Martin Carrier - Böcker

An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance—both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally.We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past ...

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An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance-both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally. We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decad...

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Earlier in this century, many philosophers of science (for example, Rudolf Carnap) drew a fairly sharp distinction between theory and observation, between theoretical terms like 'mass' and 'electron', and observation terms like...

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In The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice, philosophers, sociologists, and historians of science offer a multidisciplinary view of the complex interrelationships of values in science and society in both contemporary and historic ...

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This book analyzes the power variations between political executives in semi-presidential regimes. It contrasts institutional, partisan, and extra-institutional explanations and identifies patterns of change for the power distribution between pres...

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CARRIER/MITTELSTRASS:GEIST, GEHIRN,VERHALTEN GEB

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Applying models usually employed for the philosophical interpretation of theories in the natural sciences to psychological theories, this investigates the adequacy and implications of cognitive science, and the relation between the mental states a...

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Wissenschaftliches Wissen wird durch ttigen Eingriff in die Natur gewonnen: Um Homo Sapiens sein zu knnen, muss der Mensch zugleich Homo Faber sein. Im Anschluss an das philosophische Werk von Jrgen Mittelstra begrnden und differenzieren die Beitr...

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Die philosophische Beschftigung mit Raum und Zeit blickt auf eine lange Geschichte zurck. Dieses anhaltende Interesse stammt nicht zuletzt daraus, dass Raum und Zeit die Grundlage von Bewegung bilden. Die Themen der Raum Zeit Philosophie umgreifen...

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Wissenschaftliches Wissen wird durch tatigen Eingriff in die Natur gewonnen: Um Homo Sapiens sein zu konnen, muss der Mensch zugleich Homo Faber sein. Im Anschluss an das philosophische Werk von Jurgen Mittelstra begrunden und differenzieren die B...

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This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus...

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This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus...

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The fundamental question of whether, or in what sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts, or does the content of ...

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The fundamental question of whether, or in what sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts, or does the content of ...

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As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narr...

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Wissenschaftliches Wissen ist besonders streng geprüftes Wissen, das sich von der bloÿen Meinung abheben soll. Dieser Anspruch beruht auf der methodischen Prüfung wissenschaftlicher Behauptungen an der Erfahrung. Wesentlicher Teil der Wissensch...

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We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very prob...

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We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology. Accordingly, we have begun to appreciate that science does not take its problems only from nature and then produces technological applications, but that the very prob...

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Earlier in this century, many philosophers of science (for example, Rudolf Carnap) drew a fairly sharp distinction between theory and observation, between theoretical terms like 'mass' and 'electron', and observation terms like...

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