Adaptation and Autonomy: Adaptive Preferences in Enhancing and Ending Life [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Juha Räikkä, Jukka Varelius |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 174.2 |
Collana | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics |
Soggetto topico |
Ethics
Medical ethics Philosophy and science Theory of Medicine/Bioethics Philosophy of Science |
ISBN | 3-642-38376-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Adaptive Preferences, Autonomy, and Extended Lives -- Adaptation, Autonomy, and Authority -- “It Won’t Be as Bad as You Think:” Autonomy and Adaptation to Disability -- Autonomy and End of Life Decisions: A Paradox -- Gendered Adaptive Preferences, Autonomy, and End of Life Decisions -- Sour Clinical Trials: Autonomy and Adaptive Preferences in Experimental Medicine. |
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The Archaeology of Science : Studying the Creation of Useful Knowledge / / by Michael Brian Schiffer |
Autore | Schiffer Michael Brian |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 509 |
Collana | Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique |
Soggetto topico |
Archaeology
Anthropology Philosophy and science Philosophy of Science |
ISBN | 3-319-00077-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | PART I.- 1 Introduction.-2 Science: A Behavioral Perspective -- 3 The Varieties of Scientific Knowledge.-PART II -- 4 Experimental Archaeology -- 5 Ethnoarchaeology -- 6 Archaeometry -- PART III -- 7 The Artifacts of Modern and Early Modern Science -- 8 Thomas Edison’s Science -- 9 Colonization and Exploration -- 10 Scientific Expeditions to Antarctica.-11 The U.S. Nuclear Establishment.-12 Archaeology of the Space Age -- 13 Discovery Processes. |
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Arguing science : a dialogue on the future of science and spirit / / Rupert Sheldrake & Michael Shermer |
Autore | Sheldrake Rupert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Rhinebeck, New York : , : Monkfish Book Publishing Company, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (111 pages) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
Science - Philosophy Physics - Philosophy Philosophy of nature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-939681-58-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism [[electronic resource] ] : Logic and Epistemology in the British Isles (1570–1689) / / by Marco Sgarbi |
Autore | Sgarbi Marco |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 146.44094109032 |
Collana | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Philosophy and science Logic History of Philosophy Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
ISBN |
1-283-69811-0
94-007-4951-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- 2 Logic in the British Isles during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 3 Logic in the Universities of the British Isles -- 4 Zabarella’s Empiricism 5 Early Aristotelianism between Humanism and Ramism -- the British School 7 Continental Aristotelians in the British Isles -- 8 The Empiricism of the Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 9. The Reformers of Aristotelian Logic -- 10 Late Seventeenth-Century Aristotelianism -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography.-Index. |
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Sgarbi Marco
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The Art of Science : From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness / / edited by Rossella Lupacchini, Annarita Angelini |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina |
363.69
501 509.03 510 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Physics History Cultural heritage Philosophy and science Quantum physics Mathematics in Art and Architecture History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics History of Mathematical Sciences Cultural Heritage Philosophy of Science Quantum Physics |
ISBN | 3-319-02111-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | From Perspective Drawing to the Eighth Dimension -- Seeing Reality in Perspective: The “Art of Optics” and the “Science of Painting” -- The Role of Perspective in the Transformation of European Culture -- Visual Differential Geometry and Beltrami’s Hyperbolic Plane.- All Done by Mirrors: Symmetries, Quaternions, Spinors, and Clifford Algebras -- Artists & Gamblers on the Way to Quantum Physics -- Radices Sophisticae, Racines Imaginaires: The Origins of Complex Numbers in the Late Renaissance -- Random, Complex, and Quantum. |
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The Bad Faith in the Free Market : The Radical Promise of Existential Freedom / / by Peter Bloom |
Autore | Bloom Peter |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (195 pages) |
Disciplina | 330.122 |
Soggetto topico |
Schools of economics
Philosophy and science Economic history Macroeconomics Heterodox Economics Philosophy of Science History of Economic Thought/Methodology Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics |
ISBN | 3-319-76502-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: The Bad Faith in the Free Market: The Need for Existential Freedom -- Chapter 2: Breaking Free from the Free Market: The Existential Gap of Freedom -- Chapter 3: Capitalism’s Existential Crisis: Producing Existential Freedom -- Chapter 4: The Facticities of Neoliberalism: Demanding Existential Freedom -- Chapter 5: Capitalist Being and Nothingness: Enjoying Existential Freedom -- Chapter 6: Subjected to the Free Market: The Subject of Existential Freedom -- Chapter 7: Deconstructing the Free Market: The Spectre of Existential Freedom -- Chapter 8: Reinvesting in Good Faith: The Radical Promise of Existential Freedom. |
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Bas van Fraassen’s Approach to Representation and Models in Science / / edited by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina |
005.75
501 |
Collana | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
Computers Epistemology Philosophy of Science Models and Principles |
ISBN | 94-007-7838-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue; Wenceslao J. Gonzalez -- Part 1. Philosophical Coordinates -- Chapter 1. “On Representation and Models in Bas van Fraassen’s Approach”; Wenceslao J. Gonzalez -- Chapter 2. “Scientific Activity as an Interpretative Practice. Empiricism, Constructivism and Pragmatism”; Inmaculada Perdomo -- Chapter 3. “Models and Phenomena: Bas van Fraassen’s Empiricist Structuralism”; Iranzo, Valeriano -- Part 2. Models and Representations -- Chapter 4. “The Criterion of Empirical Grounding in the Sciences”; Bas van Fraassen -- Chapter 5. “On Representing Evidence”; Maria Carla Galavotti -- Part 3. Models and Reality -- Chapter 6. “The View from Within and the View from Above : Looking at van Fraassen’s Perrin”; Stathis Psillos -- Chapter 7. “Models and Phenomena: Bas van Fraassen’s Empiricist Structuralism”; Valeriano Iranzo -- Chapter 8. “Scientific Models and Abduction: The Role of Non Classical Logics”; Ángel Nepomuceno -- Part 4. Scientific Explanation and Epistemic Values Judgments -- Chapter 9. “Explanation as a Pragmatic Virtue: Bas van Fraassen’s Model”; Margarita Santana -- Chapter 10. “Values, Choices, and Epistemic Stances”, Bas van Fraassen. |
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Bayesians versus frequentists [[electronic resource] ] : a philosophical debate on statistical reasoning / / by Jordi Vallverdú |
Autore | Vallverdú Jordi |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (118 p.) |
Disciplina | 100 |
Collana | SpringerBriefs in Statistics |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
Mathematics History Statistics Philosophy of Science History of Mathematical Sciences History of Science Statistical Theory and Methods |
ISBN | 3-662-48638-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Some Questions to Begin with -- Ancient Statistics History in a Nutshell -- The Bayesian Approach and its Evolution until the Beginning of 20th Century -- A Conceptual Reply to Reverend Bayes: the Frequentist Approach -- The Co-evolution, Battles and Fights of Both Paradigms -- The Birth of Multicausality as the Death of Causality and Their Statistical Corollaries.- Natural vs. Artificial Minds and the Supercomputing Era -- And the Winner is... -- References. |
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The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nikolay Milkov, Volker Peckhaus |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.22 |
Collana | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
Philosophy of Science |
ISBN |
1-299-40805-2
94-007-5485-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; Milkov, Peckhaus.- Part I. Introductory Chapters -- Part II. Historical-Theoretical Context -- Part III. Hans Reichenbach -- Part IV. Walter Dubislav -- Part V. Kurt Grelling and Alexander Herzberg -- Part VI. Carl Hempel und Paul Oppenheim. |
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Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes : Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy / / edited by Edmundo Balsemão Pires, Joaquim Braga |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.5 |
Collana | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy and science
History Philosophy of Science History of Science |
ISBN | 3-319-19381-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: “Men Become Sociable by Living Together in Society”: Re-assessing Mandeville’s Social Theory; Malcolm Jack -- Chapter 2: Bernard de Mandeville and the Shaping of Conjectural History; Frank Palmeri -- Chapter 3: Mandeville and the Eighteenth-Century Discussions about Luxury; Edmundo Balsemão Pires -- Chapter 4: Sex, Money, and Feelings: Mandeville’s Dialogue with Sentimental Drama; Laura J. Rosenthal -- Chapter 5: Humorism a Posteriori: Fables and Dialogues as a Method in Mandeville’s Thought; Alessandro Chiessi -- Chapter 6: Mandeville, Pope, and Apocalypse; Peter Knox-Shaw -- Chapter 7: The Fable of the Bees: proles sine matre? Béatrice Guion -- Chapter 8: Mandeville as a Skeptical and Medical Philosopher; Rui Bertrand Romão -- Chapter 9: Is Adam Smith Heir of Bernard Mandeville? Işıl Çeşmeli -- Chapter 10: Mandeville on Pride and Animal Nature; John J. Callanan -- Chapter 11: “Remarks upon that wonderful chapter”: The Controversy on Luxury between Mandeville and Dennis; Matteo Revolti -- Chapter 12: Mandeville and the Therapeutics of Melancholic Passions; Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho -- Chapter 13: Mandeville’s Letter to Dion (1732) as an Answer to Berkeley’s Alciphron (1732); Mikko Tolonen -- Chapter 14: Mandeville and the Markets: An Economic Assessment; Rogério Arthmar -- Chapter 15: Courage and Chastity in a Commercial Society: Mandeville's Point on Male and Female Honour; Andrea Branchi -- Chapter 16: Mandeville and Smith on the Problem of Moral Order; Luís Oliveira -- Chapter 17: Atheism, Religion and Society in Mandeville's Thought; Mauro Simonazzi -- Chapter 18: Simulation and Dissimulation: Mandeville's Satirical View of Commercial Society; Joaquim Braga. |
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