Impact of science and technology on society Books

The world around us appears solid and substantial-we can see, hear, touch, feel, and smell the objects and elements of our world. At the same time, everything around us is mostly empty space, as we know from having discovered the structure of atoms...

Discover the Dawn of a New Era: The Ties Between Artificial Intelligence and Our FutureImagine a world where every aspect of life is enhanced by artificial intelligence-our jobs, our ethical decisions, and even the way we interact with one another. "When...

In recent decades, scientific theories have postulated the existence of many universes beyond our own. The details and implications of these theories are hotly contested. Some philosophers argue that these scientific models count against the existence of...

What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The quest for the essence of technology is an old one, with roots in the...

The book focuses on the ethical issues of human likeness of robots and human tendency to anthropomorphize. It is built on the assumption that design choices are not neutral, and they need to be discussed to align robots with human values.

This book offers global, interdisciplinary perspectives that examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the development trajectory of schools, public health, the workforce, and technology adoption. It explores themes in society, economy, policy and...

Quantum Psychology offers a coherent and humorous description of how our thoughts, values and behaviors have been colored by our use of language and our prevailing view of the universe. While Quantum Mechanics, relativity, non-Euclidean geometries,...

Have you ever wondered where humanity is headed and worried deeply about it? We believe there are so many problems that need fixing before we are able to say we look forward to tomorrow. We feel there is something deeply wrong with the world. There is a...

'What Coleridge Thought' presents Coleridge's ideas in a coherent form, carefully organized to demonstrate precisely what his thoughts were and how his writings develop them.Coleridge's objective was to stimulate his readers into thinking for themselves...

Questo libro tratta il rapporto fra la fede cristiana in Dio Creatore e la scienza moderna, in uno studio di frontiera. Lo scopo è quello di fornire un commentario filosofico-teologico sugli sviluppi recenti nel campo scientifico. Altro intento è quello...

Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from scientists and experts in such fields as sociology, religion, law, ethics, and...

The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical...

The allure of science has always captivated members of the legal profession. Its siren's song offers a tune of perfection and the promise of endowing law with the respect and deference from society that lawyers crave. Both the bench and the bar...

""The Vital Resources Contributing To Capacity, Health, And Longevity: Including Also The Great Law Of The Evolution And Progression Of The Human Species"" is a book written by Jerome Kidder and published in 1878. The book explores the various factors...

""The Process of Thought Adapted to Words and Language: Together with a Description of the Relational and Differential Machines"" is a book written by Alfred Smee in 1851. The book explores the relationship between thought, words, and language, and how...

The New Philosophy of Modern Science, written by William Walker Strong and first published in 1920, is a comprehensive exploration of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science. Strong argues that the scientific method has fundamentally changed...

Subject and Object: As Connected With Our Double Brain, And A New Theory Of Causation is a book written by Robert Verity in 1870. It explores the relationship between the subject and object in human perception and how this is connected to the double...

Hypothesis For A Ceptacle Theory is a book written by Oren Byron Taft and published in 1900. The book presents a theory that attempts to explain the origin and evolution of life on Earth. According to Taft, life originated in a ""ceptacle"" - a...

Harrington's Desideratum For The Age is a Masonic work written by George Fellows Harrington in 1851. The book delves into the first principles that make up nature and explains certain other natural phenomena. The author explores various Masonic concepts...

As the research continues to accumulate, we find that the mainstream understanding of schizophrenia and the other related psychotic disorders has lost virtually all credibility. We've learned that full recovery is not only possible, but may actually be...

A LEADER PROVIDES takes 200 years of U.S. Marine Corps strategy on developing leaders and combines it with long-term business experience, successful entrepreneurial knowledge and social intercourse, to the end of having any group to better get along and...

Homo dominus redefines what it means to be human. Starting with the component pieces of human uniqueness-cognition, self-awareness, language, technology, aggression, altruism, culture, the arts, and spirituality-it rebuilds the human species using a new...

This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in...

What counts as an individual in the living world? What does it mean for a living thing to remain the same through time, while constantly changing? These questions are the province of immunology, one of the most dynamic fields in biology. Immunology...

This timely and accessible text shows how portrayals of science in popular media-including television, movies, and social media-influence public attitudes around messages from the scientific community, affect the kinds of research that receive support,...

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity. Emergent phenomena are said to...

Was God merely reprimanding Job for his presumption? Or was God also issuing an invitation to explore? The author shows how religious experience can illuminate our understanding of physics of light and how, in that light, we can see what modern physics...

Johannes Kepler's discovery of the basic quantitative laws that describe planetary motion placed the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus on a sound mathematic basis and proved the way for Newton's work in the next century. In this balanced, clearly...

The Relation Between Science And Philosophy is a book written by Albert Julius Mott in 1872. The book explores the relationship between science and philosophy, and how they are interconnected. Mott argues that science and philosophy are not separate...

This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters...

This work is updated version of the original ground-breaking Adam and Evolution. It not only heavily criticises neo-Darwinian orthodoxy in all its various fields but also provides a logical, alternative perspective to the question of life's origin...

Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous...

Are Milton's Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense program, our culture's fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan's views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In Children of Ezekiel Michael Lieb reveals the...

Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism,...

Examines the relationship between sound and statuary in Western aesthetic thought in light of discourses on aurality emerging within the field of sound studies. Considers the sounding statue as an event and as conceptualized through acts of writing and...

I have been observing the Earth since mankind first walked erect and used its first weapon. I am not human and do not take a human form. Eons ago, in Earth time, my species left behind our corporeal form and freed ourselves to roam the universe. I was...

De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex est opus magnum Titus Lucretii Carus, poetae et philosophi Romani, quod anno 55 a.C.n. scriptum est. Libri sex tractant de natura rerum et explicat atomisticam philosophiam Epicuream. In libro primo, Lucretius deorum...

De L�������Idee De Loi Naturelle Dans La Science Et La Philosophie Contemporaines (1895) est un livre �����crit par Emile Boutroux. Dans ce livre, l'auteur explore l'id�����e de loi naturelle dans la science et la philosophie contemporaines. Il examine...

This book provides a much-needed philosophical response to the recurrent postcolonial call to uproot the prevalent workings of the colonial regime, with a close focus on the African context. The work addresses a range of questions concerning the...

This book is a critique and provincialization of Western social science and Global Northern academia, by the author of The Digital Coloniality of Power. It exposes shared colonial and extractive rationalities and histories of research, higher education,...