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Télécharger le livre :  Science for a Fragile World
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Science for a Fragile World


Robert Northcott


Imagine two worlds. In one, laws, causal relations, and mechanisms are stable. In the other, they are fragile and unreliable. Our actual world is a mixture of the two, but for many of the things we care about most, the relations that matter are fragile. Fragility means...

Parution : 2025-06-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Guiding Waves in Quantum Mechanics
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Guiding Waves in Quantum Mechanics


Andrea Oldofredi


The pilot-wave theory developed by de Broglie and Bohm has a special place in the history of contemporary physics, being the very first alternative formulation of quantum mechanics. As is well-known, such a framework established itself as a leading interpretation of the...

Parution : 2025-06-17
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Science for a Fragile World
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Science for a Fragile World


Robert Northcott


Imagine two worlds. In one, laws, causal relations, and mechanisms are stable. In the other, they are fragile and unreliable. Our actual world is a mixture of the two, but for many of the things we care about most, the relations that matter are fragile. Fragility means...

Parution : 2025-06-13
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Units of Life
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The Units of Life


Ellen Clarke


Where are the edges of a tree? What makes arms different from daughters? What have corals got in common with Necker cubes? Biological individuality has become a dizzying topic since researchers began, at the turn of the millennium, to realize that we can't go on taking...

Parution : 2025-05-28
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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The Units of Life


Ellen Clarke


Where are the edges of a tree? What makes arms different from daughters? What have corals got in common with Necker cubes? Biological individuality has become a dizzying topic since researchers began, at the turn of the millennium, to realize that we can't go on taking...

Parution : 2025-05-15
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice
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Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice


Melinda Bonnie Fagan


Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice offers a novel community-centric account of scientific explanation. On this view, explanations are products of collaborative activity in particular communities. Philosophers of science studying explanation have...

Parution : 2025-04-07
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Everyone Flows
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Everyone Flows


John Dupré


Everyone Flows starts with an ancient and fundamental philosophical question: whether we live in a world of things, stable, autonomous, and with sharp boundaries, or a world of processes in flux, in which stabilities are only transient and processes are inextricably...

Parution : 2025-04-02
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice


Melinda Bonnie Fagan


Explanatory Particularism in Scientific Practice offers a novel community-centric account of scientific explanation. On this view, explanations are products of collaborative activity in particular communities. Philosophers of science studying explanation have...

Parution : 2025-03-23
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Landscapes of Science and Religion
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The Landscapes of Science and Religion


Nick Spencer , Hannah Waite


The relationship between science and religion has long been a heated debate and is becoming an ever more popular topic.The scientific capacity to manipulate and change humans and their environment through genetic engineering, life extension, and AI is going to take a...

Parution : 2025-02-13
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds
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Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds


Mike Dacey


The scientific study of animal minds is difficult. This book examines the most significant reasons this is so: seven challenges for the science to overcome. Researchers are aware of these challenges, but few take any of them head-on, and none address them collectively....

Parution : 2025-02-12
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Seven Challenges for the Science of Animal Minds


Mike Dacey


The scientific study of animal minds is difficult. This book examines the most significant reasons this is so: seven challenges for the science to overcome. Researchers are aware of these challenges, but few take any of them head-on, and none address them collectively....

Parution : 2025-01-28
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The Landscapes of Science and Religion


Nick Spencer , Hannah Waite


The relationship between science and religion has long been a heated debate and is becoming an ever more popular topic.The scientific capacity to manipulate and change humans and their environment through genetic engineering, life extension, and AI is going to take a...

Parution : 2025-01-24
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Levels of Explanation
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Levels of Explanation


Katie Robertson , Alastair Wilson


This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The different sciences furnish us with a...

Parution : 2024-11-30
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Laws of Nature and Chances
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Laws of Nature and Chances


Barry Loewer


Barry Loewer presents a novel account of the metaphysics of law of nature, chances, fundamental ontology, and the space-time arena they occupy. He calls this the Package Deal Account. This aims to answer Stephen Hawking's question "What is it that breathes fire into the...

Parution : 2024-07-12
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Laws of Nature and Chances
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Laws of Nature and Chances


Barry Loewer


Barry Loewer presents a novel account of the metaphysics of law of nature, chances, fundamental ontology, and the space-time arena they occupy. He calls this the Package Deal Account. This aims to answer Stephen Hawking's question "What is it that breathes fire into the...

Parution : 2024-06-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalizing Physics
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Globalizing Physics


Roberto Lalli , Jaume Navarro


This is an open access book available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Following the centenary of the...

Parution : 2024-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Alternative Approaches to Causation
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Alternative Approaches to Causation


Yafeng Shan


Causation is one of the most controversial topics in philosophy. There is a wide range of philosophical accounts of causation, for example, the regularity account, the probabilistic account, the counterfactual account, the interventionist account, which can be all...

Parution : 2024-01-24
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Alternative Approaches to Causation


Yafeng Shan


Causation is one of the most controversial topics in philosophy. There is a wide range of philosophical accounts of causation, for example, the regularity account, the probabilistic account, the counterfactual account, the interventionist account, which can be all...

Parution : 2024-01-09
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics
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A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics


Steven French


Steven French suggests a radical new approach to the understanding of quantum physics, derived from Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. In 1939 two physicists, Fritz London and Edmund Bauer, published an account of measurement in quantum mechanics. Widely cited,...

Parution : 2023-11-15
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics


Steven French


Steven French suggests a radical new approach to the understanding of quantum physics, derived from Husserl's phenomenological philosophy. In 1939 two physicists, Fritz London and Edmund Bauer, published an account of measurement in quantum mechanics. Widely cited,...

Parution : 2023-10-31
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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