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Fact and value :essays on ethics and metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson
"A Bradford book."A diverse collection of essays, which reflect the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work.The diversity of topics discussed in this book reflects the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work. Throughout her long career at MIT, Thomson's straightforward approach and emphasis on problem-solving have shaped philosophy in significant ways. Some of the bo…
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- 9780262269612
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- 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages)
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Crafting the quantum :Arnold Sommerfeld and the practice of theory, 1890-1926
An intellectual and cultural history of the birth of theoretical physics in Germany, focusing on the pedagogy and research of a leader in work on the "older" quantum theory. Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951) was among the most significant contributors to the birth of modern theoretical physics. At the University of Munich, beginning in 1906, he trained two generations of theoretical physicists. Eig…
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- 9780262324595
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- 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Time and realism : Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives
A new view of the metaphysics of time, arguing that the traditional tensed-tenseless debate within analytic philosophy should be seen as the first stage in a philosophical investigation of time, and that the next stage belongs to phenomenology.
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On the origin of objects
On the Origin of Objects is the culmination of Brian Cantwell Smith's decade-long investigation into the philosophical and metaphysical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. Based on a sustained critique of the formal tradition that underlies the reigning views, he presents an argument for an embedded, participatory, "irreductionist," metaphysical alternati…
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- 0585038198
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- 1 online resource (xii, 420 pages) :illustrations
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A Metaphysics of Psychopathology
In this study Peter Zachar considers such terms as 'real' and 'reality' - invoked in psychiatry but often obscure and remote from their instances - as abstract philosophical concepts. He then examines the implications of his approach for psychiatric classification and psychopathology. Proposing what he calls a scientifically inspired pragmatism, Zachar considers such topics as the essentialist …
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- 9780262322270
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- 1 online resource (287 pages) :illustrations.
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The art of insight in science and engineering :mastering complexity
Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262325233
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 389 pages) :illustrations
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Carving Nature at Its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science
"A Bradford book.""Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should 'carve nature at its joints.' But is nature really 'jointed'? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issue…
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- 9780262298780
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- 1 online resource (viii, 355 pages).
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Ghost particle :in search of the elusive and mysterious neutrino
"This book recounts the dramatic history of neutrino science and details the recent successes and ongoing challenges physicists face in pursuit of the ghostly subatomic particle"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373562
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First dawn :from the big bang to our future in space
Translation of: La prima alba del cosmo, ? 2019 Mondadori Libri S.p.A., Milano.Includes index."Roberto Battiston traces the intellectual path that has brought us to our current understanding of the universe, intertwining our most recent discoveries with the passion and the ambition of the scientists that made them possible"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262371057
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The blind spot :why science cannot ignore human experience
"An argument for the inclusion of the human perspective within science and how it makes science possible"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377744
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