著者:Marc J. de Vries
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年06月16日
This book provides an introduction to the philosophy of technology. It offers a survey of the current state-of-affairs in the philosophy of technology, and discusses its relevance for teaching about……続きを見る
Information and communication technology occupies a central place in the modern world, with society becoming increasingly dependent on it every day. It is therefore unsurprising that it has become a……続きを見る
著者:Alan Roulstone
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2016年06月11日
This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technol……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年06月23日
This volume features 16 essays on the philosophy of technology that discuss its identity, its position in philosophy in general, and the role of empirical studies in philosophical analyses of engine……続きを見る
著者:Luke Dormehl
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2017年03月07日
A fascinating look at Artificial Intelligence, from its humble Cold War beginnings to the dazzling future that is just around the corner.
When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our min……続きを見る
著者:Kevin McCain
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年06月25日
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the epistemology of science. It not only introduces readers to the general epistemological discussion of the nature of knowledge, but ……続きを見る
Si une bonne partie du Canada conserve encore les traditions et les mœurs du dernier siècle, c’est grâce aux Laurentides. La neige y est bien, il est vrai, pour quelque chose, la neige qui enveloppe……続きを見る
"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." ーNature
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists have wondered how the human mind developed its u……続きを見る
著者:D. M. Armstrong
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年06月28日
First published in 1985, D. M. Armstrong's original work on what laws of nature are has continued to be influential in the areas of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Presenting a definitive att……続きを見る
John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century physics, famous for his work on the fundamental aspects of the century's most important theory, quantum mecha……続きを見る
The Positive School of Criminology by the Italian criminologist, socialist and student of Cesare Lombroso, the founder of the Italian school of criminology,Enrico Ferri.While Lombroso researched the……続きを見る
著者:Geoff Colvin
出版社: John Murray Press
発売日: 2015年08月01日
In the dawning age of brilliant machines, what will people do better than computers?
It's easy to imagine a frightening future in which technology takes over the jobs that we now get paid to do, wor……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Keen
出版社: John Murray Press
発売日: 2011年03月04日
A new, updated edition, with a new foreword of Andrew Keen's witty and provocative polemic against the rise of user-generated content and the anything goes standards of much online publishing, which……続きを見る
著者:Richard Watson
出版社: John Murray Press
発売日: 2010年11月26日
Drawing on the latest research, this book looks at the ways that screen culture is shaping the future and changing the way we think. Future Minds asks: are we becoming addicted to data and how do we……続きを見る
著者:Richard Watson
出版社: John Murray Press
発売日: 2010年11月26日
Wlliam Gladwell meets Alvin Toffler in this lively, provocative and witty look at our possible futures. Filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century, F……続きを見る
Based on the lecture notes of a school titled ‘Tides in Astronomy and Astrophysics’ that brought together students and researchers, this book focuses on the fundamental theories of tides at differen……続きを見る
In January 1937, Nobel laureate in Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was recruited to the University of Chicago. He was to remain there for his entire career, becoming Morton D. Hull Distinguished ……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年07月05日
This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated to how semantic, epistemological, ontological and logical issues interact in t……続きを見る
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2016年06月15日
Galileo’s dictum that the book of nature “is written in the language of mathematics” is emblematic of the accepted view that the scientific revolution hinged on the conceptual and methodological int……続きを見る
This book outlines a new conception of the cyborg in terms of consciousness as the parallax gap between physical and digital worlds. The contemporary subject constructs its own internal reality in t……続きを見る
The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals ……続きを見る
The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green criminology. Taken together, the authors critically ad……続きを見る
This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible to anticipate ethical questions and problems at a s……続きを見る
著者:D. Staley
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2014年08月15日
This essay places the emerging brain-Internet interface within a broad historical context: that the Internet represents merely the next stage in a very long history of human cognition whereby the br……続きを見る
著者:A. Reutlinger
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2013年03月18日
This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sciences the presents original counter arguments to r……続きを見る
著者:S. Boulter
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2013年10月16日
Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-metaphysics and methodology. This essay offers an ac……続きを見る
著者:Jan Faye
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2011年11月22日
The philosophy of the humanistic sciences has been a blind-spot in analytic philosophy. This book argues that by adopting an appropriate pragmatic analysis of explanation and interpretation it is po……続きを見る
著者:R. Frodeman
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2013年12月02日
Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdis……続きを見る
This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms – including fashion, the secret and money – as exemplifications ……続きを見る
著者:M. Hauskeller
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2014年08月20日
This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms. It examine……続きを見る