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The Scientist as Philosopher : Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries
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ISBN: 1280262478 9786610262472 3540270310 3540213740 3540205802 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly written and well illustrated, the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. Then, the book explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism, thermodynamics and atomic structure. Even more dramatically, the quantum theory and special theory of relativity questioned traditional assumptions about causation and the passage of time. The author concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an evolutionary process, which will keep them forever entwined.


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The Art of Living Sideways : Skateboarding, Peace and Elicitive Conflict Transformation
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ISBN: 9783658089559 3658089547 9783658089542 3658089555 Year: 2015 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer,

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Sophie Friedel explores the action of skateboarding in her book as a way to escape cycles of despair, not only in war torn environments and regions affected by poverty. The author critically reflects on her involvements of teaching skateboarding in Afghanistan within the context of youth empowerment and peace work. By way of personal experiences, Friedel illustrates how skateboarding can be understood as an elicitive approach to peace work and conflict transformation that unfolds the extraordinary human potential inherent to all of us.   Contents   ·         Transrational Peace Research ·         The Aesthetics of Transrational Peace Philosophy ·         Kabul, Peace and Skateboarding ·         Sport for Development & Peace: A Space for Peace Work? ·         Humanistic Roots, Embodiment and Transformation ·         Thoughts on Working with Peace in the Early 21st Century   Target Groups ·         Lecturers and Students in Social Science and Physical Culture Studies, Peace Students and Conflict Transformation Researchers ·         Practitioners from the field of Sport for Development and Peace, Psychotherapists, Skateboarders   The Author   Sophie Friedel is a peace and conflict researcher from the MA Program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She has travelled through Europe, Afghanistan and Costa Rica to teach skateboarding and is currently training to become a Psychotherapist.


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The mathematical foundation of structural mechanics
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ISBN: 3540150021 364282403X 3642824013 9783540150022 Year: 1985 Publisher: Berlin [etc.] : Springer-Verlag,

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The Demons of Science : What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World
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ISBN: 3319317075 3319317083 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons in philosophical and scientific thought experiments. In Part I, the author explains the importance of thought experiments in science and philosophy. Part II considers Laplace’s Demon, whose claim is that the world is completely deterministic. Part III introduces Maxwell’s Demon, who - by contrast - experiences a world that is probabilistic and indeterministic. Part IV explores Nietzsche’s thesis of the cyclic and eternal recurrence of events. In each case a number of philosophical consequences regarding determinism and indeterminism, the arrows of time, the nature of the mind and free will are said to follow from the Demons’s worldviews. The book investigates what these Demons - and others - can and cannot tell us about our world. .


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The March of Time : Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries
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ISBN: 3642437176 3642353460 3642353479 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose – relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions – that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time.

Zipper : an exploration in novelty
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ISBN: 0393035999 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York London W. W. Norton

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Laws of nature : essays on the philosophical, scientific and historical dimensions
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ISBN: 3110869853 9783110869859 3110139189 9783110139181 Year: 1995 Volume: Bd. 8 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter,

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Metallic solid solutions: : a symposium on their electronic and atomic structure
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Year: 1963 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Benjamin,

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Introduction to boundary elements : theory and applications
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ISBN: 3540504303 0387504303 Year: 1989 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

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Racial discourse and cosmopolitanism in twentieth-century African American writing : Studies in African American history and culture
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ISBN: 020393038X 0415543088 0415963559 1135893292 1281064300 9786611064303 Year: 2007 Publisher: Routledge

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