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The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us about What It Means to Be Alive

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches...

Author: Brian Christian ,  Brian Christian
ISBN: 9780307879165
Format: Downloadable audio file
$200.64

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping...  Read More >>

Defending the Axioms: On the Philosophical Foundations of Set Theory

Defending the Axioms: On the Philosophical Foundations...

Author: Penelope Maddy (University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9780199596188
Format: Hardback
$121.95

Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions. The axioms of...  Read More >>

Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

Author: Michael Heller
ISBN: 9783642021046
Format: Undefined
$65.87

<p>What could be more important than to understand the Universe and ourselves as a part of it, or to find a window...  Read More >>

A History of Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment: And Its Philosophical Implications

A History of Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment: And...

Author: Paolo Palmieri
ISBN: 9780773414815
Format: Hardback
$316.67

Presents a history and philosophy of Galileo's inclined plane experiment. This book deploys an integrated historical...  Read More >>

Expertise: Philosophical Reflections

Expertise: Philosophical Reflections

Author: Professor Evan Selinger
ISBN: 9788792130372
Format: Paperback
$64.69

"Problems related to expertise are amongst the most pressing issues of our time. Although philosophical reflection...  Read More >>

Bak's Sand Pile: Strategies for a Catastrophic World

Bak's Sand Pile: Strategies for a Catastrophic World...

Author: Ted G Lewis (Naval Post Graduate School Monterey California)
ISBN: 9780983074502
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Did the terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001, the massive power blackout of 2003, Hurricane Katrina in...  Read More >>

Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science

Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy...

Author: Richard DeWitt (Fairfield University, USA)
ISBN: 9786613407993
Format: Electronic book text
$110.72

Updated throughout and with three entirely new chapters, Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy...  Read More >>

Symmetry and the end of probability

Symmetry and the end of probability

Author: T Tran Ph D
ISBN: 9781460932407
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Despite strong objections from many scientists since the time of its conception, the Probability theory has been...  Read More >>

Surfaces and Essences

Surfaces and Essences

Author: Douglas Hofstadter ,  Emmanuel Sander
ISBN: 9781615871094
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$158.37

From the simplest forms (a single word, category, or phrase) to infinitely complex constructions (an idiom, or proverb,...  Read More >>

Dynamic Formal Epistemology

Dynamic Formal Epistemology

Author: Patrick Girard ,  Olivier Roy
ISBN: 9789400700734
Format: Hardback
$366.96

This volume is a collation of original contributions from the key actors of a new trend in the contemporary theory...  Read More >>

Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender,...

Author: Carol Colatrella
ISBN: 9780814211472
Format: Hardback
$123.95

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs work collaboratively to connect education and...  Read More >>

The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws...

Author: Timothy Ferris
ISBN: 9780060781514
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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The Foundations of Set Theory: A Philosophical Reader

The Foundations of Set Theory: A Philosophical Reader...

Author: Andrew Irvine
ISBN: 9780631228691
Format: Undefined
$99.95

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The Foundations of Set Theory: A Philosophical Reader

The Foundations of Set Theory: A Philosophical Reader...

Author: Andrew Irvine
ISBN: 9780631228707
Format: Undefined
$37.95

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Dark Matter, Dark Energy & the Quantum Wavefunction

Dark Matter, Dark Energy & the Quantum Wavefunction...

Author: Robert Rose
ISBN: 9781907962073
Format: Paperback
$36.83

According to contemporary physics the phenomena of dark matter, dark energy and quantum wavefunctions exist in the...  Read More >>

Science Values and Objectivity

Science Values and Objectivity

Author: Peter Machamer ,  Gereon Wolters
ISBN: 9780822959472
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Collection of essays that identify the values crucial to science, distinguish some of the criteria that can be used...  Read More >>

Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction

Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction...

Author: Ibo Van De Poel (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) ,  Lamber Royakkers
ISBN: 9786613408297
Format: Electronic book text
$316.64

Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and...  Read More >>

La scienza delle costruzioni in Italia nell'Ottocento: Un'analisi storica dei fondamenti della scienza delle costruzioni

La scienza delle costruzioni in Italia nell'Ottocento:...

Author: Danilo Capecchi ,  Giuseppe Ruta
ISBN: 9788847017139
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Il libro tratta dei fondamenti teorici della Scienza delle costruzioni, partendo dalle origini della teoria moderna...  Read More >>

An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer ""What's Next?""

An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets...

Author: Mark Stevenson
ISBN: 9781583334140
Format: Hardback
$68.64

When unexpectedly confronted with his own mortality, writer and stand-up comedian Stevenson began to ponder what...  Read More >>

Scientific Realism and Democratic Society: The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher

Scientific Realism and Democratic Society: The Philosophy...

Author: Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
ISBN: 9789042034495
Format: Hardback
$366.96

Philip Kitcher is among the key philosophers of science of our times. This volume offers an up to date analysis...  Read More >>

Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method, Practice

Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method,...

Author: Rick Szostak
ISBN: 9789048167906
Format: Paperback
$498.96

Notably, the classifications of both theory types and methods allow the key strengths and weaknesses of different...  Read More >>

Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
ISBN: 9789048161195
Format: Paperback
$498.96

The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human ingrowness...  Read More >>

Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics: Part Three of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada-1975

Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics: Part...

Author: Robert E. Butts ,  Jaakko Hintikka
ISBN: 9789048183500
Format: Paperback
$604.56

The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western...  Read More >>

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