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Objectivity, Realism, and Proof: FilMat Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics

Objectivity, Realism, and Proof: FilMat Studies in the...

Author: Francesca Boccuni ,  Andrea Sereni
ISBN: 9783319810850
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This volume covers a wide range of topics in the most recent debates in the philosophy of mathematics, and is dedicated...  Read More >>

The Demons of Science: What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World

The Demons of Science: What They Can and Cannot Tell...

Author: Friedel Weinert
ISBN: 9783319811017
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book is the first all-encompassing exploration of the role of demons inphilosophical and scientific thought...  Read More >>

The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach

The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach...

Author: Kevin McCain
ISBN: 9783319815039
Format: Paperback
$145.17

In fact, as a result of its clear and engaging approach to understanding scientific knowledge The Nature of Scientific...  Read More >>

Phenomenology and Science: Confrontations and Convergences

Phenomenology and Science: Confrontations and Convergences...

Author: Jack Reynolds ,  Richard Sebold
ISBN: 9781349956647
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book investigates the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between phenomenology and the natural sciences....  Read More >>

The Globalized World From the Philosophical Point of View

The Globalized World From the Philosophical Point of...

Author: Alexander Chumakov ,  百春 張
ISBN: 9781617420030
Format: Paperback
$67.25

"本書的內容是我於2012年春季在北京師範大學舉辦的系列講座,它們涉及全球世界和全球化的各個方面。我在其中首次向中國讀者如此詳細而全面地展示一個跨學科的新方向----全球學的形成。儘管全球學的""年齡""只有幾十年,但是,它已經在現代科學知識體系裡站穩了自己的位置。從本書的內容可以看出,全球學的主要任務是從各門科學的立場研究全球過程、全球化以及人類的全球性問題。同時,哲學在全球學裡被賦予了非常重要的作用。哲學使得我們可以把當代世界看作一個統一整體,人與社會......  Read More >>

Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology

Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of...

Author: Research Fellow Daniel J Nicholson (University of Exeter) ,  John Dupre (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780191824685
Format: Undefined
$203.28

Everything Flows explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not made up of substantial particles...  Read More >>

Science and Humanity: A Humane Philosophy of Science and Religion

Science and Humanity: A Humane Philosophy of Science...

Author: Full Professor Andrew Steane (Department of Physics University of Oxford UK)
ISBN: 9780191863370
Format: Undefined
$86.99

Andrew Steane reconfigures the public understanding of science, by drawing on a deep knowledge of physics and by...  Read More >>

Agents and Goals in Evolution

Agents and Goals in Evolution

Author: Samir Okasha (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780191852909
Format: Undefined
$113.39

Samir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents and Goals in Evolution,...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Science: A Companion

The Philosophy of Science: A Companion

Author: Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne Universite) ,  Denis Bonnay (Universite Paris Nanterre)
ISBN: 9780190690670
Format: Undefined
$277.20

Philosophy of science studies the methods, theories, and concepts used by scientists. It mainly developed as a field...  Read More >>

Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning

Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning...

Author: Margaret Caspe ,  Taneisha Woods
ISBN: 9781641132817
Format: Hardback
$263.31

The technology revolution has made it critical for all children to understand science, technology, engineering,...  Read More >>

The Secret Life of Science: How It Really Works and Why It Matters

The Secret Life of Science: How It Really Works and...

Author: Rory Barnett ,  Jeremy J Baumberg
ISBN: 9798200415786
Format: Audio
$52.77

A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global science We take the advance of science as given....  Read More >>

The Secret Life of Science: How It Really Works and Why It Matters

The Secret Life of Science: How It Really Works and...

Author: Rory Barnett ,  Jeremy J Baumberg
ISBN: 9798200415793
Format: Audio
$52.77

A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global science We take the advance of science as given....  Read More >>

The Secret Life of Science Lib/E: How It Really Works and Why It Matters

The Secret Life of Science Lib/E: How It Really Works...

Author: Rory Barnett ,  Jeremy J Baumberg
ISBN: 9798200415779
Format: Audio
$52.77

A revealing and provocative look at the current state of global science We take the advance of science as given....  Read More >>

In The Shadow of the Machine: The Prehistory of the Computer and the Evolution of Consciousness

In The Shadow of the Machine: The Prehistory of the...

Author: Jeremy Naydler
ISBN: 9781912230143
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

Author: Adam Greenfield
ISBN: 9781784780456
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A field manual to the technologies that are changing our lives  Read More >>

The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics...

Author: Alex Csiszar
ISBN: 9780226553238
Format: Hardback
$79.95

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The Puzzle of Perceptual Justification: Conscious experience, Higher-order Beliefs, and Reliable Processes

The Puzzle of Perceptual Justification: Conscious experience,...

Author: Harmen Ghijsen
ISBN: 9783319808260
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date discussion of contemporary theories of perceptual justification...  Read More >>

Scienatics: The Science of Science

Scienatics: The Science of Science

Author: Naiyf Saud
ISBN: 9781927755686
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Scienatics is a book between mathematics and philosophy. Scholar Naiyf Saud offers a theory to treat science systematically....  Read More >>

Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014

Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014...

Author: Brendan Larvor
ISBN: 9783319803791
Format: Paperback
$385.95

Thiscollection presents significant contributions from an international network project on mathematicalcultures,...  Read More >>

Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications: 2015 La Rábida International Scientific Meeting on Nuclear Physics

Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics: Theory, Experiments...

Author: José-Enrique García-Ramos ,  Clara E. Alonso
ISBN: 9783319793320
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This volume covers invited papers presented during the La Rábida 2015 International Scientific Meeting on Nuclear...  Read More >>

Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies: From Educating the Young to Engineering Posthumans

Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies: From Educating the...

Author: Maria Sinaci ,  Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
ISBN: 9786158099608
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This volume is a collection of studies pertaining to innovative research in the fields of bioethics and emerging...  Read More >>

Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth

Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics...

Author: Valerie Olson
ISBN: 9781517902551
Format: Paperback
$42.99

The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight What if outer space is not outside the human...  Read More >>

The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution

The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution...

Author: Charles S Cockell
ISBN: 9781541617599
Format: Hardback
$102.96

A groundbreaking argument for why alien life will evolve to be much like life here on Earth We are all familiar...  Read More >>

Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction: A Philosophical System and Its Approach to Prediction in Science

Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction: A Philosophical...

Author: Amanda Guillán
ISBN: 9783319874616
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. and III) From Reality to Values: Ontological...  Read More >>

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