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  • Epistemology of Intelligence Agencies

    About the analogy between the epistemological and methodological aspects of the activity of intelligence agencies and some scientific disciplines, advocating for a more scientific approach to the process of collecting and analyzing information within the intelligence cycle. I assert that the theoretical, ontological and epistemological aspects of the activity of many intelligence agencies are ... Read more

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  • Why Is There I Rather Than It?

    Ontology of the Subject in the Upaniṣads

    Series Book 21 - Studies in Philosophy, History of Ideas and Modern Societies
    The book explores one of the most important problems in Indian philosophical thought: the subject in its particular relation to the world. In what sense does the subject exist? How does it constitute the world? The analysis hinges on Sanskrit sources, mainly the Upanis. ads. However, it goes beyond the question of the subject. The book discusses the concept of how the subject establishes the world ... Read more

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  • What People Leave Behind

    Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Relevance to Knowledge Society

    Series Book 7 - Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research
    This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions that remain ... Read more

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  • Epistemologia serviciilor de informaţii

    Despre analogia existentă între aspectele epistemologice şi metodologice ale activităţii serviciilor de informaţii şi unele discipline ştiinţifice, pledând pentru o abordare mai ştiinţifică a procesului de culegere şi analiză de informaţii din cadrul ciclului de informaţii. Afirm că în prezent aspectele teoretice, ontologice şi epistemologice, în activitatea multor servicii de informaţii, sunt ... Read more

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  • O estatuto científico da ciência cognitiva em sua fase inicial

    uma análise a partir da Estrutura das revoluções científicas de Thomas Kuhn

    O objetivo desta obra é averiguar o estatuto da ciência cognitiva em sua formação, mais especificamente, entre os anos de 1940 e 1970. Teria ela começado como pré-ciência ou já teria se estabelecido como ciência normal? Para responder a essa questão, os autores apresentam o surgimento dessa área de pesquisa em dois contextos: histórico e epistemológico. Feito isso, analisam, com base no arcabouço ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Knowledges and the Sustainable Development Agenda

    Edited by Anders Breidlid, Roy Krøvel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy
    This book discusses the vital importance of including indigenous knowledges in the sustainable development agenda. In the wake of colonialism and imperialism, dialogue between indigenous knowledges and Western epistemology has broken down time and again. However, in recent decades the broader indigenous struggle for rights and recognition has led to a better understanding of indigenous knowledges, ... Read more

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  • Cosmology

    Philosophy & Physics

    Translated by Georgia Pirounaki ...
    In modern philosophy of nature the World is unified and holistic. Cosmic Universe and Human History, microcosm and macrocosm, inorganic and living matter coexist and form a unique unity manifested in multiple forms. The Physical and the Mental constitute the form and the content of the World.The world does not consist of subjects and objects, the “subject” and the “object” are metaphysical abstra. ... Read more

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  • Quasi come essere

    Series Book 3 - Studi prosofici
    Le filosofie, al pari di ogni altro sistema di pensiero o visione più o meno mitica o critica o dialettica, principiano con una chiusura d’orizzonte. Diversamente non saprebbero come apparire a se stesse esclusive. La domanda di un certo sapere, desiderabile e urgente nell’immediato contesto storico-culturale, predetermina il campo e l’orientamento della risposta. Si può parlare di 'eros del ... Read more

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  • Rational Understanding

    From Explanation to Knowledge

    Series series Routledge Studies in Epistemology
    This book develops a novel account of the connections between justification, understanding, and knowledge. It lays the foundation for a more systematic and interconnected treatment of these central notions in epistemology.The author’s key move is to show first that a specific conception of doxastic justification constitutes our best point of entry into questions pertaining to a subject’s ability ... Read more

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  • Grand Rounds: Healing Wisdom for a Complex World

    What makes for a truly Holistic Medicine?True Holism in Health transcends any words that would try to capture it. How can it be any different for the truly Holistic? How then does one denote and describe a book that is written to defy description? How does one become prosaic about prose that are meant to be read as poetry? How does one deliver a straight line from a circle? This is the dilemma of ... Read more

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  • Imre Lakatos: Euristica și toleranța metodologică

    O analiză a conceptelor de euristica și toleranță metodologică dezvoltate de Lakatos, pe baza articolului ”Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes”, publicat pentru prima dată în 1970 și apoi în cartea The methodology of scientific research programmes, Volume I. Am analizat, în acest text, exemplificarea autorului pentru programul de cercetare al emisiei de lumină (în ... Read more

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  • Aprendizaje y Educacion. La solucion de conflictos. La consumacion de anhelos.

    Observando lo que se nos manifiesta evidente, surge, un proceso insoslayable, que nos somete, y nos provee. Como consecuencia, emerge, igualmente evidente, la necesidad, que el aprendizaje, y la educación del hombre, sean constituidas coherentemente con este insoslayable proceso, para solucionar los conflictos y consumar los anhelos, tantos individuales, como institucionales, construyendo el ... Read more

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  • The distinction between falsification and refutation in the demarcation problem of Karl Popper

    Despite the criticism of Karl Popper's falsifiability theory for the demarcation between science and non-science, mainly pseudo-science, this criterion is still very useful, and perfectly valid after it was perfected by Popper and his followers. Moreover, even in his original version, considered by Lakatos as "dogmatic", Popper did not assert that this methodology is an absolute demarcation ... Read more

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  • New Mechanism

    Explanation, Emergence and Reduction

    Series Book 35 - History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
    This open access book addresses the epistemological and ontological significance as well as the scope of new mechanism. In particular, this book addresses the issues of what is "new" about new mechanism, the epistemological and ontological reasons underlying the adoption of mechanistic instead of other modelling strategies as well as the possibility of mechanistic explanation to accommodate a non ... Read more

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  • What Even Is Gender?

    Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it?What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called "gender" that both sides are arguing about. The authors distinguish a range of phenomena that ... Read more

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  • Improving Methods of Inquiry: Conceptualising Culture

    by EC Mutezo ...
    What does culture really entail? This short e-book highlights anthropological perspectives that give a broader understanding of what culture entails. It is the first of a three part series that address a gap in ethnographic methodogies that examine culture in depth. The author presents culture from earlier perspectives such as structuralism to more recent perspectives such as social constructivism ... Read more

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  • Uncertain Bioethics

    Moral Risk and Human Dignity

    Bioethics is a field of inquiry and as such is fundamentally an epistemic discipline. Knowing how we make moral judgments can bring into relief why certain arguments on various bioethical issues appear plausible to one side and obviously false to the other. Uncertain Bioethics makes a significant and distinctive contribution to the bioethics literature by culling the insights from contemporary ... Read more

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  • Flight 9525

    Flight 9525 was written as a kind of reflection and response to the crash of a German airliner that was hijacked by a suicidal copilot who then flew the plane into a mountainside. All 150 people on board were killed.Don't we owe it, in memoriam, to look at this execution of 149 people with wide-open eyes and not sweep it under the rug? Shouldn't we try to discover a deeper meaning for these ... Read more

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  • Génétiquement indéterminé

    Le vivant auto-organisé

    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    La biologie contemporaine est appelée à se reconstruire autour de l'idée que si l'ADN participe à la formation de l'individu, les autres constituants de l'organisme ou de son environnement sont tout aussi déterminants. Rien ne serait "programmé" à proprement parler et la question devient alors de comprendre comment l'ensemble s'articule et s'organise. Cinq chercheurs d'horizons scientifiques ... Read more

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  • Advancing the Human Self

    Do Technologies Make Us “Posthuman”?

    Series Book 27 - DIA-LOGOS
    Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies, cognitive skills, and the next developmental stage called postpersonal? Did we already manage to be fully human, before becoming posthuman? Are we doomed to disintegration and episodic selfhood? This book examines the impact of radical technopoiesis on our selves from a multidisciplinary perspective, including the health ... Read more

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  • Epistemology of Intelligence Agencies

    About the analogy between the epistemological and methodological aspects of the activity of intelligence agencies and some scientific disciplines, advocating for a more scientific approach to the process of collecting and analyzing information within the intelligence cycle. I assert that the theoretical, ontological and epistemological aspects of the activity of many intelligence agencies are ... Read more

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  • Epistemology of Experimental Gravity: Scientific Rationality

    The evolution of gravitational tests from an epistemological perspective framed in the concept of rational reconstruction of Imre Lakatos, based on his methodology of research programmes. Unlike other works on the same subject, the evaluated period is very extensive, starting with Newton's natural philosophy and up to the quantum gravity theories of today. In order to explain in a more rational ... Read more

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  • ENTENDENDO A CRÍTICA DA RAZÃO PURA DE IMMANUEL KANT

    Faça uma Imersão Filosófica Compreendendo Immanuel Kant

    A Crítica da Razão Pura (em alemão, Kritik der reinen Vernunft) é a principal obra de teoria do conhecimento do filósofo Immanuel Kant, cuja primeira edição é de 1781, com alterações substanciais feitas pelo autor em determinadas seções, de 1787. A obra é considerada como um dos mais influentes trabalhos na história da filosofia, e dá início ao chamado idealismo alemão. Kant escreveu a Crítica da ... Read more

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  • The Fallacy of Scientific Truth: Why Science Succeeds Despite Ultimate Ignorance

    Scientific knowledge is vastly and overwhelmingly humanity's greatest achievement. Furthermore, if humanity is to survive, either on this planet or perhaps eventually elsewhere in the universe, it will do so only because of scientific knowledge.Nevertheless, scientific knowledge is not truth.To assert any scientific knowledge to be true is to assert that beyond doubt we know the phenomena at issue ... Read more

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