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    Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy

    Why did the two most influential philosophers in the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, write in such a curious fashion that they confused a whole generation of disciples and created a cottage industry...
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  • The Self-Writing Universe The Self-Writing Universe
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    The Self-Writing Universe

    Did Our Universe Write Itself? Who says there's no such thing as an answer to "How is there anything at all"? The Self-Writing Universe considers the most confounding puzzle we can ask ourselves - how and why is there anything at all instead of simply...
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  • The Chances Of Death V1 The Chances Of Death V1
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    The Chances Of Death V1

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Social Innovation of New Ventures Social Innovation of New Ventures
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    Social Innovation of New Ventures

    This book provides insights into how new ventures in emerging economies and developing countries generate social innovation. It showcases new forms of business and how they are different from traditional business models. With increasing drive for...
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  • Time for Science Education Time for Science Education
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    Time for Science Education

    The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer­ tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into...
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  • Models as Make-Believe Models as Make-Believe
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    Models as Make-Believe

    Scientists often try to understand the world by creating simplified or idealised models of it. And yet modelling is hard to make sense of, not least because it seems to involve learning about things that don't exist, like ideal oscillators or perfect...
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  • Gender-Technology Relations Gender-Technology Relations
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    Gender-Technology Relations

    Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relationsfrom the 1980sto today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more...
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  • A Means to an End A Means to an End
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    A Means to an End

    Why do we age? Is aging inevitable? Will advances in medical knowledge allow us to extend the human lifespan beyond its present limits? Because growing old has long been the one irreducible reality of human existence, these intriguing questions arise...
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  • Todos los colores del enredo cuántico Todos los colores del enredo cuántico
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    Todos los colores del enredo cuántico

    El libro está dividido en tres partes. En la primera parte (Las intuiciones) el autor discute las hipótesis más relevantes sobre la realidad ilusoria del mundo perceptible. Los grandes pensadores han previsto la existencia de un...
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  • The Luminous Web The Luminous Web
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    The Luminous Web

    With her customary grace, intelligence and wit, Barbara Brown Taylor wonders why science and faith have become polarized in the popular imagination. She explores what quantum physics, the new biology and chaos theory can teach people of faith and why...
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  • The Making of a Cybertariat The Making of a Cybertariat
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    The Making of a Cybertariat

    The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies.Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces, but for the working class as a whole.Computer...
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  • Biology Under the Influence Biology Under the Influence
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    Biology Under the Influence

    How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it...
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  • Science and the Structure of Ethics Science and the Structure of Ethics
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    Science and the Structure of Ethics

    Initially prepared as part of the Foundations of the Unity of Science volumes under the auspices of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Science and the Structure of Ethics soon took on a life of its own. Well positioned in the naturalistic...
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  • Ocean Acidity Climate Shock Ocean Acidity Climate Shock
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    Ocean Acidity Climate Shock

    Ocean Acidity Climate Shock analyzes a serious element of climate changethe progressive acidity of the oceans as they absorb and reach their limits of carbon dioxide absorption. The author, who has worked as a mathematical, chemical, electrical,...
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  • The Willing The Willing
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    The Willing

    The Willing outlines an opportunity for new and positive ways to guide the reader, who may in turn, alter social behavior for the betterment of all. Herein are guidelines for proper breathing, thinking, speaking and acting. Personal responsibility is...
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    Discourse on the Method of Rightly...

    If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in...
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  • Digitalization of Culture Through Technology Digitalization of Culture Through Technology
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    Digitalization of Culture Through Technology

    In the era of digitalization, the world has shrunk and has succeeded in bringing people closer than expected. It has provided a social platform which enables people to interact with an individual, group of users anywhere irrespective of time. It has...
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  • Algorithms and Subjectivity Algorithms and Subjectivity
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    Algorithms and Subjectivity

    In this thought-provoking volume, Eran Fisher interrogates the relationship between algorithms as epistemic devices and modern notions of subjectivity.Over the past few decades, as the instrumentalization of algorithms has created knowledge that informs...
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  • Metadebates on Science Metadebates on Science
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    Metadebates on Science

    How do scientists approach science? Scientists, sociologists and philosophers were asked to write on this intriguing problem and to display their results at the International Congress `Einstein Meets Magritte'. The outcome...
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  • Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism
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    Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism

    The aim of this book is to interpret all the laws of classical electromagnetism in a modern coherent way. In a typical undergraduate course using vector analysis, the students finally end up with Maxwell's equations, when they...
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  • Encyclopedia and Utopia Encyclopedia and Utopia
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    Encyclopedia and Utopia

    The present Volume 4 of the Vienna Circle Yearbook is dedicated to Otto Neurath, one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle and one of last polymaths representative of the vanished culture from which the Circle emerged...
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  • On Truth On Truth
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    On Truth

    The present publication forms part of a projected book that F. P. Ramsey drafted but never completed. It survived among his papers and ultimately came into the possession of the University of Pittsburgh in the circumstances...
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  • The Cognitive Turn The Cognitive Turn
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    The Cognitive Turn

    If nothing else, the twelve papers assembled in this volume should lay to rest the idea that the interesting debates about the nature of science are still being conducted by "internalists" vs. "externalists,"" rationalists" vs...
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    Goodbye Mom

    This book is not a biography about a man, but rather it is about a Journey. This is a Journey through life, with this illness, Bipolar Disorder, and all the dynamics that go along with it. This book shows how a man faced the consequences of this disease,...
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  • The Evolution Of New Japan (1913) The Evolution Of New Japan (1913)
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    The Evolution Of New Japan (1913)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Indian National Evolution Indian National Evolution
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    Indian National Evolution

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • First And Fundamental Truths First And Fundamental Truths
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    First And Fundamental Truths

    ""First And Fundamental Truths: Being A Treatise On Metaphysics"" is a book written by James McCosh and published in 1889. The book delves into the fundamental principles of metaphysics, exploring the nature of reality and the basic truths that underlie...
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  • Logic In Three Books V1 Logic In Three Books V1
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    Logic In Three Books V1

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Understanding Understanding Understanding Understanding
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    Understanding Understanding

    In these ground-breaking essays, Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. The author was one of...
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  • The Applicability of Mathematics in Science The Applicability of Mathematics in Science
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    The Applicability of Mathematics in Science

    The study of natural resource extraction in resourcerich countries often shows that plunder, rather than prosperity, has become the norm. Management of natural resources differs widely in every state; a close examination of the decision making chains in...
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