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The Pandemic of Argumentation

This book addresses communicative aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the epidemic of misinformation from ...

The Pendulum

The pendulum is a universal topic in primary and secondary schools, but its full potential for learning about physics, the ...

The Philosophy of Mathematics Education

This survey provides a brief and selective overview of research in the philosophy of mathematics education. It asks what ...

The Professional Ethics Toolkit / Christopher Meyers

It's an engaging and accessible guide to the study of moral issues in professional life through the analysis of ethical ...

The Resistant Object of Architecture : A Lacanian Perspective / Petra Čeferin

Focuses on the question "what is architecture?," and responds to this question by developing the immanent structural logic ...

The Responsible University : Exploring the Nordic Context and Beyond

Explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. ...

The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century

The papers in this collection focus on patterns of change in natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, aiming to encourage ...

The Science of the Individual: Leibnizs Ontology of Individual Substance

In his well-known Discourse on Metaphysics, Leibniz puts individual substance at the basis of metaphysical building. In so ...

The Scientist as Philosopher

How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical ...

The Square Kilometre Array: An Engineering Perspective

This volume is an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the engineering of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a revolutionary ...

The Structure of Physics

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker‘s "Aufbau der Physik", first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong ...

The Taste for Ethics

This book marks a new departure in ethics. In our culture ethics has first and foremost been a question of ‘the good life’ ...

The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition : Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactions

the demise of the logical positivism programme. The answers given to these qu- tions have deepened the already existing gap ...

The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics

This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives—historical, philosophical, psychological, ...

The eyes of the skin : architecture and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa

It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant ...

Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

Sense perception is one of the classical themes in philosophy. It is traditionally considered a necessary preamble to many ...

Thinking about Life :The History and Philosophy of Biology and Other Sciences

Our previous book, About Life, concerned modern biology. We used our present-day understanding of cells to ‘define’ the ...

Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life

From time immemorial, concern with timing of life has been crucial for the regulation of human praxis as well as for the ...

Tough on Criminal Wealth

The conclusion of the book is that the ‘tough on criminal wealth’ philosophy is largely alien to the everyday practice ...

Trace Fossils

This definitive textbook by a renowned field observer and analyst of trace fossils concentrates on the most distinctive examples, ...

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