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The Quantum Dissidents
This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research on foundations e…
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- 978-3-662-44662-1
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- XVI, 356
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The Great Council of Malines in the 18th century
This work studies the Great Council of Malines as an institution. It analyzes the Council’s internal organization and staff policy, its position within the broader society of the Austrian Netherlands, the volume and nature of litigation at the Council and its final years and ultimate demise in the late 18th and early 19th century. By means of this institutional study, this volume provides ins…
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- 978-3-319-09638-4
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- XVII, 348, 18 illustrations in colour
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- Studies in the History of Law and Justice
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The Golden Rule in Sports
Elite level sport lends itself to a highly competitive environment that encourages players to seek a competitive advantage in order to win. Since competition is an inherent condition that is also considered desirable in this setting, it may at first glance seem as if cooperation does not have any room in elite level sports. Sustainable cooperation can be mutually advantageous for players, but i…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-07028-1
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- XVI, 189, 17 b/w illustrations
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- The Golden Rule in Sports
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Philosophical Thought : Across Cultures and Through the Ages
Philosophical Thought: across cultures and through the ages, is an open-educational resource (OER) to be used as a collection of readings for introductory philosophy courses. The objectives for developing and sharing this open resource are three-fold: 1. to provide a collection of philosophical works that can be used as a foundation for faculty and students to use in undergraduate philosophy…
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- 100 WIL p
Ancient Views on the Quality of Life
This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being. Revisiting ancient texts from about 600 BCE to 300 BCE, the book explores the earliest ideas in recorded western philosophical an…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-16525-7
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- XI, 91
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- SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
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- 300 MIC a
The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship. Consequently, it attributes a possible unification of virtue-based and principle-based approaches.
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- 978-94-007-4939-9
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- VI, 86, 1 b/w illustrations
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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The Philosophy of Mathematics Education
This survey provides a brief and selective overview of research in the philosophy of mathematics education. It asks what makes up the philosophy of mathematics education, what it means, what questions it asks and answers, and what is its overall importance and use? It provides overviews of critical mathematics education, and the most relevant modern movements in the philosophy of mathematics. …
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- 978-3-319-40569-8
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- VII, 26
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsi…
This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The book deals with themes of formalization of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques…
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- 978-3-319-09828-9
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- X, 223
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- Contributions to Phenomenology
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The Road to the Rule of Law in Modern China
This book is a grand review of the centurial development of rule of law in China. It covers the most important issues in this area and presents “political constitution,” a new interpretative framework that allows the Chinese experience of rule of law to be more fully and correctly expressed. It is especially useful to scholars involved in the study of modern China. The main chapters of this…
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- 978-3-662-45637-8
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Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan
This book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan. The book proposes a core language by which to describe positive and problematic developmental changes by recourse to a parsimonious set of core principles, such as elevations or declines in tension thresholds and their relation to the waxing and waning of the cognitive system over the life course. I…
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- 978-3-319-09822-7
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