wired - Philosophy & Social Aspects 6

With his revolutionary work The Origin of Species Charles Darwin overthrew contemporary beliefs about Divine Providence and the beginnings of life on earth. Written for the general public of the 185……続きを見る

There is more information in the world than ever before - but who's in control? At the centre sits the Establishment: governments, corporations and powerful individuals who have more knowledge about……続きを見る

A spell-binding quest for the one algorithm capable of deriving all knowledge from data, including a cure for cancer Society is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search engines to onl……続きを見る

**'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan 'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey Sachs The legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most phi……続きを見る

This Open Access biography chronicles the life and achievements of the Norwegian engineer and physicist Rolf Widerøe. Readers who meet him in the pages of this book will wonder why he isn't better k……続きを見る

Eine Mentalgeschichte des Menschen orientiert sich an menschlichem Verhalten und an einem in zwei Millionen Jahren Evolution entstandenen doppelten Erbeaus "emotionaler- und kognitiver Intelligenz".……続きを見る

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The word meaning is used in two different ways. The first is to imply intention, which is the heart of the ……続きを見る

William James (1842–1910), einer der Begründer des amerikanischen Pragmatismus, behandelt in seinem berühmten und einflussreichen Aufsatz zwei miteinander verbundene Fragen: Welche moralische Haltun……続きを見る

This book offers a new and externalist perspective in ignorance studies. Agnotology, the epistemology of ignorance, and, more generally, ignorance studies have grown to cover and explore different p……続きを見る

The Economics of Scientific Misconduct explores episodes of misconduct in the natural and biomedical sciences and replication failure in economics and psychology over the past half-century. Here sci……続きを見る

The book’s core argument is that an artificial intelligence that could equal or exceed human intelligenceーsometimes called artificial general intelligence (AGI)ーis for mathematical reasons impossi……続きを見る

Metastatic cancer and costly precision medicines generate extremely complex problems of health care justice. Targeted cancer therapies yield only very marginal gains in life expectancy for most pati……続きを見る

Los temas y problemas de salud pública demandan, dada la complejidad creciente del mundo, nuevos métodos y aproximaciones. Este libro ofrece una aproximación a la relación entre la salud pública y l……続きを見る

This book is the latest publication of the international research group «Theory, Methodology, and Structure of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM),» which has been working since 2008. It outlines a m……続きを見る

What impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In this groundbreaking study, Joss Hands explores the n……続きを見る

In this interdisciplinary work, philosophers from different specialisms connect with the notion of the wild today and interrogate how it is mediated through the culture of the Anthropocene. They mak……続きを見る

Selbst- und Fremdbeschreibungen der Soziologie sind stark von der symbolischen Differenzierung entlang kultureller Grenzen geprägt. Als Wissenskultur zwischen den »harten« Natur- und den »weichen« G……続きを見る

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK “No oneーconservative or liberalーshould be comfortable with a few Silicon Valley oligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itse……続きを見る

Lehrkräfte setzen Hunde im Unterricht ein, um die soziale Inklusion zu fördern. Doch welchen Einfluss hat tiergestützte Pädagogik auf die sozialen Strukturen in Schulklassen? Wie lassen sich diese E……続きを見る

Der Autor entwickelt eine Art Quantenstruktur der Schöpfung und legt dies durch viele Fakten aus Natur, Geschichte und Wissenschaft dar. Die Schöpfung wird als Schichtenstruktur beschrieben. Darin w……続きを見る

Im gesellschaftlichen Kontext Württembergs zeichnet das vorliegende Buch exemplarisch für den deutschsprachigen Raum die Entstehung und organisatorische Entfaltung des Tierschutzes im langen 19. Jah……続きを見る

Wieso braucht man ein Schlauchboot, um Vögel aufzunehmen? Warum muss ein Lautsprecher wie eine Nachtigall klingen? Wie kann man Fledermaus-Laute gleichzeitig sehen und hören? Im Feld werden die Ding……続きを見る

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their u……続きを見る

Truths, facts and opinions on the climate issue are often met with psychological or social defense, both publicly and privately. Based on selected psychological and philosophical theories as well as……続きを見る

This open access book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and p……続きを見る

Książka podzielona jest na trzy części. W pierwszej części (Intuicje) autorka zajmuje się najistotniejszymi hipotezami dotyczącymi iluzorycznej rzeczywistości postrzegalnego świata. Wielcy myśliciel……続きを見る

This book presents an important reflection on the concept and limits of the Fundamental Right to Health as opposed to a supposed “Right to Hope” in the context of the treatment of patients with adva……続きを見る

This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and……続きを見る

In Genomics with Care Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, st……続きを見る

The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics, Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics,……続きを見る