Philosophy of science books

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Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?

Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison:...

Author: Lena Soler ,  Howard Sankey
ISBN: 9786611378110
Format: Electronic book text
$945.12

Comprising fully revised papers originally presented at the international colloquium at the University of Nancy,...  Read More >>

Non-Bayesian Decision Theory: Beliefs and Desires as Reasons for Action: Theory and Decision Library: Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences, Volume 44.

Non-Bayesian Decision Theory: Beliefs and Desires as...

Author: Martin Peterson
ISBN: 9786611492311
Format: Electronic book text
$733.92

This book aims to present an account of rational choice from a non-Bayesian point of view. Rational agents maximize...  Read More >>

The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 268.

The English Galileo: Thomas Harriot's Work on Motion...

Author: Matthias Schemmel
ISBN: 9786611904166
Format: Electronic book text
$1261.92

Part of The Genesis of General Relativity, this book investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics...  Read More >>

From a Geometrical Point of View: A Study of the History and Philosophy of Category Theory. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Volume 14.

From a Geometrical Point of View: A Study of the History...

Author: Jean-Pierre Marquis
ISBN: 9786611904258
Format: Electronic book text
$1050.72

From a Geometrical Point of View explores historical and philosophical aspects of category theory, trying there...  Read More >>

Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic

Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic

Author: Nimrod Bar-Am
ISBN: 9786611275983
Format: Electronic book text
$628.32

Shows that the history of logic from Aristotle to Tarski is the history of the gradual undoing of the classic conflation...  Read More >>

A History of Physical Theories of Comets, from Aristotle to Whipple

A History of Physical Theories of Comets, from Aristotle...

Author: Tofigh Heidarzadeh
ISBN: 9786611493561
Format: Electronic book text
$1156.32

The book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It describes the evolution of...  Read More >>

Logic in Reality

Logic in Reality

Author: Joseph E Brenner
ISBN: 9786611493592
Format: Electronic book text
$1050.72

The work is the presentation of a logical theory a Logic in Reality (LIR) - and of applications of that theory...  Read More >>

Il Senso E La Narrazione

Il Senso E La Narrazione

Author: Giuseppe O Longo
ISBN: 9786611862763
Format: Electronic book text
$158.14

Gli umani sono creature della narrazione: infinitamente narrano e si narrano, intrecciano dialoghi, accendono storie...  Read More >>

Science and the Search for Meaning: Perspectives from International Scientists

Science and the Search for Meaning: Perspectives from...

Author: Jean Staune ,  Professor Philip Clayton
ISBN: 9786613260369
Format: Electronic book text
$52.75

Addresses naturalism, materialism, the nature of consciousness, reductionism and the quest for meaning. This book...  Read More >>

The Cosmic Dance: Science Discovers the Mysterious Harmony of the Universe

The Cosmic Dance: Science Discovers the Mysterious Harmony...

Author: Guiseppe Dr Del Re
ISBN: 9786613260703
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

This book focuses on a new worldview, emerging from the science of the last decades of the second millennium. Its...  Read More >>

God for the 21st Century

God for the 21st Century

Author: Russell Stannard (Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Open University) ,  Russell Stannard (Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Open University)
ISBN: 9781280626203
Format: Electronic book text
$26.37

Just as modern science has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world, so can it expand our understanding...  Read More >>

Protogaea

Protogaea

Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Fre ,  Claudine Cohen
ISBN: 9781281959416
Format: Undefined
$158.40

Presents the English translation of Protogaea , a central text in natural philosophy and an account of terrestrial...  Read More >>

Crime of Reason

Crime of Reason

Author: Robert B Laughlin
ISBN: 9781283261371
Format: Electronic book text
$42.11

We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern,...  Read More >>

Darwin Loves You

Darwin Loves You

Author: George Levine (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781282298279
Format: Electronic book text
$145.20

Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones...  Read More >>

Logic in Reality

Logic in Reality

Author: Joseph E Brenner
ISBN: 9781281493590
Format: Undefined
$630.96

The work is the presentation of a logical theory a Logic in Reality (LIR) - and of applications of that theory...  Read More >>

Cosmic Dance

Cosmic Dance

Author: Guiseppe Dr Del Re
ISBN: 9781283260701
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

This book focuses on a new worldview, emerging from the science of the last decades of the second millennium. Its...  Read More >>

Intelligibility of Nature

Intelligibility of Nature

Author: Peter Dear
ISBN: 9781281959508
Format: Undefined
$118.80

Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige....  Read More >>

Universality in Nonequilibrium Lattice Systems: Theoretical Foundations

Universality in Nonequilibrium Lattice Systems: Theoretical...

Author: Geza Odor
ISBN: 9781281960900
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

Offers a comprehensive overview of dynamical universality classes occurring in nonequilibrium systems defined on...  Read More >>

Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science

Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science

Author: Karen Cordrick Haely
ISBN: 9781283123167
Format: Electronic book text
$955.68

Examines prominent feminist ideas regarding how to revise and enrich the concept of objectivity. These theories...  Read More >>

Faith of Scientists

Faith of Scientists

Author: Nancy K Frankenberry (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9781282159075
Format: Electronic book text
$116.03

The Faith of Scientists is an anthology of writings by twenty-one legendary scientists, from the dawn of the Scientific...  Read More >>

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