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Scientific Mistakes And Mistaken Science - Malfunction, Error, Failure

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 The book is designed to show that the public and professional understanding of science is somewhat biased, and error, failure and mistake play a more substantial role than usually conceived.
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Genesis And Development Of French Historical Epistemology - A Trajectory Toward Political Epistemology

by Gerardo Ienna

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 This book forms an important part of the current revival of the debate around the category of historical epistemology.
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Genesis And Development Of French Historical Epistemology - A Trajectory Toward Political Epistemology

by Gerardo Ienna

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 This book forms an important part of the current revival of the debate around the category of historical epistemology.
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Hans Blumenberg'S History And Philosophy Of Science

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 This book highlights and develops a hitherto neglected area of Hans Blumenberg's contributions, i.e., history and philosophy of science.
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Science And The Shaping Of Modernity - Essays In Honor Of Stephen Gaukroger

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 This book collects a variety of short essays on Stephen Gaukroger’s thought, by leading scholars, both senior and junior. Stephen Gaukroger (1950-2023) was one of the preeminent specialists of early modern science and philosophy, particularly their interrelations including under the heading ‘natural philosophy’, on the international scene, since the 1980s, starting with his prominent Cartesian scholarship (and biography) and moving towards the formidable 4-volume series on science and the shaping of modernity (from Emergence of a Scientific Culture to Civilization and the Culture of Science), dealing not just with early modernity but with the Enlightenment, German Romanticism and 20th-century society. This volume covers the thought of this highly-recognized scholar and engages with his works covering early modern philosophy, enlightenment, and contemporary periods, making it a must-read for any philosopher and historian of science.
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Reconsidering Historical Epistemology - French And Anglophone Styles In History And Philosophy Of Science

by Matteo Vagelli

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 This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically attributed to its simultaneously philosophical and historical synthetic approach to the study of science. Yet this account, considered by critics to be an unreflective assumption, has prevented historical epistemology from developing a clear understanding and definition, especially regarding how precisely historical and philosophical reflections on the sciences should be combined. Thus, this book uniquely analyses how the problems and tensions inherent to the "contemporary" phase of historical epistemology can be clarified by reference to the "classical" French phase. The archaeological method of Michel Foucault, which draws on and transforms fundamental insights by Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, is used to exert an enduring influence on the field—especially through the work of Ian Hacking and his philosophical cum historical analyses of "styles of scientific reasoning". Though this book is of great value to academic specialists and graduate students, the fact it addresses questions broad in scope ensures it is also relevant to a range of scholars in many disciplines and will provoke discussion among those interested in foundational issues in history and philosophy of science. Vagelli’s book provides a both unique and uniquely important window into historical epistemology and its relation to contemporary philosophy of science. Unique because nowhere else can one find a single work that treats the range of topics that he covers. Uniquely important because Vagelli’s clear, concise, and comprehensive survey details key interrelationships among a range of American, British, and European views currently in play regarding historical epistemology and philosophy of science as well as the institutional and intellectual vectors driving their associated epistemological positions - Paul Roth, UC Santa Cruz, USA Uneasily, the history and philosophy of science have bolstered and undermined each other for all too long. Would history offer nothing but potted episodes to confirm or contradict transhistorical claims about science? Would philosophy dismantle uncritical historicist accounts of scientific discoveries? Historical epistemology offers a more integrated path, at once a history of the present and a philosophy of the past. Matteo Vagelli draws together the insights of the Francophone, Anglophone and Germanophone traditions to give us a sparkling, lucid account of seeing our standards of scientific understanding as developing across time, always asking: how did we come to our standards of demonstration and argument? - Peter Galison, Harvard University, USA
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Rene Descartesâ€™S Natural Philosophy And Particular Bodies

by Fabrizio Baldassarri

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 This book explores RenÃ© Descartesâ€™s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program.
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Johannes Von Kries: Principles Of The Probability Calculus - A Logical Investigation

by Keith K. Niall

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 This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses the range theory of probability. Confusions in the history of probability are pinpointed, and a novel theory is developed in which probability is neither entirely subjective nor objective.
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Rene Descartes'S Natural Philosophy And Particular Bodies

by Fabrizio Baldassarri

~~131,84€~~ 118,66€ 10% OFF

 This book explores RenÃ© Descartesâ€™s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program.
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Johannes Von Kries: Principles Of The Probability Calculus - A Logical Investigation

by Keith K. Niall

145,09€ + 10% CARD

 This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses the range theory of probability. Confusions in the history of probability are pinpointed, and a novel theory is developed in which probability is neither entirely subjective nor objective.
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John Venn: Unpublished Writings And Selected Correspondence

by Lukas M. Verburgt

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 Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an important figure of nineteenth-century Cambridge, where he worked alongside leading thinkers, such as Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Marshall, on the development of the Moral Sciences Tripos.
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Thomas Edison: Success And Innovation Through Failure

by Ian Wills

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 This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison.
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Responsibility Of Science

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 This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; precaution, notions of responsibility, the role of science within society and its relation to human rights, as well as scientific and public discourses.
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Prodigy Of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859

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 This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817â€"1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture.
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Smart Log Data Analytics - Techniques For Advanced Security Analysis

by Florian Skopik, Markus Wurzenberger e Max Landauer

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 This book provides insights into smart ways of computer log data analysis, with the goal of spotting adversarial actions.
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Agent Orange - The Failure Of Science, Policy And Common Sense

by Alvin L. Young

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 More than 45 major health studies were conducted with Vietnam veterans from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Korea seeking a relationship between veteransâ€™ health and TCDD.
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Agent Orange - The Failure Of Science, Policy And Common Sense

by Alvin L. Young

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 More than 45 major health studies were conducted with Vietnam veterans from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Korea seeking a relationship between veteransâ€™ health and TCDD.
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The Responsibility Of Science

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 This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; precaution, notions of responsibility, the role of science within society and its relation to human rights, as well as scientific and public discourses.
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The Responsibility Of Science

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 This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; precaution, notions of responsibility, the role of science within society and its relation to human rights, as well as scientific and public discourses.
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A Prodigy Of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859

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 This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817â€"1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture.
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John Venn: Unpublished Writings And Selected Correspondence

by Lukas M. Verburgt

145,09€ + 10% CARD

 Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an important figure of nineteenth-century Cambridge, where he worked alongside leading thinkers, such as Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Marshall, on the development of the Moral Sciences Tripos.
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Sovereignty, War, And The Global State

by Dylan Craig

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 This book highlights the existence of a class of struggles conducted in the gray zones of formalized war, or more aptly in the interstices where state power and jurisdiction are mismatched.
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Burchard De Volder And The Age Of The Scientific Revolution

by Andrea Strazzoni

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 In addition, the title includes transcriptionsof De Volder's teaching materials: disputations, dictations, and notes.Insightful analysis combined with a trove of primary source material will help readers gain a new perspective on a thinker so far mostly ignored by scholars.
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A Prodigy Of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859

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 This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817â€"1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture.
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