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Nature, Value, Duty

"Nature Value and Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III" is a collection of contemporary writings on the work of ...

Natures Principles

One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed by ...

Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion : Culture, Economy, and Colonial Legacies

This book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global ...

New Computational Paradigms : Changing Conceptions of What is Computable

This book examines new developments in the theory and practice of computation from a mathematical perspective, with topics ...

No Truth Without Beauty : God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights

In this comprehensive book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. ...

Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action

This volume seeks to further the use of formal methods in clarifying one of the central problems of philosophy: that of our ...

Obsessed by a Dream The Physicist Rolf Widerøe – a Giant in the History of Accelerators

This biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet ...

On color / David Scott Kastan, Stephen Farthing

Investigates color from numerous perspectives: literary, historical, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, art historical, ...

On the path to AI Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the machine learning age

This book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ...

Open Science: the Very Idea

The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and ...

Open Skies The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Its Impact on US Radio Astronomy

This book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations ...

Oppositional Concepts in Computational Intelligence

this volume is a fist attempt to bring together researchers who are inquiring into the complementary nature of systems and ...

Optics in Our Time

This volume covers five aspects related to light. The first presents two articles, one on the history of the nature of light, ...

Otto Neuraths Economics in Context

The contributions to this sparkling new book conclude that Neurath touched on many of the most critical problems of economic ...

P.Y. Galperin's Development of Human Mental Activity Lectures in Educational Psychology

This book introduces the legacy of Piotr Galperin to a wider audience of researchers, educators and psychologists. Previous ...

Panofsky on Physics, Politics and Peace : Pief Remembers

"This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional ...

Parsing the Turing Test : Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer

Parsing the Turing Test is a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search ...

Particle Metaphysics : A Critical Account of Subatomic Reality

The empirical successes of atomic, nuclear, and particle physics have not reduced -- and may never fully resolve -- the philosophical ...

Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician

This book examines the many contributions of Paul Lorenzen, an outstanding philosopher from the latter half of the 20th ...

Perceptions of the Independence of Judges in Europe Congruence of Society and Judiciary

This book is about the perception of the independence of the judiciary in Europe. Do citizens and judges see its independence ...

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