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Der Situationskalkul (1851) von Hermann Scheffler ist ein Buch, das sich mit der mathematischen Theorie der Situationen befasst. Der Autor beschreibt darin eine Methode zur Analyse von Situationen, die auf der formalen Logik basiert. Scheffler untersucht...

Immortality: A Rational Faith is a book written by William Chester and published in 1903. The book explores the predictions of science, philosophy, and religion on the subject of a future life and argues for the existence of immortality. The author draws...

""Ideen zu einer philosophischen Wissenschaft des Geistes und der Natur"" ist ein Buch von H.K.H. Delff, das 1865 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Buch pr�����sentiert Delff seine Ideen zu einer umfassenden philosophischen Wissenschaft, die sowohl...

""�����tude sur divers points de la philosophie des sciences"" est un livre �����crit par Joseph Boussinesq en 1879. Dans ce livre, l'auteur explore diff�����rents aspects de la philosophie des sciences, tels que la m�����thode scientifique, la logique...

The Scientific Bases of Faith is a book written by Joseph John Murphy in 1873. The book explores the relationship between science and religion, and aims to provide a scientific basis for faith. Murphy argues that science and religion are not mutually...

The Relation of Philosophy to Science, Physical and Psychological: An Address is a book written by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson and originally published in 1884. In this book, Hodgson explores the relationship between philosophy and science, specifically in...

Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation to...

This book draws on world-wide experiences and valuable lessons to highlight community-ecosystem interactions and the role of traditional knowledge in sustaining biocultural resources through community-based adaptations. The book targets different...

Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A...

A short pithy saying that sums up a general truth, the aphorism is the oldest written art form. Following in such a long tradition from Ancient Greeks like Plato and Heraclitus to Romans like Seneca and Cicero all the way to moderns like Nietzsche, the...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a game-changing technology. Not just disruptive, but a complete shift in the way humans live. Even in its infancy, it is already being abused.In Monsters, Machines, and the Media: Everything Media Producers and...

Assessment plays a crucial role in education, as it helps students and educators gauge progress, identify areas for improvement, and make informed decisions. In today's digital age, technology has become an invaluable tool for enhancing the assessment...

La philosophie est un terme fascinant, beau, romantique et harmonieux, mais aussi une activité intellectuelle intense. En réalité, la philosophie n'est ni très romantique ni très fatigante.Il est vrai qu'il faut utiliser son cerveau et que certaines...

This book tracks the 2020 outbreak due to a coronavirus strain labelled SARS-CoV-2, said to produce the Covid-19 disease. It brings evidence from scientists - who were ignored or censored by mainstream and social media cartels, for challenging the...

Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development is a volume devoted to exploring the core theoretical and disciplinary research problems of emergence processes from which systems are established. It focuses on emergence as the...

De L. Annaei Senecae Naturalibus Quaestionibus: Thesim Proponebat Facultati Litterarum Parisiensi est liber qui ab auctore Leon Crousle anno MDCCCLXIII editus est. In hoc libro, Crousle disputationem de quaestionibus naturalibus L. Annaei Senecae habet...

De L. Annaei Senecae: Qvaestionibvs Natvralibvs (1886) est liber a Georgio Mveller editus, qui tractat de quaestionibus naturae et philosophiae naturalis in opusculis Lucii Annaei Senecae. Lucius Annaeus Seneca fuit philosophus Romanus qui vixit in primo...

""De Fvrti Notione Et Generibvs"" est liber a Guilelmo H. Elias De Heyden-Linden scriptus, anno MDCCCLXV editus. Hic liber agit de fructibus et earum generibus, eorumque proprietatibus et usibus. Auctor in hoc opere describit varia genera fructuum, quae...

Postdigital Storytelling offers a groundbreaking re-evaluation of one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of creativity today: digital storytelling. Central to this reassessment is the emergence of metamodernism as our dominant cultural condition...

In this co-edited volume, Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman have invited contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil to reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators,...

We find "vertical" relations in many different realms, whether between atoms and molecules, words and sentences, neurons and brains, or individuals and societies. This book is the first to bring together, and comparatively assess, the exciting array of...

Debates about the foundations of quantum theory usually circle around two main challenges: the so-called 'measurement problem' and a claimed tension between quantum theory and relativity theory that arises from the phenomena labelled 'quantum...

This book argues that the plethora of new genres, apps and services in digital personal media must be understood historically and sociologically, and insists that sociology, media and communication theory can provide insight beyond surveys on media use...

This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns. A new framework is advanced that promotes technological innovation...

By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them, without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality...

Book DescriptionDemystifying the Akasha:Consciousness and the Quantum VacuumDuality, including the spiritual/material and mind/body dichotomies,has been the basis of the Western paradigm for four hundred years, andhas been blamed for major world problems...

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and...

Der einzige Weg, die Astrologie aus dem Bereich der Spekulation heraus- und wissenschaftlicher Überprüfbarkeit zuzuführen, wären Geburtszeitevaluationen allein aufgrund exakter Ereignisabfolgen. Der schweizerisch-deutsche Forscher Alexander Marr (1919-...

The prize-winning essays in this book address the fascinating but sometimes uncomfortable relationship between physics and mathematics. Is mathematics merely another natural science? Or is it the result of human creativity? Does physics simply wear...

Die Frage "Gibt es Atome oder nicht?" bildet in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts eine scharfe Trennlinie zwischen den empirischen Naturwissenschaften und der (noch mächtigen) Philosophie. In dieser Wendezeit, kurz bevor sich die...

This book is focused on quality management, and four different lenses which can be used to explore the phenomenon. It introduces emergence as a paradigm in thinking about quality, and explores conditions which are beneficial to radical innovation.The...

This book has two aims; first, to provide a new account of time's arrow in light of relativity theory; second, to explain how God, being eternal, relates to our world, marked as it is by change and time.In part one, Saudek argues that time is not the...

This book argues for two claims: firstly, determinism in science does not infringe upon human free will because it is descriptive, not prescriptive, and secondly, the very formulation, testing and justification of scientific theories presupposes human...

This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood. Beni constructs his ontological account of the self from the common structure that underpins the theoretical diversity...

This authoritative biography addresses the life and work of the quantum physicist David Bohm. Although quantum physics is considered the soundest physical theory, its strange and paradoxical features have challenged - and continue to challenge - even the...

This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg's failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of...

This volume has 41 chapters written to honor the 100th birthday of Mario Bunge. It celebrates the work of this influential Argentine/Canadian physicist and philosopher. Contributions show the value of Bunge's science-informed philosophy and his...

This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective. The author provides a unique exploration of the relation between the practice of theory and conceptual development in physics. In the process, he argues for a new...