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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-04-02
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-23
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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...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-24
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-13
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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....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-12
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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...
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Springer
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2025-02-12
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In this Open-Access-book, the author investigates the value dimension of Integrated Assessment Models and their application to questions of feasibility. Integrated models provide a quantified representation of the interaction between the socio-economic system with the...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-01-31
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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....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-28
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-24
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Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft stehen in einer dynamischen Wechselbeziehung, in der Vertrauen in die wissenschaftliche Forschung für die gesellschaftliche Rationalität unabdingbar ist. Aktuelle Krisen wie der Klimawandel und die COVID-19-Pandemie verdeutlichen jedoch die...
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Springer VS
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2025-01-20
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-09
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-11-30
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This book challenges the prevailing, though often unacknowledged, view among most practicing scientists and philosophers that human free will is incompatible with the natural causality that is the basic presupposition of modern science. That position is essentially...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-28
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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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-19
Collection :
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Science and the rule of law are the two pillars of modernity. Even though both result from the attempt to employ reason to limit the exercise of power in the scientific and the political sphere, they bear in themselves the germs of their own destruction: scientism and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-10
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Austrian Economics
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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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-10-28
Collection :
Synthese Library
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This volume brings together twelve previously unpublished essays on the theme of Wittgenstein on practice and on the insight that careful attention to human or animal activity is essential for thinking about philosophical problems. While Wittgenstein’s thought frames...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-27
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This book examines the long-standing belief in infinite scientific and technological progress and links it to the Enlightenment ideal of man as a universal being and subject of the universal world history, destined to become a 'master and possessor of nature.' The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-12
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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...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-04
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