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Télécharger le livre :  Natural Kinds
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Natural Kinds


Muhammad Ali Khalidi


Scientists cannot devise theories, construct models, propose explanations, make predictions, or even carry out observations, without first classifying their subject matter. The goal of scientific taxonomy is to come up with classification schemes that conform to...

Parution : 2023-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Open Science
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Philosophy of Open Science


Sabina Leonelli


The Open Science [OS] movement aims to foster the wide dissemination, scrutiny and re-use of research components for the good of science and society. This Element examines the role played by OS principles and practices within contemporary research and how this relates...

Parution : 2023-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  On Gödel and the Nonexistence of Time – Gödel und die Nichtexistenz der Zeit
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On Gödel and the Nonexistence of Time – Gödel und die Nichtexistenz der Zeit


Christoph Benzmüller , Brigitte Falkenburg , Oliver Passon


Kurt Gödel was not just a brilliant logician but contributed also important results to the general theory of relativity. In the 1940s he found a solution to Einstein's field equations which (roughly speaking) allows for time-travel, i.e. compromises our very notion of...

Parution : 2023-08-23
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Éditeur : Springer Spektrum
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecological Complexity
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Ecological Complexity


Alkistis Elliott-Graves


Complexity has received substantial attention from scientists and philosophers alike. There are numerous, often conflicting, accounts of how complexity should be defined and how it should be measured. Much less attention has been paid to the epistemic implications of...

Parution : 2023-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Nature
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Human Nature


Grant Ramsey


Human nature is frequently evoked to characterize our species and describe how it differs from others. But how should we understand this concept? What is the nature of a species? Some take our nature to be an essence and argue that because humans lack an essence, they...

Parution : 2023-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics, Technology, and Engineering
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Ethics, Technology, and Engineering


Lamber Royakkers , Ibo Van De Poel


Explore the moral and ethical issues which arise at the intersection of novel technology and engineering In Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an insightful and thought-provoking exploration of some of the...

Parution : 2023-08-07
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Éditeur : Wiley-Blackwell
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Télécharger le livre :  Health Problems
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Health Problems


Elizabeth Barnes


Health is weird.Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might...

Parution : 2023-08-04
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Indikatoren in Entscheidungsprozessen
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Indikatoren in Entscheidungsprozessen


Julia Mörtel , Alfred Nordmann , Oliver Schlaudt


Indikatoren sind in Prozessen des Monitorings in allen gesellschaftlich relevanten Bereichen sowie in Prozessen der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Entscheidungsfindung von der lokalen Ebene bis zur internationalen Governance unverzichtbar geworden. Überall in der...

Parution : 2023-08-03
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Éditeur : Springer VS
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Télécharger le livre :  Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada
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Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada


Jaro Kotalik , David W. Shannon


This book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. In the first five years (2015-2021) of operation, this program...

Parution : 2023-07-25
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Accelerating Expansion
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Accelerating Expansion


Gordon Belot


Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe has for our understanding of time, geometry, and physics. The appearance of the...

Parution : 2023-07-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Health Problems
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Health Problems


Elizabeth Barnes


Health is weird.Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might...

Parution : 2023-06-14
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Measurement and Understanding in Science and Humanities
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Measurement and Understanding in Science and Humanities


Roxana Halbleib , Joachim Hass , Anna Novokhatko , Marcel Schweiker


This anthology is a unique compilation of scientific contributions on the topic of measurement and understanding, showing how terms such as number, measurement, understanding, model, pattern are used in a wide variety of disciplines. Based on the results and experiences...

Parution : 2023-06-12
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Children and Gender
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Children and Gender


Simona Giordano


Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. From the time young children express gender incongruent preferences and attitudes, up to the time in which older...

Parution : 2023-06-07
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Humean Laws for Human Agents
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Humean Laws for Human Agents


Michael Townsen Hicks , Siegfried Jaag , Christian Loew


Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on theHumean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity. A central question in metaphysics and philosophy of science is: What are laws of nature? Humeans hold that laws are not sui...

Parution : 2023-06-01
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon
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Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon


Pierre-Olivier Méthot


This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019). While honoring the...

Parution : 2023-05-25
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Mathematics and Explanation
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Mathematics and Explanation


Christopher Pincock


This Element answers four questions. Can any traditional theory of scientific explanation make sense of the place of mathematics in explanation? If traditional monist theories are inadequate, is there some way to develop a more flexible, but still monist, approach that...

Parution : 2023-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Children and Gender
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Children and Gender


Simona Giordano


Simona Giordano investigates the moral concerns raised by current clinical options available for transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents. From the time young children express gender incongruent preferences and attitudes, up to the time in which older...

Parution : 2023-05-23
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Humean Laws for Human Agents
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Humean Laws for Human Agents


Michael Townsen Hicks , Siegfried Jaag , Christian Loew


Humean Laws for Human Agents presents cutting-edge research by leading experts on theHumean account of laws, chance, possibility, and necessity. A central question in metaphysics and philosophy of science is: What are laws of nature? Humeans hold that laws are not sui...

Parution : 2023-05-17
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Evolutionary Game Theory
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Evolutionary Game Theory


J. Mckenzie Alexander


Evolutionary game theory originated in population biology from the realisation that frequency-dependent fitness introduced a strategic element into evolution. Since its development, evolutionary game theory has been adopted by many social scientists, and philosophers,...

Parution : 2023-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Synthetic Biology and the Question of Public Participation
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Synthetic Biology and the Question of Public Participation


Matthias Braun , Peter Dabrock , Katharina Kieslich , Stephanie Siewert


The book considers the relationship between governance and participation, and the ways participation has been understood, framed and applied in the context of synthetic biology (SB) governance approaches. Based on fundamental questions about the scope, purpose, and...

Parution : 2023-03-15
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Éditeur : Springer
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