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17 produkter
Synthetic Age
E-bok, 2019
192 kr
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Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering. We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics …
Gibbs States on Countable Sets
Häftad, 2008
667 kr
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The book is an introduction to some of the 1967-1974 results and techniques in classical lattice statistical mechanics. It is written in the language of probability theory rather than that of physics, and is thus aimed primarily at mathematicians who might have little or no background in physics. …
Engineering the Climate
The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management
Häftad, 2013
717 kr
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Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing …
Grounding Knowledge
Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place
Inbunden, 2003
834 kr
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Mountains and freeways, oceans and apartment buildings, trees and automobiles: such things lend shape to mental activity, says Christopher J. Preston. Yet Western epistemology, since its origins, has neglected these material factors. Even postmodern perspectives on how we think and know continue to …
Grounding Knowledge
Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place
E-bok, 2010
702 kr
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Mountains and freeways, oceans and apartment buildings, trees and automobiles: such things lend shape to mental activity, says Christopher J. Preston. Yet Western epistemology, since its origins, has neglected these material factors. Even postmodern perspectives on how we think and know continue to …
Grounding Knowledge
Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place
E-bok, 2010
687 kr
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Mountains and freeways, oceans and apartment buildings, trees and automobiles: such things lend shape to mental activity, says Christopher J. Preston. Yet Western epistemology, since its origins, has neglected these material factors. Even postmodern perspectives on how we think and know continue to …
Nature, Value, Duty
Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III
Av Christopher J. Preston, Wayne Ouderkirk
Inbunden, 2006
1643 kr
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Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics. His writings range between natural philosophy and theology and include detailed presentations of an interlocking position that includes aesthetics, value theory, natural resource …
Nature, Value, Duty
Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III
Av Wayne Ouderkirk, Christopher J. Preston
E-bok, 2006
2111 kr
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Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics. His writings range between natural philosophy and theology and include detailed presentations of an interlocking position that includes aesthetics, value theory, natural resource …
Saving Creation
Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III
E-bok, 2011
275 kr
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Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the “father of environmental ethics.” Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolston’s story is traced …
Climate Justice and Geoengineering
Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2016
1853 kr
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It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change. This volume is the first to put the …
Climate Justice and Geoengineering
Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene
Häftad, 2016
631 kr
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It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change. This volume is the first to put the …
Climate Justice and Geoengineering
Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene
E-bok, 2016
686 kr
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It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change. This volume is the first to put the …
Sind wir noch zu retten?
Wie wir mit neuen Technologien die Natur verändern können
Häftad, 2019
364 kr
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Nanotechnologie, synthetische Biologie, Wiedererweckung ausgestorbener Arten und Geoengineering – werden Menschen die Natur in Zukunft mit solchen Methoden grundlegend umgestalten? Man könnte es sich vorstellen.Auf der Erde gibt es keinen von Menschen unberührten Ort mehr – das hat wohl jeder schon …
Sind wir noch zu retten?
Wie wir mit neuen Technologien die Natur verändern können
E-bok, 2019
351 kr
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Nanotechnologie, synthetische Biologie, Wiedererweckung ausgestorbener Arten und Geoengineering – werden Menschen die Natur in Zukunft mit solchen Methoden grundlegend umgestalten? Man könnte es sich vorstellen. Auf der Erde gibt es keinen von Menschen unberührten Ort mehr – das hat wohl jeder …
Nature, Value, Duty
Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III
Av Christopher J. Preston, Wayne Ouderkirk
Häftad, 2010
1643 kr
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Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics. His writings range between natural philosophy and theology and include detailed presentations of an interlocking position that includes aesthetics, value theory, natural resource …
Synthetic Age
Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
Häftad, 2019
157 kr
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