Brain organoids are small stem cell-derived, self-organizing models of specific brain regions that offer researchers new ways to study the human brain.
A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy.
Most philosophers still like to feel that they have a special subject matter, well insulated from anything that the social scientists, and scientists in general, have to tell them.
The anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typically seems to compromise one's feelings of well-being and experience in a range of areas; coming out often as malaise, depression, and anger in much conduct.
First published in 1900, this philosophical essay on Evolution questions how the acceptance of Evolution as scientific should influence the thoughts and actions of humankind from the perspective of morality and moral conduct.
Fundamental Causation addresses issues in the metaphysics of deterministic singular causation, the metaphysics of events, property instances, facts, preventions, and omissions, as well as the debate between causal reductionists and causal anti-reductionists.
For Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, who both authored seminal theoretical works on early cinema and photography, the history of modern media begins much earlier, in Baroque culture and science.
God and the Book of Nature develops theological views of the natural sciences in light of the recent theological turn in science-and-religion scholarship and the 'science-engaged theology' movement.
Philosophy of Science: A Unified Approach combines a general introduction to philosophy of science with an integrated survey of all its important subfields.
Kompetenz, Vernetzung, Qualitätsmanagement und Qualitätssicherung - markante Begriffe, die vor dem Hintergrund der Bologna-Reform für die Hochschule eine erhöhte Bedeutung erhalten haben.
'A delight' Dara O Briain'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill Gates'A winning blend of education and anecdote' Clive Cookson, FTWhy are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless?
The first book to chart the development of the field of evolutionary economics, this book provides an integrated generic framework to define the rules of an economic system; how they are coordinated and the causes and consequences of their change.
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Aristotle, combining a thorough study of Presocratic philosophy with Aristotle's perspective.
The Routledge Guidebook to Berkeley's Three Dialogues is an engaging introduction to the last of a trio of works that cemented Berkeley's position as one of the truly great philosophers of the western canon.
Dieser Sammelband ist eine einzigartige Zusammenstellung wissenschaftlicher Beiträge zum Thema Messen und Verstehen, in dem aufgezeigt wird, wie Begriffe wie Zahl, Messen, Verstehen, Modell, Muster in unterschiedlichsten Disziplinen verwendet werden.
This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds.
First published in 1937, The Philosophy of Relativity contains an exposition of Einstein, a step-by step deduction of the main equations of both the special and general theories of relativity.
At the 6th International Zermatt Symposium, Prof Antonino Zichichi of the World Federation of Scientists presented a lecture to a diverse audience of scientists, managers and engineers, among others, all of whom were interested to learn about the creative process which distinguishes mankind from other forms of life.
Throughout history, humankind's working theories regarding the cause of infectious disease have shifted drastically, as cultures developed their philosophic, religious, and scientific beliefs.