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Ursula Klein (2016)

Alexander von Humboldt : Vater der Umweltbewegung?

Klein, U. (2016). Alexander von Humboldt: Vater der Umweltbewegung? In Achtsamer Umgang mit Ressourcen und miteinander - gestern und heute (pp. 115-129). Roßdorf: TZ-Verlag.

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Alexander S. Blum, Christian Joas (2016)

From dressed electrons to quasiparticles : the emergence of emergent entities in quantum field theory

Blum, A. S., & Joas, C. (2016). From dressed electrons to quasiparticles: the emergence of emergent entities in quantum field theory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 53, 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.10.005.

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Between the Natural and the Human Sciences

Questions about the histories of kinds of knowledge, evidence, and objects are common to all the sciences, from astronomy to psychology, from meteorol
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Ursula Klein (2016)

Kuhns Theorie wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen in der neueren Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Klein, U. (2016). Kuhns Theorie wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen in der neueren Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Acta Historica Leopoldina, 65, 207-220.

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The Cerebral Subject: Brain, Self, and Body in Contemporary Culture

The goal of this group project was to study the emergence, functioning, and topography in contemporary culture of the idea, epitomized by the expressi
Publications, Francisco Ortega and Ferndando Vidal (eds.), Neurocultures: glimpses into an expanding universe, (Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang, 2011), Funding Institutions, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
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The Impact of Neurosciences in the Psychosomatic Field

This research project was concerned with the development of current practices in the psychosomatic field that are influenced by the neurosciences. Raf
Funding Institutions, CAPES Brazil, Instituto de Medicina Social (IMS), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
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Neurophilosophers, Neuroscientists, and the Dreaming Brain

In recent decades, brain research has led to a neurobiologization of our self-image. In the 1980s, the anthropological, epistemological, and ethical c
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Being Brains

In the context of the collaborative project “The Cerebral Subject: Brain and Self in Contemporary Culture,” Fernando Vidal and Francisco Javier Guerre
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Neuromythology: A Pamphlet against the Interpretative Authority of Brain Research

Since the proclamation of the "Decade of the Brain" in the 1990s, the neurosciences worked a triumphant success without precedent. Far beyond the boun
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Cold War Rationality

A loose conglomerate of game theory, nuclear strategy, operations research, Bayesian decision theory, systems analysis, rational choice theory, and ex
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