Friedrich von Hardenberg und Friedrich Schlegel verdanken wir zwei der berühmtesten Denkfiguren der Romantik: die ‚blaue Blume‘ und die ‚progressive Universalpoesie‘.
In Reproductive Labor and Innovation, Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward technoscientific innovation in contemporary American life often comes at the expense of the care work and reproductive labor that is necessary for society to function.
The remarkable family of proteins that can make us very illbut can also be linked to long-term memory, immunity, and the origin of lifeOver the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins.
This resource helps readers navigate and better understand the religious, cultural, and political impact of American views of religious faith and scientific inquiry.
The remarkable family of proteins that can make us very illbut can also be linked to long-term memory, immunity, and the origin of lifeOver the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins.
This volume of contributed essays, a follow-up to Noretta Koertge's successful book on the science wars, A House Built on Sand, takes an affirming, positive view of the relationship between the values embodied in science, and the nature of a civil society.
In this enthralling book, Ben Alderson-Day explores one of the most curious experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing sense that someone or something is there when we are alone - the feeling of an unseen presence.
Con la proliferación de textos divulgativos vinculados a las neurociencias, hay montones de "neuromitos" dando vueltas en la sociedad, como el que dice que solo usamos el 10 % de nuestro cerebro o el que sugiere que una persona es más racional o más creativa por ser más de un hemisferio que del otro.
En El punto ciego, el astrofísico Adam Frank, el físico teórico Marcelo Gleiser y el filósofo Evan Thompson abogan por una visión revolucionaria del mundo científico, una en la que la ciencia incluya la experiencia vivida por la humanidad como parte ineludible de nuestra búsqueda de la verdad objetiva.
This book brings together scholars from ethics and philosophy of science in order to identify ways in which insights gleaned from one subfield can shed light on the other.
Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals.
