Philosophy of science books

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Probing the Consistency of Quantum Field Theory I: From Nonconvergence to Haag's Theorem (1949–1954)

Probing the Consistency of Quantum Field Theory I: From...

Author: Alexander S. Blum (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
ISBN: 9781009265331
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element covers the years immediately following the development of renormalized quantum electrodynamics. It...  Read More >>

Probing the Consistency of Quantum Field Theory I: From Nonconvergence to Haag's Theorem (1949–1954)

Probing the Consistency of Quantum Field Theory I: From...

Author: Alexander S. Blum (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
ISBN: 9781009619271
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element covers the years immediately following the development of renormalized quantum electrodynamics. It...  Read More >>

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and...

Author: Renée Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235301
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine

Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine...

Author: Somogy Varga (Aarhus University) ,  Andrew James Latham (Aarhus University)
ISBN: 9781009673716
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Focusing on concepts of health and disease, this Element provides an overview of key topics in the emerging field...  Read More >>

Hans Jonas: Philosophy as Personal Engagement

Hans Jonas: Philosophy as Personal Engagement

Author: Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo ,  Nathalie Frogneux
ISBN: 9783032134615
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This text presents a critical synthesis of the thought of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), a philosopher of Jewish origin...  Read More >>

The Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Making Sense of the Quantum World

The Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics:...

Author: Olimpia Lombardi (Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires and CONICET)
ISBN: 9780198951384
Format: Hardback
$260.95

This book introduces a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation (MHI), which...  Read More >>

Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine

Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine...

Author: Somogy Varga (Aarhus University) ,  Andrew James Latham (Aarhus University)
ISBN: 9781009673709
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Focusing on concepts of health and disease, this Element provides an overview of key topics in the emerging field...  Read More >>

Beyond Black Swans: Inhabiting Indeterminacy

Beyond Black Swans: Inhabiting Indeterminacy

Author: Piero Dominici ,  Edgar Morin
ISBN: 9783032090287
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book describes the urgent need of modern humanity to renew and reinforce an open attitude to the complexity...  Read More >>

Thought Experiments, Models and Scientific Explanation

Thought Experiments, Models and Scientific Explanation...

Author: Panagiotis Karadimas
ISBN: 9783032161444
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book proposes a novel way to view thought experiments, models and scientific explanations. Current literature...  Read More >>

Double Helix Methodology in Think Tanks

Double Helix Methodology in Think Tanks

Author: Jiaofeng Pan
ISBN: 9789819531431
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book unprecedentedly and systematically puts forward the double helix methodology in think tanks, which is...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Mind for the Budding Psychonaut: A Guide

Philosophy of Mind for the Budding Psychonaut: A Guide...

Author: Dean Rickles
ISBN: 9783032165664
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This book serves as a gentle primer on the philosophy of mind for those wishing to directly explore the strange...  Read More >>

The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination

The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination...

Author: Adam Zeman
ISBN: 9781526609748
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research.  Read More >>

The Art of the ""What-If?"": In 17 Science Fiction Tales from the Past

The Art of the ""What-If?"": In 17 Science Fiction Tales...

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9783032156174
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Contrary to popular belief, the goal of science fiction (SF) is not the prediction of the future, but rather to...  Read More >>

Culture and Addiction: Neuroscience and Affective Scaffolding

Culture and Addiction: Neuroscience and Affective Scaffolding...

Author: Angé Weinrabe ,  Dominic Murphy
ISBN: 9783032091666
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book rethinks one of the most pressing issues of our time. Addiction is often framed solely as a brain disease,...  Read More >>

Macroscopic Metaphysics: Middle-Sized Objects and Longish Processes

Macroscopic Metaphysics: Middle-Sized Objects and Longish...

Author: Paul Needham
ISBN: 9783032123657
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which...  Read More >>

Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry

Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry...

Author: Jacob Stegenga
ISBN: 9780226844053
Format: Paperback
$45.95

A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must justify its claims....  Read More >>

Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry

Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry...

Author: Jacob Stegenga
ISBN: 9780226844039
Format: Hardback
$190.95

A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must justify its claims....  Read More >>

Thomas Kuhn's Philosophical Perspective: Communities, Languages, and Practices

Thomas Kuhn's Philosophical Perspective: Communities,...

Author: Vincenzo Politi
ISBN: 9783032135391
Format: Hardback
$422.37

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Die Zeit in Physik, Philosophie und im Menschlichen

Die Zeit in Physik, Philosophie und im Menschlichen...

Author: Walter Hehl
ISBN: 9783658498542
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Dieses Buch bietet einen systematischen Überblick zum Zeitbegriff aus der Sicht der Philosophie, der Naturwissenschaft...  Read More >>

The Wilderness of the Infinite: Robert Grosseteste, William of Auvergne, and Mathematical Infinity in the Thirteenth Century

The Wilderness of the Infinite: Robert Grosseteste,...

Author: Paolo Mancosu (Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780198926887
Format: Hardback
$282.95

The book offers a methodological proposal on how to engage with the history and the philosophy of mathematical infinity,...  Read More >>

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