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Free Download Jonathan Simon, "Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900 "
English | ISBN: 1498531474 | 2016 | 168 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Introduced in 1894 as a treatment for a deadly childhood disease, the diphtheria serum stands as a milestone in pharmaceutical history. Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900 considers the production and use of this serum in France, analyzing the drug in terms of a technological object. To do this, Jonathan Simon draws on the philosophy of technology, exploring the application of this approach to medical drugs and suggesting how such an analysis can in turn contribute to this domain of philosophy. Starting with the manufacture of the serum from horses’ blood, Simon then considers the processes involved in transforming the blood serum into a legal medical drug and establishing its efficacy as a treatment against diphtheria. The book looks at the place the drug assumed in French society at the time, as well as the legal and political implications of its manufacture and use. All these elements are deployed to characterize a specifically French serum, as the author argues that the constitution of the drug in its full sense is not only technical but also social, political, and legal.

Free Download Alina N Feld, "Unfinished God: The Speculative Philosophical Theology of Ray L. Hart "
English | ISBN: 1399532219 | 2024 | 368 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Ray L. Hart is one of the most radical and creative theologians active in contemporary speculative philosophical theology. Breaking on the scene with his immensely influential Unfinished Man in 1968, he published his magnum opus, God Being Nothing, in 2015.

Free Download Iain Macdonald, "Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0804756368 | PDF | pages: 231 | 12.7 mb
Adorno and Heidegger explores the conflictual history of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger. As is well known, there has been little productive engagement between these two schools of thought, in large measure due to Adorno’s sustained and unanswered critique of Heidegger. Stemming from this critique, numerous political and philosophical barriers have kept these traditions separate, such that they have rarely been submitted to scrutiny, let alone questioned. The essays making up this collection are fresh and original attempts at coming to terms with the nuances and difficulties that these two towering figures have bequeathed to the history of European thought. The volume’s authors deal with a variety of issues ranging from epistemology to esthetics, to ethics, to intellectual history and modernity, providing the reader with detailed insight into a thorny debate in the history of recent European thought.

Free Download Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses By Jagdish Mehra (auth.), Jagdish Mehra (eds.)
1995 | 631 Pages | ISBN: 3540633723 | PDF | 29 MB
Among the founding fathers of modern quantum physics few have contributed to our basic understanding of its concepts as much as E.P. Wigner. His articles on the epistemology of quantum mechanics and the measurement problem, and the basic role of symmetries were of fundamental importance for all subsequent work. He was also the first to discuss the concept of consciousness from the point of view of modern physics. G.G. Emch edited most of those papers and wrote a very helpful introduction into Wigner’s contributions to Natural Philosophy. The book should be a gem for all those interested in the history and philosophy of science. From a review by Silvan S. Schweber in Physics Today, October 1996: "All of the essays in Volume VI are at the level of the curious nonexpert who possesses a minimal command of the quantum mechanical formalism. They are rigorous, lucid and challenging."

Free Download Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Architecture of Álvaro Siza: Meaning, Action and Place
by Sally J. Faulder
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032706333 | 234 Pages | True ePUB | 28.4 MB

Free Download Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Architecture of Álvaro Siza: Meaning, Action and Place
by Sally J. Faulder
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032706333 | 234 Pages | True PDF | 33 MB

Free Download Philosophical Essay on Probabilities By Andrew I. Dale, Pierre-Simon Laplace (auth.)
1995 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 1461286891 | PDF | 20 MB
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered amoung probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie". The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in 1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the various editions published during Laplace’s lifetime. Translations of various editions in different languages have apeared over the years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today. This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826, with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs.

Free Download Nocturnal Seeing: Hopelessness of Hope and Philosophical Gnosis in Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Elliot R. Wolfson
English | October 29, 2024 | ISBN: 1503640663, 1503640965 | True EPUB | 392 pages | 1.7 MB
In this erudite new work, Elliot R. Wolfson explores philosophical gnosis in the writings of Susan Taubes, Gillian Rose, and Edith Wyschogrod. The juxtaposition of these three extraordinary, albeit relatively neglected, philosophers provides a prism through which Wolfson scrutinizes the interplay of ethics, politics, and theology. The bond that ties together the diverse and multifaceted worldviews promulgated by Taubes, Rose, and Wyschogrod is the mutual recognition of the need to enunciate a response to the calamities of the twentieth century based on an incontrovertible acknowledgment of the decadence and malevolence of human beings, without, however, succumbing to acrimony and despair. The speculation of each of these philosophers on melancholia and the tragicomedy of being is unquestionably intricate, exhibiting subtle variations and idiosyncrasies, but we can nevertheless identify a common denominator in their attempt to find the midpoint positioned between hope and hopelessness. As Wolfson articulates, Taubes, Rose, and Wyschogrod exemplify a philosophical sensibility informed by a nocturnal seeing, which is not merely a seeing in the night but rather a seeing of the night. Ultimately, the book reveals the potential for these thinkers’ ideas to enhance our moral sensitivity and to encourage participation in the ongoing struggle for meaning and decency in the present.

Free Download Participation in the Divine: A Philosophical History, From Antiquity to the Modern Era
by Douglas Hedley and Daniel J. Tolan
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009439987 | 399 Pages | PDF | 3.42 MB

Free Download Love: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts)
by Ryan Patrick Hanley
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197536476 | 393 Pages | PDF | 8.16 MB