmingly overweight, increasing to 15 per cent amon...
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Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life
ISBN: 9780415933551 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the way we live. Industrial chemicals have brought many good things to life, but at what cost? This timely collection of original essays traces the migration of synthetic chemicals from the laboratory to the factory and then into our environment, bodies and communities. The impact these chemicals have on our ecosystems, human health and political processes is addressed by the the contributors, focusing on the production and distribution of these...
From chemistry sets to chemical weapons, from plastics to pesticides and from air pollution to Agent Orange, industrial chemicals have transformed the...
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Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780415939911 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diverse issues for the philosophy of science and technology. These essays extend philosophical discussion of science and technology beyond the standard feminist and gender analyses that have flourished since 1980, by bringing a thorough and truly diverse set of cultural, racial and ethical concerns to bear on questioning in these areas. Science and Other Cultures charts important new directions in ongoing discussions of science and technology and makes a contribution to both...
This volume brings together a collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diverse issues for the philosophy ...
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Science & Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780415939928 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
ISBN: 9780415941044 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a broad, interdisciplinary and rapidly-growing field that explores the relationship between science, technology and the multitude of ways they shape, structure and reorient our society, and our understanding of the world. This is the first book to lay out a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions, and implications of STS and its relationship to traditional and contemporary philosophy.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a broad, interdisciplinary and rapidly-growing field that explores the relationship between science, technolog...
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The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
ISBN: 9780415941051 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to present a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions and implications of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and its relationship to traditional and contemporary philosophy.
This is the first book to present a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions and implications of Science and Technology ...
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Playing God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom
ISBN: 9780415942492 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the origional publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the centre of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion of the human genome project and, most recently, the controversy over stem cell research have all sparked lively debates among religious thinkers and the makers of public policy. In this updated edition, Ted Peters illuminates the key issues in these debates and continues to make connections between our questions about God and our efforts to manage technological innovations with...
Since the origional publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the centre of the public conversation ...
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Scientific Communication in African Universities: External Assistance and National Needs
ISBN: 9780415945301 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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General Philosophy of Science: Focal Issues
ISBN: 9780444515483 / Angielski / Twarda / 683 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields. Compare the biological notion of a 'natural kind' with the general notion of 'confirmation' of a hypothesis by certain evidence. Or compare the physical principle of the 'conservation of energy' and the general principle of 'the unity of science'. Scientists agree that all such notions and principles aren't as crystal clear as one might wish. An important task of the philosophy of the special sciences, such as... Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working ... |
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