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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Ecology
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The Philosophy of Ecology


James Justus


Ecology is indispensable to understanding the biological world and addressing the environmental problems humanity faces. Its philosophy has never been more important. In this book, James Justus introduces readers to the philosophically rich issues ecology poses. Besides...

Parution : 2021-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Scientific Realism
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Contemporary Scientific Realism


Timothy D. Lyons , Peter Vickers


Scientific realists claim we can justifiably believe that science is getting at the truth. However, they have faced historical challenges: various episodes across history appear to demonstrate that even strongly supported scientific theories can be overturned and left...

Parution : 2021-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Models and Idealizations in Science
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Models and Idealizations in Science


Alejandro Cassini , Juan Redmond


This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism. These can be viewed as different stances...

Parution : 2021-05-27
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Stem Cells
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Stem Cells


Melinda Bonnie Fagan


What is a stem cell? The answer is seemingly obvious: a cell that is also a stem, or point of origin, for something else. Upon closer examination, however, this combination of ideas leads directly to fundamental questions about biological development. A cell is a basic...

Parution : 2021-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Adaptation
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Adaptation


Elisabeth Lloyd


Natural selection causes adaptation, the fit between an organism and its environment. For example, the white and grey coloration of snowy owls living and breeding around the Arctic Circle provides camouflage from both predators and prey. In this Element, we explore a...

Parution : 2021-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Ethology and Post-Anthropocentric Ethics
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Critical Ethology and Post-Anthropocentric Ethics


Marco Celentano , Roberto Marchesini


The primary purpose of this book is to contribute to an overcoming of the traditional separation between humanties and life sciences which, according to the authors, is required today both by the developments of these disciplines and by the social problems they have to...

Parution : 2021-05-22
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Semantics and the Ontology of Number
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Semantics and the Ontology of Number


Eric Snyder


What are the meanings of number expressions, and what can they tell us about questions of central importance to the philosophy of mathematics, specifically 'Do numbers exist?' This Element attempts to shed light on this question by outlining a recent debate between...

Parution : 2021-05-20
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Télécharger le livre :  A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings
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A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings


Michael Ruse


Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and philosophy. Some people think that the world is an organism - and that humans, as its highest part, have a...

Parution : 2021-05-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Engineering and Philosophy
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Engineering and Philosophy


Guru Madhavan , Zachary Pirtle , David Tomblin


?Engineers love to build “things” and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To...

Parution : 2021-05-14
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Physics, Structure, and Reality
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Physics, Structure, and Reality


Jill North


In Physics, Structure, and Reality, Jill North addresses a set of questions that get to the heart of the project of interpreting physics--of figuring out what physics is telling us about the world. How do we figure out the nature of the world from a mathematically...

Parution : 2021-05-13
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Physics, Structure, and Reality
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Physics, Structure, and Reality


Jill North


In Physics, Structure, and Reality, Jill North addresses a set of questions that get to the heart of the project of interpreting physics--of figuring out what physics is telling us about the world. How do we figure out the nature of the world from a mathematically...

Parution : 2021-05-13
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Language and Scientific Research
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Language and Scientific Research


Wenceslao J. Gonzalez


This book analyzes the role of language in scientific research and develops the semantics of science from different angles. The philosophical investigation of the volume is divided into four parts, which covers both basic science and applied science: I) The Problem of...

Parution : 2021-04-27
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Making AI Intelligible
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Making AI Intelligible


Herman Cappelen , Josh Dever


Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy to...

Parution : 2021-04-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Making AI Intelligible
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Making AI Intelligible


Herman Cappelen , Josh Dever


Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy to...

Parution : 2021-04-22
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Biology, Religion, and Philosophy
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Biology, Religion, and Philosophy


Michael Peterson , Dennis Venema


The intersection of biology and religion has spawned exciting new areas of academic research that raise issues central to understanding our own humanity and the living world. In this comprehensive and accessible survey, Michael L. Peterson and Dennis R. Venema explain...

Parution : 2021-04-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The World in the Wave Function
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The World in the Wave Function


Alyssa Ney


If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world? How should quantum theories make us reevaluate our classical conceptions of material objects? Nearly a century after the development of...

Parution : 2021-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  How to Read Numbers
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How to Read Numbers


Tom Chivers , David Chivers


Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious - 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely...

Parution : 2021-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Interpreting Feyerabend
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Interpreting Feyerabend


Karim Bschir , Jamie Shaw


This collection of new essays interprets and critically evaluates the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, mimesis, voluntarism, pluralism, materialism, and the mind-body...

Parution : 2021-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Interpreting Mach
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Interpreting Mach


John Preston


This volume presents new essays on the work and thought of physicist, psychologist, and philosopher Ernst Mach. Moving away from previous estimations of Mach as a pre-logical positivist, the essays reflect his rehabilitation as a thinker of direct relevance to debates...

Parution : 2021-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Rational Choice Using Imprecise Probabilities and Utilities
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Rational Choice Using Imprecise Probabilities and Utilities


Paul Weirich


An agent often does not have precise probabilities or utilities to guide resolution of a decision problem. I advance a principle of rationality for making decisions in such cases. To begin, I represent the doxastic and conative state of an agent with a set of pairs of a...

Parution : 2021-02-25
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