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Download this eBook A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings
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A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings


Michael Ruse


Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and philosophy. Some people think that the world is an organism - and that humans, as its highest part, have a...

Publication date: 2021-05-20
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Engineering and Philosophy


Guru Madhavan , Zachary Pirtle , David Tomblin


?Engineers love to build “things” and have an innate sense of wanting to help society. However, these desires are often not connected or developed through reflections on the complexities of philosophy, biology, economics, politics, environment, and culture. To...

Publication date: 2021-05-14
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Download this eBook Biology, Religion, and Philosophy
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Biology, Religion, and Philosophy


Michael Peterson , Dennis Venema


The intersection of biology and religion has spawned exciting new areas of academic research that raise issues central to understanding our own humanity and the living world. In this comprehensive and accessible survey, Michael L. Peterson and Dennis R. Venema explain...

Publication date: 2021-04-08
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Download this eBook Interpreting Feyerabend
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Interpreting Feyerabend


Karim Bschir , Jamie Shaw


This collection of new essays interprets and critically evaluates the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, mimesis, voluntarism, pluralism, materialism, and the mind-body...

Publication date: 2021-03-18
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Interpreting Mach


John Preston


This volume presents new essays on the work and thought of physicist, psychologist, and philosopher Ernst Mach. Moving away from previous estimations of Mach as a pre-logical positivist, the essays reflect his rehabilitation as a thinker of direct relevance to debates...

Publication date: 2021-03-18
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Download this eBook Rational Choice Using Imprecise Probabilities and Utilities
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Rational Choice Using Imprecise Probabilities and Utilities


Paul Weirich


An agent often does not have precise probabilities or utilities to guide resolution of a decision problem. I advance a principle of rationality for making decisions in such cases. To begin, I represent the doxastic and conative state of an agent with a set of pairs of a...

Publication date: 2021-02-25
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Download this eBook Comparative Thinking in Biology
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Comparative Thinking in Biology


Adrian Currie


Biologists often study living systems in light of their having evolved, of their being the products of various processes of heredity, adaptation, ancestry, and so on. In their investigations, then, biologists think comparatively: they situate lineages into models of...

Publication date: 2021-02-18
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Big Data


Wolfgang Pietsch


Big Data and methods for analyzing large data sets such as machine learning have in recent times deeply transformed scientific practice in many fields. However, an epistemological study of these novel tools is still largely lacking. After a conceptual analysis of the...

Publication date: 2021-02-18
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Unity of Science


Tuomas E. Tahko


Unity of science was once a very popular idea among both philosophers and scientists. But it has fallen out of fashion, largely because of its association with reductionism and the challenge from multiple realisation. Pluralism and the disunity of science are the new...

Publication date: 2021-02-11
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Mathematics and Its Logics


Geoffrey Hellman


In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between different systems, and positing different frameworks serving different...

Publication date: 2021-02-04
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Model Organisms


Rachel A. Ankeny , Sabina Leonelli


This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the 'model organism' in contemporary biology. Thinking about model organisms enables us to examine how living organisms have been brought into the laboratory and used to gain a better understanding of...

Publication date: 2021-01-28
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Innovation and Certainty


Mark Wilson


Beginning in the nineteenth century, mathematics' traditional domains of 'number and figure' became vigorously displaced by altered settings in which former verities became discarded as no longer sacrosanct. And these innovative recastings appeared everywhere, not...

Publication date: 2021-01-07
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Download this eBook Gödel, Tarski and the Lure of Natural Language
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Gödel, Tarski and the Lure of Natural Language


Juliette Kennedy


Is mathematics 'entangled' with its various formalisations? Or are the central concepts of mathematics largely insensitive to formalisation, or 'formalism free'? What is the semantic point of view and how is it implemented in foundational practice? Does a given semantic...

Publication date: 2020-12-17
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Download this eBook The World is Triangular
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The World is Triangular


Horst Czichos


This book gives a short presentation of the triad philosophy–physics–technology against the background of the common origin in ancient times. This is the first English edition of this book, previously published in German. The emergence of the book has...

Publication date: 2020-12-14
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Download this eBook Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea?
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Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea?


Wolfgang Hofkirchner , Hans-Jörg Kreowski


This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of the implications of this popular idea.The volume is organized into four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and...

Publication date: 2020-12-12
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Download this eBook Mathematical Intuitionism
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Mathematical Intuitionism


Carl J. Posy


L. E. J. Brouwer, the founder of mathematical intuitionism, believed that mathematics and its objects must be humanly graspable. He initiated a program rebuilding modern mathematics according to that principle. This book introduces the reader to the mathematical core of...

Publication date: 2020-11-12
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Methodological Prospects for Scientific Research


Wenceslao J. Gonzalez


This book highlights the existence of a diversity of methods in science, in general, in groups of sciences (natural, social or the artificial), and in individual sciences.This methodological variety is open to a number of consequences, such as the...

Publication date: 2020-10-30
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Publisher: Springer
Collection: Synthese Library
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Download this eBook Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege on Progress and Fidelity
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Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege on Progress and Fidelity


Teri Merrick


This book examines the views of Hermann Helmholtz, Hermann Cohen and Gottlob Frege in reaction to the epistemic crises induced by rapid changes in 19th century scientific practice. Besides addressing longstanding interpretive puzzles of interest to Frege scholars, the...

Publication date: 2020-10-28
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Download this eBook Philosophy of Science for Biologists
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Philosophy of Science for Biologists


Kostas Kampourakis , Tobias Uller


Biologists rely on theories, apply models and construct explanations, but rarely reflect on their nature and structure. This book introduces key topics in philosophy of science to provide the required philosophical background for this kind of reflection, which is an...

Publication date: 2020-09-24
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Dutch Book Arguments


Richard Pettigrew


Our beliefs come in degrees. I'm 70% confident it will rain tomorrow, and 0.001% sure my lottery ticket will win. What's more, we think these degrees of belief should abide by certain principles if they are to be rational. For instance, you shouldn't believe that a...

Publication date: 2020-09-17
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