Philosophy of science books

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Data, Instruments, and Theory: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Science

Data, Instruments, and Theory: A Dialectical Approach...

Author: Robert John Ackermann
ISBN: 9780691611884
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Robert John Ackermann deals decisively with the problem of relativism that has plagued post-empiricist philosophy...  Read More >>

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

Author: Chandos Michael Brown
ISBN: 9780691603759
Format: Paperback
$125.00

Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher--Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of...  Read More >>

Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions

Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions

Author: Tony Rothman
ISBN: 9780691604831
Format: Paperback
$72.99

These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies...  Read More >>

Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community

Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community

Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9780691603742
Format: Paperback
$54.99

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the outstanding physicists of his generation. He was also an immensely gifted writer...  Read More >>

Science and Scepticism

Science and Scepticism

Author: John W.N. Watkins
ISBN: 9780691612188
Format: Paperback
$190.08

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The Possibility of Naturalism: A philosophical critique of the contemporary human sciences

The Possibility of Naturalism: A philosophical critique...

Author: Roy Bhaskar
ISBN: 9781138798892
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering a viable alternative...  Read More >>

Civilization and Its Discontents: Library Edition

Civilization and Its Discontents: Library Edition

Author: Sigmund Freud ,  Luc Changlei Guo
ISBN: 9781500796181
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Wikipedia: Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 - 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist...  Read More >>

Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria

Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria...

Author: Maren R. Niehoff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
ISBN: 9781107414846
Format: Paperback
$119.03

In this book, Maren R. Niehoff provides a systematic analysis of the critical and literary methods of Bible interpretation...  Read More >>

The Place of Science in Modern Civilization: And Other Essays (1919)

The Place of Science in Modern Civilization: And Other...

Author: Thorstein Veblen
ISBN: 9781169977235
Format: Paperback
$121.31

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.  Read More >>

The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom

The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell,...

Author: Chauncey Maher (Dickinson College, USA)
ISBN: 9781138813557
Format: Paperback
$118.00

In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers--The Pittsburgh School--whose...  Read More >>

The Logical Structure of Kinds

The Logical Structure of Kinds

Author: Eric Funkhouser (University of Arkansas)
ISBN: 9780198713302
Format: Hardback
$164.95

Only by classifying things into kinds can we gain knowledge beyond memory and perception. Eric Funkhouser uncovers...  Read More >>

Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life

Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity...

Author: Ali Sanayei ,  Otto E. Rössler
ISBN: 9783319067803
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Rössler is not a classic scientific publication, but a vivid dialogue on science, philosophy and the interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Essays: First Series

Essays: First Series

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781500662059
Format: Paperback
$21.07

First published in 1841 as Essays. After Essays: Second Series was published in 1844, Emerson corrected this volume...  Read More >>

Timaeus

Timaeus

Author: Plato ,  Prof Benjamin Jowett
ISBN: 9781500662912
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Both an ideal entree for beginning readers and a solid text for scholars, the second edition of Peter Kalkavage's...  Read More >>

The Place of Science in Modern Civilization: And Other Essays (1919)

The Place of Science in Modern Civilization: And Other...

Author: Thorstein Veblen
ISBN: 9781498168731
Format: Hardback
$160.91

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.  Read More >>

13 Reasons to Doubt

13 Reasons to Doubt

Author: Edward K Clint ,  Jonathan M S Pearce
ISBN: 9780992600044
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Pseudoscience. Astrology. God. Skepticism isn't just a reliable way to access and assess the world, it's healthy,...  Read More >>

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics...

Author: Michael Drieschner
ISBN: 9783319036670
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book presents a collection of texts by the German physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007),...  Read More >>

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy...

Author: Michael Drieschner
ISBN: 9783319036700
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book presents a collection of texts by the German philosopher and physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007),...  Read More >>

The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality

The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping...

Author: Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199606726
Format: Hardback
$42.95

There is no aspect of our lives that is unaffected by modern information and communication technologies (ICTs)....  Read More >>

The Fall and Hypertime

The Fall and Hypertime

Author: Hud Hudson (Western Washington University)
ISBN: 9780198712695
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Hud Hudson shows that apparently irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion often turn out to be misdescribed...  Read More >>

The Principles of Philosophy

The Principles of Philosophy

Author: Rene Descartes
ISBN: 9781500632793
Format: Paperback
$18.48

Principles of Philosophy is a book by Rene Descartes. It set forth the principles of nature-the Laws of Physics-as...  Read More >>

Arguments and Clarifications: A Philosophical Encounter Between J. O. Chimakonam and M. I. Edet

Arguments and Clarifications: A Philosophical Encounter...

Author: Mesembe Ita Edet ,  Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam
ISBN: 9789785285024
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Arguments and Clarifications: A Philosophical encounter between J. O. Chimakonam and M. I. Edet on the Ibuanyidandaness...  Read More >>

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