History & Philosophy
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:David Wallace [Wallace, David]

7.6 Case study: what are we uncertain about? I have argued that charity considerations require us to adopt the Conservative View of semantics and thus to take an attitude of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hargittai, Istvan.

MacDiarmid had been at UPenn since 1955, having been born and brought up in New Zealand and having earned his first PhD at the University of Wisconsin and his second ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Harry Collins & Robert Evans

The consensus index Consensus comes in different strengths. Knowing the degree of consensus is as vital for policy-making as knowing the substance. In deciding on degree of consensus, there is ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-08 | Author:Robert W. Winters

Part V Drugs that Affect the Heart CHAPTER 14 Nitroglycerin and Amyl Nitrite: Boom! There is a disorder of the breast marked with strong and peculiar symptoms considerable for the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Close

Figure 7: Planck scales: mass, length and time. The remoteness of the Planck scale is thus both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, our core theory has ...
( Category: Reference April 8,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Steven Gimbel

CHAPTER FIVE Did Relativity Influence the Jewish Intelligentsia? The claim that Einstein’s theory of relativity is “Jewish science” was a Nazi construction, but is it possible that the Jews could ...
( Category: World April 8,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-27 | Author:Benjamin Hale

The Elixir of Utopia The Death Star, I suspect, is a pretty unpleasant place to raise a child. Notwithstanding concerns that Lord Vader may trample the family puppy, there’s the ...
( Category: Engineering April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Stephen Hawking

ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author wishes to thank Dr. Einstein for several interesting and stimulating discussions. A SUGGESTED INTERPRETATION OF THE QUANTUM THEORY IN TERMS OF “HIDDEN” VARIABLES. II BY DAVID BOHM ...
( Category: Mathematics April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-08 | Author:John Dvorak

Today it is easy to trivialize what De La Rue and Secchi had done. But one must remember how little was known about the physical character of the Sun and ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Rob Wesson

As Darwin toiled to finish his paper on the Parallel Roads, another important issue was on his mind: marriage. Darwin, since taking up residence in London, had become an attractive ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carlo Rovelli

SCIENCE CANNOT BE REDUCED TO VERIFIABLE PREDICTIONS To be sure, we can find reliability in science despite these uncertainties. Newton’s theory is not less valuable after Einstein. Anyone who needs ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 8,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:Robert J. Richards

The Confrontation between Wasmann and the Monists In his Berlin lectures, Haeckel took delight in referring to Wasmann as the “Darwinian Jesuit,” an ironically intended designation that yet begrudgingly suggested ...
( Category: Evolution April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Pilcher

In a Pickle An Australian by birth, Michael Archer grew up in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. As a child, he was more interested in the local ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Peter Crane

PART VI Use OVERLEAF, A large ginkgo tree, probably a male, towers over an orchard of smaller female trees in early spring near Sobue, Honshu, Japan. 30 Gardens The garden ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gaston Bachelard

Chapter 4 Duration and Intellectual Causality I 67 Our intention in taking the problem of temporal effectiveness into the domain of physics was simply to confront possible objections and to ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 8,2018 )