» książki » Science - Philosophy & Social Aspects
topmenu
 |
Mind and Nature
ISBN: 9781614277026 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2014 Reprint of 1934 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth centurys most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an eloquent writer with a lifelong interest in the philosophical implications of the startling new scientific developments with which he was so involved. The lectures printed in this volume were delivered in the autumn of 1933. In this book the author presents a veritable pageant...
2014 Reprint of 1934 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) wa...
|
cena:
53,61 |
 |
The Art of Deliberating: Democracy, Deliberation and the Life Sciences between History and Theory
ISBN: 9783642426544 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How many citizens take part in moral and political decisions concerning the results obtained by the contemporary life sciences? Should they blindly follow skilled demagogues or false and deceptive leaders? Should they adhere to the voice of the majority, or should they take a different decisional path? Deliberative democracy answers these questions, but what is deliberative democracy? Can we really deliberate if we are completely ignorant of the relevant issue? What about ethical or political expertise, is it strictly necessary? Finally, and most significantly, can a deliberative process... How many citizens take part in moral and political decisions concerning the results obtained by the contemporary life sciences? Should they blindly... |
cena:
603,81 |
 |
Evolutionary Religion
ISBN: 9780198744368 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should frame our religious attitudes accordingly. Humans have begun to adapt to a deep past--one measured in billions of years, not thousands. But we have not really noticed how thin is the sliver of past time in which all of our religious life is contained. And the eons that may yet see intelligent life have hardly started to come into focus. When these things are internalized, our whole picture of religion may...
J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the possible history of intelligent ...
|
cena:
124,57 |
 |
Debating Procreation: Is It Wrong to Preproduce?
ISBN: 9780199333547 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that even if it were not always so, the risk of serious harm is sufficiently great to make procreation wrong. In addition to these "philanthropic" arguments, he advances the "misanthropic" one that...
While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Bena...
|
cena:
632,70 |
 |
Debating Procreation: Is It Wrong to Reproduce?
ISBN: 9780199333554 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that even if it were not always so, the risk of serious harm is sufficiently great to make procreation wrong. In addition to these "philanthropic" arguments, he advances the "misanthropic" one that...
While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Bena...
|
cena:
175,61 |
 |
Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology
ISBN: 9781107082540 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomenon. In the first half of the book, Wendt justifies the insertion of quantum theory into social scientific debates, introduces social scientists to quantum theory and the philosophical controversy about its interpretation, and then defends the quantum consciousness hypothesis against the...
There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In t...
|
cena:
368,21 |
 |
Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology
ISBN: 9781107442924 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book, Alexander Wendt challenges this assumption by proposing that consciousness is, in fact, a macroscopic quantum mechanical phenomenon. In the first half of the book, Wendt justifies the insertion of quantum theory into social scientific debates, introduces social scientists to quantum theory and the philosophical controversy about its interpretation, and then defends the quantum consciousness hypothesis against the...
There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In t...
|
cena:
154,14 |
 |
From Ultra Rays to Astroparticles: A Historical Introduction to Astroparticle Physics
ISBN: 9789400794559 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity).
The book focusses on the ways in which physics changes in the course of this history. The following changes run parallel, overlap, and/or interact: - Discovery of effects like X-rays, radioactivity, cosmic rays, new particles but also progress through non-discoveries (monopoles) etc. - The change of the description of nature in physics, as consequence of new theoretical questions at the... The scope of the book is to give an overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) a...
|
cena:
603,81 |
 |
Genomics and Society: Ethical, Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic Implications
ISBN: 9780124201958 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Genomics and Society; Ethical, Legal-Cultural, and Socioeconomic Implications is the first book to address the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics identified as core priorities of the NHGRI in 2011. The work addresses fundamental issues of biosociety and bioeconomy as the revolution in biology moves from research lab to healthcare system. Of particular interest to healthcare practitioners, bioethicists, and health economists, and of tangential interest to the gamut of applied social scientists investigating the societal impact of new medical paradigms, the work... Genomics and Society; Ethical, Legal-Cultural, and Socioeconomic Implications is the first book to address the vast and thorny web of ELSI ... |
cena:
303,61 |
 |
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Logic and Science Facing the New Technologies
ISBN: 9781848901698 / Angielski / Miękka / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 Poincare. 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 scholars. Besides plenary talks, they contain many of the invited papers from the four sections: Logic, General Philosophy of Science, Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Particular Sciences, and Methodological...
The 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held on July 19 - 26, 2011 in Nancy, the historic capital of Lorra...
|
cena:
125,16 |
 |
The Social Life of Nanotechnology
ISBN: 9780415629621 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies. The basic premise, developed throughout the volume, is that nanotechnologies have an undertheorized and often invisible social life that begins with their constructed origins and propels them around the globe, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and...
This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the chan...
|
cena:
274,23 |
 |
The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead
ISBN: 9781474400343 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead's theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as W. V. Quine. In this way, McHenry defends the naturalised and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th...
Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a better basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance...
|
cena:
514,26 |
 |
Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image
ISBN: 9780226293844 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however, has been the status of scientific knowledge itself, which seems, at first glance, to be something that transcends and is therefore impossible to conceptualize within scientific naturalism itself. In Articulating the World, Joseph Rouse argues that the most pressing challenge for advocates...
Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudi...
|
cena:
159,82 |
 |
Contextualizing Systems Biology: Presuppositions and Implications of a New Approach in Biology
ISBN: 9783319171050 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collective monograph aims at contributing to an improved understanding of the epistemic presumptions, sociocultural implications and historically backgrounds of the newly emerging and currently expanding approach of systems biology. In doing so, it offers empirically grounded, valuable and reflexive information about a paradigmatic shift in the biosciences for a wide range of scientists working in the interdisciplinary areas of systems biology, synthetic biology, molecular biology, biology, the philosophy of science, the sociology of science and scientific knowledge, science and...
This collective monograph aims at contributing to an improved understanding of the epistemic presumptions, sociocultural implications and historically...
|
cena:
603,81 |
 |
Functions and Generality of Logic: Reflections on Dedekind's and Frege's Logicisms
ISBN: 9783319171081 / Angielski / Twarda / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines three connected aspects of Frege s logicism: the differences between Frege s and Dedekind s interpretation of the term logic and related terms andreflects on Frege s notion of function, comparing its interpretation and the role it played in Frege s and Lagrange s foundational programs. It concludes with an examination of the notion of arbitrary function, taking into account Frege s, Ramsey s and Russell s view on the subject. Composed of three chapters, this book sheds light on important aspects of Frege s logicism. The first chapter explains how, although he shares Frege s...
This book examines three connected aspects of Frege s logicism: the differences between Frege s and Dedekind s interpretation of the term logic and re...
|
cena:
201,24 |
 |
Functions: Selection and Mechanisms
ISBN: 9789400793378 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
603,81 |
 |
Homo Creator: Technik ALS Philosophische Herausforderung
ISBN: 9783658081515 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technik bestimmt auf die mannigfaltigste Weise unser Leben und Zusammenleben. Obgleich sie von Platon und Aristoteles bis in das zwanzigste Jahrhundert in Einzelaspekten betrachtet worden ist, wurde sie erst in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem eigenstandigen Gegenstand der Philosophie. Dennoch werden ihre philosophischen Probleme immer noch eher beilaufig behandelt. So geht es um die Klarung ganz zentraler und herausfordernder Aufgaben - von der menschlichen Schopferkraft uber eine Klarung, was ein technisches Artefakt ist, zum technischen Wissen, in all diesen Elementen verknupft mit dem...
Technik bestimmt auf die mannigfaltigste Weise unser Leben und Zusammenleben. Obgleich sie von Platon und Aristoteles bis in das zwanzigste Jahrhunder...
|
cena:
206,88 |
 |
Walden's Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science
ISBN: 9780674088184 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Walden s Shore" explores Thoreau s understanding of the living rock on which life s complexity depends not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson s subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist, whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press."
"Walden s Shore" explores Thoreau s understanding of the living rock on which life s complexity depends not as metaphor but as physical science. Rober...
|
cena:
144,09 |
 |
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9781107071186 / Angielski / Twarda / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised throughout, the book offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms, drawing on many case studies and experiments to explore the nature of explanation in the social sciences; an analysis of the mental states - beliefs, desires, and emotions - that are precursors to action; a systematic comparison of rational-choice models of behavior with alternative accounts, and a review of mechanisms of social...
In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of th...
|
cena:
442,46 |
 |
The Unknown as an Engine for Science: An Essay on the Definite and the Indefinite
ISBN: 9783319185088 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the limits of our knowledge. The author shows how uncertainty and indefiniteness not only define the borders confining our understanding, but how they feed into the process of discovery and help to push back these borders. Starting with physics the author collects examples from economics, neurophysiology, history, ecology and philosophy. The first part shows how information helps to reduce indefiniteness. Understanding rests on our ability to find the right context, in which we localize a problem as a point in a network of connections. New elements must be combined... This book explores the limits of our knowledge. The author shows how uncertainty and indefiniteness not only define the borders confining our under... |
cena:
201,24 |
Czytaj nas na:
Zobacz: Księgarnia Czeska | Wydawnictwo Książkowe Klimaty | Mapa strony | Lista autorów
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
