Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Théories et modèles en sciences humaines
Le cas de la géographie
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Une épistémologie des méthodes scientifiques
Face à la diversité et à la complexification des modes de formalisation, une épistémologie des méthodes scientifiques doit confronter directement ses analyses à une pluralité d’études de cas comparatives. C’est l’objectif de cet...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
*Includes pictures of Newton and important people in his life.*Discusses Newton's discoveries and theories, including the legend about the falling apple inspiring his discovery of gravity.*Includes excerpts of Newton's most influential quotes and writings. *Includes linked footnotes and a Table of Contents....
Outsider Scientists
Routes to Innovation in Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by “outsiders” in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose primary training was in other fields: mathematics,...
A Portrait of Twenty-five Years
Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1960–1985
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science began 2S years ago as an interdisciplinary, interuniversity collaboration of friends and colleagues in philosophy, logic, the natural sciences and the social sciences, psychology, religious studies, arts and literature, and often the celebrated man-in-the...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Climate is defined as the weather conditions over a long period of time. By knowing the climate of an area, you will know the plants and animals that can be found there. You will also have an idea on the culture and fashion people follow. Weather, on the other hand, is short-term. Do you want to know more? Then read this book today!
Measurement and Probability
A Probabilistic Theory of Measurement with Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Measurement plays a fundamental role both in physical and behavioral sciences, as well as in engineering and technology: it is the link between abstract models and empirical reality and is a privileged method of gathering information from the real world.
Is it possible to develop a single theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This book presents a broad spectrum of problems related to statistics, mathematics, teaching, social science, and economics as well as a range of tools and techniques that can be used to solve these problems. It is the result of a scientific collaboration between experts in the field of economic and...
Designing Human Practices
An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center—a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of...
AsapSCIENCE
Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The instant New York Times bestselling book of entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible illustrated answers to the scientific “questions you had no idea were bugging you all your life” (Fast Company), from the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE.
Why do we...
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
Discourse on the Method of Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals...
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both, the book provides sophisticated and innovative coverage of the central topics and many of the latest developments...
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around...
by William J. Boone, John R. Staver, Melissa S. Yale
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences helps individuals, both students and researchers, master the key concepts and resources needed to use Rasch techniques for analyzing data from assessments to measure variables such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. Upon completion of the text, readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This volume sheds light on still unexplored issues and raises new questions in the main areas addressed by the philosophy of science. Bringing together selected papers from three main events, the book presents the most advanced scientific results in the field and suggests innovative lines for further...