National Science Foundation (NSF) is a unique federal agency because it supports scientific research financially, but does not engage in scientific work itself.
This volume presents a re-envisioning of the field of theoretical psychology and offers unique visions for its present and future from leaders of North American philosophical psychology.
How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselvesDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts.
This collection responds to widespread, complex, and current environmental challenges by presenting eleven original essays on a new elemental-embodied approach in environmental humanities.
Dies ist eine der wenigen umfassenden Monographien zur Philosophie der großen Naturwissenschaft Chemie auf dem aktuellen Stand der seit etwa drei Jahrzehnten aufblühenden wissenschaftsphilosophischen Teildisziplin.
Die These dieses Buches lautet, dass es in diesem Zeitalter erstmalig möglich ist, objektiv überzeugende Antworten auf die großen philosophischen Lebensfragen zu erhalten.
This book pursues an investigation at the intersection of philosophy of physics and philosophy of language, and offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the semantic facts of quantum mechanics.
"e;To all who love the God with a 1000 names and respect science"e; In the last quarter century, the academic field of Science and Theology (Religion) has attracted scholars from a wide variety of disciplines.
Dies ist eine der wenigen umfassenden Monographien zur Philosophie der großen Naturwissenschaft Chemie auf dem aktuellen Stand der seit etwa drei Jahrzehnten aufblühenden wissenschaftsphilosophischen Teildisziplin.
Tracing the evolution of economic ideas in the context of the economic history and economic policy issues in Greece, this book examines the history of modern Greek economic thought from the War of Independence from Ottoman rule in 1821 until the present.
This volume brings together philosophers and physicists to explore the parallels between Quantum Bayesianism, or QBism, and the phenomenological tradition.
A partir de un marco científico, histórico y filosófico, el autor plantea un diálogo entre la complejidad y la biosemiótica acentuando la importancia de la semiosis como un componente substancial de la vida, en tanto los signos, su significado e interpretación existen en todos los sistemas vivos.
New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers.
The main objective of this book is to present the theory of general relativity in a direction that will be intelligible, informative, and interesting to the individual reader.
An Introduction to Metascience delves into core metascientific concepts, offering a critical examination of current knowledge creation processes and scrutinising researchers and their methodologies across disciplines.
¿Por qué, en pleno siglo XXI, seguimos creyendo en algo o alguien superior, llámese Dios, meditación trascendental, espiritualidad o sentido de la vida?
Tradicionalmente se han pensado las metáforas como un recurso propio de la literatura con funciones estéticas o retóricas, es decir, de embellecimiento o persuasión.
In Vienna in the 1920s a group of brilliant philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists - led by figures such as Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Hahn - gathered to discuss the foundations of science and mathematics.
The authors describe mostly in non-technical language the development of a new scientific paradigm based on nonlinear deterministic dynamics and fractal geometry.
This book offers an original hypothesis capable of unifying evolution in the physical universe with evolution in biology; herewith it lays the conceptual foundations of "e;transdisciplinary unified theory"e;.
