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UNINA9910793104003321 |
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Hunter James Davison <1955-> |
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Science and the good : the tragic quest for the foundations of morality / / James Davison Hunter, Paul Nedelisky |
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New Haven ; ; London : , : Yale University Press : , : Templeton Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) : 10 b-w illus |
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Foundational questions in science |
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Science - Moral and ethical aspects |
Right and wrong |
Ethics, Evolutionary |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. The Argument, in Brief -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. The Historical Quest -- Part III. The Quest Thus Far -- Part IV. Enduring Quandries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The "new moral science" led by such figures as E. O. Wilson, Patricia Churchland, Sam Harris, Jonathan Haidt, and Joshua Greene is only the newest manifestation of that quest. Though claims for its accomplishments are often wildly exaggerated, this new iteration has been no more successful than its predecessors. But rather than giving up in the face of this failure, the new moral science has taken a surprising turn. Whereas earlier efforts sought to demonstrate what is right and wrong, the new moral scientists have concluded, ironically, that right and wrong don't actually exist. Their (perhaps unwitting) moral nihilism turns the science of morality into a social engineering project. If there is nothing moral for science to discover, the science of morality becomes, at best, a feeble program to achieve |
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arbitrary societal goals. Concise and rigorously argued, Science and the Good is a definitive critique of a would-be science that has gained extraordinary influence in public discourse today and an exposé of that project's darker turn. |
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UNINA9910957781703321 |
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Bolted aboveground thermosetting fiberglass-reinforced plastic panel-type tanks for water storage : AWWA standard |
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Denver, Colo., : American Water Works Association, 2012 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (85 p.) |
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Water - Storage |
Tanks - Design and construction |
Tanks - Testing - Standards |
Water-supply engineering - Standards |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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""Bolted Aboveground Thermosetting Fiberglass- Reinforced Plastic Panel-Type Tanks for Water Storage""; ""Committee Personnel""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""SECTION 1: GENERAL""; ""SECTION 2: REFERENCES""; ""SECTION 3: DEFINITIONS""; ""SECTION 4: MATERIALS""; ""SECTION 5: TANK DESIGN""; ""SECTION 6: SIZING OF TANKS""; ""SECTION 7: ACCESSORIES FOR TANKS""; ""SECTION 8: FABRICATION""; ""SECTION 9: CONSTRUCTION""; ""SECTION 10: INSPECTION AND TESTING""; ""APPENDIX A""; ""APPENDIX B"" |
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ANSI approved March 27, 2012 |
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UNINA9910967345703321 |
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Titolo |
Dynamics of flames and reactive systems / / editors, J.R. Bowen [et al.] |
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New York, : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, c1984 |
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1-60086-570-4 |
1-60086-351-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (786 pages) : illustrations |
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Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; ; v. 95 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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"[Revised] technical papers presented from the Ninth International Colloquium on Gasdynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Poitiers, France, July 1983." |
Companion vol. to the 9th colloquium's "Dynamics of shock waves, explosions, and detonations." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction to Modern Laminar Flame Theory""; ""Chapter I. Premixed Flames""; ""Effects of Chemical Equilibrium on the Structure and Extinction of Laminar Diffusion Flames""; ""Stretch Effects in Planar Premixed Hydrogen-Air Flames""; ""Slowly Varying Flames with Chain-Branching/Chain-Breaking Kinetics""; ""Effect of Dissociation on the Near-Stoichiometric Burning of Non-Dilute Mixtures""; ""The Feedback of a Flame Front on Turbulent Flows""; ""Flame Front Stability with General Intermolecular Interaction Potential"" |
""Stability Limits and Critical Size of Structures in Premixed Flames"" ""Non-steady Gasdynamic Effects in the Induction Domain Behind a Strong Shock Wave""; ""Structure of Premixed Laminar Methanol-Air Flames: Experimental and Computational Results""; ""Burning Velocities of Ethanol-Air and Ethanol-Water-Air Mixtures""; ""Computer Modelling Study of Acetylene-Oxygen Ignition and Flames Using a Truncated Reaction Mechanism""; ""Prediction of Laminar Flame Properties of Propane-Air Mixtures""; ""Homogeneity and Propagation of Autoignited Cool and Blue Flames"" |
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""Stability of Solid Propellant Combustion Subject to Non-planar Perturbations""" "Chapter II. Diffusion Flames""; ""Laminar Diffusion Flames with Cylindrical Symmetry, Arbitrary Values of Diffusion Coefficients and Inlet Velocities, and Chemical Reactions in the Approach Streams""; ""Transition and Transport in the Initial Region of a Turbulent Diffusion Flame""; ""Predicted Structure of Stretched and Unstretched Methane-Air Diffusion Flames""; ""An Experimental Study of Turbulent Jet Diffusion Flames""; ""Chapter III. Turbulent Combustion""; ""On Sound Sources in Turbulent Combustion"" |
""Comparisons of Experimental and Computed Length Scales and Velocities in Turbulent Combustion"" ""Flow Rate and Equivalence Ratio Influences on the Thermal Field of a Turbulent Cool Flame""; ""Turbulent Reacting Concentric Jets: Comparison Between pdf and Moment Calculations""; ""Chapter IV. Constant Volume Combustion""; ""Influence of Turbulent Motion on Spark Ignition""; ""Vibratory Combustion Triggered by a Small Cavity in the Wall of a Constant Volume Combustion Chamber""; ""Direct Measurement of the Head-on Flame Quenching Distance in Closed Chambers""; ""Chapter V. Spray Combustion"" |
""Timed Ignition of Explosives and Flammables from Desensitized Solutions"" ""Comparative Study of Droplet Heating and Vaporization at High Reynolds and Péclet Numbers""; ""Comparisons of Computed and Measured Dense Spray Jets""; ""A Study of the Motion of Vaporizing Droplets in a Turbulent Flow""; ""Simulations of Two-Dimensional Fuel Droplet Flows""; ""Induction Time Measurements for Ignition of Liquid Fuel Jets in Air at High Temperatures and Pressures""; ""Spray Characteristics of Simplex Swirl Atomizers""; ""Chapter VI. Non-equilibrium Flows""; ""Flows in Laval Nozzles with a High-Temperature Diatomic Gas"" |
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