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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This volume is a serious attempt to open up the subject of European philosophy of science to real thought, and provide the structural basis for the interdisciplinary development of its specialist fields, but also to provoke reflection on the idea of ‘European philosophy of science’. This efforts...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Science is a dynamic process in which the assimilation of new phenomena, perspectives, and hypotheses into the scientific corpus takes place slowly. The apparent disunity of the sciences is the unavoidable consequence of this gradual integration process. Some thinkers label this dynamical circumstance...
by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This book develops a philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics. Prediction plays a key role in economics in various ways. It can be seen as a basic science, as an applied science and in the application of this science. First, it is used by economic theory in order...
Psychology as a Moral Science
Perspectives on Normativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
What does morality have to do with psychology in a value-neutral, postmodern world? According to a provocative new book, everything.
Taking exception with current ideas in the mainstream (including cultural, evolutionary, and neuropsychology) as straying from the discipline’s ethical foundations,...
Worlds of ScienceCraft
New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about...
by Colin G Hales
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book discusses two main cultural problems behind the failure of machine consciousness and artificial general intelligence (AGI) projects over many decades.
The first problem recognizes that building a conscious AGI means building an artificial scientist. The book identifies the responsible...
Data Science and Social Research
Epistemology, Methods, Technology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This edited volume lays the groundwork for Social Data Science, addressing epistemological issues, methods, technologies, software and applications of data science in the social sciences. It presents data science techniques for the collection, analysis and use of both online and offline new (big)...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades. While both topics have long attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, they almost invariably have been studied...
The Beautiful Scientist
A Spiritual Approach to Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Are science and faith antithetic? Are the new discoveries in science making faith in God totter? Or can science be the basis for strong faith and the belief in a Creator? Discover how.
The Beautiful Scientist takes an interesting look at science and faith, and how the two can work together...
Methodological Cognitivism
Vol. 2: Cognition, Science, and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This book covers a broad spectrum of topics, from experimental philosophy and cognitive theory of science, to social epistemology and research and innovation policy. Following up on the previously published Volume 1, “Mind, Rationality, and Society,” it provides further applications of methodological...
Measurement Uncertainty in Forensic Science
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
In the courtroom, critical and life-changing decisions are made based on quantitative forensic science data. There is often a range in which a measured value is expected to fall and, in this, an inherent uncertainty associated with such measurement. Uncertainty in this context is not error. In fact,...
Naked Science
Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Naked Science is about contested domains and includes different science cultures: physics, molecular biology, primatology, immunology, ecology, medical environmental, mathematical and navigational domains. While the volume rests on the assumption that science is not autonomous, the book is distinguished...
by Paul Singleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
DNA technology is evolving rapidly, with new methods and a fast-growing vocabulary. This unique dictionary offers current, detailed and accessible information on DNA technology to lecturers, researchers and students throughout the biomedical and related sciences.
The third edition is a major...
La science selon Henri Poincaré
La science et l'hypothèse - La valeur de la science - Science et méthode
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2013
À la fois mathématicien, physicien et astronome, Henri Poincaré, savant universel, est également un philosophe reconnu. Il dresse dans cet ouvrage un panorama de la science et met en perspective la façon dont la théorie structure la pensée scientifique, tout en accordant une grande place à...