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Author : H. B. WILTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018288166
Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030015559372
Author : Nicolas Trübner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z224992205
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081886826
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
Author : Raymond Toole-Stott
Publisher : Derby : Harpur and Sons
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Conjuring Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015034715097
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X002654631
Author : John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Australia
ISBN : UOM:39015079938430
Author : Lewis Wolpert
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780571317387
This book shows that many of our understandings about scientific thought can be corrected once we realise just how "unnatural" science actually is. Quoting scientists from Aristotle to Einstein, the author argues that scientific ideas are, with rare exceptions, counter-intuitive and that common sense often makes no sense at all. A passionate advocate of the beauty and importance of science, the author examines a range of issues, including why science and technology are quite different, why psychoanalysis is not properly scientific and why philosophers and sociologists have made so little contribution to understanding science's true nature. He demonstrates the folly of holding scientists responsible for many of society's problems, and the equal folly of looking to science for a miracle cure.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds (III)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691156934
One of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world provides an unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world, giving insight into the shifting ideas of religion and the divine in the ancient past and in the later Western tradition.
Author : J.D. Casten
Publisher : Post Egoism Media
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780985480202
Cybernetic Revelation explores the dual philosophical histories of deconstruction and artificial intelligence, tracing the development of concepts like the "logos" and the notion of modeling the mind technologically from pre-history to contemporary thinkers like Slavoj Žižek, Steven Pinker, Bernard Stiegler and Daniel C. Dennett. The writing is clear and accessible throughout, yet the text probes deeply into major philosophers seen by JD Casten as "conceptual engineers." Philosophers covered include: Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Philo, Augustine, Shakespeare, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, Joyce, Dewey, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, Chomsky, Žižek, Pinker, Dennett, Hofstadter, Stiegler + more; with special chapters on: AI's history, Complexity, Deconstructing AI, Aesthetics, Consciousness + more...
Author : Angela Guimaraes Pereira,Silvio Funtowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317634560
For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge. This process of change has to include a new commitment to knowledge creation and transmission and its role in a plural society. This book proposes to consider new ways in which science can be used to sustain our planet and enrich our lives. It helps to release and reactivate social responsibility within contemporary science and technology. It reviews critically relevant cases of contemporary scientific practice within the Cartesian paradigm, relabelled as 'innovation research', promoted as essential for the progress and well-being of humanity, and characterised by high capital investment, centralised control of funding and quality, exclusive expertise, and a reductionism that is philosophical as well as methodological. This is an accessible and relevant book for scholars in Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, and Science, Engineering and Technology Ethics. Providing an array of concrete examples, it supports scientists, engineers and technical experts, as well as policy-makers and other non-technical professionals working with science and technology to re-direct their approach to global problems, in a more integrative, self-reflective and humble direction.
Author : Martin A. M. Drenthen,F.W. Jozef Keulartz,James Proctor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048126118
"New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms in on micro nature and explores the world of contemporary genomics. The final section returns to the macro world and discusses the ethics of place in present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an ‘out there’ and ‘in here.’ They attempt to specify how nature has been publicly and genomically constructed, known and described through metaphors and re-envisioned in terms of landscape and place. By parsing out and rendering explicit these divergent views, the volume asks for a re-thinking of our relationship with nature.
Author : Simon During
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674034396
Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people? Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism, to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history, During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still, Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself.
Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786747030
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
Author : Professor Mary Douglas,Mary Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136489273
Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.