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Security, Loyalty, and Science
Both sides of a sensitive problem are assessed by Professor Gellhorn in this penetrating analysis of national security and its effect upon scientific progress. The costs and advantages of secrecy in certain areas of science and the conflict between national safety and individual rights in the administration of our federal loyalty program are presented; all the arguments are objectively weighed.…
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- 32
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- 9781501740688
- Collation
- v, 312 p
- Series Title
- Cornell Studies in Civil Liberties
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- -
Debating humanity : towards a philosophical sociology
Debating Humanity explores sociological and philosophical efforts to delineate key features of humanity that identify us as members of the human species. After challenging the normative contradictions of contemporary posthumanism, this book goes back to the foundational debate on humanism between Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger in the 1940s and then re-assesses the implicit and expli…
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- -
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- 9781316416303
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- -
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- 128 DAN d
Europe from below
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded th…
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- -
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- 9789004449800
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- xvi; 235 pg; ill.
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- -
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- 306.094 EUR
Open Science: the Very Idea
This open access book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research. The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and sociology of science, which is of interest to a broad readership. The book …
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- -
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- 9789402421156
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- xxiii, 247 p.
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- -
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- 501 OPE F
Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, p…
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- -
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- 9783030845704
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- vii, 245 p.
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- -
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- 501 CON H
Post-Truth Imaginations : New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Te…
This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned or as accusations against…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429053061
- Collation
- 238p.
- Series Title
- History and Philosophy of Technoscience
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- 177.3 KJE p
Perspectives on digital humanism
This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated le…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030861445
- Collation
- xviii, 342 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 004 WER p
The idea of Europe: enlightenment perspectives
In view of the challenges—many of which are political—that different European countries are currently facing, scholars who work on the eighteenth century have compiled this anthology which includes earlier recognitions of common values and past considerations of questions which often remain pertinent nowadays. During the Enlightenment, many men and women of letters envisaged the continentâ€â€¦
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- -
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- 9781783743803
- Collation
- 163 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 940.2 IDE i
Reimagining science education in the anthropocene
This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene. The collection assembles the works of educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together to help reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with the geologic times many call the Anthropocene. It has become evident that sc…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030796228
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- xx, 375 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment
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- 507.1 HIG r
Measurement across the sciences : developing a shared concept system for meas…
This book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and psychology. The authors, who themselves span these disciplines, argue that the justification of the public trust attributed to measurement results can in principle apply identically to both physical and psychosoc…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030655587
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- xxvi, 287 p.; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 389.1 MAR m
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