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Seagull Books London Ltd A Winter's Journey: Four Conversations with
Book SynopsisFrench cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter's Journey" are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch look at a twentieth century characterized by enormous technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and horror. The dialogues in "A Winter's Journey" - structured loosely around the dates 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980 - chart Virilio's intimate intellectual biography, from his childhood lived against the unstable backdrop of a heavily bombed, wartime Nantes to maturity in a crisis space that is neither entirely militarized nor yet fully civilian, but somewhere between the two. In the course of these conversations, Virilio and Brausch ultimately find hope that in understanding the events of the last century and the cultural responses spawned by them, we can create a more humane era that is more adept at handling the transformations of its technology and culture. "A Winter's Journey" is a revealing and engaging look into the intellectual life and ideas of one of the most influential theorists of contemporary civilization.Trade Review"Virilio is an impressive commentator on the conditioning power of the mass media....He flits from image to image like a poet and usually builds to a profound climax." -Guardian "If Walter Benjamin had one true intellectual descendant who extended his inquiries into the second half of the twentieth century, this must be Paul Virilio."-Lev Manovich, author of The Language of New Media"
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Watkins Media Limited The Neurotic Turn
Book SynopsisWe live in an age saturated with images. Video screens loop multimillion dollar ads while we sit in the back of taxis. Teenagers scavenge through public parks in search of Pokemon. Technology has created for us a new reality; one which we are still struggling to understand. Taking their cue from the work of Charles Johns, who has argued that, far from being an ailment, neurosis is in fact the dominant condition of our society today, an array of thinkers have gathered in The Neurotic Turn to address the question: How can the concept of "neurosis" help us understand this new, digitized world in which we live and our place within it? With essays from Charles Johns, Graham Harman, Benjamin Noys, Patricia Reed, Dany Nobus, John Russon and Katerina Kolozova.
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Watkins Media Limited A Life Lived Remotely: Being and Work in the
Book SynopsisIf work is hell, what is working from home? Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely tells the story of the transition to the digital age through our relationship to work. Following the author's journey as she left her 9-to-5 for the world of freelancing and working remotely, it outlines and reflects on what it means to work from home, how it affects our daily lives and our relationships, and how it is tied in to the development of the internet and our increasingly digitsed world. Tackling larger questions like What happens when we take our lives online?; How are we being changed by immersion in the internet?; and How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?, A Life Lived Remotely provides a moment's pause in a world of fast-paced communication, offering critical reflection on what it means to come of age along with the internet.
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Momentum Press Science and Technology Diplomacy, Volume II: A Focus on the Americas with Lessons for the World
Book SynopsisScience diplomacy and policy can support collaborative national and international science for advancing knowledge with societal impact in fields such as climate, space, medicine, and the environment. Scientific advances made possible by the basic and applied research carried out by government agencies, universities, and nongovernmental organizations create opportunities and challenges with growing impact on policy decisions. Developing structures that produce the best science information to policy makers is becoming more critical in an ever-changing world. This three-volume set presented by prominent figures from the disciplines of science, engineering, technology, and diplomacy includes their perspectives on potential solutions to opportunities 21st-century scientists, engineers, and diplomats face in the future: To shed light and interface science, technology, and engineering with the realm of policy; To provide a vision for the future by identifying obstacles and opportunities while focusing on several key issues.
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Stoney Creek Publishing Group Why We Struggle to Go Green
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Rutgers University Press The Social Life of Biometrics
Book SynopsisIn The Social Life of Biometrics, biometrics is loosely defined as a discrete technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity. Author George Grinnell considers the social and cultural life of biometrics by examining what it is asked to do, imagined to do, and its intended and unintended effects. As a human-focused account of technology, the book contends that biometrics needs to be understood as a mode of thought that informs how we live and understand one another; it is not simply a neutral technology of identification. Placing our biometric present in historical and cultural perspective, The Social Life of Biometrics examines a range of human experiences of biometrics. It features individual stories from locations as diverse as Turkey, Canada, Qatar, Six Nations territory in New York State, Iraq, the skies above New York City, a university campus and Nairobi to give cultural accounts of identification and look at the ongoing legacies of our biometric ambitions. It ends by considering the ethics surrounding biometrics and human identity, migration, movement, strangers, borders, and the nature of the body and its coherence. How has biometric thought structured ideas about borders, race, covered faces, migration, territory, citizenship, and international responsibility? What might happen if identity was less defined by the question of “who’s there?” and much more by the question “how do you live?”Trade Review"The Social Life of Biometrics is an absolutely indispensable guide to understanding the construction of political identity--whose bodies belong and whose bodies are to be prohibited and disavowed-- in an era marked by mean-spirited, panic anxiety over security, national borders and the restless migration of nomadic populations." -- Arthur Kroker * author of Body Drift and Exits to the Posthuman Future *"The Social Life of Biometrics is an absolutely indispensable guide to understanding the construction of political identity--whose bodies belong and whose bodies are to be prohibited and disavowed-- in an era marked by mean-spirited, panic anxiety over security, national borders and the restless migration of nomadic populations." -- Arthur Kroker * author of Body Drift and Exits to the Posthuman Future *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Biometric Encounters 2 The Social Life of Biometrics 3 The Domains of Biometric Thought 4 On Method 5 A Genealogy of Biometrics 6 Thinking in the Wake of Biometric Thought Acknowledgments Bibliography About the Author
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Rutgers University Press The Social Life of Biometrics
Book SynopsisIn The Social Life of Biometrics, biometrics is loosely defined as a discrete technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity. Author George Grinnell considers the social and cultural life of biometrics by examining what it is asked to do, imagined to do, and its intended and unintended effects. As a human-focused account of technology, the book contends that biometrics needs to be understood as a mode of thought that informs how we live and understand one another; it is not simply a neutral technology of identification. Placing our biometric present in historical and cultural perspective, The Social Life of Biometrics examines a range of human experiences of biometrics. It features individual stories from locations as diverse as Turkey, Canada, Qatar, Six Nations territory in New York State, Iraq, the skies above New York City, a university campus and Nairobi to give cultural accounts of identification and look at the ongoing legacies of our biometric ambitions. It ends by considering the ethics surrounding biometrics and human identity, migration, movement, strangers, borders, and the nature of the body and its coherence. How has biometric thought structured ideas about borders, race, covered faces, migration, territory, citizenship, and international responsibility? What might happen if identity was less defined by the question of “who’s there?” and much more by the question “how do you live?”Trade Review"The Social Life of Biometrics is an absolutely indispensable guide to understanding the construction of political identity--whose bodies belong and whose bodies are to be prohibited and disavowed-- in an era marked by mean-spirited, panic anxiety over security, national borders and the restless migration of nomadic populations." -- Arthur Kroker * author of Body Drift and Exits to the Posthuman Future *"The Social Life of Biometrics is an absolutely indispensable guide to understanding the construction of political identity--whose bodies belong and whose bodies are to be prohibited and disavowed-- in an era marked by mean-spirited, panic anxiety over security, national borders and the restless migration of nomadic populations." -- Arthur Kroker * author of Body Drift and Exits to the Posthuman Future *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Biometric Encounters 2 The Social Life of Biometrics 3 The Domains of Biometric Thought 4 On Method 5 A Genealogy of Biometrics 6 Thinking in the Wake of Biometric Thought Acknowledgments Bibliography About the Author
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Walter de Gruyter Thomas S. Kuhn Die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen
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de Gruyter Linguistische Methodenreflexion Im Aufbruch
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de Gruyter Natur Und Technik Theorie Und Strategie
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Der Aufstieg der Wissenschaftlichen Philosophie
Book SynopsisZUR 2. AUFLAGE DER DEUTSCHEN AUSGABE Warum eröffnen wir eine Buchreihe über Wissenschafts theorie verschiedener Hauptdisziplinen mit einer Neu auflage von Hans Reichenbachs Buch "Aufstieg der wissen schaftlichen Philosophie", dessen 1. Auflage 1951 in den USA erschien? Weil es sich mit seiner präzisen und ver ständlichen Sprache nach siebzehn Jahren immer noch so frisch wie damals liest, weil seine Problematik zwischen Rationalismus und Empirismus, seine Opposition gegen Metaphysik und Ontologie als philosophische Grund legung der Naturwissenschaft immer noch in Mittel europa aktuell ist. Reichenbach spielt aber trotzdem keinen physikalischen Positivismus gegen Philosophie überhaupt aus, sondern tritt für eine autonome, philoso phische Analyse der Physik ein, weil z. B. die Frage, wor aus die Materie besteht, "mit Hilfe von physikalischen Experimenten allein nicht beantwortet werden kann, sondern eine solche Analyse erfordert" (S. 199). Ihm genügt auch nicht der "gesunde Menschenverstand", wenn es sich um schwierige wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen handelt (S. 201). Noch ein Beispiel für den Umschlag von Wissenschaft zu Philosophie: Man kann die Geschichte des Weltalls etwa 2 Milliarden Jahre zurückverfolgen. Wenn man nun danach fragt, wie der Urgasball selbst noch ent standen ist, wird der Wissenschaftler mit einer solchen Frage zum Philosophen (S. 233). Reichenbach unterschei det hier aber Philosophen von spekulativem Typ, die eine Kosmogonie erfanden, welche an die Stelle der Wissen schaft ein Märchen setzte oder einen Schöpfungsakt aus dem Nichts annahm, und solche von modernem Typ.Table of ContentsErster Teil Die Wurzeln der Spekulativen Philosophie.- 1· Die Frage.- 2 · Die Suche Nach Allgemeinheit und die Pseudoerklärung.- 3 · Die Suche Nach Absoluter Gewissheit und die Rationalistische Auffassung der Erkenntnis.- 4 · Die Suche Nach Ethischen Leitsätzen und der Kognitiv-Ethische Parallelismus.- 5 · Der Losungsversuch des Empirismus: Sein Erfolg und Sein Versagen.- 6 · Die Doppelnatur der Klassischen Physik: Ihre Empiristische und Ihre Rationalistische Seite.- Zweiter Teil Die Ergebnisse der Wissenschaftlichen Philosophie.- 7 · Der Ursprung der Neuen Philosophie.- 8 · Vom Wesen der Geometrie.- 9 · Was Ist die Zeit?.- 10 · Die naturgesetze.- 11 · Gibt Es Atome?.- 12 · Evolution.- 13 · Die moderne logik.- 14 · Unser Wissen von der Zukunft.- 15 · Zwischenspiel: Hamlets Monolog.- 16 · Die Funktionelle Auffassung der Erkenntnis.- 17 · Das Wesen der Ethik.- 18 · Die Alte und die Neue Philosophie: Ein Vergleich.- Register.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Wissen, Sprache und Wirklichkeit: Arbeiten zum
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI. Sprache und Semantik l.- Lesen und Lesbarkeit: das Problem der syntaktischen Komplexität.- Syntaktische Tiefe.- Relationale Semantik.- Prospektive Ambiguität.- Schluß.- Lesen, Verstehen und begriffliche Situationen.- Begriffliche Strukturen.- Ein begriffliches Universum.- Die semantische Analyse von Verben auf der Grundlage begrifflicher Situationen.- Weil und die Begriffe der Verursachung.- 1 „Materiale“ Ursachen.- 2 „Formale“ Ursachen.- 3 „Wirkursachen“.- 4 Zweckursachen.- 5 Schlußbemerkungen.- Zeichen — Kommunikation — Sprache.- Sprache als zweckorientiertes Verhalten: zur Entwicklungsgeschichte.- Zweck und negative Rückkopplung.- Lernen und Repräsentation.- Die Kommunikationssituation.- Ein möglicher Ursprung der Kooperation.- Zeichen, Symbole und Sprache.- Schlußfolgerungen.- Anpassung und Überlebensfähigkeit.- Über den Begriff der Interpretation.- II. Die Erkenntnistheorie des radikalen Konstruktivismus.- Piaget und die Erkenntnistheorie des radikalen Konstruktivismus.- Schwierigkeiten der Interpretation.- Das Dilemma des Realismus.- Das Konstrukt des „Objekts“.- Die Bausteine der Konstruktion.- Die Umwelt als schwarzer Kasten.- Wissen und Äquilibration.- Schluß.- Die Konstrukte der Identität, oder: die Kunst, Unterschiede zu übergehen.- Bemerkungen zur epistemologischen Revolution.- Wissen in der Sicht des radikalen Konstruktivismus.- Probleme des Lernens.- Probleme des Lehrens.- Probleme des Wissens.- Schlußbemerkungen.- Die Begriffe der Anpassung und Viabilität in einer radikal konstruktivistischen Erkenntnistheorie.- Kybernetik, Erfahrung und der Begriff des Ich.- Kybernetik und Lernen.- Rückkoppelung und Selbststeuerung.- Lernen als induktiver Prozeß.- Die Konstruktion des Wissens durch das Subjekt.- Regularitäten, Regeln und Erklärungen.- Die Nützlichkeit „schwarzer Kästen“.- Beobachter und Beobachtetes.- Piaget in kybernetischer Sicht.- Die Konstruktion permanenter Objekte.- Die Herstellung von,„Gleichheit“.- Assimilation und Akkomodation.- Schemata und begriffliche Strukturen.- Die Mehrdeutigkeit des Begriffs der „Gleichheit“.- Äquivalenz und Kontinuität.- Das Problem der Realität.- Einige grundlegende Konstrukte.- Die Konstruktion des Ich.- Das sich selbst beobachtende Icb.- Das Icb als visuelles Perzept.- Ebenen der Icb-Wahrnehmung.- Das Bild im Spiegel.- Die kybernetische Metapher.- Eine Epistemologie für kognitive Systeme.- Der Begriff der Äquilibration in einer konstruktivistischen Erkenntnistheorie.- Einführung in den radikalen Konstruktivismus.- Rückkopplung, Induktion und Erkenntnistheorie.- Regelung und Regler.- Kognitive Entwicklung.- Die Rolle des Wissens.- Kommunikation.- Schluß.- Danksagung.- Piagets Konstruktivismus — eine Interpretation.- Die Konstruktion der Erkenntnis.- Die Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit.- Die Begriffe der Wahrheit und Objektivität.- Schlußbemerkungen.- Übersetzungen.- Dank.- III. Untersuchungen zum Zahlbegriff.- Ein Bewußtseins-Modell der begrifflichen Konstruktion von Einheiten und Zahlen.- Danksagung.- „Subitizing“ Die Rolle figuraler Muster in der Entwicklung von Zahlbegriffen.- Wörter und Bedeutungen.- Zahlwörter ohne Zahlen.- Räumliche Konfiguration.- Temporale Muster.- Das Problem der Mächtigkeit.- Die Erfahrung von Einheiten, die aus Einheiten bestehen.- Die Erfahrung numerischer Relationen.- Zusammenfassung und Schlußbemerkungen.- Danksagung.- Lernen als konstruktive Tätigkeit.- Schlußbemerkungen.- Zitierte Literatur.- Namenverzeichnis.- SachWortverzeichnis.
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Campus Verlag Legitimizing Science: National and Global Public
Book SynopsisSince the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the national state has only grown stronger during the past two centuries. Here, historians, sociologists, and jurists discuss the history of that relationship since 1800, asking such key questions as how have scientists conceived of the national setting for their transnational work in the past, and how do they situate their work in the context of globalization? Taken together, the essays reveal that while nineteenth-century scientists in many countries felt they had to fight for public recognition of their work, the twentieth century witnessed the national endorsement and planning of science. With essays ranging from an analysis of speeches by nineteenth-century German university presidents to the state of science in the context of European integration, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the public and political role of science and its institutions in the past, present, and future.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Die multiparadigmatische Struktur der
Book SynopsisNach der Auffassung Thomas S. Kuhns ist in einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin, die einen bestimmten Reifegrad erreicht hat, stets genau ein Paradigma vorherrschend, welches die normalwissenschaftliche Entwicklung bestimmt. In diesem Sammelband wird untersucht, ob im Widerspruch zu Kuhn Paradigmenkonstellationen existieren, in denen mehrere Paradigmen über einen langen Zeitraum parallel existieren und unterschiedliche, sich z.T. widersprechende Erklärungsmuster für dieselben Gegenstandsbereiche bereitstellen. Zu diesem Zweck haben die Herausgeber Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Soziologie, Physik, Musikpädagogik, Erziehungs-, Politik-, Sprach-, Kultur- und Sportwissenschaft eingeladen, die Paradigmenstrukturen ihrer Wissenschaften anhand eines einheitlichen Begriffsapparates zu analysieren. Es stellt sich heraus, dass sich Kuhns Position als nicht adäquat erweist und durch ein differenzierteres Wissenschaftsverständnis abgelöst werden muss.Table of ContentsKoexistenz rivalisierender Paradigmen.- Thomas S. Kuhn.
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Springer Die Relativität von „Welt“: Wie Pseudoprobleme in
Book SynopsisDas Werk zeigt, inwiefern ein naives Verständnis von „Welt“ der Komplexität moderner Wissenschaften nicht gerecht wird. Es liefert einen wissenschaftstheoretischen Rahmen, in dem die interdisziplinären Fragestellungen von Psychologie, Neurowissenschaften, Biologie und Quantenphysik verstanden werden können, ohne in Aporien zu führen. Auf diese Weise trägt der Autor dazu bei, dass Grundlagenprobleme wie der Zusammenhang von Körper und Geist, Gehirn und Bewusstsein oder die Lokalisierung physikalischer Objekte in Raum und Zeit angemessen verstanden werden können. Entscheidend ist dabei der jeweilige Bezugsrahmen, der zu beachten ist: Epistemisch verschiedene Welten (Epistemological Different Worlds, abgekürzt EDW's) helfen, hypertrophe Begriffe (Scheinwelten) einer „realen Welt“ ab- bzw. in die jeweiligen Schranken zu verweisen. Trade Review“... einen interessanten Versuch, einen neuen Zugang zu Psychologie, den Neurowissenschaften und der Quantenphysik zu finden ohne dabei in Widersprüche zu geraten. Obwohl an ein breiteres Publikum gewandt, sind philosophische Grundkenntnisse bei der Lektüre hilfreich.” (Karl Schäfer, in: Amazon.de, 17. August 2016)Table of ContentsPrinzipien Epistemisch verschiedener Welten (EDW)s.- Ichbewusstsein/Körper/Geist.- Cartesianischer Dualismus und Dichotomien.- Der Begriff mentaler Repräsentation.- Schlüsselbegriffe in den Neuro- und Kognitionswissenschaften.- Zur Interpretation von Relativitätstheorie und Quantenphysik.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Vom Wert der Wissenschaft und vom Nutzen der
Book SynopsisAngesichts anhaltender Diskussionen um die notwendige oder wünschenswerte Förderung von Forschung und Wissenschaft unternimmt das Buch den Versuch, akademische Forschung als ein für demokratische Gesellschaften unverzichtbares Element öffentlicher Debatten und damit der öffentlichen Entscheidungsfindung zu verteidigen. Da Wissenschaft wie Demokratie beide verfahrensorientiert sind, ist ihre historische Verbindung kein Zufall. Vielmehr sind Demokratie und Wissenschaft wechselseitig aufeinander angewiesen. Ökonomisch betrachtet, lässt sich Wissenschaft als ein öffentliches Gut verstehen, das insbesondere für das Funktionieren einer Zivilgesellschaft unverzichtbar ist.Table of ContentsWissenschaft und sozialer Wandel.- Die Ökonomie des Erkennens.- Wissenschaft als öffentliche Vernunft.- Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft.
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Springer Spektrum Philosophie Und Physik Am Außerschulischen
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden David Hilbert: Grundlagen der Geometrie
Book SynopsisOriginaltext und historischer und mathematischer Kommentar von Klaus VolkertDavid Hilberts „Festschrift“ Grundlagen der Geometrie“ aus dem Jahre 1899 wurde zu einem der einflussreichsten Texte der Mathematikgeschichte. Wie kein anderes Werk prägte es die Mathematik des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist auch heute noch von größtem Interesse.Aus der Perspektive eines Mathematikhistorikers schildert der Herausgeber die Entwicklung einer Axiomatik der Geometrie, die spätestens mit Euklids „Elemente“ (ca. 300 v. u. Z.) begann und erst durch Hilbert zu einem vollständigen und handhabbaren System geführt wurde. Nach einer ausführlichen Erläuterung des Hilbertschen Textes wird seine Rezeption bis 1905 umfassend dargestellt und daran anschließend viele der von ihm ausgehenden weiteren direkten und indirekten Entwicklungen skizziert.Die Faszination des Textes ist auch dem heutigen Leser direkt zugänglich, da Hilbert´s axiomatischer Ansatz ohne mengentheoretische Argumente oder formale Logik auskommt.Trade Review“There is wealth of information of a historical nature that makes this a very valuable addition to the literature. The decision to stop at 1905 … will make the reader wanting to learn more about the longer-term influence of this classical work … .” Victor V. Pambuccian, Mathematical Reviews, October, 2018)Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Eine kurze Geschichte der Axiomatik insbesondere der Geometrie.- HilbertsWeg zu den „Grundlagen der Geometrie“.- Text der „Festschrift“.- Präsentation des Textes.- Die Rezeption der Hilbertschen „Festschrift“.- Nach der „Festschrift“.- A Klassische Sätze in Hilberts „Festschrift“ und seinen Vorlesungen.- B Hilberts Modelle.- Personenverzeichnis.- Stichwortverzeichnis.- Literaturverzeichnis.
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Springer Verlag GmbH Nietzsche und Schopenhauer (Vorlesungen)
Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band dokumentiert Schlicks fast vier Jahrzehnte währende, auf den ersten Blick immer noch überraschende und von der Forschung bisher nicht beachtete Beschäftigung mit Leben und Werk von Friedrich Nietzsche. Im Rahmen der um die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert einsetzenden universitären Nietzsche-Rezeption stehend, hatte die Begegnung mit Nietzsches Schriften eine geistige Auseinandersetzung zur Folge, wie sie in dieser Form und in diesem Umfang in Schlicks Denken einmalig ist. Denn abgesehen von Kant oder Mach hat sich Schlick mit keinem anderen Philosophen so intensiv über einen längeren Zeitraum hinweg auseinandergesetzt. Neben der erstmals im Rostocker Wintersemester 1912/13 gehaltenen Nietzsche-Vorlesung und einer dazugehörigen, im Nachlass überlieferten Vorarbeit enthält dieser Band auch den ersten Teil der zunächst im Sommersemester 1919 gehaltenen Vorlesung „Schopenhauer und Nietzsche“.
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New India Publishing Agency Internet of Things (Iot) Enabled Automation in
Book SynopsisThe primary intention of composing this book is to offer a basis for automating agricultural fields using various sensors and transmitting the data to the cloud through the internet of things. This book supplies the fundamental knowledge required for programming and connecting devices to an IoT modem, as well as the essential steps for comprehending IoT and its application in the agricultural field. It serves as a useful resource for postgraduate and undergraduate engineering students, particularly those studying Electronics, Electrical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Mechanical, and Computer Science. The distinctive feature of this book is that it provides programming-based real-time project prototypes, which are based on the practical experiences of the authors while working on projects with students and industries.
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Libreria Editrice Vaticana Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on
Book SynopsisThe essays in Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil resulted from the seventh international research conference co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory Foundation and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. It is the first in a new series on the problem of natural evil—on reconciling suffering caused by natural processes with God's goodness. The editors have divided this volume into four sections. The first includes history of the issue and a critical analysis of how the history has often been understood, followed by two chapters that provide typologies: one of types of suffering, the other of the various “shapes” of defenses. The second section comprises chapters that address the problem of suffering head-on, with resources from science, theology, and philosophy. The third section contains essays that address the issue by offering reformulations of typical understandings of the relation between God and the world. Finally, essays in the fourth section claim, in one way or another, that the question of the volume needs to be reframed. Contributors: Niels Christian Hvidt, Terrence W. Tilley, Wesley J. Wildman, Christopher Southgate, Andrew Robinson, William R. Stoeger, S.J., Robert John Russell, Nancey Murphy, Thomas F. Tracy, Philip Clayton, Steven Knapp, Kirk Wegter-McNelly, Denis Edwards, Brad J. Kallenberg, and Don Howard.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Social and Technological Innovation in Africa:
Book SynopsisThis book examines the landscape of sustained investment in research and innovation in Africa, which are critical for development. This cutting-edge analysis is based on empirical evidence and the author’s experience in managing health and related innovations on the continent and globally. It concludes, for the first time, that African innovation is largely driven by the principles of Social, rather than Technological innovation. The significance of this finding and the need to optimize, scale and sustain this dominant innovation is addressed in various chapters that analyze the status, challenges and opportunities. Particularly, the financing, collaboration and coordination patterns for these activities on the continent show a fragmented ecosystem that is largely dependent on external donors and aid. The importance of supportive policies, leadership and venture mechanisms that incentivizes public and private entities to innovate is further exemplified by the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book proposes mechanism to address identified challenges. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Demographics and Frameworks for African-Led Research, Innovation and Development 2. Landscape for Research and Innovation in Africa.3. Research, Invention and Innovation: Social and Technological—What Do They Mean?4. ANDI and African Health Innovation5. Human, Institutional and Financial Resources, and Partnerships6. African Traditional Knowledge, Other Technologies and Emerging Areas7. Technology Readiness Levels, the Valley of Death and Scaling Up Innovations8. Manufacturing in Africa 9. Adopting and Adapting Innovations: Frugal, Leapfrogging and Open Innovation Approaches10. Brain Drain, the African Diaspora and Innovation in Africa11. COVID-19 Pandemic, Leadership and Ownership of Innovation in Africa12. Integrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the African Educational System: Concept of IDEA University
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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
Book SynopsisThis book presents a study of the COVID-19 pandemic using computational social scientific analysis that draws from, and employs, statistics and simulations. Combining approaches in crisis management, risk assessment and mathematical modelling, the work also draws from the philosophy of sacrifice and futurology. It makes an original contribution to the important issue of the stability of society by highlighting two significant factors: the COVID-19 crisis as a catalyst for change and the rise of AI and Big Data in managing society. It also emphasizes the nature and importance of sacrifices and the role of politics in the distribution of sacrifices. The book considers the treatment of AI and Big Data and their use to both “good” and “bad” ends, exposing the inevitability of these tools being used. Relevant to both policymakers and social scientists interested in the influence of AI and Big Data on the structure of society, the book re-evaluates the ways we think of lifestyles, economic systems and the balance of power in tandem with digital transformation.Table of ContentsChapter 1. A Worldview Seen From Sacrifices.- Chapter 2. Crises, Risks and Sacrifices.- Chapter 3. A Crisis of COVID-19 and its Sacrifices.- Chapter 4. Formalizing Models on COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 5. For Balancing Health Care and Economics.- Chapter 6. Five Virtues to be Digitized Norms.- Chapter 7. Synchronizing Everything to the Digitized World.- Chapter 8. A Living Way in the Digitized World.- Chapter 9. A New World in Motion.- Chapter 10. Digitized Shifts of Regime and Hegemony.- Chapter 11. On Balance of Power.- Chapter 12. For Strategies in The Age of After Corona.- Chapter 13. Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Ubiquitous Mapping: Perspectives from Japan
Book SynopsisSince the last decades of the twentieth century, the circumstances surrounding map use and map making have drastically changed owing to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs). In particular, the spread of web maps and mobile devices have altered the way people interact with maps. This book features the latest works on theoretical and practical issues of these changes by terming them “ubiquitous mapping”. In particular, the book pays attention to not only the technological basis but also multidisciplinary human–social aspects. The book covers the topics of the evaluation of ICT-based technologies for context-aware mapping, the theory and application of crowd-sourced geospatial information and collaborative mapping, and both the positive and negative effects of ubiquitous mapping on human society.Table of Contents1 On the Establishment of Theoretical Cartography and Meta-cartography and the Subsequent Development of Ubiquitous Mapping Part 1 Technological issues and applications 2 Ubiquitous Digital Storytelling with Local and Dynamic Georeferencing of Analog Maps 3 Developing and Evaluating Virtual Heiankyō AR 4 Role of Maps and Public Street Signs in Wayfinding Behavior by Foreign Visitors Part 2 Human aspects 5 Use of Smartphones as Navigation Aids and Acquisition of Spatial Knowledge 6 Intergenerational Differences in the Use of Maps: Results from an online survey 7 Development Process of OpenStreetMap Data in Japan Part 3 Social and practical issues 8 Stigmatization on the Web: Ethical consideration of geospatial stigmatiza-tion via online mapping 9 How Have Tactile Maps for the Visually Impaired Been Situated in Japan?: From the analysis of newspaper articles 10 Mapping Isolation: Distribution of Isolated Foreign Women Living in Rural Japan
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Information Age Publishing Management Consulting in the Era of the Digital
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