Books written by Winfried Schröder
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Plant Phenology as a Biomonitor for Climate Change in Germany: A Modelling and Mapping Approach
For generating maps depicting the mean beginning of certain phenological phases in Germany, Pearson's correlation coefficients between long-term annual air temperature and each phenological phase were calculated for both periods ...
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The Dutch Legacy: Radical Thinkers of the 17th Century and the Enlightenment
Their fate is sealed by a 'radical' Cartesianism, which no longer respected Descartes's 'modesty and prudence' and did not comply with the intrinsic limits of philosophy, as the Leiden and later Amsterdam professor of philosophy ...
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Reading between the lines – Leo Strauss and the history of early modern philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 63–92. McKenna, Antony, “Scepticism at Port Royal: the Perversion of Pyrrhonian Doubt”, in: Gianni Paganini (ed.), The Return of Scepticism: From ...
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Gene Drives at Tipping Points: Precautionary Technology Assessment and Governance of New Approaches to Genetically Modify Animal and Plant Populations
This open access book reports on a pilot project aiming at collecting information on the socio-ecological risks that could arise in the event of an uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered organisms into the environment.
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Athens and Jerusalem: The Philosophical Critique of Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Enlightenment
The present study, for the first time, provides a comparative analysis of the objections raised against Christianity by late antique pagan philosophers (esp.