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Télécharger le livre :  Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea?
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Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea?


Wolfgang Hofkirchner , Hans-Jörg Kreowski


This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea.The volume is organized into four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and...

Parution : 2020-12-12
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Cognitive Technologies
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Télécharger le livre :  Tawhid and Shari'ah
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Tawhid and Shari'ah


Masudul Alam Choudhury


This book invokes the Tawhidi ontological foundation of the Qur’anic law and worldview, and is also a study of ta’wil, the esoteric meaning of Qur’anic verses. It presents a comparative analysis between the Tawhidi methodology and the contemporary subject of Shari’ah....

Parution : 2020-11-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Neurocognitive Mechanisms
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Neurocognitive Mechanisms


Gualtiero Piccinini


In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive...

Parution : 2020-11-12
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Neurocognitive Mechanisms
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Neurocognitive Mechanisms


Gualtiero Piccinini


In Neurocognitive Mechanisms Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive...

Parution : 2020-11-12
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Methodological Prospects for Scientific Research
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Methodological Prospects for Scientific Research


Wenceslao J. Gonzalez


This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences.This methodological variety is open to a number of consequences, such as the...

Parution : 2020-10-30
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Synthese Library
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Télécharger le livre :  Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege on Progress and Fidelity
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Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege on Progress and Fidelity


Teri Merrick


This book examines the views of Hermann Helmholtz, Hermann Cohen and Gottlob Frege in reaction to the epistemic crises induced by rapid changes in 19th century scientific practice. Besides addressing longstanding interpretive puzzles of interest to Frege scholars, the...

Parution : 2020-10-28
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality
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Brownian Motion and Molecular Reality


Raghav Seth , George E. Smith


Between 1905 and 1913, French physicist Jean Perrin's experiments on Brownian motion ostensibly put a definitive end to the long debate regarding the real existence of molecules, proving the atomic theory of matter. While Perrin's results had a significant impact at the...

Parution : 2020-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Investigations into the Trans Self and Moore's Paradox
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Investigations into the Trans Self and Moore's Paradox


Linda A. W. Brakel


This book explores how the trans phenomenon can challenge the existing concept of the Self and its nature. The catalyst is Moore’s Paradox: can a trans person coherently state ‘I am a girl but I don’t believe that’? More deeply, three fundamental philosophical questions...

Parution : 2020-05-22
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  DNA Demystified
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DNA Demystified


Alan Mchughen


"For all those who fear they cannot understand the science of DNA -- they will soon find that they can and it's fascinating." -- Matt Ridley, author of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters DNA, once the exclusive domain of scientists in research labs,...

Parution : 2020-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Dispositionalism
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Dispositionalism


Anne Sophie Meincke


According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties – often called ‘powers’ – by means of which they are sources of change. Dispositionalism has become increasingly popular among...

Parution : 2020-04-08
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Synthese Library
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Télécharger le livre :  The Trusted Doctor
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The Trusted Doctor


Rosamond Rhodes


Common morality has been the touchstone of medical ethics since the publication of Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1979. Rosamond Rhodes challenges this dominant view by presenting an original and novel account of the ethics of medicine, one...

Parution : 2020-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science
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The Panenmentalist Philosophy of Science


Amihud Gilead


This book presents a philosophy of science, based on panenmentalism: an original modal metaphysics, which is realist about individual pure (non-actual) possibilities and rejects the notion of possible worlds. The book systematically constructs a new and novel way of...

Parution : 2020-03-06
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Synthese Library
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Télécharger le livre :  Image Beyond the Screen
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Image Beyond the Screen


Ludovic Burczykowski , Daniel Schmitt , Marine Thébault


Videomapping with its use of digital images is an audiovisual format that has gained traction with the creative industries. It consists of projecting images onto diverse surfaces, according to their geometric characteristics. It is also synonymous with spatial augmented...

Parution : 2020-02-19
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Éditeur : Wiley-ISTE
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Télécharger le livre :  The World's Construction Mechanism
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The World's Construction Mechanism


Jacques Barnouin


The interdisciplinarity between the biological and human sciences is here to serve a daring objective: to decipher, by means of a logical chain, the explanatory factors of human trajectories and imbalances between societies and nations. To do this,The World’s...

Parution : 2020-02-19
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Éditeur : Wiley-ISTE
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Media Use in University Studies
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Social Media Use in University Studies


Jolita Sliogeriene , Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene


This book highlights the phenomenon of social media use in university studies based on its participants’ lived experience. It will appeal both to academics and practitioners interested in the human factors in the study environments saturated with technologies of social...

Parution : 2020-01-21
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Science and Human Freedom
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Science and Human Freedom


Michael Esfeld


This book argues for two claims: firstly, determinism in science does not infringe upon human free will because it is descriptive, not prescriptive, and secondly, the very formulation, testing and justification of scientific theories presupposes human free will and...

Parution : 2020-01-21
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Feminist Philosophy of Technology
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Feminist Philosophy of Technology


Mark Coeckelbergh , Janina Loh


There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa. Since the beginning of the so-called »second wave feminism« (in the middle of the 20th century), there has been a growing awareness of the urgency of a...

Parution : 2019-12-31
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Éditeur : J.B. Metzler
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Télécharger le livre :  Prospective Philosophy of Software
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Prospective Philosophy of Software


Coline Ferrarato


Computer software (operating systems, web browsers, word processors, etc.) structure our daily lives. Comprising both a user interface and the electronic circuits of the machine it is printed to, software represents a hybrid object at the crossroads of materiality and...

Parution : 2019-12-19
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Éditeur : Wiley-ISTE
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Télécharger le livre :  Moritz Schlick. Naturphilosophische Schriften. Manuskripte 1910 - 1936
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Moritz Schlick. Naturphilosophische Schriften. Manuskripte 1910 - 1936


Nicole Kutzner , Michael Pohl


Die in diesem Band versammelten nachgelassenen Schriften von Moritz Schlick zur Naturphilosophie wurden über einen Zeitraum von annähernd sechs Jahren ediert und kommentiert. Dabei ist eine unverzichtbare Quelle zur Moritz-Schlick-Forschung entstanden, die als Grundlage...

Parution : 2019-09-19
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Leibniz und die moderne Naturwissenschaft
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Leibniz und die moderne Naturwissenschaft


Jürgen Jost


Was hat ein Gelehrter des 17.Jahrhunderts noch für die heutigen Naturwissenschaften zu sagen? Eine ganze Menge, so zeigt sich in diesem Buch. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) war ein Universalgenie, und ihm gelangen bahnbrechende Leistungen in fast allen...

Parution : 2019-08-07
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Éditeur : Springer
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