Описание: Of Minds and Molecules is the first anthology of its kind devoted exclusively to work in the philosophy of chemistry. The essays, written by both chemists and philosophers, adopt distinctive philosophical perspectives on chemistry and collectively offer both a conceptualization of and a justification for the emerging field of philosophy of chemistry.
Описание: Individuals are things that everybody knows--or thinks they do. Yet even scholars who practice or analyze the biological sciences often cannot agree on what an individual is and why. One reason for this disagreement is that the many important biological individuality concepts serve very different purposes--defining, classifying, or explaining living structure, function, interaction, persistence, or evolution. Indeed, as the contributors to Biological Individuality reveal, nature is too messy for simple definitions of this concept, organisms too quirky in the diverse ways they reproduce, function, and interact, and human ideas about individuality too fraught with philosophical and historical meaning.
Bringing together biologists, historians, and philosophers, this book provides a multifaceted exploration of biological individuality that identifies leading and less familiar perceptions of individuality both past and present, what they are good for, and in what contexts. Biological practice and theory recognize individuals at myriad levels of organization, from genes to organisms to symbiotic systems. We depend on these notions of individuality to address theoretical questions about multilevel natural selection and Darwinian fitness; to illuminate empirical questions about development, function, and ecology; to ground philosophical questions about the nature of organisms and causation; and to probe historical and cultural circumstances that resonate with parallel questions about the nature of society. Charting an interdisciplinary research agenda that broadens the frameworks in which biological individuality is discussed, this book makes clear that in the realm of the individual, there is not and should not be a direct path from biological paradigms based on model organisms through to philosophical generalization and historical reification.
Описание: This book transcribes and comments on the manuscript Minutes of the meetings in a London coffee house of a group of 18th century scientists, natural philosophers, and industrialists who discussed some of the key scientific issues of the day. Their debates offer a rare authentic contemporary account of the scientific and social thinking of their time.
Автор: Sven Ove Hansson Название: The Role of Technology in Science: Philosophical Perspectives ISBN: 9401797617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401797610 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Role of Technology in Science: Philosophical Perspectives
Описание: The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic.
Автор: Bahattin Karag?zo?lu Название: Science and Technology from Global and Historical Perspectives ISBN: 3319528890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319528892 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides science and technology ethos to a literate person. Science and Technology is currently taught as a college course in many universities with the intention to introduce topics from a global historical perspective so that the reader shall stretch his/her vision by mapping the past to the future.
Описание: As education is internationalized, so is assessment: policy makers keen to develop `human capital` see large-scale comparative international surveys as useful in planning. Here, they are explored in economic, policy, educational and technological terms.
Автор: Mohammad Hashim Kamali; Osman Bakar; Daud Abdul-Fa Название: Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology ISBN: 9812877770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789812877772 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents 25 selected papers from the International Conference on "Developing Synergies between Islam & Science and Technology for Mankind`s Benefit" held at the International Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in October 2014.
Автор: Wenceslao J. Gonzalez Название: New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics ISBN: 3319218697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319218694 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book focuses on a key issue today: the role of values in technology, with special emphasis on ethical values. This topic involves the analysis of internal values in technology (as they affect objectives, processes, and outcomes) and the study of external values in technology (social, cultural, economic, ecological, etc.).
Автор: Isao Orishimo; Geoffrey J.D. Hewings; Peter Nijkam Название: Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspectives ISBN: 3540501584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540501589 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book contains perspectives on the way new informationtechnology might reorient the spatial organization ofactivity. Considerable debate is focused on therole of distance and the way in which new informationtechnology might re-shape interaction and, eventually, theform and function of urban areas.
Описание: This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the characterization of vagueness in pictures. It reports on how the problem of representation of images has been approached in scientific practice, highlighting the role of mathematical methods and the philosophical background relevant for issues such as representation, categorization and reasoning. Without delving too much into the technical details, the book examines and defends different kinds of values of fuzziness based on a complex approach to categorization as a practice, adopting conceptual and empirical suggestions from different fields including the arts. It subsequently advances criticisms and provides suggestions for interpretation and application. By describing a cognitive framework based on fuzzy, rough and near sets, and discussing all of the relevant mathematical and philosophical theories for the representation and processing of vagueness in images, the book offers a practice-oriented guide to fuzzy visual reasoning, along with novel insights into the field of interpreting and thinking with fuzzy pictures and fuzzy data.
Автор: P.T. Durbin Название: Europe, America, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives ISBN: 0792312546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792312543 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27245.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As Europe moves toward 1992 and full economic unity, and as Eastern Europe tries to find its way in the new economic order, the United States hesitates.
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