Philosophy of science books

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Science's First Mistake: Delusions in Pursuit of Theory

Science's First Mistake: Delusions in Pursuit of Theory...

Author: Professor Ian O. Angell ,  Dionysios Demetis
ISBN: 9781849660648
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This book seeks to deconstruct the process of scientific knowledge discovery and theory construction by scrutinizing...  Read More >>

The Theory of the Top. Volume II: Development of the Theory in the Case of the Heavy Symmetric Top

The Theory of the Top. Volume II: Development of the...

Author: Felix Klein ,  Raymond J. Nagem
ISBN: 9780817648244
Format: Hardback
$327.36

A product of Felix Klein's lectures from 1895, the Theory of the Top remains an informative and insightful text...  Read More >>

Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later

Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later

Author: Vesselin Petkov
ISBN: 9789048136292
Format: Undefined
$65.87

<p>This volume is dedicated to the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Hermann Minkowski's paper Space...  Read More >>

Protagonists of Medicine

Protagonists of Medicine

Author: Domenico Ribatti
ISBN: 9789048137435
Format: Undefined
$65.87

This book features papers on immunology and pathology and vascular biology and angiogenesis. It highlights scientific...  Read More >>

Beyond Mimesis and Convention

Beyond Mimesis and Convention

Author: Roman Frigg ,  Matthew Hunter
ISBN: 9789048138531
Format: Undefined
$65.87

<p>Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

Author: Bruce Clarke ,  Manuela Rossini (University of Basel, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9780415495257
Format: Hardback
$483.00

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars,The Routledge Companion...  Read More >>

Physics and Philosophy

Physics and Philosophy

Author: James Jeans
ISBN: 9780511694400
Format: Undefined
$224.40

Originally published in 1942, this book discusses an emerging physical science that brought with it a fresh message...  Read More >>

Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature

Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and...

Author: William Paley
ISBN: 9780511693656
Format: Undefined
$224.40

William Paley (1743–1805), a British Christian apologist, uses metaphors, analogies, and examples from medicine,...  Read More >>

Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology

Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology

Author: Chris Impey (University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780511763328
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Containing candid interviews with dozens of astronomers, geologists, biologists, and writers about the origin and...  Read More >>

Phenomenology, Science and Geography: Spatiality and the Human Sciences

Phenomenology, Science and Geography: Spatiality and...

Author: John Pickles
ISBN: 9780511753220
Format: Undefined
$435.60

A work of outstanding originality and importance, which will become a cornerstone in the philosophy of geography,...  Read More >>

Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations

Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations

Author: David Cunning (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Iowa)
ISBN: 9780195399608
Format: Hardback
$195.36

This monograph on Descartes' ""Meditations"" shows that it is as much about pedagogy as it is about truth. Every...  Read More >>

Constructive Empiricism: Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science

Constructive Empiricism: Epistemology and the Philosophy...

Author: P. Dicken
ISBN: 9781349320073
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Constructive Empiricism: Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science

Constructive Empiricism: Epistemology and the Philosophy...

Author: P. Dicken
ISBN: 9780230247536
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Constructive empiricism is not just a view regarding the aim of science; it is also a view regarding the epistemological...  Read More >>

Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein

Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's...

Author: Jennifer Coopersmith
ISBN: 9780199546503
Format: Hardback
$105.95

This book explains the idea of energy by tracking the story of its discovery, from Galileo through to Einstein....  Read More >>

Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology: Volume I

Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology: Volume I

Author: Stefan Linquist ,  Neil Levy
ISBN: 9780754627531
Format: Hardback
$735.00

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Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon: Volume V

Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon:...

Author: John S. Wilkins ,  Neil Levy
ISBN: 9780754627630
Format: Hardback
$158.00

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Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery

Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction,...

Author: Lorenzo Magnani ,  Walter Carnielli
ISBN: 9786613512123
Format: Electronic book text
$725.47

The volume is based on papers presented at the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and...  Read More >>

Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery

Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction,...

Author: Lorenzo Magnani (Universita Degli Studi Di Pavia, Italy Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy) ,  Walter Carnielli
ISBN: 9781280007675
Format: Electronic book text
$725.47

Systematically presented to enhance the feasibility of fuzzy models, this book introduces the novel concept of a...  Read More >>

Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives...

Author: Paolo Parrini ,  Wesley C. Salmon
ISBN: 9780822959496
Format: Paperback
$76.43

This collection of essays reexamines the origins of logical empiricism and offers fresh insights into its relationship...  Read More >>

A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy...

Author: John Frederick William Herschel
ISBN: 9780511692727
Format: Undefined
$224.40

J. F. W. Herschel's A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, originally published in 1830, carefully...  Read More >>

Above and Below This Reality

Above and Below This Reality

Author: Jackson Winslow Pearce
ISBN: 9781495410055
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Above And Below This Reality consist of knowledge and teachings from a dimension of reality far superior then the...  Read More >>

Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science

Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science...

Author: E. Brian Davies (Department of Mathematics, King's College, London)
ISBN: 9780199586202
Format: Hardback
$92.95

This book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of jargon. It argues that 'absolutist'...  Read More >>

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