Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology
Knowledge in Flesh and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
This examination of stem cell biology from a philosophy of science perspective clarifies the field's central concept, the stem cell, as well as its aims, methods, models, explanations and evidential challenges. Relations to systems biology and clinical medicine are also discussed.
Modern Physics and its Philosophy
Selected Papers in the Logic, History and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In selecting the papers for this volume I have excluded all physics papers proper. I have further omitted all book rev.iews. Instead, I have included two papers not published previously; they are marked by an asterisk (*) in the table of contents. Since many of the papers were occasioned by Symposia...
by Paul Smeyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2010
Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality can be satisfactorily represented and that...
Consciousness as a Scientific Concept
A Philosophy of Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
The source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as academic interest. Yet many problematic issues,...
by M. Bunzl
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book Martin Bunzl considers the prospects for a general and comprehensive account of explanation, given the variety of interests that prompt explanations in science. Bunzl argues that any successful account of explanation must deal with two very different contexts - one static and one dynamic....
“The main Business of natural Philosophy”
Isaac Newton’s Natural-Philosophical Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton’s methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize inductive...
Graduation with Civic Honors
Unlock the Power of <Br>Community Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Society needs to focus on practical programs that can realize the possibilities of stronger community. Academic programs have a rich tradition of offering graduation with Honors and are capable of implementing Graduation With Civic Honors. The Graduation with Civic Honors program is the institutional...
Climate Modelling
Philosophical and Conceptual Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This edited collection of works by leading climate scientists and philosophers introduces readers to issues in the foundations, evaluation, confirmation, and application of climate models. It engages with important topics directly affecting public policy, including the role of doubt, the use of satellite...
Treatise on Basic Philosophy
Ontology II: A World of Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Cosma Hypothesis
Implications of the Overview Effect
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
In 1986, Frank White was working on his groundbreaking book, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, when he heard the late Tom Wolfe, author of The Right Stuff , say, “The country has never had a philosophy of space exploration.” This began a continuing quest to develop a...
Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology
The Case for Mediated Posthumanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
New biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical overview of the main approaches in the debate on posthumanism, and argues that they do not adequately...
Science Communication
Culture, Identity and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book describes current practices in science communication, from citizen science to Twitter storms, and celebrates this diversity through case studies and examples. However, the authors also reflect on how scholars and practitioners can gain better insight into science communication through new...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Ivor Grattan-Guinness Until twenty years ago the outline history of logicism was well known. Frege had had the important ideas, until he was eclipsed by Wittgenstein. Russell was important in publicising the former and tutoring the latter, and also for working with Moore in the conversion of British...
Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education
Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Prompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over ‘nature of science’, and its importance in school and university curricula, this book is a clarion call for a broad re-conceptualizing of nature of science in science education. The authors draw on the ‘family resemblance’ approach...