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Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos
ISBN: 9789400725812 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. This title deals with the connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general.
Focuses on the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. This title deals with the connections betw...
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Characterizing the Robustness of Science: After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9789400727588 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 all these notions, and that of robustness in particular, are connected to fundamental issues, which concern nothing less than the very nature of science and its specificity with respect to other human practices, the...
Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the "successfulness," "reliability" or "trustworthiness" of their theoretical, experimen...
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Bit-String Physics: A Finite & Discrete Approach to Natural Philosophy
ISBN: 9789810246112 / Angielski / Twarda / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We could be on the threshold of a scientific revolution. Quantum mechanics is based on unique, finite and discrete events. General relativity assumes a continuous, curved space-time. Reconciling the two remains the most fundamental unsolved scientific problem left over from the last century. The papers of H. Pierre Noyes collected in this volume reflect one attempt to achieve that unification by replacing the continuum with the bit-string events of computer science. Three principles are used: physics can determine whether two quantities are the same or different; measurement can tell...
We could be on the threshold of a scientific revolution. Quantum mechanics is based on unique, finite and discrete events. General relativity assumes ...
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What Caused the Big Bang?
ISBN: 9789042014077 / Angielski / Miękka / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God's existence from the universe's life-supporting order and contingent existence.
This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques con...
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Series B: Ecology, Environment, Geosciences: A-Z Reversed Edition
ISBN: 9783598235139 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains acronyms from a variety of disciplines and walks of life; not only officially acknowledged abbreviations, but also out-of-date forms as well as those in general everyday use.
Contains acronyms from a variety of disciplines and walks of life; not only officially acknowledged abbreviations, but also out-of-date forms as well ...
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A-Z
ISBN: 9783598235122 / Angielski / Twarda / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Internationale Enzyklopadie der Abkurzungen und Akronyme in Wissenschaft und Technik sowie die erganzenden Jahrbucher der Jahre 2000 bis 2006 umfassen inzwischen uber 1 Million Abkurzungen und Akronyme aus den unterschiedlichsten Fach- und Lebensbereichen. Nicht nur offizielle, gultige Abkurzungen, auch alltagssprachlich gebrauchliche und fruher benutzte Formen werden in alphabetischer Reihenfolge berucksichtigt. Wahrend Reihe A die Bereiche Politik, Geschichte und Soziales erfasst, behandelt Reihe B die Themen Okologie, Umwelt und Geowissenschaften. "Die Internationale Enzyklopadie der Abkurzungen und Akronyme in Wissenschaft und Technik sowie die erganzenden Jahrbucher der Jahre 2000 b... |
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Dimensions of Health and Health Promotion
ISBN: 9789042009240 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains scholarly contributions to several current debates in the philosophy of medicine and health care regarding the nature of health and health promotion, concepts and measurements of mental illness, phenomenological conceptions of health and illness, allocation of health care resources, criteria for proper medical science, the clinical meeting, and ethical constraints in such a meeting. With one exception, the authors in this book are or have been teachers or graduate students at the interdisciplinary Department of Health and Society (Tema H) at Linkoping University, Sweden....
This book contains scholarly contributions to several current debates in the philosophy of medicine and health care regarding the nature of health and...
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Between Social Science, Religion and Politics: Essays in Critical Rationalism
ISBN: 9789042005075 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hans Albert is the leading critical rationalist in the German-speaking world and the main critic of the hermeneutic tradition. He is well-known for applying the idea of critical reason to various kinds of human practice, including economics, politics, and law. But he has also improved on Popper's methodology by introducing the idea of rational heuristics. This collection of essays presents the core of his work on epistemology, philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of law. Most of Albert's works have not been available in English. It is enormously useful to...
Hans Albert is the leading critical rationalist in the German-speaking world and the main critic of the hermeneutic tradition. He is well-known for ap...
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Matter, Mind, and Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method
ISBN: 9789042007994 / Angielski / Miękka / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically assesses the implications of modern medicine's claim to be a natural science. Medicine models its scientific and clinical self-understanding on an obsolete positivist conception of science, reality, and consciousness. In this view, the body is modeled as a biological machine, disease as breakdown of the machine, and therapy as physical measures to fix the machine. The problems besetting medical science and practice are rooted in the inadequacy of the positivist philosophical assumptions regarding the nature of science, reality and consciousness To base the diagnostic...
This book critically assesses the implications of modern medicine's claim to be a natural science. Medicine models its scientific and clinical self-un...
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Essays on Realism and Rationalism
ISBN: 9789042004184 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays (1971-1999) centering on the philosophy of science. Musgrave, a philosopher whose academic affiliations are not given, defends realism, partly from an appeal to common sense. He discusses anti-realist trends in Anglo-American philosophy (Wittgenstein, instrumentalism, construc
A collection of essays (1971-1999) centering on the philosophy of science. Musgrave, a philosopher whose academic affiliations are not given, defends ...
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Eugenics and Other Evils
ISBN: 9781936830305 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Nurturing of Time Future
ISBN: 9781937570019 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A short book about everything, addressed to educated people of good will who see the need for paradigmatic change. It proposes a philosophy in the old-fashioned sense of articulating a synthesis of the social and natural sciences that provides an overall framework for deciding what to do.
A short book about everything, addressed to educated people of good will who see the need for paradigmatic change. It proposes a philosophy in the old...
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Explaining Explanation: Essays in the Philosophy of the Special Sciences
ISBN: 9780761858690 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Far from being inferior to physics, the special sciences are crucial to understanding what is distinctive about scientific explanation: that description is just as important as ontology and that having the right attitude toward empirical evidence is as necessary as having the right method. Explaining Explanation is a collection of Lee McIntyre's most significant philosophical essays from over the last twenty years. The principle areas of concern are the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of chemistry, but essays also cover more general problems such as underdetermination,...
Far from being inferior to physics, the special sciences are crucial to understanding what is distinctive about scientific explanation: that descripti...
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Die Singuläre Waffe: Was Bleibt Vom Atomzeitalter?
ISBN: 9783531187297 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seit Hiroshima gilt die Atombombe als singulare Waffe. Ihre Auswirkungen in Raum und Zeit sind analogielos. Ein machtiges Tabu liegt auf ihrer Anwendung. Ihr Besitz war nur funf Staaten erlaubt. Gleichzeitig wurde sie von Anfang an politisch und strategisch instrumentalisiert. Das "Gleichgewicht des Schreckens" wurde zum Signum des Atomzeitalters. Nach 1989 scheint sich dieses Tabu allmahlich aufzulosen. Die Zahl der Staaten, die uber Nuklearwaffen verfugen, wachst langsam, aber sie wachst. Eine Gruppe von zwolf Wissenschaftlern - Physikern, Kerntechnikern, Politologen, Historikern und... Seit Hiroshima gilt die Atombombe als singulare Waffe. Ihre Auswirkungen in Raum und Zeit sind analogielos. Ein machtiges Tabu liegt auf ihrer Anwe... |
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Novum Organum 'New Method'
ISBN: 9781612034478 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Novum Organum Scientiarum, is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon. The title translates as new instrument of science and is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a new system of logic he believes to be superior to the old ways of syllogism. This is now known as the Baconian method. "Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." Sir...
The Novum Organum Scientiarum, is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon. The title translates as new instrument of science and is a reference to Arist...
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
ISBN: 9780061723735 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands....How good it feels to have Lisa Randall's unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, and charm on our side." "Dazzling ideas....Read this book today to understand the science of tomorrow." The bestselling author of Warped Passages, one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," and one of Esquire's "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century," Lisa Randall gives us an exhilarating overview of the latest ideas in physics and... "Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands....How good it feels to have Lisa Randall's unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, a... |
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A Critique of the Arguments for Scientific Realism
ISBN: 9781907962516 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to show that the arguments offered in support of the most prevalent versions of scientific realism are unconvincing and offer no reason why an anti-realist position should not rationally be held.
Several formulations of realism are examined and reduced to two. First, Convergent Ontological Scientific Realism (COSR) - the claim that most current successful theories are approximately true, and successive theories converge upon the truth. Second, Axiological Scientific Realism (ASR) - the claim that while many current theories may not even be approximately true, nevertheless,... This book aims to show that the arguments offered in support of the most prevalent versions of scientific realism are unconvincing and offer no reason...
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Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
ISBN: 9780060734909 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A groundbreaking new exploration of the promises and perils of biotechnology -- and the future of American society. Biotechnology offers exciting prospects for healing the sick and relieving suffering. But because our growing powers also enable alterations in the workings of the body and mind, they are becoming attractive to healthy people who would just like to look younger, perform better, feel happier, or become more "perfect." This landmark book -- the product of more than sixteen months of research and reflection by the members of the President's Council on Bioethics --... A groundbreaking new exploration of the promises and perils of biotechnology -- and the future of American society. Biotechnology offers exci... |
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The Universe as We Find It
ISBN: 9780199596201 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does reality encompass? Is reality exclusively physical? Or does reality include nonphysical--mental, and perhaps 'abstract'--aspects? What is it to be physical or mental, or to be an abstract entity? What are the elements of being, reality's raw materials? How is the manifest image we inherit from our culture and refine in the special sciences related to the scientific image as we have it in fundamental physics? Can physics be understood as providing a 'theory of everything', or do the various sciences make up a hierarchy corresponding to autonomous levels of reality? Is our conscious...
What does reality encompass? Is reality exclusively physical? Or does reality include nonphysical--mental, and perhaps 'abstract'--aspects? What is it...
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Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis
ISBN: 9780984986705 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the research continues to accumulate, we find that the mainstream understanding of schizophrenia and the other related psychotic disorders has lost virtually all credibility. Weve learned that full recovery is not only possible, but may actually be the most common outcome given the right conditions. Furthermore, Dr. Paris Williams own groundbreaking research, as mentioned in the New York Times, has shown that recovery often entails a profound positive transformation. In Rethinking Madness, Dr. Williams takes the reader step by step on a highly engaging journey of discovery, exploring how...
As the research continues to accumulate, we find that the mainstream understanding of schizophrenia and the other related psychotic disorders has lost...
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