Impact of science and technology on society Books

Un análisis profundo sobre la influencia que enfrentan los usuarios de los medios audiovisuales de comunicación masiva en la era virtual de Internet y, cómo estos medios, a través de sus imágenes, estimulan los patrones genéticos que determinan las...

This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible to anticipate ethical questions and problems at a stage when the technology can still be changed.

Offering a new perspective on the debate concerning naturalism in philosophy, this book defends the autonomy of metaphysics while also making science centre stage. Three independent case studies provide a clear introduction to, and discussion...

Chetana yoga is at the frontier of personal and globaltransformation, and Dr. Rajah Sekaran is its foremostpioneer. In Beyond Mind, Dr. Sekaran offers the next stepin human evolution as an antidote for mental frustrations, aswell as for anger, anxiety,...

Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists,...

Embark on a transformative journey towards a life of profound joy, purpose, and holistic well-being with "Wholeness and Joy: Embracing Holistic Happiness." This illuminating guide, crafted by seasoned experts in the realms of psychology, spirituality,...

Po mnoho staletí byla mimosmyslová vnímání, jako je telepatie, znamení a jasnovidnost, považována za podvodné fantazie, iluze nebo vynálezy.Materialistický přístup...

Think smarter, act smarter: this is the goal of the Sustainability Compass. It introduces 12 criteria for a sustainable lifestyle. Readers are invited to think about how these criteria can influence daily and extraordinary decision-making. How everybody...

How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century? This book analyzes this issue by considering the history of Cartesianism in Dutch universities, as well as its legacy in the 18th century. It takes into...

The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has curbed human lifestyle by imposing restrictions on regular daily movements that had been taken for granted. Due to the pandemic, the welfare segment has received more attention, and every possible effort...

Today, individuals and societies of the digital age are no longer constrained by conventional contexts, narratives, settings, and status; they are surrounded and guided by digital tools and applications leading to a digital revolution. That digital...

Digital technology covers digital information in every form. The world lives in an information age in which massive amounts of data are being produced to improve our daily lives. This intelligent digital network incorporates interconnected people,...

As advances in disruptive technologies transform politics and increase the velocity of information and policy flows worldwide, the public is being confronted with changes that move faster than they can comprehend. There is an urgent need to analyze and...

To the medieval thinker, man was the center of creation, and all of nature existed purely for his benefit. The shift from the philosophy of the Middle Ages to the modern view of humanity's less central place in the universe ranks as the greatest...

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and framework of European thought. In the wake of Copernican theory and discoveries through the telescope, the notion of an ordered cosmos of "fixed stars" gave way...

Ask someone to define consciousness, and youll get a myriad of similar-sounding answers, including the awareness of ones own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, and so on.But what is it really?That question has stumped philosophers of every...

Die Dialektische Methode und die Mathematische Naturanschauung ist ein Buch von Gustav Engel, das im Jahr 1865 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk untersucht Engel die Beziehung zwischen der dialektischen Methode und der mathematischen...

Das Buch ""Die Denkformenlehre Und Ihr Organischer Zusammenhang Mit Schule Und Wissenschaft"" von Bernhard Matthia wurde im Jahr 1847 ver������ffentlicht. Es behandelt die Denkformenlehre und ihren organischen Zusammenhang mit Schule und Wissenschaft...

Ethos, Technology, and AI in Contemporary Society explores our current understanding of and attitudes toward ethos, credibility and trust in today's changing technological landscape. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of...

Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective. Yet, since its gradual formation as a research field, the question of how to suitably integrate...

This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, 'enhance' and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature...

The Truth About Our World: A Journey Beyond Accepted Beliefs, Exploring Earth's Shape, Lunar Mysteries, Astronaut Adventures, and the Authenticity of Modern Science is a riveting exploration that challenges the status quo and dares to question the...

Hosszú évszázadok óta a telepátiához, a jövő előjeleihez és a tisztánlátáshoz hasonló szenzoros érzékeléseket csaló fantáziáknak,...

Številna stoletja so ekstrasenzorna dojemanja, kot so telepatija, znamenja prihodnosti in jasnovidnost, veljala za lažne fantazije, iluzije ali izume.Materialistični pristop, ki prevladuje v znanstvenih krogih, a priori zanika kakršno koli...

This book is the second greatly expanded edition of the previous booklet "Quantum Entanglement and the Collective Unconscious". It collects the best contributions published by the author in his blogs, social networks and sites in Italian,...

Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C.S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas...

Technology has opened a wide window of novel communication methods and techniques and has become ubiquitous in modern society. With advancements occurring rapidly and transforming practices and efficiencies within all fields including business,...

Smart city development and governance is a technological issue and a complex mechanism of the political understanding of technology, environmental interest, and urban interactions in terms of both economic gains and other public values. A smart city is...

The use of cognitive science in creating stories, languages, visuals, and characters is known as narrative generation, and it has become a trending area of study. Applying artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to story development has caught the...

The research surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) is vast and quite diverse in both its applied and theoretical fields. AI tools and techniques, such as machine learning, data mining, neural networks, and advanced analytics, are evolving at a high...

Data is the base for information, information is needed to have knowledge, and knowledge is used to make decisions and manage 21st century businesses and organizations. Thus, it is imperative to remain up to date on the major breakthroughs within the...

Throughout history, humanity has sought the betterment of its communities. In the 21st century, humanity has technology on its side in the process of improving its cities. Smart cities make their improvements by gathering real-world data in real time...

Evaluates religious naturalists' attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions.

Drawing on debates from traditional and postmodern thoughts on science and technology, the title builds a new theoretical framework to reconsider science and technology, integrating the opposing viewpoints that either justify science or negate it.

In reviewing and reconsidering the intellectual history of scientism and anti-scientism, the authors assess the process of reasoning and prejudices of these contrasting viewpoints, while discussing the repercussions of scientific hegemony and its...

This volume analyses Karl Marx's understanding of science and technology and how it is associated with his focus on the perspective of history and human practice, seeking to illuminate a renewed understanding of science and technology from a Marx's angle.

Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange gathers contributions from an international group of scholars to reconsider the role that strong social ties play in the transmission of new ideas, and their...

This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its ultimate explanatory target catapults the investigation of...

Cypherpunk Ethics explores the moral worldview of the cypherpunks, a movement that advocates the use of strong digital cryptography - or crypto, for short - to defend individual privacy and promote institutional transparency in the digital age.

Explora las maravillas del 2040 con El Futuro de la Tecnología y la Sociedad: Una Guía para 2040 de Marco De ProsperisDescubre las tecnologías emergentes y su inevitable impacto en nuestro futuro:Marco De Prosperis te lleva en un fascinante viaje a...

Yüzyıllar boyunca, telepati, geleceğe dair alametler ve basiret gibi duyusal olmayan algılar sahte fanteziler, illüzyonlar veya icatlar olarak kabul edildi.Bilim çevrelerinde yaygın olan materyalist yaklaşım, her türlü...