Philosophy of science books

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Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution

Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision...

Author: Ted Chu
ISBN: 9781306466516
Format: Electronic book text
$39.57

For millennia, great thinkers have contemplated the meaning and purpose of human existence; but while most assumed...  Read More >>

Risk: A Study of Its Origins, History and Politics

Risk: A Study of Its Origins, History and Politics

Author: Matthias Beck (Professor of Public Sector Management, The York Management School, University of York) ,  Beth Kewell
ISBN: 9781306504317
Format: Electronic book text
$446.16

Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which...  Read More >>

Science After the Practice Turn in Philosophy, History, and the Social Studies of Science

Science After the Practice Turn in Philosophy, History,...

Author: L Soler ,  Sjoerd Zwart (Universities of Technology in Delft and Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781306530521
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into...  Read More >>

Physics, Nature and Society: A Guide to Order and Complexity in Our World

Physics, Nature and Society: A Guide to Order and Complexity...

Author:
ISBN: 9781306544191
Format: Electronic book text
$105.57

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Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life After Death

Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life...

Author: Eric Charles Steinhart
ISBN: 9781306551274
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

Digitalism is a philosophical strategy that usesnew computational ways of thinking to develop naturalistic but meaningful...  Read More >>

Communication and Popularization of Science and Technology in China

Communication and Popularization of Science and Technology...

Author:
ISBN: 9781306541893
Format: Undefined
$472.56

This book aims to be a reference for researchers studying the promotion of scientific literacy in China, as well...  Read More >>

The Social Evolution of Human Nature

The Social Evolution of Human Nature

Author: Harry Smit (Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781306716352
Format: Undefined
$330.00

This book sheds new light on the problem of how the human mind evolved. Harry Smit argues that current studies of...  Read More >>

Myth of the Framework, The: In Defence of Science and Rationality

Myth of the Framework, The: In Defence of Science and...

Author: Karl Popper ,  M a Notturno
ISBN: 9781306697774
Format: Electronic book text
$427.55

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Waste

Waste

Author: William Viney
ISBN: 9781306722797
Format: Electronic book text
$826.32

Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard...  Read More >>

Epistemic Relativism: A Constructive Critique

Epistemic Relativism: A Constructive Critique

Author: Markus Seidel
ISBN: 9781306734653
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

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Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture

Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction...

Author: James Tabery
ISBN: 9781306801041
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

Why the nature versus nurture debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the...  Read More >>

Is Ultimate Reality Unlimited Love?

Is Ultimate Reality Unlimited Love?

Author: Stephen Garrard Post
ISBN: 9781306802901
Format: Electronic book text
$65.97

This book draws from previously unpublished letters and interviews with physicists, theologians, and Sir John s...  Read More >>

Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science

Scientific Explanation and Methodology of Science

Author: Guichun Guo ,  Chuang Liu
ISBN: 9781306566513
Format: Electronic book text
$403.92

This volume contains the contributed papers of invitees to SEMS 2012 who have also given talks at the conference....  Read More >>

Objectivity, Science and Society: Interpreting Nature and Society in the Age of the Crisis of Science

Objectivity, Science and Society: Interpreting Nature...

Author: Paul A Komesaroff
ISBN: 9781306574631
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

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America's Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Culture

America's Darwin: Darwinian Theory and U.S. Culture...

Author: Tina Gianquitto ,  Lydia Fisher
ISBN: 9781306827485
Format: Electronic book text
$237.47

While much has been written about the impact of Darwin s theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections...  Read More >>

Something There Is: Seeking a Rational Faith for Our Children

Something There Is: Seeking a Rational Faith for Our...

Author: David Sayre (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
ISBN: 9781306808873
Format: Electronic book text
$26.37

In letters to his children from wildly diverse settings--the Pentagon, prisons, cathedrals, reservations-- Sayre...  Read More >>

Nature of Scientific Thinking, The: On Interpretation, Explanation and Understanding

Nature of Scientific Thinking, The: On Interpretation,...

Author: Jan Faye
ISBN: 9781306837453
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

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Island of Knowledge, The: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Island of Knowledge, The: The Limits of Science and...

Author:
ISBN: 9781306836975
Format: Electronic book text
$79.17

Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of all How much can we know about the world?...  Read More >>

Natural Law of Cycles

Natural Law of Cycles

Author: James H Bunn
ISBN: 9781306885850
Format: Electronic book text
$158.27

The Natural Law of Cycles assembles scientific work from different disciplines to show how research on angular momentum...  Read More >>

Scientific Method: An Inquiry Into the Character and Validity of Natural Laws

Scientific Method: An Inquiry Into the Character and...

Author: A D Ritchie
ISBN: 9781306894425
Format: Electronic book text
$871.20

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Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Science

Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Science

Author: Reader in Philosophy of Science Steven French (University of Leeds) ,  Juha Saatsi
ISBN: 9781306895774
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Science presents a practical and up-to-date research resource to...  Read More >>

History of the Philosophy of Science, The: A Guide and Reader

History of the Philosophy of Science, The: A Guide and...

Author: Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech, USA)
ISBN: 9781306904858
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader is a compact overview of the history and philosophy of science...  Read More >>

It Started with Copernicus

It Started with Copernicus

Author: Keith Parsons
ISBN: 9781306964814
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

A unique approach to the philosophy of science that focuses on the liveliest and most important controversies surrounding...  Read More >>

Im Dispositiv Interkultureller Kommunikation: Dilemmata Und Perspektiven Eines Interdisziplinaren Forschungsfelds

Im Dispositiv Interkultureller Kommunikation: Dilemmata...

Author: Dominic Busch
ISBN: 9781306995399
Format: Electronic book text
$166.08

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Sichtbare Soziologie: Visualisierung Und Soziologische Wissenschaftskommunikation in Der Zweiten Moderne

Sichtbare Soziologie: Visualisierung Und Soziologische...

Author: Gerald Beck
ISBN: 9781306995412
Format: Electronic book text
$101.90

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