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Logischer Empirismus, Lebensreform und die deutsche Jugendbewegung
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Christian Damböck, Günther Sandner, Meike G. Werner

This open-access book is the first to investigate the roots of Logical Empiricism in the context of the Life Reform and the German Youth Movements. Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach are the key protagonists; they both belonged to the German Youth Movement and developed their early philosophical views in this setting. By combining scholarly essays with unpublished and hard to access manuscripts…

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Veröffentlichungen des Instituts Wiener Kreis
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X, 356
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Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science
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Lorenzo Magnani

This handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of model-based reasoning. It highlights the role of models as mediators between theory and experimentation, and as educational devices, as well as their relevance in testing hypotheses and explanatory functions. The Springer Handbook merges philosophical, cognitive and epistemological perspectives on mod…

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1
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978-3-319-30526-4
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Mathematics
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510
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Issues in Science and Theology: What is Life?
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Dirk EversMichael FullerAntje JackelénKnut-Willy Sæther

This book explores the concept of Life from a range of perspectives. Divided into three parts, it first examines the concept of Life from physics to biology. It then presents insights on the concept from the perspectives of philosophy, theology, and ethics. The book concludes with chapters on the hermeneutics of Life, and pays special attention to the Biosemiotics approach to the concept. The q…

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978-3-319-17407-5
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A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts: Volume II: Space, Time and…
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KUEHN, Kerry

This book provides a chronological introduction to the science of motion and rest based on the reading and analysis of significant portions of Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Pascal’s Treatise on the Equilibrium of Fluids and the Weight of the Mass of Air, Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, and Einstein’s Relativity. Each chapter begins with a sh…

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Ed. 1
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978-1-4939-1366-4
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XXVI, 380
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Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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501 KUE s