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Real natures and familiar objects
"A Bradford book."In Real Natures and Familiar Objects Crawford Elder defends, with qualifications, the ontology of common sense. He argues that we exist--that no gloss is necessary for the statement "human beings exist" to show that it is true of the world as it really is--and that we are surrounded by many of the medium-sized objects in which common sense believes. He argues further that thes…
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- 9780262272261
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- 1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)
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Starmaking :realism, anti-realism, and irrealism
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585021201
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- 1 online resource (xix, 218 pages) :1 illustration.
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Sorting things out :classification and its consequences
"In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. They investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis.…
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- 9780262269070
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- 1 online resource (xii, 377 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Social empiricism
"A Bradford book."For the last forty years, two claims have been at the core of disputes about scientific change: that scientists reason rationally and that science is progressive. For most of this time discussions were polarized between philosophers, who defended traditional Enlightenment ideas about rationality and progress, and sociologists, who espoused relativism and constructivism. Recent…
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- 9780262284028
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- 1 online resource (xi, 175 pages)
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Social capital and information technology
A selection of revised papers from a workshop organized by the editors and held in Amsterdam on 21-22 May 2002, with the addition of some invited papers by social researchers.A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital-the value derived from social ties-and information technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256391
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- 1 online resource (ix, 416 pages) :illustrations
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Sharing expertise :beyond knowledge management
An overview of expertise sharing, an approach to knowledge management that emphasizes the human components of knowledge work in addition to information storage and retrieval. The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, …
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) :illustrations
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Without miracles :universal selection theory and the second Darwinian revolut…
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Without justification
"A Bradford book."In the contentious debate among contemporary epistemologists and philosophers regarding justification, there is one consensus: justification is distinct from knowledge; there are justified beliefs that do not amount to knowledge, even if all instances of knowledge are instances of justified belief. In Without Justification, Jonathan Sutton forcefully opposes this claim. He pro…
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Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 9th International Conference, RR 2015, Berlin…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in August 2015. The 5 full papers, 4 technical communications presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The scale and the heterogenous nature of web data poses many challenges, and turns ba…
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Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2015 16th International Confere…
This two volume set LNCS 9418 and LNCS 9419 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2015, held in Miami, FL, USA, in November 2015. The 53 full papers, 17 short and 14 special sessions and invited papers, presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers cover the areas of…
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