Other Sciences category: 9579 books
How to Get Expelled From School
A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Are pupils, parents and the public being fed political propaganda on climate change? Now is your chance to find out. Professor Plimer gives 101 simple questions with answers for you to ask teachers, activists, journalists and politicians. The climate industry adjusts the temperature record and withholds...
Divine Machines
Leibniz and the Sciences of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. In Divine Machines, Justin Smith offers the first in-depth examination...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines...
Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences
Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general....
Interdisciplinarités entre Natures et Sociétés
Colloque de Cerisy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Comment appréhender les phénomènes reliant faits de nature et faits de société qui constituent la majeure partie des problèmes critiques et irrésolus contemporains ? Comment dépasser le grand partage fondateur de la modernité et surmonter la division du travail scientifique en disciplines...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though frequently under-used, potential the Earth Sciences possess for improving the quality of life of the peoples of the world and safeguarding Earth’s rich...
Logic, Language, and Probability
A Selection of Papers Contributed to Sections IV, VI, and XI of the Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Bucharest, September 1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Fourth International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philos ophy of Science was held in Bucharest, Romania, on August 29-September 4, 1971. The Congress was organized, under the auspices of the Inter national Union for History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology...
Time of Nature and the Nature of Time
Philosophical Perspectives of Time in Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. Its aim is to provide some insights about the nature of time on the basis of the different uses of the concept of time in natural sciences. Presenting a dialogue between philosophy and science, it features a collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences...
Reproducibility
Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
2017 PROSE Award Honorable Mention
The PROSE Awards draw attention to pioneering works of research and for contributions to the conception, production, and design of landmark works in their fields.
Featuring peer-reviewed contributions from noted experts in their fields of research, Reproducibility:...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Many buildings fail to perform adequately, causing illness and productivity loss among the inhabitants. The growing impact of this problem on people and property values - and the increasing litigation to which it gives rise - clearly reveals the limitations in and piecemeal character of the current...
by Marie I. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
This book focuses on modules and emergence with self-organization in the life sciences. As Aristotle observed so long ago, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. However, contemporary science is dominated by reductionist concepts and tends to neglect the non-reproducible features of complex...
Foundations of Morality, Human Rights, and the Human Sciences
Phenomenology in a Foundational Dialogue with the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The essays in this volume constitute a portion of the research program being carried out by the International Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. Established as an affiliate society of the World Institute for Ad vanced Phenomenological Research and Learning in 1976, in Arezzo, Italy,...