Philosophy of science books

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Hermann von Helmholtz’s Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty: A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature

Hermann von Helmholtz’s Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty:...

Author: Gregor Schiemann ,  Cynthia Klohr
ISBN: 9789048174133
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The volume of his work, reaching from medicine to physiology to physics and epis- mology, his impact on the development...  Read More >>

Epistemology and the Regress Problem

Epistemology and the Regress Problem

Author: Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415878005
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology....  Read More >>

E.A. Burtt, Historian and Philosopher: A Study of the author of The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science

E.A. Burtt, Historian and Philosopher: A Study of the...

Author: D. Villemaire
ISBN: 9789048159376
Format: Paperback
$303.60

Burtt's book, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, is something of a puzzle within the context...  Read More >>

Disaster Culture: Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe

Disaster Culture: Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake...

Author: Gregory Button
ISBN: 9781598743883
Format: Hardback
$347.00

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states,...  Read More >>

Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World

Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World

Author: Vesselin Petkov
ISBN: 9789048176069
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Focuses on the question: is spacetime nothing more than a mathematical space (which describes the evolution in time...  Read More >>

Essays on Giordano Bruno

Essays on Giordano Bruno

Author: Hilary Gatti
ISBN: 9780691145747
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Gathers essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading...  Read More >>

Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction

Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction

Author: Derek Turner (Connecticut College)
ISBN: 9786613067951
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

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Successful Science Communication: Telling It Like It Is

Successful Science Communication: Telling It Like It...

Author: Professor David J Bennett (Aston University) ,  Richard C Jennings
ISBN: 9786613341099
Format: Electronic book text
$580.80

In the 25 years since the 'Bodmer Report' kick-started the public understanding of science movement, there has been...  Read More >>

Science and Religion: A Critical Survey

Science and Religion: A Critical Survey

Author: III Rolston
ISBN: 9786613436900
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

This landmark book, first published in 1987, is now back in print, with a new introduction by its award-winning...  Read More >>

Darwinism, Philosophy, and Experimental Biology: Darwinism, Philosophy, and Experimental Biology

Darwinism, Philosophy, and Experimental Biology: Darwinism,...

Author: Ute Deichman ,  Anthony S Travis
ISBN: 9786613469854
Format: Electronic book text
$31.52

Conference proceedings of 2009 (year of Darwin) international conference on Darwin, held in Israel.  Read More >>

Niels Bohr's Complementarity: Its Structure, History, and Intersections with Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

Niels Bohr's Complementarity: Its Structure, History,...

Author: Makoto Katsumori
ISBN: 9786613478160
Format: Electronic book text
$440.35

Through detailed textual and conceptual analysis, and with special attention to the potentially conflicting elements...  Read More >>

Passibility: At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor

Passibility: At the Limits of the Constructivist Metaphor...

Author: Wolff-Michael Roth (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9786613478238
Format: Electronic book text
$440.35

Guided by concepts such as passion and undecidability, this book uses empirical studies and phenomenological analyses...  Read More >>

Icarus' Second Chance: The Basis and Perspectives of Space Ethics

Icarus' Second Chance: The Basis and Perspectives of...

Author: Jacques Arnould
ISBN: 9786613477941
Format: Electronic book text
$408.67

Here is a historical, technical and philosophical overview of the emerging domain of ethics in space activities....  Read More >>

Chicago Guide to Communicating Science

Chicago Guide to Communicating Science

Author: Scott L Montgomery (University of Washington, USA)
ISBN: 9781283058445
Format: Undefined
$147.84

Whether you are a graduate student or a senior scientist, your reputation rests on the ability to communicate your...  Read More >>

Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Author: Steven Shapin ,  University Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science Simon Schaffer (Cambridge University)
ISBN: 9781283256025
Format: Electronic book text
$101.64

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between...  Read More >>

Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema

Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema...

Author: David A Kirby
ISBN: 9781283148092
Format: Electronic book text
$73.79

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Evolutionary Analogies: Is the Process of Scientific Change Analogous to the Organic Change?

Evolutionary Analogies: Is the Process of Scientific...

Author: Barbara Gabriella Renzi ,  Giulio Napolitano
ISBN: 9781283436014
Format: Electronic book text
$166.69

Advocates of the evolutionary analogy claim that mechanisms governing scientific change are analogous to those at...  Read More >>

Science Studies as Naturalized Philosophy

Science Studies as Naturalized Philosophy

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ISBN: 9781282995772
Format: Undefined
$472.56

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Scientific Structuralism

Scientific Structuralism

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ISBN: 9781283085748
Format: Undefined
$472.56

Recently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science. Taking their lead from scientific...  Read More >>

Science in the Context of Application

Science in the Context of Application

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ISBN: 9781282995598
Format: Undefined
$472.56

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Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science

Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science

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ISBN: 9781282995888
Format: Undefined
$472.56

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Language of Genetics

Language of Genetics

Author: Denis R Alexander
ISBN: 9781283260664
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

The Language of Genetics: An Introduction is the seventh title published in the Templeton Science and Religion...  Read More >>

Fire in the Equations

Fire in the Equations

Author: Kitty Ferguson
ISBN: 9781282450806
Format: Electronic book text
$26.37

In this beautifully and intelligently written book, Ferguson not only reports on some of the intellectual tremors...  Read More >>

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