Methodology category: 1297 books
Northern Ireland and Beyond
Social and Geographical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Northern Ireland's problems are rooted in physical and historical geography: small resource base, peripheral location, violent conquest, repression and ruthless emargination of the native population by the Protestant settlers. At the time of partition, many areas already had a Catholic majority, and...
Economy's Tension
The Dialectics of Community and Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Scientific Visualisation
Epistemic Weight and Surpluses
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Much of the recent confidence in the future of science and technology stems from advances in scientific visualisation. But is it right to assume that visual – and especially pictorial – measures carry special epistemic weight in the context of scientific reasoning? Do pictorial approaches have...
Robotics in Germany and Japan
Philosophical and Technical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Germany and Japan are two of the worldwide leading countries in robotics research. Robotics as a key technology introduces technical as well as philosophical and cultural challenges. How can we use robots that have a human-like appearance in everyday life? Are there limits to technology? What are...
Wittgenstein
To Follow a Rule
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2015
New Generative Aspects in Contemporary Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2015 is dedicated to the question of generativity, and more broadly to the generative aspects of and in contemporary phenomenology. We continue to proceed in Husserlian research as well as to address newly emerging contemporary cultural,...
Psychology and Formalisation
Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book revisits psychology’s appropriation of natural scientific methods. The author argues that, in order to overcome ongoing methodological debates in psychology, it is necessary to confront the problem of formalisation contained in the appropriation of methods of natural science. By doing...
Philosophical and Empirical Approaches to Psychology
Mentalism vs. Antimentalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Philosophical and Empirical Approaches to Psychology: Mentalism vs. Anti-Mentalism philosophically analyzes four different approaches to psychology: introspectionism, behaviourism, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to explore the concept of “the mind,” which developed from the late...
Exploring Everyday Life
Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The numerous tasks and routines that shape our daily existence can seem mundane, even invisible—and yet they play an extremely powerful role in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring Everyday Life casts light on these so-called trivialities, serving as both a guide to the invisible world...
by Sven Bestmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Computational Neurostimulation, the latest volume in the Progress in Brain Research series provides an introduction to a nascent field with contributions from leading researchers. In addition, it addresses a very timely and relevant issue which has long been known to require more treatment.
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by Giuseppe Ragnetti, Francesco Fattorello
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
In this book, Fattorello addresses the differences between contingent and non-contingent information. The theory is translated into English for the first time and is contextualized and put into a historical framework by Prof. Ragnetti's additional text.
by Kate Bazilevsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Have you ever considered that the root or cause of many problems and misunderstandings are fundamental differences between people? The solution to problems is in knowing these differences and living in harmony with Nature, because laws of Nature apply to everything and everyone! Power gained through...
Human Rights in Life and Death
Basic Considerations for Development Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
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