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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unfolding Social Constructionism

This book examines social constructionism as a metatheory of psychology. It does not consider constructionist accounts of ...

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 ...

Vegetative Powers

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...

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 ...

Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics

This book contains groundbreaking contributions to the philosophical analysis of mathematical practice. Several philosophers ...

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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