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The origin of life from non-life remains one of the most enduring mysteries of modern science. The Mystery of Life’s Origin: The Continuing Controversy investigates how close scientists are to solving that mystery and explores what we are learning...

We are living in a time in which innovation has become as frequent and unavoidable as never before. Innovative societies and economies, however, do not require narrow specializations of professions. What innovation is in urgent need of is cooperation...

Matthew Murdock is a man of contrasts. He was raised in poverty and grew up to become a lawyer, thanks to his single father, a boxer and part-time mob enforcer who pushed his son to study rather than fight. Blinded by a freak accident that also...

These are the transcripts and reports from a U.S. House of Representatives hearing held in 1984 on subliminal communication technology---the process by which an individual is presented with information without that individual being made aware...

Das Buch ""Das Verh�����ltnis von mechanischer und teleologischer Naturerkl�����rung bei Kant und Lotze"" von Otto Heinrich Frommel, erschienen im Jahr 1898, untersucht die philosophischen Ans�����tze von Immanuel Kant und Rudolf Hermann Lotze in Bezug...

Le livre ""Consequences Philosophiques Et Metaphysiques De La Thermodynamique: Analyse Elementaire De L'Univers (1868)"" de Gustave Adolphe Hirn est une analyse approfondie des implications philosophiques et m�����taphysiques de la thermodynamique...

Dieses Buch ist ein ausführlicher Leitfaden für die Induktionslogik in der Wissenschaft. Die Autoren Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Schiel und John Stuart Mill zeigen, wie man mit der Induktionslogik Hypothesen aufstellen und Argumente bewerten kann. Mit einer...

A collection of scientific texts written by Aristotle covering a range of topics including color, sound, plants, mechanics, and more.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...

The articles in this book constitute the proceedings papers from the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference, "IS2000: The Social and Organizational Perspective on Research and Practice in Information Technology," held June 1 0-12,...

Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5...

It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies - from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics - seem to make obsolete our...

This edited collection reports the results of a comparative study of video surveillance/CCTV in Germany, Poland, and Sweden. It investigates how video surveillance as technologically mediated social control is affected by national characteristics, with a...

On the Human Condition is an invigorating and fascinating exploration of where the idea of the human stands today.

The last century saw two great revolutions in genetics; the development of classic Mendelian theory and the discovery and investigation of DNA. Each fundamental scientific discovery in turn generated its own distinctive technology. These two case...

Introduction Where is God? Is God in the World? After Darwin Einstein What Kind of World is This? What are We? The Indian Tradition The Semitic Tradition Models of God Does God Exist? What Kind of God Model? Notes Index

This is an engrossing book. It is also an unusual book: it is written by a scientist who is quite willing to talk about the softer side of life, about things such as love and respect and responsibility, and to try and position...

In a frank, edgy and entertaining style that pulls no punches this book reveals the truth about modern biology and debunks the commonest myths surrounding some of the most controversial topics in science and health. It says what most scientists and...

Science, Truth, and Meaning presents a scientific and philosophical examination of our place in the world. It also celebrates how diverse, scientific knowledge is interconnected and reducible to common foundations.The book focuses on aspects of...

This book is a synopsis of the six main books of Abraham H. Maslow. Maslow was one of many humanistic psychologists, but he was the greatest synthesizer and theorist among them. Most writers on Maslow focus on his psychology: the hierarchy of needs,...

In this innovative and groundbreaking work, the structure and evolution of scientific theories is examined in meticulous detail and rigorously analysed as never before. For the first time, scientific revolutions are presented as a natural consequence of...

The fundamental burden of a theory of inductive inference is to determine which are the good inductive inferences or relations of inductive support and why it is that they are so. The traditional approach is modeled on that taken in accounts of deductive...

"As a man thinks, so is he." Personally, and socially, so is he. Yet if this is true, then "as a man thinks" has led us into the thick of global crisis. What exactly is it, about our thinking, that fails us? What has gone so wrong? There are firm reasons...

Integration of Behavioral Sciences and Theology: A Systematic-Relational Approach is an introduction to the subject of the nature of the relationship between the behavioral sciences and theology. It examines the history of the field and offers an...

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

In this volume, Battarra shares his observations on the natural world, including animals, plants, and minerals. He also includes some curious examples from the history of natural science, as well as beautiful illustrations of many of the creatures and...

His and Hers builds a foundation for the synthesis of two of the most exciting fields in scholarship today: cultural studies and the history of technology. Hayden White first helped open up the domain of cultural studies in history by arguing that ideas...

Maximum entropy and Bayesian methods have fundamental, central roles in scientific inference, and, with the growing availability of computer power, are being successfully applied in an increasing number of applications in...

Preface; C. Mitcham. Analytic Table of Contents. Introduction: El desafío de la tecnología: Authors and Issues in Philosophy of Technology in the Spanish-Speaking World; C. Mitcham. Part I: From Chile: Technology and Politics: Toward Artificial...

Editorial Foreword; R.S. Cohen. I: A Historico-Critical Introduction; I. Szumilewicz-Lachman. One: Some Data. Two: Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938), the Creator of the Lwów-Warsaw School. Three: The Lwów-Warsaw School (1895-1939). Four: The LWS...

Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen. He wrote his Experimenta Nova in the seventeenth century in Latin, a dead language for the most part...

Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences contains a series of explorations of the different ways in which the social sciences have interacted with the natural sciences. Usually, such interactions are considered to go only...

The thirty-one papers collected in this volume represent most of the arti­ cles that I have published in the philosophy of science and related founda­ tional areas of science since 1970. The present volume is a natural succes­...

This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc­ tive and distinguished school of philosophy of science at Chelsea College, University of London. The 'Chelsea tradition' in philosophy of science takes...

This ninth volume is one of the most arnbitious in the Philosophy and Technology series. Edited by technopolitical philosopher Langdon Winner, it assembles an impressive collection of philosophers and political theorists to...

The present publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chronicles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Contemporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Klibansky. As with the earlier series...

This volume is presented as a companion study to my translation of Galileo's MS 27, Galileo's Logical Treatises, which contains Galileo's appropriated questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics - a work only recently...

For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo,...