Philosophy of science

This sequel to A Prehistory of Polymer Science begins with the Faraday Discussion of 1935 on Polymerization.

This book, written by renowned historians of philosophy, literature, and science, provides a distinctively interdisciplinary work on matter and life in early-modern Germany and Britain (1600-1850).

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time of Galileo.

This book gives a critical evaluation of the Vienna Circle, its historical influences, and the philosophical legacy of logical empiricism.

This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern philosophy by highlighting Pierre Bayle's engagement with non-Christian sources.

This book offers an extensive assessment of the nature and feasibility of the metaverse and is the first to critically examine its social and ethical implications.

This book offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, pluralism, materialism, and incommensurability.

In the face of the anthropogenic threats to the singular planetary habitat we share with other human beings and non-human species, humanities scholars feel a renewed sense of urgency 1) to acknowledge the ways our species has funded particular histories of environmental exploitation, alienation, and collapse, 2) to unpack inherited assumptions that impact our views of nature and interspecies relations, and 3) to suggest ways of thinking and acting that seek to repair the damage and promote mutual flourishing for all of earth inhabitants.

Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry.

This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time.

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and their religious and symbolic worlds.

The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlstrom emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptualization and inquiry is irreducibly valuational.

This book critically examines the ethical challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on facial recognition and AI-assisted reproductive technologies.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book provides a unique contribution to philosophy of science from the perspective of the practice of science.

This book offers a well-grounded account of the methodology of physics, the structure of physical knowledge and theories, and in particular of the relations between theory and experience.

This book presents a new 'partitional' approach to understanding or interpreting the math of standard quantum mechanics (QM).

This volume offers a new interpretation of the genesis of the idea of scientific progress in early modern science and philosophy.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between digital technology and healthcare delivery, emphasising sustainable innovation in health services.

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased.

This book is a first attempt to unify and explain, through the language of pure mathematics called categories and sheaves, the mechanism of mental activities.

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers.

What is 'the void'?

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers.

What is 'the void'?

What is science?

Praise for THE SPECIFIC DENSITY OF SCIENTISTS:As an expert in understanding and defining the cult mentality, David Conn manages, through logic and his strong faith, to explain the inability, or the refusal, of many scientists to separate the spiritual self from the scientifically driven self (in other words, "e;to bifurcate"e;).

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Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis.

If youve ever wondered if a particle can have weight but no mass, why the neutron is neutral or why the electrona negative particledoesnt fly apart when all of its inner parts are presumably negative also, then this book is for you.

Relationships/Self-Help"e;Love and marriage are central to the lives of many of us.

While the philosophical discussion of Zen spirituality reaches its limit, poetry offers an effective expression of the sublime experiences.

Originally published in 1963, The Speech Chain has been regarded as the classic, easy-to-read introduction to the fundamentals and complexities of speech communication.

Cool commentary on current human peccadilloesMACROSCOPIC TOPICSToe-holds on the slopes of the MATTERHORN ofHuman Maturation.

Vamos Topando, es un libro elaborado a partir de las vivencias, aprendizajes y experiencias obtenidas al trabajar y convivir con los Autodefensas, en el marco del trabajo con la Comisin para la Seguridad y el Desarrollo de Michoacn, as como un ao de entrevistas y bsqueda de informacin, 2016.

Being Human is more than a book; it is an answer to the great question of what makes us human being.

The world is "e;bigger"e; than it seems.

Creationism has made a comeback recently by becoming supposedly more sophisticated.

Un anlisis profundo sobre la influencia que enfrentan los usuarios de los medios audiovisuales de comunicacin masiva en la era virtual de Internet y, cmo estos medios, a travs de sus imgenes, estimulan los patrones genticos que determinan las conductas de los individuos, penetrando hasta lo ms profundo de la intimidad de su ser, provocando conductas impulsivas hacia la violencia, la compra de productos innecesarios, la incorrecta alimentacin, la prdida de tiempo valioso y otros flagelos sociales.