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Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. From the time young children express gender incongruent preferences and attitudes, up to the time in which older...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-07
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Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on theHumean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity. A central question in metaphysics and philosophy of science is: What are laws of nature? Humeans hold that laws are not sui...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-01
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This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-25
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Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. From the time young children express gender incongruent preferences and attitudes, up to the time in which older...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-23
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Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on theHumean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity. A central question in metaphysics and philosophy of science is: What are laws of nature? Humeans hold that laws are not sui...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-17
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The book considers the relationship between governance and participation, and the ways participation has been understood, framed and applied in the context of synthetic biology (SB) governance approaches. Based on fundamental questions about the scope, purpose, and...
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Springer
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2023-03-15
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In this book, Matej Kohar demonstrates how the new mechanistic account of explanation can be used to support a non-representationalist view of explanations in cognitive neuroscience, and therefore can bring new conceptual tools to the non-representationalist arsenal....
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Springer
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2023-03-09
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Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world
This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as individual scientific disciplines became established and institutionalized....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-01
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Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world
This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as individual scientific disciplines became established and institutionalized....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-13
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The field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "Science" that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action. However, the multiple significant ways in which colonial...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-10-06
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This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and...
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Springer
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2022-09-13
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There has never been a time when ‘following the science’ has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor had such astonishing capacity to determine the future of our planet. But...
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Polity
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2022-09-07
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This book is an argument for moving beyond culturally/historically/ethnically/biologically-grounded identity as the necessary foundation of an authentic self. It highlights examples of people who are attempting to inhabit identities they feel are more appropriate to...
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Springer
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2022-08-31
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What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without it. At first glance, human history is full of remarkable feats of intelligence, yet human exceptionalism can be a...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2022-08-09
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Die rasanten technischen Entwicklungen der letzten Jahrzehnte erwecken den Eindruck, als sei die Menschheit im Begriff, in ein radikal neues, ein Digitalzeitalter einzutreten. In diesem Buch wird gezeigt, dass vieles daran so neu nicht ist, wie es zunächst scheint. Mit...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-07-15
Collection :
Studien zur Kritischen Theorie
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Das vorliegende Buch gewährt Einblicke und Ausblicke in unterschiedliche Disziplinen der Wissenschaft und die mit ihnen einhergehenden ethischen Probleme und Fragestellungen. Das Buch richtet sich neben dem akademischen Fachpublikum vor allem auch an ein breiteres...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-06-23
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It can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came to the fore. Ever since, it has been attended by controversy: what does it mean to say that Boyle's law governs the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-23
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It can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came to the fore. Ever since, it has been attended by controversy: what does it mean to say that Boyle's law governs the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-23
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Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? This book introduces a new account, contextual emergence, seeking to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-20
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This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination. There are two kinds of reasons that invite this reexamination, one deriving from philosophical concerns over the traditional concept, the other motivated by theoretical and...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-13
Collection :
Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
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