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This volume consists of short, interview-style contributions by leading figures in the field of complexity, based on five questions. The answers trace their personal experience and expose their views...

While some people think that our new technologies which texture our lifeworld disembody human experience, and while others think that eventually we will be able to 'upload' our very embodiment into...

Epistemic Logic: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in the field. We hear their views on the field,...

Epistemology: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in epistemology. We hear their views on...

Bussen var n sten fuld, men ikke helt fuld, alligevel sagde min mor, at jeg skulle s tte mig på sk det af en m rkhåret, fremmed mand med en stor n se, som sad ved et vindue. Jeg husker...

Et spadestik dybere pr senterer de 10 filosofiske discipliner kendt fra dk4's f rste udsendelsesr kke om Tankens magt. Bogen kan bruges som supplement til tv-serien og sigter p? l gmand og...

Evolutionary Theory: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on five provoking questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in biology and philosophy. They...

Problems related to expertise are amongst the most pressing issues of our time. Although philosophical reflection has much to contribute to the identification and resolution of these problems, the...

Filosofi: 5 sp rgsm?l rummer 18 interviews med en r kke af Danmarks bedste filosoffer, som fort ller om deres forskning, deres forst?else af hvad filosofi er, og hvordan de hver is r endte med at...

Problemet er kendt som forordsparadokset ... Paradokset kan ramme enhver, der skriver et forord, ogs? n?r forordet som her, er en klumme. Fortsat: Flere klummer og kladder er en ny klummesamling af...

Game Theory: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in the field. We hear their views on game theory,...

History of Logic in China: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in the field. We hear their views on...

The 5 Questions-series format is to ask five questions linking personal experience with scholarly work, not because there is any deep or global truth in biography but because scientific disciplines,...

The book is an introductory text on the subject of internal combustion engines, intended for use in engineering courses at the senior or introductory graduate student level. The focus in on...

Even before we humans became modern as homo sapiens we were busy inventing technologies. But our technologies also invent us as humans. And as we reflect upon this process, too often our...

Et demokrati er ikke karakteriseret derved, at borgere hver is r har en stemme, men, at hver har en oplyst stemme, jfr. oplysningstanken. Og det er noget ganske andet. Et oplyst og robust demokrati...

Legal Philosophy: 5 Questions is a collection of original contributions from a distinguished score of the world's most prominent and influential legal philosophers. They deal with questions such as...

This book is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning more about living technology, whether coming from business, the government, policy centers, academia, or anywhere else. Its purpose is to...

Masses of Formal Philosophy is an outgrowth of Formal Philosophy. That book gathered the responses of some of the most prominent formal philosophers to five relatively open and broad questions...

What is linguistic meaning? What do people precisely do in uttering sentences? What are the principles involved in linguistic interpretation? How is it possible that linguistic signs, such as oral...

Metaphysics: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent philosophers in the field. We hear their views on...

Debates concerning the nature of mind and consciousness are active and ongoing, with implications for philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence and the neurosciences. This book collects...

Alle mennesker er i stand til at udf re korrekte logiske slutninger, men vi g r os sj ldent klart, hvordan vi b rer os ad. Det kan logikken fort lle os, og derfor spiller den en s? vigtig rolle i...

Narrative Theories and Poetics: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on five provoking questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in these fields...

Normative Ethics: 5 Questions is a collection of original contributions from a distinguished score of the world's most prominent and influential scholars in the field. They deal with questions such...

On April 19, 1914, the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce died. He had not held an academic position since 1883 and had lived the last third of his life in financial distress, increasingly...

The present volume comprises central insights about the nature of phenomenology from some of the most prominent scholars in contemporary phenomenology. The format of the contributions, conceived as...

This volume of the 5 Questions series is devoted to philosophical practice. Philosophical practice is rooted in the Greek understanding of philosophy as linked to the actual experience of man. It...

This book gives an illuminating account of significant features of von Wright's later work while showing philosophers wrestling on their own with philosophical issues central to his investigations...

Broadly characterized, the philosophy of action encompasses a host of problems about the nature and scope of human action and agency, including, but not limited to, intention and intentional action,...