Measurement in Medicine brings together for the first time a range of philosophical essays on topics in the philosophy of epidemiology, epistemology of measurement, philosophy of health economics and health policy that address pressing questions of assessment and evaluation in medicine.
It has often been claimed that without drastic conceptual innovations a genuine explanation of quantum interference effects and quantum randomness is impossible.
Peter Byrne erzählt die Lebensgeschichte von Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), dessen „viele Welten“ Theorie der multiplen Universen die Physik und Philosophie entscheidend beeinflusst hat.
"e;The Innermost Kernel"e; offers an insightful examination of the research and history of the physicist and Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli and his interest in Jungian psychology, philosophy and western world-view.
More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincaré brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics to the general reader.
In these essays on the dialogue between science and Christian faith, Barbara Brown Taylor describes her journey as a preacher learning what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach a person of faith.
The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world's most influential living theorists, Michel Serres.
'Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history' ScotsmanIn this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct areas of society: the social institutions that promote science, the sensibilities of scientists themselves and the goal of the scientific enterprise.
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.
The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw DogsJohn Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction and philosophy to make us re-imagine our place in the world.
This book proposes a new set of concepts in epistemology and philosophy of science and provides a novel account of theory change using the notions of epistemic vulnerability, asymmetric fallibilism, and epistemic verisimilitude in a non-Popperian sense.
This book discusses, from various angles, the new trends in Artificial intelligence (AI), given the current so-called golden period that this field is undergoing.
This book discusses, from various angles, the new trends in Artificial intelligence (AI), given the current so-called golden period that this field is undergoing.
Desde las primeras células que aprendieron a aprovechar la luz del sol hasta los algoritmos que hoy anticipan nuestras decisiones, la historia de la vida puede entenderse como la lucha constante por mantener la chispa encendida.
Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet aktuelle Problemstellungen im Kontext der Entwicklung Künstlicher Intelligenz aus der Perspektive verschiedener akademischer Disziplinen (Philosophie, Sinologie, Informatik, Soziologie) und gibt einen Überblick über den jeweiligen Forschungsstand.
Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet aktuelle Problemstellungen im Kontext der Entwicklung Künstlicher Intelligenz aus der Perspektive verschiedener akademischer Disziplinen (Philosophie, Sinologie, Informatik, Soziologie) und gibt einen Überblick über den jeweiligen Forschungsstand.
Frente a la cada vez mayor necesidad de una reflexion seria sobre el papel de la ciencia en el curso de nuestra civilizacion, este libro ofrece una interesante exploracion de los retos de la ciencia en la era de la globalizacion, del estatus economico del conocimiento cientifico, la democratizacion de la ciencia, sus presupuestos metodologicos y epistemicos y del papel de la divulgacion cientifica en la relacion de la ciencia con la sociedad.
A personal exploration of the deepest questions about consciousness, free will, and our place in the universe—for anyone who has ever wondered what it means to be atoms that can wonder.
This book proposes a new set of concepts in epistemology and philosophy of science and provides a novel account of theory change using the notions of epistemic vulnerability, asymmetric fallibilism, and epistemic verisimilitude in a non-Popperian sense.
