History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Kathleen Dean Moore

ETHICAL ACTION How can we protect the flourishing of all life? If it’s true that we can’t destroy our habitats without destroying our lives, as Rachel Carson said, and if ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:John A. Heitmann

CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF VIOLENCE IN THE CITY A prime example highlighting the connections between violence in an urban environment, race, and auto theft can be found in the 1993 release ...
( Category: Automotive April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stengers

Figure A When coming out of spores the amoebae grow and multiply as unicellular organisms. This situation extends until food, principally furnished by bacteria, becomes scarce. Then the amoebae cease ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Shobita Parthasarathy [Parthasarathy, Shobita]

Validation in the Courts As the Edinburgh and WARF patent oppositions crawled along, Christoph Then (this time on behalf of Greenpeace) also challenged hESC patents through the national courts. Eventually ...
( Category: Legal History April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-18 | Author:George Sarton [Sarton, George]

In the meanwhile, economic conditions had changed as fast and deeply as the political ones. The farms of Attica had been devastated during the war; the little farmers were the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Howard I. Kushner

Marian Annett proposed that the prevalence of right-handedness and left-hemisphere speech resulted from a single gene (RS+) that impaired the right hemisphere. (Photo courtesy of Marian Annett.) Chris McManus challenged ...
( Category: Medicine April 4,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hasok Chang [Chang, Hasok]

52. Bridgman denied that he ever intended to create a rigid and systematic philosophy. In a conference session devoted to the discussion of his ideas in 1953, he complained: "As ...
( Category: Experiments, Instruments & Measurement April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-08 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Thomas Hunt Morgan’s 1915 diagram of the Mendelian genetics of eye color in fruit flies, with the mother’s egg containing an X chromosome carrying a gene for red eyes and ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-04 | Author:Dennis Overbye

WHAT CAME TO be known as the First Solvay Congress thus cast long shadows personally and stylistically, as well as scientifically. It was followed by a series of biennial summit ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Lieberman

NEURAL CIRCUITS A discussion on how brains work first entails showing that the traditional theory, proposed in the early years of the nineteenth century, is wrong. Coming of Age in ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-04 | Author:Sidney Perkowitz

9 MONSTER NO MORE: A CONVERSATION WITH THE CREATORS OF PENNY DREADFUL AND I, FRANKENSTEIN Eddy Von Mueller In the two hundred years since its fateful first appearance in print, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Crockett, Clayton;

6 Radical Theology and the Event Caputo’s Derridean Gospel In this chapter, I focus on Caputo’s interpretation of Derrida to show how his attention to the event in religious and ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Binmore [Binmore, Ken]

7.3 PERSONA GAMES WITH OTHER-REGARDING PERSONAS To illustrate the breadth of persona games, we now consider personas for a player that involve the utilities of that player’s opponents. Such personas ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:Michel Serres

The space of circulation, a diffuse orality, free movements, the end of classified classes, disparate distributions, the serendipity of invention, the speed of light, the novelty of both subjects and ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-05 | Author:Steven Poole

Against principles Much later, Copernicus’s name was borrowed for a guiding scientific assumption known as the Copernican Principle. Just as Copernicus himself had demoted Earth’s place in the grand scheme ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 4,2018 )