Naturvetenskapens filosofi

A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as The Philosopher Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the Five Good Emperors, ...

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An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advert...

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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anth...

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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging it...

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This Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. It explores the fundamental questions and challenges in the field, and looks at philosophical issues in particular sciences, includi...

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In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind b...

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A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind

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Gold Medal Winner, Living Now Book Awards 2024 (General Fiction Evergreen) A greyhound catching the mechanical lurewhat would he actually do with it? Has he given this any thought? Bostroms previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strateg...

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Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. A deeply researched history of the interplay between the two ways of understanding the w...

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'This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen Hawking THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR SELECTED AS ONE OF BARAC...

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The companion book to COURSERA¿'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a ne...

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Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hossenfelder stands between us and incomprehension' Daily Mail 'Informative and engaging' TLS Do we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a computer simulation? Does the...

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The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some &q...

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Tomorrow's Lawyers predicts fundamental and irreversible changes in the legal world and offers essential practical advice for those who intend to build careers and businesses in law. A definitive guide to the future for aspiring lawyers, and all w...

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Om passionerna är en bok om drivkrafterna bakom vårt handlande och våra moraliska omdömen. I Om förståndet undersökte Hume människans tänkande och kunskapsförmåga och fann deras räckvidd begränsad. På motsvarande sätt visar han här att förnuftet, ...

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Det vetenskapliga arbetet och dess resultat blir alltmer betydelsefulla i det moderna samhället. Kraven som ställs på vetenskapliga undersökningar blir därmed högre. De som gör vetenskapliga undersökningar måste därför ha en större insikt i det ve...

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I den här boken vill författarna visa diskursanalysens bredd genom att ta upp tre perspektiv på fältet: diskursteori, kritisk diskursanalys och diskurspsykologi.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.

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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid ...

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NEW EDITION The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rup...

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Vetenskapsteori är grundvalen för all tolkning av vetenskap, generellt såväl som för varje enskild disciplin. Här beskrivs förhållningssätt till teori, metod och resultat; utan vetenskapsteoretiska ställningstaganden kan forskningsresultat inte fö...

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What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full r...

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Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the f...

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In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces - ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, m...

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'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so cle...

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Natural selection, mutation, and adaptation are well-known and central topics in Darwin's theory of evolution and in the 20th - and 21st -century theories which grew out of it, but many other important topics are used in evolutionary biology that ...

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Now revised and updated, this introduction to decision theory is both accessible and comprehensive, covering topics including decision making under ignorance and risk, the foundations of utility theory, the debate over subjective and objective pro...

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Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provi...

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An extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections between these strands which reveal the fabric of ...

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