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Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was...
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Polity
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2019-08-23
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Was hat ein Gelehrter des 17.Jahrhunderts noch für die heutigen Naturwissenschaften zu sagen? Eine ganze Menge, so zeigt sich in diesem Buch. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) war ein Universalgenie, und ihm gelangen bahnbrechende Leistungen in fast allen...
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Springer
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2019-08-07
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At the intersection of epistemology, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of science, this exciting new book examines the epistemic limits of empirical science. It makes a unique contribution to research on epistemological naturalism in Quine’s tradition by criticizing the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-27
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Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis...
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Polity
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2019-07-12
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals. How do we decide where funding for health-care programs should go?...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-06-21
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This innovative book proposes a unique and original perspective on the nature of the mind and how phenomenal consciousness may arise in a physical world. From simple sentient organisms to complex self-reflective systems, Faye argues for a naturalistic-evolutionary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-04-11
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Living eXperience Design – the design of life experiences – is an extension of user experience design (UXD). The context comprises usage and practice in real contexts in which spatial, urban, social, temporal, historical and legal dimensions are considered. Reflecting...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-04-10
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This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction. Remarkably, these revolutionary contributions to philosophy turn out to...
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Springer
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2019-03-09
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Dieser Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die normativen Theorien der Wissenschaft. Ende des 19. und Anfang des 20. Jhs. schien die Philosophie ihre Kompetenz in der Behandlung der Grundlagenprobleme der menschlichen Existenz an die Physik abzugeben. Einige...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-07
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Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-03-05
Collection :
New Human Frontiers
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Dieses Buch bietet einen weit zurückgreifenden Einblick in die abendländische Naturphilosophie. Beginnend mit den Vorsokratikern als erstem Höhepunkt des europäischen Naturbegriffs erfasst der Band alle Epochen der Geistesgeschichte: die Antike, christliche und...
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Springer VS
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2019-02-25
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If all philosophy starts with wondering, then Calculated Surprises starts with wondering about how computers are changing the face and inner workings of science. In this book, Lenhard concentrates on the ways in which computers and simulation are transforming the...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-18
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Many subscribe to an Ethic of Life, an ethical perspective on which all living things deserve some level of moral concern. Within philosophy, the Ethic of Life has been clarified, developed, and rigorously defended; yet it has also found its harshest critics. Between...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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In this book, the author develops a new form of structural realism and deals with the problem of representation. The work combines two distinguished developments of the Semantic View of Theories, namely Structural Realism (SR), a flourishing theory from contemporary...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-29
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Leibniz war in der Moderne wohl der letzte Universalgelehrte, der auf allen wesentlichen Wissensgebieten seiner Zeit originelle und innovative Leistungen erbracht hat: als reformorientierter Jurist, multilateral denkender Diplomat, als Mathematiker der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-01-21
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Philosophy of Medicine asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we think of it?Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-17
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Mit Chaos und Zufälligkeit werden zwei wissenschaftstheoretische Themenkomplexe gegenübergestellt, die bislang unabhängig voneinander in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen diskutiert wurden: in der Chaostheorie und allgemeiner der Theorie dynamischer Systeme einerseits und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-12-28
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Paul Humphreys pioneered philosophical investigations into the methodological revolution begun by computer simulations. He has also made important contributions to the contemporary literature on emergence by developing the fusion account of diachronic emergence and its...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-21
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Time is central to our lived experience of the world. Yet, as this book reveals, it is startlingly difficult to reconcile the way we seem to experience time with many of the theories presented to us in physics and metaphysics. This comprehensive and accessible...
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Polity
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2018-12-12
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In der Mitte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts hielt der Informationsbegriff insbesondere durch die Molekularisierung der Genetik und die entstehende Kybernetik Einzug in die Biologie und avancierte zu einem der zentralen Begriffe der Lebenswissenschaften. Dass es sich dabei...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-05
Collection :
Anthropologie – Technikphilosophie – Gesellschaft
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