1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164752203321

Titolo

Symposium on Masonry Testing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : American Society for Testing & Materials, 1963

ISBN

0-8031-5676-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 142 pages)

Disciplina

620.13

Soggetti

Masonry - Testing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953686003321

Autore

Sim Stuart

Titolo

Empires of belief : why we need more scepticism and doubt in the twenty-first century / / Stuart Sim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-280-50163-4

9786610501632

0-7486-2694-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

121.2

Soggetti

Belief and doubt

Skepticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Empires of Belief, Campaigns for Scepticism; 1 Scepticism: A Brief Philosophical History; 2



Enlightenment Scepticism: A Campaign Against Unnecessary Hypotheses; 3 Super-Scepticism: The Postmodern World; 4 Science and Technology as Belief Systems; 5 Towards a Sceptical Politics; 6 Reasonable Doubt?; Conclusion: The Sceptic Fights Back; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Challenges various forms of fundamentalism and unexamined belief systems from a philosophical and sceptical viewpoint. Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? This book outlines the history of scepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910873030303321

Titolo

New century, new trends : proceedings of the 2002 IEEE 7th Conference on Human Factors and Power Plants : September 15 n ̃19, 2002, Scottsdale, Arizona

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE, 2002

Disciplina

621.48/3

Soggetti

Nuclear engineering - Human factors

Nuclear power plants - Human factors - Control rooms

Nuclear power plants

Human engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Nuclear Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph