Philosophy of science books

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Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life

Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public...

Author: Bruce Braun ,  Sarah J. Whatmore
ISBN: 9780816670888
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory...  Read More >>

Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society

Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection...

Author: Adam Bly ,  Adam Bly
ISBN: 9780061836541
Format: Paperback
$42.21

""Seed"" magazine brings together a unique collection of conversations between prominent scientists, artists, and...  Read More >>

The Meaning of Life: A Dangerous Mix of God and Science

The Meaning of Life: A Dangerous Mix of God and Science...

Author: Adrian Chapman
ISBN: 9780956703507
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Written for those who are looking for answers. This book delves into the thoughts and theories of Albert Einstein,...  Read More >>

Plain Talk on Stem Cell Research: A reader-friendly guide to the truth: destruction of human embryos is not necessary for success.

Plain Talk on Stem Cell Research: A reader-friendly...

Author: Chip Maxwell
ISBN: 9781448656448
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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The Technology Trap: Where Human Error and Malevolence Meet Powerful Technologies

The Technology Trap: Where Human Error and Malevolence...

Author: Lloyd J. Dumas
ISBN: 9780313378881
Format: Hardback
$103.00

In this eye-opening book, author Lloyd J. Dumas argues that our capacity for developing ever more powerful technologies...  Read More >>

Science, Order and Creativity

Science, Order and Creativity

Author: David Bohm ,  F. David Peat
ISBN: 9780415584852
Format: Paperback
$29.99

One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In...  Read More >>

The Nature of Life

The Nature of Life

Author: Mark A Bedau, Cleland, (Reed College, Oregon)
ISBN: 9781282770409
Format: Undefined
$749.76

Bringing together the latest scientific advances and some of the most enduring subtle philosophical puzzles and...  Read More >>

Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.

Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness...

Author: Adele E. Clarke ,  Laura Mamo
ISBN: 9780822345701
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Essays describing how dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and...  Read More >>

Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.

Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness...

Author: Adele E. Clarke ,  Laura Mamo
ISBN: 9780822345534
Format: Hardback
$185.95

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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human...

Author: Sam Harris ,  Sam Harris
ISBN: 9781442300149
Format: Audio
$79.17

Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on...  Read More >>

Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception

Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception...

Author: Charles Seife
ISBN: 9780670022168
Format: Hardback
$68.51

The bestselling author of ""Zero"" shows how mathematical misinformation pervades and shapes daily lives. ""Proofiness,""...  Read More >>

Rethinking the BSE Crisis: A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty

Rethinking the BSE Crisis: A Study of Scientific Reasoning...

Author: Louise Cummings
ISBN: 9789048195039
Format: Hardback
$551.76

Using concepts and techniques in informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory, this study reconstructs and evaluates...  Read More >>

Demystifying the Akasha: Consciousness and the Quantum Vacuum

Demystifying the Akasha: Consciousness and the Quantum...

Author: Ralph Abraham ,  Sisir Roy
ISBN: 9780982644157
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Book Description Demystifying the Akasha: Consciousness and the Quantum Vacuum Duality, including the spiritual/material...  Read More >>

Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay

Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay

Author: William Whewell
ISBN: 9780511692734
Format: Undefined
$224.40

William Whewell, one of Britain's most influential philosophers of science in the Victorian era, stirred up controversy...  Read More >>

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels...

Author: Fritjof Capra
ISBN: 9781590308356
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment

George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of...

Author: Silvia Parigi
ISBN: 9789048192441
Format: Undefined
$65.87

George Berkeley was considered 'the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century'. This is...  Read More >>

Naturalizing Epistemology: Thomas Kuhn and the 'Essential Tension'

Naturalizing Epistemology: Thomas Kuhn and the 'Essential...

Author:
ISBN: 9781282765474
Format: Electronic book text
$501.60

Thomas Kuhn identified an essential tension between conservative and innovative approaches in the development of...  Read More >>

Creating Scientific Concepts

Creating Scientific Concepts

Author: Nancy J Nersessian
ISBN: 9780262515078
Format: Paperback
$36.83

An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental problem of creativity in science:...  Read More >>

How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation

How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation...

Author: Agnès Guillot ,  Jean-Arcady Meyer (Espinet)
ISBN: 9780262014526
Format: Hardback
$79.07

How biology has inspired technology--from a watch with an alarm modeled on a cricket's noisemaking to a robot that...  Read More >>

Matter and Mind: A Philosophical Inquiry

Matter and Mind: A Philosophical Inquiry

Author: Mario Bunge
ISBN: 9789048192243
Format: Hardback
$498.96

This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter?, and...  Read More >>

Naturalism and Normativity

Naturalism and Normativity

Author: Mario De Caro ,  David Macarthur
ISBN: 9780231134675
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought...  Read More >>

Naturalism and Normativity

Naturalism and Normativity

Author: Mario De Caro ,  David Macarthur
ISBN: 9780231134668
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought...  Read More >>

The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society...

Author: Frans de Waal ,  F B M De Waal
ISBN: 9780307407771
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Originally published in hardcover: New York: Harmony Books, 2009.  Read More >>

Affect and Artificial Intelligence

Affect and Artificial Intelligence

Author: Elizabeth A. Wilson
ISBN: 9780295990477
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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