Philosophy of science books

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Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Author: Eric Winsberg
ISBN: 9780226902043
Format: Paperback
$56.95

Digital computer simulation helps study phenomena of great complexity, but how much do we know about the limits...  Read More >>

Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity

Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and...

Author: Rafael Ferraro
ISBN: 9781441924193
Format: Paperback
$261.36

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Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development

Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development

Author: Gianfranco Minati ,  Eliano Pessa
ISBN: 9781441939616
Format: Paperback
$435.60

Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development is a volume devoted to exploring the core theoretical and disciplinary...  Read More >>

Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy

Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity...

Author: David R Topper
ISBN: 9781441924292
Format: Paperback
$105.47

There are stories of Einstein’s stubbornness leading him to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and...  Read More >>

Beyond Technocracy: Science, Politics and Citizens

Beyond Technocracy: Science, Politics and Citizens

Author: Massimiano Bucchi ,  Adrian Belton
ISBN: 9781441928009
Format: Paperback
$340.56

The more that science advances, such as with stem cells, GMOs, or nuclear energy, the more society seems to resist....  Read More >>

Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Author: Eric Winsberg
ISBN: 9780226902029
Format: Hardback
$135.95

Digital computer simulation helps study phenomena of great complexity, but how much do we know about the limits...  Read More >>

Crisis and Reflection: An Essay on Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences

Crisis and Reflection: An Essay on Husserl's Crisis...

Author: J. Dodd
ISBN: 9789048166060
Format: Paperback
$446.16

In his last work, ""Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology"", Edmund Husserl formulated...  Read More >>

Handbook of the History of General Topology

Handbook of the History of General Topology

Author: C.E. Aull ,  R. Lowen
ISBN: 9789048157044
Format: Paperback
$578.16

Treats the history of the development of topology. This work contains papers which can be classified into 4 main...  Read More >>

Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics

Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics...

Author: P. Mancosu ,  Klaus Frovin Jørgensen
ISBN: 9789048168378
Format: Paperback
$472.56

In the 20th century philosophy of mathematics has to a great extent been dominated by views developed during the...  Read More >>

Nature's Principles

Nature's Principles

Author: Jan Faye ,  Paul Needham
ISBN: 9789048168262
Format: Paperback
$527.97

One of the most basic problems in the philosophy of science involves determining the extent to which nature is governed...  Read More >>

Holism and Reductionism in Biology and Ecology: The Mutual Dependence of Higher and Lower Level Research Programmes

Holism and Reductionism in Biology and Ecology: The...

Author: Rick C. Looijen
ISBN: 9789048153640
Format: Paperback
$525.36

Readership: Specialists in the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology, biologists and ecologists...  Read More >>

Wholes, Sums and Unities

Wholes, Sums and Unities

Author: A. Meirav
ISBN: 9789048164424
Format: Paperback
$551.76

According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities...  Read More >>

Philosophical Lectures on Probability: collected, edited, and annotated by Alberto Mura

Philosophical Lectures on Probability: collected, edited,...

Author: Bruno de Finetti ,  Alberto Mura
ISBN: 9789048178056
Format: Paperback
$472.56

Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985) is known worldwide as the founder (together with F.P. Ramsey) of the modern personal...  Read More >>

Challenges to The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment

Challenges to The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Theory...

Author: Vladislav Capek ,  Daniel P. Sheehan
ISBN: 9789048167685
Format: Paperback
$578.16

Since the early 1980’s, roughly 50 papers representing over 20 challenges have appeared in the refereed scienti?c...  Read More >>

Theoretical Knowledge

Theoretical Knowledge

Author: Vyacheslav S. Stepin
ISBN: 9789048167760
Format: Paperback
$683.76

Demonstrates how sociocultural factors are incorporated in the process of yielding of theories. This book analyses...  Read More >>

A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century

A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists...

Author: B. G. Sidharth
ISBN: 9789048171149
Format: Paperback
$393.36

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures...  Read More >>

Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution

Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities...

Author: D. Fisette
ISBN: 9789048153008
Format: Paperback
$572.88

But while Quine's program of naturalization called the attention of philosophers to empirical psychology, his conception...  Read More >>

Classifying Madness: A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Classifying Madness: A Philosophical Examination of...

Author: Rachel Cooper
ISBN: 9789048168415
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book is about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the D.S.M....  Read More >>

Science and Hypothesis: Historical Essays on Scientific Methodology

Science and Hypothesis: Historical Essays on Scientific...

Author: R. Laudan
ISBN: 9789048183678
Format: Paperback
$409.20

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The Importance of Time

The Importance of Time

Author: L.N. Oaklander
ISBN: 9789048158416
Format: Paperback
$396.00

The Philosophy of Time Society grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism

Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections...

Author: C. Cheyne
ISBN: 9789048158362
Format: Paperback
$316.80

According to platonists, entities such as numbers, sets, propositions and properties are abstract objects. But...  Read More >>

Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First Stage of Scientific Revolution 1580–1650

Quantifying Music: The Science of Music at the First...

Author: H.F. Cohen
ISBN: 9789048183883
Format: Paperback
$741.84

The soul rejoices in perceiving harmonious sound; When to this is added the other harmonie proportion whieh consists...  Read More >>

Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn

Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn

Author: J.R. Brown
ISBN: 9789048184033
Format: Paperback
$649.44

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