Philosophy of science books

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What Is Water?

What Is Water?

Author: Jamie Linton
ISBN: 9786613688286
Format: Electronic book text
$313.63

A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global...  Read More >>

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of...

Author: Paul Feyerabend ,  Ian Hacking
ISBN: 9781844674428
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of...

Author: Paul Feyerabend ,  Ian Hacking
ISBN: 9781844674435
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Contemporary philosophy of science has paid close attention to the understanding of scientific practice, in contrast...  Read More >>

The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family

The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes,...

Author: Peter Byrne
ISBN: 9780199552276
Format: Hardback
$115.95

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Emergence in Mind

Emergence in Mind

Author: Cynthia Macdonald (Queen's University, Belfast) ,  Graham Macdonald (Queen's University, Belfast and University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780199583621
Format: Hardback
$181.95

There have long been controversies about how minds can fit into a physical universe. In Emergence in Mind a distinguished...  Read More >>

The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science

The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied...

Author: Charles T. Wolfe ,  Ofer Gal
ISBN: 9789048136858
Format: Hardback
$498.96

This book features papers from a workshop organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney,...  Read More >>

Emergence in Science and Philosophy

Emergence in Science and Philosophy

Author: Antonella Corradini (Catholic University of Milan, Italy) ,  Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415802161
Format: Hardback
$336.00

The original essays in this volume help to clarify the concept of emrgence: inadequacies in some older formulations...  Read More >>

Essential Readings in Biosemiotics

Essential Readings in Biosemiotics

Author: Donald Favareau
ISBN: 9781402096655
Format: Undefined
$65.87

The first of its kind, Donald Favareau's Essential Readings in Biosemiotics constitutes a valuable resource to...  Read More >>

Defending Hypatia

Defending Hypatia

Author: Robert Goulding
ISBN: 9789048135479
Format: Undefined
$65.87

Why should mathematics, the purest of sciences, have a history? Medieval mathematicians took little interest in...  Read More >>

The Place of Probability in Science

The Place of Probability in Science

Author: Ellery Eells ,  J H Fetzer
ISBN: 9789048136247
Format: Undefined
$65.87

<p>This book offers a comprehensive overview about the place of probability in science. It provides an explanation...  Read More >>

Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy

Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy...

Author: Thomas Boylan (National University of Ireland, Galway) ,  Ruvin Gekker (National University of Ireland, Galway)
ISBN: 9780415588706
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Leading international experts in the field of normative social choice theory, complemented by experts in economic...  Read More >>

Technical Functions: On the Use and Design of Artefacts

Technical Functions: On the Use and Design of Artefacts...

Author: Wybo Houkes ,  Pieter E. Vermaas
ISBN: 9789048138999
Format: Hardback
$366.96

This book is about the functions of technical artefacts, material objects made to serve practical purposes; As we...  Read More >>

Preparative Toward Natural and Experimental History

Preparative Toward Natural and Experimental History...

Author: Francis Bacon
ISBN: 9781161449372
Format: Hardback
$81.71

In the history which I require and design, special care is to be taken that it be of wide range and made to the...  Read More >>

The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs

The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs the Structure...

Author: Professor Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9781161478389
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Where the channel is narrow, the agency, which on unprotected coasts is most productive of sediment, namely the...  Read More >>

Life Understood from a Scientific and Religious Point of View

Life Understood from a Scientific and Religious Point...

Author: F L Rawson
ISBN: 9781161496352
Format: Hardback
$171.47

1912. The Practical Method of Destroying, Sin, Disease and Death.  Read More >>

Marvels of Modern Science

Marvels of Modern Science

Author: Paul Severing
ISBN: 9781161441635
Format: Hardback
$92.27

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Evolution and Ethics

Evolution and Ethics

Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
ISBN: 9781161430639
Format: Hardback
$81.71

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Natural Science

The Philosophy of Natural Science

Author: Richmond L Bishop
ISBN: 9781161495881
Format: Hardback
$89.63

1914. An essay on the School of Natural Science and its purpose, which is to harmonize man with himself, with nature,...  Read More >>

Sea of Circles

Sea of Circles

Author: Jonie Thomas ,  Cole J Thomas
ISBN: 9780615350707
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity

Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology...

Author: Andrew Feenberg (Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre) ,  Michel Callon (CSI Ecole des mines de Paris)
ISBN: 9780262514255
Format: Paperback
$58.08

A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday...  Read More >>

Evidence, Explanation, and Realism: Essays in Philosophy of Science

Evidence, Explanation, and Realism: Essays in Philosophy...

Author: Professor Peter Achinstein (Yeshiva University Johns Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9781282578296
Format: Electronic book text
$142.43

The essays in this volume address three fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: What is required for...  Read More >>

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