Interdisciplinary and Social Nature of Engineering Practices

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 61
• This book covers practical and philosophical aspects of Engineering, paying special attention to the social impacts of emerging technologies. Some fun... Lees meer

The Hand

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 38
• Offers a multidisciplinary view of human hand function and its recovery Presents concrete case studies on topics of high social impact Merges epistemo... Lees meer

Understanding Violence

Lorenzo Magnani

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 1
• This volume sets out to give a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines s... Lees meer

Cassirer's Transformation: From a Transcendental to a Semiotic Philosophy of Forms

Jean Lassègue

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 55
• This book presents the transformation of Cassirer's transcendental point of view. At an early stage, Cassirer was confronted with a scientific crisis ... Lees meer

The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement

Kirk Lougheed

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 51
• This book presents an original discussion and analysis of epistemic peer disagreement. It reviews a wide range of cases from the literature, and exten... Lees meer

Heuristic Reasoning

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 16
• How can we advance knowledge? Which methods do we need in order to make new discoveries? How can we rationally evaluate, reconstruct and offer discove... Lees meer

Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology

Emily Rolfe Grosholz

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 30
• This book deals with a topic that has been largely neglected by philosophers of science to date: the ability to refer and analyze in tandem. On the ba... Lees meer

Adaptation and Autonomy: Adaptive Preferences in Enhancing and Ending Life

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 10
• This volume gathers together previously unpublished articles focusing on the relationship between preference adaptation and autonomy in connection wit... Lees meer

Historical Epistemology and European Philosophy of Science

Fabio Minazzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 62
• This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the European tradition of the twentiet... Lees meer

Representation and Reality in Humans, Other Living Organisms and Intelligent Machines

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 28
• Reflects received view in empirical science that there is something we can call 'reality' for an agent, and that agents use 'representations' in their... Lees meer

Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 15
• This book analyzes the philosophical foundations of sensorimotor theory and discusses the most recent applications of sensorimotor theory to human com... Lees meer

Iconicity and Abduction

Gianluca Caterina, Rocco Gangle

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 29
• This book consolidates and extends the authors' work on the connection between iconicity and abductive inference. It emphasizes a pragmatic, experimen... Lees meer

Programming Machine Ethics

Luís Moniz Pereira, Ari Saptawijaya

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 26
• This book addresses the fundamentals of machine ethics. It discusses abilities required for ethical machine reasoning and the programming features tha... Lees meer

Cognition in 3e: Emergent, Embodied, Extended

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 56
• This book originated at a workshop by the same name held in May 2018 at the University of Pavia. The aim was to encourage a cross-disciplinary discuss... Lees meer

Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence 2021

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 63
• This book gathers contributions from the fourth edition of the Conference on "Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence" (PT-AI), held on 27-28... Lees meer

Machine Ethics

Luís Moniz Pereira, António Barata Lopes

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 53
• This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy. Lees meer

Connected and Automated Vehicles: Integrating Engineering and Ethics

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 67
• This book reports on theoretical and practical analyses of the ethical challenges connected to driving automation. It also aims at discussing issues t... Lees meer

Narrative as Dialectic Abduction

Donna E West

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 64
• This book presents a fresh approach to the communicability of narratives, revealing the cognitive underpinnings of Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmatist... Lees meer

Metabiology

Arturo Carsetti

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 50
• In the context of life sciences, we are constantly confronted with information that possesses precise semantic values and appears essentially immersed... Lees meer

Cognitive Autonomy and Methodological Individualism

Francesco Di Iorio

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 22
• "Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayek's Sensory Order , linking neuroscience to the old Verstehen tradition and to contemporary theories of self-or... Lees meer

Heuristic Reasoning

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 16
• How can we advance knowledge? Which methods do we need in order to make new discoveries? How can we rationally evaluate, reconstruct and offer discove... Lees meer

Computing Nature

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 7
• This book is about nature considered as the totality of physical existence, the universe, and our present day attempts to understand it. If we see the... Lees meer

Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 5
• Can we make machines that think and act like humans or other natural intelligent agents? The answer to this question depends on how we see ourselves a... Lees meer

Cognition in 3e: Emergent, Embodied, Extended

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Eth | nr. 56
• This book originated at a workshop by the same name held in May 2018 at the University of Pavia. The aim was to encourage a cross-disciplinary discuss... Lees meer