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Télécharger le livre :  Bildung for Engineering Education and Practice
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Bildung for Engineering Education and Practice


Anders Buch , Steen Hyldgaard Christensen


Using the concept of Bildung as a framework, which in late capitalism/postmodernity may be perceived to include critical knowledge, value consciousness, ethics, and social responsibility (including sustainability), this project aims to investigate the underlying...

Parution : 2025-05-20
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Éditeur : Springer
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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 : 2025-05-15
Format(s) : ePub
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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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 : 2025-03-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  The Structure of Pure Reason
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The Structure of Pure Reason


Dines Bjørner , Kai Sørlander


This book explains how the idea of there being no ultimate, universal truth is in itself a contradictory philosophical position. Philosophers throughout history have tried to answer the question of what the deepest truth is about the world and our situation in it. They...

Parution : 2025-02-24
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Éditeur : Springer
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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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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophical Theorizing and its Limits
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Philosophical Theorizing and its Limits


Klodian Coko , Uri D. Leibowitz , Isaac Nevo


This book brings together scholars from ethics and philosophy of science in order to identify ways in which insights gleaned from one subfield can shed light on the other. The book focuses on two radical Anti-Theory movements that emerged in the 1970’s and 1980’s, one...

Parution : 2025-02-12
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Éditeur : Springer
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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 : 2025-01-28
Format(s) : ePub
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 : 2025-01-24
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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30,05
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
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Feyerabend in Dialogue
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Feyerabend in Dialogue


Roberta Corvi , Stefano Gattei


This book offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend’s take on topics such as realism, empiricism, pluralism, materialism, and incommensurability. In addition to discussing certain debates in the philosophy of physics, it also considers the ways in which...

Parution : 2024-11-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth
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Indeterminacy, Vagueness, and Truth


Ken Akiba


This book shows that the assumption that classical logic is essentially a bivalent (i.e., 2-valued) logic, a logic of truth and falsity, is an incorrect and harmful conception. Classical logic is certainly a Boolean logic, and the smallest (non-degenerate) Boolean...

Parution : 2024-10-28
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Synthese Library
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Télécharger le livre :  Retraction Matters
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Retraction Matters


Mihai Hîncu , Dan Zeman


This book offers the first sustained investigation of the phenomenon of retraction - the “taking back” of the conventional or deontic effects of a previous speech act - bringing together issues and solutions from the semantics of perspectival expressions and from the...

Parution : 2024-09-04
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy
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New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy


Clara Carus


This book promotes entirely new insights into women’s contributions to the history of philosophy and boasts papers spanning the centuries from Antigone until twentieth century phenomenology, covering fields from logic to mysticism, stretching from Brazil to Early Modern...

Parution : 2024-08-23
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Thomas Kuhn's Legacy
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Rethinking Thomas Kuhn's Legacy


Yafeng Shan


Thomas Kuhn is widely considered as one of the most important philosophers of science in the 20th century and his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is regarded as one of the most influential works in the philosophy of science. This book not only revisits his...

Parution : 2024-08-09
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Éditeur : Springer
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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