Electronic Books

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A Comprehensible Universe : The Interplay of Science and Theology

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore ...

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A Logical Approach to Philosophy

The papers in this collection are united by an approach to philosophy. They illustrate the manifold contributions that logic ...

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Abductive Reasoning

Abductive Reasoning: Logical Investigations into Discovery and Explanation is a much awaited original contribution to the ...

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Altering Nature : Volume One: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates

Volume One, Concepts of 'Nature' and 'The Natural' in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that ...

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Altering Nature :Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy

The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood ...

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Animal Welfare : Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications

The thesis of this book is that members of what I shall call the “animal welfare science community,”3 which includes ...

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Cambridge and Vienna

The Institute Vienna Circle held a conference in 2003, Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle, to commemorate ...

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Cartographies of the Mind

The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed ...

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Causation, Coherence and Concepts : A Collection of Essays

the papers cover epistemology, general philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The section ...

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Clashes of Knowledge : Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion

"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...

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Classifying Madness

Classifying Madness examines the conceptual foundations of the D.S.M., the main classification of mental disorders used by ...

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Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ...

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Critical Questions in STEM Education

This volume is divided into three sections: the first one describes the nature of the component disciplines of STEM. The ...

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Data Journeys in the Sciences

This groundbreaking, book analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases ...

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Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918–1935

This volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf ...

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Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics

offers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics. The author contends that an integrated ...

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Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature:

This book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations, and its findings offer a completely ...

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Establishing Medical Reality

This volume approaches the philosophy of medicine from the broad naturalist perspective that holds that philosophy must be ...

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Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences

This book examines the kinds of life-science experiments that give rise to the dual-use dilemma and provides philosophical ...

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Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? How Scientific Evidence Shapes Our Understanding And Use Of Medicine

This book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, ...

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