Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis

This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across several areas of inquiry. The two operations form a primary basis of modern laboratory science, ranging from the spectrographic analysis used in practically every scientific discipline today, to the naming of entire disciplines, such as synthetic organic chemistry. Despite their acknowledged significance, howeve…

The Risks and Ethics of Human Gene Editing = A Philosophical Guide to the Arg…

This Open Access book is about the risks and the ethics of human germline gene editing, i.e., the possibility to make heritable changes to the DNA of early human embryos or germ cells. Is there something particularly morally problematic about editing the human germline? Is there something unique about germline editing, and, if so, does this suggest that we ought not to edit the human germline, …

The Resilience of the Hungarian Legal System since 2010 = A Failed Resilience?

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9783031704512

Collation

VIII, 240 hlm ill; lamp

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance = Insights from Ethio…

This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. The lessons learned from the informal credit markets in Ethiopia and South Africa indicate that pluralism offers better opportunities for people to access affordable and susta…

The Menstrual Movement in the Media = Reducing stigma and tackling social ine…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9783031721946

Collation

X, 331 hlm; ill., lamp.,

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

The Halal Industry in Asia = Perspectives from Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, J…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9789819603923

Collation

XXII, 420 hlm; ill., lamp.,

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays

Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka’s main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor…

Value without Fetish : Uno Kōzō’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’ in Ligh…

Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his…

Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone

‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented in this book offers a systematic analysis of these examples and demonstrates their crucial psychagogical function. Providing a toolkit of paradoxical objects that challenge …

What Caused the Big Bang?

This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and argumen…