Impact of science and technology on society

Because it laid the foundation for nearly all subsequent epistemologies, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has overshadowed his other interests in natural history and the life sciences, which scholars have long considered as separate from his rigorous theoretical philosophy-until now.

In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat.

Demands of the Day asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century.

In this new edition, Arthur Fine looks at Einstein's philosophy of science and develops his own views on realism.

Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality.

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Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics.

The Nature of Selection is a straightforward, self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory.

Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending.

What does it mean to think about technology philosophically?

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and evolution.

In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain.

How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.

In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data.

A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our use-and our expectations-of communication, data, and sensing technologies.

Karl Ulrichs's studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century.

Offers a novel solution to technology addiction through legal action to pressure the technology industry to re-design its products.

An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work.

A clear, concise introduction to the quickly growing field of complexity science that explains its conceptual and mathematical foundations What is a complex system?

Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication.

This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of child study during the early part of the twentieth century.

The first textbook to cover the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution.

A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis—our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book.

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science.

In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of 'property,' a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines.

When mathematician Hermann Weyl decided to write a book on philosophy, he faced what he referred to as "e;conflicts of conscience"e;--the objective nature of science, he felt, did not mesh easily with the incredulous, uncertain nature of philosophy.

Hugh Everett III was an American physicist best known for his many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis at Princeton University in 1957.

This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect human health and well-being.

Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and a leading cause of death for women worldwide.

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come.

In our digital world, data is power.

We need a new philosophy of the earth.

In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time.

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples.

As more of our human interaction moves online and facilitated by digital channels, it becomes increasingly important to understand how being online influences how we interact with others and ourselves.

Blackhatonomics explains the basic economic truths of the underworld of hacking, and why people around the world devote tremendous resources to developing and implementing malware.

Over the past decade, 24/7 connectivity has given us not only convenience and fun but worries about privacy, interruptions while working or trying to enjoy family or other downtime, and new compulsions - from shopping to tweeting and cute-cat watching.

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Heritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies.

Should pregnancy and childbirth be transformed, in order for women to be free?

The field of epistemology is undergoing significant changes.

Providing an introduction to the use of nutrition and health claims, this book explores these claims around the world and the impact of the different legislations on consumers as well as likely developments in the future.

The technological revolution presents a massive barrier to the development of countries that do not have access to the cutting-edge systems enjoyed in the developed world.

The pace of change in the past two decades has been extraordinary and it has become much harder for businesses to anticipate the environment in which they will be operating not far down the line - how markets and marketing will change, how employees and consumers behaviour and attitudes will change.

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries.

These days, consumers have real power: they can research companies, compare ratings, and find alternatives with a simple tap.