Philosophy of science books

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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

Author: Susana Monsó
ISBN: 9780691260778
Format: Paperback
$29.99

""A philosophical exploration of what animal behavior reveals about their understanding of death, as well as our...  Read More >>

The Perils and Promises of Prediction in the Natural Sciences: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives

The Perils and Promises of Prediction in the Natural...

Author: Theodore Arabatzis ,  Stathis Arapostathis
ISBN: 9783032117052
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book provides a novel approach to a key topic in the history and philosophy of science, the role and status...  Read More >>

Technology vs Nature: The Third Political Spectrum

Technology vs Nature: The Third Political Spectrum

Author: Benjamin Steyn
ISBN: 9783032185815
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book proposes that 21st-century political debates in AI, bioethics, and environmental policy are best understood...  Read More >>

Hypotheses in Science

Hypotheses in Science

Author: Michał Oleksowicz ,  K. Brad Wray
ISBN: 9783032136497
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book focuses on the different and complementary components of scientific hypothetical thinking as a multifaceted...  Read More >>

Cosmic Events: The Three Comets of 1618

Cosmic Events: The Three Comets of 1618

Author: Clifford J. Cunningham
ISBN: 9783031869495
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Other chapters take a broader look on how the comets affected European thought in the visual and cultural arena,...  Read More >>

Gentzen's Logical Calculi: (the theory pamphlet)

Gentzen's Logical Calculi: (the theory pamphlet)

Author: Curtis Franks
ISBN: 9783031919985
Format: Paperback
$145.17

The Theory Pamphlet presents Gerhard Gentzen's natural deduction and sequent calculi with emphasis on the theory...  Read More >>

The Brain, In Theory

The Brain, In Theory

Author: Romain Brette
ISBN: 9780691281384
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition. Mainstream...  Read More >>

Big Sky: When the Emu Left the Earth

Big Sky: When the Emu Left the Earth

Author: Bruce Pascoe ,  Ray Norris
ISBN: 9781922864376
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Big Sky, when the emu left the earth is an exquisite conversation of sky knowledge between Aboriginal farmer and...  Read More >>

The Brain, In Theory

The Brain, In Theory

Author: Romain Brette
ISBN: 9780691281377
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition. Mainstream...  Read More >>

Think Tank Science and Engineering: An Introduction

Think Tank Science and Engineering: An Introduction...

Author: Jiaofeng Pan
ISBN: 9789819532841
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book introduces think tank science and engineering as an emerging academic discipline, marking the evolution...  Read More >>

Temporal Cognition in Animals

Temporal Cognition in Animals

Author: Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan)
ISBN: 9781009647878
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element investigates whether non-human animals possess genuine temporal cognition– the capacity to mentally...  Read More >>

Temporal Cognition in Animals

Temporal Cognition in Animals

Author: Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan)
ISBN: 9781009647854
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element investigates whether non-human animals possess genuine temporal cognition– the capacity to mentally...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Cosmology

Deleuze and Cosmology

Author: Janae Sholtz (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Alvernia University) ,  Alain Beaulieu
ISBN: 9781399560894
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Illustrates the importance of cosmology in Deleuze's philosophy and its potential for multi-disciplinary transformation....  Read More >>

Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach

Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach...

Author: Michael Tooley (College Professor of Distinction; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, College Professor of Distinction; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)
ISBN: 9780197801611
Format: Hardback
$245.95

In Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach, Michael Tooley offers detailed criticism of various approaches...  Read More >>

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges...

Author: Matt Strassler
ISBN: 9781541603370
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey to discover how the universe generates everything...  Read More >>

Blumenbach’s Racial Classification: Deconstructing the Timeless Call for Human Differentiation

Blumenbach’s Racial Classification: Deconstructing the...

Author: Victoria Shmidt ,  Simone De Angelis
ISBN: 9783032159496
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book explores how the elements of Blumenbach’s epistemology have been variously assembled in different...  Read More >>

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties...

Author: Bill M. Mak (Kyoto University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781138477599
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the history of foreign astral science in China from the unique viewpoint of the knowledge introduced...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Veterinary Humanities

An Introduction to Veterinary Humanities

Author: Alison Skipper ,  Ruth Serlin
ISBN: 9781032427225
Format: Paperback
$137.11

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An Introduction to Veterinary Humanities

An Introduction to Veterinary Humanities

Author: Alison Skipper ,  Ruth Serlin
ISBN: 9781032437248
Format: Hardback
$517.50

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Food, Plants, Remedies and Healing Practices: Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine

Food, Plants, Remedies and Healing Practices: Women’s...

Author: Jil Muller
ISBN: 9783032177650
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book examines the contributions of women to the history of philosophy and medicine, as well as the traditional...  Read More >>

Contextuality in Random Variables: A Systematic Introduction

Contextuality in Random Variables: A Systematic Introduction...

Author: Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov (Purdue University, Indiana) ,  Janne V. Kujala (University of Turku, Finland)
ISBN: 9781009852678
Format: Paperback
$181.13

This systematic introduction to the theory of contextuality requires no previous familiarity with the subject and...  Read More >>

Bridging Bioscience and Islam: Engaging Big Questions about the Human Being

Bridging Bioscience and Islam: Engaging Big Questions...

Author: Aasim I. Padela
ISBN: 9783032099952
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book advances scholarly discourse at the interface of Islam, biomedicine, and the human being. Most commonly,...  Read More >>

Worlds in a Stochastic Universe: On the Emergence of World Histories in Tychistic Bohmian Mechanics

Worlds in a Stochastic Universe: On the Emergence of...

Author: Alexander Ehmann
ISBN: 9783032146311
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book develops a detailed account of the emergence of world histories from the discontinuous, stochastic micro...  Read More >>

Paradoxes of Rationality, Probability, and Utility: Slaying Decision Theory’s Dragons

Paradoxes of Rationality, Probability, and Utility:...

Author: Lou Marinoff, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781839998690
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This unique anthology reflects the author's analyses and/or resolutions of some of the most perplexing, interesting,...  Read More >>

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