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Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg

Edited by: Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg

ISSN: 2193-1933

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At irregular intervals, the Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg [Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg] will publish monographs or conference reports from subfields of the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences researched at this interdisciplinary academy. These manuscripts will be selected based upon their contribution to solving fundamental research problems, to exploring contemporary and historical issues, or to reporting about scientific discoveries of social significance.

Book Open Access 2018

Rationale Entscheidungen unter Unsicherheit

Bernhard Fleischer, Reiner Lauterbach, Kurt Pawlik

Volume 8 in this series

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Menschen treffen täglich eine Vielzahl von Entscheidungen, entweder für sich selbst oder für andere. Auf welcher Basis entscheiden wir eigentlich? Was sind die Grundlagen für Entscheidungen, wenn die Datenlage unsicher ist, weil eine völlig neue Situation erwartet wird oder schon eingetreten ist? Dies ist in der Medizin regelmäßig der Fall und besonders in Zeiten, in denen neue Infektionserreger bekannt werden und Epidemien oder Pandemien auslösen können, aber auch in besonderen Situationen wie beispielsweise drohenden Großschadensereignissen, Gefahrenlagen bei Massenansammlungen oder bei drohenden Wirtschaftskrisen mit viralem Charakter.

In diesem Buch befassen sich international hochrangige Wissenschaftler aus Medizin, Biologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Mathematik, Philosophie und Psychologie sowie renommierte Entscheidungspraktiker in der öffentlichen Verwaltung mit der Frage, wie wir Unsicherheiten erkennen, bewerten und rational damit umgehen. Was tun, wenn es kein "richtig" oder "falsch" gibt? Können wir Risikokompetenz lernen? Können lernende Maschinen dabei unterstützen? Welchen Beitrag kann die Wissenschaft zur Beratung der politischen Entscheidungsträger leisten? Wie ist die konkrete Entscheidungspraxis bei Polizei und Feuerwehr in einer Großstadt wie Hamburg?

Andrea Ammon, Direktorin, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna
Gerd Gigerenzer, Direktor, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
Till Grüne-Yanoff, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Andreas Lange, Fachbereich Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Hamburg
Klaus Maurer, Oberbranddirektor i.R. der Berufsfeuerwehr, Hamburg
Ralf Meyer, Polizeipräsident, Hamburg
Thomas Mettenleiter, Präsident des Friedrich-Löffler-Instituts, Riems
Arne Traulsen, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie, Plön

Jedem Statement folgt ein fachnaher Kommentar mit Diskussion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110600261
ISBN:: 9783110600261
ISBN:: 9783110598957
ISBN:: 9783110598308
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Neurology
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Psychology, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2017

Von der Freiheit, Schmerz zu spüren

Akademie der Wissenschaften, Burkhart Bromm, Jörn Henning Wolf, Hartmut Göbel, Rolf-Detlef Treede, Jürgen Lorenz, Falk Eippert, Gerhard Roth, Manfred Stöckler, Christoph von der Malsburg, Kurt Pawlik

Volume 7 in this series

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We can make our pain more bearable through our will. But how and where does my self (my mind) affect my body? In this books, medical doctors, neurophysiologists, physicists, and psychologists show that the dualism of body and mind we all experience does not really exist. Body and mind are an indivisible unit, shaped over millions of years by the adaptive self-organization of the brain’s neuronal networks.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110525601
ISBN:: 9783110525601
ISBN:: 9783110523652
ISBN:: 9783110523515
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine, other
Subject:: Neurology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2015

Identitäten im Prozess

Region, Nation, Staat, Individuum

Anna Margaretha Horatschek, Anja Pistor-Hatam

Volume 6 in this series

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Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an “other” which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions in this volume analyze characteristics and strategies of European and non-European identity discourses.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110379891
ISBN:: 9783110379891
ISBN:: 9783110411287
ISBN:: 9783110411263
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Political Ideologies and Ideas
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2014

Der Briefwechsel Richard Dedekind – Heinrich Weber

Katrin Scheel, Thomas Sonar, Karin Reich

Volume 5 in this series

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This volume provides the very first transcription of correspondence between Richard Dedekind and Heinrich Weber, one of the most important instances of written dialog between mathematicians in the 19th century.
Nearly every subarea of mathematics is addressed in the letters, which intensively discuss nascent developments in the field. A register of persons and index of works ease access to the topics discussed in the letters.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368048
ISBN:: 9783110373660
ISBN:: 9783110368048
ISBN:: 9783110398656
Subject:: Mathematics
Subject:: History and Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2013

Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity

Ulrich Gähde, Stephan Hartmann, Jörn Henning Wolf

Volume 4 in this series

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Modern science is, to a large extent, a model-building activity. But how are models contructed? How are they related to theories and data? How do they explain complex scientific phenomena, and which role do computer simulations play here? These questions have kept philosophers of science busy for many years, and much work has been done to identify modeling as the central activity of theoretical science. At the same time, these questions have been addressed by methodologically-minded scientists, albeit from a different point of view. While philosophers typically have an eye on general aspects of scientific modeling, scientists typically take their own science as the starting point and are often more concerned with specific methodological problems. There is, however, also much common ground in middle, where philosophers and scientists can engage in a productive dialogue, as the present volume demonstrates. To do so, the editors of this volume have invited eight leading scientists from cosmology, climate science, social science, chemical engeneering and neuroscience to reflect upon their modeling work, and eight philosophers of science to provide a commentary.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110313680
ISBN:: 9783110313604
ISBN:: 9783110313680
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2013

Deutschland und Europa: Wächst zusammen, was zusammen gehört?

Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, Heimo Reinitzer

Volume 3 in this series

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Is Europe in crisis? Is there such a thing as European identity beyond economic and political integration? What common features can be found in history and in the present that foster unity? And what is Germany’s role in this process? These were among the questions raised in a lecture series held at the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg. The volume present responses by H. Reinitzer, G. Clemens, M. Borgolte, D. Diner, F.W. Graf und A. Pistor-Hatam.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110296433
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029594-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029643-3
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Germany
Subject:: General German History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Western Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2012

Antibiotika-Forschung: Probleme und Perspektiven

Stellungnahme

Akademie der Wissenschaften Hamburg, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

Volume 2 in this series

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Increasingly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and a lack of new antibiotics to combat them are endangering the successful treatment of bacterial infections. This book describes the insufficient status quo of the development of new antibiotics and gives extensive recommendations for scientific, political and social solutions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306897
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030667-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030689-7
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine, other
Subject:: Public Health
Subject:: Pharmacy
Subject:: Pharmacy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Tapetum Concordiae

Peter Heymans Bildteppich für Philipp I. von Pommern und die Tradition der von Mose getragenen Kanzeln

Heimo Reinitzer

Volume 1 in this series

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Peter Heyman’s large tapestry of 1554 depicts members of the Saxon princely and ducal houses and the Pomeranian ducal house as well as Luther, Melanchthon and Bugenhagen. This study interprets the tapestry as an example of political iconography and relates it to the controversy between “true” Lutherans and Philippists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279320
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027887-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027932-0
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2020

Competing Knowledges – Wissen im Widerstreit

Anna Margaretha Horatschek, Akademie der Wissenschaften

Volume 9 in this series

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Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general knowledge and the sciences? Can there be science without universal truth claims? Questions like these are discussed in eleven essays from the perspective of Sociology, Law, Cultural Studies, and the Humanities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110659658
ISBN:: 9783110659658
ISBN:: 9783110655971
ISBN:: 9783110655940
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: History of Knowledge
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Publisher:: De Gruyter