"This book explains, in simple but accurate terms, how orthodox quantum mechanics works. The author, a distinguished theoretical physicist, shows how this theory, realistically interpreted, assigns an important role to our conscious free choices. Stapp claims that mainstream bio…
"'The chapters in this handbook question the very idea that what constitutes ethical research can exist outside of specific contexts and applications.' -Damien Riggs, Associate Professor, Flinders University, Australia 'The editors have collected a remarkable set of stories abou…
"When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural indication of a shift in thinki…
"Academics have long claimed that the relationship between religion and science concerns knowledge of the physical world, and that conflict ensues because religion has one way of knowing and science another. For example, it is claimed that to find the age of the Earth religious …
"This book shows how the three-term contingency paradigm created by B.F. Skinner can be applied to describe and explain cultural practices phenomena produced by complex relations between behavior and environment. It updates the academic debate on the best paradigm to analyze com…
Cet ouvrage à voix plurielles se place resolument dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Neuf auteurs de premier plan, oeuvrant sous des horizons diversifies, se confrontent à la crise actuelle de la democratie. Une these centrale ordonne le travail d'analyse : cette crise tir…
by Aygün, Ömer
fromRereading ancient philosophy
"Cette étude tente de reconstruire la première phénoménologie de la religion du jeune Heidegger par l'examen du recueil de notes éparses rédigées entre 1916 et 1919 et intitulé rétrospectivement Les fondements philosophiques de la mystique médiévale. Entre sa thèse d'habilitatio…
"Education is the transmission of knowledge and skill from one generation to another, and is vitally significant for the growth and unfolding of the living individual. It manifests the quintessential ability of the logos to differentiate life in self-individualization from withi…
"Cosmology is the study of the origin, size, and evolution of the entire universe. Every culture has developed a cosmology, whether it be based on religious, philosophical, or scientific principles. In this book, the evolution of the scientific understanding of the Universe in W…
by Ydri, Badis
fromIOP (Series)
"This book is a rigorous text for students in physics and mathematics requiring an introduction to the implications and interpretation of general relativity in areas of cosmology. Readers of this text will be well prepared to follow the theoretical developments in the field and …
