Methodology category: 1297 books

Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus’ volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by embracing the more fundamental challenge...

Broadly speaking, there are two general approaches to teaching mathematical modeling: 1) the case study approach, and 2) the method based approach (that teaches mathematical techniques with applications to relevant mathematical models). This text emphasizes instead the scientific issues for modeling...

In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy’s methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.

The traditional lines of demarcation between service providers and service users are shifting. Professionals in managed service organizations are working to incorporate the voices of service users into their missions and the way they function, and service users, with growing access to knowledge, have...

This second edition provides a broad range of methods and concepts required for the analysis and solution of equations which arise in the modeling of phenomena in the natural, engineering, and applied mathematical sciences. It may be used productively by both undergraduate and graduate students, as...

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the...

This bookbrings together essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, attempt to show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein’s later philosophical work. The essays in this volume make the argument that Wittgenstein’s relevance...

Les Règles de la méthode sociologique, fut publié en 1895 par Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) dans la Revue philosophique. L'apport de Durkheim à la sociologie est fondamental, puisque sa méthode, ses principes et ses études exemplaires, comme celle sur le suicide ou la religion, constituent toujours...

This book has information regarding the new developments in clinical instrumentation, focusing on fluorometers and densitometers, explaining the principles, the use of high performance liquid chromatography in clinical laboratories. Automated Microbiology; dabbling into detection, light scanning and...

The chapters of this book describe numerous successful examples of automation in microbiology, e.g., radiometric detection of bacteremia, instruments for detection of bacteriuria, machines for organism identification and susceptibility testing, and automated antigen and antibody measurement systems....

Il primo manuale della consulenza filosofica pubblicato in Italia. Per la prima volta si prova a fare chiarezza nella definizione di una pratica dialogica innovativa e sempre più diffusa, liberandola dalle molte ambiguità e dalle confusioni che spesso l’hanno contrassegnata. Con un linguaggio...

Trasfigurazioni è il terzo di tre volumi che compongono Una vita in gioco, testimonianza della mia ricerca mitobiografica. Non ho potuto né voluto, in questo volume, sottrarmi all’onere di raccontare di me, nella convinzione che, in definitiva, il valore di quello che ho scritto si radica in quello...

Gli aspetti concreti e le ricadute pratiche della filosofia sono da qualche tempo al centro dell’attenzione sia degli specialisti – che si interrogano sulla portata e il significato della loro materia anche fuori dalle accademie – sia dei non filosofi – che affollano festival culturali e interrogano...

PERCORSO INVERSO è un libro che pone l' attenzione ad interrogarsi sulle dinamiche di sviluppo del nostro pensiero ed azione, cercando di meditare e riflettere, col solo scopo di migliorarsi. La filosofia intesa come amore per la conoscenza è la base per scoprire e arricchire la propria individualità.