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  • Knowledge from a Human Point of View

    Series Book 416 - Synthese Library
    This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new position in the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism. But there is a lot more to perspectivism than discussions in philosophy of science so far have suggested. ... Read more

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  • Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

    by Hub Zwart ...
    Series Book 38 - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
    The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today.This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ... Read more

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  • Middlebrow Cinema

    Edited by Sally Faulkner ...
    Series series Remapping World Cinema
    Middlebrow Cinema challenges an often uninterrogated hostility to middlebrow culture that frequently dismisses it as conservative, which it often is not, and feminized or middle-class, which it often is. The volume defines the term relationally against shifting concepts of ‘high’ and ‘low’, and considers its deployment in connection with text, audience and institution.In exploring the concept of ... Read more

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  • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

    Case Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance
    This open access collection of AI ethics case studies is the first book to present real-life case studies combined with commentaries and strategies for overcoming ethical challenges. Case studies are one of the best ways to learn about ethical dilemmas and to achieve insights into various complexities and stakeholder perspectives. Given the omnipresence of AI ethics in academic, policy and media ... Read more

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  • Controversa dintre Isaac Newton și Robert Hooke despre prioritatea în legea gravitației

    Una din cele mai disputate controverse privind prioritatea unor descoperiri științifice este cea privind legea gravitației universale, între Isaac Newton și Robert Hooke. În acest eseu extind o lucrare mai veche pe aceeași temă, ”Isaac Newton vs. Robert Hooke în legea gravitației universale”. Hooke l-a acuzat pe Newton de plagiat, preluându-i ideile exprimate în lucrările anterioare. În această ... Read more

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  • In digitaler Gesellschaft

    Neukonfigurationen zwischen Robotern, Algorithmen und Usern

    Edited by Kathrin Braun, Cordula Kropp ...
    Series Book 2 - Politik in der digitalen Gesellschaft
    Wie verändern sich gesellschaftliche Praktiken und die Chancen demokratischer Technikgestaltung, wenn neben Bürger*innen und Öffentlichkeit auch Roboter, Algorithmen, Simulationen oder selbstlernende Systeme einbezogen und als Beteiligte ernstgenommen werden? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes untersuchen die Neukonfiguration von Verantwortung und Kontrolle, Wissen, Beteiligungsansprüchen und ... Read more

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  • The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque

    Series series Fascinating Life Sciences
    This open access book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), which had continued for over 30 years, but which had never been reported on systematically. Dedicated to this exceptional Old World monkey, this book makes the work of Chinese primatologists on the social behavior, cooperation, ... Read more

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  • Linguistic Perspectives on Encoding and Compression Systems in the Quran

    Series series Scientific Studies
    This eBook introduces two aspects; Numerical Encoding of Arabic Numerical values and Scientific Signs in the Quran.We have covered Encoding of Arabic Numerical values, Scientific Signs in the Quran. These are only some of many aspects which makes Quran one of the Miracle of Miracles on this earth. As we have seen from the previous examples that Arabic Language is unique in Encoding Methods and ... Read more

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  • Buclele cauzale în călătoria în timp

    Series series Eseuri
    Despre posibilitatea călătoriei în timp pe baza mai multor lucrări de specialitate, printre care cele ale lui Nicholas J.J. Smith ("Time Travel", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”), William Grey (”Troubles with Time Travel”), Ulrich Meyer (”Explaining causal loops”), Simon Keller și Michael Nelson (”Presentists should believe in time-travel”), Frank Arntzenius și Tim Maudlin ("Time Travel ... Read more

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  • DIY Lucid Dreaming

    Lucid dreaming is what happens when you become aware that you're dreaming while you're dreaming. Normally, we wake up and think "wow, that was a dream." But it can be really fun and interesting to wake up while you're still dreaming and realize "wow, this is a dream!"Once you wake up in your dream, the entire reality is under your conscious control. How fun it that? You can do anything you want. ... Read more

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  • The Challenge of Chance

    A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities

    Series series The Frontiers Collection
    This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that surveys 2500 ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Digital Humanism

    This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated ... Read more

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  • Science in Movements

    Knowledge Control and Social Contestation in China’s Hydropower, GMO and Nuclear Controversies

    by Hepeng Jia ...
    Series series Chinese Perspectives on Journalism and Communication
    This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified organisms and the nuclear power debate.The examination combines social movement theories, communication studies, and science and technology studies. Taking a multidisciplinary ... Read more

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  • Questions Vol 2

    Series Book 2 - Questions
    Doesn’t the melody of the birds in the morning resemble the melody of the Holy Quran when cited fluently? Is choosing from lies freedom? Who out of two or more gods would be the almighty One? None? Should we have doubt in a better Afterworld if our world was already perfect? Can’t God top everything? What can we learn from the life and death of the caterpillar? What can we learn about passing away ... Read more

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  • Monitored

    Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data

    by Peter Bloom ...
    Our contemporary age is confronted by a profound contradiction: on the one hand, our lives as workers, consumers and citizens have become ever more monitored by new technologies. On the other, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable.What does this technocratic ideology and surveillance-heavy culture reveal about the deeper reality of modern society? Monitored ... Read more

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  • Artificial intelligence in science

    Challenges, opportunities and the future of research

    The rapid advances of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years have led to numerous creative applications in science. Accelerating the productivity of science could be the most economically and socially valuable of all the uses of AI. Utilising AI to accelerate scientific productivity will support the ability of OECD countries to grow, innovate and meet global challenges, from climate change ... Read more

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  • Equitable Research Partnerships

    A Global Code of Conduct to Counter Ethics Dumping

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance
    This open access book offers insights into the development of the ground-breaking Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings (GCC) and the San Code of Research Ethics. Using a new, intuitive moral framework predicated on fairness, respect, care and honesty, both codes target ethics dumping – the export of unethical research practices from a high-income setting to a lower- or ... Read more

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  • Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy

    Series Book 29 - History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
    This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importance ... Read more

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  • Dossiê contra o negacionismo da ciência

    A importância do conhecimento científico

    A Ciência vem oferecendo, ao longo dos séculos, uma inegável e cara contribuição para a humanidade em várias áreas, como as sociais, exatas, humanas e biológicas e da saúde. Têm sido inúmeros e visíveis, no cotidiano de boa parte da sociedade, os avanços resultantes das investigações científicas realizadas no âmbito das universidades e dos institutos de pesquisa e, ainda assim, temos enfrentado um ... Read more

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  • Open Skies

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

    Series series Historical & Cultural Astronomy
    This open access book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations of late 20th century radio astronomy with particular attention to the people and institutions involved. The authors have made extensive use of the NRAO Archives, which contain an unparalleled collection of documents pertaining to the history of radio ... Read more

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  • Bioethics Across the Globe

    Rebirthing Bioethics

    This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides where ... Read more

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  • Charting Spiritual Care

    The Emerging Role of Chaplaincy Records in Global Health Care

    This open access volume is the first academic book on the controversial issue of including spiritual care in integrated electronic medical records (EMR). Based on an international study group comprising researchers from Europe (The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland), the United States, Canada, and Australia, this edited collection provides an overview of different charting practices and ... Read more

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  • Open Science: the Very Idea

    by Frank Miedema ...
    This open access book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research.The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and sociology of science, which is of interest to a broad readership. The book shows ... Read more

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  • Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement

    This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Sanctorius developed instruments to measure and quantify physiological change. As trivial as the quantitative assessment of health issues might seem to us today – in times of fitness trackers and smart ... Read more

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