The blind spot [[electronic resource] ] : science and the crisis of uncertainty / / William Byers |
Autore | Byers William |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 500 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects
Uncertainty (Information theory) |
Soggetto non controllato |
Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)
Algorithm Ambiguity Analogy Approximation Axiom Axiomatic system Basic research Big O notation Calculation Certainty Chaos theory Circumference Computation Concept Conjecture Consciousness Consistency Contingency (philosophy) Continuous function Continuum hypothesis Contradiction Counting David Bohm Dynamism (metaphysics) Emergence Euclidean geometry Explanation Feeling Fermat's Last Theorem Geometry Gestalt psychology Gregory Chaitin Gödel's incompleteness theorems Human behavior Human intelligence Hypothesis Ideology Inference Integer Irrational number Learning Logic Logical reasoning Mathematician Mathematics Measurement Methodology Modernity Molecule Natural number Nature Paradigm shift Paradox Participant Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of science Philosophy Platonism Prediction Principle Probability Pythagoreanism Qualitative property Quantification (science) Quantity Quantum mechanics Randomness Rational number Rationality Real number Reality Reason Reductionism Relationship between religion and science Result Science Scientific method Scientific progress Scientific theory Scientist Self-reference Set theory Special case Subatomic particle Subjectivity Suggestion Technology The Philosopher Theorem Theoretical physics Theory of everything Theory Thomas Kuhn Thought Uncertainty Universality (philosophy) Writing |
ISBN |
1-283-00150-0
9786613001504 1-4008-3815-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Revelation of Uncertainty -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. The Blind Spot Revealed -- 3. Certainty or Wonder? -- 4. A World in Crisis! -- 5. Ambiguity -- 6. Self-Reference: The Human Element in Science -- 7. The Mystery of Number -- 8. Science as the Ambiguous Search for Unity -- 9. The Still Point -- 10. Conclusion: Living in a World of Uncertainty -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781106903321 |
Byers William | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A brief welcome to the universe : a pocket-sized tour / / Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott |
Autore | Tyson Neil deGrasse |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 523.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Astrophysics
Cosmology |
Soggetto non controllato |
Accelerating expansion of the universe
Accretion (astrophysics) Alpha particle Andromeda Galaxy Angular diameter Astrobiology Astrophysics Atomic nucleus Barred spiral galaxy Big Bang Calculation Chemical element Chronology of the universe Circumference Copernican principle Cosmic Background Explorer Cosmic microwave background Cosmic string Cosmogony Dark energy De Sitter space Deuterium Dimension Earth Einstein field equations Elementary particle Elliptic orbit Energy density Event horizon Exoplanet Extraterrestrial life Galactic Center Galactic year Galaxy cluster Googol Gravitational wave Gravity Hawking radiation Hubble Space Telescope Hubble's law Inflation (cosmology) Interstellar medium Irregular galaxy Jim Peebles Jupiter Kepler (spacecraft) Kuiper belt Light-year Longevity Luminosity Main sequence Measurement Metric expansion of space Milky Way Molecule Neutron star Neutron Newton's law of universal gravitation Nitrogen Nuclear fusion Nuclear reaction Observable universe Orion Nebula Photon Physicist Planck (spacecraft) Planetary habitability Planetary nebula Positron Prediction Pressure Quantity Quantum tunnelling Quasar Real Humans Red giant Result Satellite galaxy Saturn Shape of the universe Solar System Solar mass Spacecraft Spiral galaxy Star Supernova Temperature The Astrophysical Journal The Pluto Files Thermal radiation Universe Today Universe Uranus Vacuum energy Vacuum state Wavelength Weakly interacting massive particles Welcome to the Universe White dwarf Year |
ISBN | 0-691-22361-0 |
Classificazione | SCI005000SCI055000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A Note to the Reader -- 1 Size and Scale of the Universe -- 2 Pluto's Place in the Solar System -- 3 The Lives and Deaths of Stars -- 4 The Search for Life in the Galaxy -- 5 Our Milky Way and Its Supermassive Black Hole -- 6 Galaxies, the Expanding Universe, and the Big Bang -- 7 Inflation and the Multiverse -- 8 Our Future in the Universe -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554222803321 |
Tyson Neil deGrasse | ||
Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A city is not a computer : other urban intelligences / / Shannon Mattern |
Autore | Mattern Shannon Christine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 307.1216 |
Collana | Places books |
Soggetto topico |
Urban renewal
Sociology, Urban Smart cities City planning |
Soggetto non controllato |
Accessibility
Advertising American Forests Archivist Bloomberg Terminal CARTO Career Civic engagement Climate change Collaboration Colonialism CompStat Computation Computer scientist Consideration Conspiracy theory Control engineering Control room Copyright Critical practice Cultural heritage Data set Database Decision tree Decision-making Design tool Designer Digital humanities Ecosystem Emerging technologies Entrepreneurship Environmental justice Epistemology Eric Klinenberg Funding Generative Design Geographer Governance Hardware store Household Ideology Illustration Information literacy Information management Information science Infrastructure Institution Knowledge economy Laundry Librarian Librarians Library Literature Machine learning Measurement Mierle Laderman Ukeles Movement for Black Lives Obsolescence Operating system Operationalization Oslo School of Architecture and Design Park Pedagogy Philosopher Police Politics Pollution Princeton University Press Processing (programming language) Public Knowledge Public infrastructure Public library Publishing Push-button Racism Real estate development Reproductive labor Restorative justice Scaffolding Sidewalk Labs Smart city Smartphone Supply chain Tax Technology Telecommunication The Various Tree planting Unemployment University of California, Berkeley University of Toronto University of Washington Urban ecology Urban history Urban planning Urbanism Washington University in St. Louis Wi-Fi Year |
ISBN | 0-691-22675-X |
Classificazione | RB 10627 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Cities, Trees & -- Algorithms -- 1. City Console -- 2. A City Is Not a Computer -- 3. Public Knowledge -- 4. Maintenance Codes -- Conclusion Platforms, Grafts & -- Arboreal Intelligence -- Notes -- Index -- Photo Credits. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554233203321 |
Mattern Shannon Christine | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Collected Works of C.G. Jung . Volume 2 Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 2 ; Experimental Researches / / C. G. Jung; Gerhard Adler |
Autore | Jung Carl G. |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (662 p.) |
Disciplina |
150/.19/5408 s
155.2/8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HullR. F.C |
Collana | Collected Works of C.G. Jung |
Soggetto topico |
Association of ideas
Psychophysics Psychoanalysis |
Soggetto non controllato |
Adjective
Alcoholism Amplitude Analogy Analytical psychology Anxiety Assonance Bibliography Calculation Catatonia Causality Chronograph Clark University Complex (psychology) Computation Consciousness Consideration Criminal psychology Culprit Dementia praecox Dementia Disease Distraction Electrode Embarrassment Epilepsy Eugen Bleuler Exhaustion Experiment Experimental psychology Explanation Feeling Forgetting Galvanometer Hallucination Hans Gross Holograph Hypnosis Hysteria Idiot Imbecile Implicit-association test Indication (medicine) Intellectual disability Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious Journal of Abnormal Psychology Laughter Lecture Length Masturbation Measurement Mental disorder Neurosis Newspaper Nickname Noun Observation Obstacle Paralysis Percentage Perseveration Phenomenon Phrase Physician Physiological psychology Pity Pleonasm Prevalence Probability Proportion (architecture) Psychiatrist Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Psychological testing Psychologist Psychology Psychopathology Publication Quantity Reminiscence Result Sexual intercourse Standard German Stimulation Stupidity Stupor Suffering Suggestion Symbols of Transformation Symptom The Erotic The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Theft Thought Transference Value judgment Verb Wilhelm Wundt Word Association Writing |
ISBN |
0-691-01840-5
1-4008-5091-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. STUDIES IN WORD ASSOCIATION -- 1. The Associations of Normal Subjects / Jung, C. G. / Riklin, Franz -- 2. An Analysis of the Associations of an Epileptic -- 3. The Reaction-time Ratio in the Association Experiment -- 4. Experimental Observations on the Faculty of Memory -- 5. Psychoanalysis and Association Experiments -- 6. The Psychological Diagnosis of Evidence -- 7. Association, Dream, and Hysterical Symptom -- 8. The Psychopathological Significance of the Association Experiment -- 9. Disturbances of Reproduction in the Association Experiment -- 10. The Association Method -- 11. The Family Constellation -- II. PSYCHOPHYSICAL RESEARCHES -- 1. On the Psychophysical Relations of the Association Experiment -- 2. Psychophysical Investigations with the Galvanometer and Pneumograph in Normal and Insane Individuals / Peterson, Frederick / Jung, C. G. -- 3. Further Investigations on the Galvanic Phenomenon and Respiration in Normal and Insane Individuals / Ricksher, Charles / Jung, C. G. -- APPENDIX -- 1. Statistical Details Of Enlistment -- 2. New Aspects Of Criminal Psychology -- 3. The Psychological Methods of Investigation Used in the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Zurich -- 4. On The Doctrine Of Complexes -- 5. On the Psychological Diagnosis of Evidence -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790980503321 |
Jung Carl G. | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Collected Works of C.G. Jung . Volume 2 Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 2 ; Experimental Researches / / C. G. Jung; Gerhard Adler |
Autore | Jung Carl G. |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (662 p.) |
Disciplina |
150/.19/5408 s
155.2/8 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HullR. F.C |
Collana | Collected Works of C.G. Jung |
Soggetto topico |
Association of ideas
Psychophysics Psychoanalysis |
Soggetto non controllato |
Adjective
Alcoholism Amplitude Analogy Analytical psychology Anxiety Assonance Bibliography Calculation Catatonia Causality Chronograph Clark University Complex (psychology) Computation Consciousness Consideration Criminal psychology Culprit Dementia praecox Dementia Disease Distraction Electrode Embarrassment Epilepsy Eugen Bleuler Exhaustion Experiment Experimental psychology Explanation Feeling Forgetting Galvanometer Hallucination Hans Gross Holograph Hypnosis Hysteria Idiot Imbecile Implicit-association test Indication (medicine) Intellectual disability Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious Journal of Abnormal Psychology Laughter Lecture Length Masturbation Measurement Mental disorder Neurosis Newspaper Nickname Noun Observation Obstacle Paralysis Percentage Perseveration Phenomenon Phrase Physician Physiological psychology Pity Pleonasm Prevalence Probability Proportion (architecture) Psychiatrist Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Psychological testing Psychologist Psychology Psychopathology Publication Quantity Reminiscence Result Sexual intercourse Standard German Stimulation Stupidity Stupor Suffering Suggestion Symbols of Transformation Symptom The Erotic The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Theft Thought Transference Value judgment Verb Wilhelm Wundt Word Association Writing |
ISBN |
0-691-01840-5
1-4008-5091-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. STUDIES IN WORD ASSOCIATION -- 1. The Associations of Normal Subjects / Jung, C. G. / Riklin, Franz -- 2. An Analysis of the Associations of an Epileptic -- 3. The Reaction-time Ratio in the Association Experiment -- 4. Experimental Observations on the Faculty of Memory -- 5. Psychoanalysis and Association Experiments -- 6. The Psychological Diagnosis of Evidence -- 7. Association, Dream, and Hysterical Symptom -- 8. The Psychopathological Significance of the Association Experiment -- 9. Disturbances of Reproduction in the Association Experiment -- 10. The Association Method -- 11. The Family Constellation -- II. PSYCHOPHYSICAL RESEARCHES -- 1. On the Psychophysical Relations of the Association Experiment -- 2. Psychophysical Investigations with the Galvanometer and Pneumograph in Normal and Insane Individuals / Peterson, Frederick / Jung, C. G. -- 3. Further Investigations on the Galvanic Phenomenon and Respiration in Normal and Insane Individuals / Ricksher, Charles / Jung, C. G. -- APPENDIX -- 1. Statistical Details Of Enlistment -- 2. New Aspects Of Criminal Psychology -- 3. The Psychological Methods of Investigation Used in the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Zurich -- 4. On The Doctrine Of Complexes -- 5. On the Psychological Diagnosis of Evidence -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824528603321 |
Jung Carl G. | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Datafizierung (in) der Bildung : Kritische Perspektiven auf digitale Vermessung in pädagogischen Kontexten |
Autore | Schiefner-Rohs Mandy |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld : , : transcript, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 pages) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HofhuesSandra
BreiterAndreas |
Collana | Digitale Gesellschaft |
Soggetto topico | EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions |
Soggetto non controllato |
Computer Sciences
Datafication Digital Media Education Educational Research Learning Measurement Media Education Optimization Pedagogy School Subject |
ISBN | 3-8394-6582-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910805687503321 |
Schiefner-Rohs Mandy | ||
Bielefeld : , : transcript, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Datafizierung (in) der Bildung : Kritische Perspektiven auf digitale Vermessung in pädagogischen Kontexten |
Autore | Schiefner-Rohs Mandy |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld : , : transcript, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (393 pages) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HofhuesSandra
BreiterAndreas |
Collana | Digitale Gesellschaft |
Soggetto topico | EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions |
Soggetto non controllato |
Computer Sciences
Datafication Digital Media Education Educational Research Learning Measurement Media Education Optimization Pedagogy School Subject |
ISBN | 3-8394-6582-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996571848403316 |
Schiefner-Rohs Mandy | ||
Bielefeld : , : transcript, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Empirical modeling and data analysis for engineers and applied scientists / Scott A. Pardo ; with contributions by Yehudah A. Pardo |
Autore | Pardo, Scott A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Cham], : Springer, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | XV, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Soggetto topico |
68-XX - Computer science [MSC 2020]
62-XX - Statistics [MSC 2020] 62P30 - Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts [MSC 2020] 62P35 - Applications of statistics to physics [MSC 2020] |
Soggetto non controllato |
Analysis
Applications Applied scientist Bayes Engineering Experimental design Measurement Methods Modeling Models Operations Research Probability Regression Reliability Six Sigma Statistics Taguchi Validation |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Titolo uniforme | |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0114673 |
Pardo, Scott A. | ||
[Cham], : Springer, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Empirical modeling and data analysis for engineers and applied scientists / Scott A. Pardo ; with contributions by Yehudah A. Pardo |
Autore | Pardo, Scott A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Cham], : Springer, 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | XV, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Soggetto topico |
62-XX - Statistics [MSC 2020]
62P30 - Applications of statistics in engineering and industry; control charts [MSC 2020] 62P35 - Applications of statistics to physics [MSC 2020] 68-XX - Computer science [MSC 2020] |
Soggetto non controllato |
Analysis
Applications Applied scientist Bayes Engineering Experimental design Measurement Methods Modeling Models Operations Research Probability Regression Reliability Six Sigma Statistics Taguchi Validation |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Titolo uniforme | |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN00114673 |
Pardo, Scott A. | ||
[Cham], : Springer, 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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Environments of intelligence : from natural information to artificial interaction / / Hajo Greif |
Autore | Greif Hajo <1968-, > |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : digital files(s) |
Disciplina | 153 |
Collana | History and philosophy of technoscience |
Soggetto topico |
Cognition
Nature and nurture Humanities Philosophy of mind Philosophy of science Impact of science & technology on society Computing & information technology |
Soggetto non controllato |
Alfred Nordmann
History of Science History of Technology History since 1800 Manipulation Measurement Modern History Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Technology Rob Langham Scientific Ethics Visualisation |
ISBN |
1-315-40809-0
1-315-40810-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Preliminaries: ants and robots, parlour games and steam drills -- part I. Informational environments -- chapter 2. Resurrecting Dretskean information -- chapter 3. Varieties of perception -- chapter 4. The domains of natural information -- chapter 5. Making an environment -- chapter 6. What is an informational environment? -- part II. Environments of intelligence -- chapter 7. The extension of the extended mind -- chapter 8. The nature of cognitive artefacts -- chapter 9. The intelligence of environments -- chapter 10. Afterthoughts on conceptual analysis and human nature. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765868503321 |
Greif Hajo <1968-, > | ||
Taylor & Francis, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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