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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This timely volume explores tissue-derived stem cells, summarizing and evaluating the current body of knowledge. Sixteen chapters cover hematopoietic, osteoblast, skeletal, cardiac, pancreatic, epithelial, corneal, hepatic, renal, testicular, ovarian, fingernail, hair follicle and other stem cells-...
Primate Anatomy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Primate Anatomy is unlike ay other work on primates: it systematically reviews the biology of all living primates, including humans. It describes their bio-geographical information and provides crucial data pertaining to their body size, fur coloration external distinguishing features, habitat and...
Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory
Nietzsche and the Sciences I
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic, but Cartesian, Leibnizian, Kantian, and post-Kantian -through...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity. Emergent phenomena are said to arise out of and be sustained by more basic...
Scientific Ontology
Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philosophy, however, seem like very different ways of investigating the world, so how should one proceed? Some defer to the sciences, conceived as something...
Invitation to Generalized Empirical Method
In Philosophy and Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Bernard Lonergan identified the need and possibility of what he called "generalized empirical method" in science and philosophy. Implementation will be a future community achievement. The book enters into details of a selection of examples in the sciences and philosophy of science. These...
Strange Science
Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the pseudoscientific, fields like mesmerism and psychical research captured the imagination...
Biological Individuality
Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Individuals are things that everybody knows—or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biological individuality concepts serve very different...
The Third Lens
Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Does science aim at providing an account of the world that is literally true or objectively true? Understanding the difference requires paying close attention to metaphor and its role in science. In The Third Lens, Andrew S. Reynolds argues that metaphors, like microscopes and other instruments, are...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The philosophy of biology is one of the most exciting new areas in the field of philosophy and one that is attracting much attention from working scientists. This Companion, edited by two of the founders of the field, includes newly commissioned essays by senior scholars and up-and-coming younger...
by Kostas Kampourakis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Current books on evolutionary theory all seem to take for granted the fact that students find evolution easy to understand when actually, from a psychological perspective, it is a rather counterintuitive idea. Evolutionary theory, like all scientific theories, is a means to understanding the natural...
The Laboratory of the Mind
Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain a greater understanding of the natural world? ...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The Body System Series: Enzymes
Having Trouble on Biology? Need to find out information about Enzymes and how they function in the body?
This book on the Enzymes will help people learn and understand about the Enzymes in the body followed by their functions. It also contains information...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Body System Series: The Circulatory System and its Functions Having Trouble with Biology? Need to find out information about the organ systems and how they work? This book on the Cardiovascular/Circulatory system will help you to learn and understand about the organs of the Cardiovascular/Circulatory...