Science aims at the discovery of general principles of special kinds that are applicable for the explanation and prediction of the phenomena of the world in the form of theories and laws.
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.
Whereas science, technology, and medicine have all called forth dedicated philosophical investigations, a fourth major contributor to the technoscientific world in which we all live - that is, engineering - has been accorded almost none of the philosophical attention it deserves.
Leonardo's Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals is an edited collection of twelve essays and one dialogue focusing on the profound affect the use of animals in biotechnology is having on both humans and other species.
Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century.
The papers in this volume are concerned with a variety of vitally important topics in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of science, and in the application of modern logic to wider philosophical problems.
This book contains the papers developing out the presentations given at the International Conference organized by the Torino Academy of Sciences and the Department of Mathematics Giuseppe Peano of the Torino University to celebrate the 150th anniversary of G.
Nel giugno del 1783 i fratelli Montgolfier aprirono la via delle nuvole con un mezzo “più leggero dell’aria”, la mongolfiera; 120 anni dopo, altri due fratelli, Wilbur e Orville Wright, conquistarono la terza dimensione con un mezzo “più pensate dell’aria”, l’aeroplano.
Gli umani sono creature della narrazione: infinitamente narrano e si narrano, intrecciano dialoghi, accendono storie per illuminare le buie caverne del cuore e del mondo, recuperano e trasmutano ricordi.
L’astronomia a Roma c’è sempre stata, ma un po’ nascosta: era nei palazzi, nelle chiese o, meglio, sopra le chiese, specole disseminate lungo un percorso che oramai conoscono in pochi.
The aim of the book is to encourage an in-depth discussion of problems of fundamental importance that are common to the two cultures, but that are traditionally seen from different perspectives.
This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze.
La mayoría de los resultados de las investigaciones que se recogen en este libro son parte de un área relativamente nueva de investigación académica conocida como neurociencia educativa.
Entre los siglos XV y XVIII Europa fue escenario de una serie de novedades, cambios o transformaciones en los saberes acerca de la naturaleza, en los procedimientos y métodos empleados para describirla y explicar sus procesos, y en la manera de organizar las actividades o prácticas relacionadas con estos saberes.
El nacimiento del universo, el destino de los agujeros negros, la realidad del tiempo, la mecánica cuántica o la teoría de la relatividad son algunos de los protagonistas del presente título.
Este volumen nos introduce históricamente en la relación entre medicina y filosofía, detalla la utilidad de una para la otra y analiza los problemas a medio camino entre la ciencia médica y la filosofía, como el concepto de persona, la dialéctica cuerpo-alma, la ética que propone la medicina, la neuroética o la muerte.
India has a strong and ancient tradition of astronomy, which seamlessly merges with the current activities in Astronomy and Astrophysics in the country.
Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy.
Evandro Agazzi hace un recorrido historico por algunas de las concepciones que se han atisbado sobre la objetividad cientifica para mostrar que esta no depende del contexto en un sentido puramente linguistico, sino tambien en un sentido historico.
A partir de una optica nacida de la religion judia y la ciencia, particularmente la quimica, los autores ofrecen reflexiones en torno a temas como el derecho del ser humano a dominar la naturaleza, la diferencia entre lo natural y lo artificial y, principalmente, la forma en que la ciencia y la tradicion judia se concilian.
Presenta los fundamentos historicos y filosoficos de la ciencia como accion humana y social y muestra como funciona en la practica su aplicacion concreta en diferentes aspectos: comunicacion de la ciencia, investigacion clinica, politica ambiental, filosofia de la informatica y poetica de la ciencia.
Dieses Buch nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise rund um den Schamanismus und der Krafttiere, die unsere geistlichen Weggefährten in unserem Leben sein können.
This book promotes entirely new insights into women's contributions to the history of philosophy and boasts papers spanning the centuries from Antigone until twentieth century phenomenology, covering fields from logic to mysticism, stretching from Brazil to Early Modern Europe.
