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Controlling Our Destinies
Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project
Häftad, 2000
520 kr
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This work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the human genetic structure by the year 2005 - offering the elimination of genetic abnormalities and diseases.
Causality in Crisis?
Statistical Methods & Search for Causal Knowledge in Social Sciences
Av Vaughn McKim, Stephen Turner
Häftad, 1997
458 kr
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In the past fifty years statisticians and methodologists in the social sciences have developed and refined a family of closely related statistical methods for the study of social phenomena. While the value of such methods of analysis is universally acknowledged, their use has never been wholly …
Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory
Reflections on Bell's Theorem
Av James T. Cushing, Ernan McMullin
Inbunden, 1989
1537 kr
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From the beginning, the implications of quantum theory for our most general understanding of the world have been a matter of intense debate. The contributors to this volume wrestle with questions such as how can a clash between the two fundamental theories of modern physics, relativity and quantum …
Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory
Reflections on Bell's Theorem
Av James T. Cushing, Ernan McMullin
Häftad, 1992
524 kr
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From the beginning, the implications of quantum theory for our most general understanding of the world have been a matter of intense debate. Einstein argues that the theory had to be regarded as fundamentally incomplete. Its inability, for example, to predict the exact time of decay of a single …
Church and Galileo
Inbunden, 2005
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This collection of essays examines the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo. This volume gives an account of Galileo and his turbulent relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. Contributors provide careful analyses of the interactions of the Church and Galileo between 1612 …
Church and Galileo
Häftad, 2005
615 kr
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This collection of essays examines the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo. This volume gives an account of Galileo and his turbulent relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. Contributors provide careful analyses of the interactions of the Church and Galileo between 1612 …
Darwin in the Twenty-First Century
Nature, Humanity, and God
Häftad, 2015
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This collection of essays assess the continuing relevance of Darwin's work from the perspectives of biological science, history, philosophy, and theology. The contributors focus on three primary areas: developments in evolutionary biology that open up new ground for interdisciplinary dialogue; …
