Philosophy of science books

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Myth and Reality

Myth and Reality

Author: Athar, H. Syed M.D.
ISBN: 9781591136507
Format: Undefined
$39.47

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Continental Philosophy of Science

Continental Philosophy of Science

Author: Gary Gutting (University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780631236108
Format: Paperback
$80.95

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The Lysenko Effect: The Politics Of Science

The Lysenko Effect: The Politics Of Science

Author: Nils Roll-Hansen
ISBN: 9781591022626
Format: Paperback
$71.23

Ukrainian agronomist TD Lysenko was the leader of a Soviet agrobiological school that rejected standard genetics...  Read More >>

Science Values and Objectivity

Science Values and Objectivity

Author: Peter Machamer ,  Gereon Wolters
ISBN: 9780822942375
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Collection of essays that identify the values crucial to science, distinguish some of the criteria that can be used...  Read More >>

The Scientist as Philosopher: Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries

The Scientist as Philosopher: Philosophical Consequences...

Author: Friedel Weinert
ISBN: 9783540213741
Format: Paperback
$261.36

How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the...  Read More >>

Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent...

Author: M. Norton Wise
ISBN: 9780822333197
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Addresses a shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations  Read More >>

Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent...

Author: M. Norton Wise
ISBN: 9780822333074
Format: Hardback
$170.95

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Cultures of Environmentalism: Empirical Studies in Environmental Sociology

Cultures of Environmentalism: Empirical Studies in Environmental...

Author: S. Yearley
ISBN: 9780230237117
Format: Paperback
$73.92

It shows what sociologists can bring to current debates over environmental topics (including genetic modification)...  Read More >>

The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C.G. Jung

The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics....

Author: Suzanne Gieser
ISBN: 9783540208563
Format: Hardback
$237.47

The publication of W Pauli's ""Scientific Correspondence"" has motivated a vast research activity on Pauli's role...  Read More >>

Theoretical Knowledge

Theoretical Knowledge

Author: Vyacheslav Stepin ,  S Stepin Vyacheslav
ISBN: 9781280283222
Format: Undefined
$789.36

In Theoretical Knowledge an original conception of a structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge is proposed....  Read More >>

Modeling Chemical Systems Using Cellular Automata

Modeling Chemical Systems Using Cellular Automata

Author: Chao-Kun Cheng ,  Lemont B Kier (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
ISBN: 9781280461361
Format: Undefined
$630.96

Modeling Chemical Systems using Cellular Automata provides a practical introduction to an exciting modeling paradigm...  Read More >>

Wrong for the Right Reasons

Wrong for the Right Reasons

Author: Jed Z Buchwald (Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology) ,  Jed Z Buchwald (Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9781280283239
Format: Undefined
$472.56

The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's...  Read More >>

What Scientists Think

What Scientists Think

Author: Jeremy Stangroom (The Philosopher's Magazine)
ISBN: 9781280217463
Format: Electronic book text
$294.62

Presents a lucid discussion, where twelve of the world's leading scientists and scientific thinkers clarify many...  Read More >>

Grounded Consequence for Defeasible Logic

Grounded Consequence for Defeasible Logic

Author: Aldo Antonelli (University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9781280541254
Format: Undefined
$330.00

This is a title on the foundations of defeasible logic, which explores the formal properties of everyday reasoning...  Read More >>

Thomas Kuhn's Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of Science

Thomas Kuhn's Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of...

Author: James A Marcum
ISBN: 9781281292148
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

This book presents a major study of one of the 20th century's key philosophers of science.  Read More >>

Classical and Modern Thought on International Relations: From Anarchy to Cosmopolis

Classical and Modern Thought on International Relations:...

Author: Robert Jackson
ISBN: 9781281368195
Format: Electronic book text
$308.88

In the tradition of the English School of International Relations theory, this project from Robert Jackson seeks...  Read More >>

Post-Structuralist Geography

Post-Structuralist Geography

Author: Professor of Environmental Planning Jonathan Murdoch (School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University Cardiff University School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University) ,  Jon Murdoch
ISBN: 9781281251411
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

'Murdoch has written a book that is a welcome contribution to an ongoing debate about the nature of geography' -...  Read More >>

Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science

Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science

Author: Sherrilyn Roush
ISBN: 9781281198426
Format: Electronic book text
$326.62

Provides a unification of the concepts of knowledge and evidence. This book argues against traditional epistemological...  Read More >>

Reign of Relativity, The: Philosophy in Physics 1915-1925. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science.

Reign of Relativity, The: Philosophy in Physics 1915-1925....

Author: Lecturer in Philosophy Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University)
ISBN: 9781281197078
Format: Electronic book text
$88.92

Einstein's theory of 'general relativity' (1915) was a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science. During...  Read More >>

March of Unreason, The: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism

March of Unreason, The: Science, Democracy, and the...

Author: Chairman Dick Taverne (Sense About Science)
ISBN: 9781280753008
Format: Electronic book text
$71.94

Our daily news bulletins bring us tales of the wonder of science, from Mars rovers and intelligent robots to developments...  Read More >>

Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science

Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science...

Author: G Irzik ,  G Irzik
ISBN: 9781280283727
Format: Undefined
$683.76

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Rhetoric and Incommensurability

Rhetoric and Incommensurability

Author: Associate Professor of English Randy Allen Harris (University of Waterloo)
ISBN: 9781281079701
Format: Electronic book text
$179.34

Examining the complex relationships among rhetoric, philosophy, and science, this volume reveals how they converge...  Read More >>

Whole Story: Alternative Medicine on Trial?

Whole Story: Alternative Medicine on Trial?

Author: Dr Toby Murcott
ISBN: 9781281283757
Format: Electronic book text
$65.87

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Against Coherence: Truth, Probability, and Justification

Against Coherence: Truth, Probability, and Justification...

Author: Erik J Olsson (Lunds Universitet, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781281198556
Format: Electronic book text
$305.79

It is tempting to think that, if a person's beliefs are coherent, they are also likely to be true. Indeed, this...  Read More >>

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