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Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

This book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History

An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History recounts the evolution of Operations Research (OR) as a ...

An Introduction to Architectural Conservation : Philosophy, Legislation and Practice / Nick Lee Evans

An Introduction to Architectural Conservation introduces non-specialist architects to the principles behind legislation concerning ...

An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI

This book provides an introduction into the ethics of robots and artificial intelligence. The book was written with university ...

Analogy in Indian and Western Philosophical Thought

This book was assembled from numerous excerpts, notes, and fragments according to his initial plans. Zilberman’s legacy ...

Ancient Philosophy of the Self

This volume explores the various ways in which selfhood was approached and conceptualised in antiquity. They also describe ...

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 ...

Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene

This book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets ...

Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...

Apprehension and Argument

This book offers the first synoptic study of how the primary elements in knowledge structures were analysed in antiquity ...

Approaches to Metaphysics

Today, when systematic philosophy - and reason itself - are challenged both outside of and within philosophy, is it still ...

Arguing on the Toulmin Model

In The Uses of Argument Stephen Toulmin proposed a new model for the layout of arguments, with six components: claim, data, ...

Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (vol. # 3366)

The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research lying across philosophy, communication studies, ...

Arithmetical Investigations : Representation Theory, Orthogonal Polynomials, and Quantum Interpolations

In this volume the author further develops his philosophy of quantum interpolation between the real numbers and the p-adic ...

Artificial General Intelligence

This book focused on engineering general intelligence – autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence.Each ...

Artificial General Intelligence

This book focused on engineering general intelligence – autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence.Each ...

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies

This book proposes a novel approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics. AI offers many advantages: better and faster ...

Artificial Market Experiments with the U-Mart System

Economics went through great development in the 20th century. This development, which was based mainly on mathematical methods, ...

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