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9 produkter
Power of Life
The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Inbunden, 2026
343 kr
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026 “A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore “A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava Sobel The tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the …
Restless Clock
A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
Häftad, 2018
316 kr
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Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that …
Genesis Redux
Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
Häftad, 2007
349 kr
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Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. "Genesis Redux" examines key …
Science in the Age of Sensibility
The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment
Häftad, 2002
359 kr
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Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was inimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism", natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin …
Genesis Redux
Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
Inbunden, 2007
1538 kr
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Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life's measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. "Genesis Redux" examines key …
Genesis Redux
Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
E-bok, 2010
758 kr
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Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments …
Science in the Age of Sensibility
The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2002
897 kr
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Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was inimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism", natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin …
Science in the Age of Sensibility
The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment
E-bok, 2010
758 kr
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Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. …
