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  • Risk: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on the sciences and humanities to explore and explain the many kinds of risk. Using simple ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Risk

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    We find risks everywhere--from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on the sciences and humanities to explore and explain the many kinds of risk. Using simple ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

    par John Kadvany, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Collections series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language work is a remarkable historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. Below the surface of his life as ... En savoir plus

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    Risk: A Very Short Introduction

    par Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany ...
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    We find risk everywhere—from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanities to illuminate both the similarities and differences of various ... En savoir plus

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  • Consciousness

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Susan Blackmore ...
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    Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, ... En savoir plus

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  • Probability: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par John Haigh ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis and modelling of most aspects of the world, and all measurement, are necessarily imprecise and involve uncertainties of varying degrees, the understanding and management of probabilities is central to much work in the sciences and economics.In this ... En savoir plus

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  • Causation

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Rani Lill Anjum, Stephen Mumford ...
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    Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage. Any intervention we make in ... En savoir plus

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  • Statistics

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David J. Hand ...
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    Modern statistics is very different from the dry and dusty discipline of the popular imagination. In its place is an exciting subject which uses deep theory and powerful software tools to shed light and enable understanding. And it sheds this light on all aspects of our lives, enabling astronomers to explore the origins of the universe, archaeologists to investigate ancient civilisations, ... En savoir plus

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  • Philosophy of Mind

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Barbara Gail Montero ...
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    Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction probes some of the great philosophical questions about the mind: What is the relationship between mind and matter? Can science unravel the mystery of consciousness? How can our thoughts represent things in the world? Are computers genuinely intelligent? In the book, Barbara Gail Montero highlights key thought experiments used by philosophers to explore ... En savoir plus

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  • Analytic Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Michael Beaney ...
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    Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy established itself in various forms in the 1930s. After the Second World War, it developed further in North America, in the rest of Europe, and is now growing in influence as the dominant philosophical ... En savoir plus

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  • Perception

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Brian Rogers ...
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    Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and it is also raises some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to guide and control our behaviour as well as to create our particular, subjective experiences of the surrounding world. In this Very Short Introduction, Brian J. Rogers ... En savoir plus

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  • Thinking and Reasoning

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Jonathan St B. T. Evans ...
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    Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptibile to bias and error. The study of thinking and reasoning goes back to Aristotle, and was one of the first topics to be studied when psychology separated from philosophy. In this Very Short Introduction Jonathan Evans explores cognitive psychological ... En savoir plus

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