Philosophy of science books

14028 books were found.

Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, The: A Historical and Critical Essay

Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science,...

Author: Edwin Arthur Burtt
ISBN: 9781306894180
Format: Electronic book text
$1016.40

 Read More >>

Science, Democracy and Relativism: The Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge from the Viewpoint of Communitarian Epistemology

Science, Democracy and Relativism: The Production and...

Author: Haris Shekeris
ISBN: 9781306907187
Format: Electronic book text
$214.32

Proposes and defends the thesis that scientific knowledge is produced through a process of argumentation and consensus...  Read More >>

Private Science of Louis Pasteur

Private Science of Louis Pasteur

Author: Professor of History of Science Gerald L Geison (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9781306984454
Format: Electronic book text
$248.03

In The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Gerald Geison has written a controversial biography that finally penetrates...  Read More >>

Science and Scepticism

Science and Scepticism

Author: John W N Watkins
ISBN: 9781306993241
Format: Electronic book text
$205.92

This book contains important technical innovations, including comparative measures for the testable content, depth,...  Read More >>

Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time the Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body

Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific...

Author: Jerry E Bishop ,  Michael Waldholz
ISBN: 9781306987974
Format: Electronic book text
$26.37

 Read More >>

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

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

Author: Robert John Ackermann
ISBN: 9781306991568
Format: Electronic book text
$130.68

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

Book of Extremes: Why the 21st Century Isn T Like the 20th Century

Book of Extremes: Why the 21st Century Isn T Like the...

Author:
ISBN: 9781322040202
Format: Electronic book text
$73.89

 Read More >>

Evidence, Decision and Causality

Evidence, Decision and Causality

Author: Dr Arif Ahmed (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781322067018
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

 Read More >>

Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions

Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions

Author: Tony Rothman
ISBN: 9781322019659
Format: Electronic book text
$116.03

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: 9781322019864
Format: Electronic book text
$99.00

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

Three Dimensional Creativity: Three Navigations to Extend Our Thoughts

Three Dimensional Creativity: Three Navigations to Extend...

Author:
ISBN: 9781322043913
Format: Electronic book text
$237.57

 Read More >>

Night Sky, Updated and Expanded Edition

Night Sky, Updated and Expanded Edition

Author: Richard Grossinger
ISBN: 9781322131382
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

Ever since Homo sapiens first looked up at the stars, we as a species have been looking for meaning in the mysteries...  Read More >>

New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

Author:
ISBN: 9781322134055
Format: Electronic book text
$736.56

 Read More >>

Sustainability: The Basics

Sustainability: The Basics

Author: Peter Jacques (University of Central Florida, USA)
ISBN: 9781322130590
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

Sustainability is concerned with the issues around the ongoing and mutual preservation of both society and the environment....  Read More >>

Chaotic Harmony: A Dialog about Physics, Complexity and Life

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

Author:
ISBN: 9781322135786
Format: Electronic book text
$340.56

This fascinating book written by Ali Sanayei and Otto E. Rossler is not a classic scientific publication, but a...  Read More >>

Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity

Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity...

Author: Professor of Psychiatry Albert Rothenberg (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781322146850
Format: Electronic book text
$290.27

Scientific breakthroughs have had far-reaching social and physical effects on modern civilization, yet until recently,...  Read More >>

Interpreting Godel

Interpreting Godel

Author: Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9781322176499
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

 Read More >>

Philosophy of Chemistry: Practices, Methodologies, and Concepts

Philosophy of Chemistry: Practices, Methodologies, and...

Author: Jean-Pierre Llored
ISBN: 9781322179841
Format: Electronic book text
$333.43

This volume connects chemistry and philosophy in order to face questions raised by chemistry in our present world....  Read More >>

Philosophy, Computing and Information Science

Philosophy, Computing and Information Science

Author: Ruth Hagengruber ,  Uwe V Riss
ISBN: 9781322199634
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

Over the last four decades computers and the internet have become an intrinsic part of all our lives, but this speed...  Read More >>

Experiments in Practice

Experiments in Practice

Author: Astrid Schwarz
ISBN: 9781322199726
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

Traditionally experimentation has been understood as an activity performed within the laboratory, but in the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education: Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories

Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science...

Author: Sibel Erduran ,  Zoubeida Dagher
ISBN: 9781322175393
Format: Electronic book text
$340.56

Prompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over nature of science, and its importance in school and...  Read More >>

International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching

International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy...

Author: Michael Matthews, PH.D. (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9781322175003
Format: Electronic book text
$2637.36

This handbook provides a guide to the ways in which science and mathematics education is informed by the history...  Read More >>

Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality

Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality

Author: Erik Weber ,  Dietlinde Wouters
ISBN: 9781322175331
Format: Electronic book text
$340.56

This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the Logic, Reasoning and Rationality 2010 conference (LRR10)...  Read More >>

Domestication of Language

Domestication of Language

Author: Daniel Cloud
ISBN: 9781322378190
Format: Electronic book text
$92.37

Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing,...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

RGJUNE2025

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List