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 ...
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The Scientist as Philosopher
How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical ...
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The Structure of Physics
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker‘s "Aufbau der Physik", first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong ...
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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’ ...
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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 ...
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The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics
This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives—historical, philosophical, psychological, ...
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It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Tough on Criminal Wealth
The conclusion of the book is that the ‘tough on criminal wealth’ philosophy is largely alien to the everyday practice ...
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Trends in Business and Economic Ethics
A growing body of academic and business specialists are paying attention to ethical issues in business and economics, drawing ...
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Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
The book contains methodology, causation, and reduction, and include philosophy of logic and physics, philosophy of psychology ...
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Underdetermination : An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge
Underdetermination. An Essay on Evidence and the Limits of Natural Knowledge is a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific ...
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Understanding Nature : Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology
This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter ...
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Unfolding Social Constructionism
This book examines social constructionism as a metatheory of psychology. It does not consider constructionist accounts of ...
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Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education Indigenous Science, Deconstruction, and the Multicultural Science Education Debate
This book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs ...
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Vegetative Powers
The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...
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Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800
This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...
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Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics
This book contains groundbreaking contributions to the philosophical analysis of mathematical practice. Several philosophers ...
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Vite matematiche : Protagonisti del’ 900 da Hilbert a Wiles = Mathematical Lives: Twentieth-century protagonists from Hilbert to Wiles
Presenting famous mathematicians alongside others less known to the general public - from Hilbert to Gödel, from Turing ...
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