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Here is a universal biology that draws upon the contributions of Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel to unravel the mystery of life and conceive what is essential to living things anywhere they may arise. The book develops a philosopher’s guide to life in the universe, conceiving how nature becomes a biosphere in which life can emerge, what are the basic life processes common to any organism, how evolution can give rise to the different possible forms of life, and what distinguishes the essential life forms from one another. .

Idealism, German. --- German idealism --- Science --- Science—Philosophy. --- Science—History. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science. --- German Idealism. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy and science. --- Science and philosophy

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This book reveals the French scientific contribution to the mathematical theory of nonlinear oscillations and its development. The work offers a critical examination of sources with a focus on the twentieth century, especially the period between the wars. Readers will see that, contrary to what is often written, France's role has been significant. Important contributions were made through both the work of French scholars from within diverse disciplines (mathematicians, physicists, engineers), and through the geographical crossroads that France provided to scientific communication at the time. This study includes an examination of the period before the First World War which is vital to understanding the work of the later period. By examining literature sources such as periodicals on the topic of electricity from that era, the author has unearthed a very important text by Henri Poincaré, dating from 1908. In this work Poincaré applied the concept of limit cycle (which he had introduced in 1882 through his own works) to study the stability of the oscillations of a device for radio engineering. The “discovery” of this text means that the classical perspective of the historiography of this mathematical theory must be modified. Credit was hitherto attributed to the Russian mathematician Andronov, from correspondence dating to 1929. In the newly discovered Poincaré text there appears to be a strong interaction between science and technology or, more precisely, between mathematical analysis and radio engineering. This feature is one of the main components of the process of developing the theory of nonlinear oscillations. Indeed it is a feature of many of the texts referred to in these chapters, as they trace the significant developments to which France contributed. Scholars in the fields of the history of mathematics and the history of science, and anyone with an interest in the philosophical underpinnings of science will find this a particularly engaging account of scientific discovery and scholarly communication from an era full of exciting developments.

Nonlinear oscillations. --- Engineering. --- Mathematics. --- History. --- Engineering design. --- Engineering Design. --- Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Nonlinear theories --- Oscillations --- Science—Philosophy. --- Science—History. --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Design --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Math --- Science

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This Brief presents an historical investigation into the reaction between ferric ions and thiocyanate ions, which has been viewed in different ways throughout the last two centuries. Historically, the reaction was used in chemical analysis and to highlight the nature of chemical reactions, the laws of chemistry, models and theories of chemistry, chemical nomenclature, mathematics and data analysis, and instrumentation, which are important ingredients of what one might call the nature of chemistry. Using the history of the iron(III) thiocyanate reaction as a basis, the book’s main objective is to explore how chemistry develops its own knowledge base; how it assesses the reliability of that base; and how some important tools of the trade have been brought to bear on a chemical reaction to achieve understanding, a worthwhile goal of any historical investigation.

Chemistry—History. --- Physical chemistry. --- Inorganic chemistry. --- Science—Philosophy. --- Science—History. --- History of Chemistry. --- Physical Chemistry. --- Inorganic Chemistry. --- Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science. --- Inorganic chemistry --- Chemistry --- Inorganic compounds --- Chemistry, Theoretical --- Physical chemistry --- Theoretical chemistry --- Chemical reactions. --- Reactions, Chemical --- Chemical processes --- Science --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical. --- Chemistry, Inorganic.

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This book explores the work of Thomas Seebohm (1934-2014), a leading phenomenologist and hermeneuticist. It features papers that offer a critical and constructive dialogue about Seebohm’s analyses and their implications for the sciences. The net result is an in-depth study and a helpful overview of Seebohm’s general approach and his specific views on various areas of modern science.The contributors focus especially upon his final text, History as a Science and the System of the Sciences. They view this as the culmination and summary of his historical and phenomenological investigations into the foundations, nature, and limits of modern sciences. This includes not just history but the Geisteswissenschaften more generally, along with the social and natural sciences as well. The essays in this volume reflect that range.This volume presents insightful discussions about the nature and legitimacy of the human sciences as sciences and the unique character of the social sciences. It will be of interest not just as a matter of historical scholarship, but also and above all as an important contribution to phenomenology and to the philosophy of science and the sciences as such. It deserves attention by scholars from any philosophical tradition interested in thinking about the foundations of their disciplines and a philosophy of science that includes, but is not limited to, the natural sciences.

Science --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Phenomenology . --- Philosophy of nature. --- History—Philosophy. --- Hermeneutics. --- Science—Philosophy. --- Science—History. --- Phenomenology. --- Philosophy of Nature. --- Philosophy of History. --- Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Criticism --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Philosophy --- Phenomenology --- Science - Philosophy --- Seebohm, Thomas M. --- History --- Philosophy of Science.

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This interdisciplinary book ties the historical work of Descartes to his successors through current research and critical overviews on the neuroscience of consciousness, the brain, and cognition. This text is the first historical survey to focus on the cohesions and discontinuities between historical and contemporary thinkers working in philosophy, physiology, psychology, and neuroscience. The book introduces and analyzes early discussions of consciousness, such as: metaphysical alternatives to scientific explanations of consciousness and its connection to brain activity; claims about the possibilities and limits of neuroscientific accounts of consciousness and cognition; and the proposition of a “non-reductive naturalism” concerning phenomenal consciousness and rationality. The author assesses the contributions of early philosophers and scientists on brain, consciousness and cognition, among them: Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Newton, Haller, Kant, Fechner, Helmholtz and du Bois-Reymond. The work of these pioneers is related to that of modern researchers in physiology, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of mind, including: Freud, Hilary Putnam, Herbert Feigl, Gerald Edelman, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers, amongst others. This text appeals to researchers and advanced students in the field.

Philosophy. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Science—Philosophy. --- Science—History. --- History of Philosophy. --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science. --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities