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This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities. During the last decades, increasing attention has been paid in Latin America to the history and philosophy of biology, but since many local authors prefer to write in Spanish or in Portuguese, their ideas have barely crossed the boundaries of the continent. This volume aims to remedy this state of things, providing a good sample of this production to the English speaking readers, bringing together contributions from researchers working in Brazilian, Argentinean, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican unive...
This volume examines modern scepticism in all main philosophical areas: epistemology, science, metaphysics, morals, and religion. It features sixteen essays that explore its importance for modern thought. The contributions present diverse, mutually enriching interpretations of key thinkers, from Montaigne to Nietzsche. The book includes a look both at the relationship between Montaigne and Pascal and at Montaigne’s criticism of religious rationalism. It turns its attention to an investigation into the links between ancient scepticism and Bacon’s Doctrine of the Idols, as well as into the ancient problem of the criterion in Cartesian philosophy. Next, three essays focus on more general to...
This book offers a comprehensive overview of research at interface between History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) and Science Teaching in Ibero-America. It contributes to research on contextualization of science for students, teachers and researchers, and explains how to use different episodes of history of science or different themes of philosophy of science in regular science classes through diverse pedagogical approaches. The chapters in this book discuss a wide range of topics under different methodological, epistemological and didactic approaches, reflecting the richness of research developed in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The book contains chapters about historical events, topics of philosophy and sociology of science, nature of science, applications of HPSS in the classroom, instructional materials for students and teacher training courses and curriculum.
This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current trends and debates to examine the quantification of the body throughout the early modern, modern and early contemporary age, the authors contextualise important issues of both medical and philosophical significance, with chapters focusing on the quantification of temperaments and fluids, complexions, functions of the living body, embryology, and the impact of quantified reasoning on the concepts of health and illness. With insights spanning from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, this boo...
Com um texto leve e objetivo, este livro tem como proposta apresentar a vida e as principais ideias do filósofo Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900). Cultuado pela academia e com referências à sua obra em livros, filmes, séries e músicas, o martelo filosófico de Nietzsche não foi bem compreendido em sua época, mas que hoje é reverenciado com um dos maiores filósofos de todos os tempos, com aforismos geniais e um estilo incomparável. Escrito por Daniel Rodrigues Aurélio, mestre em Ciências Sociais pela PUC-SP, e com vários trabalhos sobre Friedrich Nietzsche no currículo, este livro é um verdadeiro manual de introdução aos fundamento da filosofia nietzschiana, além de trazer entrevistas com especialistas, dicas de sites, livros e filmes e tudo o mais para você ter um panorama completo sobre o autor de Para além do bem e do mal, entre outros grandes trabalhos.
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the V South Cone Meeting of Philosophy and History of Science (Florianópolis, Brazil, May 2006). The language of the chapters is Portuguese, Spanish or English. Published by the South Cone Association for Philosophy and History of Science, www.afhic.org.
The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle examines the relationship between Robert Boyle's experimental work in chemistry and his commitment to mechanical philosophy.
This book contains papers presented at the 2008 Meeting of the South Cone Association for Philosophy and History of Science (AFHIC). Papers are in English, Spanish and Portuguese.