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Veertig helder geschreven essays, aantrekkelijk gepresenteerd, actueel, eigenzinnig, maatschappelijk relevant. Ideeën, opinies en beschouwingen trekken elkaar in dit boek voort als treintjes. Een gevarieerde mix van thema's. Het gaat van vermageren over IQ naar taal, van heelal over DNA naar sport. Beeldcultuur, reizen,verleiding, simpeldenken, stress, barbaren, ecologie, internet, lefgozerkapitalisme en gastronomie vind je evengoed op het menu. Geschiedenis naast vooruitblik, hedendaags naast van alle tijden. Begin 21ste eeuw leven wij voor het eerst in een én-én wereld, een wereld van veel en groot, van licht en leeg. Wij zien zoveel fascinerends om ons heen en tegelijk zoveel interessante onzin. En daarbij voelen we magische aantrekking en tegelijk voorzichtig afstand bewaren. Wanneer speel je mee, wanneer blok je af, tegen wat zeg je ja, tegen wie neen? Daarover gaat deze bundel, over interessante stukjes mens, zeg maar. Uitdagen, verrassen, informeren,e's dieper graven, tussendoor ontroeren, dat is het opzet. Met tal van extra's voor nog meer lees-, kijk en surfplezier.
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This exciting collaboration between a biologist and a philosopher explores the meaning of the scientific worldview and how it plays out in our everyday lives. The authors investigate alternatives to scientism, the view that science is the proper and exclusive foundation for thinking about and answering every question. They ask: Does the current technoscientific worldview threaten the pursuit of living well? Do the facts procured by technoscientific systems render inconsequential our lived experiences, the wisdom of ancient and contemporary philosophical insight, and the promise offered by time-honored religious beliefs? Drawing on important Western thinkers, including Kant, Nietzsche, Darwin, Heidegger, and others, Linda Wiener and Ramsey Eric Ramsey demonstrate how many of the claims and conclusions of technoscience can and should be challenged. They offer ways of thinking about science in a larger context that respect scientific practice, while taking seriously alternative philosophical modes of thought whose aims are freedom, the good life, and living well.
Philosophy and science. --- Science and philosophy --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science
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Vor dem Hintergrund der im 18. Jahrhundert erstmals manifest werdenden funktionalen Ausdifferenzierung der modernen Gesellschaft wird das Verhältnis zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft an Beispielen aus dem französischen (Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Houellebecq), deutschsprachigen (Goethe, Freud, Musil), italienischen (Vico, Manzoni, Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino, Del Giudice) und spanischsprachigen Bereich (Pío Baroja, Borges, Cortázar, Volpi) untersucht. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es trotz der zunehmenden Trennung der Bereiche (die C. P. Snow auf die Formel der ,zwei Kulturen' gebracht hat) immer wieder zu poetologisch und epistemologisch aufschlussreichen Interferenzen von Literatur und Wissenschaft kommt. Während im 18. Jahrhundert literarische Texte noch einen Platz in der offiziellen Wissensordnung hatten, wächst im 19. Jahrhundert das Bewusstsein für die grundlegende Differenz der Bereiche. Aufgrund der Dominanz der Naturwissenschaften und des Positivismus versuchen literarische Texte seit Balzac sich durch die poetologische Funktionalisierung (natur-)wissenschaftlicher Modelle zu legitimieren. Im 20. Jahrhundert werden in der teilweise skeptischen Auseinandersetzung mit wissenschaftlichen Modellen die Grenzen der Literatur ausgelotet.
Literature and science. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities
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Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields. Compare the biological notion of a 'natural kind' with the general notion of 'confirmation' of a hypothesis by certain evidence. Or compare the physical principle of the 'conservation of energy' and the general principle of 'the unity of science'. Scientists agree that all such notions and principles aren't as crystal clear as one might wish.An important task of the philosophy of the special sciences, such as philosophy
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The developments of nanofabrication in the past years have enabled the design of electronic systems that exhibit spectacular signatures of quantum coherence. Nanofabricated quantum wires and dots containing a small number of electrons are ideal experimental playgrounds for probing electron-electron interactions and their interplay with disorder. Going down to even smaller scales, molecules such as carbon nanotubes, fullerenes or hydrogen molecules can now be inserted in nanocircuits. Measurements of transport through a single chain of atoms have been performed as well. Much progress has also
Nanoscience --- Physics --- Nanotechnology --- Nanostructures --- Nano science --- Nanoscale science --- Nanosciences --- Science
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This volume is a serious attempt to open up the subject of European philosophy of science to real thought, and provide the structural basis for the interdisciplinary development of its specialist fields, but also to provoke reflection on the idea of ‘European philosophy of science’. This efforts should foster a contemporaneous reflection on what might be meant by philosophy of science in Europe and European philosophy of science, and how in fact awareness of it could assist philosophers interpret and motivate their research through a stronger collective identity. The overarching aim is to set the background for a collaborative project organising, systematising, and ultimately forging an identity for, European philosophy of science by creating research structures and developing research networks across Europe to promote its development.
Philosophy. --- Science --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy of Science. --- Philosophy and science. --- Science and philosophy
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The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was not only close relatedness but also significant difference. Above all, while the Berlin Group explored philosophical problems of the actual practice of science, the Vienna Circle, closely following Wittgenstein, was more interested in problems of the language of science. The book includes first discussion ever (in three chapters) on Walter Dubislav’s logic and philosophy. Two chapters are devoted to another author scarcely explored in English, Kurt Grelling, and another one to Paul Oppenheim who became an important figure in the philosophy of science in the USA in the 1940s–1960s. Finally, the book discusses the precursor of the Nord-German tradition of scientific philosophy, Jacob Friedrich Fries.
Logic --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy and science. --- Science and philosophy
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Donald Lutz begins A Preface to American Political Theory by explaining what the book doesn't do. It doesn't begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn't answer the following questions: "What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill in your own topic)? What is the meaning of pluralism, or separation of powers, or democracy, or (fill in your own concept)?" In short, it doesn't provide an overview of the content, development, or major conclusions of American political theory. What it does do is provide "a pretheoretical analysis of how to go about studying questions like the ones abovehow to conceptualize the project, how to proceed in looking for answers, how to avoid the logical traps peculiar to the study of American political theory." Lutz sets out to emancipate American political theorists from empiricism and inappropriate European theories and methodologies. The end result is to establish the foundation for the systematic study of American behavior, institutions, and ideas; to provide a general introduction to the study of American political theory; and to illustrate how textual analysis, history, empirical research, and analytic philosophy are all part of the enterprise. Designed for students and scholars in all disciplines, including political science, history, and legal studies, A Preface to American Political Theory doesn't provide answers to central continuing issues in American political theory. Rather, it provides an effective, sophisticated entree into the study of American political theory. Readers will be armed with the intellectual tools to engage in systematic study and makes them aware of the pitfalls they will inevitably encounter.
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Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), the innovating founder of mathematical thinking in politics, was the last great philosophe of the French Enlightenment and a central figure in the early years of the French Revolution. His political writings give a compelling vision of human progress across world history and express the hopes of that time in the future perfectibility of man. This volume contains a revised translation of 'The Sketch', written while in hiding from the Jacobin Terror, together with lesser-known writings on the emancipation of women, the abolition of slavery, the meanings of freedom and despotism and reflections on revolutionary violence. The introduction by Steven Lukes and Nadia Urbinati sets these works in context and shows why Condorcet is of real interest today as we reinterpret the meaning of Enlightenment, the very idea of progress and the founding ideas of social democracy.
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Science is first and foremost an intellectual activity, an activity of thought. Therefore, how do we, as information scientists, respond intellectually to what is happening in the world of information and knowledge development, given the context of new sociocultural and knowledge landscapes? Information Science as an Interscience poses many challenges both to information science, philosophy and to information practice, and only when information science is understood as an interscience that operates in a multifaceted way, will it be able to comply with these challenges. In the fulfilment of this task it needs to be accompanied by a philosophical approach that will take it beyond the merely critical and linear approach to scientific work. For this reason a critical philosophical approach is proposed that will be characterised by multiple styles of thinking and organised by a compositional inspiration. This initiative is carried by the conviction that information science will hereby be enabled to make contributions to significant knowledge inventions that may bring about a better world. Chapters focus on the rethinking of human thinking, our unique ability that enables us to cope with the world in which we live, in terms of the unique science with which we are involved. Subsequent chapters explore different approaches to the establishment of a new scientific spirit, the demands these developments pose for human thinking, for questions of method and the implications for information science regarding its proposed functioning as a nomad science in the context of information practice and information work. Final chapters highlight the proposed responsibility of focusing on information and inventiveness and new styles of information and knowledge work. focuses on rethinking information science to achieve a constructive scientific approach provides an alternative methodological approach in the study of information science shows how a change in scientific approach will have vast implications for the understanding and dissemination of knowledge presents the implications of a new approach for knowledge workers, and the dynamics of their work explores the future of thinking about science, knowledge and its nature and the ethical implications
Science --- Documentation and information --- Information science --- Research. --- Communication --- Information literacy --- Library science --- Information science. --- Philosophy.
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