Philosophy of science books

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Supercooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

Supercooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need...

Author: Martin Nowak ,  M A Nowak
ISBN: 9781439100189
Format: Hardback
$71.28

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Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology: From Thales to Heraclides Ponticus

Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology: From Thales...

Author: Dirk L. Couprie
ISBN: 9781441981158
Format: Hardback
$340.56

In Part One the reader is introduced in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with the cupola of the celestial...  Read More >>

Equivocados: Porque los Expertos Siguen Fallando y Como Saber Cuando No Confiar en Ellos

Equivocados: Porque los Expertos Siguen Fallando y Como...

Author: David H Freedman
ISBN: 9788492452705
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Is Life a Concept?

Is Life a Concept?

Author: Jim Eerie
ISBN: 9781907962431
Format: Paperback
$12.81

Is there a division in the universe between the living and the non-living? There is almost certainly such a division...  Read More >>

Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA

Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA

Author: R C Lewontin
ISBN: 9786613276872
Format: Electronic book text
$78.94

R.C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed...  Read More >>

Aristotle: Metaphysics Selections

Aristotle: Metaphysics Selections

Author: Aristotle ,  John H McMahon
ISBN: 9781258020453
Format: Hardback
$60.85

Aristotle placed cosmology on a new footing; his use of mathematics, along with his appeal to observation, resulted...  Read More >>

Causal Asymmetry & the Explanatory Constraint

Causal Asymmetry & the Explanatory Constraint

Author: Dr Zhiheng Tang
ISBN: 9781907962417
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Causation is an asymmetric relation - if C causes E, then E does not cause C. In this book it is argued that: 1)...  Read More >>

The Tyranny of Science

The Tyranny of Science

Author: Paul K. Feyerabend (University of California at Berkeley, and Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich)
ISBN: 9780745651903
Format: Paperback
$26.95

* Feyerabend was one of the most important philosophers of science of the second half of the 20th century. His most...  Read More >>

Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science

Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science

Author: Philip Mirowski
ISBN: 9780674046467
Format: Hardback
$151.95

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John Locke and Natural Philosophy

John Locke and Natural Philosophy

Author: Peter R. Anstey (University of Otago)
ISBN: 9780199589777
Format: Hardback
$203.00

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Perpetual Universe Theory: (Was It Really a Big Bang?)

Perpetual Universe Theory: (Was It Really a Big Bang?)...

Author: Therlee Gipson
ISBN: 9781461104476
Format: Paperback
$52.80

No one really knows when the beginning was. I assume there was never a beginning, because there has always been...  Read More >>

The Problems of Philosophy

The Problems of Philosophy

Author: Bertrand Russell
ISBN: 9781461036197
Format: Paperback
$23.73

The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible...  Read More >>

Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage Enthusiasms: Essays in Honour of John L. Bell

Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage Enthusiasms:...

Author: David DeVidi ,  Michael Hallett
ISBN: 9789400702134
Format: Hardback
$498.96

analytical philosophy (Michael Dummett, William Demopoulos), philosophy of science (Michael Redhead, Frank Arntzenius),...  Read More >>

Conservative Reductionism

Conservative Reductionism

Author: Michael Esfeld (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) ,  Christian Sachse (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9780415891868
Format: Hardback
$336.00

All properties that exist in the world are functional properties in the sense of causal properties. The authors...  Read More >>

Foundational Theories of Classical and Constructive Mathematics

Foundational Theories of Classical and Constructive...

Author: Giovanni Sommaruga
ISBN: 9789400704305
Format: Hardback
$366.96

The book ""Foundational Theories of Classical and Constructive Mathematics"" is a book on the classical topic of...  Read More >>

Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation

Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation

Author: Dennis Dieks ,  Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
ISBN: 9789400711792
Format: Hardback
$498.96

This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected...  Read More >>

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the...

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ,  Helen Zimmern
ISBN: 9781441718518
Format: Audio
$79.07

The great nineteenth-century philosopher here refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in one of his...  Read More >>

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche ,  Helen Zimmern
ISBN: 9781441718488
Format: Audio
$200.64

The great nineteenth-century philosopher here refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in one of his...  Read More >>

Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason

Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic...

Author: Professor Manuel DeLanda (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
ISBN: 9781441170286
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Provides a philosophical overview of the rapidly growing field of computer simulations. In this book, the author...  Read More >>

Ecology Revisited: Reflecting on Concepts, Advancing Science

Ecology Revisited: Reflecting on Concepts, Advancing...

Author: Astrid Schwarz ,  Kurt Jax
ISBN: 9789048197439
Format: Hardback
$551.76

This is an international, interdisciplinary work of reference in the field of ecology and environmental studies....  Read More >>

Philosophy in Science: An Historical Introduction

Philosophy in Science: An Historical Introduction

Author: Michael Heller
ISBN: 9783642177040
Format: Hardback
$184.67

The traditional topics of the ""philosophy of nature"" — space, time, causality, the structure of the universe —...  Read More >>

Darwinian Creativity and Memetics

Darwinian Creativity and Memetics

Author: Maria Kronfeldner
ISBN: 9781844652563
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Examines how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture through the Darwinian approach to...  Read More >>

Statistik im Forschungsprozess: Eine Philosophie der Statistik als Baustein einer integrativen Wissenschaftstheorie

Statistik im Forschungsprozess: Eine Philosophie der...

Author: Uwe Saint-Mont
ISBN: 9783790827224
Format: Hardback
$395.97

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Causality in the Sciences

Causality in the Sciences

Author: Phyllis Illari (Research Fellow, University of Kent) ,  Federica Russo (Research Associate, University of Kent)
ISBN: 9780199574131
Format: Hardback
$253.95

Why do ideas of how mechanisms relate to causality and probability differ so much across the sciences? Can progress...  Read More >>

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