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Télécharger le livre :  Science Studies Meets Colonialism
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Science Studies Meets Colonialism


Amit Prasad


The field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "Science" that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action. However, the multiple significant ways in which colonial...

Parution : 2022-10-06
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Sense of AI
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Making Sense of AI


Anthony Elliott


Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and...

Parution : 2021-09-23
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Are There Still Creationists?
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Why Are There Still Creationists?


Jonathan Marks


The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never “just” facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be...

Parution : 2021-06-15
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Canguilhem
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Canguilhem


Stuart Elden


Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis...

Parution : 2019-07-12
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time


Sam Baron , Kristie Miller


Time is central to our lived experience of the world. Yet, as this book reveals, it is startlingly difficult to reconcile the way we seem to experience time with many of the theories presented to us in physics and metaphysics.  This comprehensive and accessible...

Parution : 2018-12-12
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Innovation in China
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Innovation in China


Collectif


China is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge. This up-to-date analysis evaluates China's state-led approach to science and technology, and its successes and failures. In recent decades,China has seen...

Parution : 2018-10-15
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : China Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Doctors and Healers
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Doctors and Healers


Tobie Nathan , Isabelle Stengers


We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what...

Parution : 2018-08-08
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Number and Numbers
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Number and Numbers


Alain Badiou


The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain...

Parution : 2018-05-18
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Another Science is Possible
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Another Science is Possible


Isabelle Stengers


Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is...

Parution : 2018-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Bruno Latour
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Bruno Latour


Gerard De Vries


Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic understanding of the...

Parution : 2018-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Science and Religion
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Science and Religion


Yves Gingras


Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake in this debate? To answer these questions, historian and sociologist of...

Parution : 2017-09-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Facing Gaia
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Facing Gaia


Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter


The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the...

Parution : 2017-07-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Democracies Need Science
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Why Democracies Need Science


Harry Collins , Robert Evans


We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and more control by...

Parution : 2017-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Physics
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The Philosophy of Physics


Dean Rickles


Does the future exist already? What is space? Are time machines physically possible? What is quantum mechanical reality like? Are there many universes? Is there a ‘true’ geometry of the universe? Why does there appear to be an arrow of time? Do humans play a special...

Parution : 2016-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies
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New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies


Steve Fuller


Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years. Should science and technology...

Parution : 2013-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Quine
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Quine


Christopher Hookway


This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary...

Parution : 2013-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Feyerabend
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Feyerabend


John Preston


This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science. The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's thought, beginning with his early attempt to graft insights from...

Parution : 2013-04-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
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