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Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des MPIWG veröffentlichen zahlreiche Bücher, darunter Monografien, Gruppenarbeiten und Sammelbände. Unsere Arbeitsgruppenbücher, eine institutsspezifische Publikationsform, sind von zwei oder mehr Autorinnen und Autoren verfasste Bände, die aus einer intensiven Zusammenarbeit entstehen.
The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes a renewed look at this work.
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This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century. The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein's pathbreaking achievements that sealed the decline of the classical notions of space, time, radiation, and matter, and resulted in the theory of relativity.
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'Critical Neuroscience' brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field.
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Der dritte Band der Geschichte der Universität zu Berlin beschäftigt sich mit dem kontroversen Experiment einer sozialistischen Hochschule von 1945 bis 1990 und für die Zeit seit 1990 mit der erfolgreichen Neugestaltung bis heute.
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Sculptures, peintures, mimes, ouvrages médicaux, philosophiques et littéraires, sont conviés afin de considérer la perception du corps au XVIIIe siècle. Le corps, on l'a souvent remarqué, est au centre du discours au XVIIIe siècle. Mais lorsqu'on en fait le sujet même d'une étude, on s'aperçoit qu'il intervient souvent pour parler d'autre chose.
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This is a history of one of the oldest and most important scientific societies, the German Physical Society, during the Nazi regime and immediate postwar period.
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Looking at knowledge transmission as a cultural feature, this book isolates and examines the individual factors that affect knowledge in the making and created uniquely Chinese cultures of knowledge. The volume is organized into four sections: Internode, Imperial Court, Agora, and Scholarly Arts.
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The Sciences of the Soul is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth.
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In this book leading authors in the field of science and religion, highlight the oft-neglected and profound philosophical foundations that underlie some of the most frequent questions at the boundary between science and religion: the reality of knowledge, and the notions of creation, life and design.
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This collection of papers by Bibek Hruška's friends, students and colleagues was intended as a 'Festschrift' to celebrate his 65th birthday in 2010. Sadly, his life came to an abrupt end almost full two years before. The contributions to this volume reflect Bibek's vast range of scholarly interests very well.
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The volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history from its founding until the present.
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Aus kulturhistorischer Perspektive wird die Gesellschaftsgestaltung durch katholische und protestantische Missionare aus verschiedenen europäischen Kolonialstaaten zwischen 1700 und 1900 nachgezeichnet.
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This book speaks about a world of mute objects ranging from plant bulbs, divining rods, and archeological findings to drawn, painted or printed images.
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The "Exercitationes" display a systematic application of Archimedean principles to the explanation of the questions discussed in "Mechanical Problems" illustrating the patchwork character of preclassical mechanics.
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In "Between Raphael and Galileo", Alexander Marr resurrects the career and achievements of Oddi in order to examine the ways in which mathematics, material culture, and the book shaped knowledge, society, and the visual arts in late Renaissance Italy.
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Die Atomdiskussion des Jahres 2011 berührt vielschichtige Aspekte der Energieversorgung. Das Buch bietet dazu aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen aktuell Informationen und Hintergründe in allgemein verständlicher Form.
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This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri, a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687).
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The central purpose of epistemology, as traditionally understood, is to identify and justify the epistemic basis of knowledge, including scientific knowledge. While epistemology in this sense is one of the strongest branches of contemporary philosophy, its universalizing approach has been criticized in various ways.
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Primo volume della collana Mathematica dedicato alla figura del matematico Gerolamo Saccheri (1667-1733), di cui Vincenzo De Risi presenta qui una delle opere fondamentali in una traduzione corredata di apparato critico.
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In the summer of 1948, the Danish pharmaceutical company Leo called a press conference. The next day, news spread that in collaboration with scientists at the Royal Caroline Hospital in Stockholm, the company had discovered a cure for sterility to be called Gonadex.
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