Philosophy of science books

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The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology

The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and...

Author: Keith Parsons ,  Rebecca Long
ISBN: 9781573929943
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Many questions are at the centre of the 'science wars' being waged over the role and future of science and technology...  Read More >>

Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital

Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital

Author: Gregory Dale Adamson
ISBN: 9780826460325
Format: Paperback
$180.00

In this text, Adamson aims to put life back into contemporary politics, ethics and aesthetics, to reveal how science...  Read More >>

Space, Time and Einstein: An Introduction

Space, Time and Einstein: An Introduction

Author: J.B. Kennedy
ISBN: 9781902683676
Format: Paperback
$81.99

An introduction to Space, time and Einstein, one of the most popular fields in philosophy. It considers the theories...  Read More >>

Sins of Science (1925)

Sins of Science (1925)

Author: Scudder Klyce
ISBN: 9780766142169
Format: Paperback
$97.55

A plain discussion of the fundamentals of science and religion. Its primary purpose is to show how to attain success...  Read More >>

Space, Time and Einstein: An Introduction

Space, Time and Einstein: An Introduction

Author: J.B. Kennedy
ISBN: 9781902683669
Format: Hardback
$305.00

An introduction to Space, time and Einstein, one of the most popular fields in philosophy. It considers the theories...  Read More >>

Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions

Norms of Nature: Naturalism and the Nature of Functions...

Author: Paul Sheldon Davies (College of William And Mary)
ISBN: 9780262541442
Format: Paperback
$52.80

An argument against the view that natural norms are constituted out of some form of historical success.  Read More >>

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution...

Author: Susan Oyama ,  Russell D. Gray (University of Aukland)
ISBN: 9780262650632
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Provides historical background to DST, recent theoretical findings on the mechanisms of heredity, applications of...  Read More >>

Thinking about Biology

Thinking about Biology

Author: Stephen Webster, MD (Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine London Addenbrooke's Hospital Addenbrooke's Hospital)
ISBN: 9781280955839
Format: Electronic book text
$367.49

Thinking About Biology is intended for biology students who are interested in reflecting on the wider contexts of...  Read More >>

Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives

Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives

Author: Quentin Smith (, Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University) ,  Aleksandar Jokic (, Executive Director of the Center for Philosophical Education at Santa Barbara City College)
ISBN: 9780199241293
Format: Paperback
$132.95

Consciousness is perhaps the most puzzling problem we humans face in trying to understand ourselves. Eighteen essays...  Read More >>

Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives

Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives

Author: Quentin Smith (, Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University) ,  Aleksandar Jokic (, Executive Director of the Center for Philosophical Education at Santa Barbara City College)
ISBN: 9780199241286
Format: Hardback
$251.00

Eighteen essays offer new angles on the subject consciousness. The contributors discuss such central topics as intentionality,...  Read More >>

Complexity: Introduction and Fundamentals

Complexity: Introduction and Fundamentals

Author: D.G. Bonchev (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA) ,  D.H. Rouvray (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)
ISBN: 9780415287913
Format: Hardback
$462.00

This volume covers the rapidly developing field of complexity studies. The underlying theme is that complexity is...  Read More >>

Intellectual Jazz

Intellectual Jazz

Author: Keith N Ferreira
ISBN: 9780595656202
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception of Science

The Comprehensibility of the Universe: A New Conception...

Author: Nicholas Maxwell (Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of Science, Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of Science, University of London)
ISBN: 9780199261550
Format: Paperback
$100.95

In 'The Comprehensibility of the Universe', Nicholas Maxwell argues that the prevailing view of the relation between...  Read More >>

From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning

From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and...

Author: Niels Henrik Gregersen (Research Professor in Science and Theology, Research Professor in Science and Theology, University of Aarhus)
ISBN: 9780195150704
Format: Hardback
$85.95

This book explores the wider implications of complexity studies. It includes an introduction to complexity studies...  Read More >>

Intellectual Jazz

Intellectual Jazz

Author: Keith N Ferreira
ISBN: 9780595267293
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Pillar in the Wilderness (1936)

Pillar in the Wilderness (1936)

Author: Benjamin John
ISBN: 9780766139275
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Science today has taught a new conception of the physical world. To think of matter in terms of non-material entities...  Read More >>

Elements of Scientific Inquiry

Elements of Scientific Inquiry

Author: Eric Martin (University Of New South Wales) ,  Daniel N. Osherson
ISBN: 9780262513814
Format: Paperback
$60.72

The authors present a theory of inductive logic that is built fromthe tools of logic and model theory.  Read More >>

Insight and Industry: On the Dynamics of Technological Change in Medicine

Insight and Industry: On the Dynamics of Technological...

Author: Stuart Blume (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9780262515702
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Insight and Industry examines the ""careers"" of four major technologies that have reshaped medicine by allowing...  Read More >>

Art and Complexity

Art and Complexity

Author: John L Casti, PhD ,  A Karlqvist
ISBN: 9786611057305
Format: Electronic book text
$348.22

This title is the result of a one-week workshop sponsored by the Swedish research agency, FRN, on the interface...  Read More >>

How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism

How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical...

Author: Joseph Rouse
ISBN: 9780226730080
Format: Hardback
$165.00

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Images and Contexts

Images and Contexts

Author: Dhruv Raina
ISBN: 9780195662047
Format: Hardback
$45.00

This work attempts to situate the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. Eight essays...  Read More >>

Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics

Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics...

Author: Mark J. Cherry ,  John F. Peppin
ISBN: 9789026519529
Format: Hardback
$305.00

""Regional Perspectives in Bioethics"" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape...  Read More >>

Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge: An Introduction to Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology

Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge: An Introduction to...

Author: Francis Remedios ,  Steve Fuller
ISBN: 9780739106679
Format: Hardback
$178.20

This work compares Steve Fuller's social epistemology with other interest-oriented and truth-oriented social epistemologies....  Read More >>

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