Impact of science and technology on society Books

Long-distance communication has undergone a revolution thanks to Voip. These days, the majority of businesses, institutions, and even hospitals use it. VoIP calls have evolved into a dependable means of communication for both personal and business...

During his lifetime, Henri Poincaré published three major philosophical books which achieved great success: "La science et l'hypothèse" (1902), "La valeur de la science" (1905) and "Science et méthode" (1908). After his death...

Wenn eine analytische Herangehensweise nicht ausreicht, um Lösungen für die Herausforderungen unserer modernen Welt aufzuzeigen, auf welcher Grundlage werden wir unsere Entscheidungen zukünftig treffen? Weltbewegende Ereignisse wie die Corona-Krise...

Mr. Chesterton's long essay on eugenics and other evils was written in 1922, just a few years after the close of the 'Great War.' This war was not yet known as World War I, and it could not then be imagined that a greater calamity could be possible. ...

This book looks at innovative engineering solutions to the problems of climate change and explores ways in which to develop clean, renewable energy sources.It is now generally accepted that the world's climate has entered into a phase of warming with...

Science and technology are the most potent influences driving the modern world. Most science is done in laboratories but, apart from a generalized image of an anonymous building populated by white-coated figures, few people outside the sciences have any...

Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to nothing about the relationship between consciousness and the brain and we can only speculate about the...

In Making Moonshots, investor and operator Rahul Rana asks the question: Why should we live in a world of incremental scientific and technological progress when the human race has proven in past eras that we are capable of so much...

As the sun set on the 20th century, a new age dawned in Japan. This new era, symbolized by the postmodern city of Tokyo, has ushered in not only technological innovation and economic prowess, but changing attitudes and values among Japanese young people...

"Suddenly the thought came into my mind: 'What if this be but hallucination...'-from "The Arabian Nights in New York"The philosophical discipline of theosophy enjoyed a flowering in the late 19th century, a spiritual reaction to the materialism...

This book presents an introduction to the principles of scientific naturalism, which holds that nature is a self-sufficient reality that can be explained by natural causes and laws. Franklin explores the implications of this worldview for our...

Drawing on insights from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, this book explores the ways in which humans anthropomorphize the world around them. Wheeler argues that this tendency is rooted in our evolutionary history and has important implications...

Kraft und Stoff ist ein Klassiker der Naturphilosophie und beschreibt in allgemein-verständlicher Sprache die Entwicklungen der Naturwissenschaften und ihre Bedeutung für die Philosophie. Ludwig Büchner setzt sich darin mit den Fragen nach der Entstehung...

Bell's Theorem and its associated implications for the nature of the physical world remain topics of great interest. For this reason many meetings have been recently held on the interpretation of quantum theory and the...

As is made plain in the critical apparatus and editorial matter appended to the original German publication of Hussed's Ideas II, I this is a text with a history. It underwent revision after revision, spanning almost 20 years...

The best philosophy of science during the last generation has been highly historical; and the best history of science, highly philosophical. No one has better exemplified this intimate relationship between history and ...

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...

This book summarizes the author's personal philosophy and conception of reality based on the latest scientific evidence. It explains the strengths and the weaknesses of the religious and scientific worldviews and comes up with an alternative view based...

If technology leads to such obvious efficiency and productivity in the private sector, why not deploy it just as easily to strengthen civil society and solve the world's social ills?Author Jonathan Peizer effectively answers this question in the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new level of community? Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet argues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free...

Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of information and communication technologies. With the aim of widening current...

Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation provides an overview of ways in which technological changes raise privacy concerns. It then addresses four major areas of technology: RFID and location...

This volume has three goals with respect to the interplay between philosophy and behavioral psychology's experimental, applied, and interpretive levels of knowing. It aims to examine core principles in the philosophy of...

Metadecisions: Rehabilitating Epistemology constitutes an epistemological inquiry about the foundations of knowledge of a scientific discipline. This text warns contemporary scientific disciplines that neglecting...

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Our Place in Nature Animal Minds Nature's Value, and Other Obsessions Why Conserve Nature? Beyond the Human Conclusion Bibliography Index