Through a detailed analysis of the work of 3 key figures in early modern thought Niccol Machiavelli, Francis Bacon, and Ren Descartes Timothy Sean Quinn investigates the roots of modernist attitudes connecting science and politics and what this means for society today.
This book deepens our understanding of the social, legal, and anthropological issues that arise from the global proliferation of advanced biomedical technologies and how they enable people to use their bodies to express individual and collective identities.
This book deepens our understanding of the social, legal, and anthropological issues that arise from the global proliferation of advanced biomedical technologies and how they enable people to use their bodies to express individual and collective identities.
The book provides an all-around interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with special emphasis on the book's treatment of ethics and value.
The book provides an all-around interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with special emphasis on the book's treatment of ethics and value.
In August 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio recorded six unusual measurements - 6EQUJ5 - and astronomer Jerry Ehman wrote a single word beside them: Wow!
Hat die Geschichte des Menschen eine Richtung, ein Ziel – oder ist sie nur ein ewiges Auf und Ab von Kulturen, Regierungen, Gesellschaftssystemen, Wirtschaftsformen, Meinungen?
Esta obra, fruto de años de investigación y síntesis teórica, construye un puente entre la física académica y la intuición geométrica, proponiendo un modelo cosmológico coherente, innovador y profundamente lógico.
Publicado por primera vez hace más de cuarenta años en colaboración con Steve Woolgar, La vida en el laboratorio es la primera obra de Bruno Latour y el esbozo inicial de lo que más tarde daría forma a la Teoría del Actor-Red.
Situadas en el precario cruce de caminos trazado por la clásica dicotomía que demarca las ciencias naturales y las ciencias sociales, la psicología y la psiquiatría (así como todo el amplio conjunto de disciplinas emparentadas con ellas) se han debatido desde su nacimiento entre las vertientes del positivismo más férreo y el humanismo latente que hasta ahora han convivido en su seno en un tenso equilibrio.
This book opens a new and timely conversation between the study of religion and infrastructure studies through the innovative concept of religious infrastructure.
La obra de Donna Haraway es un auténtico cruce de caminos en el que confluyen diferentes disciplinas, diversas tecnologías y varias vías de construcción de la experiencia que entrelazan sus pasos en una coreografía siempre viva.
A lo largo de las páginas de este libro, se tratan, de manera concisa y accesible, los principales problemas éticos que el desarrollo de la inteligencia artificial y su aplicación a un gran número de ámbitos de nuestra vida cotidiana han planteado en los últimos años.
A la pregunta de quién haya podido ser el hombre más significativo del pasado siglo, el hombre del siglo XX, es abrumador el número de personas que responden pronunciando el nombre de Albert Einstein, el genial físico alemán que concibió la teoría de la relatividad.
Hat die Geschichte des Menschen eine Richtung, ein Ziel – oder ist sie nur ein ewiges Auf und Ab von Kulturen, Regierungen, Gesellschaftssystemen, Wirtschaftsformen, Meinungen?
This book opens a new and timely conversation between the study of religion and infrastructure studies through the innovative concept of religious infrastructure.
In Romantic Empiricism, Dalia Nassar distinguishes and explores an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, traces its development, and argues for its continued significance.
In Romantic Empiricism, Dalia Nassar distinguishes and explores an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, traces its development, and argues for its continued significance.
In The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism, Dimitri Ginev draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices.
This conceptual Atlas of Medieval and Renaissance Thought, Philosophy and Science presents visual overviews, thematic outlines, surveys and summaries of the many thematic aspects of this long period of European intellectual history, c.
In The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism, Dimitri Ginev draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices.
The programme of 'constructive axiomatics', promulgated by Hans Reichenbach in 1924, seeks to build up the architecture of our best theories of physics from basic axioms supposedly imbued with immediate and indubitable empirical content.
Welcome to Death Incorporated — the only organization with a 100% membership rate, a 0% resignation policy, and a perfect delivery record since the beginning of recorded time.
From quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili, essential insights into the meaning and fundamental nature of timeWhile we have come a long way toward deciphering the laws of the universe, many physicists still regard time to be one of the greatest unsolved mysteries.
Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Sonstiges, Note: 1, Fachhochschule des bfi Wien GmbH (Fachhochschule), Veranstaltung: Data Science, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Projektarbeit dient als ein Reflexionsbeitrag zum Essay "Wissenschaft als Beruf vom Max Weber" und den von ihm dazu gehaltenen Vortrag aus dem Jahr 1917.
Those who work in bioethics and the medical humanities come from many different backgrounds, such as health care, philosophy, law, the social sciences, and religious studies.
Pluralism and Progress in Economics analyzes the dynamics of growth research by introducing the concept of research routines - meso-level patterns of communal practice functionally coordinated by symbolic representations.
Pluralism and Progress in Economics analyzes the dynamics of growth research by introducing the concept of research routines - meso-level patterns of communal practice functionally coordinated by symbolic representations.
Este libro brillante, de lectura facil y apto para lectores pertenecientes a cualquier esfera de interes, explica en que consiste el metodo cientifico -un modo de pensar y de dar sentido al mundo- y propone ideas para aplicarlo a la vida cotidiana.
