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29 produkter
Everything Flows
Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology
Av Daniel J. Nicholson, John Dupré
Inbunden, 2018
1894 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Everything Flows explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world …
Value-Free Science
Ideals and Illusions?
Av Alison Wylie, John Dupre m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
862 kr
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It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free. Things are not so simple, however, as recent work in science studies makes clear. The contributors to this volume investigate where and how values …
Darwin's Legacy
What Evolution Means Today
Av John Dupre
E-bok, 2003
147 kr
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Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the universe and our place in it with his development of the theory of evolution. 150 years later, we are still puzzling over the implications. John Dupré presents a lucid, witty introduction to evolution and what it means for our view of humanity, …
Processes of Life
Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
Av John Dupre
E-bok, 2012
538 kr
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John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and related areas of molecular biology have eroded the exceptional status of the gene and presented the genome as fully interactive …
Darwin's Legacy
What Evolution Means Today
Av John Dupre
E-bok, 2003
147 kr
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Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the universe and our place in it with his development of the theory of evolution. 150 years later, we are still puzzling over the implications. John Dupré presents a lucid, witty introduction to evolution and what it means for our view of humanity, …
Value-Free Science?
Ideals and Illusions
Av Harold Kincaid, John Dupré m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1243 kr
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It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free. Things are not so simple, however, as recent work in science studies makes clear. The contributors to this volume investigate where and how values …
Value-Free Science
Ideals and Illusions?
Av Alison Wylie, John Dupre m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
862 kr
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It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free. Things are not so simple, however, as recent work in science studies makes clear. The contributors to this volume investigate where and how values …
Processes of Life
Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
Av John Dupré
Häftad, 2014
781 kr
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John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and related areas of molecular biology have eroded the exceptional status of the gene and presented the genome as fully interactive …
Everyone Flows
A Process Philosophy of Human Life
Av John Dupré
Inbunden, 2025
1066 kr
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Everyone Flows starts with an ancient and fundamental philosophical question: whether we live in a world of things, stable, autonomous, and with sharp boundaries, or a world of processes in flux, in which stabilities are only transient and processes are inextricably intertwined with one another. …
Everyone Flows
A Process Philosophy of Human Life
Av John Dupre
E-bok, 2025
861 kr
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Everyone Flows starts with an ancient and fundamental philosophical question: whether we live in a world of things, stable, autonomous, and with sharp boundaries, or a world of processes in flux, in which stabilities are only transient and processes are inextricably intertwined with one another. …
Everyone Flows
A Process Philosophy of Human Life
Av John Dupre
E-bok, 2025
880 kr
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Everyone Flows starts with an ancient and fundamental philosophical question: whether we live in a world of things, stable, autonomous, and with sharp boundaries, or a world of processes in flux, in which stabilities are only transient and processes are inextricably intertwined with one another. …
Everyone Flows
A Process Philosophy of Human Life
Av John Dupré
Häftad, 2025
268 kr
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Everyone Flows starts with an ancient and fundamental philosophical question: whether we live in a world of things, stable, autonomous, and with sharp boundaries, or a world of processes in flux, in which stabilities are only transient and processes are inextricably intertwined with one another. …
Human Nature and the Limits of Science
Av John Dupré, John Dupre
Inbunden, 2001
803 kr
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John Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of …
Human Nature and the Limits of Science
Av John Dupré, John Dupre
Häftad, 2003
895 kr
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John Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which humans aim in terms of …
Darwin's Legacy
What Evolution Means Today
Av John Dupré
Häftad, 2005
238 kr
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Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the universe and our place in it with his development of the theory of evolution. 150 years later, we are still puzzling over the implications. John Dupré presents a lucid, witty introduction to evolution and what it means for our view of humanity, …
Processes of Life
Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
Av John Dupré
Inbunden, 2012
1985 kr
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John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and related areas of molecular biology have eroded the exceptional status of the gene and presented the genome as fully interactive …
Genomes and What to Make of Them
Häftad, 2013
160 kr
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In 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that it had achieved a stunning scientific breakthrough: the full map of the human genome, and with it our first complete picture of the basic building block of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits - and warnings of the dangers - of genomics …
Genomes and What to Make of Them
Inbunden, 2008
237 kr
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The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits - and warnings of the dangers - of …
Biological Identity
Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology
Av Anne Sophie Meincke, John Dupré
Häftad, 2022
692 kr
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Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a biological understanding of …
Disorder of Things
Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science
Av John Dupré
Häftad, 1995
407 kr
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The great dream of philosophers and scientists for millennia has been to give us a complete account of the order of things. A powerful articulation of such a dream in this century has been found in the idea of a unity of science. With this manifesto, John Dupré systematically attacks the ideal of …
Metaphysics of Biology
Av John Dupre
E-bok, 2021
294 kr
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This Element is an introduction to the metaphysics of biology, a very general account of the nature of the living world. The first part of the Element addresses more traditionally philosophical questions - whether biological systems are reducible to the properties of their physical parts, causation …
Biological Identity
Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology
Av Anne Sophie Meincke, John Dupré
Inbunden, 2020
2515 kr
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Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a biological understanding of …
Sermons on Various Subjects. by John Dupre, ... Second Edition.
Av John Dupre
Häftad, 2010
271 kr
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Biological Identity
Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology
Av John Dupre, Anne Sophie Meincke
E-bok, 2020
820 kr
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Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a biological understanding of …
Biological Identity
Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology
Av John Dupre, Anne Sophie Meincke
E-bok, 2020
820 kr
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Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a biological understanding of …
Sermons on Various Subjects. By John Dupré, ... Second Edition
Av John Dupré
Inbunden, 2018
399 kr
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Drawing Processes of Life
Molecules, Cells, Organisms
Av Gemma Anderson-Tempini, John Dupré
Inbunden, 2023
1860 kr
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Drawing Processes of Life is the product of biologists, philosophers, and artists working together to formulate new ways of representing our new approach to life. It is a mutualistic symbiosis, where identities are transformed, information and nutritive substances shared, and where new organisms …
Drawing Processes of Life
Molecules, Cells, Organisms
Av Gemma Anderson-Tempini, John Dupré
Häftad, 2023
518 kr
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Drawing Processes of Life is the product of biologists, philosophers, and artists working together to formulate new ways of representing our new approach to life. It is a mutualistic symbiosis, where identities are transformed, information and nutritive substances shared, and where new organisms …
El legado de Darwin
Qué significa hoy la evolución
Av John Dupre
E-bok, 2006
84 kr
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Este libro sostiene que la teoría formulada por Darwin tiene consecuencias trascendentales para nuestra visión de nosotros mismos y de nuestro lugar en el universo. Y explica, con un lenguaje sencillo y claro, el alcance y los límites de dicha teoría, sus implicaciones sobre el mundo religioso, las …
