Philosophy of science books

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Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding

Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding...

Author: Hugh Lacey
ISBN: 9780415208208
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Seven Mysteries Of Life, The

Seven Mysteries Of Life, The

Author: Guy Murchie ,  Jenna Terry
ISBN: 9780395957912
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Mixing science with philosophy, the author contemplates what he perceives to be the seven mysteries of life, ranging...  Read More >>

Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat

Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat...

Author: Hans Christian Von Baeyer
ISBN: 9780375753725
Format: Paperback
$39.60

If you want to know what's happening in the world, follow the heat. Why can't your coffee ""steal"" heat from the...  Read More >>

Really? What is Mathematics

Really? What is Mathematics

Author: Reuben Hersh
ISBN: 9780195130874
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Folkbiology

Folkbiology

Author: Douglas L. Medin (Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University) ,  Scott Atran (University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780262631921
Format: Paperback
$118.80

The term ""folkbiology"" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world - how they perceive,...  Read More >>

Folkbiology

Folkbiology

Author: Douglas L. Medin (Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University) ,  Scott Atran (University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780262133494
Format: Hardback
$297.00

The term ""folkbiology"" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world - how they perceive,...  Read More >>

Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology

Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology...

Author: Kim Sterelny ,  Paul Griffiths
ISBN: 9780226773032
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In this introduction to philosophy of biology, Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths present both the science and the...  Read More >>

Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation

Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for...

Author: Nicholas Humphrey ,  D. Dennett
ISBN: 9780387987200
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Leaps of Faith is a compelling and highly praised critique of beliefs in paranormal phenomena, miracles, and the...  Read More >>

The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene

Author: Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780192860927
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Reissued in new covers, this is the book that tells of the selfish gene. It is a world of savage competition, ruthless...  Read More >>

Science without Laws

Science without Laws

Author: Ronald N. Giere
ISBN: 9780226292083
Format: Hardback
$66.00

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Material Faith

Material Faith

Author: Henry David Thoreau ,  Laura Walls
ISBN: 9780395948002
Format: Paperback
$28.91

Thoreau developed ideas fundamental to ecology fifty years before that word was coined. He called for a science...  Read More >>

The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time

The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time

Author: H. Dieter Zeh
ISBN: 9783540648659
Format: Paperback
$168.96

This book on the striking phenomenon of the asymmetry of natural phenomena with respect to time reversal presents...  Read More >>

A History of the Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and the Physical Universe

A History of the Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and...

Author: Ernest Zebrowski
ISBN: 9780813526775
Format: Hardback
$129.36

This text is an investigation of how past attempts by scientists to discover the perfect circle led to major discoveries...  Read More >>

The Problemata Physica, attributed to Aristotle: The Arabic Version of h unain ibn Ishaq and the Hebrew Version of Moses ibn Tibbon

The Problemata Physica, attributed to Aristotle: The...

Author: L.S. Filius
ISBN: 9789004114838
Format: Hardback
$1169.52

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The Philosophical Legacy of Behaviorism

The Philosophical Legacy of Behaviorism

Author: B. Thyer
ISBN: 9780792357360
Format: Hardback
$498.96

In the present volume, Bruce Thyer has brought together an impressive collection of original studies concerning...  Read More >>

The Sacred Depths of Nature

The Sacred Depths of Nature

Author: Ursula Goodenough (Professor of Biology, Professor of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis)
ISBN: 9780195126136
Format: Hardback
$82.95

For many of us, the scientific breakthroughs of our times--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, and relativity--denote...  Read More >>

The Mystery of Matter

The Mystery of Matter

Author: Jennifer Trusted
ISBN: 9786613184917
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

This book seeks to show how ideas of matter have developed from Democritus to Heisenberg.  Read More >>

I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier

I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier

Author: M. F. Perutz
ISBN: 9780198505310
Format: Hardback
$80.00

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Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years

Popper's Open Society After Fifty Years

Author: Ian Jarvie ,  Sandra Pralong
ISBN: 9780415165020
Format: Hardback
$294.00

A survey of the reception and influence of Karl Popper's masterpiece The Open Society and its Enemies over the fifty...  Read More >>

Scopes: Creation on Trial

Scopes: Creation on Trial

Author: John Morris ,  R M Cornelius
ISBN: 9780890512579
Format: Paperback
$10.56

Although much has been written about the famous 1925 Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, most accounts are skewed...  Read More >>

Physics

Physics

Author: Aristotle ,  David Bostock
ISBN: 9780192835864
Format: Paperback
$18.95

For centuries, ""Physics"" was the essential starting point for anyone studying the natural sciences. The text begins...  Read More >>

Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?

Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?...

Author: Michael Ruse
ISBN: 9780674467064
Format: Hardback
$75.24

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Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science: Volume 1

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of...

Author: Stillman Drake ,  Trevor H. Levere
ISBN: 9780802075857
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval...  Read More >>

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