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Focusing on cell dynamics, molecular medicine and robotics,
contributors explore the interplay between biological,
technological and theoretical ways of thinking. The collection
makes a strong contribution to current debates in the philosophy of
science and the changing role of scientific practice.
Focusing on cell dynamics, molecular medicine and robotics,
contributors explore the interplay between biological,
technological and theoretical ways of thinking. The collection
makes a strong contribution to current debates in the philosophy of
science and the changing role of scientific practice.
This book provides a critical reflection on automated science and
addresses the question whether the computational tools we developed
in last decades are changing the way we humans do science. More
concretely: Can machines replace scientists in crucial aspects of
scientific practice? The contributors to this book re-think and
refine some of the main concepts by which science is understood,
drawing a fascinating picture of the developments we expect over
the next decades of human-machine co-evolution. The volume covers
examples from various fields and areas, such as molecular biology,
climate modeling, clinical medicine, and artificial intelligence.
The explosion of technological tools and drivers for scientific
research calls for a renewed understanding of the human character
of science. This book aims precisely to contribute to such a
renewed understanding of science.
This book provides a critical reflection on automated science and
addresses the question whether the computational tools we developed
in last decades are changing the way we humans do science. More
concretely: Can machines replace scientists in crucial aspects of
scientific practice? The contributors to this book re-think and
refine some of the main concepts by which science is understood,
drawing a fascinating picture of the developments we expect over
the next decades of human-machine co-evolution. The volume covers
examples from various fields and areas, such as molecular biology,
climate modeling, clinical medicine, and artificial intelligence.
The explosion of technological tools and drivers for scientific
research calls for a renewed understanding of the human character
of science. This book aims precisely to contribute to such a
renewed understanding of science.
Drawing on shared research experiences and collaborative projects,
this book offers a broad and timely perspective on research on the
hand and its current challenges. It especially emphasizes the
interdisciplinary context in which researchers need to be trained
in contemporary science. From language to psychology, from
neurology to the social sciences, and from art to philosophy and
religion, the chapters discuss various aspects involved in hand
research and therapy. On the basis of concrete and validated case
studies, they approach hand function and gestures from different
perspectives - not only neurological and medical, but also
philosophical, evolutionary and anthropological. By highlighting
the overlaps between different areas of research, the book seeks to
foster better communication between researchers, and ultimately a
better understanding of hand function and its recovery. It offers
essential information and inspirations for students, researchers
and practitioners in the fields of psychology, epistemology,
bioengineering, neuroscience, anthropology and bioethics.
This book provides an accessible and up to date overview of the
foundational issues about both emerging constructive understandings
of the digital era and still hidden and ignored aspects that could
instead be dramatically relevant in the future, in the process of a
technological humanism. The book offers relevant scientific and
ethical questions bringing together professionals and researchers,
from different professional and disciplinary fields, who have a
shared interest in investigating operative aspects of
technological, digital and cultural transitions of humans and their
capacity of building human societies. The challenges are clear but
there is a lack of an epistemological, anthropological, economic
and social agenda that would enable a drive to such transitions
towards a technological humanism. This book provides an ideal
platform for professionals and scholars, not only providing tools
for problem analysis, but also indicating shared directions, needs
and objectives for a common goal; the creation of new scenarios
instead of the creation of fears and manipulated social imaginaria.
Leading scientists argue for a new paradigm for cancer research,
proposing a complex systems view of cancer supported by empirical
evidence. Current consensus in cancer research explains cancer as a
disease caused by specific mutations in certain genes. After
dramatic advances in genome sequencing, never before have we known
so much about the individual cancer cell--and yet never before has
it been so unclear what to do with this knowledge. In this volume,
leading researchers argue for a new theory framework for
understanding and treating cancer. The contributors propose a
complex systems view of cancer, presenting conceptual building
blocks for a new research paradigm supported by empirical evidence.
The contributors first discuss the new research framework in terms
of theoretical foundations and then take up the relevance of a
systems approach, reviewing such topics as nonlinearity, recurrence
after treatment, the cellular attractor concept, network theory,
and non-coding DNA--the dark matter of our genome. They address the
temporality of cancer progression, drawing on evolutionary theory
and clinical experience. Finally, they cover the dominant role of
the tissue microenvironment in cancer, analyzing topics including
altered metabolic pathways, the disease-defining influence on
metastasis, and the interconnectedness of different environmental
niches across levels of organization.
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