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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies
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The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies


Tilman Sauer , Raphael Scholl


This volume collects reflections on the role of philosophy in case studies in the history of science. Case studies have played a prominent role in recent history and philosophy of science. They have been used to illustrate, question, explore, or explicate philosophical...

Parution : 2016-05-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Aristotelian Mechanics
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The Aristotelian Mechanics


Joyce Van Leeuwen


This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian Mechanics. It does so to enable readers to appreciate the value of the treatise based on solid knowledge of the principles of the text. In addition, the book’s critical examination helps clear...

Parution : 2016-03-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Meta-Philosophical Reflection on Feminist Philosophies of Science
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Meta-Philosophical Reflection on Feminist Philosophies of Science


Maria Cristina Amoretti , Nicla Vassallo


This volume offers a meta-philosophical reflection on feminist philosophies of science. It emphasizes and discusses both the connections and differences between "traditional" philosophies of science and feminist philosophies of science. The collection systematically...

Parution : 2015-12-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Cosmological and Psychological Time
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Cosmological and Psychological Time


Yuval Dolev , Michael Roubach


This book examines the many faces of philosophy of time, including the metaphysical aspects, natural science issues, and the consciousness of time. It brings together the different methodologies of investigating the philosophy of time. It does so to counter the growing...

Parution : 2015-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics
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New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics


Wenceslao J. Gonzalez


This book focuses on a key issue today: the role of values in technology, with special emphasis on ethical values.This topic involves the analysis of internal values in technology (as they affect objectives, processes, and outcomes) and the study of external values in...

Parution : 2015-10-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Electric Theories of J. Clerk Maxwell
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The Electric Theories of J. Clerk Maxwell


Alan Aversa , Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem


In this volume Pierre Duhem first gives an overview of 19th century electricity and magnetism. Next, he applies his keen historical, philosophical, and physical intuition to critiquing Maxwell’s theories, especially his electromagnetic theory of light and the ad hoc...

Parution : 2015-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science


Ilie P?Rvu , Gabriel Sandu , Iulian D. Toader


This book presents a collection of studies by Romanian philosophers, addressing foundational issues currently debated in contemporary philosophy of science. It offers a historical survey of the tradition of scientific philosophy in Romania. It examines some problems in...

Parution : 2015-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Relocating the History of Science
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Relocating the History of Science


Theodore Arabatzis , Jürgen Renn , Ana Simões


This volume is put together in honor of a distinguished historian of science, Kostas Gavroglu, whose work has won international acclaim, and has been pivotal in establishing the discipline of history of science in Greece, its consolidation in other countries of the...

Parution : 2015-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On
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Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On


Alisa Bokulich , William J. Devlin


In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and...

Parution : 2015-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


Maria Paula Diogo , Kostas Gavroglu , Ana Simões


This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the...

Parution : 2015-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Objectivity in Science
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Objectivity in Science


Flavia Padovani , Alan Richardson , Jonathan Y. Tsou


This highly multidisciplinary collection discusses an increasingly important topic among scholars in science and technology studies: objectivity in science. It features eleven essays on scientific objectivity from a variety of perspectives, including philosophy of...

Parution : 2015-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  From Logic to Practice
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From Logic to Practice


Gabriele Lolli , Marco Panza , Giorgio Venturi


This book brings together young researchers from a variety of fields within mathematics, philosophy and logic. It discusses questions that arise in their work, as well as themes and reactions that appear to be similar in different contexts. The book shows that a fairly...

Parution : 2014-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Chemistry
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Philosophy of Chemistry


Lee Mcintyre , Eric Scerri


This volume follows the successful book, which has helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, science educators as well as chemists, physicists and biologists. The introduction summarizes the way in which...

Parution : 2014-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Conceptual Change in Biology
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Conceptual Change in Biology


Alan C. Love


This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features revised papers that originated from the workshop "Conceptual Change in Biological...

Parution : 2014-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy
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The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy


Vasia Lekka


This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the world’s first neurological hospital, the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London, and on its leading...

Parution : 2014-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Felix Kaufmann's Theory and Method in the Social Sciences
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Felix Kaufmann's Theory and Method in the Social Sciences


Robert S. Cohen , Ingeborg K. Helling


This volume contains the English translation of Felix Kaufmann's (1895-1945) main work Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften (1936). In this book, Kaufmann develops a general theory of knowledge of the social sciences in his role as a cross-border commuter between...

Parution : 2014-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Physics in Cuba
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The History of Physics in Cuba


Angelo Baracca , Jürgen Renn , Helge Wendt


This book brings together a broad spectrum of authors, both from inside and from outside Cuba, who describe the development of Cuba's scientific system from the colonial period to the present. It is a unique documentation of the self-organizing power of a local...

Parution : 2014-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives
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Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives


Alain Bernard , Christine Proust


This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It  reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern...

Parution : 2013-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues
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History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues


Kostas Gavroglu


The history of artificial cold has been a rather intriguing interdisciplinary subject (physics, chemistry, technology, sociology, economics, anthropology, consumer studies) which despite some excellent monographs and research papers, has not been systematically...

Parution : 2013-11-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions
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The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions


Marcel Herbst


The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume.The book...

Parution : 2013-10-02
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