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A renowned philosopher's final work, illuminating how the logical
empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual
experiments in forming its philosophy of science. The logical
empiricist treatment of physics dominated twentieth-century
philosophy of science. But the logical empiricist tradition, for
all it accomplished, does not do justice to the way in which
empirical evidence functions in modern physics. In his final work,
the late philosopher of science William Demopoulos contends that
philosophers have failed to provide an adequate epistemology of
science because they have failed to appreciate the tightly woven
character of theory and evidence. As a consequence, theory comes
apart from evidence. This trouble is nowhere more evident than in
theorizing about particle and quantum physics. Arguing that we must
consider actual experiments as they have unfolded across history,
Demopoulos provides a new epistemology of theories and evidence,
albeit one that stands on the shoulders of giants. On Theories
finds clarity in Isaac Newton's suspicion of mere "hypotheses."
Newton's methodology lies in the background of Jean Perrin's
experimental investigations of molecular reality and of the
subatomic investigations of J. J. Thomson and Robert Millikan.
Demopoulos extends this account to offer novel insights into the
distinctive nature of quantum reality, where a logico-mathematical
reconstruction of Bohrian complementarity meets John Stewart Bell's
empirical analysis of Einstein's "local realism." On Theories
ultimately provides a new interpretation of quantum probabilities
as themselves objectively representing empirical reality.
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical
guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and
illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective
pastoral counseling. The material is drawn from Jewish life and
rabbinic pastoral counseling, but the fundamental principles in
these pages apply to all faith traditions and to a wide variety of
counselling relationships. Drawing on relational psychodynamic
ideas but writing in a very accessible style, Friedman and Yehuda
cover when, how and why counseling may be sought, how to set up
sessions, conduct the work in those sessions and deal with
difficult situations, maintain confidentiality, conduct groupwork
and approach traumatic and emotive subjects. They guide the reader
through the foundational principles and topics of pastoral
counseling and illustrate the journey with accessible and lively
vignettes. By using real life examples accompanied by guided
questions, the authors help readers to learn practical techniques
as well as gain greater self-awareness of their own strengths and
vulnerabilities. With a host of examples from pastoral and clinical
experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone offering
counselling to both the Jewish community and those of other faiths.
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling will appeal to
psychoanalysts, particularly those working with Jewish clients,
counselors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and rabbis offering
pastoral counseling, as well as clergy of other faiths such as
ministers, priests, imams and lay chaplains.
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical
guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and
illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective
pastoral counseling. The material is drawn from Jewish life and
rabbinic pastoral counseling, but the fundamental principles in
these pages apply to all faith traditions and to a wide variety of
counselling relationships. Drawing on relational psychodynamic
ideas but writing in a very accessible style, Friedman and Yehuda
cover when, how and why counseling may be sought, how to set up
sessions, conduct the work in those sessions and deal with
difficult situations, maintain confidentiality, conduct groupwork
and approach traumatic and emotive subjects. They guide the reader
through the foundational principles and topics of pastoral
counseling and illustrate the journey with accessible and lively
vignettes. By using real life examples accompanied by guided
questions, the authors help readers to learn practical techniques
as well as gain greater self-awareness of their own strengths and
vulnerabilities. With a host of examples from pastoral and clinical
experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone offering
counselling to both the Jewish community and those of other faiths.
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling will appeal to
psychoanalysts, particularly those working with Jewish clients,
counselors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and rabbis offering
pastoral counseling, as well as clergy of other faiths such as
ministers, priests, imams and lay chaplains.
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Active Materials (Paperback)
Peter Fratzl, Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen, Wolfgang Schaffner
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What are active materials? This book aims to introduce and redefine
conceptions of matter by considering materials as entities that
'sense' and respond to their environment. By examining the modeling
of, the experiments on, and the construction of these materials,
and by developing a theory of their structure, their collective
activity, and their functionality, this volume identifies and
develops a novel scientific approach to active materials. Moreover,
essays on the history and philosophy of metallurgy, chemistry,
biology, and materials science provide these various approaches to
active materials with a historical and cultural context. The
interviews with experts from the natural sciences included in this
volume develop new understandings of 'active matter' and active
materials in relation to a range of research objects and from the
perspective of different scientific disciplines, including biology,
physics, chemistry, and materials science. These insights are
complemented by contributions on the activity of matter and
materials from the humanities and the design field. Discusses the
mechanisms of active materials and their various conceptualizations
in materials science. Redefines conceptions of active materials
through interviews with experts from the natural sciences.
Contextualizes, historizes, and reflects on different notions of
matter/materials and activity through contributions from the
humanities. A highly interdisciplinary approach to a cutting-edge
research topic, with contributions from both the sciences and the
humanities.
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to
solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is
impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2
with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician
Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct
a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was
completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s). This comes as no
surprise, since with few exceptions paper folding was seldom
considered as a mathematical practice, let alone as a mathematical
procedure of inference or proof that could prompt novel
mathematical discoveries. A few questions immediately arise: Why
did paper folding become a non-instrument? What caused the
marginalisation of this technique? And how was the mathematical
knowledge, which was nevertheless transmitted and prompted by paper
folding, later treated and conceptualised? Aiming to answer these
questions, this volume provides, for the first time, an extensive
historical study on the history of folding in mathematics, spanning
from the 16th century to the 20th century, and offers a general
study on the ways mathematical knowledge is marginalised,
disappears, is ignored or becomes obsolete. In doing so, it makes a
valuable contribution to the field of history and philosophy of
science, particularly the history and philosophy of mathematics and
is highly recommended for anyone interested in these topics.
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to
solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is
impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2
with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician
Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct
a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was
completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s). This comes as no
surprise, since with few exceptions paper folding was seldom
considered as a mathematical practice, let alone as a mathematical
procedure of inference or proof that could prompt novel
mathematical discoveries. A few questions immediately arise: Why
did paper folding become a non-instrument? What caused the
marginalisation of this technique? And how was the mathematical
knowledge, which was nevertheless transmitted and prompted by paper
folding, later treated and conceptualised? Aiming to answer these
questions, this volume provides, for the first time, an extensive
historical study on the history of folding in mathematics, spanning
from the 16th century to the 20th century, and offers a general
study on the ways mathematical knowledge is marginalised,
disappears, is ignored or becomes obsolete. In doing so, it makes a
valuable contribution to the field of history and philosophy of
science, particularly the history and philosophy of mathematics and
is highly recommended for anyone interested in these topics.
Michael D. Friedman's second edition of this stage history of
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus adds an examination of twelve major
theatrical productions and one film that appeared in the years
1989-2009. Friedman identifies four lines of descent in the recent
performance history of the play: the stylised, realistic, darkly
comic, and political approaches, which culminate in Julie Taymor's
harrowing film Titus (1999). Aspects of Taymor's eclectic vision of
ancient Rome under the grip of modern fascism were copied by
several subsequent productions, making Titus the most
characteristic, as well as the most influential, contemporary
performance of the play. Friedman's work extends Alan Dessen's
original study to include Taymor's film, along with chapters
devoted to the efforts of international directors including Gregory
Doran, Silviu Purcarete, and Yukio Ninagawa. -- .
Since the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the
analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the
continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent.
A Parting of the Ways looks at the origins of this split through
the lens of one defining episode: the disputation in Davos,
Switerzland, in 1929, between the two most eminent German
philosophers, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger. This watershed
debate was attended by Rudolf Carnap, a representative of the
Vienna Circle of logical positivists. Michael Friedman shows how
philosophical differences interacted with political events. Both
Carnap and Heidegger viewed their philosophical efforts as tied to
their radical social outlooks, with Carnap on the left and
Heidegger on the right, while Cassirer was in the conciliatory
classical tradition of liberal republicanism. The rise of Hitler
led to the emigration from Europpe of most leading philosophers,
including Carnap and Cassirer, leaving Heidegger alone on the
continent
Recent years have brought many significant changes to the field of
sleep apnea and snoring, and this revised 2nd Edition keeps you up
to date with every effective intervention. Sleep Apnea and Snoring:
Surgical and Non-Surgical Therapy, 2nd Edition, takes a focused,
multidisciplinary approach to all sleep apnea and snoring related
illnesses, making it an outstanding reference for surgery in this
key area within otolaryngology. New chapters, new video clips, new
techniques and procedures, and new contributing authors ensure that
you're completely up to date. Covers recent topics such as
transoral robotic assisted surgery, new techniques in nasal valve
repair, and pediatric patients and sleep apnea. New video clips
show a variety of procedures including maxillofacial surgical
techniques for hypopharyngeal obstruction in obstructive sleep
apnea, maxillary distraction osteogenesis with palatal implants for
obstructive sleep apnea, drug induced sleep endoscopy for pediatric
patients, and more. New chapters cover home sleep testing, lingual
tonsil grading system, algorithms for surgery and for multi-level
treatment, new techniques in nasal valve repair, and transoral
robotic assisted surgery (TORS for OSA). New authors and associate
editors provide a fresh perspective throughout the text. Includes
contributions from leaders in neurology, pulmonology, psychiatry,
otolaryngology, and oral and maxillofacial surgery to create a
truly multi-disciplinary approach. Uses a consistent, templated,
full-color format for quick, easy access to the most up-to-date
surgical and non-surgical interventions for sleep apnea and
snoring. Details when and why surgery is necessary, and how to
perform a successful operation for snoring and sleep apnea.
Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook
allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from
the book on a variety of devices.
The book offers an extensive study on the convoluted history of the
research of algebraic surfaces, focusing for the first time on one
of its characterizing curves: the branch curve. Starting with
separate beginnings during the 19th century with descriptive
geometry as well as knot theory, the book focuses on the 20th
century, covering the rise of the Italian school of algebraic
geometry between the 1900s till the 1930s (with Federigo Enriques,
Oscar Zariski and Beniamino Segre, among others), the decline of
its classical approach during the 1940s and the 1950s (with Oscar
Chisini and his students), and the emergence of new approaches with
Boris Moishezon's program of braid monodromy factorization. By
focusing on how the research on one specific curve changed during
the 20th century, the author provides insights concerning the
dynamics of epistemic objects and configurations of mathematical
research. It is in this sense that the book offers to take the
branch curve as a cross-section through the history of algebraic
geometry of the 20th century, considering this curve as an
intersection of several research approaches and methods.
Researchers in the history of science and of mathematics as well as
mathematicians will certainly find this book interesting and
appealing, contributing to the growing research on the history of
algebraic geometry and its changing images.
This open access book collects the historical and medial
perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the
complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and
mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical
models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling
of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the
status of the mathematical model between abstraction and
realization, presentation and representation, what is modeled and
what models. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This open access book collects the historical and medial
perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the
complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and
mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical
models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling
of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the
status of the mathematical model between abstraction and
realization, presentation and representation, what is modeled and
what models. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book, explores the conceptual foundations of Einstein's
theory of relativity: the fascinating, yet tangled, web of
philosophical, mathematical, and physical ideas that is the source
of the theory's enduring philosophical interest.
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
It is only recently, with the increasing interest in origami and
folding in natural sciences and the humanities, that the fold as a
new conception in a whole range of disciplines has begun to be
conceived in a broader way. Folding as a material and structural
process offers a new methodology to think about the close
relationship of matter, form and code. It henceforth crosses out
old dichotomies, such as the organic and the inorganic or nature
and technology, and blurs the boundaries between experimental,
conceptual and historical approaches. This anthology aims to unfold
this new interdisciplinary field and its disciplinary impact,
ranging from materials science, biology, architecture, and
mathematics to literature and philosophy.
Der Band ist mehr als eine Aufsatzsammlung, die Beitrage sind
aufeinander aufgebaut und dicht miteinander vernetzt.
Zusammengenommen wird damit ein neues Paradigma der Erklarung
geschaffen. Grossere Vorkenntnisse sind nicht erforderlich. Die
Beitrage dieses Bandes folgen zwei miteinander zusammenhangenden
Leitlinien: Zum einen handelt es sich um pragmatisch-epistemische
Erklarungsmodelle und zum zweiten wird der Begriff des Verstehens
als zentrales Moment von Erklarung wissenschaftstheoretisch
etabliert."
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