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This book is a philosophical exploration of the theoretical causes behind the collapse of classical cybernetics, as well as the lesson that this episode can provide to current emergent technologies.……続きを見る

What are genes? What do genes do? These seemingly simple questions are in fact challenging to answer accurately. As a result, there are widespread misunderstandings and over-simplistic answers, whic……続きを見る

(a5,151 páginas) - I Agir por meio de crenças é agir irracionalmente. Não se confunda, todavia, nem de longe, um estado de crença com um estado de fé. A fé, ao contrário da crença, é positiva: “É a ……続きを見る

The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what extent is the use of mathematical and computational m……続きを見る

Why absolute certainty is impossible in science In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answersーand often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Sp……続きを見る

This book explores the relationship between the content of chemistry education and the history and philosophy of science (HPS) framework that underlies such education. It discusses the need to prese……続きを見る

**“A house of wonders itself. . . . Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows” ーThe New York Times Book Review From the New York Times–bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Extra Lif……続きを見る

Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformational potential that these machines, in the form of,……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2003. Xenotransplantation - the transplantation of animal organs into humans - poses a fascinating moral dilemma. Should this ability to extend the lives of million……続きを見る

Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research. Does this science produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What sort of well-being? ……続きを見る

Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their work as searching for mechanisms. Despite this fact,……続きを見る

While philosophers have been interested in animals since ancient times, in the last few decades the subject of animal minds has emerged as a major topic in philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Phil……続きを見る

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully……続きを見る

This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpet……続きを見る

(A5, 228 PÁGINAS) - A obsolescência programada – baluarte da globalização e um dos principais fundamentos do mundo Neoliberal e Pós-moderno capitalista – trouxe para a sociedade planetária problemas……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. One in two men and one in three women will develop invasive cancer. Tumors have the power t……続きを見る

This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with the emergence of mechanistic philosophy, the new……続きを見る

This book supports the emerging field of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) for face and upper-limb transplants by providing a revised, ethically appropriate consent model which takes ……続きを見る

The “active image” refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of “actions” that images perform. This volume features essays that present a new approach to image theory. ……続きを見る

Many historians of insurance have commented on the disconnect between the rise of English life insurance companies in the early eighteenth century and the mathematics behind the sound pricing of lif……続きを見る

This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response. In doing so it explores how the mind 'makes' sound through experi……続きを見る

(a5, 114 páginas) “A vida sem o exercício do pensar é não somente pobreza de espírito, uma vez que espírito em filosofia significa ideia, mas também escravidão...". Sócrates dizia que "o ser que som……続きを見る

Es una obra espléndida en la que se reúnen diversos artículos y ensayos sobre Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), es un paseo por el país del filósofo, escritor y humanista del renacimiento, creador de……続きを見る

This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a geneticist by training, focuses on science, rather than history. He looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people with common biol……続きを見る

The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking. These technological developments, which include advances in networked informat……続きを見る

It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society. But……続きを見る

Philosophy, Science and Religion for Everyone brings together these great truth-seeking disciplines, and seeks to understand the ways in which they challenge and inform each other. Key topics and th……続きを見る

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from ph……続きを見る

In this beautifully written book, David E. Cooper uses a gentle walk through a tropical garden – the view of the fields and hills beyond it, the sound of birds, voices and flutes, the reflection of ……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics offers the reader an informed view of how the brain sciences are being used to approach, understand, and reinvigorate traditional philosophical questions, as we……続きを見る